IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published as 'Further from the truth: The impact of moving from in-person to online settings on dishonest behavior' in: Journal of Experimental and Behavioral Economics , 2021, 90, 101649

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. 13515

Social Identity, Behavior, and Personality: Evidence from India

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13407

Improving Tax Compliance without Increasing Revenue: Evidence from Population-Wide Randomized Controlled Trials in Papua New Guinea

Christopher Hoy, Luke McKenzie, Mathias Sinning

forthcoming in: Economic Development and Cultural Change

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13241

Deliberation Enhances the Confirmation Bias: An Examination of Politics and Religion

David L. Dickinson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13012

Do Workers Discriminate against Their Out-group Employers? Evidence from the Gig Economy

Sher Afghan Asad, Ritwik Banerjee, Joydeep Bhattacharya

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12835

Reciprocity and the Interaction between the Unemployed and the Caseworker

Gerard J. van den Berg, Iris Kesternich, Gerrit Müller, Bettina M. Siflinger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12808

Lessons from Behavioral Economics to Improve Treatment Adherence in Parenting Programs: An Application to SMS

Nicolas Ajzenman, Florencia López Bóo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12782

Incorporating Conditional Morality into Economic Decisions

David Masclet, David L. Dickinson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12753

Some Contributions of Economics to the Study of Personality

James J. Heckman, Tomáš Jagelka, Tim Kautz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12280

Behavioral Economics and the Value of a Statistical Life

Thomas J. Kniesner

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2019, 58(2-3), 207-217

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12263

Behavioral Impediments to Valuing Annuities: Complexity and Choice Bracketing

Jeffrey R. Brown, Arie Kapteyn, Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Olivia S. Mitchell, Anya Samek

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12253

Advanced Counter-Biasing

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Kevin Benscheidt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12251

Motivating Bureaucrats through Social Recognition: External Validity — A Tale of Two States

Varun Gauri, Julian C. Jamison, Nina Mazar, Owen Ozier

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12154

Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance

David S. Lee, Pauline Leung, Christopher J. O'Leary, Zhuan Pei, Simon Quach

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (S2), S455-S506.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11599

Nudging Businesses to Pay Their Taxes: Does Timing Matter?

Christian Gillitzer, Mathias Sinning

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 169, 284-300

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. 11449

Survey Item-Response Behavior as an Imperfect Proxy for Unobserved Ability: Theory and Application

Sonja C. de New, Stefanie Schurer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11447

The Effects of Day Care on Health During Childhood: Evidence by Age

Gerard J. van den Berg, Bettina M. Siflinger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11446

A Community Based Program Promotes Sanitation

María Laura Alzúa, Habiba Djebbari, Amy J. Pickering

forthcoming in: Economic Development and Cultural Change

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11061

Testing for Repugnance in Economic Transactions: Evidence from Guest Work in the Gulf

Michael A. Clemens

published in: Journal of Legal Studies, 2018, 47 (S1), S5 - S44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10795

Behavioral Insights and Business Taxation: Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials

Nicholas Biddle, Katja Fels, Mathias Sinning

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2018, 18, 30-49

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, 62 (2018): 151-161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10618

Urban Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Developing Countries

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Grant Miller, Alfonso Miranda, Atheendar Venkataramani

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13 (4), 490-520.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10517

Conducting Interactive Experiments Online

Antonio A. Arechar, Simon Gächter, Lucas Molleman

revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 21(1), March 2018, 99-131; doi:10.1007/s10683-017-9527-2

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10386

Biology and Gender in the Labor Market

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark

published in: S. L. Averett, L. M. Argys and S. D. Hoffman (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, Oxford, 2018 (http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190628963.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190628963-e-15)

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. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2019.102824)

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. 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. 9899

Superstition, Conspicuous Spending, and Housing Markets: Evidence from Singapore

Sumit Agarwal, Jia He, Haoming Liu, I. P. L. Png, Tien Foo Sing, Wei-Kang Wong

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9387

Information Characteristics and Errors in Expectations: Experimental Evidence

Constantinos Antoniou, Glenn Harrison, Morten Lau, Daniel Read

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8853

Behavioral Economics of Education: Progress and Possibilities

Adam M. Lavecchia, Heidi Liu, Philip Oreopoulos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8678

Locus of Control and the Labor Market

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 4:3, 19 February 2015, doi:10.1186/s40172-014-0017-x.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8581

Choosing to Be Trained: Do Behavioral Traits Matter?

