The Origins of Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Earnings Expectations: Causal Evidence from a Mentoring Intervention
IZA Discussion Paper 14800, Oct. 2021
Boneva, T., Buser, T., Falk, A. & Kosse, F.
Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor: Global Evidence
NBER Working Paper 29250, September 2021
Cao, Y., Enke, B., Falk, A., Giuliano, P., Nunn, N.
What’s worth knowing? Economists’ opinions about economics
July 2025
Andre, P. & Falk, A.
Ends versus Means: Kantians, Utilitarians, and Moral Decisions
NBER Working Paper 32073, January 2024
Bénabou, R., Falk, A., Henkel, L.
Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning
NBER Working Paper 24798, July 2018
Bénabou, R., Falk, A. & Tirole, J.
Eliciting Moral Preferences under Image Concerns: Theory and Experiment
September 2024
Bénabou, R., Falk, A., Henkel, L. & Tirole, J.
Limited Self-knowledge and Survey Response Behavior
IZA Discussion Paper 14526; updated manuscript: July 2025
Falk, A., Henkel, L., Neuber, T. & Strack, P.
Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence
Journal of Political Economy
Falk, A., Kosse, F. & Pinger, P. (forthcoming)
Misperceived Social Norms and Willingness to Act Against Climate Change
Review of Economics and Statistics
Andre, P., Boneva, T., Chopra, F., Falk, A. (forthcoming)
Malleability of preferences for honesty
Economic Journal, 135(667), 982–998
Abeler, J. Falk, A. & Kosse, F. (2025)
Communicating through Defaults
Review of Economics and Statistics, 107(1), 256–268.
Altmann, S., Falk, A. & Grunewald, A. (2025)
Does a single dose of testosterone increase willingness to compete, confidence, and risk-taking in men? Evidence from two randomised placebo-controlled experiments
Hormones and Behavior, 166, Article 105659
Nadler, A., Wibral, M., Dohmen, T., Falk, A., Previtero, A., Weber, B., Camerer, C., Dreber, A., Nave, G. (2024)
Attention and Dread: Experimental Evidence on Preferences for Information [working paper version]
Management Science, 70(10), 6483–7343
Falk, A., & Zimmermann, F. (2024)
Globally Representative Evidence on the Actual and Perceived Support for Climate Action
Nature Climate Change, 14, 253–259
Andre, P., Boneva, T., Chopra, F., Falk, A. (2024)
Intertemporal Altruism [working paper version]
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 16(1), 329–357
Chopra, F., Falk, A. & Graeber, T. (2024)
Self-assessment: The role of the social environment
Journal of Public Economics, 223, Article 104908
Falk, A., Kosse, F., Schildberg-Hörisch, H., Zimmermann, F. (2023)
The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences
Management Science, 69(4), 1935–1950
Falk, A., Becker, A., Dohmen, T. J., Huffman, D., & Sunde, U. (2023)
Patience and Comparative Development
Review of Economic Studies, 89(5), 2806–2840
Sunde, U., Dohmen, T., Enke, B., Falk, A., Huffman, D., & Meyerheim, G. (2021).
Facing yourself – A Note on self-image
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 186, 724–734
Falk, A. (2021).
Socioeconomic Status and Inequalities in Children’s IQ and Economic Preferences
Journal of Political Economy, 129(9), 2504–2545
Falk, A., Kosse, F., Pinger, P., Schildberg-Hörisch, H., & Deckers, T. (2021)
The development of egalitarian norm enforcement in childhood and adolescence
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 179, 667–680
Bašić, Z., Falk, A., & Kosse, F. (2020)
Diffusion of Being Pivotal and Immoral Outcomes
Review of Economic Studies, 87(5), 2205–2229
Falk, A., Neuber, T., & Szech, N. (2020)
Ten considerations for effectively managing the COVID-19 transition
Nature Human Behaviour, 4, 677–687
Habersaat, K., Betsch, C., Danchin, M., Sunstein, C., Böhm, R., Falk, A., Brewer, N. T., Omer, S. B., Scherzer, M., Sah, S., Fischer, E. F., Scheel, A. E., Fancourt, D., Kitayama, S., Dubé, E., Leask, J., Dutta, M., MacDonald, N. E., Temkina, A., Lieberoth, A., Jackson, M., Lewandowsky, S., Seale, H., Fietje, N., Schmid, P., Gelfand, M., Korn, L., Eitze, S., Felgendreff, L., Sprengholz, P., Salvi, C., & Butler, R. (2020).
