Publications by CEE Members

Working Papers

Altmann, S., Cairo, S., Mahlstedt, R. and Sebald, A. "Complexity and the Effectiveness of Public Policy"

Altmann, S., Glenny, A., Mahlstedt, R. and Sebald, A. "Digital Tools to Facilitate Job Search"

Altmann, S., Rasmussen, M. and Sebald, A. "Preferences, Beliefs, and Labor Market Success: A Large-Scale Assessment"

Barron, K., Damgaard M., Gravert, C., and Norrgren L. "Time Preferences and Medication Adherence: A Field Experiment with Pregnant Women in South Africa."

Campos-Mercade, P. "When are groups less moral than individuals?"

Campos-Mercade, P. and Mengel, F. "Non-Bayesian Statistical Discrimination,"

Campos-Mercade, P. and Wengström, E. "Threshold Incentives and Academic Performance,"

Caselli, M., Falco P. and Mattera G., “When the Stadium Goes Silent: How Crowds Affect the Performance of Discriminated Groups”

Caselli, M. and Falco P. “As Long as They Are Cheap: Experimental Evidence on the Demand for Migrant Worker”

Abebe, G., Caria, S., Fafchamps, M., Falco, P., Franklin, S., Quinn S., and Shilpi, F. “Matching Frictions and Distorted Beliefs: Evidence from a Job Fair Experiment”

Caria, S. and Falco, P. “Sceptical employers: Experimental evidence on biased beliefs constraining firm growth”

Agneman, G., Falco, P., Joel, E., and Selejio, O. “The Material Basis for Cooperation: How Scarcity Reduces Trustin Behavior”

Caselli, M. and Falco, P. “Your vote is (no) secret! How low voter density hurts anonymity and biases elections in Italy”

Forthcoming

Reindl. I. and Tyran, J.-R. "Equal Opportunities for All? How Income Redistribution Promotes Support for Economic Inclusion"

2026

Barron, K., Damgaard, M. T. & Gravert, C. (2025). "Nudge Me! A field experiment on reminders for medication adherence". In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 241, 25 p., 107368.

Jespersen, M. H., Albris, K. L. & Willadsen, H. (2025). "Deconstructing screen time: The connections between digital use, dissatisfaction, and disconnection". In: Computers in Human Behavior Reports. 

Schneider, F. H. F., Brun, F. & Weber, R. A. (2026). "Sorting and Wage Premiums in Immoral Work". In: The Review of Economics and Statistics.

Willadsen, H. & Bonk, A. J.,(2025). "Inferring employee concerns from open text survey responses". In: Journal of Business Analytics. 17 p.

2025

Abebe, G., Caria, S. A., Fafchamps, M., Falco, P., Franklin, S., Quinn, S. & Shilpi, F. (2025). "Matching Frictions and Distorted Beliefs: Evidence from a Job Fair Experiment". In: The Economic Journal. 135, 671, p. 2089-2121 33 p.

Altmann, S., Falk, A. & Grunewald, A. (2025). "Communicating Through Defaults". In: Review of Economics and Statistics. 107, 1, p. 256-268 13 p.

Chegere, M. J., Falco, P., Nieddu, M. G., Pandolfi, L. & Stein, M. R. (2025). "The Magic of the Game: Experimental Evidence on Sports Betting Behavior". In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 240, 27 p., 107301.

Falco, P., Lesseri, G. P., Ngasamiaku, W., Ruhinduka, R. D. & Zaccagni, S. (2025). "For God, Family, and Country: The Moral Power of Authorities". (E-pub ahead of print) In: World Bank Economic Review. 19 p.

Gravert, C. & Mormann, M. (2025). "In-store food promotions increase sales as well as household food waste". In: Scientific Reports. 15, 10 p., 18035.

Kogan, S., Schneider, F. H. F. & Weber, R. A. (2025). "Self-serving biases in beliefs about collective outcomes". In: Games and Economic Behavior. 153, p. 315-344 30 p.

Lohmann, P. M., Gsottbauer, E., Gravert, C. & Reisch, L. A. (2025). "Nudging, Fast and Slow: Experimental Evidence from Food Choices under Time Pressure". In: Environmental and Resource Economics. 88, p. 2595-2627 33 p.

Schneider, F. H. F., Schonger, M. & Schurtenberger, I. (2025). "How malleable is the aversion to stigmatized work?". In: European Economic Review. 172, 17 p., 104945.

