Thomas Dohmen

Research Fellow and Associated Member

University of Bonn

t.dohmen@uni-bonn.de

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Research Interests

Thomas Dohmen is Professor of Applied Microeconomics at the University of Bonn, Professor of Education and the Labour Market at the School of Business and Economics of Maastricht University, and Associated Member of IZA. From December 2007 until December 2012, he was Director of the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA). From January 2003 until November 2007, he was employed as a Research Associate at IZA and from September 2017 until October 2020 served as Research Director of IZA.

He studied economics at Maastricht University, where he received his Master's degree (M.A.) in Economics in December 1998 and his doctoral degree in May 2003. He also holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick (England). In his doctoral studies, he specialized in labor economics and applied microeconometrics. Thomas Dohmen visited the Economics Department at the University of Chicago from January 2002 until June 2002.

His articles have appeared in journals such as the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Public Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Science, among others. His current research interests are in behavioral and experimental economics,applied microeconometrics, life-cycle formation of cognitive & non-cognitive skills, psychology of incentives, personnel and organizational economics.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17152

Worker Representatives

Julian Budde, Thomas Dohmen, Simon Jäger, Simon Trenkle

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16445

Risk Attitudes and Informal Employment in Ukraine

Thomas Dohmen, Melanie Khamis, Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16028

Overexertion of Effort under Working Time Autonomy and Feedback Provision

Thomas Dohmen, Elena Shvartsman

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 212, 255-1266

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16027

Accounting For Individual-Specific Reliability of Self-Assessed Measures of Economic Preferences and Personality Traits

Thomas Dohmen, Tomáš Jagelka

published in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2024, 23, 399–462

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16026

Religion and Cooperation across the Globe

Felipe Valencia Caicedo, Thomas Dohmen, Andreas Pondorfer

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 215, 479–489.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16025

Tournament Incentives Affect Perceived Stress and Hormonal Stress Responses

Thomas Dohmen, Ingrid M.T. Rohde, Tom Stolp

published in: Experimental Economics, 2023, 26 (4), 955–985.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15854

Inequality and Risk Preference

Harry Pickard, Thomas Dohmen, Bert van Landeghem

[This version: February 2024] published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2024, 69, 191 - 217

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15763

On the Psychology of the Relation between Optimism and Risk Taking

Thomas Dohmen, Simone Quercia, Jana Willrodt

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2023, 67, 193–214.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14836

Mission of the Company, Prosocial Attitudes and Job Preferences: A Discrete Choice Experiment

Arjan Non, Ingrid M.T. Rohde, Andries de Grip, Thomas Dohmen

published in: Labour Economics, 74, 2022, 102087

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14835

Reference Points and the Tradeoff between Risk and Incentives

Thomas Dohmen, Arjan Non, Tom Stolp

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 192, 813–831

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13723

How People Know Their Risk Preference

Ruben C. Arslan, Martin Brümmer, Thomas Dohmen, Johanna Drewelies, Ralph Hertwig, Gert G. Wagner

published in: Scientific Reports, 2020, 10, 15365

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13358

The Bonding Effect of Deferred Compensation: Worker Separations from a Large Firm in Early Transition Russia

Mikhail Ananyev, Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12531

Numeracy and Unemployment Duration

Thomas Dohmen, Bert van Landeghem

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11642

Willingness to Take Risk: The Role of Risk Conception and Optimism

Thomas Dohmen, Simone Quercia, Jana Willrodt

substantially revised version available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 15763

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. 9333

Time-Varying Individual Risk Attitudes over the Great Recession: A Comparison of Germany and Ukraine

Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44 (1), 182-200

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8857

Referee Bias

Thomas Dohmen, Jan Sauermann

published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2016, 30 (4), 679-695

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8355

Occupational Sorting of School Graduates: The Role of Economic Preferences

Didier Fouarge, Ben Kriechel, Thomas Dohmen

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 106, 335-351

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8354

New Evidence on the Relationship between Risk Attitudes and Self-Employment

Olga Skriabikova, Thomas Dohmen, Ben Kriechel

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 176-184

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8263

Behavioural Labour Economics: Advances and Future Directions

Thomas Dohmen

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 71-85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7476

Parental Investment and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences and Attitudes

Maria Zumbühl, Thomas Dohmen, Gerard A. Pfann

published as 'Parental Involvement and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences, Attitudes, and Personality Traits' in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (638), 2642–2670

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6955

Negative Reciprocity and Retrenched Pension Rights

Raymond Montizaan, Frank Cörvers, Andries de Grip, Thomas Dohmen

published as 'The Impact of Negatively Reciprocal Inclinations on Worker Behavior: Evidence from a Retrenchment of Pension Rights' in: Management Science, 2016, 62(3), 668-681

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. 6447

Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data: An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes

Daniel Pollmann, Thomas Dohmen, Franz C. Palm

published in: De Economist, 2020, 168, 519 - 540

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. 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. 3428

The Gender Earnings Gap inside a Russian Firm: First Evidence from Personnel Data – 1997 to 2002

Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann, Anzelika Zaiceva

published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung/Journal for Labour Market Research, 2008, 41 (2-3), 157-180.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3350

Wage Policies of a Russian Firm and the Financial Crisis of 1998: Evidence from Personnel Data – 1997 to 2002

Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann, Mark E Schaffer

revised version published in: Industrial Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (2), 504-531.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3010

Do the Reciprocal Trust Less?

Steffen Altmann, Thomas Dohmen, Matthias Wibral

published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 99 (3), 454-457

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. 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. 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. 1905

Do Professionals Choke Under Pressure?

Thomas Dohmen

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 65, 636-653

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. 1595

Social Pressure Influences Decisions of Individuals: Evidence from the Behavior of Football Referees

Thomas Dohmen

revised version published as 'The Influence of Social Forces: Evidence from the Behavior of Football Referees' in: Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46(3), 411-424

IZA Discussion Paper No. 935

Performance, Seniority and Wages: Formal Salary Systems and Individual Earnings Profiles

Thomas Dohmen

published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (6), 741-763

IZA Discussion Paper No. 867

Monkey Bars and Ladders: The Importance of Lateral and Vertical Job Mobility in Internal Labor Market Careers

Thomas Dohmen, Ben Kriechel, Gerard A. Pfann

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2004, 17 (2), 193-228

IZA Discussion Paper No. 755

In Support of the Supporters? Do Social Forces Shape Decisions of the Impartial?

Thomas Dohmen

revised version published as IZA DP 1595