Professor Oliver Hauser is a renowned researcher with expertise in economics, public policy, leadership and AI.
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Professor Hauser’s research has studied the impact of AI on productivity and creativity; how to create fair and effective talent pipelines; and the role of inequality and the importance of cooperation in sustaining public goods.
Professor Hauser has published numerous academic publications in leading academic journals, including Science, Nature, Quarterly Journal of Economics, PNAS, Management Science, Science Advances, and Nature Human Behaviour, and articles for executives, senior leaders, and managers in the public and private sector.
Selected Publications
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Why evaluating the impact of AI needs to start now (perspective article)
(with M. Light, L. Shelmerdine and J. Blumenau)
Nature, 2025, vol. 643, pp. 910-912
Behaviorally designed training leads to more diverse hiring
(with C. Arslan, E. H. Chang, S. Chilazi and I. Bohnet)
Science, 2025, vol. 387, pp. 364-366
Believed gender differences in social preferences
(with C. Exley, M. Moore and J.-H. Pezzuto)
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2025, vol. 140, pp. 403-458
Gender-inclusive language and economic decision-making
(with L. Balafoutas, H. Fornwagner and E. Hauser)
Management Science, 2025
Catch me if you can: Using machine learning and behavioral interventions to reduce unethical behavior
(with M. Greene and K. DeCelles)
Behavioural Public Policy, 2025
Can gender and race dynamics in performance appraisals be disrupted? The role of social influence
(with I. Bohnet and A. Kristal)
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, vol. 235
Dynamics of cooperation in concurrent games
(with C. L. Rossetti and C. Hilbe).
Nature Communications, 2025, vol. 16
Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content
(with A. R. Doshi)
Science Advances, 2024, vol. 10
Human-centred mechanism design with democratic AI
(with R. Koster et al.)
Nature Human Behaviour, 2022, vol. 6, pp. 1398-1407
Reducing discrimination against job seekers with and without employment gaps
(with A. Kristal, L. Nicks, and J. Gloor)
Nature Human Behaviour, 2022, vol. 7, pp. 211-218
Measuring inequality beyond the Gini coefficient may clarify conflicting findings
(with K. Blesch and J. M. Jachimowicz)
Nature Human Behaviour, 2022, vol. 6, pp. 1525-1536
Inequality in researchers’ minds
(with J. M. Jachimowicz et al.)
Journal of Economic Surveys, 2022
Ideology selectively shapes attention to inequality
(with H. Waldfogel et al.)
PNAS, 2021, vol. 118
Climate action for (my) children
(with Helena Fornwagner)
Environmental and Resource Economics, 2021, vol. 81, pp. 95-130
Social dilemmas among unequals
(with C. Hilbe, K. Chatterjee and M. A. Nowak)
Nature, 2019, vol. 572, pp. 524-527
Invisible inequality leads to punishing the poor and rewarding the rich
(with G. Kraft-Todd, D. G. Rand, M. A. Nowak and M. I. Norton)
Behavioural Public Policy, 2019, vol. 5, pp. 333-353
High stakes: A little more cheating, a lot less charity
(with Z. Rahwan, E. Kochanowska and B. Fasolo)
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, vol. 152, pp. 276-295
Cooperating with the future
(with D. G. Rand, A. Peysakhovich and M. A. Nowak)
Nature, 2014, vol. 511, pp. 220-223