IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'All Eyes on the Price: An Assessment of the Willingness-to-Pay for Eyeglasses in Rural Burkina Faso' in: Health Economics, 2022, 31 (7), 1347 - 1367

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11918

Time Will Tell: Recovering Preferences When Choices Are Noisy

Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Ernst Fehr, Nick Netzer

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (6), 1828–1877

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11916

Superstar Economists: Coauthorship Networks and Research Output

Chih-Sheng Hsieh, Michael D. König, Xiaodong Liu, Christian Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11901

Civil War, Natural Disaster and Risk Preferences: Evidence from Sri Lankan Twins

Nathan Kettlewell, Fruhling Rijsdijk, Sisira Siribaddana, Athula Sumathipala, Agnieszka Tymula, Helena Zavos, Nicholas Glozier

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11897

Negotiating Cooperation under Uncertainty: Communication in Noisy, Indefinitely Repeated Interactions

Fabian Dvorak, Sebastian Fehrler

published in: American Economic Review, 2024, 16 (3), 232 - 258

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11891

The Great Recession and Children's Mental Health in Australia

Melisa Bubonya, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Daniel Christensen, Sarah E. Johnson, Stephen R. Zubrick

published in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019, 16 (4), 537

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11880

Prediction Based on Entrepreneurship-Prone Personality Profiles: Sometimes Worse Than the Toss of a Coin

Alexander Konon, Alexander S. Kritikos

published in: Small Business Economics, 2019, 53 (1), 1-20

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11817

Diabetes, Employment and Behavioural Risk Factors in China: Marginal Structural Models versus Fixed Effects Models

Till Seuring, Pieter Serneels, Marc Suhrcke, Max Bachmann

published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2020, 29, 100925

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11816

Climatic Roots of Loss Aversion

Oded Galor, Viacheslav Savitskiy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11777

Migration, Political Institutions, and Social Networks

Catia Batista, Julia Seither, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: World Development, 2019, 117, 328-343

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11751

Adverse Selection in Low-Income Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from a RCT in Pakistan

Torben Fischer, Markus Frölich, Andreas Landmann

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, 15 (3), 313–340

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11730

Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 188, 104226

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11683

Testing

Annika B. Bergbauer, Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (2), 349-388

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11665

Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning

Roland Benabou, Armin Falk, Jean Tirole

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. 11637

Incentivizing School Attendance in the Presence of Parent-Child Information Frictions

Damien de Walque, Christine Valente

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (3), 256–285

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11538

Less Is Not More: Information Presentation Complexity and 401(k) Planning Choices

Eric Cardella, Charlene M. Kalenkoski, Michael Parent

published as 'Less is not more: 401(k) plan information and retirement planning choices' in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2023, 22 (3), 331-351.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11536

Information Frictions and Learning Dynamics: Evidence from Tax Avoidance in Ecuador

Albrecht Bohne, Jan Sebastian Nimczik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11535

Tax Evasion on a Social Network

Duccio Gamannossi degl’Innocenti, Matthew D. Rablen

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 169, 79-91

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11491

News Media and Crime Perceptions: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Nicola Mastrorocco, Luigi Minale

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 165, 230-255

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11489

The Moral Hazard of Lifesaving Innovations: Naloxone Access, Opioid Abuse, and Crime

Jennifer Doleac, Anita Mukherjee

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11466

A New Estimator of Search Duration and Its Application to the Marriage Market

Pavel Jelnov

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (6) , 1089-1116

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11453

Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economica, 2021, 88(351), 624-670

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11436

Conformism, Social Norms and the Dynamics of Assimilation

Gonzalo Olcina, Fabrizio Panebianco, Yves Zenou

published as 'Conformism, social pressure, and the dynamics of integration' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 2020, 279 - 304

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11413

Social Interactions and Stigmatized Behavior: "Donating" Blood Plasma in Rural China

Xi Chen, David E. Sahn, Xiaobo Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11350

Do School Principals Respond to Increased Public Scrutiny? New Survey Evidence from Australia

Michael Coelli, Gigi Foster, Andrew Leigh

published in: Economic Record, 2018, 94 (S1), 73-101

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11337

Evaluating Intergenerational Persistence of Economic Preferences: A Large Scale Experiment with Families in Bangladesh

Shyamal Chowdhury, Matthias Sutter, Klaus F. Zimmermann

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. 11289

Empowerment and the Dark Side of Delegation

Matthias Kräkel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11267

Better Together? Social Networks in Truancy and the Targeting of Treatment

Magdalena Bennett, Peter Bergman

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (1), 1-36

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11236

The Risk and Time Preferences of Young Truants and Their Parents

Emma Antrobus, Victoria Baranov, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Lorraine Mazerolle, Agnieszka Tymula

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11207

Fake News

Andreas Grunewald, Matthias Kräkel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11201

Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Risk-Taking among Children, Teenagers, and College Students: Evidence from Jeopardy!

Michael Jetter, Jay K. Walker

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2020, 20 (2), 20190179.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11177

Papa Does Preach: Daughters and Polarisation of Attitudes toward Abortion

Clémentine Van Effenterre

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 179, 188-201

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11158

Socio-Economic Status and Inequalities in Children's IQ and Economic Preferences

Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Pia Pinger, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (9), 2504 -2545

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11149

Inequality, Good Governance and Endemic Corruption

Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2019, 26, 999 - 1017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11125

Human Capital, Signaling, and Employer Learning: What Insights Do We Gain from Regression Discontinuity Designs?

