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Armin Falk

Institute on Behavior and Inequality (briq) and University of Bonn
Verified email at uni-bonn.de
Cited by 45279

The relationship between economic preferences and psychological personality measures

A Becker, T Deckers, T Dohmen, A Falk… - Annu. Rev …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity
in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review, we first analyze the …

[HTML][HTML] Ten considerations for effectively managing the COVID-19 transition

…, M Danchin, CR Sunstein, R Böhm, A Falk… - Nature human …, 2020 - nature.com
Governments around the world have implemented measures to manage the transmission of
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). While the majority of these measures are proving …

Lab experiments are a major source of knowledge in the social sciences

A Falk, JJ Heckman - science, 2009 - science.org
Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in
the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory …

[HTML][HTML] Individual risk attitudes: Measurement, determinants, and behavioral consequences

T Dohmen, A Falk, D Huffman, U Sunde… - Journal of the …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
This paper studies risk attitudes using a large representative survey and a complementary
experiment conducted with a representative subject pool in subjects' homes. Using a question …

Global evidence on economic preferences

A Falk, A Becker, T Dohmen, B Enke… - The quarterly journal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
This article studies the global variation in economic preferences. For this purpose, we present
the Global Preference Survey (GPS), an experimentally validated survey data set of time …

Are risk aversion and impatience related to cognitive ability?

T Dohmen, A Falk, D Huffman, U Sunde - American Economic Review, 2010 - aeaweb.org
This paper investigates whether there is a link between cognitive ability, risk aversion, and
impatience, using a representative sample of roughly 1,000 German adults. Subjects …

Clean evidence on peer effects

A Falk, A Ichino - Journal of labor economics, 2006 - journals.uchicago.edu
We study subjects who were asked to fill letters into envelopes with a remuneration independent
of output. In the “pair” treatment, two subjects worked at the same time in the same room…

The hidden costs of control

A Falk, M Kosfeld - American Economic Review, 2006 - aeaweb.org
We analyze the consequences of control on motivation in an experimental principal-agent
game, where the principal can control the agent by implementing a minimum performance …

Psychological foundations of incentives

E Fehr, A Falk - European economic review, 2002 - Elsevier
During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives,
contracts and organizations. Yet, they constrained their attention to a very narrow and …

The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes

T Dohmen, A Falk, D Huffman… - The Review of Economic …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Recent theories endogenize the attitude endowments of individuals, assuming that they are
shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. This paper tests empirically for the …