Working Papers
Working Papers
Can major life events explain the U-shape in subjective well-being over the lifespan?,
with Micha Kaiser. 2025.
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Personal climate actions in a popular smartphone app,
with Fabian Dablander; Kristian S. Nielsen; Laura Basconi; Cameron Brick. 2025.
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Carbon taxes crowd out climate concern: experimental evidence from sustainable consumer choices,
with Alice Pizzo; Christina Gravert; Lucia A. Reisch. 2025, updated.
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[34] Does Home Bias Persist? The Effect of Funder Experience on Home Bias,
with Kristian R. Nielsen. In Journal of Business Research, 2026, forthcoming.
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[33] Demand-side interventions for sustainable food systems: A meta-analysis of food-policy interventions targeting food consumption and waste behaviours,
with Paul Lohmann, Alice Pizzo; Tarun M. Khanna; Jan Minx; Lucia A. Reisch. In Nature Food, 2026, forthcoming.
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[32] Perceived plasticity of climate-relevant behaviors and policy support among high- and lower-income individuals,
with Kristian S. Nielsen; Fabian Dablander; Ramit Debnath; Charles A. Emogor; Sakshi Ghai; Wencke Gwozdz; Ulf J. J. Hahnel; Wilhelm Hofmann. In Global Environmental Change, 2026, forthcoming.
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[31] Informational nudges or incentives? A field experiment on vegetarian choices,
with Alice Pizzo; Lucia A. Reisch. In Ecological Economics, 2026, forthcoming.
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[30] Food waste salience and task knowledge to reduce individual food waste: a field experiment in a restaurant setting,
with Alice Pizzo; Manuel Suter; Lucia A. Reisch. In Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2025, forthcoming.
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[29] Fake News & True News Assessment: The Persuasive Effect of Discursive Evidence in Judging Veracity,
with Abayomi Baiyere; Ioanna Constantiou; Daniel Hardt. In MIS Quarterly, 2025, 49 (3): 823–860.
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[28] Is dietary goal failure associated with goal-supportive policy attitudes?,
with Sonja Grelle; Kristian S. Nielsen; Charlotte A. Kukowski; Wilhelm Hofmann. In Behavioural Public Policy, 2024, forthcoming.
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[27] Underestimation of personal carbon footprint inequality in four socioeconomically diverse countries, with Kristian S Nielsen; Ramit Debnath; Charles A Emogor; Sonja M Geiger; Sakshi Ghai; Wencke Gwozdz; Ulf JJ Hahnel. In Nature Climate Change, 2024.
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[26] Mitigating Climate Change Via the Demand Side and Behavioral Insights: Policy Recommendation and Current Challenges,
with Sebastian Berger; Viktoria Cologna. In Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2024.
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[25] Current Research Practices on Pro-environmental Behavior: A Survey of Environmental Psychologists, with Cameron Brick; Kristian S. Nielsen; Sebastian Berger; Laura Henn; Kimberly S. Wolske; Florian Lange; Daniel Hanss; Alaa Aldoh; Maien S.M. Sachisthal; Svein Åge Kjøs Johnsen; Viktoria Cologna. In Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2024.
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[24] Realizing the Full Potential of Behavioural Science for Climate Change Mitigation,
with Kristian S. Nielsen; Viktoria Cologna; Sebastian Berger; Cameron Brick; Thomas Dietz; Ulf J. J. Hahnel; Laura Henn; Florian Lange; Paul C. Stern; Kimberly S. Wolske. In Nature Climate Change, 2024, Vol. 14, No. 4, p. 322-330.
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[23] The association between commuting and cardiovascular disease: A biomarker-based analysis of cross-sectional cohort data from the UK Biobank,
with Micha Kaiser; Steffen Otterbach, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Lucia A. Reisch. In Preventive Medicine, 2024, 172, 107521.
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[22] Healthy eating in the wild: An experience-sampling study of how food environments and situational factors shape out-of-home dietary success,
with Kristian S. Nielsen; Wilhelm Hofmann; Lucia A. Reisch. In Social Science & Medicine, 2022, 299, 114869.
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[21] Nudging more sustainable grocery purchases: Behavioural innovations in a supermarket setting,
with Simon C. Aarestrup; Pelle G. Hansen; Lucia A. Reisch. In Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022, 179, 121605.
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[20] Battle of the primes–The effect and interplay of health and hedonic primes on food choice,
with Laura N. van der Laan, Gert-Jan de Bruijn, Lucia A. Reisch. In Appetite, 2022, 172, 105956.
