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Prof. Dr. Thomas Dohmen

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Thomas Dohmen is the Director of the Research Centre for Education and the Labour market (ROA) and professor of Education and the Labour Market at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of Maastricht University. He holds Master’s degrees in Economics from the University of Warwick (England) and Maastricht University. He obtained his doctoral degree at Maastricht University in May 2003. From 2003 until 2007 he was employed as a researcher at IZA in Bonn, where he specialized in labour economics, applied microeconometrics, as well as experimental and behavioral economics.
He is a research fellow at IZA in Bonn and a research professor at DIW in Berlin, where he closely collaborates with the group that designs and develops the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
His research focuses on three main areas: (1) the nature and economic consequences of preferences, cognitive and non-cognitive skills, (2) the psychology of incentives, (3) personnel economics. In his empirical research he combines experimental methods and econometric techniques, for example to obtain behaviorally relevant measures of preferences and attitudes in large survey data sets.

Recent papers

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Felix Marklein, Uwe Sunde, The Non-Use of Bayes Rule: Representative Evidence on Bounded Rationality, ROA-RM-2009/1.

Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann, Mark Schaffer, Wage Policies of a Russian Firm and the Financial Crisis of 1998: Evidence from Personnel Data – 1997 to 2002, IZA Discussion Paper No. 3350, Bonn, 2008.

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde, Seemingly Irrelevant Events Affect Economic Perceptions and Expectations: The FIFA World Cup 2006 as a Natural Experiment, IZA Discussion Paper No. 2275, Bonn, 2006.

Recent publications

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde, The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes, Review of Economic Studies, Forthcoming.

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, Klaus Fliessbach, Uwe Sunde, Bernd Weber (2010). Relative versus Absolute Income, Joy of Winning, and Gender: Brain Imaging Evidence, Journal of Public Economics, 95 (4-5): 279-285.

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk (2011). Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences and Gender, American Economic Review, 101 (2): 556-590

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde, Jürgen Schupp, and Gert G. Wagner (2011). Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants and Behavioral Consequences, Journal of the European Economic Association, 9(3): 522-550. (working paper version, ROA-RM-2009/6)

Thomas Dohmen, David Jaeger, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde, Holger Bonin, (2010). Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration, Review of Economics and Statistics, 92(3) 684–689. (working paper version, ROA-RM-2008/11)

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk (2010), You get what you pay for: Incentives and Selection in the Education System, Economic Journal, 120(546): F256-F271. (working paper version, ROA-RM-2010/2)

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde, (2010). Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?, The American Economic Review, 120(54): 256-271. (working paper version, ROA-RM-2009/7)

Thomas Dohmen, Matthias Schonlau, Martin Reuter, Juergen Schupp, Christian Montag, Bernd Weber, Nico A. Siegel, Uwe Sunde, Gert G. Wagner, and Armin Falk (2010). Collecting genetic samples in population wide (panel) surveys: Feasibility, nonresponse and selectivity, Survey Research Methods, 4(2): 121-126.

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Felix Marklein, Uwe Sunde (2009). Biased probability judgment: Evidence of incidence and relationship to economic outcomes from a representative sample, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 72(3): 903–915.

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde (2009). Homo Reciprocans: Survey Evidence on Behavioral Outcomes, Economic Journal, 119(536): 592-612.

Thomas Dohmen (2008). The Influence of Social Forces: Evidence from the Behavior of Football Referees, Economic Inquiry, 46(3): 411-424.

Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehman, Anzelika Zaiceva (2008). The Gender Earnings Gap inside a Russian Firm: First Evidence from Personnel Data - 1997 to 2002, Journal for Labour Market Research, 41(2-3): 157-179.

Steffen Altmann, Thomas Dohmen, Matthias Wibral (2008). Do the Reciprocal Trust Less?, Economics Letters, 99(3): 454-457.

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde (2008). Representative trust and reciprocity: prevalence and determinants, Economic Inquiry, 46(1): 84-90.

Thomas Dohmen (2008). Do professionals choke under pressure? Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 65(3-4) 636-653.

Klaus Fliessbach, Bernd Weber, Peter Trautner, Thomas Dohmen, Uwe Sunde, Christian E. Elger, Armin Falk (2007). Social comparison affects reward-related brain activity in the human ventral striatum, Science 318(5854): 1305-1308.

Holger Bonin, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde (2007). Cross-Sectional Earnings Risk and Occupational Sorting: The Role of Risk Attitudes, Labour Economics, 14(6): 926-937.