Life-cycle formation of cognitive and noncognitive skills, psychology of incentives, personnel and organizational economics, labor economics, behavioral economics, experimental economics, applied microeconometrics

Thomas Dohmen is currently Professor of Applied Microeconomics at the University of Bonn, Project Coordinator at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn, and Professor of Education and the Labour Market at Maastricht University. He is a CESifo Fellow, DIW Research Fellow, and ROA Research Fellow. He is Co-Editor of Labour Economics and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) at Maastricht University. In 2003 he finished his PhD in Economics at Maastricht University after having studied Economics at Maastricht University and the University of Warwick, Coventry.

Published papers

• Accounting for Individual-Specific Reliability of Self-Assessed Measures of Economic Preferences and Personality Traits

  Dohmen, T., & Jagelka, T. (2023). Accounting for Individual-Specific Reliability of Self-Assessed Measures of Economic Preferences and Personality Traits. Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics.

• On the Psychology of the Relation between Optimism and Risk Taking

  Dohmen, T., Quercia, S., & Willrodt, J. (2023). On the psychology of the relation between optimism and risk taking. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1-22.

• A Note on Salience of Own Preferences and the Consensus Effect

  Dohmen, T., Quercia, S., & Willrodt, J. (2023). A Note on Salience of Own Preferences and the Consensus Effect. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organizatio.

• Mission of the Company, Prosocial Attitudes and Job Preferences: A Discrete Choice Experiment

  Non, A., Rohde, I., de Grip, A., & Dohmen, T. (2022). Mission of the Company, Prosocial Attitudes and Job Preferences: A Discrete Choice Experiment. Labour Economics.

• Reference Points and the Tradeoff between Risk and Incentives

  Dohmen, T., Non, A., & Stolp, T. (2021) Reference Points and the Tradeoff between Risk and Incentives. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

• Patience, Cognitive Abilities, and Cognitive Effort: Survey and Experimental Evidence from a Developing Country

  Bortolotti, S., Dohmen, T., Lehmann, H., Meyer, F., Pignatti, N., & Torosyan K. (2021) Patience, Cognitive Abilities, and Cognitive Effort: Survey and Experimental Evidence from a Developing Country. American Behavioral Scientist.

• 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.

• Parental Involvement and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences, Attitude and Personality Traits

  Zumbuehl, M., Dohmen, T., Pfann G. (2020). Parental Involvement and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences, Attitude and Personality Traits. American Behavioral Scientist, ueaa141.

• Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data: An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes

  Pollmann, D., Dohmen, T., & Palm, F. (2020). Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data: An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes. De Economist, 168(4), 519-540

• How People Know Their Risk Preference

  Arslan, R. C., Brümmer, M., Dohmen, T., Drewelies, J., Hertwig, R., & Wagner, G. G. (2020). How people know their risk preference. Scientific reports, 10(1), 1-14

Discussion papers

• Tournament Incentives Affect Perceived Stress and Hormonal Stress Responses

• On the Psychology of the Relation between Optimism and Risk Taking

• Overexertion of Effort under Working Time Autonomy and Feedback Provision

• A Note on Salience of Own Preferences and the Consensus Effect

• Reference Points and the Tradeoff between Risk and Incentives

• Patience, Cognitive Abilities, and Cognitive Effort: Survey and Experimental Evidence from a Developing Country

• Patience and Comparative Development

• How People Know their Risk Preference

• Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data: An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes

• Parental Involvement and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences, Attitude and Personality Traits

Policy briefs

• Geförderte Umschulungen für Personen ohne Berufsabschluss im Rechtskreis SGB III: Kenntnis, Teilnahmebereitschaft und Attraktivitätskriterien