Research by Topic

Iris Bohnet, Chai H., Hauser, O.P. & Louw, K. (Working Paper). Closing the Gender Gap in Re-Applications for Senior Roles. 

Iris Bohnet, Hauser, O. P., & Kristal, A. (Working Paper). Can gender and race dynamics in performance appraisals be disrupted? The case of social influence.

Iris Bohnet, Arlsan, C., Chang, E., Chilazi, S., & Hauser, O. P. (2025). Behaviorally Designed Training Leads to More Diverse Hiring. Science 387 (6732), 2025: 364-366.

Iris Bohnet & Chilazi, S. (2025). Make Work Fair: Data-Driven Design for Real Results. Harper Collins.

Iris Bohnet, Chang, E., Chilazi, S., Elfer, J., Arlsan, C. Kirgios, E., & Hauser, O. P. (2023). Incorporating DEI into Decision-Making. Harvard Business Review.

Iris Bohnet & Chilazi, S. (2021). Behavioral Economics: Promoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Through Goal-Setting. In: Samson, Alain (ed.). The Behavioral Economics Guide 2021: 2-13. 

Iris Bohnet & Chilazi, S. (2020). How to Best Use Data to Meet Your DE&I Goals. Harvard Business Review.

Iris Bohnet & Chilazi, S. (2020). “Overcoming the Small-N problem.” In: Pedulla, David (ed.). What Works: Evidence-Based Ideas to Increase Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace, UMass Amherst: Center for Employment Equity.

Iris Bohnet, Asundi, A., Chilazi, S.“, & Gil Valletta, L. (2019). "Be like an orchestra: how to eliminate gender bias in venture capital funding.” In: Essays on Equality. King’s College London’s Global Institute for Women’s Leadership.

Iris Bohnet, Rattan, A., Chilazi, S., & Georgeac, O. (2019). Tackling the Underrepresentation of Women in Media. Harvard Business Review.

Iris Bohnet, Asundi, A., & Chilazi, S. (2019). Venture Capitalists Are Using the Wrong Tools to Improve Gender Diversity, Behavioral Scientist.

Iris Bohnet (2019). We can’t get rid of bias—but we can disrupt it by design. Evoke.

Iris Bohnet, & Saidi, F. (2019). Informational inequity aversion and performance. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 159, 181-191. Publisher's Version

Paryavi, M., Bohnet, I. & van Geen, A. (2019). Descriptive Norms and Gender Diversity: Reactance from Men. Journal of Behavioral Public Administration, 2(1). Publisher's Version

Iris Bohnet. (2017). What works: Wie Verhaltensdesign die Gleichstellung revolutionieren kann. München: C.H. Beck.

Iris Bohnet. (2016). What Works: Gender Equality by Design. Harvard University Press. 

Iris Bohnet, van Geen, A., & Bazerman, M. H. (2016). When Performance Trumps Gender Bias. Joint Versus Separate Evaluation. Management Science, 62 (5), 1225-1234. 

Iris Bohnet, & Greig, F. (2009). Exploring gendered behavior in the field with experiments: Why public goods are provided by women in a Nairobi slum. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 70 (1), 1-9. 

Iris Bohnet, & Bowles, H. R. (2008). Special Section: Gender in Negotiation Introduction. Negotiation Journal, 24 (4), 389–392. 

Iris Bohnet, & Greig, F. (2008). Is There Reciprocity in A Reciprocal-exchange Economy? Evidence of Gendered Norms From A Slum In Nairobi, Kenya. Economic Inquiry, 46 (1), 77-83. 

Hong, K., & Iris Bohnet. (2007). Status and distrust: The relevance of inequality and betrayal aversion. Journal of Economic Psychology, 28 (2), 197–213. 

Bohnet, I. (2007). Why Women and Men Trust Others. In: Frey, B. S. & Stutzer, A. (eds.). Economics and Psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 89-110. 

I. Bohnet, Herrmann, B., Paryavi, M., Tran, A., & Zeckhauser, R. (2017). Improving Outcomes in the Trust Game: The Games People Choose in Oman, the United States, and Vietnam. In: Van Lange, A.M., Bettina Rockenbach and Toshio Yamagishi. Trust in Social Dilemmas. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Al-Issis, M. & Bohnet, I. (2016). Risk Mitigation and Trust. Experimental Evidence from Jordan and the United States. Journal of Economic Psychology 53, 83-98.

