IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Comparison of health care utilization among patients affiliated and not affiliated with healthcare professionals in China' in: BMC Health Services Research, 2020, 20, 1118

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13798

To Buy or Not to Buy? Price Salience in an Online Shopping Field Experiment

Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt, Mats Köster, Matthias Sutter

published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 130, 103593

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13793

Search Costs and the Determinants of Job Search

Emily A. Beam

published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 69, 101968

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13778

Determinants of the Community Mobility during the COVID-19 Epidemic: The Role of Government Regulations and Information

Silvia Mendolia, Olena Stavrunova, Oleg Yerokhin

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 184, 199-231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13758

Discontinuous System of Allowances: The Response of Prosocial Health-Care Professionals

Helena Hernandez-Pizarro, Catia Nicodemo, Guillem López Casasnovas

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 190, 104248

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13753

Framing the Predicted Impacts of COVID-19 Prophylactic Measures in Terms of Lives Saved Rather Than Deaths Is More Effective for Older People

Pietro Biroli, Steven J. Bosworth, Marina Della Giusta, Amalia Di Girolamo, Sylvia Jaworska, Jeremy Vollen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13749

Act Early to Prevent Infections and Save Lives: Causal Impact of Diagnostic Efficiency on the COVID-19 Pandemic

Simiao Chen, Zhangfeng Jin, David E. Bloom

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13746

Committee Decision-Making under the Threat of Leaks

Sebastian Fehrler, Volker Hahn

published in: Journal of Politics, 2023, 85 (3), 1107–1122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13745

Predictors of Social Distancing and Mask-Wearing Behavior: Panel Survey in Seven U.S. States

Plamen Nikolov, Andreas Pape, Ozlem Tonguc, Charlotte Williams

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13723

How People Know Their Risk Preference

Ruben C. Arslan, Martin Brümmer, Thomas Dohmen, Johanna Drewelies, Ralph Hertwig, Gert G. Wagner

published in: Scientific Reports, 2020, 10, 15365

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13704

Directed Search with Phantom Vacancies

James Albrecht, Bruno Decreuse, Susan Vroman

published in: International Economic Review, 2023, 64 (2), 837 - 869

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13689

The Effect of Observing Multiple Private Information Outcomes on the Inclination to Cheat

Sandro Casal, Antonio Filippin

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2024, 62 (2), 543 - 562

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13664

Exponential Growth Bias in the Prediction of COVID-19 Spread and Economic Expectation

Ritwik Banerjee, Priyama Majumdar

published in: Economicy, 2023, 90 (358), 653-689

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13646

Higher Order Risk Preferences: New Experimental Measures, Determinants and Field Behavior

Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13645

Uncertainty and Firms' Labour Decisions. Evidence from European Countries

Alberto Urtasun, Marta Martínez Matute

published in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2022, 25 (1), 220 - 241

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13628

Psychological Pressure and the Right to Determine the Moves in Dynamic Tournaments: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Mark Kassis, Sascha L. Schmidt, Dominik Schreyer, Matthias Sutter

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, 126, 278-287.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13580

Behavioral Welfare Economics and Risk Preferences: A Bayesian Approach

Xiaoxue Sherry Gao, Glenn Harrison, Rusty Tchernis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13574

Social Learning along International Migrant Networks

Yuan Tian, Maria Esther Caballero, Brian K. Kovak

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 195, 103-121

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13547

Against All Odds: Tentative Steps Toward Efficient Information Sharing in Groups

Darius Schlangenotto, Wendelin Schnedler, Radovan Vadovic

published in: Games, 2020, 11 (3), 31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13517

Overconfidence and Gender Differences in Wage Expectations

Stephanie Briel, Aderonke Osikominu, Gregor Pfeifer, Mirjam Reutter, Sascha Satlukal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13510

Does the Dream of Home Ownership Rest upon Biased Beliefs? A Test Based on Predicted and Realized Life Satisfaction

Reto Odermatt, Alois Stutzer

revised version published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23 (8), 3731-3763

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13475

Biased Beliefs and Entry into Scientific Careers

Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Danijela Vuletić Čugalj

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13457

Sudden Stop: When Did Firms Anticipate the Potential Consequences of COVID-19?

Lukas Buchheim, Carla Krolage, Sebastian Link

published in: German Economic Review, 2022, 23 (1), 79-119

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13451

Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment

Shyamal Chowdhury, Matthias Sutter, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published as 'Economic preferences across generations and family clusters: A large-scale experiment in a developing country' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (9), 2361-2410.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13450

Should School-Level Results of National Assessments Be Made Public?

