Behavioral ethics, crime economics, experimental behavioral economics, migration, norms

Eugen Dimant is an Associate Professor of Practice in Behavioral and Decision Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Penn, Eugen was at Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. Among his many affiliations, he is an Affiliate Member of the CESifo Research Network, a Fellow at the Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics at the University of Nottingham, and a Fellow at the Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania. Eugen won the Heinz Sauermann Award of the German Society for Experimental Economic Research (GfeW) in 2015 and was also awarded GfeW’s award for best experimental dissertation of 2015/2016. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Paderborn in 2016.

Published papers

• Beyond Average: A Method for Measuring the Tightness, Looseness, and Polarization of Social Norms

  Dimant, E. (2023). Beyond Average: A Method for Measuring the Tightness, Looseness, and Polarization of Social Norms. Economics Letters.

• Nudging Enforcers: How Norm Perceptions and Motives for Lying Shape Sanctions

  https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad224

• Hate Trumps Love: The Impact of Political Polarization on Social Preferences

  Dimant, E. (2023). Hate trumps love: The impact of political polarization on social preferences. Management Science.

• Social Proximity and the Erosion of Norm Compliance

  Bicchieri, C., Dimant, E., Gächter, S., & Nosenzo, D. (2022). Social proximity and the erosion of norm compliance. Games and Economic Behavior.

• The Experience is (Not) Everything: Sequential Outcomes and Social Decision-Making

  Buckenmaier, J., & Dimant, E. (2021). The Experience is (Not) Everything: Sequential Outcomes and Social Decision-Making. Economics Letters, 109916.

• Deviant or Wrong? The Effects of Norm Information on the Efficacy of Punishment

  Bicchieri, C., Dimant, E., & Xiao, E. (2021). Deviant or Wrong? The Effect of Norm Information on the Efficacy of Punishment. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

Discussion papers

• Identity and Economic Incentives

• Strategic Behavior with Tight, Loose and Polarized Norms

• Meta-Nudging Honesty: Past, Present, and Future of the Research Frontier

• Efficient Institutions and Effective Deterrence: On Timing and Uncertainty of Formal Sanctions

• Hate Trumps Love: The Impact of Political Polarization on Social Preferences

• Deviant or Wrong? The Effects of Norm Information on the Efficacy of Punishment

• Paying Them to Hate US: The Effect of U.S. Military Aid on Anti-American Terrorism, 1968-2014

• Observability, Social Proximity, and the Erosion of Norm Compliance