
Assistant Professor of Economics (tenure track), University of Basel.
Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics.
Research:
Health Economics, Behavioral Economics, Public Policy, Education Economics
Find my CV here.
Publications
The Long-run Effects of Peer Gender on Occupational Sorting and the Wage Gap
Demid Getik
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2025.
Financial Incentives for Vaccination Do Not Have Negative Unintended Consequences
Equal lead author* with Florian Schneider*, Pol Campos-Mercade*, Stephan Meier, Devin Pope, Erik Wengström
Nature companion editorial
Nature, 2023.
Motivating Vaccination with Financial Incentives
Equal lead author* with Florian Schneider*, Pol Campos-Mercade*, Devin Pope*
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023.
Emotions and Risk Attitudes
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022.
Peer Gender and Mental Health
Demid Getik
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022.
Monetary Incentives Increase COVID-19 Vaccinations
Equal lead author* with Pol Campos-Mercade*, Florian Schneider*, Stephan Meier, Devin Pope, Erik Wengström
Science companion perspective
Science, 2021.
Prosociality Predicts Health Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Pol Campos-Mercade, Florian Schneider and Erik Wengström
Journal of Public Economics, 2021.
Anticipation of COVID-19 Vaccines Reduces Willingness to Socially Distance
Ola Andersson, Pol Campos-Mercade, and Erik Wengström
Journal of Health Economics, 2021.
Tobacco Sales Prohibition and Teen Smoking
Reto Odermatt and Alois Stutzer
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021.
Rain, Emotions and Voting for the Status Quo
Lukas Schmid and Alois Stutzer
European Economic Review, 2019.
Overstrained Citizens? The Number of Ballot Propositions and the Quality of the Decision Process in Direct Democracy
Michael Baltensperger and Alois Stutzer
European Journal of Political Economy, 2019.
Limited Self–Control, Obesity and the Loss of Happiness
Alois Stutzer
Health Economics, 2016.
Working Papers
What Money Shouldn’t Buy: Aversion to Monetary Incentives for Health Behaviors
Pol Campos-Mercade, Florian Schneider, and Roberto Weber
Revise and resubmit at Nature
Behavioral Surrogates: Measuring and Predicting Long-run Impacts of Vaccination Incentives
Pol Campos-Mercade, Stephan Meier, Devin Pope, Florian Schneider, Erik Wengström
Reject and resubmit at Econometrica
Investigating the Analytical Robustness of the Social and Behavioural Sciences
Large-scale collaboration of 500 authors led by Balazs Aczel, Barnabas Szaszi et al.
Conditionally accepted at Nature
Incentives to Vaccinate
Pol Campos-Mercade, Stephan Meier, Devin Pope, Florian Schneider, Erik Wengström
The Impact of Digital Mental Health Technology on Mental Health, Education, and Economic Outlook of Young Adults
(Registered Report)
Equal first author* with Nathalie Monnet*, Clémence Kieny, Andrea Carolina Bello-Tocancipá, Laura Torres-Cuéllar, Naomi Koerner, Juan Vargas-Nieto, Gustavo Perdomo-Patino, Ricardo Araya, Omar Yesid Vargas Rodriguez, Fabio Idrobo, Martha Escobar Lux, Mauricio Avendano
Early Release and Recidivism
Jonathan Levav, Stephan Meier and Liora Avnaim-Pesso
I have taught Health Economics across programs:
MBA, MPH, PhD
Master of Economics and Public Policy
Bachelor of Economics