Research

Publications

1) Historical Self Governance and Norms of Cooperation  

 Econometrica, 92, 1473–1502, 2024.

2) Measuring Honesty and Explaining Adulteration in Naturally Occurring Markets (with Markus Kroell)

 Journal of Development Economics, 156, 1-16, 2022.    

3) Leader Punishment and Cooperation in Groups: Experimental Field Evidence from Commons Management in Ethiopia  (with Michael Kosfeld)

American Economic Review, 105, 747-783, 2015.

4) Conditional Cooperation and Costly Monitoring Explain Success in Forest Commons Management ( with Stefanie Engel and Michael Kosfeld),  Lead author, Highly Cited Paper (Web of Science) 

Science, 330, 961-965, 2010. 

 Working Papers

5) Market Exposure, Civic Values, and Rules , revise and resubmit at Quarterly Journal of Economics

6) The Interdependence of Formal Rules and Civic Capital in Commons Management 

7) Anticipation of Discrimination and Misperceptions in Cooperation Dilemmas (with M. Schief)

8) Discrimination by Teachers: Role of Attitudes, Beliefs, and Empathy  (with R. Ramachandran and E. Soldani)  

Ongoing Projects

9) Group Selection on Culture and the Evolution of Cooperation (with Joe Henrich)

10) Internal Validity of Behavioral Field Experiments (with Pierce Gately, Simon Gächter)

11) Memorials and Inclusive Decision-Making (with Hans Joachim Voth)

12) Updating the social norm (with Jake Bradley, Facundo Albornoz,  Silvia Sonderegger, and Jesus Rodriguez)