Armin Falk

Research Fellow

University of Bonn

armin.falk@uni-bonn.de

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Armin Falk is Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn. From 2016 until 2023 he served as CEO of the briq Institute on Behavior & Inequality (which has merged into IZA in January 2024). His main fields are behavioral, experimental and labor economics. Falk’s research focuses on determinants and consequences of time, risk and social preferences, sources of inequality, early childhood development, and the malleability of moral behavior. He has received two ERC grants and was awarded the Gossen Prize in 2008, the Leibniz Prize in 2009, as well as the Yrjö Jahnsson Award in 2011. As organizer or keynote speaker, he has been involved in numerous conferences and summer schools. He is Fellow of the European Economic Association, Director of the Bonn Laboratory for Experimental Economics, and affiliated with Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Centre for Economic Policy (CEPR), CESifo, and the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods.

Armin joined IZA as a Research Fellow in 2002 and was IZA Research Director from 2003 until 2007. For more than 15 years (2007-2023) he acted as IZA Program Coordinator for the research area “Behavioral and Personnel Economics”.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14800

The Origins of Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Earnings Expectations: Causal Evidence from a Mentoring Intervention

Teodora Boneva, Thomas Buser, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14738

Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor: Global Evidence

Yiming Cao, Benjamin Enke, Armin Falk, Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14527

What's Worth Knowing? Economists' Opinions about Economics

Peter Andre, Armin Falk

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14526

Limited Self-Knowledge and Survey Response Behavior

Armin Falk, Thomas Neuber, Philipp Strack

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14518

Fighting Climate Change: The Role of Norms, Preferences, and Moral Values

Peter Andre, Teodora Boneva, Felix Chopra, Armin Falk

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14304

Malleability of Preferences for Honesty

Johannes Abeler, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse

published online in: Economic Journal, 22 May 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14059

Intertemporal Altruism

Felix Chopra, Philipp Eisenhauer, Armin Falk, Thomas W Graeber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13387

Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence

Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Pia Pinger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13052

Ancient Origins of the Global Variation in Economic Preferences

Anke Becker, Benjamin Enke, Armin Falk

published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2020, 110, 319–323

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12059

Relationship of Gender Differences in Preferences to Economic Development and Gender Equality

Armin Falk, Johannes Hermle

published in: Science, 2018, 362 (6412) (data available here: https://gps.iza.org/home)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11665

Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning

Roland Benabou, Armin Falk, Jean Tirole

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11158

Socio-Economic Status and Inequalities in Children's IQ and Economic Preferences

Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Pia Pinger, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (9), 2504 -2545

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10921

Status Inequality, Moral Disengagement and Violence

Armin Falk

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10606

Facing Yourself: A Note on Self-Image

Armin Falk

revised version available from the briq website

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10172

Beliefs and Utility: Experimental Evidence on Preferences for Information

Armin Falk, Florian Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9861

The Formation of Prosociality: Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment

Fabian Kosse, Thomas Deckers, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Armin Falk

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (2), 434 - 467

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9768

Homo Moralis: Personal Characteristics, Institutions, and Moral Decision-Making

Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Nora Szech

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9674

The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences

Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

revised version published in: Management Science, 2023, 69 (4), 1935–195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9504

The Nature and Predictive Power of Preferences: Global Evidence

Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

revised version published as 'Global Evidence on Economic Preferences' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018, 133 (4), 1645-1692

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9040

Learning about Job Search: A Field Experiment with Job Seekers in Germany

Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, Simon Jäger, Florian Zimmermann

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 164, 33-49

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8977

How Does Socio-Economic Status Shape a Child's Personality?

Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8680

Defaults and Donations: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, Paul Heidhues, Rajshri Jayaraman

substantially revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (5), 808-826

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7610

Incentives and Information as Driving Forces of Default Effects

Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, Andreas Grunewald

substantially revised version forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7442

Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes

Armin Falk, Nora Szech

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7345

Nominal or Real? The Impact of Regional Price Levels on Satisfaction with Life

Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2016, 16, 1337–1358.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6919

Truth-Telling: A Representative Assessment

Johannes Abeler, Anke Becker, Armin Falk

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 113, 96-104

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6470

The Relationship Between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures

Anke Becker, Thomas Deckers, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse

published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2012, 4, 453-478

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6385

Interpreting Time Horizon Effects in Inter-Temporal Choice

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5840

Preferences for Consistency

Armin Falk, Florian Zimmermann

published as 'A Taste for Consistency and Survey Response Behavior' in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2013, 59 (1), 181–193

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5720

Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay

Armin Falk, Ingo Menrath, Pablo Emilio Verde, Johannes Siegrist

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5475

Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples

Armin Falk, Stephan Meier, Christian Zehnder

revised version published as 'Do Lab Experiments Misrepresent Social Preferences? The case of self-selected student samples' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (4), 839–852

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5400

The IZA Evaluation Dataset: Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making

Marco Caliendo, Armin Falk, Lutz C. Kaiser, Hilmar Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff, Gerard J. van den Berg, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 731-752

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5001

Implicit Contracts, Unemployment, and Labor Market Segmentation

Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman

substantially revised version published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2014, 81 (1), 30-56

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4540

Lab Experiments Are a Major Source of Knowledge in the Social Sciences

Armin Falk, James J. Heckman

final version published in: Science, 2009, 326 (5952), 535-538

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4170

Biased Probability Judgment: Evidence of Incidence and Relationship to Economic Outcomes from a Representative Sample

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Felix Marklein, Uwe Sunde

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 72 (3), 903-915

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3939

Reference Points and Effort Provision

Johannes Abeler, Armin Falk, Lorenz Götte, David B. Huffman

published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 470-492

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3835

Promotions and Incentives: The Case of Multi-Stage Elimination Tournaments

Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, Matthias Wibral

revised and extended version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2012, 30 (1), 149-174

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3435

Institutions and Contract Enforcement

Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, W. Bentley MacLeod

revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (3), 571-590

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3345

Competition and Relational Contracts: The Role of Unemployment as a Disciplinary Device

Martin Brown, Armin Falk, Ernst Fehr

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2765

Discrimination and In-Group Favoritism in a Citywide Trust Experiment

Armin Falk, Christian Zehnder

published as 'A City-Wide Experiment on Trust Discrimination' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 100, 15-27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2735

Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (3), 1238–1260

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2655

Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration

David A. Jaeger, Holger Bonin, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92(3), 684–689

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2531

Do I Have What It Takes? Equilibrium Search with Type Uncertainty and Non-Participation

Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2525

Self-Confidence and Search

Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2380

The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79 (2), 645-677

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2310

Studying Labor Market Institutions in the Lab: Minimum Wages, Employment Protection and Workfare

Armin Falk, David B. Huffman

published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2007, 163 (1), 30-45

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2275

Seemingly Irrelevant Events Affect Economic Perceptions and Expectations: The FIFA World Cup 2006 as a Natural Experiment

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2205

Homo Reciprocans: Survey Evidence on Prevalence, Behavior and Success

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

published in: The Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (536), 592 - 612

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2001

Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences and Gender

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk

published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 556-590

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1930

Cross-sectional Earnings Risk and Occupational Sorting: The Role of Risk Attitudes

Holger Bonin, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14(6), 926-937

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1730

Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner

revised version published as 'Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants, and Behavioral Consequences' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (3), 522–550

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1635

Driving Forces Behind Informal Sanctions

Armin Falk, Ernst Fehr, Urs Fischbacher

published in: Econometrica, 2005, 7 (6), 2017-2030

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1625

The Behavioral Effects of Minimum Wages

Armin Falk, Ernst Fehr, Christian Zehnder

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2006, 121 (4), 1347-1381

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1540

Unemployment and Right-Wing Extremist Crime

Armin Falk, Josef Zweimüller

published (with Andreas Kuhn) in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics. 2011, 113 (2), 260 - 285