IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Parental Involvement and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences, Attitudes, and Personality Traits' in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (638), 2642–2670

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7430

Economic Consequences of Mispredicting Utility

Bruno S. Frey, Alois Stutzer

published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2014, 15(4), 937-956

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7383

The Impact of Risk Perception and Risk Attitudes on Corrupt Behavior: Evidence from a Petty Corruption Experiment

Behnud Mir Djawadi, René Fahr

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7372

Correlation Neglect in Belief Formation

Benjamin Enke, Florian Zimmermann

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86 (1), 313–33

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7346

Firm-Level Heterogeneity and the Decision to Export: A Real Option Approach

Wim Naudé, Thomas Gries, Natasa Bilkic

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7340

How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign

Chad Kendall, Tommaso Nannicini, Francesco Trebbi

published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (1), 322-353

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7338

The Radical Innovation Investment Decision Refined

Natasa Bilkic, Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7322

Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets

Roland Benabou

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (2), 429-462

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7321

Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking

Roland Benabou, Jean Tirole

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 124 (2), 305–370

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7311

Does Mental Productivity Decline with Age? Evidence from Chess Players

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Rocco

published as 'Selection and the Age-Productivity Profile: Evidence from Chess Players' in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2015, 110, 45–58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7271

Authority and Incentives in Organizations

Matthias Kräkel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7265

Does Everyone Use Probabilities? Intuitive and Rational Decisions about Stockholding

Johannes Binswanger, Martin Salm

revised version published as 'Does everyone use probabilities? The role of cognitive skills' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 98, 73-85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7247

The Effect of Deceptive Advertising on Consumption of the Advertised Good and its Substitutes: The Case of Over-the-Counter Weight Loss Products

John Cawley, Rosemary Avery, Matthew Eisenberg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7243

Gender and Competition: Evidence from Jumping Competitions

René Böheim, Mario Lackner

published as 'Gender and risk taking: evidence from jumping competitions' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 2015, 178( 4), 883–902

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7217

On the Power of Childhood Impressions for Skill Formation: Initial Evidence and Unsettled Questions

Friedhelm Pfeiffer

published in: German Review of Social Policy, 2013, 62 (5), 131-139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7216

Early Life Adversity and Children's Competence Development: Evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk

Dorothea Blomeyer, Katja Coneus, Manfred Laucht, Friedhelm Pfeiffer

published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics 2013, 233 (4), 468-485

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7183

Social Distance and Trust: Experimental Evidence from a Slum in Cairo

Christine Binzel, Dietmar Fehr

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 103, 99-106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7163

Competing with Asking Prices

Benjamin R. Lester, Ludo Visschers, Ronald P. Wolthoff

published in: Theoretical Economics, 2017, 12 (2), 731-770

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7147

Asymmetric Information between Employers

Lisa B. Kahn

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (4), 165-205

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7085

Framing Effects and Impatience: Evidence from a Large Scale Experiment

Eline van der Heijden, Tobias J. Klein, Wieland Müller, Jan Potters

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84(2), 701-711

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7063

Competition and Educational Productivity: Incentives Writ Large

W. Bentley MacLeod, Miguel Urquiola

published in: Paul Glewwe (ed.), Education Policy in Developing Countries, Chapter 7, University of Chicago Press, 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7051

Strategies of Cooperation and Punishment among Students and Clerical Workers

Maria Bigoni, Gabriele Camera, Marco Casari

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 94, 172-182

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7044

Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Sander M. Hoogendoorn, Simon C. Parker, Mirjam C. van Praag

published online in: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 30 November 2017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7030

The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power

Ernst Fehr, Holger Herz, Tom Wilkening

published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (4), 1325-59

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7029

Use and Abuse of Authority: A Behavioral Foundation of the Employment Relation

Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, Klaus M. Schmidt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6997

Cognitive Skills, Gender and Risk Preferences

Alison L. Booth, Pamela Katic

published in: Economic Record, 2013, 89 (284),19-30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6947

Gender, Risk and Venture Creation Intentions

Christopher Dawson, Andrew Henley

published in: Journal of Small Business Management, 2015, 53(2), 501-515

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6922

To See Is To Believe: Common Expectations in Experimental Asset Markets

Stephen L. Cheung, Morten Hedegaard, Stefan Palan

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 66, 84-96

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6919

Truth-Telling: A Representative Assessment

Johannes Abeler, Anke Becker, Armin Falk

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 113, 96-104

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6877

An Alternative Explanation for the Variation in Reported Estimates of Risk Aversion

Denis Conniffe, Donal O'Neill

published in: Journal of Risk, 2013, 15 (4), 91-102

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6861

An Experimental Test of a Committee Search Model

Yoichi Hizen, Keisuke Kawata, Masaru Sasaki

published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 61, 59-76

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6860

Why Are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions?

