Wissenschaftliche Publikationen

Beiträge in referierten Zeitschriften:

Timko, Ch. & Adena, M. (2026). The Impact of Behavioral Design and Users’ Choice on Smartphone App Usage and Willingness to Pay: A Framed Field Experiment. European Economic Review, SI Nora Szech, 183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105230

Adena, M., Huck, S. & Neyse, L. (2025). Gratitude in fundraising: Do 'thank you in advance' and handwritten thank-you notes impact fundraising success?, Experimental Economics, https://doi.org/10.1017/eec.2025.10033[Opens in a new window; replication package: https://doi.org/10.7802/2907.

Adena, M., & Hager, A. (2025). Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? A nationwide field experiment on Facebook. Management Science, 71(4), Pages iv-vi, 2751-3636, https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2020.00596.

Adena, M., & Huck, S. (2024). Support for the German right-wing populist party AfD diminishes subjective well-being – Experimental and survey evidence from Germany, PLoS ONE 19(6): e0303133, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0303133.

Adena, M., Hakimov, R., & Huck, S. (2024). Charitable giving by the poor: A field experiment in Kyrgyzstan. Management Science, 70(1), 633-646, https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4702.

Adena, M., Hamermesh, D., Myck, M., & Oczkowska, M. (2023). Home alone: Widows' well-being and time.Journal of Happiness Studies, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-023-00622-w .

Adena, M., & Harke, J. (2022). COVID-19 and pro-sociality: How do donors respond to local pandemic severity, increased salience, and media coverage?. Experimental Economics, 25(3), 824-844, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-022-09753-y .

Adena, M., & Huck, S. (2022). Voluntary "donations" versus reward-oriented "contributions": Two experiments on framing in funding mechanisms, Experimental Economics, 25(5), 1399–1417, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-022-09759-6 .

Adena, M., & Huck, S. (2022). Personalized fundraising: A field experiment on threshold matching of donations. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 200, 1-20, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.05.003.

Adena, M., & Huck, S. (2020). Online fundraising, self-image, and the long-term impact of ask avoidance. Management Science, 66(2), 722-743, https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2018.3232.

Adena, M., & Huck, S. (2019). Giving once, giving twice: A two-period field experiment on intertemporal crowding in charitable giving. Journal of Public Economics, 172, 127-134, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2019.01.002.

Adena, M., Alizade, J., Bohner, F., Harke, J., & Mesters, F. (2019). Quality certification for nonprofits, charitable giving, and donor's trust: Experimental evidence. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 159, 75-100, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2019.01.007.

Adena, M., & Huck, S. (2017). Matching donations without crowding out? Some theoretical considerations, a field, and a lab experiment. Journal of Public Economics, 148, 32-42, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2017.02.002.

Adena, M., Huck, S., & Rasul, I. (2017). Testing consumer theory: evidence from a natural field experiment. Journal of the Economic Science Association, 3(2), 89-108, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40881-017-0040-3.

Adena, M. (2016). Nonprofit organizations, free media and donor’s trust. Journal of Economics, 118(3), 239-263, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00712-016-0477-5.

Adena, M., Enikolopov, R., Petrova, M., Santarosa, V., & Zhuravskaya, E. (2015). Radio and the Rise of the Nazis in Prewar Germany. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 130(4), 1885-1939, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjv030.

Adena, M., Huck, S., & Rasul, I. (2014), Charitable Giving and Nonbinding Contribution-Level Suggestions — Evidence from a Field Experiment. Review of Behavioral Economics, 1(3), 275-293, http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/105.00000010

Adena, M., & Myck, M. (2014). Poverty and transitions in health in later life. Social science & medicine, 116, 202-210, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.06.045.

Buchkapitel:

Adena, M. (2021). Tax-price elasticity of charitable donations – Evidence from the German taxpayer panel. In Peter, H., & Lideikyte-Huber, G. (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Taxation and Philanthropy (pp. 219-235). Routledge.

Adena, M. (2021). How can we improve tax incentives for charitable giving? Lessons from field experiments in fundraising. In Peter, H., & Lideikyte-Huber, G. (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Taxation and Philanthropy (pp. 344-353). Routledge.

Adena, M., Myck, M., & Oczkowska, M. (2015). Material deprivation items in SHARE Wave 5 data: a contribution to a better understanding of differences in material conditions in later life. In Börsch-Supan, A., Kneip, T., & Litwin, H. (Eds.). Ageing in Europe – Supporting policies for an inclusive society (pp. 25-37). DE GRYUTER.

Adena, M., & Myck, M. (2013). Poverty and transitions in key areas of quality of life. In Börsch-Supan, A., Brandt, M., Litwin, H., , Weber, G. (Eds.).Active ageing and solidarity between generations in Europe: First results from SHARE after the economic crisis (pp. 55-73). DE GRUYTER.

Sonstige Veröffentlichungen:

Fišar, M., Greiner, B., Huber, C., Katok, E., Ozkes, A., and the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration (2024). Reproducibility in Management Science. Management Science. 70(3):1343-1356. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.03556 (Member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration)

Adena, M., Drouvelis, M., & Huck, S. (2023). Introduction to the special issue on ‘new directions in understanding philanthropic activities’, Oxford Economic Papers, https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpad035

Adena, M. (2018). Nudging und soziales Engagement: Wie kann Nudging dazu beitragen, die Spendenbereitschaft zu erhöhen?, Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung, 2018 (2), pp. 139-152.

Adena, M., & Dorn, K. (2018). Auch das Spenden hat ein Geschlecht Frauen und Männer sind unterschiedlich großzügig, WZB-Mitteilungen 161, pp. 37-38.

Adena, M. (2017). Ein Stupser, um Gutes zu tun Wie Nudging die Spendenbereitschaft erhöht, WZB-Mitteilungen 158, pp. 26-28.

Adena, M. (2016). The Consequences of Loss How Grieving Affects People’s Health and Wellbeing, WZB Report 2017, pp. 60-62. German Version: Partnerverlust und seine Folgen Wie Trauer die Gesundheit und das Wohlbefinden beeinträchtigt, WZB-Mitteilungen 152, 2016, pp. 25-27.