Menusch Khadjavi

Menusch Khadjavi is Associate Professor of Economics at Free University Amsterdam and Kiel Institute Fellow. He earned his doctorate from the University of Hamburg in 2013. From 2014 to 2019, he served as Assistant Professor of Economics and Ethics at Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel while researching at the Kiel Institute. His work examines morally relevant economic behavior including prosocial/antisocial actions, charitable giving mechanisms, and interactions between extrinsic incentives and intrinsic motivation.

Research focuses on experimental approaches to discrimination, environmental decision-making, and resource allocation in developing contexts. Khadjavi has conducted fieldwork examining behavioral responses to incentive structures in public goods provision.

His publications investigate how emotional motivations interact with economic incentives in charitable contexts, and how discrimination manifests in market settings. Ongoing projects explore behavioral foundations of sustainability decisions.

Khadjavi maintains research partnerships through visiting positions at UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, and Columbia University. He collaborates closely with the Research Center 'International Development' on projects related to ethical decision-making in resource-constrained environments.