Research

Peer-reviewed articles

• From Diagnosis to Treatment: A Large-Scale Field Experiment to Reduce Non-Payments for Water. Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming). Joint with B. Rockenbach and S. Tonke. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01363 

• A Protocol for the Review of the Attributes of Transformational Change in the Energy and Public Health Sectors. European Journal of Development Research (accepted). Joint with Z. Aitmambet, J. Dickman, M. Frölich, A. Pasha, M. Prowse, J. Puri, and N. Sharma.

• Self-serving behavior of the rich causes contagion effects among the poor. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 183, 289-300 (2021). Joint with B. Rockenbach and S. Tonke. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2020.12.032 

• Field evidence on the role of time preferences in conservation behavior. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 104 (2020). Joint with S. Boonmanunt, T. Lauer and B. Rockenbach. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2020.102368

• Read my lips! (but only if I was elected)!” Experimental evidence on the effects of electoral competition on promises, shirking and trust, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 142, 348-367 (2017). Joint with G. Walkowitz. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.06.012

• Objective and subjective compliance: A norm-based explanation of ‘moral wiggle room’, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 96, 170-183 (2016). Joint with K. Spiekermann. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2015.11.007

• Does being elected increase subjective entitlements? Evidence from the laboratory, Economics Bulletin, 33(1), 794-796 (2013). Joint with I. Wolff. 

• The Limited Power of Voting to Limit power, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 13(5), 695-719 (2011). Joint with H. Geng and I. Wolff. 10.1111/j.1467-9779.2011.01517.x

Reports, policy papers and book

• Attributes of Transformational Change in the Energy and Public Health Sectors (2021, final report on behalf of the Green Climate Fund and the Climate Investment Funds)

• Impact Assessment of the Productive Partnerships in Agriculture Project, Papua New Guinea (2022, final report on behalf of the International Fund for Agricultural Development)

• Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Ugandan Land Policy Reform (2021, on behalf of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation)

• Strengthening Climate Resilience of Agricultural Livelihoods in Agro-Ecological Regions I and II – Impact Evaluation Baseline Report (2021, on behalf of the United Nations Development Programme)

• Searching for the Attributes of Transformational Change in the Energy and Public Health Sectors – Evidence Gap Maps (2020, on behalf of the Green Climate Fund and the Climate Investment Funds)

• Scoping Mission Report: Impact Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Ugandan Land Policy Reform (2020, on behalf of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation)

• Impact Assessment Design Report - Productive Partnerships in Agriculture Project, Papua New Guinea (2019, on behalf of the International Fund for Agricultural Development)

• Learning-Oriented Real-Time Impact Assessment Programme – Impact Evaluation Design Report Zambia (2019, on behalf of the Green Climate Fund)

• Von Finanzgewinnen zu langfristigem Wachstum: Krisenprävention über Investitionen in Grundlagenforschung und Bildung in WISO Diskurs 2012 (with R. Maderitsch)

• Von Zahlenspielen zu einer Gebiets- und Strukturreform staatlicher Aufgaben: demokratische Bürgerkooperativen in Thüringen (2012, on behalf of the Green party in Thuringia)

• Montag Dienstag Zukunft. Junge Europäer über den Weg ins 21. Jahrhundert. Nomos ZukunftsStudien 25, 2001 (Hrsg., mit J. Junger und S. Sohr) 

• When Identity Trumps Issues: Experimental Evidence on Identity-biased Voting (with R. Böhm and B. Rockenbach) 

• The persuasive power of patience in groups: a lab-in-the field experiment in rural Thailand (with S. Bonnmanunt, T. Lauer and B. Rockenbach) 

• On the Measurement of Need-based Justice (with S. Traub, M. Bauer, M. Siebel, N. Springhorn)

• Self-Affirmation and Productivity: A Field Experiment among the Marginalized Poor (with B. Rockenbach, S. Schneiders, and B. Vollan)

• Identity Choice in the Lab: How Social Identification Interacts with Norms (with S. Schneiders and K. Spiekermann). 

• On the nature of relational contracting – the influence of power and culture (with B. Ro¬cken¬bach and H. Geng). 

• The economic virtues of voting  - how political competition limits confiscatory behavior

• Needs as reference points: When marginal gains to the poor do not matter (with M. Bauer, M. Siebel and S. Traub)