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Lata Gangadharan, Pushkar Maitra, Subha Mani, Samyukta Subramanian

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 110, 145-159.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8534

The Effect of Communication Channels on Promise-Making and Promise-Keeping

Julian Conrads, Tommaso G. Reggiani

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, 2017, 12(3), 595-611- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11403-016-0177-9

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8470

Behavioral Economics of Education

Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger, Helena Skyt Nielsen

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 3-17.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8323

Conspicuous Consumption in the United States and China

David Jinkins

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8108

Playing 'Hard to Get': An Economic Rationale for Crowding Out of Intrinsically Motivated Behavior

Wendelin Schnedler, Christoph Vanberg

published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 68, 106–115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7946

The Effect of Behavioral Codes and Gender on Honesty

Yuval Arbel, Ronen Bar-El, Erez Siniver, Yossef Tobol

published as 'Roll a Die and Tell a Lie: What Affects Honesty?' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 107, 153-172

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7801

Are Sunk Costs Irrelevant? Evidence from Playing Time in the National Basketball Association

Daniel Leeds, Michael A. Leeds, Akira Motomura

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7686

Criminal Victims, Victimized Criminals, or Both? A Deeper Look at the Victim-Offender Overlap

Horst Entorf

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7610

Incentives and Information as Driving Forces of Default Effects

Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, Andreas Grunewald

substantially revised version forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7508

Putting Structure on the RD Design: Social Transfers and Youth Inactivity in France

Olivier Bargain, Karina Doorley

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (4), 1032-1059.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7154

Framing Effects in an Employee Savings Scheme: A Non-Parametric Analysis

Peter Kooreman, Bertrand Melenberg, Henriëtte M. Prast, Nathanaël Vellekoop

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7079

Entrepreneurship Training and Self-Employment among University Graduates: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Tunisia

Patrick Premand, Stefanie Brodmann, Rita K. Almeida, Rebekka Grun, Mahdi Barouni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6516

Certainty and Severity of Sanctions in Classical and Behavioral Models of Deterrence: A Survey

Horst Entorf

published in: Gerben Bruinsma and David Weisburd (eds), Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Springer, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6049

The Effects of Tax Salience and Tax Experience on Individual Work Efforts in a Framed Field Experiment

Martin Fochmann, Joachim Weimann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5950

Integrating Personality Psychology into Economics

James J. Heckman

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. 5500

Personality Psychology and Economics

Mathilde Almlund, Angela Lee Duckworth, James J. Heckman, Tim Kautz

published in: E.A. Hanushek, S. Machin and S. Woessman (eds). Handbook of the Economics of Education, Amsterdam: Elsevier. 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5145

Are Income and Consumption Taxes Ever Really Equivalent? Evidence from a Real-Effort Experiment with Real Goods

Tomer Blumkin, Bradley Ruffle, Yosef Ganun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5058

Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motives: Standard and Behavioral Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets

James B. Rebitzer, Lowell J. Taylor

published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4A, Chapter 8, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5022

Gender Differences and Dynamics in Competition: The Role of Luck

David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2014, 5 (2), 351-376

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4968

Mentoring, Educational Services, and Economic Incentives: Longer-Term Evidence on Risky Behaviors from a Randomized Trial

Núria Rodríguez-Planas

substantially revised version published as 'Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Learning Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the United States' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (4), 121 - 139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4760

Slip Sliding Away: Further Union Decline in Germany and Britain

John T. Addison, Alex Bryson, Paulino Teixeira, André Pahnke

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 58 (4), 490-518

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4285

A Model of Overconfidence

Bruce A. Weinberg

published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2009, 14(4), 502-515

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3481

Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases

Jörg Oechssler, Andreas Roider, Patrick W. Schmitz

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 72 (1), 147-152