I am a behavioral scientist at LISER, and the co-founder and research director of the Social Bee Lab.

I use lab, on-line and field experiments to study how social connections and group identities may lead to inequalities in the access to opportunities. I also evaluate how different policies can help overcome these barriers and promote social and economic mobility. You can see my work (here) and my CV (here).

Research

Working papers

  1. The Recency Bias in the Attribution of Responsibility for Joint Work (with A. Baranski)
    [Reject & Resubmit - Economic Journal]

  2. How Publicly Targeting by Group Identities Impacts Take-Up of Educational Opportunities (single authored)
    [Revise & Resubmit - Economic Journal]

  3. Equal Opportunity by Design: Mitigating Referral Bias in Organizational Networks (single authored)
    [New version coming soon]

Publications

  1. Identity Change and Economic Mobility: Experimental Evidence. Games and Economic Behavior, 2024 (single authored)

  2. Promoting Physical Activity Among Seniors in Abu Dhabi: An Experimental Test of the "Forever Fit" Nudge. Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2024 (with N. Nikiforakis, L. Alhyas, U. Afzal, A. Agiostratitis, E. Alfalacy, A. Dariel, M. Monney, E. Reuben)

  3. The Role of Personal and Impersonal Relational Contracts on Partner Selection and Efficiency. Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, 2023 (with E. Reuben)

  4. Experimental Evidence Shows that Negative Motive Attribution Drives Counter-punishment Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2023 (with N. Nikiforakis)

  5. The Limits of Transparency in Reducing Corruption. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2021 (with D. Parra, L.A. Palacio)

  6. Web of Lies: A Tool for Determining the Limits of Verification in Preventing the Spread of False Information on Networks. Scientific Reports, 2021 (with K. Makovi)

  7. Integration and Diversity. Experimental Economics, 2020 (with S. Goyal, P. Hernández, G. Martínez, F. Moisan, A. Sánchez)

  8. Collaborative Production Networks among Unequal Actors. Network Science, 2020 (with J. Dijkstra, R. Wittek, A. Flache)

  9. Equilibrium Characterization of Networks under Conflicting Preferences. Economic Letters, 2017 (with P. Hernandez, G. Martinez, A. Sanchez)

  10. The Bargaining Power of Commitment: An Experiment on the Effects of Threats in the Hawk-Dove Game. Rationality and Society, 2015 (with L. A. Palacio, A. Cortes)

  11. Heterogeneous Network Games: Conflicting Preferences. Games and Economic Behavior, 2013 (with P. Hernandez, A. Sanchez)

Selected Work In Progress

  1. Gender Bias in Job Referrals (with F. Moisan, E. Reuben)
    2. [Manuscript in preparation]

  2. Can Peer-Referrals Promote Take-Up of Training Programs: A Field Experiment (with. M. Acampora)
    3. [Data collection stage]

Get in touch
  • Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER),
    Office 433, Maison des Sciences Humaines 11,
    Porte des Sciences, L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette / Belval
  • manuel.munoz@liser.lu

Manu Munoz - 2025