Dr. Henning Hermes

Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Universitätsstr. 1
40225 Düsseldorf
Germany

Building 24.31 Room 01.11
Tel.: +49 211 81-15052

Educational Backround
2017	PhD in Behavioral Economics, University of Mainz, supervised by Daniel Schunk & Ernst Fehr
2013	Diploma in Psychology, University of Mainz
2011	Diploma in Economics, University of Mainz
2007	Apprenticeship as a bank clerk, Helaba Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen, Frankfurt am Main

Positions
since 2021	Post-Doc, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
2017 - 2021	Post-Doc, FAIR Excellence Cluster, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway
2011 - 2017	Doctoral Researcher, Chair of Public and Behavioral Economics, University of Mainz

Representative Publications
"Males Should Mail? Gender Discrimination in Access to Child Care" (with Philipp Lergetporer, Fabian Mierisch, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold). American Economic Association: Papers & Proceedings, forthcoming. "Teaching self-regulation" (with Eva Berger, Ernst Fehr, Daniel Schunk & Kirsten Winkel). Nature Human Behaviour, 2022, 6(12), 1680-1690. "If You Could Read My Mind — An Experimental Beauty-Contest Game with Children" (with Daniel Schunk). Experimental Economics, 2022, 25, 229-253. "Motivating Low-Achievers — Relative Performance Feedback in Primary Schools" (with Martin Huschens, Franz Rothlauf & Daniel Schunk). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 187, 45-59. "Do Children Cooperate Conditionally? Adapting the Strategy Method for First-Graders" (with Florian Hett, Mario Mechtel, Felix Schmidt, Daniel Schunk & Valentin Wagner). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 179, 638-652.

Representative Publications

"Males Should Mail? Gender Discrimination in Access to Child Care" (with Philipp Lergetporer, Fabian Mierisch, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold). American Economic Association: Papers & Proceedings, forthcoming.
"Teaching self-regulation" (with Eva Berger, Ernst Fehr, Daniel Schunk & Kirsten Winkel). Nature Human Behaviour, 2022, 6(12), 1680-1690.
"If You Could Read My Mind — An Experimental Beauty-Contest Game with Children" (with Daniel Schunk). Experimental Economics, 2022, 25, 229-253.
"Motivating Low-Achievers — Relative Performance Feedback in Primary Schools" (with Martin Huschens, Franz Rothlauf & Daniel Schunk). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 187, 45-59.
"Do Children Cooperate Conditionally? Adapting the Strategy Method for First-Graders" (with Florian Hett, Mario Mechtel, Felix Schmidt, Daniel Schunk & Valentin Wagner). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 179, 638-652.

Recent Research
"Behavioral Barriers and the Socio-economic Gap in Child Care Enrollment" (with Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold). "The Impact of Working Memory Training on Children's Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills" (with Eva Berger, Ernst Fehr, Daniel Schunk & Kirsten Winkel). "Free to Fail? Paternalistic Preferences in the U.S." (with Björn Bartling, Alexander Cappelen, Marit Skivenes & Bertil Tungodden). "Discrimination in the German Child Care Market: A Nationwide Correspondence Study" (with Philipp Lergetporer, Fabian Mierisch, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold). "Early Child Care and Labor Supply of Lower-SES Mothers: A Randomized Controlled Trial" (with Marina Krauss, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold).

Teaching and Research Interests
Behavioral Economics Empirical Public Economics Economics of Education

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