Research
Publications
Cologna, Viktoria, Niels G. Mede, Sebastian Berger, et al. 2025. Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries. Nature Human Behavior. News coverage in English and German.
Cologna, Viktoria, Niels G. Mede, Sebastian Berger, et al. 2025. Perceptions of Science, Science Communication, and Climate Change Attitudes in 68 Countries - The TISP Dataset. Scientific Data 12, 114. Pre-print here.
Cologna, Viktoria, Eri Bertsou, Jana Freundt, Jamie L. Gloor, Lauren Howe, Reto Knutti, Niels G. Mede, Naomi Oreskes and Mike S. Schäfer. 2024. How scientists’ collective climate advocacy affects public trust in scientists and voting behavior. Environmental Research Letters 20 (1). Pre-registration here.
Arno Apffelstaedt and Jana Freundt. 2024. Corrupted Votes and Rule Compliance. AEJ: Microeconomics 16 (4): 440–74. A German summary of our study can be found here.
Arno Apffelstaedt, Jana Freundt and Christoph Oslislo. 2022. Social norms and elections: How elected rules can make behavior (in)appropriate. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 196, 148-168. A summary article by the University of Cologne can be found here, an article by the University of Fribourg in English, German and French is here. Newspaper articles by La Gruyère (July 2022) and Freiburger Nachrichten (June 2022).
Jana Freundt and Andreas Lange. 2021. On the voluntary provision of public goods under risk. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 93.
Abraham Aldama, Cristina Bicchieri, Jana Freundt, Barbara Mellers, and Ellen Peters. 2021. How Perceptions of Autonomy Relate to Beliefs about Inequality and Fairness. PLOS ONE 16 (1). Pre-registration plan, data and code can be found here. And here is a short article by Penn Today.
Jana Freundt and Andreas Lange. 2017. On the Determinants of Giving under Risk. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 142, 24-31. Open access version here.
Working Papers
From Partisanship to Preference: How Identity Shapes Preferences for Control, together with Holger Herz. CESifo Working Paper No. 11304.
Intrinsic preferences for choice autonomy, together with Holger Herz and Leander Kopp. CESifo Working Paper 10342.
Perceived Inequality and Policy Preferences, together with Abraham Aldama and Cristina Bicchieri. Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics Working Paper Series #3. Pre-registration plan here. Here is a 5-min video by my co-author Abraham Aldama.
On the performance of socially responsible assets in financial markets - Evidence from a laboratory experiment, together with Andreas Lange, Andreas Nicklisch and Stefan Palan. (please contact me for a pdf)
An experimental study on the demand for social investments. mimeo.
Work in Progress
A cross-country study of preferences for autonomy, together with Holger Herz.
Policy views across countries: The role of trust and autonomy, together with Holger Herz.
Sorting into occupations and preferences for autonomous decision-making, together with Holger Herz.
Climate policy referendum decreases pluralistic ignorance on climate change concern, together with Viktoria Cologna, Eri Bertsou, Jamie L. Gloor, Lauren Howe, Reto Knutti, Niels G. Mede, Naomi Oreskes and Mike S. Schäfer.
Non-academic Publications
ellexx Kolumne 2025 (in German)
Blog post on women’s empoyment in Switzerland at Werkplatz Egalité (06/2024, in German).
Opinion piece about wage inequality. work (12/2023, in German).
Studie zum Wiedereinstieg und Verbleib von Frauen mit Kindern in der Erwerbstätigkeit. On behalf of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO, project together with Ecoplan. Report by the Federal Council and study (2023, both in German, summaries in FR and IT). Article in Die Volkswirtschaft (09-2023, in German and French).
Sind die Frauen die Verliererinnen der Krise? - Verschiebungen in der Arbeit und beim Einkommen, together with Anja Peter, Textsammlung: Systemrelevant und nun? (2022, in German).