Research

Complete List of Peer-Reviewed Publications

2024

• Paying Them to Hate US: Effect of U.S. Military Aid on Anti-American Terrorism, 1968-2018
  (with T. Krieger & D. Meierrieks).
  The Economic Journal
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• Motivated Information Acquisition and Social Norm Formation
  (with F. Galeotti & M. C. Villeval).
  European Economic Review
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• Strategic Behavior with Tight, Loose, and Polarized Norms
  (with M. Gelfand, A. Hochleitner & S. Sonderegger).
  Management Science
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2023

• Beyond Average: A Method for Measuring the Tightness, Looseness, and Polarization of Social Norms.
  Economics Letters
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• A Synthesis of Evidence for Policy from Behavioural Science During COVID-19
  (collaboration led by K. Ruggeri & J. van Bavel)
  Nature
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• Competition & Moral Behavior: Meta-Analysis of 45 Crowd-Sourced Experimental Designs
  (collaboration led by C. Huber, A. Dreber, et al.)
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
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• Nudging Enforcers: How Norm Perceptions and Motives for Lying Shape Sanctions
  (with T. Gesche)
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Nexus
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• Hate Trumps Love: The Impact of Political Polarization on Social Preferences
  Management Science
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• It's Not A Lie if You Believe the Norm Does Not Apply: Conditional Norm-Following and Belief Distortion
  (with C. Bicchieri & S. Sonderegger)
  Games & Economic Behavior
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2022

• Social Norms and Behavior Change: The Interdisciplinary Research Frontier
  (with C. Bicchieri, M. Gelfand & S. Sonderegger) Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
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• Politicizing Mask-Wearing: Predicting the Success of Behavioral Interventions Among Republicans and Democrats in the U.S.
  (with Pieper, Clemente, Dreber, Gelfand & consortium co-authors from the Behavior Change for Good Initiative (BCFG), the Behavioral Insights Team (BIT), Center for Advanced Hindsight (CAH), and ideas42).
  Nature Scientific Reports
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• Social Proximity and the Erosion of Norm Compliance
  (with C. Bicchieri, S. Gächter & D. Nosenzo)
  Games and Economic Behavior
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• Beyond Belief: How Social Engagement Motives Influence the Spread of Conspiracy Theories
  (with Z. Ren & M. Schweitzer)
  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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• Persuading Republicans & Democrats to Comply with Mask Wearing: An Intervention Tournament
  (with Gelfand, Li, Stamkou, Denison, Fernandez, Choi, Chatman, Jackson & Pieper)
  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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• Meta-Nudging Honesty: Past, Present, and Future of the Research Frontier
  (with S. Shalvi)
  Current Opinion in Psychology
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• Authoritarian Leaders Share Conspiracy Theories to Attack Opponents, Promote In-Group Unity, Shift Blame, and Undermine Democratic Institutions
  (with Z. Ren, A. Carton & M. Schweitzer)
  Current Opinion in Psychology
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2021

• Observability and Social Image: On the Robustness and Fragility of Reciprocity
  (with G. Bolton & U. Schmidt)
  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
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• Efficient Institutions and Effective Deterrence: On Timing and Uncertainty of Punishment (with J. Buckenmaier, A.-C. Posten & U. Schmidt) Journal of Risk & Uncertainty
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• The Experience is (Not) Everything: Sequential Outcomes and Social Decision-Making
  (with J. Buckenmaier)
  Economics Letters
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• Deviant or Wrong? The Effects of Norm Information on the Efficacy of Punishment (with C. Bicchieri & E. Xiao)
  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
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• Understanding Cross-Cultural Differences in Peer Reporting Practices: Evidence from Tax Evasion Games in Moldova & France
  (with R. Romaniuc, D. Dubois, A. Lupusor & V. Prohnitchi)
  Public Choice
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2020

• Requiem for a Nudge: Framing Effects in Nudging Honesty
  (with G. Van Kleef & S. Shalvi)
  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
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• The Economics of Corruption in Sports: The Special Case of Doping
  (with C. Deutscher), in: Frick, Humphreys, Soebbing, Pawlowski, Downward & Rusedski (eds.): Handbook of Sports
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2019

• Nudging with Care: The Risks and Benefits of Social Information
  (with C. Bicchieri)
  Public Choice
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• Contagion of Pro- and Anti-Social Behavior Among Peers and the Role of Social Proximity
  Journal of Economic Psychology
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2018

• Effects of Institutional History and Leniency on Collusive Corruption and Tax Evasion
  (with J. Buckenmaier & L. Mittone)
  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
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• Causes & Effects of Corruption: What has Past Decade's Empirical Research Taught Us?
  (with G. Tosato)
  Journal of Economic Surveys
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2016

• The Nature of Corruption – An Interdisciplinary Perspective
  (with T. Schulte), Special Issue of the German Law Journal
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2015 

• A Crook is a Crook...But is He Still a Crook Abroad? On the Effect of Immigration on Destination-Country Corruption
  (with T. Krieger and M. Redlin)
  German Economic Review
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2013

• The Effect of Corruption on Migration, 1985-2000
  (with T. Krieger and D. Meierrieks)
  Applied Economics Letters
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Work in Progress

Revise & Resubmit

• Measuring Norm Pluralism and Perceived Polarization in U.S. Politics
  Revise & Resubmit at: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Nexus
  (joint with F. Panizza, E. Kimbrough & A. Vostroknutov).
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• Unraveling Polarization: Insights into Individual and Collective Dynamics
  Revise & Resubmit at: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Nexus
  (joint with K. Kish Bar-On, Y. Lelkes & D. Rand).
  Link to WP

• Match Fixing and Sports Betting in Soccer: Empirical Evidence from the German Bundesliga
  Invited for Resubmission: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
  (joint with C. Deutscher & B. Humphreys).
  Link to WP

Under Review

• Identity and Economic Incentives (with K. Donkor, L. Götte, M. Kurschilgen & M. Müller). Link to WP

• Promoting Responsible Disposal of Opioids: A Randomized Evaluation of Behaviorally Informed Messaging Combined with a Financial Incentive
  (with M. Tomma and colleagues from the Department of Justice, Department of State, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Office of Evaluation Sciences). Link to WP

• Measuring Norm Pluralism and Tolerance
  (with F. Panizza, E. Kimbrough & A. Vostroknutov). Link to WP

• Norm-Nudging: Harnessing Social Expectations for Behavior Change
  (with C. Bicchieri). Link to WP

• Color-Blind or Race-Conscious? Identity and Switching Fairness Concepts
  (with L. Reinhardt & N. Sambanis). Link to WP

• Becoming Friends or Foes? How Competitive Environments Shape Altruistic Preferences
  (with A. Cao, K. Hyndman & N. Yang). Link to WP