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783 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17858
Solidarity and Discrimination Within and Between Generations: Evidence from a Dutch Population Sample
Arno Riedl, Hans Schmeets, Peter Werner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17841
Daniel Kahneman’s Underappreciated Last Published Paper: Empirical Implications for Benefit-Cost Analysis and a Chat Session Discussion with Bots
C. Monica Capra, Thomas J. Kniesner
forthcoming in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (Tribute to Daniel Kahneman Symposium Part 2), 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17833
Bequest Division: The Roles of Parental Motives and Children’s Gender Composition
Warn N. Lekfuangfu, Javier Olivera, Philippe Van Kerm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17820
Exposure to Regulation and Income Inequality in Local Labor Markets: Evidence from the U.S. over the Past Half-Century
Andrey Stoyanov, Nick Zubanov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17795
For the Future of Our Grandchildren: Grandparenthood and Climate Change Concerns
Lieke Voorintholt, Gerard J. van den Berg, Adriaan R. Soetevent
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17792
The Relationship Between Intergenerational Mobility and Equality of Opportunity
Adrian Adermon, Gunnar Brandén, Martin Nybom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17788
Are Elites Meritocratic and Efficiency-Seeking? Evidence from MBA Students
Marcel Preuss, Germán Reyes, Jason Somerville, Joy Wu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17737
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Examining Efficiency and Equity in Designing Summer Youth Employment Programs
Alicia Sasser Modestino, Mindy Marks, Hanna Hoover, Hitanshu Pandit
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17716
On a Transformation of the Gini Coefficient into a Well-Behaved Social Welfare Function
Oded Stark
published online in: Kyklos, 31 January 2025.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17682
Artificial Intelligence, the Collapse of Consumer Society, and Oligarchy
Gilles Saint-Paul
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17629
Just Cheap Talk? Investigating Fairness Preferences in Hypothetical Scenarios
Paul Hufe, Daniel Weishaar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17586
Why Life Gets Better After Age 50, for Some: Mental Well-Being and the Social Norm of Work
Coen van de Kraats, Titus Galama, Maarten Lindeboom, Zichen Deng
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17532
Hope, Noise, and the Efficiency of Perfect Meritocracy
Luca Beltrametti, Gabriele Cardullo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17514
Is Subjective Well-Being Insured Against Income Shocks? Evidence from 20-Year Panel Data in South Korea
Jiyeon Ahn, Taehyun Ahn, Seonghoon Kim
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17512
Inequity Aversion in Subjective Evaluations: Evidence from Referees' Decisions in Soccer
Leo Morabito, Vincenzo Scoppa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17506
Altruistic Giving and Risk Taking in Human Affairs
Oded Stark, Lukasz Balbus
published online in: Social Choice and Welfare, 4 November 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17458
How Business Income Measures Affect Income Inequality and the Tax Burden
Rolf Aaberge, Jorgen Heibo Modalsli, Marco Francesconi, Ola L. Vestad
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17384
Youngism: Discrimination and Stereotypes
Vojtech Bartos, Michal Bauer, Jana Cahlíková, Julie Chytilová
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17324
Wealth Creators or Inheritors? Unpacking the Gender Wealth Gap from Bottom to Top and Young to Old
Charlotte Bartels, Eva Sierminska, Carsten Schröder
published in: Economics Letters, 2025, 246, 111997
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17259
The Contribution of Employer Changes to Aggregate Wage Mobility
Nils Torben Hollandt, Steffen Müller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17252
Elite Universities and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human and Social Capital
Andres Barrios-Fernandez, Christopher A. Neilson, Seth D. Zimmerman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17243
CEO Pay Disclosure and Within-Firm Wage Inequality
Agata Maida, Vincenzo Pezone
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17203
Inherited Inequality: A General Framework and a 'Beyond-Averages' Application to South Africa
Paolo Brunori, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Pedro Salas-Rojo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17201
Inequality Bands: Seventy-Five Years of Measuring Income Inequality in Latin America
Facundo Alvaredo, Francois Bourguignon, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Nora Lustig
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17200
Population Growth and the Tragedy of the Commons: Can Trade Prevent Natural Resource and Welfare Collapse?
