IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Exponential-growth prediction bias and compliance with safety measures related to COVID-19' in: Social Science & Medicine, 2021, 268, 113473

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13250

COVID-19 Crisis Fuels Hostility against Foreigners

Vojtech Bartos, Michal Bauer, Jana Cahlíková, Julie Chytilová

revised version published as 'Covid-19 crisis and hostility against foreigners' in: European Economic Review, 2021, 137, 103818

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13242

Sleep Restriction Increases Coordination Failure

Marco Castillo, David L. Dickinson

revised version published as 'Sleep restriction increases coordination failure' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 200, 358 - 370.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13241

Deliberation Enhances the Confirmation Bias: An Examination of Politics and Religion

David L. Dickinson

published as 'Deliberation, mood response, and the confirmation bias in the religious belief domain' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2024, 109, 102161.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13189

Evidence on Job Search Models from a Survey of Unemployed Workers in Germany

Stefano DellaVigna, Jörg Heining, Johannes F. Schmieder, Simon Trenkle

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022, 137 (2), 1181 - 1232

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13166

Feeling Good or Feeling Better?

Alberto Prati, Claudia Senik

published in: Psychological Science, 2022, 33 (11), 1828–1841

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13150

The Determinants of Trust: Evidence from Rural South India

Anne Hilger, Christophe Jalil Nordman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13135

Revisiting a Remedy against the Chain of Unkindness

Wendelin Schnedler, Nina Lucia Stephan

published in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 2020, 72, 347–364

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13130

Exposure to Transit Migration, Public Attitudes and Entrepreneurship

Nicolas Ajzenman, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Sergei Guriev

revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 158, 102899

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13092

Compliance with COVID-19 Social-Distancing Measures in Italy: The Role of Expectations and Duration

Guglielmo Briscese, Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis, Mirco Tonin

published as ' Expectations, reference points, and compliance with COVID-19 social distancing measures' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2023, 103, 101983

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13088

Chain Restaurant Calorie Posting Laws, Obesity, and Consumer Welfare

Charles Courtemanche, David E. Frisvold, David Jimenez-Gomez, Mariétou H. Ouayogodé, Michael Price

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13084

Shaking Things Up: On the Stability of Risk and Time Preferences

Michel Beine, Gary Charness, Arnaud Dupuy, Majlinda Joxhe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13053

Gender Differences in Preferences for Meaning at Work

Vanessa Burbano, Nicolas Padilla, Stephan Meier

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (3), 61–94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13012

Do Workers Discriminate against Their Out-group Employers? Evidence from the Gig Economy

Sher Afghan Asad, Ritwik Banerjee, Joydeep Bhattacharya

published as 'Do workers discriminate against their out-group employers? Evidence from an online platform economy' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 216, 221 - 242

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12998

Recoupling Economic and Social Prosperity

Katharina Lima de Miranda, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Global Perspectives, 2020, 1 (1), 11867

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12992

Working Too Much for Too Little: Stochastic Rewards Cause Work Addiction

Brice Corgnet, Simon Gächter, Roberto Hernán González

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12959

Do Women Shy Away from Public Speaking? A Field Experiment

Maria De Paola, Rosetta Lombardo, Valeria Pupo, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 70, 102001

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12921

Enhancing Employability by Responding to Work Motives: Lessons from a Field Experiment among Israeli Ultra-Religious Women

Yael Goldfarb, Shoshana Neuman

published as 'Labour-Market Integration by Responding to Work Motives: Lessons from a Study of Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Women' in: Journal of Economics, Management and Religion, 2020, 1 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12919

The Effect of Financial Constraints on In-Group Bias: Evidence from Rice Farmers in Thailand

Suparee Boonmanunt, Stephan Meier

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 207, 96-109.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12894

Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation

Oded Galor, Ömer Özak, Assaf Sarid

published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2020. 110, 309-313

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12867

Measuring Preferences for Competition with Experimentally-Validated Survey Questions

Francesco Fallucchi, Daniele Nosenzo, Ernesto Reuben

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 178, 402-423

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12858

Cooperation in a Fragmented Society: Experimental Evidence on Syrian Refugees and Natives in Lebanon

Michalis Drouvelis, Bilal Malaeb, Michael Vlassopoulos, Jackline Wahba

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 187, 176-191.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12828

Don't Patronize Me! An Experiment on Preferences for Authorship

Silvia Lübbecke, Wendelin Schnedler

published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2020, 29 (2), 420-438

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12808

Lessons from Behavioral Economics to Improve Treatment Adherence in Parenting Programs: An Application to SMS

Nicolas Ajzenman, Florencia López Bóo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12756

Relative Deprivation as a Cause of Risky Behaviors

Oded Stark

published in: Journal of Gambling Studies, 2021, 37, 817–835

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12753

Some Contributions of Economics to the Study of Personality

James J. Heckman, Tomáš Jagelka, Tim Kautz

published in: O. P. John and R. W. Robins (eds.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research, 4th ed., Guilford Press, 2021, 853–892

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12695

Trans People, Transitioning, Mental Health, Life and Job Satisfaction

Nick Drydakis

published in: K. F. Zimmermann (Ed.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, New York: Springer, First Online: 04 March 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12693

