
PhD Candidate
KOF Swiss Economic Institute
ETH Zurich
Aljosha Henkel
I am a PhD candidate in Economics at ETH Zurich. I have previously visited Rady School of Management at UC San Diego.
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I use field and online experimental methods in combination with large administrative datasets to study research questions at the intersections of economics, psychology, and criminology. My current research projects cover topics like public attitudes towards criminal justice policies, mental wellbeing and reintegration of prisoners, as well as the social and economic consequences of cannabis legalization.
I am an Associate at Policy Analytics whose mission is to support organizations using rigorous evidence to design, test, and scale social programs and interventions that enable our clients to make better decisions for themselves and society.
CV
You can find my full CV here.
EDUCATION

PhD Economics, ETH Zurich




Visiting PhD Student, UC San Diego (2024)
MA Mgmt & Economics, U Zurich (2020)
Exchange Semester, U Copenhagen (2019)
BA Mgmt & Economics, U Zurich (2016)
INTERESTS
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Behavioral Economics
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Field Experiments
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Economics of Crime
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Applied Microeconomics
RESEARCH
PUBLICATIONS
Beliefs about Inequality and the Nature of Support for Redistribution, with Thomas Epper, Ernst Fehr and Julien Senn​
Journal of Public Economics, 2025, vol. 246, article number 105350.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Do monetary incentives matter for identifying social preferences?, with Thomas Epper, Ernst Fehr and Julien Senn
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Status: Accepted registered report @ Experimental Economics | Paper coming soon
Standing in Prisoners’ Shoes: A Randomized Trial on How Incarceration Shapes Criminal Justice Preferences, with Arto Arman, Andreas Beerli and Michel Maréchal
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Status: Field experiment completed | Paper coming soon | Slides available at request
The Effects of Providing Mental Health Therapy and Extended Social Services in Pretrial Detention, with Andreas Beerli and Michel Maréchal
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Status: Multi-year field experiment in progress
News coverage: Swiss National Radio & TV | Neue Zürcher Zeitung | Tagesanzeiger | Swiss National News
The Social and Economic Consequences of Legalizing Recreational Cannabis Use in Switzerland, with Arto Arman, Andreas Beerli, Alain Cohn, and Michel Maréchal
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Status: Multi-year field experiment in progress
News coverage: Forbes | Swiss National Radio & TV | Neue Zürcher Zeitung | Tagesanzeiger
The Psychological Foundations of Social Preferences, with Thomas Epper, Ernst Fehr and
Julien Senn
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Status: Data collection completed
CONTACT
+41 44 632 04 32
KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich
Leonhardstrasse 21
8092 Zurich
Switzerland