Curriculum Vitae December 2016 Name Address E-Mail Web Fabian Kosse Institute on Behavior and Inequality (briq) Schaumburg-Lippe-Str. 5-9 53113 Bonn kosse@uni-bonn.de www.iame.uni-bonn.de/people/fabian-kosse Main Research Interests Economics & Psychology (development and consequences of heterogeneities in skills, preferences, beliefs and personality) Applied Microeconometrics (applications in education, health and labor economics) Education 02/2015 Dr. rer. pol. (summa cum laude), University of Bonn, Individual Heterogeneities, Social Environment and Life Outcomes, Supervisors: Armin Falk and Thomas Dohmen 2009-2015 Doctoral studies at the Bonn Graduate School of Economics, University of Bonn 07/2009 Diplom-Volkswirt, University of Mannheim Award for outstanding academic achievements (2008/2009) 2004-2009 Studies in economics and business administration, University of Mannheim and University of Miami Academic Positions and Affiliations 2016 - present Institute on Behavior and Inequality (briq), Bonn 2016 - present Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO), University of Chicago 2015 - present Center for Economics and Neuroscience (CENs), University of Bonn 2013 - present Institute for Applied Microeconomics, University of Bonn 2009-2015 Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE), University of Bonn 1
Awards, Grants and Scholarships 2016 Jacobs Foundation Young Scholars Research Grant, Equality of Opportunity in Access to Higher Education: Lessons from a Large-Scale Randomised Experiment on Affirmative Action (with Michela Tincani) 2015 BMBF Competence Cluster: Diet-Body-Brain (DietBB), Area 5, Changes in personality, preferences and cognitive ability over the life-cycle (with Bernd Weber) 2013 SOEP Best Publication Prize 2009-2013 Bonn Graduate School of Economics Fellowship 2012 Excellence in teaching award (Principles of Economics) 2012 Geld und Währung Foundation Fellowship 2008-2009 Award for outstanding academic achievements, University of Mannheim 2004-2009 Scholarship of the German National Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) 2007 International exchange scholarship, University of Miami, FL, USA Working Papers The formation of prosociality: Causal evidence on the role of social environment (joint work with Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch), HCEO Working Paper No. 2016-011 (R&R at Journal of Political Economy). How does socio-economic status shape a child's personality (with Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch) IZA Discussion Paper No. 8977 (R&R at Journal of Political Economy). On the interpretation of non-cognitive skills what is being measured and why it matters (with John Eric Humphries), SOEPpapers No. 876 (R&R at Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization). Homo Moralis: Personal Characteristics, Institutions, and Moral Decision-Making (with Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Nora Szech), IZA Discussion Paper No. 9768. Early childhood environment, breastfeeding and the formation of preferences (with Armin Falk), HCEO Working Paper No. 2016-036. The Development of Egalitarian Norm Enforcement in Childhood and Adolescence (with Zvonimir Bašić and Armin Falk), available upon request. Peer-Reviewed Publications Unfair pay and health (with Armin Falk, Ingo Menrath, Pablo Emilio Verde, Johannes Siegrist), Management Science (accepted), SOEP Discussion Paper No. 715. The Nutritional and Social Environment-Related Effects of Breastfeeding on Intelligence, JAMA Pediatrics (Impact Factor 2015: 7.148), 2016, 170 (2), 173-174. 2
Quasi-hyperbolic time preferences and their intergenerational transmission (with Friedhelm Pfeiffer), Applied Economics Letters, 2013, 20 (10), 983-986. The relationship between economic preferences and psychological personality measures (with Anke Becker, Thomas Deckers, Thomas Dohmen and Armin Falk), Annual Review of Economics, 2012, 4 (1), 453-478. Received SOEP Best Publication Prize. Impatience among preschool children and their mothers (with Friedhelm Pfeiffer), Economics Letters, 2012, 115 (3), 493-495. Determinanten kindlicher Geduld - Ergebnisse einer Experimentalstudie im Haushaltskontext (with Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, Barbara Fischer, Michel Maréchal, Friedhelm Pfeiffer, Daniel Schunk, Jürgen Schupp, C. Katharina Spieß and Gert Wagner), Journal of Applied Social Science Studies (Schmollers Jahrbuch), 2010, 130 (3), 297-323. Work in Progress The technology of preference formation (with Philipp Eisenhauer, Armin Falk, James Heckman) Take me on your shoulders! The effect of child mentoring on education outcomes (with Armin Falk, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Pia Pinger) Choosing the right challenge A field experiment with elementary school children (with Armin Falk, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch) The effects of family environment on perceptions of stress (with Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch) Professional Activities Administrative Refereeing Elected member of the faculty board, department of Law and Economics, University of Bonn (2014-2018) Co-organizer BGSE Applied Micro Seminar, University of Bonn (since 2013) Mentor for first-year PhD students at the Bonn Graduate School of Economics Member of the selection committee of German National Scholarship Foundation (2012) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of the European Economic Association, Labour Economics, Management Science, PLOS ONE, Theory and Decision Teaching Experience Lectures Principles of Economics (Grundzüge der VWL: Einführung in die Mikroökonomik, Winter 2014/15, Bonn) 3
Supervision Seminars Tutorials Several master and bachelor theses (since 2012, Bonn) Behavioral Economics: Field experiments (Winter 16/17, Bonn) Behavioral Economics: Field experiments (Summer 2016, Bonn) Behavioral Economics: Social Preferences (Winter 2015/16, Bonn) Behavioral Economics: Non-Cognitive Skills (Winter 2014/15, Bonn) Behavioral Economics: Personality (Summer 2014, Bonn) Principles of Economics (Winter 2011/12 & 2012/13, Bonn, S. Kube) Competition Policy (Summer 2014, Bonn, U. Schweizer) Law & Economics (Winter 2013/14, Bonn, U. Schweizer) Economic Policy and Public Finance (Summer 2011, Bonn, G. Gyárfás) Microeconomics (Winter 2006/07, Mannheim, K. Stahl, T. Klein) Presentations 2016 Choice Lab Seminar, NHH, Bergen, Norway Applied Micro Coffee, University of Bonn Social and Biological Roots of Economics Workshop (SBREW), Kiel Ce2 Workshop, Warsaw 2 nd Early Career Behavioral Economics Conference (ECBE), Bonn Jacobs Foundation Conference: Economizing Education Policy, Marbach 2015 Field experiments in labor economics and social policies (J-PAL), Paris Workshop in Economics of Education and Self-regulation, Mainz Economic Science Association European Meeting (ESA), Heidelberg Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA), Mannheim Natural Experiments and Controlled Field Studies, Ohlstadt, SFB/TR-15, Universities of Munich and Ulm Seminar Presentation Lifecycle Working Group, University of Chicago German Workshop of Young Microeconometricians: Topics in Health & Human Capital Formation, Mannheim 2014 49 th Congress of the German Society of Psychology, Bochum Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Hamburg 2013 Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality, University of Chicago Workshop on Self-control, Self-regulation and Education, Aarhus University 2012 EEA/ESEM Conference, Malaga Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Göttingen ROA Seminar, Maastricht University, Maastricht 2011 BGSE Micro Workshop, University of Bonn Annual Meeting of the Economic Science Association (ESA), Chicago IZA Workshop: Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills, Bonn 2010 4 th Conference on Non-cognitive Skills of the Leibnitz Network, London Thurgau Experimental Economics Meeting (theem): Heterogeneity and Stability of Preferences, Kreuzlingen 4
2009 3 rd Conference on Non-cognitive Skills of the Leibnitz Network, Berlin Research Seminar in Labour Economics, ZEW, University of Mannheim 5