Johannes Wohlfart and I are organizing a PhD course on Subjective Beliefs in Macroeconomics and Household Finance, which takes place as an online event April 19-23 2021. There will be lectures by Yueran Ma, Michael McMahon, Florian Zimmermann and us. Please find the announcement including details on how to apply here: Announcement PhD course

New Methods review: Designing Information Provision Experiments (with Ingar Haaland and Johannes Wohlfart) Coverage: World Bank Blog

Publications in Economics

Measuring and Bounding Experimenter Demand (with Jon de Quidt and Johannes Haushofer), American Economic Review, 2018, Vol. 108 (11), pp. 3266-3302. Coverage: World Bank Blog

Experienced Inequality and Preferences for Redistribution (with Johannes Wohlfart), Journal of Public Economics, 2018, Vol. 167, pp. 251-262. Coverage: NY Times

Income Shocks and Suicides: Causal Evidence From Indonesia (with Cornelius Christian and Lukas Hensel), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101(5), pp. 905–920

Labor Market Concerns and Support for Immigration (with Ingar Haaland) [Instructions], Journal of Public Economics, 2020, Vol. 191, 104256

How Do Expectations About the Macroeconomy Affect Personal Expectations and Behavior? (with Johannes Wohlfart), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102(4), pp. 731–748. Coverage: FAZIT

Beliefs about Public Debt and the Demand for Government Spending (with Sonja Settele and Johannes Wohlfart), Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming.

Coronavirus Perceptions and Economic Anxiety (with Thiemo Fetzer and Lukas Hensel and Johannes Hermle), Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming. Coverage: VoxEU

Working Papers: Revise and Resubmit

Subjective Models of the Macroeconomy: Evidence From Experts and a Representative Sample (with Peter Andre and Carlo Pizzinelli and Johannes Wohlfart) [Instructions] Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies

Beliefs about Racial Discrimination and Support for Pro-Black Policies (with Ingar Haaland) Revised and Resubmitted, Review of Economics and Statistics

Working Papers

Interregional Contact and National Identity (with Manuel Bagues) Coverage: Nadaesgratis

Information Frictions Among Firms and Households (with Sebastian Link, Andreas Peichl and Johannes Wohlfart)

Disguising Prejudice: Popular Rationales as Excuses for Intolerant Expression (with Leonardo Bursztyn and Ingar Haaland and Aakaash Rao). Coverage: VoxEU

Misinformation During a Pandemic (with Leonardo Bursztyn and Aakaash Rao, and David Yanagizawa-Drott). Coverage: Vox.com

Risk Exposure and Acquisition of Macroeconomic Information (with Sonja Settele and Johannes Wohlfart)

Political Activists as Free-Riders: Evidence From a Natural Field Experiment (with Anselm Hager and Lukas Hensel and Johannes Hermle) EEA, Young Economist Award

Publications in Other Social Sciences

Does Information Change Attitudes Towards Immigrants? (with Alexis Grigorieff and Diego Ubfal). Demography, 2020, 57, 1117-1143. [ungated]

Media coverage: Washington Post 1, Washington Post 2, Boston Globe, The Independent, La Tribune, IZA Newsroom, Bocconi Knowledge, Corriere Dell'Alto Adige, Corriere Del Trentino, VoxEU, Le Monde, Bloomberg

Does Party Competition Affect Political Activism? (with Anselm Hager and Lukas Hensel and Johannes Hermle) Journal of Politics, forthcoming

Publications in German

Makroökonomische Erwartungen und ihre Rolle in wirtschaftlichen Entscheidungen von Haushalten (with Johannes Wohlfart) Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 20 (2), 159-166