IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13337

Discrimination, Narratives and Family History: An Experiment with Jordanian Host and Syrian Refugee Children

Kai Barron, Heike Harmgart, Steffen Huck, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter

revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (4), 1008–1016.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13242

Sleep Restriction Increases Coordination Failure

revised version published as 'Sleep restriction increases coordination failure' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 200, 358 - 370.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13225

Collaboration, Alphabetical Order and Gender Discrimination – Evidence from the Lab

Vegard Sjurseike Wiborg, Kjell Arne Brekke, Karine Nyborg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13218

Innovation and Communication Media in Virtual Teams – An Experimental Study

Nicola Grözinger, Bernd Irlenbusch, Katharina Laske, Marina Schröder

revised & extended version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 180, 201-218

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13202

Perceived Fairness and Consequences of Affirmative Action Policies

Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Chi Trieu, Jana Willrodt

published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (656), 3099 - 3135

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13135

Revisiting a Remedy against the Chain of Unkindness

Wendelin Schnedler, Nina Lucia Stephan

published in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 2020, 72, 347–364

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12948

Gender, Information and the Efficiency of Household Production Decisions: An Experiment in Rural Togo

Marie Christine Apedo-Amah, Habiba Djebbari, Roberta Ziparo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12938

Media Bias and Tax Compliance: Experimental Evidence

Miloš Fišar, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Fabio Sabatini, Jiří Špalek

revised version published as 'Media negativity bias and tax compliance: experimental evidence' in: International Tax and Public Finance , 2022, 29, 1160 - 1212

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12925

Intelligence, Errors and Strategic Choices in the Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma

Eugenio Proto, Aldo Rustichini, Andis Sofianos

published as 'Intelligence, Errors, and Cooperation in Repeated Interactions' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (5), 2723 - 2767

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12869

Ambiguity and Excuse-Driven Behavior in Charitable Giving

Thomas Garcia, Sebastien Massoni, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2020,124, 103412

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12867

Measuring Preferences for Competition with Experimentally-Validated Survey Questions

Francesco Fallucchi, Daniele Nosenzo, Ernesto Reuben

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 178, 402-423

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12828

Don't Patronize Me! An Experiment on Preferences for Authorship

Silvia Lübbecke, Wendelin Schnedler

published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2020, 29 (2), 420-438

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12817

Delegation and Coordination with Multiple Threshold Public Goods: Experimental Evidence

Luca Corazzini, Christopher Cotton, Tommaso G. Reggiani

revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2020, 23 (4), 1030-1068

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12753

Some Contributions of Economics to the Study of Personality

James J. Heckman, Tomáš Jagelka, Tim Kautz

published in: O. P. John and R. W. Robins (eds.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research, 4th ed., Guilford Press, 2021, 853–892

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12616

Parents' Marital Status, Psychological Counseling and Dishonest Kindergarten Children: An Experimental Study

Yossef Tobol, Gideon Yaniv

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12553

Economic Polarization and Antisocial Behavior: An Experiment

Maria Bigoni, Stefania Bortolotti, Efşan Nas Özen

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, 126, 387 - 401

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12535

Eliciting Utility Curvature in Time Preference

Stephen L. Cheung

published in: Experimental Economics, 2020, 23 (2), 493-525

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12508

One Step at a Time: Does Gradualism Build Coordination?

Maoliang Ye, Jie Zheng, Plamen Nikolov, Samuel Asher

published in: Management Science, 2019, 66 (1), 113-129.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12431

What Do Student Jobs on Graduate CVs Signal to Employers?

Eva Van Belle, Ralf Caers, Laure Cuypers, Marijke De Couck, Brecht Neyt, Hannah Van Borm, Stijn Baert

revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 75, 101979

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12395

Do Measures of Risk Attitude in the Laboratory Predict Behavior under Risk in and outside of the Laboratory?

