Publications

Corrupted Votes and Rule Compliance, together with Arno Apffelstaedt. Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics. Working Paper version: ECONtribute Discussion Paper No. 137. 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

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

Trust in scientists and their role in society across 67 countries. International collaboration led by Viktoria Cologna (Harvard University) and Niels Mede (University of Zurich). Collection of Swiss data. Pre-print here, news coverage in English and German.

From Partisanship to Preference: How Identity Shapes Preferences for Control, together with Holger Herz.

A cross-country study of preferences for autonomy, together with Holger Herz.

Policy views across the globe, together with Holger Herz.

Sorting into occupations and preferences for autonomous decision-making, together with Holger Herz.

How collective policy advocacy affects trust in scientists: A case study of the Swiss Climate Protection Law, together with Viktoria Cologna, Eri Bertsou, Jamie L. Gloor, Lauren Howe, Reto Knutti, Niels G. Mede, and Mike S. Schäfer. Pre-registration here.

Non-academic work

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).