Maurice Schiff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17180
The Meritocratic Illusion: Inequality and the Cognitive Basis of Redistribution
Arthur Blouin, Anandi Mani, Sharun Mukand, Daniel Sgroi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17171
"Should CEOs' Salaries Be Capped?" A Survey Experiment on Limitarian Preferences
João V. Ferreira, Stratos Ramoglou, Foivos Savva, Michael Vlassopoulos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17155
Inequality of Opportunity and Income Redistribution
Marcel Preuss, Germán Reyes, Jason Somerville, Joy Wu
forthcoming in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17127
Effects of Parental Death on Labor Market Outcomes and Gender Inequalities
Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen, Ning Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17115
The #Metoo Movement and Judges' Gender Gap in Decisions
Xiqian Cai, Shuai Chen, Zhengquan Cheng
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17087
Do Beliefs in the Model Minority Stereotype Reduce Attention to Inequality That Adversely Affects Asian Americans?
Shuai Chen, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Juliane V. Wiese
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17010
The Modification of Social Space as a Tool for Lowering Social Stress
Oded Stark
published in: Economics & Human Biology. 2024, 53, 101349
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17002
The Merger of Populations as a Revision of Comparison Space: Repercussions for Social Stress and Income Inequality
Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski
published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 237, 111585
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16905
Gini Who? The Relationship between Inequality Perceptions and Life Satisfaction
Daniele Marchesi, Milena Nikolova, Viola Angelini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16873
An Optimal Allocation of Asylum Seekers
Oded Stark, Grzegorz Kosiorowski
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 220, 1 - 11
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16865
The Missing Type: Where Are the Inequality Averse (Students)?
Thomas Epper, Julien Senn, Ernst Fehr
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16856
A Note on Sen's Representation of the Gini Coefficient: Revision and Repercussions
Oded Stark
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2024, 22, 1061–1067
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16839
Talking Therapy: Impacts of a Nationwide Mental Health Service in England
Christian Krekel, Sorawoot Srisuma
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16825
Altruism, Human Capital and Environmental Preservation in a Globalized Economy
Stéphane Bouché, Leonor Modesto
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16820
The Gendered Nature of the Cost-of-Living Crisis in Europe
Denisa Maria Sologon, Karina Doorley, Cathal O'Donoghue, Eugenio Peluso
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16803
Preferences over Relative Income within the Household
Johannes Hermle, Elena Herold, Nikolaus Hildebrand
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16794
Efficiency in Poverty Reduction: A State-Level Analysis for Bolivia
Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza, Alejandro Puerta-Cuartas, Javier Beverinotti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16785
Parental Investments and Socio-Economic Gradients in Learning across European Countries
Pedro Carneiro, Hugo Reis, Alessandro Toppeta
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16769
Keeping Up with the Jansens: Causal Peer Effects on Household Spending, Beliefs and Happiness
Maarten van Rooij, Olivier Coibion, Dimitris Georgarakos, Bernardo Candia, Yuriy Gorodnichenko
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16742
The Economic Impact of Heritable Physical Traits: Hot Parents, Rich Kid?
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Anwen Zhang
published as 'Human beauty illustrates the economic impact of heritable physical traits' in: PNAS, 2025, 122 (6), e24184241
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16735
Social Security and Inequality in Belgium
Giulia Klinges, Alain Jousten, Mathieu Lefèbvre
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16699
The Mismeasurement of Work Time: Implications for Wage Discrimination and Inequality
George J. Borjas, Daniel S. Hamermesh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16666
Measuring Income Inequality in Social Networks
Oded Stark, Jakub Bielawski, Fryderyk Falniowski
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2024, 22 (2), 333–356
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16640
Who Is in Favor of Affirmative Action? Representative Evidence from an Experiment and a Survey
Sabrina Herzog, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Chi Trieu, Jana Willrodt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16629
Health Inequality and Health Insurance Coverage: The United States and China Compared
Joan Costa-Font, Frank A. Cowell, Xuezhu Shi
published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2024, 52, 101346
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