IZA Discussion Papers

published online as 'Learning from experience: Flooding and insurance take-up in the flood zone and its periphery' in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 04 March 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16890

There and Back Again: Women's Marginal Commuting Costs

Annette Bergemann, Stephan Brunow, Isabel Stockton

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16834

Do Economic Preferences of Children Predict Behavior?

Laura Breitkopf, Shyamal Chowdhury, Shambhavi Priyam, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Matthias Sutter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16818

Disparities in Psychological Traits and Income: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the U.S.

Aurelie Dariel, John C. Ham, Nikos Nikiforakis, Jan Stoop

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16814

The Role of Payoff Parameters for Cooperation in the One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma

Simon Gächter, Kyeongtae Lee, Martin Sefton, Till O. Weber

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 166, 104753,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16724

The Impact of Comprehensive Student Support on Crime: Evidence from the Pathways to Education Program

Adam M. Lavecchia, Philip Oreopoulos, Noah Spencer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16716

Measuring Job Risks When Hedonic Wage Models Do Not Do the Job

Susana Ferreira, Sara Martinez-de-Morentin, Amaya Erro-Garcés

published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2025, 130, 103120

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16715

Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change: Economic Impacts and Adaptation Policies

Susana Ferreira

published in: Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2024, 16, 207-231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16707

COVID-19 Vaccine and Risk-Taking

Shanike J. Smart, Solomon Polachek

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2024, 68, 25–49

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16662

Capital Markets, Temporary Migration and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Bangladesh

Laurent Bossavie, Joseph-Simon Goerlach, Çağlar Özden, He Wang

published in: World Development, 2024, 176, 106505

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16633

The Heritability of Economic Preferences

Nathan Kettlewell, Agnieszka Tymula, Hong Il Yoo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16573

Can Altruism Lead to a Willingness to Take Risks?

Oded Stark

published in: Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 2024, 48 (2), 272-278

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16561

Utilitarianism Is Implied by Social and Individual Dominance

Johan E. Gustafsson, Dean Spears, Stéphane Zuber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16478

Navigating Ambiguity: Imprecise Probabilities and the Updating of Disease Risk Beliefs

Jason Kerwin, Divya Pandey

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16445

Risk Attitudes and Informal Employment in Ukraine

Thomas Dohmen, Melanie Khamis, Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16343

Order Effects in Eliciting Preferences

Orestis Kopsacheilis, Sebastian J. Goerg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16140

Has China's Growth Gone from Miracle to Malady?

Eswar Prasad

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16138

The Gender Reference Point Gap

Nathan Kettlewell, Jonathan Levy, Agnieszka Tymula, Xueting Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16102

Financial Literacy, Experimental Preference Measures and Field Behavior – A Randomized Educational Intervention

Matthias Sutter, Michael Weyland, Anna Untertrifaller, Manuel Froitzheim, Sebastian O. Schneider

this paper presents an update of the former IZA Discussion Paper No. 13566

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16084

Risk Aversion and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

Anthony Lepinteur, Liyousew G. Borga, Andrew E. Clark, Claus Vögele, Conchita D'Ambrosio

published in: Health Economics, 2023, 32, 1659-1669

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16075

Permanent Instability of Preferences after COVID-19 Crisis: A Natural Experiment from Urban Burkina Faso

Delphine Boutin, Laurene Petifour, Haris Megzari

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16053

Risk Compensation after COVID-19 Vaccination

Jisoo Hwang, Seung-sik Hwang, Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Jungmin Lee, Junseok Lee

updated version published as 'Risk compensation after COVID-19 vaccination: Evidence from vaccine rollout by exact birth date in South Korea' in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (8), 1811 - 1830

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15996

Determinants of Heat Risk in an Aging Population: A Machine Learning Approach

Hannah Klauber, Nicolas Koch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15982

Adapting to Climate Risk? Local Population Dynamics in the United States

Agustín Indaco, Francesc Ortega

published in: Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, 2024, 8, 61–106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15924

Extraterrestrial Artificial Intelligence: The Final Existential Risk?

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15908

Risk-laden Migration as a Response to Relative Deprivation: A Hypothesis

Oded Stark

published as 'An Integrated Theory of Relative Deprivation and Risk-Laden Migration' in: Robert M. Sauer (ed.), World Scientific Handbook of Global Migration Vol. 2. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2024, 165–175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15897

Who Gets Vaccinated? Cognitive and Non-cognitive Predictors of Individual Behavior in Pandemics

Mark A. Andor, Thomas K. Bauer, Jana Eßer, Christoph M. Schmidt, Lukas Tomberg

published online in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 7 October 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15893

Unions as Insurance: Employer–Worker Risk Sharing and Workers' Outcomes during COVID-19

Nils Braakmann, Boris Hirsch

published in: Industrial Relations, 2024, 63 (2), 152-171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15885

Criminal Charges, Risk Assessment, and Violent Recidivism in Cases of Domestic Abuse

Dan A. Black, Jeffrey Grogger, Tom Kirchmaier, Koen Sanders

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15854