2024

Campos-Mercade, P. & Schneider, F. H. (2024). "Monetary incentives for vaccination: effectiveness and unintended consequences". In: Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 30, 7, p. 845-847 3 p.

Caria, S. A. & Falco, P. (2024). "Skeptical Employers: Experimental Evidence on Biased Beliefs Constraining Firm Growth". In: The Review of Economics and Statistics. 106, 5, p. 1352-1368 17 p.

Caselli, M., Falco, P. & Somekh, B. (2024). "Inside the NBA Bubble: how Black players performed better without fans". In: Journal of Population Economics. 37, 2, 20 p., 39.

Chegere, M. J., Falco, P. & Menzel, A. (2024) "Social ties at work and effort choice: Experimental evidence from Tanzania". In: Journal of Development Economics. 171, 18 p., 103354.

Haeckl, S., Sausgruber, R. & Tyran, J. R. (2024) "Work motivation and teams". In: Economics Letters. 244, 3 p., 112020.

Mechtenberg, L., Perino, G., Treich, N., Tyran, J. R. & Wang, S. W. (2024). "Self-signaling in voting". In: Journal of Public Economics. 231, 16 p., 105070.

Sigsgaard, A. M., Altmann, S., Jensen, K. D., Hede, B. & Øzhayat, E. B. (2024). "Oral health and self-perceived job readiness among socially disadvantaged and unemployed citizens". In: Acta Odontologica Scandinavica. 83, p. 596-602 7 p.

Sigsgaard, A. M., Bolvig, I., Jensen, K. D., Altmann, S., Hede, B. & Øzhayat, E. B. (2024). "Oral health promotion and labour market prospects of socially disadvantaged and unemployed people - a randomised controlled trial". In: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 52, 1, p. 71-79 10 p.

Willadsen, H., Zaccagni, S., Piovesan, M. & Wengström, E. (2024). "Measures of cognitive ability and choice inconsistency". In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 220, p. 495-506.

2023

Agneman, G., Falco, P., Joel, E. & Selejio, O. (2023). "The Material basis of Cooperation: how Scarcity Reduces Trusting Behaviour". In: The Economic Journal. 133, 652, p. 1265-1285.

Author collaboration many designs. (2023). "Competition and moral behavior: A meta-analysis of forty-five crowd-sourced experimental designs". In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120, 23, 10 p., e2215572120.

Caselli, M., Falco, P. & Mattera, G. (2023). "When the Stadium Goes Silent: How Crowds Affect the Performance of Discriminated Groups". In: Journal of Labor Economics. 41, 2, p. 431-451.

Falco, P., Hansen, H., Rand, J., Tarp, F. & Trifković, N. (2023). "Good Business Practices Improve Productivity in Myanmar’s Manufacturing Sector". In: Journal of Development Studies. 59, 8, p. 1258-1282 25 p.

Hyuk-Kim, J. & Vikander, N. (2023) "Commitment and Discretion in Contracts: Theory and Evidence from Retirement Plans". In: Scandinavian Journal of Economics. 125, 2, p. 461-488.

Kamei, K. & Markussen, T. (2023) "Free Riding and Workplace Democracy – Heterogeneous Task Preferences and Sorting". In: Management Science. 69, 7, p. 3884-3904 21 p.

Markussen, T., Putterman, L. & Wang, L. (2023). "Algorithmic Leviathan or Individual Choice: Choosing Sanctioning Regimes in the Face of Observational Error". In: Economica. 90, 357, p. 315-338.

Melloni, G., Patacconi, A. & Vikander, N. (2023). "Cashing in on the culture wars? CEO activism, wokewashing, and firm value". In: Strategic Management Journal. 44, 13, p. 3098-3121.

Parakhonyak, A. & Vikander, N. (2023). "Information design through scarcity and social learning". In: Journal of Economic Theory. 207, 34 p., 105586.

Schneider, F. H. F., Campos-Mercade, P., Meier, A. & Pope, D. (2023). "Motivating vaccination with financial incentives". In: Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 27, 12, p. 1099-1101.

Schneider, F. H., Campos-Mercade, P., Meier, S., Pope, D., Wengström, E. & Meier, A. N. (2023) "Financial incentives for vaccination do not have negative unintended consequences". In: Nature. 613, p. 526-533.