Atsuyoshi Morozumi, Ryuichi Tanaka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13445

Subjective Expectations for Health Service Use and Consequences for Health Insurance Behavior

Nathan Kettlewell

published as 'The informational content of subjective expectations for health service use' in: BMC Health Services Research, 2021, 21, 464 (2021)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13444

Does BMI Predict the Early Spatial Variation and Intensity of COVID-19 in Developing Countries? Evidence from India

Nidhiya Menon

published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2021, 41, 100990

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13427

Public Attention and Policy Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Michael Ganslmeier, Panu Poutvaara

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13406

Present Bias for Monetary and Dietary Rewards: Evidence from Chinese Teenagers

Stephen L. Cheung, Agnieszka Tymula, Xueting Wang

revised version published as 'Present Bias for Monetary and Dietary Rewards' in: Experimental Economics, 2022, 25, 1202–1233

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13355

Does Policy Communication during COVID-19 Work?

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Michael Weber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13344

Reveal It or Conceal It: On the Value of Second Opinions in a Low-Entry-Barriers Credence Goods Market

Parampreet Christopher Bindra, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Daniel Neururer, Matthias Sutter

revised version published as 'On the value of second opinions: a credence goods field experiment' in: Economics Letters, 2021, 205, 109925

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. 13303

Are Economists' Preferences Psychologists' Personality Traits? A Structural Approach

Tomáš Jagelka

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (3), 910–970

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13253

Firm-level Expectations and Behavior in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis

Lukas Buchheim, Jonas Dovern, Carla Krolage, Sebastian Link

published as 'Sentiment and Firm Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 195, 185 - 198

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. 13224

The Cost of the COVID-19 Crisis: Lockdowns, Macroeconomic Expectations, and Consumer Spending

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Michael Weber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13150

The Determinants of Trust: Evidence from Rural South India

Anne Hilger, Christophe Jalil Nordman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13139

Labor Markets during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Preliminary View

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Michael Weber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13092

Compliance with COVID-19 Social-Distancing Measures in Italy: The Role of Expectations and Duration

Guglielmo Briscese, Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis, Mirco Tonin

published as ' Expectations, reference points, and compliance with COVID-19 social distancing measures' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2023, 103, 101983

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13083

Rational Inattention and Migration Decisions

Simone Bertoli, Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Lucas Guichard

published in: Journal of International Economics, 2020, 126, 103364

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13060

Why Do We Procrastinate? Present Bias and Optimism

Zachary Breig, Matthew Gibson, Jeffrey G. Shrader

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13054

Becoming Sensitive: Males' Risk and Time Preferences after the 2008 Financial Crisis

Michael Jetter, Leandro Magnusson, Sebastian Roth

published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 128, 103512

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13005

Behavioral Aspects of Communication in Organizations

Fortuna Casoria, Arno Riedl, Peter Werner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12992

Working Too Much for Too Little: Stochastic Rewards Cause Work Addiction

Brice Corgnet, Simon Gächter, Roberto Hernán González

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12979

Forward Guidance and Household Expectations

Olivier Coibion, Dimitris Georgarakos, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Michael Weber

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (5), 2131–217

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12953

Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments

Gaurab Aryal, Manudeep Bhuller, Fabian Lange

published in: American Economic Review, 2022, 112 (5), 1669-1702

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. 12945

Self-Perceptions about Academic Achievement: Evidence from Mexico City

Matteo Bobba, Veronica Frisancho

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 231 (1), 58 - 73

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12895

How Broadband Internet Affects Labor Market Matching

Manudeep Bhuller, Andreas Ravndal Kostøl, Trond Christian Vigtel

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. 12848

Peer Networks and Entrepreneurship: A Pan-African RCT

Fernando Vega-Redondo, Paolo Pin, Diego Ubfal, Cristiana Benedetti-Fasil, Charles Brummitt, Gaia Rubera, Dirk Hovy, Tommaso Fornaciari

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. 12813

Improving Access to Savings through Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence from African Smallholder Farmers

Catia Batista, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: World Development, 2020, 129, 104905

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12759

Political Activists as Free-Riders: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Anselm Hager, Lukas Hensel, Johannes Hermle, Christopher Roth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12758

Immigrant Examination Behavior

Gil S. Epstein, Shahar Sansani

published in: Education Economics, 2019, 28 (2), 136–155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12756

Relative Deprivation as a Cause of Risky Behaviors

Oded Stark

published in: Journal of Gambling Studies, 2021, 37, 817–835

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12752

Social Norms in Networks

Philip Ushchev, Yves Zenou

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2020, 185, 104969.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12749

Information Provision and Preferences for Education Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments in Three Countries

Maria Alejandra Cattaneo, Philipp Lergetporer, Guido Schwerdt, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann, Stefan C. Wolter

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 63, 101876

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12726

Female Workers, Male Managers: Gender, Leadership, and Risk-Taking

Ulf Rinne, Hendrik Sonnabend

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2022, 88 (3), 906 - 930

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12701

Foundations of the Rank-Dependent Probability Weighting Function

Matthew D. Rablen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12675

Facilitating Healthy Dietary Habits: An Experiment with a Low Income Population

Michèle Belot, Jonathan James, Jonathan Spiteri

published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 129, 103550

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12637

Pure Rank Preferences and Variation in Risk-Taking Behavior

Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski, Marcin Jakubek

published in: Economics Letters, 2019, 184, 108636

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. 12604

Policy Uncertainty and Information Flows: Evidence from Pension Reform Expectations

Emanuele Ciani, Adeline Delavande, Ben Etheridge, Marco Francesconi

published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (649), 98-129

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12583

Can a Deportation Policy Backfire?

