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Overview

Stephan Meier is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research spans topics in social sciences and economics, with a strong focus on areas such as employment and welfare studies, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, and experimental behavioral economics. The work also covers key themes related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including its epidemiological and socio-economic impacts, as well as psychological well-being and gender, labor, and family dynamics.

Meier has authored numerous publications, including several recent papers that reflect diverse interests in behavioral incentives and economic conditions. Notable works include:

  • "Monetary incentives increase COVID-19 vaccinations" (2021), published in Science
  • "Financial incentives for vaccination do not have negative unintended consequences" (2023), published in Nature
  • "Intentions for Doing Good Matter for Doing Well: The Negative Effects of Prosocial Incentives" (2020), published in The Economic Journal
  • "Macroeconomic Conditions When Young Shape Job Preferences for Life" (2021), published in The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • "Does poverty negate the impact of social norms on cheating?" (2020), published in Games and Economic Behavior

Frequent coauthors in Meier's research include Armando N. Meier, Pol Campos-Mercade, Florian Schneider, Devin G. Pope, and Erik Wengström. Collaboration with these researchers has contributed to multiple publications across a range of subjects within behavioral economics and social sciences.

Meier's publications are often found in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, with seven contributions, as well as journals including the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization and the Academy of Management Proceedings. Other publication venues include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) and Science.

The main fields of study for Meier are Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Within these, the subfields of economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, general health professions, health, and safety research are prominent.

Their research topics focus primarily on:

  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

Best Publications

  • Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially

    Dan Ariely;Anat Bracha;Stephan Meier

  • When and Why Incentives (Don't) Work to Modify Behavior

    Uri Gneezy;Stephan Meier;Pedro Rey-Biel

  • Social Comparisons and Pro-social Behavior: Testing "Conditional Cooperation" in a Field Experiment

    Bruno S. Frey;Stephan Meier

  • The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence Using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups

    Lorenz Goette;David Huffman;Stephan Meier

  • Doing good or doing well? Image motivation and monetary incentives in behaving prosocially

    Dan Ariely;Anat Bracha;Stephan Meier

  • Present-Biased Preferences and Credit Card Borrowing

    Stephan Meier;Charles D. Sprenger

  • Is volunteering rewarding in itself

    Stephan Meier;Alois Stutzer

  • Poverty and Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from Changes in Financial Resources at Payday.

    Leandro S. Carvalho;Stephan Meier;Stephanie W. Wang

  • Do People Behave in Experiments as in the Field? - Evidence from Donations

    Matthias Benz;Stephan Meier

  • The Impact of Social Ties on Group Interactions: Evidence from Minimal Groups and Randomly Assigned Real Groups

    Lorenz Goette;David Huffman;Stephan Meier

  • Numerical ability predicts mortgage default

    Kristopher Gerardi;Lorenz Goette;Stephan Meier

  • Discounting financial literacy: Time preferences and participation in financial education programs

    Stephan Meier;Charles D. Sprenger

  • DO SUBSIDIES INCREASE CHARITABLE GIVING IN THE LONG RUN? MATCHING DONATIONS IN A FIELD EXPERIMENT

    Stephan Meier

  • A survey of economic theories and field evidence on pro-social behavior

    Stephan Meier

  • The Economics of Museums

    Bruno Frey;Stephan Meier

  • Are political economists selfish and indoctrinated? Evidence from a natural experiment

    Bruno Frey;Stephan Meier

  • Are Political Economists Selfish and Indoctrinated? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

    Bruno S. Frey;Stephan Meier

  • Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap Between the Public and the Private Sector

    Simon Luechinger;Stephan Meier;Alois Stutzer

  • Nonmonetary Incentives and the Implications of Work as a Source of Meaning

    Lea Cassar;Stephan Meier

  • Financial Literacy and Subprime Mortgage Delinquency: Evidence from a Survey Matched to Administrative Data

    Kristopher Gerardi;Lorenz Goette;Stephan Meier

  • Pro-social behavior in a natural setting

    Bruno S. Frey;Stephan Meier

  • Monetary incentives increase COVID-19 vaccinations.

    Pol Campos-Mercade;Armando N. Meier;Armando N. Meier;Florian H. Schneider;Stephan Meier

  • Under-Savers Anonymous: Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device

    Felipe Kast;Stephan Meier;Dina Pomeranz

  • Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially

    Dan Ariely;Anat Bracha;Stephan Meier;Stephan Meier;Stephan Meier

  • Do Lab Experiments Misrepresent Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples

    Armin Falk;Stephan Meier;Christian Zehnder

  • Temporal Stability of Time Preferences

    Stephan Meier;Charles D. Sprenger

Frequent Co-Authors

Lorenz Goette
Lorenz Goette National University of Singapore
Bruno S. Frey
Bruno S. Frey University of Basel
Alois Stutzer
Alois Stutzer University of Basel
Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely Duke University
Kristopher S. Gerardi
Kristopher S. Gerardi Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Matthias Sutter
Matthias Sutter Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Armin Falk
Armin Falk University of Bonn
Dilip Soman
Dilip Soman University of Toronto
Sumit Agarwal
Sumit Agarwal National University of Singapore
Uri Gneezy
Uri Gneezy University of California, San Diego

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