2022

Aikaeli, J. & Markussen, T., (2022). "Titling and the value of land in Tanzania". In: Journal of International Development. 34, 3, p. 512-531.

Altmann, S., Grunewald, A. and Radbuch, J. (2022) “Interventions and Cognitive Spillovers”, The Review of Economic Studies, 89, 5, p. 2293-2328 36 p.

Altmann, S., Traxler, C. and Weinschenk, P. (2022) “Deadlines and Memory Limitations”, Management Science, 68, 9, p. 6733-6750 18 p.

Andersson, O., Campos-Mercade, P., Carlsson, F., Schneider, F. H. & Wengström, E. (2022). "The impact of stay-at-home policies on individual welfare". In: Scandinavian Journal of Economics. 124, 2, p. 340-362 23 p.

Barron, K. & Gravert, C. (2022). "Confidence and career choices: An experiment". In: The Scandinavian Journal of Economics. 124, 1, p. 35-68.

Caselli, M. & Falco, P. (2022). "Your vote is (no) secret! How low voter density hurts anonymity and biases elections in Italy". In: European Journal of Political Economy. 75, 13 p., 102191.

Gravert, C. & Shreedhar, G. (2022). "Effective carbon taxes need green nudges". In: Nature climate change. 12, p. 1073-1074 2 p.

Hess, S., Lancsar, E., Mariel, P., Meyerhoff, J., Song, F., van den Broek-Altenburg, E., Alaba, O., Amaris, G., Arellana, J. & Falco, P. (2022). "The path towards herd immunity: Predicting COVID-19 vaccination uptake through results from a stated choice study across six continents". In: Social Science & Medicine. 298, 18 p., 114800.

Jørgensen, L. K., Piovesan, M. & Willadsen, H. (2022). "Gender Differences in Competitiveness: Friends matter". In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. 101, p. 20.

Kartal, M. & Tyran, J.-R. (2022). "Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice". In: American Economic Review. 112, 10, p. 3367-3397.

2021

Carlsson, F. & Gravert, C. & Johansson-Stenman, O. & Kurz, V. "The use of green nudges as an environmental policy instrument", Review of Environmental Economics and Policy.

Hedegaard, M., Kerschbamer, R. and Müller, D., Tyran, J.-R. (2021): "Distributional Preferences Explain Individual Behavior Across Games and Time", Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, 128: 231-55.

Sausgruber, R., Sonntag, A., Tyran, J.-R. "Disincentives from Redistribution: Evidence on a Dividend of Democracy”, European Economic Review 2021 136, July 2021, 103749.

Gravert, C., & Kurz, V. (2021). “Nudging à la carte: a field experiment on climate-friendly food choice”. Behavioural Public Policy, 5(3), 378-395.

Gravert, C., & Collentine, L. O. (2021). “When nudges aren’t enough: Norms, incentives and habit formation in public transport usage”. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 190, 1-14.

Campos-Mercade, P., Meier, A., Schneider, F., Meier, S., Pope, D. and Wengström, E. (2021) "Monetary incentives increase COVID-19 vaccinations", Science, Vol. 374

Andersson, O., Campos-Mercade, P., Meier, A. and Wengström, E. (2021) "Anticipation of COVID-19 vaccines reduces social distancing", Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 80.

Campos-Mercade, P., Meier, A., Schneider, F., and Wengström, E. (2021), "Prosociality predicts health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic", Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 195.

Andersson, O., Campos-Mercade, P., Carlsson, F., Meier, A. and Wengström, E. (2021), "The individual welfare costs of stay-at-home policies", Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

Campos-Mercade, P. (2021), "The volunteer's dilemma explains the bystander effect, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Volume 186, 2021.

Abebe, G., Caria, S., Fafchamps, M., Falco, P., Franklin, S. and Quinn S. (2020) “Anonymity or Distance? Job Search and Labour Market Exclusion in a Growing African City”, Review of Economic Studies.

Falco, P., and Zaccagni, S. (2021) “Promoting social distancing in a pandemic: Beyond good intentions”, PLoS ONE, 16(12): e0260457.

Fenoll, A., Moscarola, F., and Zaccagni, S. (2021) “Mathematics camps: A gift for gifted students?”, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 191:738–751

Piovesan, M., & Willadsen, H. (2021). Risk preferences and personality traits in children and adolescents. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 186, 523-532.

