Dr. Maja Adena

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Portrait Foto Dr. Maja Adena (David Ausserhofer)
David Ausserhofer

Kontakt

fax
+49 30 25491 423
maja.adena [at] wzb.eu
Reichpietschufer 50
D-10785 Berlin
Raum
D 104
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin der Abteilung
Stellvertretende Direktorin der Abteilung

Forschungsthemen

Economics of Philanthropy | Media Economics | Field and natural experiments

Lebenslauf

seit 2020 Stellvertretende Direktorin, Abteilung Ökonomik des Wandels, WZB

2013 Freie Universität Berlin Promotion in Volkswirtschaftslehre

2012-2019 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Abteilung Ökonomik des Wandels, WZB

2012 2012 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Centre for Economic Analysis, CenEA, in Szczecin (PL)

2006 2012 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Institut für Wirtschaftstheorie, Freie Universität Berlin

2006 2012 Berlin Doctoral Program of Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS)

2006 Freie Universität Berlin Diplom in Volkswirtschaftslehre

Ausgewählte Publikationen

Adena, M., Hakimov, R., & Huck, S. (2020). Charitable giving by the poor: A field experiment in Kyrgyzstan Management Science, https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4702.

Adena, M., & Harke, J. (2022). COVID-19 and pro-sociality: How do donors respond to local pandemic severity, increased salience, and media coverage?. Experimental Economics25(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. (2020). Online fundraising, self-image, and the long-term impact of ask avoidanceManagement Science66(2), 722-743.

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.

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.

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 Economics130(4), 1885-1939.

For full publication list, see here.

 

Working Papers:

Adena, M., & Hager, A. (2022). Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? A nationwide field experiment on Facebook. WZB Discussion Paper (No. SP II 2020-302r), R&R at Management Science.

Adena, M., & Huck, S. (2019). Can mass fundraising harm your core business? A field experiment on how fundraising affects ticket sales, WZB Discussion Paper (No. SP II 2019-304r), R&R at Journal of Consumer Research.

Adena, M., Enikolopov, R., Petrova, M., & Voth, H. J. (2021). Bombs, broadcasts and resistance: Allied intervention and domestic opposition to the Nazi regime during World War II. WZB Discussion Paper (No. SP II 2021-301), under review.

Timko, Ch. & Adena, M. (2022). Hooked on Apps: A Framed Field Experiment on Behavioral and Transparent App Design, under review.

Adena, M., & Huck, S. (2023). Support for the German right-wing populist party AfD diminishes subjective well-being – Survey and experimental evidence, R&R at PLOS ONE.

Bild
Portrait Foto Dr. Maja Adena (David Ausserhofer)
David Ausserhofer

Kontakt

fax
+49 30 25491 423
maja.adena [at] wzb.eu
Reichpietschufer 50
D-10785 Berlin
Raum
D 104

2nd INSIGHTS Workshop on Empirical Public Economics: Gender Economics

I co-organize the 2nd INSIGHTS Workshop on Empirical Public Economics: Gender Economics. It will take place on October 4-5th, 2022 at FU Berlin.

Workshop series "Recent Advances in the Economics of Philanthropy"

Past editions took place in 2015, 2017, 2018, 2021, and in 2022. Planned: 21-23.06.2023.

 

Research Network Economics of Media Bias

For more info on the Research Network Economics of Media Bias see here and here for the info on past and future "Economics of Media Bias Workshop."

News

  • January 2020: Board member of the Association for theStudy of Generosity in Economics (ASGE)
  • October 2018: I was elected as chairperson of the WZB Ethics Committee
  • June 2018: I joined BCCP Board of Directors
  • I was invited by the Association for Comparative Economic Studies (ACES) and the Association for the Study of Generosity in Economics (ASGE) to present my work at ASSA 2019
  • January 2018: I was elected as BERA representative and joined BERA Committee

Workshop "Enacting change in long-run behavior and attitudes"