Thomas Buser

Thomas Buser is a Professor of Behavioral Applied Microeconomics at the University of Amsterdam and a research fellow at the Tinbergen Institute. He holds a 5-year ERC Starting Grant (2019-2024) focusing on research linking personality traits to career outcomes. His work employs lab/field experiments, registry data, and surveys to explore topics such as competitiveness, genetic influences on behavior, and gender disparities in labor markets.

Research Interests:

• Personality-Career Outcome Linkages
• Experimental Economics
• Genetic Determinants of Occupations
• Competitiveness Dynamics

Key Achievements:

• Won the Experimental Economics best paper award (2012) for Multitasking.
• Pioneered studies on genetic sorting into professions and gender differences in competitiveness.

Grants & Collaborations:

• ERC Starting Grant (2019-2024) for Genetic Variants and Labor Market Outcomes.
• Extensive international collaborations, including with institutions like the Swedish Twin Registry.

Labs/Teams: Active in Tinbergen Institute’s Behavioral Economics Lab, fostering interdisciplinary research on decision-making processes.