Dr. Maja Adena
Contact
D-10785 Berlin
Research fields
CV
2020-present Vice Director of the research unit "Economics of Change", WZB Berlin Social Science Center
2013 Free University Berlin PhD in Economics
2012-2019 Research Fellow, research unit "Economics of Change", WZB Berlin Social Science Center
2012-2012 Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Analysis (CenEA), Szczecin (PL)
2006 – 2012 Research Fellow, Department of Economics, Free University Berlin
2006 – 2012 Berlin Doctoral Program of Economics and Management Science
2006 Free University Berlin Diplom in Economics
Selected Publications
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.
For full publication list, see here.
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.