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162 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15294
Hiding the Elephant: The Tragedy of COVID Policy and Its Economist Apologists
Gigi Foster, Paul Frijters
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15133
Male and Female Voices in Economics
Hans Henrik Sievertsen, Sarah Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15055
Gender Differences in Reference Letters: Evidence from the Economics Job Market
Markus Eberhardt, Giovanni Facchini, Valeria Rueda
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14971
Working for Nothing: Personality and Time Allocation in the UK
Marina Della Giusta, Sarah Jewell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14923
Visual Inference and Graphical Representation in Regression Discontinuity Designs
Christina Korting, Carl Lieberman, Jordan Matsudaira, Zhuan Pei, Yi Shen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14895
Risk, Temptation, and Efficiency in the One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma
Simon Gächter, Kyeongtae Lee, Martin Sefton, Till O. Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14885
Why Do Relatively Few Economists Work on Climate Change? A Survey
Nico Pestel, Andrew J. Oswald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14824
Alcohol Consumption among Adults in Vietnam: Prevalence, Patterns, and Its Determinants
Santosh Kumar, Mukta Gundi, Sagar Atre, Luu Bich Ngoc, Nguyen Thi Thieng, Anu Rammohan
published online in: Journal of Substance Use, 20 Jan 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14643
Publishing Economics: How Slow? Why Slow? Is Slow Productive? Fixing Slow?
Aboozar Hadavand, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Wesley W. Wilson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14527
What's Worth Knowing? Economists' Opinions about Economics
Peter Andre, Armin Falk
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14509
Capitalism Recoupled
Colm Kelly, Dennis J. Snower
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14142
Motivational Goal Bracketing with Non-rational Goals
Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14007
The Family Origin of the Math Gender Gap Is a White Affluent Phenomenon
Gaia Dossi, David N. Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Paola Sapienza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13844
Static and Dynamic Inefficiencies in an Optimizing Model of Epidemics
Pietro Garibaldi, Espen R. Moen, Christopher A. Pissarides
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13662
An Economics-Based Rationale for the Rawlsian Social Welfare Program
Oded Stark
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13607
Gender and Culture
Paola Giuliano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13477
Women in Economics: A UK Perspective
Danula K. Gamage, Almudena Sevilla, Sarah Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13310
Social Capital and the Spread of COVID-19: Insights from European Countries
Alina Kristin Bartscher, Sebastian Seitz, Sebastian Siegloch, Michaela Slotwinski, Nils Wehrhöfer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13287
Bias and Careers: Evidence from the Aid Effectiveness Literature
Chris Doucouliagos, Thomas Hinz, Katarina Zigova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13225
Collaboration, Alphabetical Order and Gender Discrimination – Evidence from the Lab
Vegard Sjurseike Wiborg, Kjell Arne Brekke, Karine Nyborg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13223
Does Economics Make You Sexist?
Valentina Paredes, M. Daniele Paserman, Francisco J. Pino
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13045
Article Length and Citation Outcomes
Syed Hasan, Robert Breunig
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12998
Recoupling Economic and Social Prosperity
Katharina Lima de Miranda, Dennis J. Snower
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12900
The Cost of Being Too Patient
Paola Giuliano, Paola Sapienza
published in: American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2020, 110, 314-318
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12866
Is Scholarly Refereeing Productive (at the Margin)?
Aboozar Hadavand, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Wesley W. Wilson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12738
Who Said or What Said? Estimating Ideological Bias in Views Among Economists
Mohsen Javdani, Ha-Joon Chang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12720
A Happy Choice: Wellbeing as the Goal of Government
Paul Frijters, Andrew E. Clark, Christian Krekel, Richard Layard
published in: Behavioural Public Policy, 2020, 4(2), 126–165
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12618
Analyzing the Perceptions of Egyptian Youth about the Arab Spring
Ali Fakih, Pascal L. Ghazalian
forthcoming in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12534
Crime and Networks: 10 Policy Lessons
Matthew J. Lindquist, Yves Zenou
published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2019.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12494
Gender Gaps in the Evaluation of Research: Evidence from Submissions to Economics Conferences
Laura Hospido, Carlos Sanz
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 83(3), 590-618
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12493
Publication Bias and Editorial Statement on Negative Findings
Cristina Blanco-Perez, Abel Brodeur
published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (623), 1226-1247
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12397
Pay and Job Rank Amongst Academic Economists in the UK: Is Gender Relevant?
Karen A. Mumford, Cristina Sechel
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (1), 82-113
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12269
The Third Theorem of Welfare Economics: Report from a Fictional Field Study
Karine Nyborg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12156
Born in the Family: Preferences for Boys and the Gender Gap in Math
Gaia Dossi, David N. Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Paola Sapienza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12132
Outsourcing Recruitment as a Solution to Prevent Discrimination: A Correspondence Study
Clémence Berson, Morgane Laouénan, Emmanuel Valat
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11976
Early Career Research Production in Economics: Does Mentoring Matter?