Gary Charness, Thomas Garcia, Theo Offerman, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2020, 60, 99-123

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12348

How Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Tournaments Affect Gender Differences in Competitive Behavior

Loukas Balafoutas, Matthias Sutter

published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 118, 1-13.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12347

An Experimental Study on the Effects of Communication, Credibility, and Clustering in Network Games

Gary Charness, Francesco Feri, Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez, Matthias Sutter

revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (6), 1630 - 1543

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12337

Passive Choices and Cognitive Spillovers

Steffen Altmann, Andreas Grunewald, Jonas Radbruch

published as 'Interventions and Cognitive Spillovers' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (5), 2293-2328

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12268

Asset Integration, Risk Taking and Loss Aversion in the Laboratory

William G. Morrison, Robert J. Oxoby

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2022, 55 (3), 1460 - 1479

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12267

Helping under a Combination of Team and Tournament Incentives

Anastasia Danilov, Bernd Irlenbusch, Christine Harbring

published in: in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 2019, 162, 120-135

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12253

Advanced Counter-Biasing

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Kevin Benscheidt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12180

To What Do People Contribute? Ongoing Operations vs. Sustainable Supplies

Yuval Arbel, Ronen Bar-El, Mordechai E. Schwarz, Yossef Tobol

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12059

Relationship of Gender Differences in Preferences to Economic Development and Gender Equality

Armin Falk, Johannes Hermle

published in: Science, 2018, 362 (6412) (data available here: https://gps.iza.org/home)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12058

Motivated Memory in Dictator Games

Charlotte Saucet, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2019, 117, 250-275

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11991

The Intergenerational Behavioural Consequences of a Socio-Political Upheaval

Alison L. Booth, Xin Meng, Elliott Fan, Dandan Zhang

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 200, 931-958.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11956

Embezzlement and Guilt Aversion

Giuseppe Attanasi, Claire Rimbaud, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 167, 409-429

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11947

Economic Behavior of Children and Adolescents - A First Survey of Experimental Economics Results

Matthias Sutter, Claudia Zoller, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler

published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 111, 98-121

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11919

Competing on the Holodeck: The Effect of Virtual Peers and Heterogeneity in Dynamic Tournaments

Frederik Graff, Christian Grund, Christine Harbring

published in: Journal of Behavioral & Experimental Economics 2021, 90, 101596

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11917

The Causal Effect of Trust

Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, David B. Huffman, Nick Netzer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11855

Broadband Internet and Social Capital

Andrea Geraci, Mattia Nardotto, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Fabio Sabatini

revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 206, 104578

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11815

The Many Faces of Human Sociality: Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences

Adrian Bruhin, Ernst Fehr, Daniel Schunk

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17 (4), 1025–1069

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11798

A Method to Estimate Mean Lying Rates and Their Full Distribution

Ellen Garbarino, Robert Slonim, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2018, 4 (2), 136-150.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11789

Prosocial Managers, Employee Motivation, and the Creation of Shareholder Value

Agne Kajackaite, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 172, 217-235

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11763

Relative Income and Happiness: An Experiment

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Daniel Houser, Lina Diaz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11721

Altruism or Diminishing Marginal Utility?

Romain Gauriot, Stephanie A. Heger, Robert Slonim

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 180, 24-48

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11674

Paying for What Kind of Performance? Performance Pay and Multitasking in Mission-Oriented Jobs

Daniel Jones, Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos

substantially revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2023, 142, 480-507

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11642

Willingness to Take Risk: The Role of Risk Conception and Optimism

Thomas Dohmen, Simone Quercia, Jana Willrodt

substantially revised version available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 15763

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11641

Risky Choices and Solidarity: Why Experimental Design Matters

Conny Wunsch, Renate Strobl

published as 'Risky Choices and Solidarity: Disentangling Different Behavioural Channels' in. Experimental Economics, 2021, 24, 1185–1214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11592

Using Ethical Dilemmas to Predict Antisocial Choices with Real Payoff Consequences: An Experimental Study

David L. Dickinson, David Masclet

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 166, 195-215.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11577

