Ongoing research

Questions with practical stakes.

My current work uses experiments, surveys, field data, and applied microeconomic methods to study how people respond to new technologies, information, social norms, and policy change.

01AI & work

Who Gets Credit When Workers Use AI?

With Toke Fosgaard

This two-stage online experiment studies whether disclosing AI use changes the credit workers receive for strong performance. Workers complete a task with access to an AI assistant, while independent spectators compare their performance and allocate a real bonus. By holding actual AI use and performance constant while varying what spectators are told, the study isolates how disclosure affects rewards and examines whether perceptions of competence, effort, fairness, and deservingness explain the response.

02Gender & beliefs

Gender Stereotypes, Fake News and Belief Updating

With Daniele Nosenzo and Simone Quercia

This experiment examines whether gender stereotypes shape which news people perceive as authentic and whether news can influence broader beliefs even when it is labelled fabricated. Participants encounter a story about parental roles that either aligns with a motherhood stereotype or foregrounds fathers. The study measures perceived authenticity and belief updating to distinguish the effects of stereotype congruence, known truth status, and uncertainty about whether a story is genuine.

03Soft power & norms

Soft Power Erosion and Misperceived Social Norms: Evidence from the Greenland Crisis

With Adrien Dautheville, Paolo Falco, and Tarek Jaber-López

A sequence of survey experiments in Denmark and the United States investigates whether US actions toward an ally erode American soft power—and why public opposition may not translate into economic action. The project combines attitudes with costly choices involving boycotts, divestment, and charitable funds. It also tests whether people underestimate others' willingness to act, and whether correcting these misperceived social norms can facilitate individual and collective responses.

04Mobility & policy

Engines of Change: Household and Mobility Impacts of Gasoline Motorbike Restrictions in Hanoi, Vietnam

With Paolo Falco, Minh Kieu, Jos van Ommeren, and Francis Ostermeijer

Hanoi's planned restrictions on gasoline motorbikes provide a natural setting for studying the transition to electric mobility. We combine a representative household panel with GPS tracking, travel-time measures, and environmental data to examine transport choices, household welfare, congestion, and air pollution. Baseline evidence also measures the financial support households may need to adopt electric motorbikes, while follow-up data will show how people adapt once the policy takes effect.

Research portfolio

Working papers

Current manuscripts under review or in preparation.

Female Peer Effects on the Glass Ceiling in Academia

With Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll and Flavia Coda Moscarola

Walking for Rewards: Gender Differences in Engagement and Response to App-Based Incentives

With Beatrice Braut and Claire Mollier

Submitted

A Megastudy of Economic and Psychological Interventions Aimed at Reducing Rule Breaking at Work

With Katarzyna A. Ścigała et al.

Submitted

Can AI Predict Top-5 Publication Outcomes?

With Magnus Eldrup and Paolo Falco

Submitted

In development

Ongoing projects

Research at different stages of design, data collection, and analysis.

Diversity and Norms: Evidence from NYUAD Residential Colleges

In collaboration with NYU Abu Dhabi; with Daniele Nosenzo and Ernesto Reuben

On hold

How University Experiences Shape Norms in Denmark

With Caterina Gaggini, Daniele Nosenzo, and Anne Würtz Rasmussen

Draft preparation

Fake News and Gender Stereotypes in Belief Formation

With Daniele Nosenzo and Simone Quercia

Design and piloting

Engines of Change: Household and Mobility Impacts of Gasoline Motorbike Restrictions in Hanoi, Vietnam

With Paolo Falco, Minh Kieu, Jos van Ommeren, and Francis Ostermeijer

Data collection

Maternal Patience and Children's Health

With Joan Costa-Font and Niklas Rott

Data analysis

Decision-Making under Acute Geopolitical Uncertainty: Evidence from the Greenland Crisis

With Adrien Dautheville, Paolo Falco, and Tarek Jaber-López

Design and data collection

Bicycle Commuting Incentives and Habit Formation

With Toke Reinholt Fosgaard

Experimental design

The MegaInequality Project: Investigating Interventions to Increase Support for Wealth Redistribution

With Christopher T. Elbæk et al.

Changing Eating Behavior in Children

With Marco Piovesan and Charlotte M. Andersen

Collaborative research

Megastudies

I have recently become involved in megastudies: large-scale field experiments that test many behavioral interventions simultaneously in a common sample using the same objectively measured outcome. This structure makes it possible to compare interventions directly and build more cumulative evidence about what works.

Read a guide to megastudies