Andrés García-Suaza, Jesus Otero, Rainer Winkelmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11868
Publishing and Promotion in Economics: The Tyranny of the Top Five
James J. Heckman, Sidharth Moktan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11832
Are Retirees More Satisfied? Anticipation and Adaptation Effects of Retirement on Subjective Well-Being: A Panel Analysis for Germany
Joachim Merz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11796
Methods Matter: P-Hacking and Causal Inference in Economics
Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, Anthony Heyes
published as 'Methods Matter: P-Hacking and Publication Bias in Causal Analysis in Economics' in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110 (11), 3634-3660
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11781
The Impact of Xenophobic Violence on the Integration of Immigrants
Max F. Steinhardt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11320
Why Women Don't Ask: Gender Differences in Fairness Perceptions of Own Wages and Subsequent Wage Growth
Christian Pfeifer, Gesine Stephan
revised version published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2019, 43(2), 295-310
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11089
Male Gatekeepers Gender Bias in the Publishing Process?
Felix Bransch, Michael Kvasnicka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10969
Economic Origins of Cultural Norms: The Case of Animal Husbandry and Bastardy
Christoph Eder, Martin Halla
revised version published in: European Economic Review, available online 18 March 2020, Article 103421
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10921
Status Inequality, Moral Disengagement and Violence
Armin Falk
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10752
Impact of Lower Rated Journals on Economists' Judgments of Publication Lists: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
Nattavudh Powdthavee, Yohanes E. Riyanto, Jack L. Knetsch
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2018, 66, 33-44
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10721
Inequality Indices as Tests of Fairness
Ravi Kanbur, Andy Snell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10562
Challenges in Research on Preferences and Personality Traits: Measurement, Stability, and Inference
Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 60, 1-6.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10533
The Economics of Replication
Frank Mueller-Langer, Benedikt Fecher, Dietmar Harhoff, Gert G. Wagner
published in: Research Policy, 2019, 48 (1), 62-83
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10529
The Intergenerational Causal Effect of Tax Evasion: Evidence from the Commuter Tax Allowance in Austria
Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Jörg Paetzold
revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17 (6), 1843-1880,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10400
A Guide and Advice for Economists on the U.S. Junior Academic Job Market: 2016–2017 Edition
John Cawley
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. 10261
Current Emotion Research in Economics
Klaus Wälde, Agnes Moors
Invited survey paper for Emotion Review 9 (2017): 271-278
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10186
Residential Choices of Young Americans
Eleonora Patacchini, Tiziano Arduini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10171
The Rapid Evolution of Homo Economicus: Brief Exposure to Neoclassical Assumptions Increases Self-Interested Behavior
John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10099
'Even' After Access to Financial Services? Ricocheting Gender Equations
Shoba Arun, Samuel Annim, Thankom Gopinath Arun
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10008
Co-authorship and Academic Productivity in Economics: Interaction Maps from the Complex Networks Approach
José Alberto Molina, Alberto Alcolea, Alfredo Ferrer, David Iñiguez, Alejandro Rivero, Gonzalo Ruiz, Alfonso Tarancón
published as 'Network analysis to measure academic performance in Economics' in: Empirical Economics (First Online: 11 August 2018)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9901
Cooperation, Punishment and Organized Crime: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Southern Italy
Annamaria Nese, Niall O'Higgins, Patrizia Sbriglia, Maurizio Scudiero
published in: European Economic Review, Volume 107, August 2018, pp. 86–98
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9896
Perceptions and Practices of Replication by Social and Behavioral Scientists: Making Replications a Mandatory Element of Curricula Would Be Useful
Benedikt Fecher, Mathis Fräßdorf, Gert G. Wagner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9894
Improving the Peer Review Process: A Proposed Market System
Paul Frijters, Benno Torgler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9705
Identity-driven Cooperation versus Competition
Dennis J. Snower, Steven J. Bosworth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9703
Cooperation, Motivation and Social Balance
Steven J. Bosworth, Tania Singer, Dennis J. Snower
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9701
Bread and Bullets
George A. Akerlof, Dennis J. Snower
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9672
Islamism and Gender Relations in the Muslim World as Reflected in Recent World Values Survey Data
Arno Tausch, Almas Heshmati
forthcoming in: Society and Economy
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 97, August 2017, 72-86; doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2017.06.001
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9593
Citations in Economics: Measurement, Uses and Impacts
Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2018, 56, 111 - 156
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9414
Social Ties in Academia: A Friend is a Treasure
Tommaso Colussi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9166
Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties: European versus American Cities
Pierre M. Picard, Yves Zenou
published as 'Urban spatial structure, employment and social ties' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 104, 77-93.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9074
Do Parental Networks Pay Off? Linking Children's Labor-Market Outcomes to their Parents' Friends
Erik Plug, Bas van der Klaauw, Lennart Ziegler
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2108, 120 (1), 268-295
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8896
Some Challenges in the Empirics of the Effects of Networks
Vincent Boucher, Bernard Fortin
