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Andreas Pondorfer

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Applied Microeconomics at the University of Bonn.

Research Interests

My research focuses on individual and collective decision making by integrating insights from behavioral ecology, anthropology, and psychology into economics. I am particularly interested in studying the mechanisms for the evolution of cooperation and the deep-roothed factors that explain the origins and variation of preferences.

My research is generally based on micro-level data and experimental data, which I often collect in extensive fieldwork (e.g., Papua New Guinea)

andreas.pondorfer@uni-bonn.de

andi.pondorfer@gmail.com

Publications

Social image concerns promote cooperation more than altruistic punishment

Nature Communications, 7, p.12288. [PDF]

(with Gianluca Grimalda and David Tracer)

Gender differences in stereotypes of risk preferences: Experimental evidence from a patrilineal and a matrilineal society

Management Science, 63(10), pp.3268-3284. [PDF]

(with Toman Barsbai and Ulrich Schmidt)

Eliciting preferences for public goods in non-monetized communities: Accounting for preference uncertainty

Land Economics 94(1), 73-86. [PDF]

(with Katrin Rehdanz)

Climate change and the risk of mass violence: Africa in the 21st century.

Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 19(3), pp.381-392. [PDF]

(with Andreas Exenberger)

Current projects

Global social variation

Studies in mammals and birds have identified that species with certain social behaviour are predominantly found in certain environments. This project investigates whether humans living in these environments show similar behaviour.

(With Dieter Lukas and Toman Barsbai)

The geographic origins of human preferences: Evidence from animal behavior

In this project we use wild animal behavior as an exogenous measure of geographically induced behavior to show that geography has a direct impact on economic preferences.

(With Toman Barsbai and Dieter Lukas)

The evolution of social complexity and human coopeation

Costly punishment and indirect reciprocity may be relevant at different stages of human societal complexity. We hypothesize that cooperation is mainly sustained by concerns for one’s social image in communities where social density is high, i.e. where connections are highly clustered among individuals and then reliable information on one’s reputation can be quickly transmitted across the social network. On the contrary, we conjecture that costly punishment is the main factor of cooperation in societies where social density is relatively low. We test this hypothesis in a tribal small-scale society of Papua New Guinea.

(With Susann Adloff, Peter Andre, Federico Camelli, Lorenz Götte, Gianluca Grimalda, Eleanor Power, Christoph Schütt, and Matthias Sutter)

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