ASSOCIATE
PROFESSOR
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN
CO-FOUNDER
IMPACTUALLY
ABOUT ME
ABOUT ME
As a behavioral economist, I study how people make decisions and how they can be motivated or nudged to "do the right thing." I aspire to increase the welfare of individuals and society through behavioral insights and evidence-based decision making. I mostly work on the topics of environmental sustainability, health and charitable giving.
MY WORK
I am currently an Associate Professor (with tenure) at the Department of Economics at the University of Copenhagen. I am affiliated with the Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) and I am the director of the Copenhagen Experimental Laboratory. I am a CESifo Research Network Affiliate, a RWI Research Fellow, a J-PAL (K-CAI) invited researcher and advisory board member of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics.
Most of my time is spent doing research on the feasibility of behavioral interventions and on understanding how our beliefs about ourselves, as well as our decision environment, affect our behavior. I work both in the field, in collaboration with organizations, and with students in the laboratory. When I am not doing research, I am teaching Game Theory, an elective on Science of Behavior Change, a Master's course on Field Experiments, a seminar course on Behavioral Economics in Action, and supervising students on the Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D. level.
You can find more information about my publications, my work in progress, and where we might have met on the next pages or you can download my Academic CV (top of the page).
I am the Co-Founder of Impactually, a behavioral science management consultancy. I have trained hundreds of executives in behavioral science methods, given keynote lectures on behavioral economics in practice, and consulted the private, public, and non-profit sectors on how to integrate behavioral science in their work. I was selected as one of Berlingske's Talent 100 2019.
If you are interested in a talk, interview, course, or consulting please visit www.impactually.se and check out my talks on YouTube. You can watch my TEDx talk which has over 35,000 views, below.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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Effective carbon taxes need green nudges (with Ganga Shreedhar) Nature Climate Change, 2022
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Reminders: Their Value and Hidden Costs, Behavioral Science in the Wild (Book Chapter), 2022
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When nudges aren't enough: Norms, incentives and habit formation in public transport usage (with Linus Olsson Collentine), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021
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Confidence and Career Choices: An Experiment (with Kai Barron), The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2021.
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Nudging as an Environmental Policy Instrument (with Fredrik Carlsson, Olof Johansson-Stenman and Verenz Kurz), Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2021.
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Because of you, I did not give up - Peer effects in perseverance (with Leonie Gerhards), Journal of Economic Psychology, 2020.
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Nudge som ett miljöekonomiskt styrmedel, Naturvårdsverket, 2019.
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Nudging à la carte - A field experiment on climate-friendly food choice (with Verena Kurz) Behavioral Public Policy, 2019.
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The hidden costs of nudging - Experimental evidence from reminders in fundraising (with
Mette Trier Damgaard), Journal of Public Economics, 157, (2018), 15-26. -
The impact of high school course-taking on choice of college major - Evidence from a natural experiment (with Katja Goerlitz), Education Economics, 26:3, (2018), 321-336.
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Forgetful or reluctant? Evidence on reminder response and donor behavior from panel data
(with Mette Trier Damgaard and Laura Villalobos) The Economics of Philanthropy. (2017) -
A must-lie situation: Avoiding giving negative feedback (with Uri Gneezy, Silvia Saccardo
and Franziska Tausch), Games and Economic Behavior, 102, (2017), issue C, p. 445-454. -
Pride and patronage - Pay-what-you-want pricing at a charitable bookstore, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 67 (2017), 1-7.
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Now or never! The effect of deadlines on charitable giving - Evidence from two natural field experiments (with Mette Trier Damgaard), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 66 (2016), 78-87.
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The effects of the high school curriculum on school dropout (with Katja Goerlitz), Applied
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How luck and performance affect stealing, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 93 (2013), 301-304.
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SHORT ACADEMIC CV
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Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen
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Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen
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Post-doc at the University of Gothenburg
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PhD Student at Aarhus University
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Master Student at Aarhus University
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Bachelor Student at Technical University of Berlin