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IZA Discussion Paper No. 6200

Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6166

It's the Opportunity Cost, Stupid! How Self-Employment Responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew

Peter Berkhout, Joop Hartog, Mirjam C. van Praag

published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 40 (2), 249-268

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. 6125

Decomposing Changes in Income Risk Using Consumption Data

Richard Blundell, Hamish Low, Ian Preston

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2013, 4 (1), 1–37

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. 5920

Xenophobic Attacks, Migration Intentions and Networks: Evidence from the South of Africa

Guido Friebel, Juan Miguel Gallego, Mariapia Mendola

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 555-591

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5862

Chicken or Checkin'? Rational Learning in Repeated Chess Games

Christer Gerdes, Patrik Gränsmark, Michael Rosholm

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5848

Where to Put the Kids? Effects of Type of Non-parental Child Care on Pre-teen Skills and Risky Behavior

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Marianne Simonsen

short version published as 'The effects of type of non-parental child care on pre-teen skills and risky behavior' in: Economics Letters 2012, 116, 622-625

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5813

Theft and Deterrence

William T. Harbaugh, Naci Mocan, Michael S. Visser

published in Journal of Labor Research, 2013, 34(4), 389-407

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. 5757

Mobility, Taxation and Welfare

Sami Bibi, Jean-Yves Duclos, Abdelkrim Araar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5715

Portability of Pension, Health, and Other Social Benefits: Facts, Concepts, Issues

Robert Holzmann, Johannes Koettl

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61 (2), 377– 415,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5714

Do They Understand the Benefits from Education? Evidence on Dutch High School Students’ Earnings Expectations

Jacopo Mazza, Joop Hartog

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5714

Do They Understand the Benefits from Education? Evidence on Dutch High School Students’ Earnings Expectations

Jacopo Mazza, Joop Hartog

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5653

Debt Portfolios

Thomas Hintermaier, Winfried Koeniger

revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2016, 8 (4), 103-141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5598

Risk, Institutions and Growth: Why England and Not China?

Avner Greif, Murat Iyigun, Diego Sasson

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5488

Is There Selection Bias in Laboratory Experiments? The Case of Social and Risk Preferences

Blair L. Cleave, Nikos Nikiforakis, Robert Slonim

published in: Experimental Economics, 2013, 16 (3) 372-382

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5404

Impatience and Uncertainty: Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior

Matthias Sutter, Martin G. Kocher, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Stefan T. Trautmann

extended version published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (1), 510-531

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5393

Attitudes towards Economic Risk and the Gender Pay Gap

Anh T. Le, Paul W. Miller, Wendy S. Slutske, Nicholas G. Martin

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (4), 555-561

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5380

Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed: Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?

Amelie F. Constant, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Ulf Rinne, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 825-851

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5330

Universities as Stakeholders in their Students' Careers: On the Benefits of Graduate Taxes to Finance Higher Education

Tom McKenzie, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2011, 167 (4), 726-742

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5314

Beauty Queens and Battling Knights: Risk Taking and Attractiveness in Chess

Anna Dreber Almenberg, Christer Gerdes, Patrik Gränsmark

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 90, 1-18

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5279

Risk Attitudes and Well-Being in Latin America

Juan Camilo Cardenas, Jeffrey P. Carpenter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5279

Risk Attitudes and Well-Being in Latin America

Juan Camilo Cardenas, Jeffrey P. Carpenter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5255

Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: What Do We Know About Them?

Núria Rodríguez-Planas

substantially revised version published in: Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012, 35 (4), 481-490

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5219

A Different Look at Lenin's Legacy: Trust, Risk, Fairness and Cooperativeness in the Two Germanies

Guido Heineck, Bernd Süssmuth

revised version published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013, 41 (3), 789-803

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5197

Parental Risk Attitudes and Children's Secondary School Track Choice

Guido Heineck, Oliver Wölfel

revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (5), 727–743

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5144

Micro-Level Determinants of Lecture Attendance and Additional Study-Hours

Martin Ryan, Liam Delaney, Colm P. Harmon

published as "The Role of Noncognitive Traits in Undergraduate Study Behaviours" in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 32, 181-195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5047

Adolescent Drug Use and the Deterrent Effect of School-Imposed Penalties

Glen R. Waddell

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31, 961- 969

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4884

Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias: Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?

Erik Snowberg, Justin Wolfers

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2010, 118 (4), 723-746

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4880

Gender and the Influence of Peer Alcohol Consumption on Adolescent Sexual Activity

Glen R. Waddell

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 50 (1), 248-263

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4859

Are Attitudes Towards Economic Risk Heritable? Analyses Using the Australian Twin Study of Gambling

Anh T. Le, Paul W. Miller, Wendy S. Slutske, Nicholas G. Martin

published in: Twin Research and Human Genetics, 2010, 13 (4), 330-339

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4812

Risk Taking Behavior in Tournaments: Evidence from the NBA

Christian Grund, Jan Höcker, Stefan Zimmermann

revised version published as 'Incidence and Consequences of Risk Taking Behavior in Tournaments - Evidence from the NBA' in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (2), 1489–1501

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4807

Can We Measure Individual Risk Attitudes in a Survey?

Xiaohao Ding, Joop Hartog, Yuze Sun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4804

Gambling and the Use of Credit: An Individual and Household Level Analysis

Sarah Brown, Andy Dickerson, Jolian McHardy, Karl Taylor

published in: Applied Economics, 2011, 44 (35), 4639-4650

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4793

Strategic Behavior across Gender: A Comparison of Female and Male Expert Chess Players

Christer Gerdes, Patrik Gränsmark

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 766-775

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4703

Inequality Aversion and Risk Attitudes

Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Xavier Ramos

substantially revised version published as "Distaste for Inequality? The Role of Risk Aversion" in: M. Rojas (ed.), The Economics of Happiness, Springer, 2019.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4636

The Gender Wage Gap as a Function of Educational Degree Choices in an Occupationally Segregated EU Country

Ilias Livanos, Konstantinos Pouliakas

published as 'Educational segregation and the gender wage gap in Greece' in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2012, 39 (5), 554-575

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4545

Incentive Effects on Risk Attitude in Small Probability Prospects

Mathieu Lefèbvre, Ferdinand M. Vieider, Marie Claire Villeval

published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 109 (2), 115-120

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4530

Labour Market Status and Migration Dynamics

Govert Bijwaard

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4509