CESifo Area Conference on Behavioral Economics 2021

Session 1a 

Distributional Preferences 

Chair: Klaus Schmidt

10:25 - 11:00

Preferences for the Allocation of Production Rewards between Capital and Labor

Florian Schneider, ROBERTO WEBER (University of Zurich) and Vanessa Valero

11:00 - 11:35

Fairness across the World: Preferences and Beliefs

Ingvild Almås, ALEXANDER CAPPELEN (Norwegian School of Economics), Erik Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden

Session 1b

Incentives   

Chair: Matthias Sutter

10:25 - 11:00

The Efficacy of Tournaments for Non-Routine Team Tasks

Florian Englmaier, Stefan Grimm, Dominik Grothe, DAVID SCHINDLER (Tilburg University) and Simeon Schudy

11:00 - 11:35

Adverse Effects of Control: Evidence from a Field Experiment

HOLGER HERZ (University of Fribourg) and Christian Zihlmann

11:35 - 11:50

Break

Session 2a 

Social Welfare

Chair: Christopher Roth

11:50 - 12:25

Social Institutions and Bias in the Aggregate

Benjamin Enke and THOMAS GRAEBER (Harvard Business School)

12:25 - 13:00

The Social Welfare Function of Elected Representatives

SANDRO AMBUEHL (University of Zurich)

Session 2b

Social Choice

Chair: David Schindler

11:50 - 12:25

Behavioral Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrolment

HENNING HERMES (NHH Bergen), Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter and Simon Wiederhold

12:25 - 13:00

School Choice and Loss Aversion

VINCENT MEISNER (TU Berlin) and Jonas von Wangenheim

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch Break

Prize Sessions

Chair: Roberto Weber

14:00 – 14:35

Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?

SUANNA OH (briq)

14:35 – 14:40

Short Break

14:40 – 15:15

Political Correctness, Social Image, and Information Transmission

LUCA BRAGHIERI (LMU Munich)

15:15 – 15:20

Short Break

15:20 – 15:55

Signalling Moral Values through Consumption

FLORIAN SCHNEIDER (University of Zurich)

15:55 – 16:10

Coffee Break

Session 3a

Consumer Choice

Chair: Nick Netzer

16:10 – 16:45

Dominance Seeking and the Economics of Exclusion

ALEXANDER IMAS (University of Chicago) and  Kristof Madarasz

online

16:45 – 17:20

Cognitive Uncertainty in Intertemporal Choice

BENJAMIN ENKE (Harvard University) and Thomas Graeber

online

Session 3b 

Learning and Fact Checking

Chair: Fabian Kosse

16:10 – 16:45

Learning in the Household

FRANK SCHILBACH (MIT Economics)

online

16:45 – 17:20

The Demand for Fact Checking

CHRISTOPHER ROTH (University of Cologne)

17:20 – 17:30

Break

Keynote 1

Chair: Bertil Tungodden

17: 30 – 18:30

A Stepping Stone Approach to Understanding Harmful Norms

Selim Gulesci, San Jindani, ELIANA LA FERRARA (Bocconi University), David Smerdon, Munshi Sulaiman and Peyton Young

Session 4a

Prosocial Behavior of Children

Chair: Henning Hermes

10:15 – 10:50

Prosociality and Competition Evidence from a Long-run Field Experiment

FABIAN KOSSE (LMU Munich) and Michela Tincani

10:50 – 11:25

The Roots of Cooperation 

Zvonimir Basic, Parampreet Bindra, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Angelo Romano, MATTHIAS SUTTER (Max-Planck-Institute) and Claudia Zoller

Session 4b

Motivated Beliefs, Salience and Risky Choices

Chair: Florian Engl

10:15 – 10:50

Risk-Taking under Limited Liability: Quantifying the Role of Motivated Beliefs

CIRIL BOSCH ROSA (TU Berlin), Frank Heinemann and Daniel Gietl

10:50 – 11:25

Salient Cues and Complexity

MARKUS DERTWINKEL-KALT (University of Konstanz) and Mats Köster

11:25 - 11:45

Break

Session 5a

Obfuscation

Chair: Klaus Schmidt

11:45 – 12:20

Obfuscation in Competitive Markets

ERNST FEHR (University of Zurich) and Keyu Wu

Session 5b 

Social Conformity

Chair: Alexander Cappelen

11:45 – 12:20

Social Conformity in the Workplace: Evidence from Field Experiment

ANIK ASHRAF (LMU Munich)

12:20 – 12:25

Break

Session 6a

Fairness and Information

Chair: Holger Herz

12:25 - 13:00

Fairness Preferences in the Face of Limited Information

BERTIL TUNGODDEN (Norwegian School of Economics)

Session 6b 

Identification from Response Data

Chair: Thomas Graeber

12:25 - 13:00

Happy Times: Identification from Ordered Response Data

NICK NETZER (University of Zurich)

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

Session 7a 

Field Experiments on Worker Productivity

Chair: Anik Ashraf

14:00 - 14:35

Do Financial Concerns Lower Productivity?

SUPREET KAUR (UC Berkeley), Sendhil Mullainathan, Suanna Oh and Frank Schilbach

online

14:35 –15:10

Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention

SULE ALAN (European University Institute), Gozde Corekcioglu and Matthias Sutter

online

Session 7b 

Recognition and Attribution

Chair: Sandro Ambühl

14:00 – 14:35

Social Recognition: Experimental Evidence from Blood Donors

Lorenz Goette and EGON TRIPODI (University of Essex)

14:35 –15:10

Causal Responsibility Attribution: Theory and Experimental Evidence

FLORIAN ENGL (University of Regensburg)

15:10 – 15:25

Coffee Break

Keynote 2

Chair: Ernst Fehr

15:25 – 16: 25

Bottlenecks for Policy Experiments

STEFANO DELLAVIGNA (University of California, Berkeley), Woojin Kim and Elizabeth Linos