Simone Häckl, PhD
Assistant Professor
Starting 1.2.2026
Research Interests
Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Education, Organizational Economics, Gender
Short Bio
Simone Haeckl is Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger and will join the University of Salzburg as Assistant Professor of Economics in 2026.
In her research, she uses controlled laboratory experiments and large-scale randomized control trials (RCTs) to investigate questions in organizational and education economics. In addition, she aims to contribute to our understanding of behavioral drivers of gender differences in education and the labor market. As a behavioral economist, she uses insights from psychology to identify barriers to optimal decision-making and designs interventions that aim to remove such biases.
Selected Publications
Effects of Supportive Leadership Behaviors on Work Satisfaction, Engagement, and Performance: An Experimental Field Investigation. (2024) with Mari Rege. Management Science, 71(1), 347-36
Can being competitive harm you – even more so if you are a woman? (2025) with Jakob Möller and Anita Zednik; Journal of Economic behavior and Organization, 236, 107108.
Work Motivation and Teams. (2024) with Rupert Sausgruber and Jean-Robert Tyran. Economic Letters 112020
Financial Return and Environmental Impact Information Promotes ESG Investments: Evidence from a Large, Incentivized Online Experiment. (2024) with Marcel Seifert, Katharina Gangl, Florian Spitzer, Alexia Gaudeul, Erich Kirchler, and Stefan Palan; Journal of Banking and Finance (107114)
Social Signaling in Ex-Ante Self-Assessments – Gender Differences and Behavioral Consequences. (2022) Labour Economics (76)
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