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License to Fire? Unemployment Insurance and Moral Cost of Layoffs

Daniel Keum and Stephan Meier (Forthcoming: Organization Science).

Gender Differences in Preferences for Meaning at Work

Vanessa Burbano, Nicolas Padilla, and Stephan Meier (Forthcoming: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy)

The Gender Gap in Meaningful Work

Vanessa Burbano, Johanna Rickne, Olle Folke, and Stephan Meier (Forthcoming: Management Science). DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2022.01807

Does Growing Up in Hard Economic Times Increase Compassion? The Case of Attitudes Towards Immigration

Maria Cotofan, Robert Dur, and Stephan Meier, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations, 218 (2024): 245-262. DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2023.11.023

Macroeconomic Conditions When Young Shape Job Preferences for Life 

Lea Cassar, Maria Cotofan, Robert Dur, and Stephan Meier, Review of Economics and Statistics, 105(2) (2023): 467–473. * Featured in Forbes

The Effect of Financial Constraints on In-Group Bias: Evidence from Rice Farmers in Thailand 

Suparee Boonmanunt and Stephan Meier, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 207 (2023): 96-109.

Financial Incentives for Vaccination Do Not Have Negative Unintended Consequences

Florian H. Schneider, Pol Campos-Mercade, Stephan Meier, Devin Pope, Erik Wengström, and Armando N. Meier, Nature (2023)

Are Customers 10x More Important to Firms than Employees? Empirical Analysis of Imbalance in Emphasis Between Two Stakeholders

Nandil Bhatia and Stephan Meier (Working paper, 2022)

(Partial) Exit and Voice in the Labor Market: Evidence from the Digital Water Cooler 

Natalie Carlson, Matthew Yeaton, and Stephan Meier (Working paper, 2020)

Procrastination in the Field: Evidence from Tax Filing

Seung-Keun Martinez, Stephan Meier, and Charles Sprenger, Journal of the European Economic Association (2022): jvac067.

Monetary Incentives Increase COVID-19 Vaccinations

Pol Campos-Marcade, Armando Meier, Devin Pope, Florian Schneider, Stephan Meier, and Erik Wengström, Science, 374 (2021): 879-882.

Intentions for Doing Good Matter for Doing Well: The (Negative) Signaling Value of Prosocial Incentives 

Lea Cassar and Stephan Meier, Economic Journal (2021)
* Featured in Ideas and Insights, HBR

Poverty Negates the Impact of Social Norms on Cheating 

Suparee Boonmanunt, Agne Kajackaite, and Stephan Meier, Games and Economic Behavior (2020)

Culture of Trust and Division of Labor in Non-Hierarchical Teams 

Stephan Meier, Matt Stephenson, and Patryk Perkowski, Strategic Management Journal (2019)

What’s the Catch? Suspicion in Bank Motives and Sluggish Refinancing 

Eric Johnson, Stephan Meier, and Olivier Toubia, The Review of Financial Studies (2019)

Nonmonetary Incentives and the Implications of Work as a Source of Meaning 

Lea Cassar and Stephan Meier, Journal of Economic Perspectives (2018)

Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile 

Felipe Kast, Stephan Meier, and Dina Pomeranz, Journal of Development Economics (2018)

Rank Reversal Aversion Inhibits Redistribution Across Societies 

Wenwen Xie, Benjamin Ho, Stephan Meier, and Xinyue Zhou, Nature Human Behavior (2017)

Behaviorally Informed Policies for Household Financial Decisionmaking

Stephan Meier, Brigitte Madrian, Hal Hershfield, Abigail Sussman, Saurabh Bhargava, Jeremy Burke, Scott Huettel, Julian Jamison, Eric Johnson, John Lynch, Scott Rick, and Suzanne Shu, Behavioral Science & Policy (2017)

Field Experiments in Strategy Research 

Aaron Chatterji, Michael Findley, Nathan Jensen, Stephan Meier, and Daniel Nielson, Strategic Management Journal (2016)

Poverty and Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from Changes in Financial Resources at Payday 

Leandro Carvalho, Stephan Meier, and Stephanie Wang, American Economic Review (2016)

Trust and In-Group Favoritism in a Culture of Crime

Stephan Meier, Lamar Pierce, Antonino Vaccaro, and Barbara La Cara, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2016) 

Temporal Stability of Time Preferences 

Stephan Meier and Charles Sprenger, Review of Economics and Statistics (2015)

Incentives and Group Identity 

Paolo Masella, Stephan Meier, and Philipp Zahn, Games and Economic Behavior (2014) 

Learning from (Failed) Replications: Cognitive Load Manipulations and Charitable Giving 

Judd Kessler and Stephan Meier, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2014)

Numerical Ability Predicts Mortgage Default 

Kristopher Gerardi, Lorenz Goette, and Stephan Meier, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2013)

Discounting Financial Literacy: Time Preferences and Participation in Financial Education Programs 

Stephan Meier and Charles Sprenger, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2013)

Do Lab Experiments Misrepresent Social Preferences? The Case of Self-selected Student Samples 

Armin Falk, Stephan Meier, and Christian Zehnder, Journal of the European Economic Association (2013)

Competition Between Organizational Groups: Its Impact on Altruistic and Anti-Social Motivations 

Lorenz Goette, David Huffman, Stephan Meier, and Matthias Sutter, Management Science (2012)

The Impact of Social Ties on Group Interactions: Evidence from Minimal Groups and Randomly Assigned Real Groups 

Lorenz Goette, David Huffman, and Stephan Meier, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (2012)