Re-Revisiting the marshmallow test: A direct comparison of studies by Shoda, Mischel, and Peake (1990) and Watts, Duncan, and Quan (2018)
Psychological Science, 31(1), 100–104
Falk, A., Pinger, P., & Kosse, F. (2020)
The Formation of Prosociality: Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment
Journal of Political Economy, 128(2), 434–467
Kosse, F., Deckers, T., Pinger, P., Schildberg-Hörisch, H., & Falk, A. (2020)
Defaults and donations: Evidence from a field experiment
Review of Economics and Statistics, 101(5), 808–826
Altmann, S., Falk, A., Heidhues, P., Jayaraman, R., & Teirlinck, M. (2019)
Global evidence on economic preferences
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(4), 1645–1692
Falk, A., Becker, A., Dohmen, T., Enke, B., Huffman, D., & Sunde, U. (2018)
Relationship of gender differences in preferences to economic development and gender equality
Science, 362(6412), Article eaas9899.
Falk, A., & Hermle, J. (2018)
Risk attitudes across the life course
Economic Journal, 127(605), F95–F116
Dohmen, T., Falk, A., Golsteyn, B., Huffman, D., & Sunde, U. (2017)
Nominal or real? The impact of regional price levels on satisfaction with life
B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 16(3), 1337–1358
Deckers, T., Falk, A., & Schildberg-Hörisch, H. (2016)
Institutions and morals: A reply
European Journal of Political Economy, 40(B), 391–394
Falk, A., & Szech, N. (2015)
Neural patterns underlying social comparisons of personal performance
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(4), 569–576
Lindner, M., Rudorf, S., Birg, R., Falk, A., Weber, B., & Fliessbach, K. (2015)
Institutions and contract enforcement
Journal of Labor Economics, 33(3), 571–590
Falk, A., Huffman, D., & MacLeod, W. B. (2015)
Representative evidence on lying costs
Journal of Public Economics, 113, 96–104
Abeler, J., Becker, A., & Falk, A. (2014)
Effort increases sensitivity to reward and loss magnitude in the human brain
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9(3), 342–349
Lallement, J. H., Kuss, K., Trautner, P., Weber, B., Falk, A., & Fliessbach, K. (2014)
Contractual incompleteness, unemployment, and labor market segmentation
Review of Economic Studies, 81(1), 30–56
Altmann, S., Falk, A., Grunewald, A., & Huffman, D. (2014)
The systematic place of morals in markets—Response
Science, 341(6147), 714
Falk, A., & Szech, N. (2013)
Validating an ultra-short survey measure of patience
Economics Letters, 120(2), 142–145
Vischer, T., Dohmen, T., Falk, A., Huffman, D., Schupp, J., Sunde, U., & Wagner, G. G. (2013)
Do lab experiments misrepresent social preferences? The case of self‐selected student samples
Journal of the European Economic Association, 11(4), 839–852
Falk, A., Meier, S., & Zehnder, C. (2013)
Morals and Markets
Science, 340(6133), 707–711
Falk, A., & Szech, N. (2013)
A city-wide experiment on trust discrimination
Journal of Public Economics, 100, 15–27
Falk, A., & Zehnder, C. (2013)
A taste for consistency and survey response behavior
CESifo Economic Studies, 59(1), 181–193
Falk, A., & Zimmermann, F. (2013)
No evidence for an effect of testosterone administration on delay discounting in male university students
Psychoneuroendocrinology 38(9), 1814–1818
Ortner, G. R., Wibral, M., Becker, A., Dohmen, T., Klingmüller, D., Falk, A., & Weber, B. (2013)
A reward prediction error for charitable donations reveals outcome orientation of donators
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8(2), 216–223
Kuss, K., Falk, A., Trautner, P., Elger, C. E., Weber, B., & Fliessbach, K. (2013)
Living in two neighborhoods—Social interaction effects in the laboratory
Economic Inquiry, 51(1), 563–578
Falk, A., Fischbacher, U., & Gächter, S. (2013)
Testosterone administration reduces lying in men
PLoS One, 11(3)
Wibral, M., Dohmen, T., Klingmüller, D., Weber, B., & Falk, A. (2012)
It’s all about connections: Evidence on network formation
Review of Network Economics, 11(3)
Falk, A., & Kosfeld, M. (2012)
The relationship between economic preferences and psychological personality measures
Annual Review of Economics, 4, 453–478
Becker, A., Deckers, T., Dohmen, T., Falk, A., & Kosse, F. (2012)
Competition and relational contracts: The role of unemployment as a disciplinary device
Journal of the European Economic Association, 10(4), 887–907
Brown, M., Falk, A., & Fehr, E. (2012)
The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes
Review of Economic Studies, 79(2), 645–677
Dohmen, T., Falk, A., Huffman, D., & Sunde, U. (2012)
Promotions and incentives: The case of multistage elimination tournaments
Journal of Labor Economics, 30(1), 149–174
Altmann, S., Falk, A., & Wibral, M. (2012)
