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On the Nexus between Material and Ideological Determinants of Climate Policy Support

This study explores how rising costs of climate mitigation policies shape climate policy support differentially for the ideological left and right. To this end, we randomly manipulate the consumption costs associated with four different climate …

Conflict Victimization and Civilian Obedience: Evidence from Colombia

In this study, I investigate how conflict victimization influences civilians’ likelihood of (dis)obeying armed actors, a behavioral tendency which I elicit through a lab-in-the field experiment. Violence could foster either obedience or defiance …

Does Scarcity Reduce Cooperation? Experimental Evidence from Rural Tanzania

Cooperation is essential to reap efficiency gains from specialization, not least in poor communities where economic transactions are often informal. Yet, cooperation might be more difficult to sustain under scarcity, since defecting from a …