Wladislaw Mill

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Currently, I am a (non-tenured) Assistant Professor of behavioral economics at the economics department of the University of Mannheim (Germany).

I am a microeconomist with a keen interest in the dark side of human behavior. My work focuses on topics such as discrimination, corruption, power abuse, tax evasion, experiences of war, spiteful behavior, etc. One of the central themes in my research is examining how morals intersect with economic systems. For instance, I investigate how discrimination impacts the formation of job networks, what factors contribute to the abuse of power, how polarization leads to destructive behaviors, the effects of war experiences on religiosity, the consequences of social exclusion on both victims and perpetrators, and how individuals' spiteful preferences can predict their economic behavior. 

To address each of my research questions, I employ the tools that best provide credible and convincing answers. Much of my research has a strong theoretical foundation, which I develop to derive novel predictions and to provide intuitions in complex settings. I typically provide empirical support for these novel predictions by using laboratory, online, and field experiments to identify causal relationships. At times, I complement the clean experimental insights with more natural data (particularly obtained through big-data approaches like web-scraping), while other times, I rely on machine-learning tools like computer vision to classify or extract data from natural field settings.

More broadly my research interests are:

• (Applied) microeconomics

• Experimental and Behavioral Economics

• Labor Economics

• Political Economy

• Public Economics

• Economic Theory

• Economics of Crime