Publications

Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter (2026). Risk Preferences and Field Behavior: The Relevance of Higher-Order Risk Preferences. American Economic Review 116 (1): 88–118.

PDF DOI: 10.1257/aer.20211217 Online Appendix (Supplemental Appendix) Supplementary Material (2025)

Shyamal Chowdhury, Manuela Puente-Beccar, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter (2025). Spatial patterns in the formation of economic preferences. Discussion Papers of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2025/10. Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of the European Economic Association.

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Sebastian O. Schneider, Marcela Ibanez, Gerhard Riener (2024). Measuring Utility – An Application to Higher Order Risk.

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Marcela Ibanez, Sebastian O. Schneider (2024). Income Risk, Precautionary Saving, and Loss Aversion – An Empirical Test.

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Gerhard Riener, Sebastian O. Schneider, Valentin Wagner (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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Zvonimir Bašić, Stefania Bortolotti, Daniel Salicath, Stefan Schmidt, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter (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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Katharina Momsen, Sebastian O. Schneider (2024). How do defaults affect information acquisition and processing?.

PDF Media Coverage in Harvard Business Manager (German)

Mustafa Kaba, Murat Koyuncu, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter (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

Kai Barron, Heike Harmgart, Steffen Huck, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter (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

Matthias Sutter, Michael Weyland, Anna Untertrifaller, Manuel Froitzheim, Sebastian O. Schneider (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 (2nd round, resubmitted).

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Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter (2022). Information provision over the phone saves lives. Discussion Papers of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2022/9. Reject and Resubmit at the Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics.

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

Sebastian O. Schneider (2021). Stata Implementation of the minMSE treatment assignment method for one or multiple treatment groups. Stata ado-package, Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics.

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Sebastian O. Schneider, Martin Schlather (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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Sebastian O. Schneider, Giulia Baldini (2020). R Implementation of the minMSE treatment assignment method for one or multiple treatment groups. CRAN R package.

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