IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Determinants of Family Stress and Domestic Violence: Lessons from the COVID-19 Outbreak' in: Canadian Public Policy, 2021, 47 (3), 439-459

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13308

Biased Health Perceptions and Risky Health Behaviors: Theory and Evidence

Patrick Arni, Davide Dragone, Lorenz Götte, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 76, 102425

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. 13105

Ancestral Norms, Legal Origins, and Female Empowerment

Abel Brodeur, Marie Christelle Mabeu, Roland Pongou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13052

Ancient Origins of the Global Variation in Economic Preferences

Anke Becker, Benjamin Enke, Armin Falk

published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2020, 110, 319–323

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12906

Rational Addiction and Time Consistency: An Empirical Test

Luca Piccoli, Silvia Tiezzi

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 80, 102546

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12732

Workplace Positive Actions, Trans People's Self-Esteem and Human Resources' Evaluations

Vasiliki Bozani, Nick Drydakis, Katerina Sidiropoulou, Benjamin Harvey, Anna Paraskevopoulou

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2020, 41 (6), 809-83

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12707

Gender Differences in the Effect of Employee-Manager Friendships on Salary Dynamics in CPA Firms

Yossef Tobol, Ronen Bar-El, Yuval Arbel, Ofer H. Azar

published in: Heliyon, 2019, 5 (10), e02658

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12626

Time Delay and Investment Decisions: Evidence from an Experiment in Tanzania

Plamen Nikolov

published in: Economics Bulletin, 2018, 38 (2), 1124-1137.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12508

One Step at a Time: Does Gradualism Build Coordination?

Maoliang Ye, Jie Zheng, Plamen Nikolov, Sam Asher

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12399

Overstrained Citizens? The Number of Ballot Propositions and the Quality of the Decision Process in Direct Democracy

Alois Stutzer, Michael Baltensperger, Armando N. Meier

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 59, 483-500

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. 12250

The Pied Piper: Prizes, Incentives, and Motivation Crowding-In

Luigino Bruni, Vittorio Pelligra, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Matteo Rizzolli

revised version published in: Journal of Business Ethics, 2020, 166(3), 643-658

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11920

High-Powered Performance Pay and Crowding out of Non-Monetary Motives

David B. Huffman, Michael L. Bognanno

published in: Management Science, 2018, 64 (10), 4669-4680.

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. 11761

Choking under Pressure: Evidence of the Causal Effect of Audience Size on Performance

René Böheim, Dominik Grübl, Mario Lackner

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 168, 76–93

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11760

The Shape of Warm Glow: Field Experimental Evidence from a Fundraiser

Jeffrey P. Carpenter

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 191, 555-574

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. 11460

Help, Prejudice and Headscarves

Luis Artavia-Mora, Arjun S. Bedi, Matthias Rieger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11457

Social Norms, Endogenous Sorting and the Culture of Cooperation

Ernst Fehr, Tony Williams

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11454

Nudging in Education

Mette Trier Damgaard, Helena Skyt Nielsen

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 313-342

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11288

Do Preferences and Biases Predict Life Outcomes? Evidence from Education and Labor Market Entry Decisions

Uschi Backes-Gellner, Holger Herz, Michael Kosfeld, Yvonne Oswald

published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 134, 103709

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11203

Intentions for Doing Good Matter for Doing Well: The (Negative) Signaling Value of Prosocial Incentives

Lea Cassar, Stephan Meier

published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131(637), 1988-2017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11181

The Welfare Implications of Addictive Substances: A Longitudinal Study of Life Satisfaction of Drug Users

Julie Moschion, Nattavudh Powdthavee

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 146, 206-221

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11131

Creating an Efficient Culture of Cooperation

Ernst Fehr, Tony Williams

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11129

Deadlines and Cognitive Limitations

Steffen Altmann, Christian Traxler, Philipp Weinschenk

substantially revised version published in: Management Science, 2022, 68 (9), 6733-6750

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. 10982

The Impact of Non-Cognitive Skills and Risk Preferences on Rural-to-Urban Migration: Evidence from Ukraine

Sinem H. Ayhan, Kseniia Gatskova, Hartmut Lehmann

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2020, 48 (1), 144 - 162.

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. 10955

Motivational Goal Bracketing: An Experiment

Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2020, 185, 104949

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10921

Status Inequality, Moral Disengagement and Violence

Armin Falk

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10824

Revealing the Economic Consequences of Group Cohesion

Simon Gächter, Chris Starmer, Fabio Tufano

revised version published online as 'Measuring 'Group Cohesion' to Reveal the Power of Social Relationships in Team Production' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 06 February 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10823

The Impact of Sleep Restriction on Contributions and Punishment: First Evidence

Jeremy Clark, David L. Dickinson

revised version published as 'The effect of sleep on public good contributions and punishment: Experimental evidence' in: PLoS ONE, 2020, 15 (10), e0240324

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10794

Worker Overconfidence: Field Evidence and Implications for Employee Turnover and Returns from Training

Mitchell Hoffman, Stephen V. Burks

revised version published in: Quantitative Economics, 2020, 11(1), 315-348

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10755

Do Tournaments with Superstars Encourage or Discourage Competition?

Michael Babington, Sebastian J. Goerg, Carl Kitchens

published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2020, 21 (1), 44-63.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10736

The Sequencing of Gift Exchange: A Field Trial

Jeffrey P. Carpenter

published in: the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 139, 26 - 31

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. 10620

Health and Body Mass Index: No Simple Relationship

Olaf Hübler

revised version published as 'Health and weight - gender-specific linkages under heterogeneity, interdependence and resilience factors' in: Economic and Human Biology, 2017, 26, 96-111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10611

Estimating the Relationship between Skill and Overconfidence

Jan Feld, Jan Sauermann, Andries de Grip

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 68, 18-24

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. 10562

Challenges in Research on Preferences and Personality Traits: Measurement, Stability, and Inference

Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 60, 1-6.

