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Working Papers

2025

1. Social movements' impact on inequality beliefs, preferences for redistribution and political participation
   WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)
   Also in MERIT Working Papers, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT) (2025)

2024

2. The power of narratives
   MERIT Working Papers, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT)

2023

3. How humanitarian are Germans towards refugees?
   MERIT Working Papers, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT)
4. Welfare losses, preferences for redistribution, and political participation
   MERIT Working Papers, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT)
5. Welfare losses, preferences for redistribution, and political participation: Evidence from the United Kingdom's age of austerity
   WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

2020

6. Policy decisions and evidence use among civil servants: A group decision experiment in Pakistan
   STICERD - Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers Series, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE View citations (1)

2019

7. Chinese development assistance and household welfare in sub-Saharan Africa
   RSCAS Working Papers, European University Institute View citations (1)
   Also in MERIT Working Papers, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT) (2018) View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article Chinese development assistance and household welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa, World Development, Elsevier (2020) View citations (42) (2020)

2015

8. Making an impact? The importance of aid effectiveness for charitable giving. A laboratory experiment
   VfS Annual Conference 2015 (Muenster): Economic Development - Theory and Policy, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association View citations (4)
9. Making an impact? The relevance of information on aid effectiveness for charitable giving. A laboratory experiment
   Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth - Discussion Papers, Courant Research Centre PEG
   See also Journal Article Making an impact? The relevance of information on aid effectiveness for charitable giving. A laboratory experiment, Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier (2019) View citations (36) (2019)

2013

10. Analyzing Effectiveness of Development Aid Projects: Evaluation Ratings or Project Indicators?
    Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth - Discussion Papers, Courant Research Centre PEG

2008

11. Does corporate aid really help fighting worldwide poverty? A case study of Nestlé's aid allocation
    Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Journal Articles

2025

1. Can Preferences for Redistribution Explain the Impact of Austerity on Political Participation? Evidence from the UK
   Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2025, 87, (2), 357-381 View citations (1)

2021

2. Chinese official finance and political participation in Africa
   European Economic Review, 2021, 136, (C) View citations (28)

2020

3. Chinese development assistance and household welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa
   World Development, 2020, 129, (C) View citations (42)
   See also Working Paper Chinese development assistance and household welfare in sub-Saharan Africa, RSCAS Working Papers (2019) View citations (1) (2019)

2019

4. Is it what you say or how you say it? The impact of aid effectiveness information and its framing on donation behavior
   Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2019, 83, (C) View citations (3)
5. Making an impact? The relevance of information on aid effectiveness for charitable giving. A laboratory experiment
   Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 136, (C), 18-33 View citations (36)
   See also Working Paper Making an impact? The relevance of information on aid effectiveness for charitable giving. A laboratory experiment, Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth - Discussion Papers (2015) (2015)

2015

6. How to Assess the Effectiveness of Development Aid Projects: Evaluation Ratings versus Project Indicators
   Journal of International Development, 2015, 27, (8), 1496-1520 View citations (6)

2010

7. Is Corporate Aid Targeted to Poor and Deserving Countries? A Case Study of Nestlé's Aid Allocation
   World Development, 2010, 38, (3), 228-243 View citations (8)