Markus Eyting
Postdoctoral Researcher in Economics at the Chair of Digital Economics at JGU Mainz and the department for Household Finance at SAFE Leibniz Institute for Financial Research. Affiliated with Stanford Medicine.
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Research
I am an applied microeconomist, using experimental methods as well as survey and administrative data to study the interplay of beliefs and individual decision-making with interdisciplinary applications to health, discrimination, and machine learning.
Papers
Why do we Discriminate? Directional Beliefs and Biased Information Processing
Winner of the EEA 2023 Best Young Economist Award
Management Science, accepted, 2026.
Extreme justifications fuel polarization
with Christiane Buschinger, Florian Hett & Judd B. Kessler
The Economic Journal, forthcoming, 2026.
A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia
with Min Xie, Felix Michalik, Simon Heß, Seunghun Chung, Pascal Geldsetzer
Nature, 2025, Vol. 641, 438-446.
Winner of the 2025 Science Award of the German Health Economics Association
Nature News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Economist, NBC News, Zeit Online, FAZ, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, ÄrzteZeitung, SWR, Spektrum, N-TV, Deutschlandfunk (radio), BBC News (TV and radio)
The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of the dementia disease course
with Min Xie, Christian Bommer, Haroon Ahmed & Pascal Geldsetzer
Cell, 2025, Vol. 188, 7049-7064.
Belief Elicitation with Multiple Point Predictions
with Patrick Schmidt
European Economic Review, 2021, Vol. 135
Can monetary incentives increase organ donations?
with Arne Hosemann & Magnus Johannesson
Economics Letters, 2016, Vol. 142, 56-58.
Selected Work in Progress
The population-level impact of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia-related and all-cause mortality: Evidence from country-wide death certificate data for England
with Felix Michalik, Michelle Disser, Seunghun Chung, Min Xie, Simon de Lusignan, Aziz Sheikh & Pascal Geldsetzer
The Lancet Public Health, revise & resubmit, 2026.
A Random Forest A Day Keeps the Doctor Away
IPP Discussion Paper Series; No.2026
Discrimination Dynamics: The Social Consequences of Feeling Rejected (working title)
with Marius Dietsch & Florian Hett
(Data Collection completed)
The impact of unintended discrimination in financial advice on wealth accumulation (working title)
with Florian Hett & Christine Laudenbach
(Data Collection ongoing)
Contact
+49-6131-39-22166
meyting@uni-mainz.de
