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© ifo Institut / Enno Kapitza
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher and Deputy Director at the Ludwig Erhard ifo Center for Social Market Economy and Institutional Economics at the ifo Institute Munich. In addition, I am affiliated with the FAIR Center of Excellence at NHH Bergen, a DICE Research Affiliate at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, an IZA Research Affiliate, a CEPR Research Affiliate, a CESifo Research Network Affiliate, and a Network Member of HCEO.
I am a behavioral and experimental economist focusing on topics in labor, education, and the formation of (noncognitive) skills. More recently, I have worked on the importance of early child care for life outcomes and inequality. In addition, I have projects in the areas of digital learning as well as paternalistic decision making. For my work, I mainly use field experiments but I also conduct lab, lab-in-the-field, and survey experiments. I studied Economics and Psychology at the University of Mainz, where I also pursued my PhD (supervised by Daniel Schunk and Ernst Fehr).
I co-organize the Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business.
I am a guest editor at the European Economic Review for a Special Issue on “Field Experiments to Reduce Inequality”.
Thank you for your interest in my work – I hope to provide a first overview here on this website. You can also follow me on Twitter to stay updated about my research. If you have further questions, do not hesitate to contact me or take a look at my CV.
Contact me at: hermes@ifo.de
(with Björn Bartling, Alexander W. Cappelen, Marit Skivenes & Bertil Tungodden). Under review.
(with Marina Krauss, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold).
Under review.
Media: VoxEU
Column,
Spiegel
[German],
BR
[German].
(with Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold). Forthcoming at the Journal of the European Economic Association
Media: VoxEU Column,
FAZ [German],
Ökonomenstimme [German], Winner
of the CIDER Public Science Award 2022 (3rd price),
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung [German], SWR [German].
(with Eva Berger, Ernst Fehr, Daniel Schunk & Kirsten Winkel). Forthcoming at the Journal of Political Economy.
(with Philipp Lergetporer, Fabian Mierisch, Guido Schwerdt & Simon Wiederhold). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 228, 106780.
(with Eva Berger, Ernst Fehr, Daniel Schunk & Kirsten Winkel). Nature Human
Behaviour, 2022, 6(12), 1680-1690. (Ungated
version)
Media: Scienmag,
Phys.org,
The Hill,
The Print,
Spektrum [German],
FAZ [German]
(with Ana Cubillo, Eva Berger, Kirsten Winkel, Daniel Schunk, Ernst Fehr & Todd Hare). Developmental Science, 2023, 26(1), e13252.
(with Eva Berger, Günther König, Felix Schmidt & Daniel Schunk). Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2022, 98, 101858.
(with Daniel Schunk). Experimental Economics, 2022, 25, 229-253.
(with Martin Huschens, Franz Rothlauf & Daniel Schunk). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 187, 45-59.
(with Florian Hett, Mario Mechtel, Felix Schmidt, Daniel Schunk & Valentin Wagner). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 179, 638-652.
(with Johannes Baur, Philipp Lergetporer, Fabian Mierisch, Guido Schwerdt & Simon Wiederhold). ifo Schnelldienst, 2024, 77(10), 36–38.
(with Marina Krauss, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold). Wirtschaft im Wandel, 2023, 29(3), 52–55.
(with Marina Krauss, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold). VoxEU Column, April 2023.
(with Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter, Simon Wiederhold, Vera Freundl & Olivia Wirth. ifo Schnelldienst, 2021, 74(09), 41–45.
(with Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold. VoxEU Column, Dec 2021.
(with Björn Bartling, Alexander W. Cappelen, Akshay Moorthy, Marit Skivenes & Bertil Tungodden).
(with Marina Krauss, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold).
(with Sebastian Blesse, Klaus Gründler & Philipp Heil).
(with Sabrina Herzog).