IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published online as 'Measuring 'Group Cohesion' to Reveal the Power of Social Relationships in Team Production' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, December 09 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15391

The Subjective Inflation Expectations of Households and Firms: Measurement, Determinants, and Implications

Michael Weber, Francesco D’Acunto, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Olivier Coibion

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives. 2022, 36 (3), 157–184

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15322

Preferences and Perceptions in Provision and Maintenance Public Goods

Simon Gächter, Felix Kölle, Simone Quercia

revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2022, 135, 338-355.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15175

The Determinants of Population Self-Control

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

updated version published as 'Surveillance and self-control' in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (660), 1666–1682

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15048

What's the Risk from Competing? Competition Aversion and the Gender Wage Gap

Chung Choe, SeEun Jung, Ronald L. Oaxaca

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14940

Transparency of the Welfare System and Labor Market Outcomes of Unemployed Workers

Sofie Cairo, Robert Mahlstedt

substantially revised version published as 'The disparate effects of information provision: A field experiment on the work incentives of social welfare' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 226, 104987

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14839

Formalized Employee Search and Labor Demand

Lukas Hensel, Tsegay Tekleselassie, Marc J. Witte

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14828

Dissecting Inequality-Averse Preferences

Marcelo Bergolo, Gabriel Burdin, Santiago Burone, Mauricio De Rosa, Matias Giaccobasso, Martin Leites

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 200, 782-802

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14614

Costly Mistakes: Why and When Spelling Errors in Resumes Jeopardise Interview Chances

Philippe Sterkens, Ralf Caers, Marijke De Couck, Michael Geamanu, Victor Van Driessche, Stijn Baert

published in: PLoS ONE, 2022, 18 (4), e0283280

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14608

Shifting Punishment on Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating

Michal Bauer, Jana Cahlíková, Julie Chytilová, Gerald Roland

published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (652), 1626–1640

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14585

Welfare versus Work under a Negative Income Tax: Evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver and Manitoba Income Maintenance Experiments

Chris Riddell, W. Craig Riddell

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 427 - 467

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14518

Fighting Climate Change: The Role of Norms, Preferences, and Moral Values

Peter Andre, Teodora Boneva, Felix Chopra, Armin Falk

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14337

How Has COVID-19 Affected the Intention to Migrate via the Backway to Europe and to a Neighboring African Country? Survey Evidence and a Salience Experiment in the Gambia

Tijan L. Bah, Catia Batista, Flore Gubert, David McKenzie

published as 'COVID-19 and Changes in Intentions to Migrate from The Gambia' in: Journal of African Economies, 2024, 33 (1), 1–19

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14304

Malleability of Preferences for Honesty

Johannes Abeler, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse

published online in: Economic Journal, 22 May 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13809

Whoever You Want Me to Be: Personality and Incentives

Andrew McGee, Peter McGee

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2024, 64 (3), 1268 - 1291

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13783

Cultural Identity and Social Capital in Italy

Daniel Sgroi, Michela Redoano, Federica Liberini, Ben Lockwood, Emanuele Bracco, Francesco Porcelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13578

Experimental Effects of an Absent Crowd on Performances and Refereeing Decisions during COVID-19

Alex Bryson, Peter Dolton, J. James Reade, Dominik Schreyer, Carl Singleton

published as 'Causal effects of an absent crowd on performances and refereeing decisions during Covid-19' in: Economic Letters , 2021, 198, 109664

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13515

Social Identity, Behavior, and Personality: Evidence from India

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2023, 59 (4), 472 - 489

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

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2024, 72 (2), 691–723

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13269

Market Competition and Discrimination

Abu Siddique, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou

published in: European Economic Review, 152, 104361, 2023

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. 12892

Analysing Tax-Benefit Reforms in the Netherlands: Using Structural Models and Natural Experiments

Henk-Wim de Boer, Egbert L. W. Jongen

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36 (1), 179-209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12882

Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation Revisited

James J. Heckman

published as 'Epilogue: Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation Revisited' in: Florent Bédécarrats, Isabelle Guérin, and François Roubaud (eds.), Randomized Control Trials in the Field of Development: A Critical Perspective, Oxford University Press, 2020, 304 - 330

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. 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. 12572

Learning Management through Matching: A Field Experiment Using Mechanism Design

Girum Abebe, Marcel Fafchamps, Michael Koelle, Simon Quinn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12540

The Role of Leaders in Inducing and Maintaining Cooperation: The CC Strategy

Michael Kosfeld

published in: Leadership Quarterly, 2020, 31 (3), 101292

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12513

Decisions on Extending Group Membership: Evidence from a Public Good Experiment

Christian Grund, Christine Harbring, Kirsten Thommes, Katja Rebecca Tilkes

published in: Games, 2020, 11 (4), 61

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12447

Training, Soft Skills and Productivity: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Maria Prada, Graciana Rucci, Sergio Urzua

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12342

Anti-Elite Politics and Emotional Reactions to Socio-Economic Problems. Experimental Evidence on 'Pocketbook Anger' from France, Germany, and the United States

Paul Marx

published in: British Journal of Sociology, 2020, 71 (4), 608-624.

