David Schindler
David Schindler

Associate Professor

Tilburg University

About Me

I am an Associate Professor in the Economics department at Tilburg University, primarily interested in behavioral & experimental economics, economic history, and personnel economics. I am also a Research Fellow at CESifo.

With my research, I seek to understand how insights from behavioral economics influence behavior in questions of public policy, political economy, as well as finance, and firm organization. In the past, I have predominantly used secondary data, as well as laboratory & field experiments.

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Interests
  • Behavioral & Experimental Economics
  • Organizational & Institutitional Economics
  • Economic History
Education

  • PhD Economics

    Ludwig Maximilian University Munich

  • MSc Economics

    Ludwig Maximilian University Munich

  • Dipl.-Volkswirt

    University of Cologne

Publications
Florian Englmaier, Stefan Grimm, Dominik Grothe, David Schindler, Simeon Schudy (2025). The value of leadership: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment. Leadership Quarterly.
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Florian Englmaier, Stefan Grimm, Dominik Grothe, David Schindler, Simeon Schudy (2024). The Efficacy of Tournaments for Nonroutine Team Tasks. Journal of Labor Economics.
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Florian Englmaier, Stefan Grimm, Dominik Grothe, David Schindler, Simeon Schudy (2024). The effect of incentives in nonroutine analytical team tasks. Journal of Political Economy.
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Christoph Koenig, David Schindler (2023). Impulse purchases, gun ownership, and homicides: Evidence from a firearm demand shock. Review of Economics and Statistics.
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David Schindler, Mark Westcott (2021). Shocking racial attitudes: black GIs in Europe. Review of Economic Studies.
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Martin G Kocher, Konstantin E Lucks, David Schindler (2019). Unleashing animal spirits: Self-control and overpricing in experimental asset markets. Review of Financial Studies.
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Martin G Kocher, David Schindler, Stefan T Trautmann, Yilong Xu (2019). Risk, time pressure, and selection effects. Experimental Economics.
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Martin G Kocher, Peter Martinsson, David Schindler (2017). Overpricing and stake size: On the robustness of results from experimental asset markets. Economics Letters.
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Companian Papers to Software
Leonard Doyle, David Schindler (2019). μCap: Connecting FaceReader™ to z-Tree. Journal of the Economic Science Association.
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Work in Progress
Leander Heldring, David Schindler, Stan Veuger (2025). Calvinist Culture and Dutch Development. In Progress.
Christoph Koenig, David Schindler (2025). Gun shops and suicides. In Progress.
Florian Englmaier, Dominik Grothe, David Schindler, Simeon Schudy (2025). Microaspects of leadership. In Progress.
Florian Englmaier, Johanna Glauber, Dominik Grothe, Pedro Rey-Biel, David Schindler, Simeon Schudy (2025). The (Mis)Perceived Determinants of Team Success in Non-Routine Analytical Tasks. In Progress.
David Schindler, Marco Schwarz (2025). The spread of tolerance. In Progress.
Riccardo Ghidoni, David Schindler (2025). The Transferability of Racial Prejudice through Collective Memory: The Marocchinate. In Progress.
Retired Papers
David Schindler, Rudi Stracke (2017). The Incentive Effects of Uncertainty in Tournaments. Working Paper.
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Software

I have been involved in the development of μCap (muCap), a software tool that enables researchers to link z-Tree and Noldus FaceReader™. The tool can be used free of charge, but we require to be cited.

Please visit the μCap website for further information on μCap and the terms of use.