Research

CURRENT PROJECTS

• The determinants of support for climate policy (with Matthias Kalkuhl, Maximilian Kellner, Andreas Peichl and Karolina Rütten) Pre-analysis Plan 

• The Effect of Transfer Withdrawal Rates on Formal and Informal Labor Supply (with Kerstin Bruckmeier, Mathias Dolls, Sarah Necker and Andreas Peichl) Pre-analysis Plan 

• Trade-offs in Policy Making: Economists’ vs. People’s Beliefs (with Sebastian Blesse, Mathias Dolls, Sarah Necker and Andreas Peichl) Pre-analysis Plan 

• Does information about tax shifting shift tax preferences? (with Fabian Böhme and Sarah Necker) Pre-analysis Plan 

LATEST WORKING PAPERS

Speaking of Debt: Framing, Guilt, and Economic Choices  (with Cevat Aksoy, Mathias Dolls, Justyna Klejdysz and Andreas Peichl) Paper Pre-analysis Plan Press

Externalities and the Erosion of Trust  (with Gianmarco Daniele, Andrea Martinangeli, Francesco Passarelli and Willem Sas ) Pre-analysis Plan Paper  Submitted

Wind of Change? Experimental Survey Evidence on the Covid-19 Shock and Socio-Political Attitudes in Europe  (with Gianmarco Daniele, Andrea Martinangeli, Francesco Passarelli and Willem Sas )  Paper Pre-analysis Plan VoxEU 

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

Calamities, Common Interests, Shared Identity: What Shapes Social Cohesion in Europe? (2025) (with Cevat Aksoy, Antonio Cabrales, Ruben Durante and Mathias Dolls) Paper Pre-analysis Plan VoxEU Journal of Comparative Economics

Reformen des Bürgergelds aus Sicht der Bevölkerung (2025) (with Mathias Dolls, Sarah Necker, Andreas Peichl and Boyan Petkov) Forthcoming at Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik

Which factors affect public support for economic policies? Evidence from a survey experiment about rent control in Germany (2025) (with Mathias Dolls and Paul Schüle) Pre-analysis Plan  Paper Economica

Pandemic Distress and Anti-Immigration Sentiments (2024) (with Gianmarco Daniele, Andrea Martinangeli, Francesco Passarelli and Willem Sas ) Paper Economica

Inequality shapes the Propagation of Unethical Behaviours: Cheating Responses to Tax Evasion (2024) (with Andrea Martinangeli) Pre-analysis Plan Paper Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Immigration vs. Poverty: Causal Impact on Demand for Redistribution in a Survey Experiment (2023) (with Andrea Martinangeli) Pre-Analysis Plan Paper SZ Article  European Journal of Political Economy

Reducing Sexual-Orientation Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from Basic Information Treatments (2023)  (with Cevat Aksoy, Christopher Carpenter, Ralph De Haas and Mathias Dolls) Paper Pre-analysis Plan VoxEU Podcast Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 

The Redistributive Consequences of Segregation and Misperceptions (2022) Published Paper Working Paper  Guardian Article Video Online Appendix European Economic Review

Curtailment of Civil Liberties and Subjective Life Satisfaction (2022) (with Michael Ahlheim and Kai Konrad) Paper Online Appendix  Pre-analysis Plan  Journal of Happiness Studies

Monopolistic Supply of Sorting, Inequality and Welfare (2021) Paper Online Appendix Journal of Public Economic Theory

Last Word not Yet Spoken: A reinvestigation of last place aversion with aversion to rank reversals (2021) (with Andrea Martinangeli) Paper Experimental Economics 

POLICY PAPERS

Warum sind Mietregulierungen so beliebt? (with Mathias Dolls and Paul Schüle), ifo Schnelldienst 78, Nr. 06, 51-55,  2025 Paper 

Wie kann der soziale Zusammenhalt in Europa gestärkt werden? Ergebnisse aus einem Umfrageexperiment in neun EU-Mitgliedstaaten (with Mathias Dolls), ifo Schnelldienst 77, Nr. 05,v11-14, 2024 Paper 

Zur Reform der Transferentzugsraten und Verbesserung der Erwerbsanreize (with Andreas Peichl, Holger Bonin, Holger Stichnoth, Felix Bierbrauer, Maximilian Blömer, Mathias Dolls, Emanuel Hansen, Michael Hebsaker, Sarah Necker, Manuel Pannier and Boyan Petkov), BMAS Forschungsbericht, December 2023

Discrimination of sexual minorities in emerging markets: Can the needle be moved? (with Cevat Aksoy, Christopher Carpenter, Ralph De Haas and Mathias Dolls) EconPol Forum 24 (3), 41-43 , May 2023 Paper 

Gerechtigkeitsempfinden in Deutschland (with Julia Baarck, Mathias Dolls and Kai Unzicker), Bertelsmann Stiftung, August 2022

Discrimination of sexual minorities in emerging markets: How to move the needle (with Cevat Aksoy, Christopher Carpenter, Ralph De Haas and Mathias Dolls) VoxEU.org, 9 January 2022

The effect of calamities and shared identities on altruism and reciprocity (with Cevat Aksoy, Antonio Cabrales, Ruben Durante and Mathias Dolls) VoxEU.org, 13 June 2021 

Covid-19 and socio-political attitudes in Europe: In competence we trust (with Gianmarco Daniele, Andrea Martinangeli, Francesco Passarelli and Willem Sas ) VoxEU.org, 1 October 2020

Verlorenes Glück - Zufriedenheitsverluste in der Corona-Krise.  (with Michael Ahlheim, Stefan Bruckmeyer and Kai Konrad) Wirtschaftsdienst , 100(8), pp.  586 -590 .  Paper