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Published papers

Regular research articles

Ahimbisibwe, I., Dautheville, A., Fiala, L., Omala, S. K., & Sandholtz, W.A. The Leaky College Pipeline: Evidence from Administrative Data in Uganda. AEA Papers and Proceedings. Forthcoming.

Fiala, L., Fitzgerald, J., Kujansuu, E., Mikola, D., Valenta, D., Aparicio, J. P., Wiebe, M., Webb, M. D., & Brodeur, A. A Comment on Delivering Remote Learning Using a Low-Tech Solution: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Bangladesh . Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics. Forthcoming.

Fiala, L. & Husovec, M. Using Experimental Evidence to Improve Delegated Enforcement. International Review of Law & Economics. Vol. 71. 106079. 2022.
PDF | z-Tree code | Data & code | In media: Frontier Economics | Impact: (1) The EU Advocate General cited our paper as evidence of over-blocking in one of the pending cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning the constitutionality of EU law (C-401/19) (2) Digital Services Act, Article 21, introduces an out-of-court dispute resolution mechanism as proposed by the paper

Fiala, L., Humphries, J. E., Joensen, J. S., Karna, U., List, J. A., & Veramendi, G. F., How Early Adolescent Skills and Preferences Shape Economics Education Choices. AEA Papers and Proceedings. Vol. 112. 609 613. 2022.
PDF | Online appendix | Data & code

Fiala, L. & Suetens, S., Transparency and Cooperation in Repeated Dilemma Games: a Meta Study. Experimental Economics. Vol. 20(4). 755771. 2017.
PDF | Data & code (also at Dataverse)

Fiala, L. & Noussair, C., Charitable Giving, Emotions, and the Default E ect. Economic Inquiry. Vol. 55(4). 17921812. 2017.
PDF | Data & code | Impact (explanation)

Large-scale research collaborations

Brodeur, A., Valenta, D., Marcoci, A., Aparicio, J. P., Mikola D., [266 others including Fiala, L.], Zozoungbo, C. Comparing Human-Only, AI-Assisted, and AI-Led Teams on Assessing Research Reproducibility in Quantitative Social Science. PNAS. Accepted.
Pre-print | Data and code

Aczel, B., Szaszi, B., Clelland, H. T., Kovacs, M., Schulz-Kumpel, H., Holzmeister, F. [485 others including Fiala, L.], Nosek, B. A. Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences. Nature. Forthcoming.

Brodeur, A., Mikola, D., Cook, N., Fiala, L., Brailey, T., Briggs, R., [340 others], Zhong, Y. Reproducibility and Robustness of Economics and Political Science Research. Nature. Forthcoming.

Lippert, S., Dreber, A., Johannesson, M., Tierney, W., Cyrus-Lai, W., Uhlmann, E. L., [294-author consortium including Fiala, L.] & Pfei er, T. Can Large Language Models Help Predict Results from a Complex Behavioural Science Study? Royal Society Open Science. Vol. 11(9), 240682. 2024.
PDF | Data (part 1, part 2)

Schaerer, M., du Plessis, C., Nguyen, M. H. B., van Aert, R. C. M., Tiohkin, L., Lakens, D., [5 others plus 185-author consortium including Fiala, L.], Uhlmann, E. L. On the Trajectory of Discrimination: A Metaanalysis and Forecasting Survey Capturing 44 Years of Field Experiments on Gender and Hiring Decisions. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Vol. 179. 104280. 2023.
PDF | Pre-registration, data & code | Other documents

Huber, C., Dreber, A., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., Kirchler, M., Weitzel, U., [88 others including Fiala, L.], Holzmeister, F. Competition and Moral Behavior: A Meta-analysis of Forty- ve Crowd-sourced Experimental Designs. PNAS. Vol. 120(23). 2215572120. 2023.
PDF | Pre-analysis plan, data, code, pre-print

Working papers (Selected)

Fitzgerald, J., Adema, J., Fiala, L., Kujansuu, E., & Valenta, D. Non-Robustness in Log-Like Specifications.
Pre-print

Fiala, L. Statistical Role Models.
Pre-registration (pre-test, main experiment) | In media: Innovation Growth Lab blog

Brodeur, A., Fiala, L., Fitzgerald, J., Kujansuu, E., Valenta, D., Rogeberg, O., & Bensch, G. A Comment on Improving Women’s Mental Health During a Pandemic.
Pre-print | Impact: Expression of concern on original article

Fiala, L., Kjelsrud, A., Kujansuu, E, & Brodeur, A. Comment on Food insecurity and mental health of women during COVID-19: Evidence from a developing country by Rahman et al.
Pre-print

Fiala, L., Mikola, D., & Brodeur, A. Comment on Building Education Resilience through Parenting Style and Out-of-school Learning: Field Experimental Evidence from Rural Bangladesh by Hassan et al. (2025).
Impact: Expression of concern on original article

Fiala, L., Joensen, J. S., List, J. A., Pagnotta, F., & Uchida, H., Peers and the Evolution of Skills during Adolescence.

Dasgupta, S., Fiala, L., & Mol, J. M., For the Greater Good: Please Choose A.
Pre-registration | Pre-print

Cuna, M., Fiala, L., Lee, M. S., List, J. A., & Roy, S., The Role of Risk and Ambiguity Preferences on Early-Childhood Investment: Evidence from Rural India.
Pre-print

Ahimbisibwe, I., Dautheville, A., Fiala, L., Omala, S. K., & Sandholtz, W.A. Private and Social Returns to Public University Scholarships: Evidence from Uganda.

Heal, C., Bero, L., Antoniou, G. A., Au, N., Aviram, A. [26 others including Fiala, L.], Wilkinson, J. Protocol for the development of a tool (INSPECT-IPD) to identify problematic randomised controlled trials when individual participant data are available.
Pre-print

Fiala, L. Can You Fight Fake News with Reason?
In media: Die Welt, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings 2017 Press Talk (EN, DE, photo, info) - Photo credit to Julia Nimke/Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings | Award: Young Researcher ASFEE 2019 Prize for the best experimental poster (2019)

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