Stefan Bauernschuster, Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich, Jens Suedekum

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 98, 56-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6851

Trust and Trustworthiness under the Prospect Theory: A Field Experiment in Vietnam

Quang Nguyen, Marie Claire Villeval, Hui Xu

revised version published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, 64 (3), 545-572

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6844

Entrepreneurship: Cause or Consequence of Financial Optimism?

Christopher Dawson, David Emmanuel de Meza, Andrew Henley, Reza Arabsheibani

published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2014, 23(4), 717–742

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6824

Risk and Saving in Two-Person Households: More Scope for Precautionary Saving

Patricia Apps, Yuri Andrienko, Ray Rees

published as 'Risk and Precautionary Saving in Two-Person Households' in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (3), 1040-1046

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6762

Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences: Comment

Stephen L. Cheung

revised version published as 'Comment on "Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences": On the Elicitation of Time Preference under Conditions of Risk' in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (7), 2242-2260

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6756

Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters

Lisa A. Cameron, Manisha Shah

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50 (2), 484-515

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6750

Toward the Integration of Personality Theory and Decision Theory in the Explanation of Economic and Health Behavior

Aldo Rustichini, Colin G. DeYoung, Jon E. Anderson, Stephen V. Burks

revised version published as 'Toward the Integration of Personality Theory and Decision Theory in the Explanation of Economic Behavior' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2016, 64, 122-137

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6731

Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Sander M. Hoogendoorn, Mirjam C. van Praag

revised version available here

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6710

The "Bomb" Risk Elicitation Task

Paolo Crosetto, Antonio Filippin

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2013, 47(1), 31-65

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6642

Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank

Thierry Madies, Marie Claire Villeval, Malgorzata Wasmer

revised version published as 'Intergenerational Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition' in: European Economic Review, 2013, 61, 153-168.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6623

Employer Learning and the "Importance" of Skills

Audrey Light, Andrew McGee

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50(1), 72-107

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6592

Medical Marijuana Laws and Teen Marijuana Use

D. Mark Anderson, Benjamin Hansen, Daniel I. Rees

published in: American Law and Economics Review, 2015,17 (2), 495-528

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6560

Do Public Health Interventions Crowd Out Private Health Investments? Malaria Control Policies in Eritrea

Pedro Carneiro, Andrea Locatelli, Tewolde Ghebremeskel, Joseph Keating

substantially revised version pubished in: Labour Economics, 2017, 45, 107 - 115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6530

Ingratiation and Favoritism: Experimental Evidence

Stéphane R. Robin, Agnieszka Rusinowska, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 66, 16-38.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6491

The Good, the Bad and the Naive: Do Fair Prices Signal Good Types or Do They Induce Good Behaviour?

Uwe Dulleck, David W. Johnston, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Matthias Sutter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6475

Quitting and Peer Effects at Work

Julie Rosaz, Robert Slonim, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 39, 55-67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6470

The Relationship Between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures

Anke Becker, Thomas Deckers, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse

published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2012, 4, 453-478

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6448

The Role of Salience in Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Florian Englmaier, Andreas Roider, Uwe Sunde

revised version published as 'The Role of Communication of Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment' in: Management Science, 2017, 63(12), 4061-4080

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6447

Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data: An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes

Daniel Pollmann, Thomas Dohmen, Franz C. Palm

published in: De Economist, 2020, 168, 519 - 540

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6425

Image and Misreporting

Mara Ewers, Florian Zimmermann

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 13 (2), 363-380

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6411

Information and Competition Entry

Mara Ewers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6400

Salience, Risky Choices and Gender

Alison L. Booth, Patrick J. Nolen

published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (2), 517 - 520

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6380

Does Family Composition Affect Social Networking?

Odelia Heizler (Cohen), Ayal Kimhi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6325

Announcing an Increase in the State Pension Age and the Recession: Which Mattered More for Expected Retirement Ages?

