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Working Papers

2024

1. Everyday Econometricians: Selection Neglect and Overoptimism When Learning from Others
   Post-Print, HAL
   Also in Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change, WZB Berlin Social Science Center (2019) View citations (34)
   PSE Working Papers, HAL (2022)
   Working Papers, HAL (2022)
   Working Papers, HAL (2023)
   PSE Working Papers, HAL (2023)
   PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint), HAL (2024)
   See also Journal Article Everyday Econometricians: Selection Neglect and Overoptimism When Learning from Others, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Association (2024) (2024)
2. Explicit and Implicit Belief-Based Gender Discrimination: A Hiring Experiment
   Berlin School of Economics Discussion Papers, Berlin School of Economics View citations (1)
   Also in CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2022) View citations (13)
   Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change, WZB Berlin Social Science Center (2020) View citations (5)
   VfS Annual Conference 2022 (Basel): Big Data in Economics, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association (2022) View citations (9)
   Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition (2022) View citations (13)
   See also Journal Article Explicit and Implicit Belief-Based Gender Discrimination: A Hiring Experiment, Management Science, INFORMS (2025) (2025)
3. Motivated Political Reasoning: On the Emergence of Belief-Value Constellations
   Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition
   See also Journal Article Motivated political reasoning: On the emergence of belief-value constellations, European Economic Review, Elsevier (2025) (2025)
4. Narrative Persuasion
   Berlin School of Economics Discussion Papers, Berlin School of Economics
   Also in VfS Annual Conference 2023 (Regensburg): Growth and the "sociale Frage", Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association (2023)
   Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change, WZB Berlin Social Science Center (2024)
   Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change, WZB Berlin Social Science Center (2023) View citations (3)
   Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition (2023)
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2023) View citations (3)
5. Navigating moral trade-offs
   Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

2023

6. Competition and moral behavior: A meta-analysis of forty-five crowd-sourced experimental designs
   Open Access Publications from Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Competition and moral behavior: A meta-analysis of forty-five crowd-sourced experimental designs, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2023) View citations (1) (2023)

2022

7. Alcohol, Violence and Injury-Induced Mortality: Evidence from a Modern-Day Prohibition
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (4)
   Also in Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change, WZB Berlin Social Science Center (2022) View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article Alcohol, Violence, and Injury-Induced Mortality: Evidence from a Modern-Day Prohibition, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2024) (2024)
8. Moral Motive Selection in the Lying-Dictator Game
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo
   Also in Working Papers, Lund University, Department of Economics (2022)
9. Time Preferences and Medication Adherence: Evidence from Pregnant Women in South Africa
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo
10. When Do Reminders Work? Memory Constraints and Medical Adherence
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (1)
    Also in CEBI working paper series, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. The Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) (2022) View citations (1)

2021

11. Alcohol and Short-Run Mortality: Evidence from a Modern-Day Prohibition
    Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition
12. Motivated political reasoning: The formation of belief-value constellations
    Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

2020

13. Belief updating: Does the 'good-news, bad-news' asymmetry extend to purely financial domains?
    Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change, WZB Berlin Social Science Center View citations (16)
    Also in Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition (2019) View citations (2)
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany (2018) View citations (3)
    Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change, WZB Berlin Social Science Center (2016) View citations (13)
    Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change, WZB Berlin Social Science Center (2019) View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article Belief updating: does the 'good-news, bad-news' asymmetry extend to purely financial domains?, EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (2021) View citations (19) (2021)
14. Confidence and career choices: An experiment
    Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change, WZB Berlin Social Science Center View citations (2)
    Also in Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change, WZB Berlin Social Science Center (2019) View citations (2)
    Working Papers in Economics, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics (2018) View citations (3)
    Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change, WZB Berlin Social Science Center (2018) View citations (5)
    Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition (2019)
    See also Journal Article Confidence and Career Choices: An Experiment, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Wiley Blackwell (2022) View citations (2) (2022)
15. Discrimination, Narratives and Family History: An Experiment with Jordanian Host and Syrian Refugee Children
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (4)
    Also in ECONtribute Discussion Papers Series, University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Germany (2020) View citations (2)
    Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change, WZB Berlin Social Science Center (2020) View citations (4)
    Discussion Paper Series of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods (2020) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Discrimination, Narratives, and Family History: An Experiment with Jordanian Host and Syrian Refugee Children, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2023) View citations (3) (2023)
16. Time Preferences and Medication Adherence: A Field Experiment with Pregnant Women in South Africa
    CEBI working paper series, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. The Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) View citations (3)

2019

17. Lying to appear honest
    Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change, WZB Berlin Social Science Center View citations (11)
18. Motivated motive selection in the lying-dictator game
    Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change, WZB Berlin Social Science Center View citations (6)

