Joachim Winter is Professor of Economics at the University of Munich (LMU). He holds graduate degrees in economics from the University of Augsburg and the London School of Economics and a doctoral degree from the University of Mannheim. He served as the Deputy Director of the Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA) before joining the University of Munich. His research interests include individual decision-making, in particular saving, portfolio and insurance choices; the design and analysis of household surveys; and the effects of shocks and interventions in childhood. He has published in academic journals such as the Economic Journal, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the Journal of Health Economics, the Journal of Econometrics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics.
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Insensitivity to group size when benefits for a few are traded off against costs for many
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- Politics and economics 
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On the origins of dishonesty: From parents to children
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- Frontiers of economic research 
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