Anke Becker

Anke Becker is an Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School.

Anke’s areas of research include economic development, political economy, economics of gender, and behavioral economics. Her recent work examines culture and gender, specifically gender-specific norms and how they help us understand entrepreneurship in developing countries.

Anke earned her Ph.D. from the University of Bonn. Prior to joining HBS, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution Lab at Harvard University.

Journal Articles

• Becker, Anke. "On the Origins of Restricting Women's Promiscuity." Review of Economic Studies (forthcoming). View Details
• Falk, Armin, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, David B. Huffman, and Uwe Sunde. "The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences." Management Science (forthcoming). (Pre-published online October 31, 2022.) View Details
• Bahrami-Rad, Duman, Anke Becker, and Joseph Henrich. "Tabulated Nonsense? Testing the Validity of the Ethnographic Atlas." Art. 109880. Economics Letters 204 (July 2021). View Details
• Becker, Anke, Benjamin Enke, and Armin Falk. "Ancient Origins of the Global Variation in Economic Preferences." AEA Papers and Proceedings 110 (May 2020): 319–323. View Details
• Falk, Armin, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, David Huffman, and Uwe Sunde. "Global Evidence on Economic Preferences." Quarterly Journal of Economics 113, no. 4 (November 2018): 1645–1692. View Details
• Abeler, Johannes, Anke Becker, and Armin Falk. "Representative Evidence on Lying Costs." Journal of Public Economics 113 (May 2014): 96–104. View Details
• Rada Ortner, Georgia, Matthias Wibral, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Dietrich Klingmüller, Armin Falk, and Bernd Weber. "No Evidence For an Effect of Testosterone Administration on Delay Discounting in Male University Students." Psychoneuroendocrinology 38, no. 9 (September 2013): 1814–1818. View Details
• Becker, Anke, Thomas Deckers, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, and Fabian Kosse. "The Relationship Between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures." Annual Review of Economics 4 (September 2012): 453–478. View Details

Cases and Teaching Materials

• Becker, Anke, Ray Kluender, and William R. Kerr. "ELCA's Series A." Harvard Business School Case 823-079, January 2023. View Details

Additional Information

Personal Website

• Personal Website- Anke Becker