2018

19. Beliefs and actions: How a shift in confidence affects choices
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
20. Nudging cooperation
    Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change, WZB Berlin Social Science Center View citations (2)

2017

21. Behavioural response to a sudden health risk: Dengue and educational outcomes in Colombia
    Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change, WZB Berlin Social Science Center View citations (3)
    Also in Documentos de trabajo, Escuela de Gobierno - Universidad de los Andes (2016)
    See also Journal Article Behavioural Response to a Sudden Health Risk: Dengue and Educational Outcomes in Colombia, Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals (2019) View citations (7) (2019)

2016

22. Challenges to promoting social inclusion of the extreme poor: evidence from a large-scale experiment in Colombia
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (1)
    Also in IFS Working Papers, Institute for Fiscal Studies (2014) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Challenges to Promoting Social Inclusion of the Extreme Poor: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment in Colombia, Economía Journal, The Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association - LACEA (2016) View citations (6) (2016)

2015

23. Short Term Health Shocks and School Attendance: The Case of a Dengue Fever Outbreak in Colombia
    Documentos de Trabajo, Universidad del Rosario

Journal Articles

2025

1. Explicit and Implicit Belief-Based Gender Discrimination: A Hiring Experiment
   Management Science, 2025, 71, (2), 1600-1622
   See also Working Paper Explicit and Implicit Belief-Based Gender Discrimination: A Hiring Experiment, Berlin School of Economics Discussion Papers (2024) View citations (1) (2024)
2. Motivated political reasoning: On the emergence of belief-value constellations
   European Economic Review, 2025, 172, (C)
   See also Working Paper Motivated Political Reasoning: On the Emergence of Belief-Value Constellations, Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series (2024) (2024)

2024

3. Alcohol, Violence, and Injury-Induced Mortality: Evidence from a Modern-Day Prohibition
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106, (4), 938-955
   Also in EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, 2022, (Online Early, Just Accepted), 1-44 (2022) View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper Alcohol, Violence and Injury-Induced Mortality: Evidence from a Modern-Day Prohibition, CESifo Working Paper Series (2022) View citations (4) (2022)
4. Everyday Econometricians: Selection Neglect and Overoptimism When Learning from Others
   American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2024, 16, (3), 162-98
   See also Working Paper Everyday Econometricians: Selection Neglect and Overoptimism When Learning from Others, Post-Print (2024) (2024)

2023

5. Competition and moral behavior: A meta-analysis of forty-five crowd-sourced experimental designs
   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023, 120, (23), e2215572120 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Competition and moral behavior: A meta-analysis of forty-five crowd-sourced experimental designs, Open Access Publications from Kiel Institute for the World Economy (2023) View citations (1) (2023)
6. Discrimination, Narratives, and Family History: An Experiment with Jordanian Host and Syrian Refugee Children
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105, (4), 1008-1016 View citations (3)
   Also in EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, 2021, (Online Early), 1-34 (2021) View citations (5)
   See also Working Paper Discrimination, Narratives and Family History: An Experiment with Jordanian Host and Syrian Refugee Children, IZA Discussion Papers (2020) View citations (4) (2020)

2022

7. Confidence and Career Choices: An Experiment
   Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2022, 124, (1), 35-68 View citations (2)
   Also in EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, 2022, 124, (1), 35-68 (2022)
   See also Working Paper Confidence and career choices: An experiment, Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change (2020) View citations (2) (2020)

2021

8. Belief updating: does the 'good-news, bad-news' asymmetry extend to purely financial domains?
   EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, 2021, 24, (1), 31-58 View citations (19)
   Also in Experimental Economics, 2021, 24, (1), 31-58 (2021) View citations (17)
   See also Working Paper Belief updating: Does the 'good-news, bad-news' asymmetry extend to purely financial domains?, Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change (2020) View citations (16) (2020)

2020

9. Nudging cooperation in public goods provision
   EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, 2020, 88, - View citations (17)
   Also in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2020, 88, (C) (2020) View citations (11)

2019

10. Behavioural Response to a Sudden Health Risk: Dengue and Educational Outcomes in Colombia
    Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55, (4), 620-644 View citations (7)
    Also in EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, 2019, 55, (4), 620-644 (2019) View citations (7)
    See also Working Paper Behavioural response to a sudden health risk: Dengue and educational outcomes in Colombia, Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change (2017) View citations (3) (2017)

2016

11. Challenges to Promoting Social Inclusion of the Extreme Poor: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment in Colombia
    Economía Journal, 2016, Volume 16 Number 2, (Spring 2016), 89-141 View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper Challenges to promoting social inclusion of the extreme poor: evidence from a large-scale experiment in Colombia, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2016) View citations (1) (2016)