Kai Barron

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, WZB-Berlin


Contact:

Email: kaibarron[at]gmail.com

Curriculum vitae: [pdf]

I am currently a Research Fellow at WZB-Berlin, part of the Berlin School of Economics, having received my PhD from University College London and previously studied at the University of Cape Town (undergraduate). 

My primary research fields are experimental and behavioural economics, with a particular focus on better understanding how people make sense of the world. This research thread considers questions related to belief formation, narratives, and mental models. I also have a secondary research agenda, examining questions that are particularly relevant for the Global South.  

Selected Recent Papers

"Narrative persuasion" (with Tilman Fries)  revise and resubmit at the American Economic Review [2024]

"Narrative persuasion: A brief introduction" (with Tilman Fries)  prepared for the Encyclopedia of Experimental Social Sciences [2024]

"Everyday econometricians: Selection neglect and overoptimism when learning from others" (with Steffen Huck and Philippe Jehiel) AEJ: Microeconomics, 2024, 16(3), 162-198. [Pre-print]

"Explicit and implicit belief-based gender discrimination" (with Ruth Ditlmann, Stefan Gehrig, and Sebastian Schweighofer-Kodritsch) Management Science, 2024. [Pre-print]

"Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality: Evidence from a modern-day prohibition" (with Charles Parry, Debbie Bradshaw, Rob Dorrington, Pam Groenewald, Ria Laubscher, and Richard Matzopoulos) Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106(4), 938-955. [pdf]

"Discrimination, narratives and family history: An experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children" (with Heike Harmgart, Steffen Huck, Sebastian Schneider, and Matthias Sutter) Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105(4), 1008-1016.

"Belief updating: Does the `good-news, bad-news´ asymmetry extend to purely financial domains?" Experimental Economics, 2021, 24, 31-58