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Working Papers

2024

1. Bias alleviation and value activation in citizens’ juries: Enhancing deliberation and civic engagement in sustainable food systems
   IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
2. Conditional Payments for Democracy to Local Leaders Managing Natural Resources in Rural Namibia
   Working Papers, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Universität Innsbruck

2023

3. A Storm Between Two Waves: Recovery Processes, Social Dynamics, and Heterogeneous Effects of Typhoon Haiyan on Social Preferences
   MAGKS Papers on Economics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department of Economics (Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung)

2021

4. The Fetters of the Sib - An Experimental Study in Burkina Faso
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2021)

2020

5. Crowding-Out or Crowding-In? Heterogeneous Effects of Insurance on Solidarity
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (2)

2015

6. Anti-Western conspiracy thinking and expectations of collusion: Evidence from Russia and China
   BOFIT Discussion Papers, Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT)
7. Cooperation and Authoritarian Values: An experimental study in China
   Working Papers, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Universität Innsbruck View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Cooperation and authoritarian values: An experimental study in China, European Economic Review, Elsevier (2017) View citations (29) (2017)

2013

8. Co-managing common pool resources: Do formal rules have to be adapted to traditional ecological norms?
   Working Papers, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Universität Innsbruck View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Co-managing common-pool resources: Do formal rules have to be adapted to traditional ecological norms?, Ecological Economics, Elsevier (2013) View citations (1) (2013)
9. Exchanging Land for Solidarity: Solidarity Transfers among Voluntarily Resettled and Non-Resettled Land-Reform Beneficiaries
   MAGKS Papers on Economics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department of Economics (Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung)
   See also Journal Article Exchanging Land for Solidarity: Solidarity Transfers among Voluntarily Resettled and Non-resettled Land-Reform Beneficiaries, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (2016) View citations (3) (2016)
10. Playing with the Social Network: Social Cohesion in Resettled and Non-Resettled Communities in Cambodia
    VfS Annual Conference 2013 (Duesseldorf): Competition Policy and Regulation in a Global Economic Order, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association View citations (1)
    Also in Working Papers, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Universität Innsbruck (2013) View citations (1)
11. Resource Scarcity, Spite and Cooperation
    GIGA Working Papers, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies View citations (5)
    Also in Working Papers, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Universität Innsbruck (2013) View citations (6)

2012

12. Insurance versus Savings for the Poor: Why One Should Offer Either Both or None
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (33)

2011

13. Saving, Microinsurance: Why You Should Do Both or Nothing. A Behavioral Experiment on the Philippines
    Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Berlin 2011, Verein für Socialpolitik, Research Committee Development Economics

2009

14. Individual Heterogeneity, Group Interaction, and Co-operative Behaviour: Evidence from a Common-Pool Resource Experiment in South Africa and Namibia
    MAGKS Papers on Economics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department of Economics (Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung) View citations (1)

2008

15. Kinship and friendship in a trust game with third party punishment
    MAGKS Papers on Economics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department of Economics (Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung) View citations (2)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Measuring non-use values to proxy conservation preferences and policy impacts
   Ecosystem Services, 2024, 67, (C)
2. Pro-sociality of local democratic leaders: The impact and dynamics of being elected
   European Economic Review, 2024, 164, (C) View citations (1)
3. Technology-minded climate delegates support less stringent climate policies
   Nature Sustainability, 2024, 7, (11), 1405-1408

2023

4. No crowding out among those terminated from an ongoing PES program in Colombia
   Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, 120, (C) View citations (2)
5. The ‘Fetters of the Sib’ in an uncertain business environment - an experimental study in Burkina Faso
   Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2023, 35, (7-8), 617-643

2022

6. Does parental migration impede the development of the cooperative preferences in their left-behind children? Evidence from a large-scale field experiment in China
   China Economic Review, 2022, 74, (C) View citations (3)
7. Experimental games in transdisciplinary research: The potential importance of individual payments
   Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2022, 113, (C) View citations (3)
8. Religious worship and discrimination
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 197, (C), 91-102

2021

9. Exposure to conspiracy theories in the lab
   Economic and Political Studies, 2021, 9, (1), 90-112

2020

10. How Migrants Benefit Poor Communities: Evidence on Collective Action in Rural Zambia
    Land Economics, 2020, 96, (1), 111-131 View citations (1)

