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2023: Narrative persuasion

Kai Barron and Tilman Fries

2022: Learning through period and physical time

Teresa Backhaus, Steffen Huck, Johannes Josef Leutgeb and Ryan Oprea

2022: Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality: Evidence from a modern-day prohibition

Kai Barron, Charles D. H. Parry, Debbie Bradshaw, Rob Dorrington, Pam Groenewald, Ria Laubscher and Richard Matzopoulos

2022: How Trump triumphed: Multi-candidate primaries with buffoons

Micael Castanheira, Steffen Huck, Johannes Leutgeb and Andrew Schotter

2022: Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? A nationwide field experiment on Facebook

Maja Adena and Anselm Hager

2022: Voluntary 'donations' versus reward-oriented 'contributions': Two experiments on framing in funding mechanisms

Maja Adena and Steffen Huck

2021: Motivated political reasoning: The formation of belief-value constellations

Kai Barron, Anna Becker and Steffen Huck

2021: Home alone: Widows' well-being and time

Maja Adena, Daniel Hamermesh, Michal Myck and Monika Oczkowska

2021: COVID-19 and pro-sociality: How do donors respond to local pandemic severity, increased salience, and media coverage?

Maja Adena and Julian Harke

2021: Inequity aversion and limited foresight in the repeated prisoner's dilemma

Teresa Backhaus and Yves Breitmoser

2021: Choice architecture and incentives increase COVID-19 vaccine intentions and test demand

Marta Serra-Garcia and Nora Szech

2021: Bombs, broadcasts and resistance: Allied intervention and domestic opposition to the Nazi regime during World War II

Maja Adena, Ruben Enikolopov, Maria Petrova and Hans-Joachim Voth

2021: Can mass fundraising harm your core business? A field experiment on how fundraising affects ticket sales

Maja Adena and Steffen Huck

2020: How Trump triumphed: Multi-candidate primaries with buffoons

Micael Castanheira, Steffen Huck, Johannes Josef Leutgeb and Andrew Schotter

2020: Explicit and implicit belief-based gender discrimination: A hiring experiment

Kai Barron, Ruth Ditlmann, Stefan Gehrig and Sebastian Schweighofer-Kodritsch

2020: Face mask use and physical distancing before and after mandatory masking: Evidence from public waiting lines

Gyula Seres, Anna Balleyer, Nicola Cerutti, Jana Friedrichsen and Müge Süer

2020: Discrimination, narratives and family history: An experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children

Kai Barron, Heike Harmgart, Steffen Huck, Sebastian Schneider and Matthias Sutter

2020: Poverty traps in Markov models of theevolution of wealth

Lawrence Blume, Steven Durlauf and Aleksandra Lukina

2020: Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? A nation-wide field experiment on Facebook

Maja Adena and Anselm Hager

2020: Refugees and social capital: Evidence from Northern Lebanon

Anselm Hager and Justin Valasek

2020: Personalized fundraising: A field experiment on threshold matching of donations

Maja Adena and Steffen Huck

2020: Charitable giving by the poor: A field experiment in Kyrgyzstan

Maja Adena, Rustamdjan Hakimov and Steffen Huck

2020: Confidence and career choices: An experiment

Kai Barron and Christina Gravert

2020: Belief updating: Does the 'good-news, bad-news' asymmetry extend to purely financial domains?

Kai Barron

2020: Voluntary 'donations' versus reward-oriented 'contributions': Two experiments on framing in funding mechanisms

Maja Adena and Steffen Huck

2019: Lying to appear honest

Kai Barron

2019: Personalized fundraising: A field experiment on threshold matching of donations

Maja Adena and Steffen Huck

2019: Charitable giving by the poor: A field experiment on matching and distance to charitable output in Kyrgyzstan

Maja Adena, Rustamdjan Hakimov and Steffen Huck

2019: Can mass fundraising harm your core business? A field experiment on how fundraising affects ticket sales

Maja Adena and Steffen Huck

2019: Motivated motive selection in the lying-dictator game

Kai Barron, Robert Stüber and Roel van Veldhuizen

2019: The (in)elasticity of moral ignorance

Marta Serra-Garcia and Nora Szech

2019: Everyday econometricians: Selection neglect and overoptimism when learning from others

Kai Barron, Steffen Huck and Philippe Jehiel

2019: Confidence and career choices: An experiment

Kai Barron and Christina Gravert

2019: Belief updating: Does the 'good-news, bad-news' asymmetry extend to purely financial domains?

Kai Barron

2019: Games played through agents in the laboratory: A test of Prat & Rustichini's model

Ludwig Ensthaler, Steffen Huck and Johannes Leutgeb

2018: Nudging cooperation

Kai Barron and Tuomas Nurminen

2018: Information nudges and self-control

Thomas Mariotti, Nikolaus Schweizer, Nora Szech and Jonas von Wangenheim

2018: Trade secrets and innovation: Evidence from the "inevitable disclosure" doctrine

Andrea Contigiani, David H. Hsu and Iwan Barankay

2018: Communication and behavior in organizations: An experiment

Piotr Evdokimov and Umberto Garfagnini

2018: Confidence and career choices: An experiment

Kai Barron and Christina Gravert

2018: Giving once, giving twice: A two-period field experiment on intertemporal crowding in charitable giving

Maja Adena and Steffen Huck

2018: Giving once, giving twice: A two-period field experiment on inter-temporal crowding in charitable giving

Maja Adena and Steffen Huck

2018: Quality certifications for nonprofits, charitable giving, and donor's trust: experimental evidence

Maja Adena, Jeyhun Alizade, Frauke Bohner, Julian Harke and Fabio Mesters

2018: Online fundraising, self-image, and the long-term impact of ask avoidance

Maja Adena and Steffen Huck

2018: Online fundraising, self-image, and the long-term impact of ask avoidance

Maja Adena and Steffen Huck

2017: The multiplier effect in two-sided markets with bilateral investments

Deniz Dizdar, Benny Moldovanu and Nora Szech

2017: Testing consumer theory: Evidence from a natural field experiment

Maja Adena, Steffen Huck and Imran Rasul

2017: A rationale for unanimity in committees

Yves Breitmoser and Justin Valasek

2017: Animal welfare and human ethics: A personality study

Konstanze Albrecht, Florentin Krämer and Nora Szech

2017: Behavioural response to a sudden health risk: Dengue and educational outcomes in Colombia

Kai Barron, Luis Gamboa and Paul Rodriguez-Lesmes

2017: Narrow framing in charitable giving: Results from a two-period field experiment

Maja Adena and Steffen Huck

2017: Social identity and political polarization: Evidence on the impact of identity on partisan voting trade

Dominik Duell and Justin Mattias Valasek

2017: Mechanism design with level-k types: Theory and an application to bilateral trade

Terri Kneeland

2017: Quality certifications for nonprofits, charitable giving, and donor's trust: experimental evidence

Maja Adena, Jeyhun Alizade, Frauke Bohner, Julian Harke and Fabio Mesters

2017: A little good is good enough: Ethical consumption, cheap excuses, and moral self-licensing

Jannis Engel and Nora Szech

2017: Games played through agents in the laboratory: A test of Prat & Rustichini's model

Ludwig Ensthaler, Steffen Huck and Johannes Leutgeb

2017: More effort with less pay: On information avoidance, optimistic beliefs, and performance

Steffen Huck, Nora Szech and Lukas M. Wenner