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[19] Making more effective use of human behavioural science in conservation interventions,
with Andrew Balmford; Richard B. Bradbury; Steven Broad; Gayle Burgess; Mark Burgman; Hilary Byerly;Susan Clayton; Dulce Espelosin; Paul J. Ferraro; Brendan Fisher; Emma E. Garnett; Julia P.G. Jones; Theresa M. Marteau; Mark Otieno; Stephen Polasky;Taylor H. Ricketts; Chris Sandbrook; Kira Sullivan-Wiley; Rosie Trevelyan; Sander van der Linden; Diogo Veríssimo; Kristian S. Nielsen. In Biological Conservation, 2021, 261, 109256.
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[18] Biodiversity conservation as a promising frontier for behavioural science,
with Kristian S. Nielsen; Theresa M. Marteau; Richard B. Bradbury; Steven Broad; Gayle Burgess; Mark Burgman; Hilary Byerly; Susan Clayton; Dulce Espelosin; Paul J. Ferraro; Brendan Fisher; Emma E. Garnett; Julia P. G. Jones; Mark Otieno; Stephen Polasky; Taylor H. Ricketts; Rosie Trevelyan; Sander van der Linden; Diogo Veríssimo; Andrew Balmford. In Nature Human Behaviour, 2021, 5, 550–556.
[17] Are you sure, you want a cookie? – The effects of choice architecture on users' decisions about sharing private online data,
with Regitze Bergstrøm, Rune Foss-Madsen. In Computers in Human Behavior, 2021, 120.
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[16] Nudging healthier food choices in a cafeteria setting: A sequential multi-intervention field study,
with Sabine Bietz; Julius Rauber; Lucia A. Reisch. In Appetite, 160, 105106.
[15] Rewarding behavior with a sweet food strengthens its valuation,
with Marina Schröder, Martina Vecchi, Tina Bake, Suzanne L. Dickson, Michele Belot. In Plos one, 2021, 16 (4), e0242461.
[14] Pre-migration socioeconomic status and post-migration health satisfaction among Syrian refugees in Germany: a cross-sectional analysis,
with Tilman Brand, Hajo Zeeb. In PLoS Medicine, 2020, 17 (3), e1003093.
[13] Examining the relationship between trait self-control and stress: Evidence on generalizability and outcome variability,
with Kristian S. Nielsen, Wilhelm Hofmann. In Journal of Research in Personality, 2020, 84, 103901.
[12] The merits of goal support as a self-control strategy,
with Kristian S. Nielsen. In Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2019, 10 (5), 671-680.
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[11] Behavioural Insights and (Un)healthy Dietary Choices: a Review of Current Evidence,
with Lucia A. Reisch. In Journal of Consumer Policy, 2019, 42 (1), 3–45.
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[10] Preschool child care and child well-being in Germany: Does the migrant experience differ?,
with Micha Kaiser. In Social Indicators Research, 2019, 144, 1367–1390.
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[9] Heterogeneous selection in the market for private supplemental dental insurance: Evidence from Germany,
with Christopher Schreckenberger, Jörg Schiller. In Empirical Economics, 2019, 59, 205-231.
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[8] The paradox of falling job satisfaction with rising job stickiness in the German nursing workforce between 1990 and 2013,
with Mohamad Alameddine, Martin Richter, Alfonso Sousa-Poza. In Human Resources for Health, 2017, 15 (55).
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[7] Does unemployment lead to a less healthy lifestyle?,
with Micha Kaiser, Alfonso Sousa-Poza. In Applied Economics Letters, 2017, 24 (12), 815-819.
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[6] Subjective well-being across the lifespan in Europe and Central Asia,
with Victoria Levin, Ana Maria Munoz Boudet, Peng Nie, Alfonso Sousa-Poza. In Journal of Population Ageing, 2017, 10, 125-158.
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[5] Effects of drought on child health in Marsabit District, Northern Kenya,
with Samuel Mburu. In Economics & Human Biology, 2017, 24, 74-79.
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[4] Seed dispersal potential of Asian elephants,
with Franziska Harich, Anna C. Treydte, Joseph O. Ogutu, John E. Roberts, Chutio Savini, Tommaso Savini. In Acta Oecologica, 2016, 77, 144-151.
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[3] Trends in job satisfaction among German nurses from 1990 to 2012,
Mohamad Alameddine, Martin Richter, Alfonso Sousa-Poza. In Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 2015, 21 (2), 101-108.
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[2] Impacts of informal caregiving on caregiver employment, health, and family,
with Alfonso Sousa-Poza. In Journal of Population Ageing, 2015, 8, 113-145
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[1] Effects of different life events on life satisfaction in the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey,
with Dario Cords, Rachelle Sellung, Alfonso Sousa-Poza. In Economics Letters, 2015, 129, 91-94.
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