Research
Research Interests:
Behavioral Economics, Labor Economics, Organizational Economics
Publications:
Communicating Through Defaults, with Armin Falk and Andreas Grunewald, forthcoming in: The Review of Economics and Statistics. [Working Paper] [Online Appendix] [Data]
Oral Health Promotion and Labour Market Prospects of Socially Disadvantaged and Unemployed People – A Randomised Controlled Trial, with Anna M. Sigsgaard, Iben Bolvig, Katrine Dannemand Jensen, Børge Hede, and Esben B. Øzhayat, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 2024, 52 (1), 71-79.
Interventions and Cognitive Spillovers, with Andreas Grunewald and Jonas Radbruch, Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (5), 2293-2328. [Working Paper] [Data]
Deadlines and Memory Limitations, with Christian Traxler and Philipp Weinschenk, Management Science, 2022, 68 (9), 6733-6750. [Working Paper] [Data and Online Appendix]
Defaults and Donations: Evidence from a Field Experiment, with Armin Falk, Paul Heidhues, Rajshri Jayaraman, and Marrit Teirlinck, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (5), 808-826. [Working Paper] [Online Appendix]
Learning about Job Search: A Field Experiment with Job Seekers in Germany, with Armin Falk, Simon Jäger, and Florian Zimmermann, Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 164, 33-49. [Working Paper] [Online Appendix]
Functional Characterization of an Oxytocin Receptor Gene Variant (rs2268498) Previously Associated with Social Cognition by Expression Analysis in Vitro and in Human Brain Biopsy, with Martin Reuter, Christian Montag, Fabian Bendlow, Christian Elger, Peter Kirsch, Albert Becker, Susanne Schoch-McGovern, Matthias Simon, Bernd Weber, and Andrea Felten, Social Neuroscience, 2017, 12 (5), 604-611.
Nudges at the Dentist, with Christian Traxler, European Economic Review, 2014, 72, 19-38. [Working Paper] [Data]
Contractual Incompleteness, Unemployment, and Labor Market Segmentation, with Armin Falk, Andreas Grunewald, and David Huffman, Review of Economic Studies, 2014, 81 (1), 30-56. [Working Paper]
Promotions and Incentives: The Case of Multi-Stage Elimination Tournaments, with Armin Falk and Matthias Wibral, Journal of Labor Economics, 2012, 30 (1), 149-174. [Working Paper]
Gift Exchange and Workers' Fairness Concerns: When Equality Is Unfair, with Johannes Abeler, Sebastian Kube, and Matthias Wibral, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8 (6), 1299-1324. [Working Paper]
Do the Reciprocal Trust Less?, with Matthias Wibral and Thomas Dohmen, Economics Letters, 2008, 99 (3), 454-457. [Working Paper]
Working Papers:
The Direct and Indirect Effects of Online Job Search Advice, with Anita Glenny, Robert Mahlstedt, and Alexander Sebald, IZA Discussion Paper No. 15830, revise & resubmit, Review of Economic Studies [this version: September 2023].
Do Job Seekers Understand the UI Benefit System (and Does It Matter)?, with Sofie Cairo, Robert Mahlstedt, and Alexander Sebald, IZA Discussion Paper No. 15747 [this version: May 2023].
Which Occupations Do Unemployed Workers Target? Insights from Online Job Search Profiles, with Robert Mahlstedt, Malte Jacob Rattenborg, and Alexander Sebald, IZA Discussion Paper No. 16696.
The Double Dividend of Attention-Releasing Policies, with Andreas Grunewald and Jonas Radbruch, CESifo Working Paper No. 11069.
Work in progress:
Expected Re-employment Wages and Job Search, with Robert Mahlstedt, Malte Jacob Rattenborg, Alexander Sebald, Sonja Settele, and Johannes Wohlfahrt.
Retired Working Papers:
Incentives and Information as Driving Forces of Default Effects, with Armin Falk and Andreas Grunewald [this version: October 2018]. This paper was superseded by the paper "Communicating Through Defaults".
The Impact of Cooperation Defaults on Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods, with Armin Falk [this version: January 2009].
Genetically Determined Differences in Human Trust Behavior: The Role of the Oxytocin Receptor Gene, with Martin Reuter, Christian Montag, Andrea Felten, Fabian Bendlow, Christian Elger, Peter Kirsch, Albert Becker, Susanne Schoch-McGovern, Matthias Simon, Bernd Weber, and Armin Falk (2008).