I am a Visiting Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Business, Organizations and Society at NYU Abu Dhabi, a Global Assistant Professor in Business and Economics at UNAB, and the co-founder and research director of the Social Bee Lab. I am also a research fellow at LISER.

My research focuses on organizational behavior and the behavioral economics of the workplace, with a particular emphasis on how nudges and social signals drive human capital development. I examine the behavioral and structural barriers to opportunity, investigating how selection biases influence talent management and decision-making in diverse organizational environments. You can see my work (here) and my CV (here).

Research

Working papers

  1. Closing Class Gaps with Simple Nudges: Experimental Evidence on Opportunity Allocation (single authored)
    [Revise & Resubmit - Management Science]

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

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

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. [Manuscript in preparation]

Publications

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

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

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

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

  5. 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)

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

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

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

  9. 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)

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

Get in touch
  • Social Science Division,
    New York University Abu Dhabi,
    Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
  • manumunoz@nyu.edu

Manu Munoz - 2026