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. 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. 12121

What Aspects of Formality Do Workers Value? Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Bangladesh

Minhaj Mahmud, Italo A. Gutierrez, Krishna B. Kumar, Shanthi Nataraj

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12064

Employer and Employee Preferences for Worker Benefits: Evidence from a Matched Survey on the Bangladesh Informal Sector

Krishna B. Kumar, Minhaj Mahmud, Shanthi Nataraj, Yoon Y. Cho

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11985

Who's Minding the Kids? Experimental Evidence on the Demand for Child Care Quality

James Gordon, Chris M. Herbst, Erdal Tekin

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 80, 102076

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11955

Civicness Drain

Marco Casari, Andrea Ichino, Moti Michaeli, Maria De Paola, Ginevra Marandola, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133, 649, 323â€“354.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11946

Behavioral Economic Phenomena in Decision-Making for Others

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2020, 77, 102180

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11814

How Wage Announcements Affect Job Search: A Field Experiment

Michèle Belot, Philipp Kircher, Paul Muller

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2022, 14 (4), 1–67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11763

Relative Income and Happiness: An Experiment

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Daniel Houser, Lina Diaz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11592

Using Ethical Dilemmas to Predict Antisocial Choices with Real Payoff Consequences: An Experimental Study

David L. Dickinson, David Masclet

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 166, 195-215.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11459

Evaluating Trust and Trustworthiness in Social Groups and Networks

Niall O'Higgins, Clelia Mazzoni, Patrizia Sbriglia

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11411

Measuring Costly Effort Using the Slider Task

David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2019, 21, 1-9

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11393

Police Patrols and Crime

Jordi Blanes i Vidal, Giovanni Mastrobuoni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11363

Does Marital Status Affect How Firms Interpret Job Applicants' Un/Employment Histories?

Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Sili Wang

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. 11317

The Formation and Malleability of Dietary Habits: A Field Experiment with Low Income Families

Michèle Belot, Noemi Berlin, Jonathan James, Valeria Skafida

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11315

The Misaddressed Letter Experiment

Gweneth Leigh, Andrew Leigh

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2018, 25 (21), 1527-1530

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11285

Does Labor Market Tightness Affect Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring?

Magnus Carlsson, Luca Fumarco, Dan-Olof Rooth

revised version published as 'Ethnic discrimination in hiring, labour market tightness and the business cycle - Evidence from field experiments.' in: Applied Economics, 2018, 50 (24), 2652 - 2663

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. 11117

Long-Run Consequences of Health Insurance Promotion: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ghana

Patrick Opoku Asuming, Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Armand Sim

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. 10948

Public Opinion on Education Policy in Germany

Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: M.R. West, L. Woessmann (eds.), Public Opinion and the Political Economy of Education Policy around the World, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021, 205-243

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. 10760

Committee Search with Ex-ante Heterogeneous Agents: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Keigo Inukai, Keisuke Kawata, Masaru Sasaki

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10738

Hiring Discrimination: An Overview of (Almost) All Correspondence Experiments Since 2005

Stijn Baert

revised version published in: S.M. Gaddis (ed.), Audit Studies Behind the Scenes with Theory, Method, and Nuance, Springer, 2018.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10738

Hiring Discrimination: An Overview of (Almost) All Correspondence Experiments Since 2005

Stijn Baert

revised version published in: S.M. Gaddis (ed.), Audit Studies Behind the Scenes with Theory, Method, and Nuance, Springer, 2018.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10517

Conducting Interactive Experiments Online

Antonio A. Arechar, Simon Gächter, Lucas Molleman

revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2018, 21( 1), 99 -131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10490

To 'Vape' or Smoke? A Discrete Choice Experiment among Adult Smokers

Joachim Marti, John Buckell, J. Catherine Maclean, Jody L. Sindelar

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2019, 57 (1), 705-725

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. 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. 10172

Beliefs and Utility: Experimental Evidence on Preferences for Information

Armin Falk, Florian Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9982

Group (Re-)formation in Public Good Games: The Tale of the Bad Apple

Christian Grund, Christine Harbring, Kirsten Thommes

published in: Journal of Ecconomic Behavior & Organization 145 (2018), 306-319.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9939

When Can Experimental Evidence Mislead? A Re-Assessment of Canada's Self Sufficiency Project

Chris Riddell, W. Craig Riddell

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