Oded Stark, Lukasz Byra

published in: Public Choice, 2020, 183, 29 - 41

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. 12550

The Effects of Chess Instruction on Academic and Non-Cognitive Outcomes: Field Experimental Evidence from a Developing Country

Asadul Islam, Wang-Sheng Lee, Aaron Nicholas

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 150, 102615

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12543

Instruction Time, Information, and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Simon Calmar Andersen, Thorbjørn Sejr Guul, Maria Knoth Humlum

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12522

Gender Differences in Wage Expectations: Sorting, Children, and Negotiation Styles

Lukas Kiessling, Pia Pinger, Philipp K. Seegers, Jan Bergerhoff

published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 87, 12522

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12518

The Likelihood of Divorce and the Riskiness of Financial Decisions

Oded Stark, Krzysztof Szczygielski

published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2019, 85 (3), 209 - 229

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12512

Multiple Applications, Competing Mechanisms, and Market Power

James Albrecht, Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Susan Vroman

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2020, 190, 105121

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. 12498

How Does Consumption Respond to News about Inflation? Field Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial

Olivier Coibion, Dimitris Georgarakos, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Maarten van Rooij

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12423

On Social Preferences and the Intensity of Risk Aversion

Oded Stark

published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2019, 86 (3), 807 - 826

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. 12378

Testing the Reference-Dependent Model: A Laboratory Search Experiment

Takahiro Miura, Keigo Inukai, Masaru Sasaki

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12376

An Analysis of Beverage Size Restrictions

Brian A. Bourquard, Steven Y. Wu

published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020, 102 (1), 169-185

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. 12330

The Economic Preferences of Cooperative Managers

Guillermo Alves, Pablo Blanchard, Gabriel Burdin, Mariana Chávez, Andres Dean

revised version published as 'Like principal, like agent? Managerial preferences in employee-owned firms' in: Journal of Institutional Economics, 2022, 18 (6), 877 - 899

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12287

Hiring through Referrals in a Labor Market with Adverse Selection

Aurelie Dariel, Arno Riedl, Simon Siegenthaler

published as 'Referral hiring and wage formation in a market with adverse selection' in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, 130, 109 - 130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12271

Understanding Migration Aversion Using Elicited Counterfactual Choice Probabilities

Gizem Koşar, Tyler Ransom, Wilbert van der Klaauw

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 231 (1), 123-147

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12269

The Third Theorem of Welfare Economics: Report from a Fictional Field Study

Karine Nyborg

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. 12249

Do Party Positions Affect the Public's Policy Preferences?

Elisabeth Grewenig, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 179, 523-543

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12221

NDC: The Generic Old-Age Pension Scheme

Marek Góra, Edward Palmer

published in: Robert Holzmann, Edward Palmer, Robert Palacios, and Stefano Sacchi (eds.), Progress and Challenges of Nonfinancial Defined Pension, Vol. 1, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank, Washington DC, 2020, 167 - 188

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12217

Incentives, Search Engines, and the Elicitation of Subjective Beliefs: Evidence from Representative Online Survey Experiments

Elisabeth Grewenig, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann, Philipp Lergetporer

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 231 (1), 304-326

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12215

Self-Confidence and Reactions to Subjective Performance Evaluations

Charles Bellemare, Alexander Sebald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12184

Credence Goods Markets and the Informational Value of New Media: A Natural Field Experiment

Rudolf Kerschbamer, Daniel Neururer, Matthias Sutter

extended version published as 'Credence goods markets, online information and repair prices: A natural field experiment' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 220, 104891

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12175

The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance: How Information and Design Affect Public Preferences for Tuition

Philipp Lergetporer, Ludger Woessmann

now IZA Discussion Papers 14386 and 14991

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12153

Measuring Belief-Dependent Preferences without Information about Beliefs

Charles Bellemare, Alexander Sebald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12066

The Effect of Superstition on Health: Evidence from the Taiwanese Ghost Month

Martin Halla, Chia-Lun Liu, Jin-Tan Liu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12057

Risk Aversion and Entrepreneurship: New Evidence Exploiting Exposure to Massive Earthquakes in Italy