My research is in behavioral and experimental economics, with a long-standing interest in how social context, institutions, and interaction shape individual behavior. Across my work, I study how people respond to social incentives, norms, and moral cues in situations involving cooperation, competition, dishonesty, and rule compliance.
A central theme of my research is the analysis of social behavior under moral and strategic tension. My work examines phenomena such as cheating, corruption, theft, dishonesty, and norm compliance, as well as prosocial behavior, cooperation, and redistribution. Several of my papers study how these behaviors are affected by social identity (e.g. gender, in-group/out-group), social feedback, and the characteristics of interaction partners.
Another important strand of my research focuses on competition and performance, analyzing how individuals react to competitive outcomes, task choice, and feedback, and how these responses differ across contexts and social dimensions such as gender. Related work studies the role of emotions, apologies, and social signals in shaping behavior following conflict, exclusion, or negative interaction.
More recently, my research has expanded toward the study of social norms and peer effects in applied and institutionally constrained environments. This includes experimental work conducted in prisons and lab-in-the-field studies on food choices and sustainability, where individual decisions are embedded in strong social and institutional frameworks.
Methodologically, I rely primarily on controlled laboratory experiments, lab-in-the-field experiments, and experimental designs implemented in real-world institutional settings. My work combines behavioral data with additional measures—such as physiological indicators, beliefs, and social information—to better understand the mechanisms underlying decision-making. I place particular emphasis on causal identification and careful experimental design.