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. 10528

Household Portfolio Choice, Reference Dependence, and the Marriage Market

Wenchao Li, Changcheng Song, Shu Xu, Junjian Yi

published as 'High Sex Ratios and Household Portfolio Choice in China' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (2), 465-490

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10498

The Origins and Extent of Entrepreneurial Action-Orientedness: An Experimental Study

Ahmad Barirani, Randolph Sloof, Mirjam C. van Praag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10397

On the Interpretation of Non-Cognitive Skills: What Is Being Measured and Why It Matters

John Eric Humphries, Fabian Kosse

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017,136,174 - 185

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. 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. 10356

What Grades and Achievement Tests Measure

Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn, James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries

published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), 2016, 113 (47), 13354-13359

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10350

Rain, Emotions and Voting for the Status Quo

Armando N. Meier, Lukas D. Schmid, Alois Stutzer

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 119, 434-451

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. 10337

Personality and Mental Health: The Role and Substitution Effect of Emotional Stability and Conscientiousness

Caroline Wehner, Trudie Schils, Lex Borghans

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10288

Locus of Control and Performance Appraisal

John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn, Cornelia Chadi

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 142, 205-225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10261

Current Emotion Research in Economics

Klaus Wälde, Agnes Moors

published in: Emotion Review, 2017, 9, 271-278

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. 10188

Preferences for Truth-Telling

Johannes Abeler, Daniele Nosenzo, Collin Raymond

published in: Econometrics, 2019, 87 (4), 1115–1153

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10184

Do Men Matter to Female Competition Even When They Don't?

Erica G. Birk, Logan M. Lee, Glen R. Waddell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10172

Beliefs and Utility: Experimental Evidence on Preferences for Information

Armin Falk, Florian Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10151

Anchoring in Financial Decision-Making: Evidence from the Field

Michael Jetter, Jay K. Walker

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 141: 164-176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10139

Informal Employment in China: Trends, Patterns and Determinants of Entry

Zhe Liang, Simon Appleton, Lina Song

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10105

Where to Look for the Morals in Markets?

Matthias Sutter, Jürgen Huber, Michael Kirchler, Matthias Stefan

revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2020, 23, 30-52

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10024

How to Help Poor Informal Workers to Save a Bit: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya

Merve Akbas, Dan Ariely, David A. Robalino, Michael Weber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9986

Has Uber Made It Easier to Get a Ride in the Rain?

Abel Brodeur, Kerry Nield

published as 'An Empirical Analysis of Taxi, Lyft and Uber Rides: Evidence from Weather Shocks in NYC' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 152, 1-16

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9898

Recent Developments in the Experimental Elicitation of Time Preference

Stephen L. Cheung

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2016, 11, 1-8

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9872

On the Interpretation of World Values Survey Trust Question: Global Expectations vs. Local Beliefs

Ritwik Banerjee

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 55, 491-510

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9871

Intuitive Cooperation and Punishment in the Field

Luis Artavia-Mora, Arjun S. Bedi, Matthias Rieger

published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 92, 133-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9859

Corruption, Norm Violation and Decay in Social Capital

Ritwik Banerjee

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 137, 14–27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9856

Subjective Belief Distributions and the Characterization of Economic Literacy

Amalia Di Girolamo, Glenn Harrison, Morten Lau, J. Todd Swarthout

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9842

The Effect of Kinship on Intergenerational Cooperation: A Lab Experiment with Three Generations

José Alberto Molina, Alfredo Ferrer, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Carlos Gracia-Lazaro, Yamir Moreno, Angel Sanchez

published as 'Intergenerational cooperation within the household: a Public Good game with three generations' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 17, 535 - 552

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9768

Homo Moralis: Personal Characteristics, Institutions, and Moral Decision-Making

Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Nora Szech

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9767

Lab Measures of Other-Regarding Preferences Can Predict Some Related On-the-Job Behavior: Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment

Stephen V. Burks, Daniele Nosenzo, Jon E. Anderson, Matthew Bombyk, Derek Ganzhorn, Lorenz Götte, Aldo Rustichini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9705

Identity-driven Cooperation versus Competition

Dennis J. Snower, Steven J. Bosworth

published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (5), 420–424

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9703

Cooperation, Motivation and Social Balance

Steven J. Bosworth, Tania Singer, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 126 (Part B), 72-94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9701

Bread and Bullets

George A. Akerlof, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 126 (Part B), 58-71

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9683

Asymmetric Labor-Supply Responses to Wage-Rate Changes: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Philipp Doerrenberg, Denvil Duncan, Max Löffler

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 81,102305

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9669

Gender in Jeopardy!: The Role of Opponent Gender in High-Stakes Competition

Michael Jetter, Jay K. Walker

published as 'The gender of opponents: Explaining gender differences in performance and risk-taking' in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 238 - 256

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9648

The Compromise Effect in Action: Lessons from a Restaurant's Menu

Pia Pinger, Isabel Ruhmer-Krell, Heiner Schumacher

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 128, 14-34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9615

The Importance of Peers for Compliance with Norms of Fair Sharing

Simon Gächter, Leonie Gerhards, Daniele Nosenzo

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 97, 72-86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9614

Same Process, Different Outcomes: Group Performance in an Acquiring a Company Experiment

Marco Casari, Jingjing Zhang, Christine Jackson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9613