Cobo-Reyes, R., Katz, G., Markussen, T. and Meraglia, S. (2021) “Voting on sanctioning institutions in open and closed communities: experimental evidence”, Social Choice and Welfare.

Markussen, T., Sharma, S., Singhal S. and Tarp, F. (2021) “Inequality, institutions and cooperation”, European Economic Review, Vol. 138

Jensen, T. and Markussen, T. (2021) ”Group size, signaling and the effect of democracy”, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 187, 258-273.

Campos-Mercade, P., Meier, A., Schneider, F. H. F. & Wengström, E. R. (2021). "Prosociality predicts health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic". In: Journal of Public Economics. 195, 23 p., 104367.

Campos-Mercade, P., Meier, A. N., Schneider, F. H., Meier, S., Pope, D. & Wengström, E. (2021). "Monetary incentives increase COVID-19 vaccinations". In: Science. 374, 6569, p. 879-882 4 p.

2020

Andersson, O., Holm, H. J, Tyran, J.-R. and Wengström, E. (2020): "Robust Inference in Risk Elicitation Tasks”,
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 2020, 61: 195-209.

Andersson, O., Holm, H. J, Tyran, J.-R. and Wengström, E. (2020) "Risking Other People's Money. Experimental Evidence on bonus Schemes, Competition, and Altruism", Scandinavian Journal of Economics 122(2): 648-74

Gerhards, L., & Gravert, C. (2020). “Because of you I did not give up–Peer effects in perseverance”. Journal of Economic Psychology, 81, 102316.

Ging-Jehli, N. R., Schneider, F. H. & Weber, R. A. (2020). "On self-serving strategic beliefs". In: Games and Economic Behavior. 122, p. 341-353 13 p.

2019

Altmann, S., Falk, A., Heidhues, P., Jayaraman, R., & Teirlinck, M. (2019). Defaults and donations: Evidence from a field experiment. Review of Economics and Statistics, 101(5), 808-826.

Bellemare, C. and Sebald, A. (2019) "Measuring belief-dependent preferences without information about beliefs", CESifo Working Paper Series 7505, CESifo Group Munich.

Bucciol, A., Montinari, N., and Piovesan, M. (2019). "It Wasn't Me! Visibility and Free Riding in Waste Disposal",Ecological Economics 157: 394-401.

Markussen, T., & Ngo, Q-T. (2019) "Economic and non-economic returns to communist party membership in Vietnam",World Development, 370-384.

Morton, R., Piovesan, M., and Tyran, J.-R. (2019) "The Dark Side of the Vote: Biased Voters, Social Information, and Information Aggregation Through Majority Voting", Games of Economic Behavior, 113: 461-481.

Mechtenberg, L. and Tyran J.-R. (2019) "Voter Motivation and the Quality of Democratic Choice", Games and Economic Behavior, 116: 241-59.

Nielsen, C.S., Sebald, A. and Sørensen, P.N. (2019) "Testing for salience effects in choices under risk".

Piovesan, M. and Zettler, I. (2019) "Uncovering Dishonesty", Journal of Economic Psychology 71: 1-3.

Parakhonyak, A. & Vikander, N. (2019). "Optimal Sales Schemes for Network Goods". In: Management Science. 65, 2, p. 819-841.

Schneider, F. H. & Schonger, M. (2019). "An experimental test of the anscombe-aumann monotonicity axiom". In: Management Science. 65, 4, p. 1667-1677 11 p.

Sebald, A. and Vikander, N. (2019) "Optimal firm behavior with consumer social image concerns and asymmetric information", Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

Vikander, N. (2019). "Sellouts, Beliefs, and Bandwagon Behavior". In: The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics. 19, 1, 21 p., 20160187.

2018

Damgaard, M. T., Gravert, C. and Villalobos, L. (2017) "Forgetful or reluctant? Evidence on reminder response and donor behavior from panel data", The Economics of Philanthropy: Donations and Fundraising .MIT Press, CESifo seminar series, 219-238.

Altmann, S., Falk, A., Jäger, S. and Zimmermann, F. (2018) "Learning about Job Search: A Field Experiment with Job Seekers in Germany", Journal of Public Economics, 164, 33-49.

Bellemare, C., Sebald, A. and Suetens, S. (2018) "Heterogeneous guilt sensitivities and incentive effects", Experimental Economics, 21(2), 316-336.

