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Short biography

Since 2019	Postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Human Resource Management and Personnel Economics at RWTH Aachen University; Research affiliate at the LEAD Graduate School & Research Network, University of Tübingen
2015 - 2018	Doctoral studies in management and economics at the LEAD Graduate School & Research Network, University of Tübingen Dr. rer. pol.
2013 - 2015	Studies of managerial economics at the University of Tübingen Master of Science
2010 - 2013	Dual studies of business informatics at the School of Economics and Law Berlin Bachelor of Science
2009 - 2010	Studies of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA)
2007 - 2009	Studies of philosophy at the University of Tübingen and the University of Konstanz
2006 - 2007	Studium generale at the Leibniz Kolleg Tübingen

Research interests

Human resource management, personnel and behavioral economics

Primary	Labor market discrimination, stereotypes, and biased beliefs
Secondary	Education economics Personality Minimum wages Public sector employment

Presentations

2020	International NEPS Conference of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Bamberg (digital conference) 23rd Colloquium on Personnel Economics, London (conference cancelled due to coronavirus)
2019	22nd Colloquium on Personnel Economics, Augsburg; 10th Thurgau Experimental Economics Meeting (theem), Kreuzlingen
2018	Workshop on educational inequalities: psychological and sociological processes, Tübingen; 21st Colloquium on Personnel Economics, Munich
2017	Research Seminar in Economics and Management (SEAM), Paderborn; TIBER Symposium on Psychology and Economics, Tilburg; Conference of the Society for Empirical Educational Research (GEBF), Heidelberg; 20th Colloquium on Personnel Economics, Zurich
2016	Annual Meeting of the Committee on Education Economics (Bildungsökonomischer Ausschuss) in the German Economic Association (VfS), Bamberg
2015	18th Colloquium on Personnel Economics, Vienna; Annual Conference of the Division on Higher Education Studies (Kommission Hochschulmanagement) in the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Duisburg

Selected Publications

• Ayaita, Adam; Pull, Kerstin (2020): Positional Preferences and Narcissism: Evidence from "Money Burning" Dictator Games. Applied Economics Letters.
• Gülal, Filiz; Ayaita, Adam (2020): The Impact of Minimum Wages on Well-Being: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Germany. Journal of Happiness Studies 21:2669-2692.
• Ayaita, Adam; Stürmer, Kathleen (2020): Risk Aversion and the Teaching Profession: An Analysis Including Different Forms of Risk Aversion, Different Control Groups, Selection and Socialization Effects. Education Economics 28(1): 4-25.
• Ayaita, Adam; Gülal, Filiz; Yang, Philip (2019): Where Does the Good Shepherd Go? Civic Virtue and Sorting into Public Sector Employment. German Economic Review 20(4): e571–e599.
• Ayaita, Adam; Pull, Kerstin; Backes-Gellner, Uschi (2019): You Get What You 'Pay' for: Academic Attention, Career Incentives and Changes in Publication Portfolios of Business and Economics Researchers. Journal of Business Economics 89(3): 273–290.

Working Paper

• Job placement via private vs. public employment agencies: Investigating selection effects and job match quality in Germany (with Lisa Pütz and Christian Grund)
• Market wages below productivity and the employment effects of minimum wages (with Diethelm Klesczewski)
• Field of study and earnings: The role of abilities, personality, and family background (with Marion Spengler, Benjamin Nagengast, and Ulrich Trautwein)

Work in progress

• Ethnic disparities in labor market outcomes: Evidence from Germany
• Beliefs, belief accuracy, and hiring discrimination: Evidence from a survey experiment
• The role of personality for gender gaps in political interest and activities
• Is labor market discrimination explained by statistical differences in unobserved characteristics of applicants?
• Who chooses teacher education and why? Evidence from Germany (with Corey Savage, Nicolas Hübner, and Martin Biewen)

 

Journal Articles

Source	Author(s)
[Journal Article] Positional preferences and narcissism : evidence from 'money burning' dictator games In: Applied economics letters, 1-5, 2020 [DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2020.1863320]	Ayaita, Adam Pull, Kerstin
[Journal Article] The Impact of Minimum Wages on Well-Being : Evidence from a Quasi-experiment in Germany In: Journal of happiness studies, 21 (7), 2669-2692, 2019 [DOI: 10.1007/s10902-019-00189-5]	Gülal, Filiz Ayaita, Adam
[Journal Article] Risk aversion and the teaching profession : an analysis including different forms of risk aversion, different control groups, selection and socialization effects In: Education economics, 28 (1), 4-25, 2019 [DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2019.1675592]	Ayaita, Adam Stürmer, Kathleen