The Signal of Applying for a Job under a Vacancy Referral Scheme

Eva Van Belle, Ralf Caers, Marijke De Couck, Valentina Di Stasio, Stijn Baert

revised version published in: Industrial Relations, 2019, 58 (2), 251 - 274

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11564

Looking at the Bright Side: The Motivation Value of Overconfidence

Si Chen, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 120, 103302

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11540

Peers or Police? Detection and Sanctions in the Provision of Public Goods

Gregory DeAngelo, Laura Katherine Gee

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2020, 123, 210-227

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11537

Locus of Control and Consistent Investment Choices

Pia Pinger, Sebastian Schäfer, Heiner Schumacher

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 75, 66-75

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11505

Sales Performance and Social Preferences

Andrea Essl, Frauke von Bieberstein, Michael Kosfeld, Markus Kröll

published in: Journals of Economics & Management Strategy, 2023, 32 (4), 882-905

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11459

Evaluating Trust and Trustworthiness in Social Groups and Networks

Niall O'Higgins, Clelia Mazzoni, Patrizia Sbriglia

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11411

Measuring Costly Effort Using the Slider Task

David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2019, 21, 1-9

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11364

Does Decentralization of Decisions Increase the Stability of Large Groups?

Tjaša Bjedov, Simon Lapointe, Thierry Madies, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2018, 51 (4), 681-716

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11327

Confidence in Knowledge or Confidence in the Ability to Learn: An Experiment on the Causal Effects of Beliefs on Motivation

Mira Fischer, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2018, 111, 122-142.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11326

Cognitive Skills and the Development of Strategic Sophistication

Eduardo Fe, David Gill

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11290

Civility and Trust in Social Media

Angelo Antoci, Laura Bonelli, Fabio Paglieri, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Fabio Sabatini

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 160, 83-99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11130

The Effect of Positive Mood on Cooperation in Repeated Interaction

Eugenio Proto, Daniel Sgroi, Mahnaz Nazneen

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 168, 209-228

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11044

Gender Differences in the Development of Other-Regarding Preferences

Katrin John, Stephan L. Thomsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10986

Insurance and Solidarity: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Cambodia

Friederike Lenel, Susan Steiner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10985

Bayesian versus Heuristic-Based Choice under Sleep Restriction and Suboptimal Times of Day

David L. Dickinson, Todd McElroy

revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2019, 115, 48-59.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10976

Gender, Willingness to Compete and Career Choices along the Whole Ability Distribution

Thomas Buser, Noemi Peter, Stefan C. Wolter

revised version published as 'Willingness to compete, gender and career choices along the whole ability distribution' in: Experimental Economics, 2022, 25, 1299 - 1326

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10921

Status Inequality, Moral Disengagement and Violence

Armin Falk

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10906

Does Voluntary Risk Taking Affect Solidarity? Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Renate Strobl, Conny Wunsch

published as 'Risky Choices and Solidarity: Disentangling Different Behavioural Channels' in: Experimental Economics, 2021, 24, 1185 - 1214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10877

Too Lucky to Be True: Fairness Views under the Shadow of Cheating

Stefania Bortolotti, Ivan Soraperra, Matthias Sutter, Claudia Zoller

published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 November 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10876

Why Is Unemployment Duration a Sorting Criterion in Hiring?

Eva Van Belle, Ralf Caers, Marijke De Couck, Valentina Di Stasio, Stijn Baert

revised version published as 'Why Are Employers Put Off by Long Spells of Unemployment?' in: European Sociological Review, 2018, 34 (6), 694 - 710

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10793

Safe Options Induce Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes

Paolo Crosetto, Antonio Filippin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10792

Competition and Subsequent Risk-Taking Behaviour: Heterogeneity across Gender and Outcomes

Antonio Filippin, Francesca Gioia

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 75, 84-94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10783

How Do Peers Impact Learning? An Experimental Investigation of Peer-To-Peer Teaching and Ability Tracking

Erik O. Kimbrough, Andrew McGee, Hitoshi Shigeoka

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (1), 304-339.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10760

Committee Search with Ex-ante Heterogeneous Agents: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Keigo Inukai, Keisuke Kawata, Masaru Sasaki

