Dr. Sebastian Prediger

Associate

Dr. Sebastian Prediger

  • Short CV

    • Since 06/2017: Associate Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs

    • Since 10/2016: Visting lecturer, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

    • 2015 - 2017: Research Fellow in the project "Performance and Dynamics of Micro and Small Firms in Developing Countries"

    • 10/2014 - 09/2016: Full Professor for Economics (substitute), Institute of Economics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

    • Since 10/2016: Lecturer at the Institute of Economics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

    • 08/2011 - 06/2017: Research Fellow at the GIGA Instiute of African Affairs

    • 2010 - 2011: Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Centre for Tropical Marine Ecology, Bremen, Department for Institutional and Behavioral Economics

    • 2007 - 2011: Doctoral Studies at the Institute of Cooperation in Developing Countries, University of Marburg

    • Education: Economics at the University of Marburg, Germany, 2012 PhD Dr. rer. Pol.

    Current Research

    • Behavioral development economics

    • Employment and entrepreneurship

    • Informal sector

    • Common-pool resource management

    • Microfinance

    • Nepotism and leadership

    • Religion and development

    Countries and Regions

    • Southern Africa

    • Uganda

    Dr. Sebastian Prediger

    Associate



    American Journal of Political Science | 2020

    Universal Love or One True Religion? Experimental Evidence of the Ambivalent Effect of Religious Ideas on Altruism and Discrimination

    In this article, we argue that the content of religious ideas has causal effects on intergroup discrimination. We hence test the impact of two opposing, prominent religious ideas on altruism and discrimination: universal love and the notion of one true religion.

    Dataset | 2019

    Replication Data for: Universal Love or One True Religion? Experimental Evidence of the Ambivalent Effect of Religious Ideas on Altruism and Discrimination

    Replication Data for Article: Hoffmann, Lisa, Matthias Basedau, Simone Gobien, and Sebastian Prediger (2020), Universal Love or One True Religion? Experimental Evidence of the Ambivalent Effect of…

    https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VG3UFZ

    Dataset | 2018

    MSE Survey Kampala 2012-2018

    Panel dataset: annual surveys 2012-2018, between 430 (2012-2014) and 500 (2015-2018) micro and small entrepreneurs in Kampala were surveyed...

    Dr. Lena Giesbert

    Sarah Wiegel

    Dr. Daniel Neff

    Teaching | Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | 2016

    Development Economics I

    Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Nuremberg Germany

    Teaching | Philipps-Universität Marburg | 2010

    Development Economics und Economics of Cooperation

    Philipps-Universität Marburg Marburg Germany

    Teaching | Philipps-Universität Marburg | 2010

    Experimental Economics: Method and Findings from a Development Economics Perspective

    Philipps-Universität Marburg Marburg Germany

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