Research

Current Working Papers

• 'Relative Performance Feedback and Long-Term Tasks – Experimental Evidence from Higher Education' (with Raphael Brade and Robert Jaeckle), CESifo Working Paper 10346, 2023.

• 'Helping Students to Succeed -- Long-Term Effects of Soft Commitments and Reminders' (with Raphael Brade and Robert Jaeckle). CESifo Working Paper 11001, 2024.

• 'Bunching in Higher Education' (with Raphael Brade, Robert Jaeckle and Zouhier Kassaballi).

Journal Articles

• 'Norm Violations and Behavioral Spillovers -- Evidence from the Lab and the Field', European Economic Review, 166(104776), 2024 (with Sebastian Goerg and Tobias Koenig).

• 'Defaults and Effortful Tasks', Experimental Economics, 26, 2023 (with Lars Behlen and Robert Jaeckle).

• ‘Relative Performance Feedback and the Effects of Being Above Average – Field Experiment and Replication’, Economics of Education Review, 89(102268), 2022 (with Raphael Brade and Robert Jaeckle).

• ‘Soft Commitments, Reminders, and Academic Performance’, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11(2), 2019 (with Robert Jaeckle and Philipp Weinschenk).

• 'Literacy and the migrant-native wage gap' Review of Income and Wealth, 64(3), 2018 (with Robert Jaeckle).

• 'Mass Media, Instrumental Information, and Electoral Accountability' Journal of Public Economics, 134, 2016 (with Christian Bruns). 

• 'Fairness Spillovers - The Case of Taxation', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 90(C), 2013 (with Thomas Cornelissen and Tobias Koenig).

• 'Double standards in educational standards - Do Schools with a Disadvantaged Student Body Grade More Leniently?, German Economic Review, 14(2), 2013 (with Robert Schwager).

• 'Perceived Unfairness in CEO Compensation and Work Morale', Economics Letters, 110(1), 2011 (with Thomas Cornelissen and Tobias Koenig).

• 'Newspaper circulation and local government efficiency', Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 113(2), 2011 (with Christian Bruns).

• 'Media activity and public spending', Economics of Governance, 11(4), 2010 (with Christian Bruns).

• 'Health and wages - panel data estimates considering selection and endogeneity' , Journal of Human Resources, 45(2), 2010, (with Robert Jaeckle).

Publications in German

• Verhaltensökonomisch motivierte Manahmen zur Sicherung des Studienerfolgs (VStud). In Daniel, H.-D., Neugebauer, M., & Wolter, A. (Hrsg.) Studienerfolg und Studienabbruch, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2021 (with Lars Behlen, Raphael Brade and Robert Jaeckle).

• Können Ansätze aus der Verhaltensökonomik den Studienerfolg erhöhen? Das Forschungsprojekt VStud. Qualität in der Wissenschaft, 13(3/4), 2022 (with Raphael Brade and Robert Jaeckle).

• Ökonomie und Analphabetismus - Analysen zur Literalität von Zweitsprachler/innen in der Erwerbsbevölkerung. In: Anke Grotlüschen und Wibke Riekmann (Hrsg.): Funktionaler Analphabetismus in Deutschland - Ergebnisse der ersten leo. - Level-One Studie. Münster, Waxmann-Verlag, 2012 (with Robert Jaeckle).

• Fairness-Spillover: Was die Wahrnehmung von Managersteuern mit dem Fehlen am Arbeitsplatz zu tun hat,  Ökonomenstimme, 2011 (with Thomas Cornelissen and Tobias Koenig).