Research

Working papers

• Toward an Understanding of Discrimination When Multiple Channels Exist (submitted)

(with Majid Ahmadi, Jeffrey Lachman and John List)

NBER Working Paper - Latest version Working Paper

• Reducing Prejudice: A Meta-Analysis and Experiment on the Contact Hypothesis (R&R at Experimental Economics)

Working Paper - PAP

• Better the Devil You Know: Managers’ Networks and Their Influence on Hiring, Responsibilities, and Performanc (submitted)

      (with Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez and Marco Henriques Pereira)

Working Paper

• Contact and the Price of Prejudice (submitted)

(with Andreas Andersen, Guillaume Hollard and Andreas Kotsadam)

Working Paper - PAP

Publications

1. Revisiting the Price Elasticity of Charitable Giving: Meta-Analysis of Tax Incentives and Matching Donations

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 252, 2026 🔓

with Shubham Dey, Taisuke Imai and Shusaku Sasaki

2. When Robots Think and Feel, Will Trust Disappear? Evidence from an Online Experiment

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 122, 2026 🔓

with Yu Pan, Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez and Helmut Dietl

PAP - AEA RCT Registration

3. Investigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioral sciences

Nature, 652, 126–134, 2026

with Olivia Miske, Brian A. Nosek and Timothy M. Errington, and a consortium of authors

4. The private solution trap in collective action problems across 34 nations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123 (12), 2026 🔓

with Eugene Malthouse and a consortium of authors

5. Bringing Contact Interventions to the Lab: Effects of Bilateral Discussions on Interethnic Trust in Senegal

World Development, 199, 2026 🔓

with Guillaume Hollard and Omar Sene

PAP - AEA RCT Registration

6. Migration and Sources of Discrimination in a Social Context: Experimental Evidence from 15 Latin American Countries

Journal of Development Economics, 179, 2026 🔓

with Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez, Helmut Dietl and Juan Cruz Duhalde 

PAP - AEA RCT Registration - Policy Brief - VoxDev article

7. Using a Brief Contact to Improve Trust in the Police by the Youth

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 117, 2025 🔓

PAP - AEA RCT Registration - Policy brief

8. The effect of the 7R allele at the DRD4 locus on risk tolerance is independent of background risk in Senegalese fishermen

Scientific Reports, 13, 622, 2023 🔓

with A. Mbegue, C. Mettling, B. Diouf, C. Faurie, O. Sene, E. Chancerel, E. Guichoux, G. Hollard, M. Raymond and M. Willinger

PDF - Supplementary Materials

9. Richard H. Thaler et les limites de la rationalité (in French)

Revue d'économie politique, 2018/4 (Vol. 128), p. 535-548

with Guillaume Hollard and Fabien Perez

Selected work in progress

• Citizen Participation and Trust in the Police: Evaluation of the Foros de Seguridad Pública of the City of Buenos Aires, with Franco Albino (PAP)

• Race change and electoral outcomes in Brazil, with Jeffrey Flory

• GUIder la Statistique publique Sénégalaise : Téléphonie, Algorithmique et Nouvelles techniques Numériques (GUISSTANN), with Guillaume Hollard

• Improving Smoking Cessation in Saudi Arabia, with Faisal Kattan and John List

• Legacy of Discrimination Based on Wrong Beliefs: Evidence from the Minamata Disease, with Mifuyu Kira and Yuki Takahashi

• Efficient and Valid Within-Subject Designs, with Thomas Colagiuri, Kevin Lee, and John List

• Gender and the price of prejudice, with Sysha Pal and Brigham Walker (PAP)

• Beliefs and Taste: Disentangling Discrimination Sources in Correspondence Studies, with Yoshio Kamijo, Yu Pan, and Shohei Yamamoto

Other work

• Gwen-Jiro Clochard and Emilie Alberola (2017), International Collaborations in Industry on Climate Change Mitigation R&I Initiatives, CARISMA Delivrables 7.3, October 2017

• Lindner, Sören, Emilie Alberola, Monica Alesi, Arno Behrens, Gwen-Jiro Clochard, Heleen de Connick, Katja Tuokko (2017), International R&I collaboration on mitigation: Examples of international climate change mitigation research and innovation collaboration between the European Union and developing countries, CARISMA Working Document no. 5, May 2017

• Van der Gaast, Wytze, Gwen-Jiro Clochard, Emilie Alberola, Andreas Türk, Noriko Fujiwara, Niki-Artemis Spyridaki (2016), Effects of interactions between EU Climate and Energy Policies, CARISMA Working Document No. 3, November 2016

• Social Health Inequalities are truly harmful: Evidence from an empirical investigation in France (with Omar Sene)

• Are Ethnic Divisions a Tragedy for Public Good Provision in Africa? (joint with Guillaume Hollard) 

• More Effort or Better Technologies? On the Effect of Relative-Performance Feedback (with Guillaume Hollard and Julia Wirtz)