Publications

Beliefs and the incentive effects of preferential college admissions: Evidence from an experiment and a structural model  (with Michela Tincani and Enrico Miglino), 

Journal of Political Economy (accepted). 

The persistent effect of competition on prosociality (with Ranjita Rajan and Michela Tincani),

Journal of the European Economic Association, 2026, 26 (1), 311-338. DP-Version.

Mentoring and schooling decisions: Causal evidence (with Armin Falk and Pia Pinger).

Journal of Political Economy, 2026, 134 (1), 366-396. DP-Version.

Beyond Elo: Improving Matchmaking Using the Team Player Effect (with Nico Elbert, Victor Klockmann, Alicia von Schenk, Nikolai Stein and Christoph Flath),

IEEE Transactions on Games, 2026, doi: 10.1109/TG.2026.3688435. Conference Paper.

Earnings expectations of “first-in family” university students and their role for major choice (with Katharina Adler, Markus Nagler and Johannes Rincke),

Labour Economics, 2025, 95 (102743). DP-Version.

Malleability of preferences for honesty (with Johannes Abeler and Armin Falk).

The Economic Journal, 2025, 135 (667), 982-998. DP-Version.

Greater income and financial well-being are associated with higher prosocial preferences and behaviors across 76 countries (with Paul Vanags, Jo Cutler and Patricia Lockwood),

PNAS Nexus, 2025, 4 (2), 582. DP-Version.

Neuroticism and the sales profession (with Johannes Habel, Selma Kadić-Maglajlić, Nathaniel N. Hartmann, Ad de Jong and Nicolas A. Zacharias),

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2024, 184 (104353).

Self-assessments: The role of the social environment (with Armin Falk, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch and Florian Zimmermann),

Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 223 (104908). DP-Version.

Socio-economic status and inequalities in children’s IQ and economic preferences  (with Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Pia Pinger and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch),

Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (9), 2504-2545. DP-Version.

Electoral cleavages and socioeconomic inequality in Germany 1949-2017  (with Thomas Piketty), 

Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities (edited book by A. Gethin, C. Martínez-Toledano and T. Piketty), Harvard University Press, 2021, DP-Version.

Prosociality predicts labor market success around the world (with Michela Tincani),

Nature Communications, 2020, 11 (5298), 1-6.

The formation of prosociality: Causal evidence on the role of the social environment (with Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Pia Pinger and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch), 

Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (2), 434-467. DP-Version.

Re-Revisiting the marshmallow test (with Armin Falk and Pia Pinger), 

Psychological Science, 2020, 31 (1), 100-104.

The development of egalitarian norm enforcement in childhood and adolescence (with Zvonimir Bašić and Armin Falk), 

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 179, 667-680, DP-Version.

Unfair pay and health (with Armin Falk, Ingo Menrath, Pablo Emilio Verde, Johannes Siegrist), 

Management Science, 2018, 64 (4), 1477-1973. [data and replication code]

On the interpretation of non-cognitive skills – what is being measured and why it matters (with John Eric Humphries), 

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 136, 174-185.

The nutritional and social environment-related effects of breastfeeding on intelligence 

JAMA Pediatrics, 2016, 170 (2), 173-174.

Quasi-hyperbolic time preferences and their intergenerational transmission (with Friedhelm Pfeiffer), 

Applied Economics Letters, 2013, 20 (10), 983-986.

The relationship between economic preferences and psychological personality measures (with Anke Becker, Thomas Deckers, Thomas Dohmen and Armin Falk), 

Annual Review of Economics, 2012, 4 (1), 453-478. Received SOEP Best Publication Prize.

Impatience among preschool children and their mothers (with Friedhelm Pfeiffer), 

Economics Letters, 2012, 115 (3), 493-495.