Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles (economics)

• Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence (with Tom Lane and Silvia Sonderegger). 2023. American Economic Review, 113(5): 1255–1293.

• Social Proximity and the Erosion of Norm Compliance (with Cristina Bicchieri, Eugen Dimant and Simon Gächter). 2022. Games and Economic Behavior, 132, 59-72.

• The Coordinating Power of Social Norms (with Francesco Fallucchi). 2022. Experimental Economics, 25 -1-25.

• One Size Doesn't Fit All: Plurality of Social Norms and Saving Behavior in Kenya (with Hanna Fromell, Trudy Owens, and Fabio Tufano). 2021. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 192, 73-91.

• A Self-Funding Reward Mechanism for Tax Compliance (with Enrique Fatas, Martin Sefton and Daniel J. Zizzo). 2021. Journal of Economic Psychology, 86, 102421.

• Altruism, Fast and Slow? Evidence from a Meta-Analysis and a New Experiment (with Hanna Fromell and Trudy Owens). 2020. Experimental Economics, 23, 979–1001. (Editor's Award for Best Paper in 2020).

• Measuring preferences for competition with experimentally-validated survey questions (with Francesco Fallucchi and Ernesto Reuben). 2020. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 178, 402-423.

• Promoting voter registration: the effects of low-cost interventions on behaviour and norms (with Felix Koelle, Tom Lane and Chris Starmer). 2020. Behavioural Public Policy, 4(1), 26-49.

• Preferences for Truth-Telling (with Johannes Abeler and Collin Raymond). 2019. Econometrica, 87(4), 1115-1153. Website: http://www.preferencesfortruthtelling.com/

• Are Victims Truly Worse Off in the Presence of Bystanders? Revisiting the Bystander Effect (with Hanna Fromell, Trudy Owens, and Fabio Tufano). 2019. Revue Economique (Special Issue Lauréate du prix de la Revue économique 2018: Marie Claire Villeval), 70(6), 927-943.

• On the Social Inappropriateness of Discrimination (with Abigail Barr and Tom Lane). 2018. Journal of Public Economics, 164, 153-164.

• Bonus versus Penalty: How Robust Are the Effects of Contract Framing? (with Jonathan de Quidt, Francesco Fallucchi, Felix Kölle and Simone Quercia). 2017. Journal of the Economic Science Association, 3(2), 174–182.

• The Effect of Voluntary Participation on Cooperation (with Fabio Tufano). 2017. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 142C, 307-319.

• Team Incentives and Leadership (with Michalis Drouvelis and Martin Sefton). 2017. Journal of Economic Psychology, 62, 173-185.

• The Importance of Peers for Compliance with Norms of Fair Sharing (with Simon Gächter and Leonie Gerhards), 2017. European Economic Review, 97, 72-86.

• Norm Elicitation in Within-Subject Designs: Testing for Order Effects (with Giovanna D’Adda and Michalis Drouvelis), 2016. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 62, 1-7.

• Discretionary Sanctions and Rewards in the Repeated Inspection Game (with Theo Offerman, Martin Sefton and Ailko van der Veen), 2016. Management Science, 62(2), 502-517.

• Employee Incentives: Bonuses or Penalties? 2016. IZA World of Labor, 2016:234.

• Identifying Social Norms Using Coordination Games: Stakeholdersvs. Spectators (with Hande Erkut and Martin Sefton), 2015. Economics Letters, 130, 28-31.

• Self-selection into Laboratory Experiments:Pro-social Motives versus Monetary Incentives (with Johannes Abeler), 2015. Experimental Economics, 18(2), 195-214.

• Cooperation in Small Groups: the Effect of Group Size (with Simone Quercia and Martin Sefton), 2015. Experimental Economics, 18(1) 4-14.

• Encouraging Compliance: Bonuses vs. Fines in Inspection Games (with Theo Offerman, Martin Sefton and Ailko van der Veen), 2014. Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, 30(3) 623-648.

• Does Consultation Improve Decision Making? (with Alessia Isopi and Chris Starmer), 2014. Theory and Decision, 77(3), 377-388.

• Peer Effects in Pro-Social Behavior: Social Norms or Social Preferences? (with Simon Gächter and Martin Sefton), 2013. Journal of the European Economic Association, 11(3) 548–573.

• Group Identity and Leading-by-Example (with Michalis Drouvelis), 2013. Journal of Economic Psychology, 39, 414-425.

• Pay Secrecy and Effort Provision, 2013. Economic Inquiry, 51(3) 1779–1794.

• Self-Selection and Variations in the Laboratory Measurement of Other-Regarding Preferences across Subject Pools: Evidence from One College Student and Two Adult Samples (with Jon Anderson, Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Karsten Maurer, Ruth Potter, Kim Rocha and Aldo Rustichini), 2013. Experimental Economics, 16(2), 170-189. (Editor's Award for Best Paper in 2013).

• The Impact of Social Comparisons on Reciprocity (with Simon Gächter and Martin Sefton), 2012. The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 114(4), 1346–1367.

• Who Makes a Good Leader? Cooperativeness, Optimism and Leading-by-Example (with Simon Gächter, Elke Renner and Martin Sefton), 2012. Economic Inquiry, 50(4) 953-967.

• Endogenous Move Structure and Voluntary Provision of Public Goods:Theory and Experiment (with Martin Sefton), 2011. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 13(5), 721-754.

• Sequential versus Simultaneous Contributions to Public Goods:Experimental Evidence (with Simon Gächter, Elke Renner and Martin Sefton), 2010. Journal of Public Economics, 94 (7-8), 515-522.

Peer-reviewed journal articles (outside of economics)

• Measuring Social Norms in Economics: Why It Is Important and How It Is Done (with Luise Goerges). 2020. Analyse & Kritik, 42(2), 258-311. [Sociology and Political Science]

• Acceptability of app-based contact tracing for COVID-19: Cross-country survey evidence (with Samuel Altmann, Luke Milsom, Hannah Zillessen, Raffaele Blasone, Frederic Gerdon, Ruben Bach, Frauke Kreuter, Severine Toussaert, Johannes Abeler). 2020. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2020;8(8):e19857. [eHeath]

Invited publications

• Social Norms and the Labor Market (with Luise Goerges), 2020. M.C. Villeval, Klaus F. Zimmermann (Eds), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham.

• Promoting Cooperation: The Distribution of Reward and Punishment Power (with Martin Sefton), 2014. P.A.M. van Lange, B. Rockenbach, & T. Yamagishi (Eds), Social dilemmas: New perspectives on reward and punishment. New York. Oxford University Press.