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10754

Disappointment Aversion and Social Comparisons in a Real-Effort Competition

Simon Gächter, Lingbo Huang, Martin Sefton

revised version published in Economic Inquiry, 2018, 56 (3), 1512-1525

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10710

Information, Belief Elicitation and Threshold Effects in the 5X1000 Tax Scheme: A Framed Field Experiment

Leonardo Becchetti, Vittorio Pelligra, Tommaso G. Reggiani

revised version published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2017, 24 (6), 1026-1049

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10709

Do Higher Achievers Cheat Less? An Experiment of Self-Revealing Individual Cheating

Erez Siniver, Yossef Tobol, Gideon Yaniv

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 68, 91 - 96

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10682

Competitive Preferences and Ethnicity: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

Abu Siddique, Michael Vlassopoulos

published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130(627), 793-821

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10627

Can Gender Differences in Distributional Preferences Explain Gender Gaps in Competition?

Subha Mani, Utteeyo Dasgupta, Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, 70, 1-11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10609

Honesty toward the Holy Day

Ronen Bar-El, Yossef Tobol

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 68, 13-17

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10608

On Monetary and Non-Monetary Interventions to Combat Corruption

Ritwik Banerjee, Arnab Mitra

published in : Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 149, 332 - 355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10607

Whistle-Blower Protection: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Lydia Mechtenberg, Gerd Muehlheusser, Andreas Roider

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 126, 103447

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10606

Facing Yourself: A Note on Self-Image

Armin Falk

revised version available from the briq website

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10588

Gender and Peer Effects in Social Networks

Julie Beugnot, Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 113, 207-224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10546

The Effectiveness of Incentive Schemes in the Presence of Implicit Effort Costs

Sebastian J. Goerg, Sebastian Kube, Jonas Radbruch

substantially revised version published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (9), 3949-4450.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10545

True Overconfidence, Revealed through Actions: An Experiment

Stephen L. Cheung, Lachlan Johnstone

revised version forthcoming in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2025.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10518

Using Response Times to Measure Strategic Complexity and the Value of Thinking in Games

David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10499

Anger Management: Aggression and Punishment in the Provision of Public Goods

Laura Katherine Gee, Xinxin Lyu, Heather Urry

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10395

Loss Aversion and Lying Behavior: Theory, Estimation and Empirical Evidence

Ellen Garbarino, Robert Slonim, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Loss Aversion and Lying Behavior' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 158, 379-393

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10394

The Spillover Effects of Affirmative Action on Competitiveness and Unethical Behavior

Ritwik Banerjee, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 101, 567-604

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10393

Dynamic Incentive Effects of Team Formation: Experimental Evidence

Thomas Gall, Xiaocheng Hu, Michael Vlassopoulos

published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 28(4), 687-712, 2019.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10364

Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete: The Role of Culture and Institutions

Alison L. Booth, Elliott Fan, Xin Meng, Dandan Zhang

published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (618), 734 - 764

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10348

Internal and External Validity of Experimental Risk and Time Preferences

Christian Belzil, Modibo Sidibé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10347

Testing the Advantages of Conscious vs. Unconscious Thought for Complex Decisions in a Distraction Free Paradigm

Todd McElroy, David L. Dickinson

revised version published as 'Thinking About Complex Decisions: How Sleep and Time-of-day Influence Complex Choices' in: Conciousness and Cognition, 2019, 76, 102824.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10190

Business Ethics in Organizations: An Experimental Examination of Whistleblowing and Personality

Jenny Bartuli, Behnud Mir Djawadi, René Fahr

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10189

Responding to (Un)Reasonable Requests

Vittorio Pelligra, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Daniel John Zizzo

revised version published as 'Responding to (un)reasonable requests by an authority' in: Theory and Decision, 2020, 89 (3), 287-311

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10187

Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions: A Choice Experiment

Julio Elias, Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis

revised version published as 'Paying for Kidneys? A Randomized Survey and Choice Experiment' in: American Economic Review, 2019, 109 (8), 2855 - 2888

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10172