Max Planck Research Group Leader
(non-tenured)

Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Welcome!

I am a Max Planck Research Group Leader (non-tenured) of the independent research group “Behavioral Economics, Finance, and Data Science” at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods.

The research focus of my group is (the combination of) behavioral and experimental economics, household finance, and data science for (causal) behavioral research.

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Interests
  • Behavioral and Experimental Economics and Finance
  • Household Finance
  • Development and Health Economics
  • Data Science for Behavioral Research
Education
  • PhD in Economics, 2017

    University of Goettingen

  • MSc in Mathematics in Business and Economics, 2014

    University of Mannheim

  • BSc in Mathematics in Business and Economics, 2011

    University of Mannheim

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals

(2024). Social Norms, Political Polarization, and Vaccination Attitudes: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey. European Economic Review 168: 104818.

PDF DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2024.104818

(2023). Discrimination, narratives and family history: An experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children. Review of Economics and Statistics 105 (4): 1008–1016.

PDF DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_01090

Revise and Resubmits

(2023). Financial literacy, experimental preference measures and field behavior – A randomized educational intervention. Discussion Papers of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2023/3. Revision requested by the Journal of Political Economy.

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(2021). Higher Order Risk Preferences: New Experimental Measures, Determinants and Field Behavior. Discussion Papers of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2020/22. Revision requested by the American Economic Review.

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Working Paper

(2024). Measuring Utility – An Application to Higher Order Risk.

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(2024). Addressing Validity and Generalizability Concerns in Field Experiments. Discussion Papers of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2020/16.

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(2024). One size fits all? The interplay of incentives, effort provision, and personality. Discussion Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2024/13.

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(2023). Information provision over the phone saves lives. Discussion Papers of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2022/9.

PDF Media Coverage in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (German) Media Coverage in BR alpha Campus Talks (TED-talk style, German)

(2021). Rerandomization to Improve Covariate Balance by Minimizing the MSE of a Treatment Effect Estimator. Older version (A New Approach to Treatment Assignment for One and Multiple Treatment Groups), was published in 2017 as: Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth - Discussion Papers 228, http://hdl.handle.net/10419/161931.

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Recent & Upcoming Talks

Nudging or Paying? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Measures to Contain COVID-19 in Rural Bangladesh in a Randomized Controlled Trial

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