Behavioral Foundations

Behavioral economics, neuroeconomics, experimental economics, labor economics

Armin Falk is the Director of the Behavior and Inequality Research Institute (briq), the Director of the Laboratory for Experimental Economics, and a Professor for Economics at the University of Bonn. He is affiliated with multiple institutions, such as the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Centre for Economic Policy (CEPR), CESifo, and the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. Armin has received two ERC grants and was awarded the Gossen Prize in 2008, the Leibniz Prize in 2009, and the Yrjö Jahnsson Award in 2011. He studied Economics, Philosophy, and History at the University of Cologne and received his PhD in Economics from the University of Zurich in 1999.

Published papers

• Socioeconomic Status and Inequalities in Children’s IQ and Economic Preferences

  Falk, A., Kosse, F., Pinger, P., Schildberg-Hörisch, H., & Deckers, T. (2021). Socioeconomic Status and Inequalities in Children’s IQ and Economic Preferences. Journal of Political Economy.

• The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk Time and Social Preferences

  Falk, A., Becker, A., Dohmen, T., Huffman, D., & Sunde, U. (2022). The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk Time and Social Preferences. Management Science.

• Patience and Comparative Development

  Sunde, U., Dohmen, T., Enke, B., Falk, A., Huffman, D., & Meyerheim, G. (2021) Patience and Comparative Development. The Review of Economic Studies.

Discussion papers

• The Origins of Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Earnings Expectations: Causal Evidence from a Mentoring Intervention

• Ends versus Means: Kantians, Utilitarians, and Moral Decisions

• Limited Self-Knowledge and Survey Response Behavior

• What’s Worth Knowing? Economists’ Opinions about Economics

• Misperceived Social Norms and Willingness to Act Against Climate Change

• Patience and Comparative Development

• Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence

Policy briefs

• Climate Change Skepticism and Excuses

• The Role of Social Norms in the Fight Against Climate Change

• Germans’ Willingness to Act Against Climate Change

• Sanctions on Russia, Aid to Ukraine, and Energy for Germany

• Germans’ Willingness to Pay for Gas and Heating

• Policy relevant, multidisciplinary, disruptive: What kind of research do economists want?

• Bereit zum Klimaschutz? Soziale Normen sind entscheidend

• Chancengleichheit im Bildungssystem: Wie sich ein Mentorenprogramm auf die Schulwahl auswirkt