Individual risk attitudes: Measurement, determinants, and behavioral consequences
Journal of the European Economic Association, 9(3), 522–550
Dohmen, T., Falk, A., Huffman, D., Sunde, U., Schupp, J., & Wagner, G. G. (2011)
Unemployment and right‐wing extremist crime
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 113(2), 260–285
Falk, A., Kuhn, A., & Zweimüller, J. (2011)
Relative versus absolute income, joy of winning, and gender: Brain imaging evidence
Journal of Public Economics, 95(3-4), 279–285
Dohmen, T., Falk, A., Fliessbach, K., Sunde, U., & Weber, B. (2011)
You get what you pay for: Incentives and selection in the education system
Economic Journal, 120(546), F256–F271
Dohmen, T., & Falk, A. (2010)
Direct evidence on risk attitudes and migration
Review of Economics and Statistics, 92(3), 684–689
Jaeger, D. A., Dohmen, T., Falk, A., Huffman, D., Sunde, U., & Bonin, H. (2010)
Biased probability judgment: Evidence of incidence and relationship to economic outcomes from a representative sample
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 72(3), 903–915
Dohmen, T., Falk, A., Huffman, D., Marklein, F., & Sunde, U. (2009)
Lab experiments are a major source of knowledge in the social sciences
Science, 326(5952), 535–538
Falk, A., & Heckman, J. J. (2009)
Homo reciprocans: Survey evidence on behavioural outcomes
Economic Journal, 119(536), 592–612
Dohmen, T., Falk, A., Huffman, D., & Sunde, U. (2009)
Experimental labor economics
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition
Falk, A., & Gächter, S. (2008)
Testing theories of fairness—Intentions matter
Games and Economic Behavior, 62(1), 287–303
Falk, A., Fehr, E., & Fischbacher, U. (2008)
Representative trust and reciprocity: Prevalence and determinants
Economic Inquiry, 46(1), 84–90
Dohmen, T., Falk, A., Huffman, D., & Sunde, U. (2008)
Cross-sectional earnings risk and occupational sorting: The role of risk attitudes
Labour Economics, 14(6), 926–937
Bonin, H., Dohmen, T., Falk, A., Huffman, D., & Sunde, U. (2007)
Social comparison affects reward-related brain activity in the human ventral striatum
Science, 318(5854), 1305–1308
Fliessbach, K., Weber, B., Trautner, P., Dohmen, T., Sunde, U., Elger, C. E., & Falk, A. (2007)
Gift exchange in the field
Econometrica, 75(5), 1501–1511
Falk, A. (2007)
Studying labor market institutions in the lab: Minimum wages, employment protection, and workfare
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 163(1), 30–45
Falk, A., & Huffman, D. (2007)
The Hidden Costs of Control
American Economic Review, 96(5): 1611–1630
Falk, A., & Kosfeld, M. (2006)
Fairness perceptions and reservation wages: The behavioral effects of minimum wage laws
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 121(4), 1347–1381
Falk, A., Fehr, E., & Zehnder, C. (2006)
Clean evidence on peer effects
Journal of Labor Economics, 24(1), 39–57
Falk, A., & Ichino, A. (2006)
The success of job applications: A new approach to program evaluation
Labour Economics, 12(6), 739–748
Falk, A., Lalive, R., & Zweimüller, J. (2005)
Driving forces behind informal sanctions
Econometrica, 73(6), 2017–2030
Falk, A., Fehr, E., & Fischbacher, U. (2005)
Choosing the Joneses: Endogenous goals and reference standards
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 106(3), 417–435
Falk, A., & Knell, M. (2004)
Relational contracts and the nature of market interactions
Econometrica, 72(3), 747–780
Brown, M., Falk, A., & Fehr, E. (2004)
Why labour market experiments?
Labour Economics, 10(4), 399–406
Falk, A., & Fehr, E. (2003)
Reasons for conflict: Lessons from bargaining experiments
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 159(1), 171–187
Falk, A., Fehr, E., & Fischbacher, U. (2003)
On the nature of fair behavior
Economic Inquiry, 41(1), 20–26
Falk, A., Fehr, E., & Fischbacher, U. (2003)
“Crime” in the lab—detecting social interaction
European Economic Review, 46(4–5), 859–869
Falk, A., & Fischbacher, U. (2002)
Psychological foundations of incentives
European Economic Review, 46(4–5), 687–724
Fehr, E., & Falk, A. (2002)
Reputation and reciprocity: Consequences for the labour relation
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 104(1), 1–26
Gächter, S., & Falk, A. (2002)
Distributional consequences and intentions in a model of reciprocity
Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 63/64, 111–129
Falk, A., & Fischbacher, U. (2001)
Intrinsic motivation and extrinsic incentives in a repeated game with incomplete contracts
Journal of Economic Psychology, 20(3), 251–284
Falk, A., Gächter, S., & Kovács, J. (1999)
Wage Rigidity in a Competitive Incomplete Contract Market
Journal of Political Economy, 107(1), 106–134
Fehr, E., & Falk, A. (1999)