Alan Barrett, Irene Mosca

published as 'Increasing the State Pension Age, the Recession and Expected Retirement Ages' in: Economic and Social Review 2013, 44 (4), 447-472

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6304

Testing Canonical Tournament Theory: On the Impact of Risk, Social Preferences and Utility Structure

Roman M. Sheremeta, Steven Y. Wu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6290

Laws and Norms

Roland Benabou, Jean Tirole

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6288

Financing Entrepreneurship and the Old-Boy Network

Eren Inci, Simon C. Parker

published in: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2013, 22 (2), 232-258

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6223

Efficient Coordination in Weakest-Link Games

Arno Riedl, Ingrid M.T. Rohde, Martin Strobel

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2016, 83 (2), 737-767

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6203

Updating, Self-Confidence and Discrimination

Konstanze Albrecht, Emma von Essen, Juliane Parys, Nora Szech

published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 60, 144-169

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6200

Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship

Chihmao Hsieh, Simon C. Parker, Mirjam C. van Praag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6133

Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?

Alison L. Booth, Lina Marcela Cardona Sosa, Patrick J. Nolen

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 99, 126-154

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6117

Family Background, Self-Confidence and Economic Outcomes

Antonio Filippin, Marco Paccagnella

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31, 824-834

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6095

How Do Informal Agreements and Renegotiation Shape Contractual Reference Points?

Ernst Fehr, Oliver Hart, Christian Zehnder

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 13 (1), 1-28

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6087

Strategic Ignorance in Bargaining

Julian Conrads, Bernd Irlenbusch

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 92, 104-115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6061

Add-on Pricing, Naive Consumers, and the Hidden Welfare Costs of Education

Michael Kosfeld, Ulrich Schüwer

published as 'Add-on Pricing in Retail Financial Markets and the Fallacies of Consumer Education' in: Review of Finance, 2017, 21 (3), 1189 - 1216

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6060

Private Information, Human Capital, and Optimal "Home Bias" in Financial Markets

Isaac Ehrlich, Jong Kook Shin, Yong Yin

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2011, 5 (3), 255-301

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6002

It's About Time: Implications of the Period Length in an Equilibrium Job Search Model

Ronald P. Wolthoff

published in: International Economic Review, 2014, 55 (3), 839-867

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5957

Learning about a Class of Belief-Dependent Preferences without Information on Beliefs

Charles Bellemare, Alexander Sebald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5948

Search, Effort, and Locus of Control

Andrew McGee, Peter McGee

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 126 (Part A), 89 - 101

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5936

Wage Dispersion and Labor Turnover with Adverse Selection

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Leo Kaas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5884

Lies and Biased Evaluation: A Real-Effort Experiment

Julie Rosaz, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84 (2), 537-549.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5862

Chicken or Checkin'? Rational Learning in Repeated Chess Games

Christer Gerdes, Patrik Gränsmark, Michael Rosholm

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5859

Simultaneous Search and Network Efficiency

Pieter A. Gautier, Christian Holzner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5802

Goals and Psychological Accounting

Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger

revised version published as 'Goals and Bracketing under Mental Accounting' in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 162, 305–351.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5790

Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality: New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research

Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2012, 33 (2), 319-324

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5787

Social Networks and Parental Behavior in the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion

Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2016, 7, 969-995.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5786

International Migration, Imperfect Information, and Brain Drain

Vianney Dequiedt, Yves Zenou

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 102, 62-78.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5759

The Future of Retirement and the Pension System: How the Public's Expectations Vary over Time and across Socio-Economic Groups

Luc Bissonnette, Arthur van Soest

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1:2

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5728

The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

John Cawley, Christopher J. Ruhm

published in: Mark V. Pauly, Thomas G. McGuire, and Pedro P. Barros (eds.), Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 2. New York: Elsevier, 2012, 95-199 95-199

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5700

What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods

Loukas Balafoutas, Adrian Beck, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Matthias Sutter

revised and extended version published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (3), 876-891

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5699

Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Guillermo Cruces, Ricardo Perez Truglia, Martin Tetaz

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 98, 100-112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5679

Is Earnings Uncertainty Relevant for Educational Choice? An Empirical Analysis for China

Joop Hartog, Xiaohao Ding, Juan Liao

published in: Education Economics, 2014 , 22 (5), 471-483

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5663

How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country

Alessandro Cigno

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2012, 26 (1), 61-67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5642

Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Both Labor Supply and Labor Demand Responses

Laurence Jacquet, Etienne Lehmann, Bruno Van der Linden

revised version published as 'Optimal Income Taxation with Kalai Wage Bargaining and Endogenous Participation' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2014, 42(2), 381-402

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5605

Identification Problems in Personality Psychology

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

published in: Personality and Individual Differences, 2011, 51 (3), 315-320

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5575

Experts in Experiments: How Selection Matters for Estimated Distributions of Risk Preferences

Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Arthur van Soest, Erik Wengström

revised version published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2011, 42 (2), 159–190

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5566

Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed

Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos

revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2014, 42 (4), 787-814