Senior Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
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 research interests are behavioral and experimental economics as well as health and development economics, with a focus on field or lab-in-the-field experiments.
Most of my work has considered decision making, in particular decision under risk and uncertainty.
Interests
- Behavioral and Experimental Economics
- Development Economics
- Applied Statistics & Econometrics
Education
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PhD in (Behavioral Development) Economics, 2017
University of Goettingen
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MSc in Mathematics in Business and Economics, 2014
University of Mannheim
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BSc in Mathematics in Business and Economics, 2011
University of Mannheim
Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Discrimination, narratives and family history: An experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children
We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only a small degree of out-group discrimination. However, Jordanian children with Palestinian roots do not discriminate at all, suggesting that a family history of refugee status can generate solidarity with new refugees. We also find that parents’ narratives about the refugee crisis are correlated with their children’s degree of out-group discrimination, particularly among Syrian refugee children, suggesting that discriminatory preferences are being transmitted through parental attitudes.