After winning two prestigious science prizes last year, briq researcher Chris Roth has now also been awarded the 2019 Edgeworth prize for his outstanding doctoral thesis entitled “Essays on Beliefs and Economic Behaviour”. The topics covered in his dissertation include labor market concerns and support for immigration; measuring and bounding experimenter demand effects; public debt and the demand for government spending and taxation; and conspicuous consumption and peer effects.
Chris also received a project grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation worth 160,000 euros for a project that aims at gaining insights from a field experiment on how households adjust their consumption expenditures in response to changes in their expected future income. This is a joint project with Johannes Wohlfart, with whom Chris also co-authored the paper “Experienced Inequality and Preferences for Redistribution”, which was recently cited in the New York Times.