forthcoming in: Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Networks, 2015
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8872
Network Structure and Education Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bangladesh
Youjin Hahn, Asadul Islam, Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8828
Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship
Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: M. Szenberg and L. Ramrattan (eds.): Collaborative Research in Economis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 65 - 93
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8808
Long Lasting Differences in Civic Capital: Evidence from a Unique Immigration Event in Italy
Emanuele Bracco, Maria De Paola, Colin P. Green
published in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8563
Performance Pay, Competitiveness, and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from the United States
Andrew McGee, Peter McGee, Jessica Pan
published in: Economic Letters, 2015, 128, 35-38
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8428
A Guide and Advice for Economists on the U.S. Junior Academic Job Market: 2014-2015 Edition
John Cawley
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8012
Key Players in Co-Offending Networks
Matthew J. Lindquist, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7925
The Value of Connections: Evidence from the Italian-American Mafia
Giovanni Mastrobuoni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7881
Migration, Friendship Ties and Cultural Assimilation
Giovanni Facchini, Eleonora Patacchini, Max F. Steinhardt
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2015, 117, 619-649.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7877
Explaining Well-Being over the Life Cycle: A Look at Life Transitions during Young Adulthood
Malgorzata Switek
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7682
What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being
Richard Layard, Andrew E. Clark, Francesca Cornaglia, Nattavudh Powdthavee, James Vernoit
published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (580), F720- F738
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7654
The Emotional Timeline of Unemployment: Anticipation, Reaction, and Adaptation
Christian von Scheve, Frederike Esche, Jürgen Schupp
published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2017, 18(4), 1231-1254.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7604
Unmet Aspirations as an Explanation for the Age U-shape in Human Wellbeing
Hannes Schwandt
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, February 2016, Vol. 122: 75-87
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7430
Economic Consequences of Mispredicting Utility
Bruno S. Frey, Alois Stutzer
published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2014, 15(4), 937-956
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7268
Star Wars: The Empirics Strike Back
Abel Brodeur, Mathias Lé, Marc Sangnier, Yanos Zylberberg
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (1), 1-32
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7184
Views among Economists: Professional Consensus or Point-Counterpoint?
Roger Gordon, Gordon B. Dahl
published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 629-635
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7120
Economic Science and Political Influence
Gilles Saint-Paul
Journal of the European Economic Association, 11, 5, 1004-1031
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6990
Where Do New Ph.D. Economists Go? Evidence from Recent Initial Job Placements
Jihui Susan Chen, Qihong Liu, Sherrilyn M. Billger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6961
Trust and Cheating
Jeffrey V. Butler, Paola Giuliano, Luigi Guiso
forthcoming in the Economic Journal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6916
Trust, Values and False Consensus
Jeffrey V. Butler, Paola Giuliano, Luigi Guiso
published in International Economic Review, August 2015, 56 (3), 889-915
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6780
A Citation-Analysis of Economic Research Institutes
Rolf Ketzler, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: Scientometrics, 2013, 95(3), 1095-1112, [Online First, Open Access]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6597
How Well Are Women Represented at the AEA Meeting? A Study of the 1985-2010 Programs
Rosemary Cunningham, Madeline Zavodny
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6458
Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration
Daiji Kawaguchi, Soohyung Lee
published in: Economic Inquiry, 55, 633-654.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6407
Up or Out: Research Incentives and Career Prospects of Postdocs in Germany
Bernd Fitzenberger, Ute Leuschner
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; doi:10.1111/jeea.12015
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6122
"One Muslim is Enough!" - Evidence from a Field Experiment in France
Claire L. Adida, David D. Laitin, Marie-Anne Valfort
published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 121-122, 121-160
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6082
Publishing Trends in Economics across Colleges and Universities, 1991-2007
Anne E. Winkler, Sharon Levin, Paula Stephan, Wolfgang Glänzel
Published in Eastern Economic Journal, 2013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5984
A Guide and Advice for Economists on the U.S. Junior Academic Job Market (2011-2012 Edition)
John Cawley
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5982
A Decade of Editing the European Economic Review
Zvi Eckstein, Esther Gal-Or, Thorvaldur Gylfason, Jürgen von Hagen, Gerard A. Pfann
published as Leading Article in: Michael Szenberg and Lall.Ram (eds.): Secrets of Economics Editors, MIT Press, 2014
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5919
Tastes, Castes, and Culture: The Influence of Society on Preferences
Ernst Fehr, Karla Hoff
published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (556), 396-412
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5857
The Diffusion of Information Technology and the Increased Propensity of Teams to Transcend Institutional and National Borders
Anne E. Winkler, Wolfgang Glänzel, Sharon Levin, Paula Stephan
Published in Revue Economique, 2015
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5802
Goals and Psychological Accounting
Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger
revised version published under title "Goals and Bracketing under Mental Accounting "in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 162, 305–351.
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