Georg Graetz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11119

Until Taxes Do Us Part: Tax Penalties or Bonuses and the Marriage Decision

Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer, Kerstin Roeder

published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 118, 37–50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11098

Overoptimistic Entrepreneurs: Predicting Wellbeing Consequences of Self-Employment

Reto Odermatt, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Alois Stutzer

revised version published as 'Are Newly Self-Employed Overly Optimistic About Their Future Well-Being?' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2021, 95, 101779

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11015

Media and Occupational Choice

Alexander Konon, Alexander S. Kritikos

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. 10984

Trading While Sleepy? Circadian Mismatch and Excess Volatility in a Global Experimental Asset Market

David L. Dickinson, Ananish Chaudhuri, Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy

revised version published as 'Trading while sleepy? Circadian mismatch and mispricing in a global experimental asset market' in: Experimental Economics, 2020, 23, 526 - 533

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. 10955

Motivational Goal Bracketing: An Experiment

Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10932

Gender Stereotyping and Self-Stereotyping Attitudes: A Large Field Study of Managers

Tor Eriksson, Nina Smith, Valdemar Smith

published as 'Gender stereotyping and self-stereotyping among Danish managers' in: Gender in Management: An International Journal, 2021, 36 (5), 622-639

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10919

Positively Aware? Conflicting Expert Reviews and Demand for Medical Treatment

Jorge Balat, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Shaiza Qayyum

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10912

Employer Screening Costs, Recruiting Strategies, and Labor Market Outcomes: An Equilibrium Analysis of On-Campus Recruiting

Russell Weinstein

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 55, 282-299

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10911

University Selectivity, Initial Job Quality, and Longer-Run Salary

Russell Weinstein

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. 10844

Does Random Selection of Commissioners Improve the Quality of Selected Candidates? An Investigation in the Italian Academia

Daniele Checchi, Silvia De Poli, Enrico Rettore

published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2018, 4 (2), 211-247

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. 10784

Nudging Study Habits: A Field Experiment on Peer Tutoring in Higher Education

Nicholas Wilson, Todd Pugatch

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 62, 151 - 161

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. 10744

Nudging Households to Take Up Health Insurance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Burkina Faso

Fadima Bocoum, Michael Grimm, Renate Hartwig, Nathalie Zongo

published as 'Can information increase the understanding and uptake of insurance? Lessons from a randomized experiment in rural Burkina Faso' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 220, 102-111.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10717

Female Babies and Risk-Aversion

Ganna Pogrebna, Andrew J. Oswald, David Haig

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 10 - 17

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10684

Digital and Competing Information Sources: Impact on Environmental Concern and Prospects for Cooperation

Vladimir Udalov, Paul J. J. Welfens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10683

Is Transparency an Anti-Corruption Myth?

Cameron K. Murray, Paul Frijters, Markus Schaffner

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. 10603

Risk Attitudes and Household Migration Decisions

Christian Dustmann, Francesco Fasani, Xin Meng, Luigi Minale

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023 58 (1), 112-145

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. 10530

Identification and Decompositions in Probit and Logit Models

Chung Choe, Seeun Jung, Ronald L. Oaxaca

published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 1479–1492 .

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10520

Pledging, Praising and Shaming: Experimental Labour Markets in Ghana

Elwyn Davies, Marcel Fafchamps

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10519

Risk Aversion and Son Preference: Experimental Evidence from Chinese Twin Parents

Soo Hong Chew, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang, Songfa Zhong

published in: Management Science, 2018, 64 (8), 3496 - 3970

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10467

Public-Sector Employment in an Equilibrium Search and Matching Model

James Albrecht, Monica Robayo-Abril, Susan Vroman

published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (617), 35-61

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10434

Unawareness and Selective Disclosure: The Effect of School Quality Information on Property Prices

John de New, Syed Hasan, Nikhil Jha, Mathias Sinning

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 145, 449-464

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10406

Locus of Control and Investment in Training

Marco Caliendo, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Helke Seitz, Arne Uhlendorff

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57(4), 1311-1349

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10396

Exposing Corruption: Can Electoral Competition Discipline Politicians?

Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Eilon Solan

published as 'Electoral Competition, Electoral Uncertainty and Corruption: Theory and Evidence from India' in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2024, 227, 1056640

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10372

The More You Know: Information Effects on Job Application Rates in a Large Field Experiment

Laura Katherine Gee

published in: Management Science, 2018, 65 (5), 2077 - 2094

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10360

Learning about Oneself: The Effects of Performance Feedback on School Choice

Matteo Bobba, Veronica Frisancho

Updated version available as DP 16168.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10357

How Information Affects Support for Education Spending: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States

Martin R. West, Ludger Woessmann, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 167, 138-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10348

Internal and External Validity of Experimental Risk and Time Preferences

Christian Belzil, Modibo Sidibé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10264

Benefit Duration and Job Search Effort: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Andreas Lichter

substantially revised version published as 'Benefit duration, job search behavior and re-employment' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 193, 104326 (joint with Amelie Schiprowski)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10258

Who Runs? Honesty and Self-Selection into Politics

Sebastian Fehrler, Urs Fischbacher, Maik T. Schneider

published as 'Honesty and Self-Selection into Cheap Talk' in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130, 2468-2496

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10257

Free-Riding and Knowledge Spillovers in Teams: The Role of Social Ties

Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 112, 74-90.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10188

Preferences for Truth-Telling

Johannes Abeler, Daniele Nosenzo, Collin Raymond

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