Levent Neyse is a researcher at Market Behavior group in Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) and at German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) in German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin. He also gives lectures at Freie Universität Berlin.

Using various methods such as laboratory and field experiments, household panel studies and also techniques from neuroscience, he studies how social and economic preferences affect decisions in the labor market. His research involves multidisciplinary research questions such as: How do labor market norms and laws affect fairness perceptions in the labor markets? How does economic behavior change in different social situations? What are the impacts of testosterone on decisions and personality? What drive people to be self-employed? In recent years, he has also been working on various replication studies.

He holds a B.A. degree in Economics and an M.A degree in Economic Theory from Istanbul University and a PhD in Empirical Economics from University of Granada. He previously worked in Kiel Institute for the World Economy as a postdoctoral researcher. He was at LSE Social Policy department and University of St Louis in Brussels as a guest researcher.

You can find more information on Levent’s research in his website: https://sites.google.com/site/leventneyse

Levent Neyse joined IZA as a Research Fellow in November 2020.