IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'International migration as a driver of political and social change: evidence from Morocco' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32, 1171 - 120

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9670

Self-Reported Health and Gender: The Role of Social Norms

Eve Caroli, Lexane Weber-Baghdiguian

published in Social Science & Medicine, 153, 220-229, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9615

The Importance of Peers for Compliance with Norms of Fair Sharing

Simon Gächter, Leonie Gerhards, Daniele Nosenzo

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 97, 72-86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9216

Can I Have Permission to Leave the House? Return Migration and the Transfer of Gender Norms

Michele Tuccio, Jackline Wahba

published as 'Return Migration and the Transfer of Gender Norms: Evidence from the Middle East' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (4), 1006 - 1029

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9011

Conspicuous Work: Peer Working Time, Labour Supply and Happiness for Male Workers

Marion Collewet, Andries de Grip, Jaap de Koning

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 68, 79–90

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8933

Gender Differences in the Distribution of Total Work-Time of Latin-American Families: The Importance of Social Norms

Juan Carlos Campaña, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina

published as 'Gender norms and the gendered distribution of total work in Latin American households' in: Feminist Economics, 2018, 24 (1), 35-62

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8444

Desert and Inequity Aversion in Teams

David Gill, Rebecca Stone

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 123, 42-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8365

Changing Norms about Gender Inequality in Education: Evidence from Bangladesh

Niels-Hugo Blunch, Maitreyi Bordia Das

published in: Demographic Research, 2015, 32, 183-218.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8046

Inputs, Gender Roles or Sharing Norms? Assessing the Gender Performance Gap Among Informal Entrepreneurs in Madagascar

Christophe Jalil Nordman, Julia Vaillant

Non-technical version published as 'Entreprenariat informel et genre à Madagascar : le rôle des normes de solidarité et des responsabilités domestiques dans les écarts de performances' in: Mondes en Développement, 2014, 42 (2), 166, 59-72

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7888

Employment Dynamics and Redistributive Policies under Workers' Social Norms

Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira, Teresa Lloyd-Braga, Leonor Modesto

published as 'The destabilizing effects of the social norm to work under a social security system' in: Mathematical Social Sciences, 2015, 76, 64-72

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7480

Gender Differences in Preferences for Health-Related Absences from Work

Daniel Avdic, Per Johansson

published as 'Absenteeism, Gender and the Morbidity–Mortality Paradox' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32 (2), 440 - 462

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7477

Can Contracts Signal Social Norms? Experimental Evidence

Anastasia Danilov, Dirk Sliwka

revised version published in: Management Science, 2017, 63 (2), 459–476

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7059

Going to School in Purdah: Female Schooling, Mobility Norms and Madrasas in Bangladesh

Niaz Asadullah, Zaki Wahhaj

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6998

Nobody Likes a Rat: On the Willingness and Consequences of Reporting Lies

Ernesto Reuben, Matthew Stephenson

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 93, 384-391

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6961

Trust and Cheating

Jeffrey V. Butler, Paola Giuliano, Luigi Guiso

published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (595), 1703 - 1738

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6721

Redistributive Preferences, Redistribution, and Inequality: Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries

Andreas Kuhn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6446

Social Insurance Networks

Simen Markussen, Knut Røed

revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50(4), 1081-1113

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6345

Peer Effects in Pro-Social Behavior: Social Norms or Social Preferences?

Simon Gächter, Daniele Nosenzo, Martin Sefton

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (3), 548-573

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6290

Laws and Norms

Roland Benabou, Jean Tirole

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6290

Laws and Norms

Roland Benabou, Jean Tirole

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6277

Peer Effects and Social Preferences in Voluntary Cooperation

Christian Thöni, Simon Gächter

revised version published as 'Peer effects and social preferences in voluntary cooperation: A theoretical and experimental analysis' in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2015, 48, 72 - 88

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6245

Sickness Absence and Local Benefit Cultures

Assar Lindbeck, Mårten Palme, Mats Persson

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (1), 49-78

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5818

A Multi-Method Approach to Identifying Norms and Normative Expectations within a Corporate Hierarchy: Evidence from the Financial Services Industry

Stephen V. Burks, Erin L. Krupka

revised version published in: Management Science, 2012, 1 (58), 203-217

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5556

Heterogeneous Productivity in Voluntary Public Good Provision: An Experimental Analysis

Gerlinde Fellner, Yoshio Iida, Sabine Kröger, Erika Seki

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5502

Fertility and the Plough

Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn

published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (3), 499-503

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5264

Social Norms and Economic Incentives in Firms

Steffen Huck, Dorothea Kübler, Jörgen W. Weibull

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, 83 (2), 173-185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5122

Does Culture Matter?

