Welcome!

I am a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and affiliated with the Center for Social and Economic Behavior (C-SEB) at the University of Cologne.

My main research area is Empirical Microeconomics, in particular individual decision-making and its consequences with applications to environmental, financial, and health contexts, mostly with a focus on field or lab-in-the-field experiments, as well as data science for behavioral research.

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Interests

Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Household Finance
Development and Health Economics
Data Science for Behavioral Research

Education

PhD in Economics, 2017

University of Goettingen
MSc in Mathematics in Business and Economics, 2014

University of Mannheim
BSc in Mathematics in Business and Economics, 2011

University of Mannheim

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals

Kai Barron, Heike Harmgart, Steffen Huck, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter (2023). Discrimination, narratives and family history: An experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children. Review of Economics and Statistics 105 (4): 1008–1016.

PDF DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_01090

Revise/Reject and Resubmits

Marcela Ibanez, Sebastian O. Schneider (2023). Income Risk, Precautionary Saving, and Loss Aversion – An Empirical Test. Discussion Papers of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2021/6. Reject and resubmit at Management Science.

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Matthias Sutter, Michael Weyland, Anna Untertrifaller, Manuel Froitzheim, Sebastian O. Schneider (2023). Financial literacy, experimental preference measures and field behavior – A randomized educational intervention. Discussion Papers of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2023/3. Revision requested by the Journal of Political Economy.

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Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter (2021). Higher Order Risk Preferences: New Experimental Measures, Determinants and Field Behavior. Discussion Papers of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2020/22. Revision requested by the American Economic Review.

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Working Paper

Mustafa Kaba, Murat Koyuncu, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter (2023). Social Norms, Political Polarization, and Vaccination Attitudes: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey. Discussion Papers of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2023/8.

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Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter (2022). Information provision over the phone saves lives. Discussion Papers of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2022/9.

PDF Media Coverage in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (German) Media Coverage in BR alpha Campus Talks (TED-talk style, German)

Sebastian O. Schneider, Marcela Ibanez, Gerhard Riener (2022). Measuring Utility – An Application to Higher Order Risk.

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Katharina Momsen, Sebastian O. Schneider (2022). Motivated Reasoning, Information Avoidance, and Default Bias. Discussion Papers of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2022/3.

PDF Media Coverage in Harvard Business Manager (German)

Gerhard Riener, Sebastian O. Schneider, Valentin Wagner (2021). Addressing Validity and Generalizability Concerns in Field Experiments. Discussion Papers of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2020/16.

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Sebastian O. Schneider, Martin Schlather (2021). Rerandomization to Improve Covariate Balance by Minimizing the MSE of a Treatment Effect Estimator. Older version (A New Approach to Treatment Assignment for One and Multiple Treatment Groups), was published in 2017 as: Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth - Discussion Papers 228, http://hdl.handle.net/10419/161931.

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