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I am a Postdoctoral Researcher and Deputy Director of the Ludwig Erhard ifo Center for Social Market Economy and Institutional Economics at the ifo Institute Munich. In addition, I am affiliated with the FAIR Center of Excellence at NHH Bergen, a DICE Research Affiliate at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, an IZA Research Affiliate, a CEPR Research Affiliate, a CESifo Research Network Affiliate, and a Research Fellow at CIDER.
I am a behavioral and experimental economist focusing on topics in labor, education, and the formation of (noncognitive) skills. More recently, I have worked on the importance of early child care for life outcomes and inequality. In addition, I have projects in the areas of digital learning as well as paternalistic decision making. For my work, I mainly use field experiments but I also conduct lab, lab-in-the-field, and survey experiments. I studied Economics and Psychology at the University of Mainz, where I also pursued my PhD (supervised by Daniel Schunk and Ernst Fehr).
I co-organize the Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business.
Thank you for your interest in my work – I hope to provide a first overview here on this website. You can also follow me on Twitter to stay updated about my research. If you have further questions, do not hesitate to contact me or take a look at my CV.
(with Björn Bartling, Alexander W. Cappelen, Marit Skivenes & Bertil Tungodden). Under review.
(with Marina Krauss, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold).
Under review.
Media: VoxEU
Column,
Spiegel
[German],
BR
[German].
(with Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold).
Media: VoxEU Column,
FAZ [German],
Ökonomenstimme [German], Winner
of the CIDER Public Science Award 2022 (3rd price),
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung [German].
(with Eva Berger, Ernst Fehr, Daniel Schunk & Kirsten Winkel). Revise & Resubmit (2nd round) to the Journal of Political Economy.
(with Eva Berger, Ernst Fehr, Daniel Schunk & Kirsten Winkel). Nature Human Behaviour, 2022, 6(12), 1680-1690. (Ungated version)
Media: Scienmag, Phys.org, The Hill, The Print, Spektrum [German], FAZ [German]
(with Ana Cubillo, Eva Berger, Kirsten Winkel, Daniel Schunk, Ernst Fehr & Todd Hare). Developmental Science, 2023, 26(1), e13252.
(with Eva Berger, Günther König, Felix Schmidt & Daniel Schunk). Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2022, 98, 101858.
(with Daniel Schunk). Experimental Economics, 2022, 25, 229-253.
(with Martin Huschens, Franz Rothlauf & Daniel Schunk). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 187, 45-59.
(with Florian Hett, Mario Mechtel, Felix Schmidt, Daniel Schunk & Valentin Wagner). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 179, 638-652.
(with Björn Bartling, Alexander W. Cappelen, Akshay Moorthy, Marit Skivenes & Bertil Tungodden).
(with Sabrina Herzog).
(with Philipp Lergetporer, Fabian Mierisch, Guido Schwerdt & Simon Wiederhold).