Current working papers and projects
When performance melts away: Heat causes individuals to make more mental mistakes in high-stakes competitions
with Hendrik Sonnabend, University Hagen
NEW WORKING PAPER here!
Positive feedback does change risk preferences at young age: Evidence from careers in high-risk competitions
with Hendrik Sonnabend, University Hagen
Why bother when no one is watching? The peformance enhancing effects of supportive observers - evidence from a natural experiment
with René Böheim (JKU) and Bastian Westbrock (University of Hamburg)
The Napoleon complex revisited: New evidence from professional soccer (2024)
with Guilio Callegaro and Hendrik Sonnabend (both University Hagen), media coverage: Tagesschau.de Bild.de
Covid-19 and the forces behind social unrest
with Uwe Sunde (LMU) and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (JKU), [CEPR working paper]
Do male managers increase risk-taking of female teams? Evidence from the NCAA (2019)
with René Böheim (JKU), Re-submitted, Labour Economics, [SSRN working paper]
Publications in refereed journals (since 2020)
Presenteeism when employers are under pressure: evidence from a high-stakes environment, Economica, 2023, 90(358), 477-507.
with Hendrik Sonnabend [article ]
Effort and risk-taking in tournaments with superstars-evidence for teams, Applied Economics, 2023, 55(57), 6776-6792.
[article]
The older the wiser? Determinants of misbehavior in team contests, Social Science Quarterly, 2023, 104(5), 1170-1183.
with Hendrik Sonnabend [article]
Mass gatherings contributed to early COVID-19 mortality: Evidence from US sports, Contemporary Economic Policy, 2023, 41(3), 471-488.
with Alexander Ahammer and Martin Halla [article] 2024 Contemporary Economic Policy Best Paper Award [media coverage: German newspaper Welt]
Can barely winning lead to losing? Gender and past performance, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 208, 258-274.
with Michael Weichselbaumer [article]
Raising the bar: Causal evidence on gender differences in risk-taking from a natural experiment, Journal of Sports Economics, 2022, 23(4), 460-478.
with René Böheim and Wilhelm Wagner [article]
Can too many cooks spoil the broth? Coordination costs, fatigue, and performance in high-intensity tasks, Southern Economic Journal, 2022, 88(3). 1065?1085.
with Bastyan Kordyaka and Hendrik Sonnabend [article]
Coping with advantageous inequity? Field evidence from professional penalty kicking, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2021, 101678.
with Hendrik Sonnabend [article]
Are competitors forward looking in strategic interactions? Field evidence from multistage tournaments, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 179, 544-565.
with Rudi Stracke, Uwe Sunde, and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer [article]
Rent sharing and gender discrimination: causal evidence from collegiate athletics, Social Science Quarterly, 2020, 101(2), 678-696.
with Christine Zulehner
Choking under pressure - Evidence of the causal effect of audience size on performance, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 168, 76-93.
with René Böheim and Dominik Grübl
Does confdence enhance performance? Causal evidence from the field, Managerial and Decision Economics, 2019, 40(6),704-717.
with Alexander Ahammer and Jasmin Voigt
Gender differences in competitiveness, IZA World of Labor, 2016 (updated 2021).
Does the welfare state destroy the family? Evidence from OECD member countries, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118(2), 292?323.
with Martin Halla and Johann Scharler
Gender and risk taking: evidence from jumping competitions, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 2015, 178(4), 883-902.
with René Böheim
Returns to Education in Professional Football, Economics Letters, 2012, 114(3), 326-328.
with René Böheim
An Empirical Analysis of the Dyna mics of the Welfare State: The Case of Benefit Morale, Kyklos, 2010, 63(1), 55-74.
with Martin Halla and Friedrich G. Schneider, Excellent Publication Award, JKU, 2011