IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1972

Competing Approaches to Forecasting Elections: Economic Models, Opinion Polling and Prediction Markets

published in: Economic Record, 2006, 82 (258), 325-340

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1952

What Happiness Research Can Tell Us About Self-Control Problems and Utility Misprediction

published in: Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer (eds.), Economics and Psychology. A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007, 169-195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1950

Subjective Income Expectations and Income Risk

Xavier Ramos, Christian Schluter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1930

Cross-sectional Earnings Risk and Occupational Sorting: The Role of Risk Attitudes

Holger Bonin, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14(6), 926-937

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1918

Political Parties and Network Formation

Topi Miettinen, Panu Poutvaara

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1866

Building Blocks in the Economics of Mandates

John T. Addison, C. R. Barrett, W. Stanley Siebert

published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2006, 5 (2), 69 - 87

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1861

The Todaro Paradox Revisited

Yves Zenou

revised version published as 'Rural-Urban Migration and Unemployment: Theory and Policy Implications' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2011, 51 (1), 65 - 82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1841

Tournaments, Individualized Contracts and Career Concerns

Alexander K. Koch, Eloic Peyrache

revised and extended version published as 'Aligning Ambition and Incentives' in: Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization , 2011, 27(1).

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1768

Courtesy and Idleness: Gender Differences in Team Work and Team Competition

Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel, Dorothea Kübler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1754

In Search of Stars: Network Formation among Heterogeneous Agents

Jacob K. Goeree, Arno Riedl, Aljaz Ule

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2009, 67 (2), 445-466

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1746

Does Economic Uncertainty Affect the Decision to Bear Children? Evidence from East and West Germany

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Jeffrey B. Nugent

published as 'Real Options and Demographic Decisions: Evidence from East and West Germany' in: Applied Economics, 2011, 43 (21), 2739 - 2749

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1730

Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner

revised version published as 'Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants, and Behavioral Consequences' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (3), 522–550

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1695

Incentives and Prosocial Behavior

Roland Benabou, Jean Tirole

published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (5), 1652-1678

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1692

Don't Give Up On Me Baby: Spousal Correlation in Smoking Behaviour

Andrew E. Clark, Fabrice Etilé

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2006, 25 (5), 958-978

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1669

Division of Labour and Directed Production

Marisa Ratto, Wendelin Schnedler

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy , 2008, 8 (1), Article 27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1666

Actions and Beliefs: Estimating Distribution-Based Preferences Using a Large Scale Experiment with Probability Questions on Expectations

Charles Bellemare, Sabine Kröger, Arthur van Soest

published as ' Measuring Inequity Aversion in a Heterogeneous Population using Experimental Decisions and Subjective Probabilities' in: Econometrica, 2008, 76 (4), 815-839

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1661

From Team Spirit to Jealousy: The Pitfalls of Too Much Transparency

Alexander K. Koch, Albrecht Morgenstern

substantially revised version available as 'Coordination under the Shadow of Career Concerns', IZA DP No. 4039

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1655

Revolutionary Effects of New Information Technologies

Gerard J. van den Berg

published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (509), F10-F28

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1538

Limited Attention as the Scarce Resource in an Information-Rich Economy

Josef Falkinger

published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118, 1596-1620