Behavioral Economics and the Public Sector

This thesis consists of four essays dealing with topics that are relevant for the public sector. The essays cover diverse issues of economics partly overlapping with political science. The topics reach from the taxation of labor over monetary policy to preferences over voting institutions. Throughout this thesis it is, in contrast to classical economics, not assumed that humans are necessarily fully rational. Once full rationality is no longer assumed, experiments become an important tool to learn about human behavior. Consequently, most of the work in this thesis makes use of economic experiments

Less Cheating? The Effects of Prefilled Forms on Compliance Behavior

The dataset refers to the study "Less Cheating? The Effects of Prefilled Forms on Compliance Behavior" authored by Martin Fochmann, Nadja Müller and Michael Overesch. All important details can be found in the corresponding paper (SSRN Working Paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3206410)