Dr. Maja Adena
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D-10785 Berlin
Forschungsthemen
Lebenslauf
seit 2025 Associate Professor (W2, tenured) “Applied Microeconomics”, TU Berlin
seit 2024 Leiterin der Forschungsgruppe Information, Anreize, Ungleichheit, WZB
2020-2024 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., & 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., & Hager, A. (2024). Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? A nationwide field experiment on Facebook. Management Science, https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2020.00596.
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., & 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. (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., & 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., 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.
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Work in Progress:
Adena, M., & Huck, S. How Does Facilitated Giving Affect Sales? A Field Experiment, earlier version.
Adena, M., Enikolopov, R., Petrova, M., & Voth, H. J. Bombing and Resistance: Allied Intervention and Domestic Opposition in Germany During World War II, earlier version: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).
Timko, Ch. & Adena, M. (2023). Transparent app design reduces excessive usage time and increases willingness to pay compared to common behavioral design—a framed field experiment, WZB Discussion Paper (No. SP II 2023–302).
Adena, M., Enikolopov, R., Petrova, M., & Voth, H. J. Allied Bombing and German Fighter Pilots Motivation During World War II.
Adena, M., Alabrese E. & Capozza F. Dis-Trust in Science, Simple vs Complex Narratives and News Demand.
Adena, M. & Jeworrek S. The Role of Digital Media in Addressing Societal Challenges.
Adena, M., Biermann, P. & Brosig-Koch, J. Pro-sociality in East and West Germany.
Adena, M., & Mechtenberg, L. Gender bias in leadership.
Adena, M., Harke, J. & Janowska-Widomska P. Complex tasks and motivating crowdworkers – an experiment.