Publications

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

Journal of the European Economic Association (accepted). DP-Version.

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

Journal of Political Economy (accepted). DP-Version.

Earnings Expectations of “First-in Family” University Students and Their Role for Major Choice (with Katharina Adler, Markus Nagler and Johannes Rincke) 

Labour Economics (forthcoming). DP-Version.

Matchmaking Beyond Elo: Why Teams Are More Than the Sum of Individual Skill (with Nico Elbert, Alicia von Schenk, Victor Klockmann, Nikolai Stein and Christoph Flath).

IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 2025, doi: 10.1109/CoG64752.2025.11114265 

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.