2019

11. Anti-Western Conspiracy Thinking in China and Russia: Empirical Evidence and its Link to Expectations of Collusion
    Homo Oeconomicus: Journal of Behavioral and Institutional Economics, 2019, 36, (3), 135-163
12. Diversity in decision-making
    Nature Climate Change, 2019, 9, (4), 258-259 View citations (1)
13. Self-Governance and Punishment: An Experimental Study among Namibian Forest Users
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2019, 67, (4), 935 - 967 View citations (3)

2017

14. Cooperation and authoritarian values: An experimental study in China
    European Economic Review, 2017, 93, (C), 90-105 View citations (29)
    See also Working Paper Cooperation and Authoritarian Values: An experimental study in China, Working Papers (2015) View citations (2) (2015)
15. Democracy and cooperation in commons management: experimental evidence of representative and direct democracy from community forests in Ethiopia
    Environment and Development Economics, 2017, 22, (2), 110-132 View citations (6)
16. Do campaigns featuring impact evaluations increase donations? Evidence from a survey experiment
    Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2017, 9, (4), 500-518 View citations (1)

2016

17. Exchanging Land for Solidarity: Solidarity Transfers among Voluntarily Resettled and Non-resettled Land-Reform Beneficiaries
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2016, 98, (3), 802-818 View citations (3)
    See also Working Paper Exchanging Land for Solidarity: Solidarity Transfers among Voluntarily Resettled and Non-Resettled Land-Reform Beneficiaries, MAGKS Papers on Economics (2013) (2013)

2015

18. Flowers and an honour box: Evidence on framing effects
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2015, 57, (C), 186-199 View citations (9)
19. Mitigating Extortive Corruption? Experimental Evidence
    Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 2015, 235, (2), 228-244 View citations (2)
20. Resource scarcity and democratic elections in commons dilemmas: An experiment on forest use in Ethiopia
    Ecological Economics, 2015, 114, (C), 199-207 View citations (11)

2014

21. Resource scarcity and antisocial behavior
    Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 119, (C), 1-9 View citations (82)

2013

22. Beyond Awareness and Self-Governance: Approaching Kavango Timber Users’ Real-Life Choices
    Land, 2013, 2, (3), 1-27
23. Co-managing common-pool resources: Do formal rules have to be adapted to traditional ecological norms?
    Ecological Economics, 2013, 95, (C), 51-62 View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper Co-managing common pool resources: Do formal rules have to be adapted to traditional ecological norms?, Working Papers (2013) View citations (1) (2013)

2012

24. Group interaction, heterogeneity, rules, and co-operative behaviour: Evidence from a common-pool resource experiment in South Africa and Namibia
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, 81, (1), 9-28 View citations (22)
25. Human Adaptive Behavior in Common Pool Resource Systems
    PLOS ONE, 2012, 7, (12), 1-9 View citations (3)
26. Pitfalls of Externally Initiated Collective Action: A Case Study from South Africa
    World Development, 2012, 40, (4), 758-770 View citations (2)
27. Risk, Networks, and Ecological Explanations for the Emergence of Cooperation in Commons Governance
    Rationality, Markets and Morals, 2012, 3, (59)
28. Weird reciprocity? A ‘within-culture across-country’ trust experiment and methodological implications
    Journal of Institutional Economics, 2012, 8, (3), 371-397 View citations (7)

2011

29. Morals as an incentive? A field study on honour based flower picking
    European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2011, 38, (1), 79-97 View citations (7)
30. The challenge of understanding decisions in experimental studies of common pool resource governance
    Ecological Economics, 2011, 70, (9), 1571-1579 View citations (34)
31. The difference between kinship and friendship: (Field-) experimental evidence on trust and punishment
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2011, 40, (1), 14-25 View citations (19)
32. The impact of culture and ecology on cooperation in a common-pool resource experiment
    Ecological Economics, 2011, 70, (9), 1599-1608 View citations (32)

2010

33. The influence of collective property rights on grazing management in a semi-arid region
    African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2010, 05, (2), 30

2008

34. Socio-ecological explanations for crowding-out effects from economic field experiments in southern Africa
    Ecological Economics, 2008, 67, (4), 560-573 View citations (91)