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, the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), or the National Health and Medical Research Council of the Australian Government. All the projects fall in the research areas mentioned above.
As illustrative examples, we describe six of our research projects in more detail below.
- Reactivating the long-term unemployed more effectively: Evidence from a randomized controlled field study
- Intervention study: Self-Regulation and Working Memory in Children
- E-Learning in der Schule – Segen oder Fluch?
- Statistical Inference Methods for Behavioral Genetics and Neuroeconomics
- Enhancing cooperation and investigating peer effects on human capital formation: A randomized-controlled field study with primary school children
- Statistical Learning in Hybrid Systems