Bellemare, C., Sebald, A. and Suetens, S. (2018) "Guilt aversion in economics and psychology", Journal of Economic Psychology.

Bellemare, C. and Sebald, A. (2018) "Self-confidence and reactions to subjective performance evaluations", CESifo Working Paper Series 7325,CESifo Group Munich.

Caria, S. A. & Falco, P. (2018) "Does the Risk of Poverty Reduce Happiness?". In: Economic Development and Cultural Change. 67, 1, p. 1-28.

Damgaard, M. T. and Gravert, C. (2018) "The hidden costs of nudging - Experimental evidence from reminders in fundraising", Journal of Public Economics, 157, 15-26.

DeVaro, J., Kim, J.-H. & Vikander, N. (2018). "Non-Performance Pay and Relational Contracting: Evidence from CEO Compensation". In: Economic Journal. 128, 613, p. 1923-1951.

Görlitz, K. and Gravert, C. (2018) "The effects of a high school curriculum reform on university enrollment and the choice of college major", Education Economics, 26:3, 321-336.

Hedegaard, M. S. and Tyran, J.-R. (2018) "The Price of Prejudice", American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10 (1): 40-63.

Hulme, O., Sebald, A. and Webb, E. (2018) "An introduction to physiological economics" prepared for the Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Experimental Economics, Arthur Schram and Aljaž Ule (eds).

Jimenez, N., Rodriguez-Lara, I., Tyran, J.-R. and Wengström, E. (2018) "Thinking fast, thinking badly", Economic Letters, 162, 41-44.

Trifkovic N., Markussen T., Newman C., Rand J. (2018) "Corporate social responsibility in Vietnam", In Hsu S (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Development in Asia. London: Routledge, 427-448.

2017

Damgaard, M. T., & Gravert, C. (2017). “Now or never! The effect of deadlines on charitable giving: Evidence from two natural field experiments.” Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 66, 78-87.

Aldashev G., Kirchsteiger G. and  Sebald A. (2017) "Assignment Procedure Biases in Randomized Policy Experiments", The Economic Journal, 127(602), 873-895.

Ayala-Cantu L, Tara B, Markussen T, Narciso G, Newman C, Singh A et al. (2017) "Characteristics of the Vietnamese Rural Economy: Evidence from a 2016 Rural Household Survey in 12 Provinces of Viet Nam", Helsinki: UNU-WIDER, 141 p.

Bellemare, C., Sebald, A. and Suetens, S. (2017) "A Note on Testing Guilt Aversion",Games and Economic Behavior, 102, 233-239.

Døssing, F. S., Piovesan, M. and Wengström, E. (2017) "Cognitive Load and Cooperation". Review of Behavioral Economics, Vol. 4(1): 69-81.

Gneezy, U., Gravert, C., Saccardo, S. and Tausch, F. (2017) "A must-lie situation: Avoiding giving negative feedback", Games and Economic Behavior, 102, issue C, 445-454.

Gravert, C. (2017) "Pride and patronage - Pay-what-you-want pricing at a charitable bookstore", Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 67, 1-7.

Markussen, T. and Tyran J.-R. (2017) "Choosing a Public-Spirited Leader. An Experimental Investigation of Political Selection", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 144: 204-18.

Markussen, T., Fibæk, M., Tarp, F., and Tuan, N. D. A. (2017) "The Happy Farmer: Self-Employment and Subjective Well-Being in Rural Vietnam", Journal of Happiness Studies, 19(6), 1613-36.

Markussen, T., Putterman, L., & Wang, L. (2017) "Governing Collective Action in the Face of Observational Error", University of Copenhagen. Institute of Economics. Discussion Papers (Online), No. 17-14.

Nielsen C. and Sebald A. (2017) "Simple Unawareness in Dynamic Psychological Games", The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 17(1), 1-29.

Piovesan, M., Døssing F.S.and Wengström E. (2017) "Registered Replication Report: Rand, Greene & Nowak". Perspectives on Psychological Science, Vol. 12(3): 527-42.

Reuter, M., Montag, C., Altmann, S. et al. "Functional Characterization of an Oxytocin Receptor Gene Variant (rs2268498) Previously Associated with Social Cognition by Expression Analysis in Vitro and in Human Brain Biopsy", Social Neuroscience, 604-611.