📄 New paper in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization!
I propose a model of prosocial behavior combining moral balancing, self-signaling, and motivated reasoning. It explains why people switch between selfish and prosocial acts—and why voluntary prosociality is hard to sustain without policy.
📊 New field experiment: Can newsletters cut meat consumption?
Overall, no big effects. But people already inclined to eat less meat—low baseline intake, health-focused, especially women—did reduce consumption sustainably.
Behavioral nudges help the motivated; broader change needs stronger policy.
Very proud that the first chapter of my PhD thesis has been published in Scientific Reports.
We find that people follow expert advice, opting for more effective climate actions, even if it contradicts prior convictions. Detailed advice further improves outcomes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The Ruhr Graduate School organizes the 17th RGS Doctoral Conference in Economics on site on 27-28.02.2024 in Essen. #callforpapers for submissions by early-career researchers in all areas of economics. Deadline: 17.12.2023 @ruhrunibochum @RWI_Leibniz
www.rgs-econ.org/research/rgs...