Iris Bohnet, Herrmann, B., Al-Issis, M., Robbett, A., Al-Yahya, K., & Zeckhauser, R. (2012). The Elasticity of Trust: How to Promote Trust in the Arab Middle East and in the United States. In Restoring Trust in Organizations and Leaders: Enduring Challenges and Emerging Answers. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Iris Bohnet, & Meier, S. (2012). Trust, Distrust and Bargaining. In The Oxford Handbook of Economic Conflict Resolution. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Iris Bohnet, Herrmann, B., & Zeckhauser, R. (2010). "Trust and the Reference Points for Trustworthiness in Gulf and Western Countries." Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXXV (2), 811-828.

Iris Bohnet, Greig, F., Herrmann, B., & Zeckhauser, R. (2008). Betrayal Aversion: Evidence from Brazil, China, Oman, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States. American Economic Review, 98 (1), 294-310.

Iris Bohnet. (2008). Trust in experiments. In S. N. Durlauf & L. E. Blume (Ed.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2nd ed.). Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Iris Bohnet, & Baytelman, Y. (2007). Institutions and Trust: Implications for Preferences, Beliefs and Behavior. Rationality and Society, 19 (1), 99-135.

Ashraf, N., Iris Bohnet, & Piankov, N. (2006). Decomposing trust and trustworthiness. Experimental Economics, 9 193–208.

Iris Bohnet, Harmgart, H., Huck, S., & Tyran, J. - R. (2005). Learning Trust. Journal of the European Economic Association, 3 322–329.

Iris Bohnet, & Huck, S. (2004). Repetition and Reputation: Implications for Trust and Trustworthiness When Institutions Change. The American Economic Review, 94, 362–366.

Iris Bohnet, & Zeckhauser, R. J. (2003). Trust, Risk and Betrayal. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 55 (4), 467–484.

Iris Bohnet, Huck, S. & Tyran, J-R. (2003). Instinct or Incentive to be Trustworthy? The Role of Informational Institutions. In: Holler, M.J., Kliemt, H. Schmidtchen, D. & Streit, M. (eds.), Jahrbuch für Neue Politische Ökonomie 21, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 213-221.

Iris Bohnet, Frey, B. S., & Huck, S. (2000). More Order with Less Law: On Contract Enforcement, Trust and Crowding. The American Political Science Review, 95 (1), 131-144.

Iris Bohnet, & Meier, S. (2009). Fairness. In D. Sander & K. R. Scherer (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences. (pp. 179-180). Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Iris Bohnet. (2009). Experiments. In P. Bearman & P. Hedström (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology (pp. 639-665). Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Iris Bohnet. (2006). How Institutions Affect Behavior: Insights from Economics and Psychology. In: De Cremer, D., Zeelenberg, M. & Murnighan, K.J. (eds.). Social Psychology and Economics. London: Lawrence Erlbaum, 213-238.

Iris Bohnet, & Kübler, D. (2005). Compensating the cooperators: is sorting in the prisoner’s dilemma possible? Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 56, 61–76.

Iris Bohnet, & Zeckhauser, R. (2004). Social Comparisons in Ultimatum Bargaining. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 106, 495–510.

Iris Bohnet & Eaton, S. (2003). Does Performance Pay Perform? Conditions for Success in the Public Sector. In: Donahue, J. & Nye, J. (eds.). For the People: Can We Fix Public Service? Brookings, 238-254.

Iris Bohnet, & Frey, B. S. (1999). Social Distance and Other-Regarding Behavior in Dictator Games: Comment. American Economic Review, 89, 335–339.

Iris Bohnet, & Frey, B. S. (1999). The sound of silence in prisoner's dilemma and dictator games. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 38, 43–57.

Oberholzer-Gee, F., Iris Bohnet, & Frey, B. S. (1997). Fairness and Competence in Democratic Decisions. Public Choice, 91, 89–105.

Iris Bohnet, & Frey, B. S. (1997). Rent Leaving. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics ({JITE}) / Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft, 153, 711–721.

Iris Bohnet (1997). Kooperation und Kommunikation. Eine ökonomische Analyse individueller Entscheidungen. Tübingen: Mohr (Siebeck).