Research

PUBLICATIONS

• Whose Preferences Matter for Redistribution: Cross-country Evidence (with Raymond Fisman, Michel Maréchal, and Jeffrey Yusof) accepted at Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics

• Motivated Optimism and Workplace Risk (with Yesim Orhun and Collin Raymond) conditionally accepted at Economic Journal

• A Closer Look at Civic Honesty in Collectivist Cultures (with David Tannenbaum and Michel Maréchal) forthcoming at Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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• Wealthy Americans and Redistribution: The Role of Fairness Preferences (with Lasse Jessen, Marko Klasnja and Paul Smeets) forthcoming at Journal of Public Economics 

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• What Do Cross-country Surveys Tell Us About Social Capital? (with David Tannenbaum, Christian Lukas Zünd and Michel André Maréchal) forthcoming at The Review of Economics and Statistics

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    • Online appendix

• Honesty in the Digital Age (with Tobias Gesche and Michel Maréchal), Management Science, 68(2), 827-845, 2022. 

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    • Online appendix

• Frequent Job Changes can Signal Poor Work Attitude and Reduce Employability (with Michel Maréchal, Frédéric Schneider and Roberto Weber) Journal of the European Economic Association, 19(1), 475-508, 2021.

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    • Online appendix

• Selective Participation may Undermine Replication Attempts (with Ernst Fehr and Michel Maréchal) Nature, 575 (7782), pp.E1-E2, 2019.

• Civic Honesty Around The Globe [free access] (with Michel Maréchal, David Tannenbaum and Christian Zünd) Science, June 20, 2019.

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• Laboratory Measure of Cheating Predicts School Misconduct (with Michel Maréchal) Economic Journal, 128 (615), 2743–2754, 2018.

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    • Online appendix 

• Increasing Honesty in Humans with Electrical Brain Stimulation (with Michel Maréchal, Christian Ruff and Giuseppe Ugazio) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114 (17) 4360–4364, 2017.

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• Do Professional Norms in the Banking Industry Favor Risk-Taking? (with Ernst Fehr and Michel Maréchal) Review of Financial Studies, 30.11: 3801–3823, 2017.

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• Priming in Economics (with Michel Maréchal), Current Opinion in Psychology, 12:17–21, 2016.

• Bad Boys: How Criminal Identity Salience Affects Rule Violation (with Michel Maréchal and Thomas Noll), Review of Economic Studies, 82(4): 1289–1308, 2015.

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• Evidence for Countercyclical Risk Aversion: An Experiment with Financial Professionals (with Jan Engelmann, Ernst Fehr and Michel Maréchal), American Economic Review, 105(2): 860–85, 2015.

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• Fair Wages and Effort Provision: Combining Evidence from a Choice Experiment and a Field Experiment (with Ernst Fehr and Lorenz Götte), Management Science, 61(8): 1777–1794, 2015.

  • • Online appendix

    • Data and code

• Business Culture and Dishonesty in the Banking Industry (with Ernst Fehr and Michel Maréchal), Nature, November 19, 2014.

  • • Supplementary information

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• Social Comparison and Effort Provision: Evidence from a Field Experiment (with Ernst Fehr, Benedikt Herrmann and Frédéric Schneider), Journal of the European Economic Association, 12: 877–898, 2014.

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    • Online appendix II

    • Data and code

    • Note there is a typo on p.894; it should read: "22.4 x €5 – 3 x €12   = €88, and an HLcut worker (109% – 34.2%) x 22.4 x €5 - 3 x €9 = €57, yielding a group profit of €145. "

WORKING PAPERS

• On the Side Effects of Methylphenidate on Dishonesty (with Andreas Kappes, Michel Maréchal, Ann-Marie Nussberger, Julian Savulescu, Philip Cowen, Michael Browning and Molly Crockett) 

• The Dark Side of Digital Labor: A Field Experiment on Unethical Work Requests in Online Labor Markets (with Jan Stoop) 

WORK IN PROGRESS

• Motivated Paternalism and Sustainable Investing (with Rob Bauer, Katrin Gödker, and Paul Smeets)

• Inequality and Social Capital: Evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery (with Leandro Carvalho, Tom Gilovich, Jona Linde, and Michel Maréchal) 

• Legal Access to Cannabis: Evidence from large-scale RCTs (with Andreas Beerli, Aljosha Henkel, and Michel Maréchal)

• Economists as Influencers (with Yan Chen, Alvin Roth and Jingyi Qiu)  

• Culture and Innovation (with Erin Krupka)

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