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View article: More effort with less pay: On information avoidance, optimistic beliefs, and performance
More effort with less pay: On information avoidance, optimistic beliefs, and performance Open
[Artikel-Nr. 104965] Neoclassical theory presumes that agents value instrumental information. In contrast, recent behavioral studies motivate and model information avoidance. We study preferences for and against instrumental information in…
View article: Support for a right-wing populist party and subjective well-being: Experimental and survey evidence from Germany
Support for a right-wing populist party and subjective well-being: Experimental and survey evidence from Germany Open
With the rise of populism in many countries, including Germany, it is more important than ever to better understand the causes and consequences of populist support. Using two experiments within the context of a large panel survey, we study…
View article: Introduction to the special issue on ‘new directions in understanding philanthropic activities’
Introduction to the special issue on ‘new directions in understanding philanthropic activities’ Open
The papers in this Special Issue contribute to a rich literature on the economics of charitable giving. They address several novel questions covering a wide range of open issues in the philanthropic realm. For example, many of our papers s…
View article: Dataset and Code for "How Trump Triumphed: Multi-Candidate Primaries with Buffoons"
Dataset and Code for "How Trump Triumphed: Multi-Candidate Primaries with Buffoons" Open
This is code and data for the paper “How Trump Triumphed: Multi-Candidate Primaries with Buffoons.” by Micael Castanheira, Steffen Huck, Johannes Leutgeb, and Andrew Schotter, forthcoming in the European Economic Review.
View article: Dataset and Code for "How Trump Triumphed: Multi-Candidate Primaries with Buffoons"
Dataset and Code for "How Trump Triumphed: Multi-Candidate Primaries with Buffoons" Open
This is code and data for the paper “How Trump Triumphed: Multi-Candidate Primaries with Buffoons.” by Micael Castanheira, Steffen Huck, Johannes Leutgeb, and Andrew Schotter, forthcoming in the European Economic Review.
View article: Voluntary ‘donations’ versus reward-oriented ‘contributions’: two experiments on framing in funding mechanisms
Voluntary ‘donations’ versus reward-oriented ‘contributions’: two experiments on framing in funding mechanisms Open
In an artefactual field experiment, we implemented a crowdfunding campaign for an institute’s summer party and compared donation and contribution framings. We found that the use of the word ‘donation’ generated higher revenue than the use …
View article: Editorial: Honesty and Moral Behavior in Economic Games
Editorial: Honesty and Moral Behavior in Economic Games Open
EDITORIAL article Front. Psychol., 04 October 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.769856
View article: Discrimination, Narratives, and Family History: An Experiment with Jordanian Host and Syrian Refugee Children
Discrimination, Narratives, and Family History: An Experiment with Jordanian Host and Syrian Refugee Children Open
We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only a small degree of out-group discrimination. However, Jordanian child…
View article: Replication Data for: Discrimination, narratives and family history: An experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children
Replication Data for: Discrimination, narratives and family history: An experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children Open
Barron, K., Harmgart, H., Huck, S., Schneider, S. O., and Sutter, M. (2023). “Discrimination, Narratives and Family History: An Experiment with Jordanian Host and Syrian Refugee Children.” Review of Economics and Statistics 105: online ear…
View article: The Standard Portfolio Choice Problem in Germany
The Standard Portfolio Choice Problem in Germany Open
We study an investment experiment with a representative sample of German households. Respondents invest in a safe asset and a risky asset whose return is tied to the German stock market. Experimental investments correlate with beliefs abou…
View article: Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments Open
I wrote the bulk of The Political Economy of Collective Action, Inequality, and Development during a series of academic visits, most of which occurred during my 2017-18 sabbatical.
View article: Kill or Pay the Bill. Vol. 3
Kill or Pay the Bill. Vol. 3 Open
So außerordentlich die Covid-19-Pandemie ist: Die Ungleichheiten, die die Strategien zu ihrer Eindämmung erzeugen, sind keine Ausnahme. Auch in Normalzeiten gibt es ein globales Ungleichgewicht bei der Priorisierung von Krankheiten.
View article: Personalized fundraising: A field experiment on threshold matching of donations
Personalized fundraising: A field experiment on threshold matching of donations Open
We study a form of threshold matching in fundraising where donations above a certain threshold are topped up with a fixed amount. We show theoretically that threshold matching can induce crowding in if appropriately personalized. In a fiel…
View article: Cultural divide and the new radical right-wing party in Germany (AfD)
Cultural divide and the new radical right-wing party in Germany (AfD) Open
It has been argued that the support for the new right-wing party, AfD, in Germany is not driven by socio-economic factors (Lengfeld 2017; Schröder 2018). On the basis of data from the German socio-economic panel Schröder (2018) concludes t…
View article: The Standard Portfolio Choice Problem in Germany
The Standard Portfolio Choice Problem in Germany Open
We study an investment experiment with a representative sample of German households. Respondents invest in a safe asset and a risky asset whose return is tied to the German stock market. Experimental investments correlate with beliefs abou…
View article: Imitation of Peers in Children and Adults [Dataset]
Imitation of Peers in Children and Adults [Dataset] Open
Imitation of the successful choices of others is a simple and superficially attractive learning rule. It has been shown to be an important driving force for the strategic behavior of (young) adults. In this study we examine whether imitati…