Raquel Fernández

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4843

The Link between the Intrinsic Motivation to Comply and Compliance Behavior: A Critical Appraisal of Existing Evidence

Martin Halla

published in: Friedrich Schneider (ed.), The Handbook on the Shadow Economy, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011, 375-408

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4529

Mother or Child? Intra-Household Redistribution under Gender-Asymmetric Altruism

Indraneel Dasgupta

published in: Journal of Globalization and Development, 2011, 2 (1), Article 2

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4420

Understanding Compulsory Schooling Legislation: A Formal Model and Implications for Empirical Analysis

Mark Gradstein, Moshe Justman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4343

Caste and Punishment: The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement

Karla Hoff, Mayuresh Kshetramade, Ernst Fehr

published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (556), 449-475

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4303

Enforcement of Contribution Norms in Public Good Games with Heterogeneous Populations

Ernesto Reuben, Arno Riedl

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2013, 77 (1), 122-137

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4165

An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State: The Case of Benefit Morale

Martin Halla, Mario Lackner, Friedrich Schneider

revised version published in: Kyklos, 2010, 63 (1), 55-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3912

International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility

Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier, Maurice Schiff

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2013, 46 (4)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3860

Identifying Social Norms Using Coordination Games: Why Does Dictator Game Sharing Vary?

Erin L. Krupka, Roberto A. Weber

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (3), 495–524

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3773

Institutions, Social Norms, and Bargaining Power: An Analysis of Individual Leisure Time in Couple Households

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Leslie S. Stratton

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (3), 325-343

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3536

Taxes and Benefits: Two Distinct Options to Cheat on the State?

Martin Halla, Friedrich Schneider

revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76(3), 411–431

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3469

Endogenous Reversals of Fortune

Mark Gradstein

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3169

The Focusing and Informational Effects of Norms on Pro-Social Behavior

Erin L. Krupka, Roberto A. Weber

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2009, 30 (3), 307-320

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2666

Smoking and Social Interaction

Panu Poutvaara, Lars Siemers

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (6), 1503–1515

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2580

Fun with Matched Firm-Employee Data: Progress and Road Maps

Daniel S. Hamermesh

published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (4), 663-673

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2500

Reciprocity and Payment Schemes: When Equality Is Unfair

Johannes Abeler, Steffen Altmann, Sebastian Kube, Matthias Wibral

substantially revised version appeared as DP No. 4262

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2323

The Wage Effects of Social Norms: Evidence of Deviations from Peers’ Body-Mass in Europe

René Fahr

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2312

The Social Contract with Endogenous Sentiments

Matteo Cervellati, Joan Esteban, Laurence Kranich

revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 95 (9-10), 612-627

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2293

Trust as a Signal of a Social Norm and the Hidden Costs of Incentive Schemes

Dirk Sliwka

published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (3), 999-1012

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2236

The Limits of Self-Governance in the Presence of Spite: Experimental Evidence from Urban and Rural Russia

Simon Gächter, Benedikt Herrmann

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (2), 193-210

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1977

Public Implementation Eliminates Detrimental Effects of Punishment on Human Cooperation

Erte Xiao, Daniel Houser

revised version published as "Punish in Public" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (7-8), 1006-1017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1851

The Sociology of Groups and the Economics of Incentives: Theory and Evidence on Compensation Systems

William E. Encinosa III, Martin Gaynor, James B. Rebitzer

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2007, 62 (2), 187-214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1695

Incentives and Prosocial Behavior

Roland Benabou, Jean Tirole

published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (5), 1652-1678

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1224

Jewish Occupational Selection: Education, Restrictions, or Minorities?

Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein

published in: Journal of Economic History, 2005, 65 (4), 922-948

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1202

Approval of Equal Rights and Gender Differences in Well-Being

Rafael Lalive, Alois Stutzer

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (3), 933-962

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1006

Community Norms and Organizational Practices: The Legitimization of Wage Arrears in Russia, 1992-1999

John S. Earle, Andrew Spicer, Klara Sabirianova Peter

revised version published as 'The Normalization of Deviant Organizational Practices: Wage Arrears in Russia, 1991-98' in: Academy of Management Journal, 2010, 53 (2), 218 - 237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 962

Norm-Based Trade Union Membership: Evidence for Germany

Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg

published in: German Economic Review, 2004, 5(4), 481-504

IZA Discussion Paper No. 670

From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History

Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2007, 5 (5), 885-926,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 507

Psychological Foundations of Incentives

Ernst Fehr, Armin Falk

published in: European Economic Review, 2002, 46 (4-5), 687-724