I'm the founder and co-director of The Unjournal (unjournal.org), currently focused on making rigorous research more impactful and impactful research more rigorous. Previously, I conducted research at various institutions including the University of Essex and University of Exeter, working on charitable giving, social preferences, and experimental economics. My research examines how people make decisions about charitable donations and pro-social behavior, particularly in uncertain environments and with conditional commitments. A key theme has been investigating how different contexts and mechanisms affect charitable giving - for example, studying whether people give differently when asked to make conditional commitments ("if you win the lottery...") versus after knowing their income. I'm particularly interested in how social factors like reputation, anonymity and peer effects influence giving behavior. Beyond charitable giving, I've also conducted research on consumer behavior, expert reviews and their influence on demand, and various topics in behavioral economics. Through The Unjournal, I now focus on reforming academic publishing and research evaluation. We commission public journal-independent evaluation of papers, compensate evaluators, and work to make the peer review process more transparent and effective. Our goal is to help practitioners and researchers better learn from and utilize research, particularly work that informs global priorities.
Publications
Worth 1000 Words: The Effect of Social Cues on a Fundraising Campaign in a Government Agency. A
M. Sanders, D. Reinstein, Alex Tupper
Social Science Research Network 2020
Disclosable Restructuring and (or) Additional Financing Paper - SUPPORT TO EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE COMPLIANCE PROCESS PROJECT - P158380
D. Reinstein
Disclosable Version of the ISR - Kenya Petroleum Technical Assistance Project (KEPTAP) - P145234 - Sequence No : 10
D. Reinstein
Empathic and Numerate Giving: The Joint Effects of Victim Images and Charity Evaluations
R. Bergh, D. Reinstein
Disclosable Restructuring Paper - Kenya Petroleum Technical Assistance Project (KEPTAP) - P145234
D. Reinstein
Disclosable Version of the ISR - Kenya Petroleum Technical Assistance Project (KEPTAP) - P145234 - Sequence No : 09
D. Reinstein
Disclosable Version of the ISR - Kenya Petroleum Technical Assistance Project (KEPTAP) - P145234 - Sequence No : 08
D. Reinstein
Disclosable Restructuring Paper - SUPPORT TO EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE COMPLIANCE PROCESS PROJECT - P158380
D. Reinstein
Disclosable Restructuring Paper - SUPPORT TO EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE COMPLIANCE PROCESS PROJECT - P158379
D. Reinstein
Field experiment: Impact of 'impact per dollar information' on charitable giving in a large email campaign
D. Reinstein, Elizabeth A. Keenan, Ayelet Gneezy, Hengchen Dai, E. Rubaltelli, Stephan Dickert, P. Ayton, Kiki Koutmeridou
Disclosable Version of the ISR - SUPPORT TO EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE COMPLIANCE PROCESS PROJECT - P158380 - Sequence No : 03
D. Reinstein
Disclosable Version of the ISR - Kenya Petroleum Technical Assistance Project (KEPTAP) - P145234 - Sequence No : 07
D. Reinstein
Disclosable Version of the ISR - Kenya Petroleum Technical Assistance Project (KEPTAP) - P145234 - Sequence No : 06
D. Reinstein
Giving and Probability
Christian Kellner, D. Reinstein, Gerhard Riener, M. Sanders
Worth 1000 Words: The effect of social cues on a fundraising campaign in a government agency. A field experiment
M. Sanders, D. Reinstein
Colombia - COLOMBIA - Amoya River Environmental Services : P078220 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 07
D. Reinstein
The Economics of the Gift
D. Reinstein
Exclude the Bad Actors or Learn About The Group
David Hugh-Jones, D. Reinstein
Listen to the market, hear the best policy decision, but don't always choose it.
D. Reinstein, J. Song
Colombia - Jepirachi Carbon Off Set Project : P074426 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 10
D. Reinstein
Decomposing desert and tangibility effects in a charitable giving experiment
D. Reinstein, Gerhard Riener
Decomposing desert and tangibility effects in a charitable giving experiment
D. Reinstein, Gerhard Riener
Experimental Economics 2011
Paraguay - PY Energy Sector Strengthening Project : P114971 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 03
D. Reinstein
Dominican Republic - DO Electricity Distribution Rehabilitation Project : P089866 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 10
D. Reinstein
Peru's Downstream Natural Gas Sector : A Preliminary Assessment
D. Reinstein, Daniel Benitez, T. Johnson
Peru - PE Huaycoloro Landfill Gas Recovery : P094739 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 05
D. Reinstein
Dominican Republic - Power Sector Technical Assistance Project : P082715 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 14
D. Reinstein
The Benefit of Anonymity in Public Goods Games
D. Reinstein, David Hugh-Jones
Secret santa: anonymity, signaling, and conditional cooperation
David Hugh-Jones, D. Reinstein
Substitution Between (and Motivations for) Charitable Contributions: An Experimental Study
D. Reinstein
Does One Contribution Come at the Expense of Another? Empirical Evidence on Substitution Between Charitable Donations
D. Reinstein
The Influence of Expert Reviews on Consumer Demand for Experience Goods: A Case Study of Movie Critics
D. Reinstein, Christopher M. Snyder
Probabilistic Simulation of a Power System under Transmission Constrained Economic Dispatch
D. Reinstein, F. D. Galiana, A. Vojdani
IEEE Power Engineering Review 1986
Conditional generosity and uncertain income: Evidence from five experiments
Christian Kellner, D. Reinstein, Gerhard Riener
Conditional generosity and uncertain income: Field and lab evidence
D. Reinstein, Gerhard Riener, Christian Kellner
The Government May Want to Encourage Price-Discrimination by Income
D. Reinstein
Losing Face
David Hugh-Jones, D. Reinstein
Desert and Tangibility: Decomposing House Money Effects in a Charitable Giving Experiment
D. Reinstein, Gerhard Reiner
Ecient Consumer Altruism: Application to Fair Trade
D. Reinstein, J. Song
Efficient Consumer Altruism and Fair Trade
D. Reinstein, J. Song
Discussion Paper Series Efficient Consumer Altruism and Fair Trade
D. Reinstein, J. Song
Crossing the Economic Divide.
D. Reinstein
Generating Fractals through Self-Replication.
D. Reinstein
Probabilistic Simulation of a Power System under Transmission Constrained Economic Dispatch
D. Reinstein, F. Galiana, A. Vojdani
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 1986
The Centre for Market and Public Organisation Giving and Probability Giving and Probability Giving and Probability
Christian Kellner, D. Reinstein, Gerhard Riener, M. Sanders, Kellner
Jena Economic Research Papers Explaining Gender Differences in Competitiveness: Gender-task Stereotypes Explaining Gender Dierences in Competitiveness: Gender-task Stereotypes
N. Große, Gerhard Riener, Friedrich Schiller, University Jena, Stefan Bauernschuster, Katharina Eckartz, Werner Güth, Marcela Ibanez, Oliver Kirchkamp, Patrick Nolen, Vera Popova, D. Reinstein, Djamila Koberstein, Jonathan Leupert, Conny Malz, Sabrina Vieth