Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Health Economics, Household Finance

Sebastian O. Schneider is heading the research group “Behavioral Economics and Data Science” at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics in Bonn. He holds a Master degree in Mathematics in Business and Economics from the University of Mannheim (2014), and graduated in 2017 from the University of Goettingen with a dissertation at the intersection of Stochastics and Behavioral Development Economics. He then was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods.

Published papers

• Risk Preferences and Field Behavior: The Relevance of Higher-Order Risk Preferences

  Schneider, S. O. & Sutter, M. (2026). Risk Preferences and Field Behavior: The Relevance of Higher-Order Risk Preferences. American Economic Review, 116(1), 88–118.