Dr. Sebastian O. Schneider
Research Focus
Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Household Finance, Health, Environmental and Development Economics, Statistics of Experiments
Academic Education
- 2014 - 2017: PhD in Economics, Georg-August-University Goettingen
- 2011 - 2014: MSc Mathematics in Business and Economics, Mannheim University
- 2008 - 2011: BSc Mathematics in Business and Economics, Mannheim University
Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals
Kaba, M., Koyuncu, M., Schneider, S. O., & Sutter, M. (2024). Social Norms, Political Polarization, and Vaccination Attitudes: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey. European Economic Review, 168, 104818.
Barron, K., Harmgart, H., Huck, S., Schneider, S. O., Sutter, M. (2023), Discrimination, narratives and family History: An experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 105(4), 1008–1016.
Working Papers
Bašić, Z., Bortolotti, S., Salicath, D., Schmidt, S., Schneider, S. O., Sutter, M. (2024). One size fits all? The interplay of incentives, effort provision, and personality. Bonn: Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, MPI Discussion Paper 2024/13.
Ibanez, M., & Schneider, S. O. (2023). Income Risk, Precautionary Saving, and Loss Aversion – An Empirical Test. Bonn: Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, MPI Discussion Paper 2023/6.
Sutter, M., Weyland, M., Untertrifaller, A., Froitzheim, M., Schneider, S. O. (2023). Financial literacy, experimental preference measures and field behavior: A randomized educational intervention. MPI Discussion Paper 2023/3. Revision requested by Journal of Political Economy.
Chowdhury, S., Schildberg-Hörisch, H., Schneider, S. O. & Sutter, M. (2022): Information provision over the phone saves lives – A randomized controlled trial to contain COVID-19 in rural Bangladesh at the pandemic’s onset. Bonn: Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Discussion Paper 2022/9
Momsen, K., & Schneider, S. O. (2022). Motivated Reasoning, Information Avoidance, and Default Bias. Bonn: Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Discussion Paper 2022/3
Schneider, S. O., & Sutter, M. (2020). Higher Order Risk Preferences: New Experimental Measures, Determinants and Field Behavior. Bonn: Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Discussion Paper 2020/22. Revision requested at the American Economic Review.
Riener, G., Schneider, S. O., & Wagner, V. (2020). Addressing Validity and Generalizability Concerns in Field Experiments. Bonn: Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Discussion Paper 2020/16
Schlather, M. & Schneider, S. O., The Min MSE Approach to Treatment Assignment for One and Multiple Treatment Groups, Courant Research Centre Discussion, Paper No. 228 (http://uni-goettingen.de/en/86936.html)
Software
Software for the MinMSE Approach to Treatment Assignment for One And Multiple Treatment Groups
- Stata ado-package, available via SSC, type ssc install minmse in Stata or download at https://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s458939.html
- R package, available via CRAN, type install.packages("minMSE") in R or download at https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/minMSE/index.html
See personal homepage for details.