Research

Research Areas

We conduct research in the following areas:

  • Public Economics and Economics of Education
  • Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Neuro-/Genoeconomics
  • Statistical and Computational Methods and Survey Methodology

Selected Research Projects

Various research projects are currently being conducted in our group. They are funded by research grants which we obtained, e.g., by the German National Science Foundation (DFG), the Thyssen-Research Foundation (Fritz Thyssen Stiftung), the Jacobs Foundation, the Volkswagen Foundation or the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). All the projects fall in the research areas mentioned above.
As illustrative examples, we describe five of our research projects in more detail below.