Stay or Flee? Probability versus Severity of Punishment in Hit-And-Run Accidents

Stefano Castriota, Mirco Tonin

published as 'Stay or flee? Hit-and-run accidents, darkness and probability of punishment' in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 2023, 55, 117 - 144

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12680

Untimely Destruction: Pestilence, War and Accumulation in the Long Run

Clive Bell, Hans Gersbach, Evgenij Komarov

published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2024, 28 (7), 1451 - 1492

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12674

Stress and Food Preferences: A Lab Experiment with Low-SES Mothers

Michèle Belot, Jonathan James, Martina Vecchi, Nicolai Vitt

published as 'Daily stressors and food choices: A lab experiment with low-SES mothers' in: European Economic Review, 2021, 136, 103754

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12632

Indoor Air Quality and Cognitive Performance

Steffen Künn, Juan Palacios, Nico Pestel

revised version published as 'Indoor Air Quality and Strategic Decision Making' in: Management Science, 2023, 69 (9), 5354-5377

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12626

Time Delay and Investment Decisions: Evidence from an Experiment in Tanzania

Plamen Nikolov

published in: Economics Bulletin, 2018, 38 (2), 1124-1137.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12604

Policy Uncertainty and Information Flows: Evidence from Pension Reform Expectations

Emanuele Ciani, Adeline Delavande, Ben Etheridge, Marco Francesconi

published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (649), 98-129

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12553

Economic Polarization and Antisocial Behavior: An Experiment

Maria Bigoni, Stefania Bortolotti, Efşan Nas Özen

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, 126, 387 - 401

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12524

Do Pension Benefits Accelerate Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Rural China

Plamen Nikolov, Alan Adelman

updated version published as DP15742 . (published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 594 - 617).

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12523

Active Choice Framing and Intergenerational Education Benefits: Evidence from the Field

Benjamin L. Castleman, Francis X. Murphy, Richard Patterson, William L. Skimmyhorn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12497

Who Is a Passive Saver under Opt-In and Auto-Enrollment?

Gopi Shah Goda, Matthew R. Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner, Joshua Tasoff

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 173, 301-321

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12488

Self-Control: Determinants, Life Outcomes and Intergenerational Implications

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

updated version published as 'The Predictive Power of Self-Control for Life Outcomes' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 197, 725-744

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12471

On the Malleability of Implicit Attitudes Towards Women Empowerment: Evidence from Tunisia

Eleonora Nillesen, Michael Grimm, Micheline Goedhuys, Ann-Kristin Reitmann, Aline Meysonnat

published in: World Development, 2021, 138, 105263

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12444

Personality Traits, Migration Intentions, and Cultural Distance

Didier Fouarge, Merve Nezihe Özer, Philipp K. Seegers

published in: Papers in Regional Science, 98(6), 2425-2454.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12406

DIY or Ask Someone Nice?

Steven J. Bosworth, Sophie Clot, Marina Della Giusta

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12398

Business Culture: The Role of Personal and Impersonal Business Relationships on Market Efficiency

Manuel Munoz-Herrera, Ernesto Reuben

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12338

Math Scores in High Stakes Grades

Giorgio Brunello, David Kiss

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 82, 102219

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12337

Passive Choices and Cognitive Spillovers

Steffen Altmann, Andreas Grunewald, Jonas Radbruch

published as 'Interventions and Cognitive Spillovers' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (5), 2293-2328

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12336

Types of Institutions and Well-Being of Self-Employed and Paid Employees in Europe

Michael Fritsch, Alina Sorgner, Michael Wyrwich

revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 56, 877–901

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12285

Depression, Risk Preferences and Risk-Taking Behavior

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Nathan Kettlewell

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (5) 1566-160

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12280

Behavioral Economics and the Value of a Statistical Life

Thomas J. Kniesner

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2019, 58(2-3), 207-217

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12263

Behavioral Impediments to Valuing Annuities: Complexity and Choice Bracketing

Jeffrey R. Brown, Arie Kapteyn, Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Olivia S. Mitchell, Anya Samek

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103 (3), 533–546.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12253

Advanced Counter-Biasing

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Kevin Benscheidt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12251

Motivating Bureaucrats through Social Recognition: External Validity — A Tale of Two States

Varun Gauri, Julian C. Jamison, Nina Mazar, Owen Ozier

published in: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2021, 163, 117-131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12174

Attribution Bias in Major Decisions: Evidence from the United States Military Academy

Kareem Haggag, Richard Patterson, Nolan G. Pope, Aaron Feudo

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 200, 104445

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12100

Does Society Influence the Gender Gap in Risk Attitudes? Evidence from East and West Germany

Cornelia Chadi, Uwe Jirjahn

revised version published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2024, 113, 102311

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12086

The Effects of Status Mobility and Group Identity on Trust

Rémi Suchon, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 163, 430-463

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12069

Timing Is Everything: Evidence from College Major Decisions

Richard Patterson, Nolan G. Pope, Aaron Feudo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12066

The Effect of Superstition on Health: Evidence from the Taiwanese Ghost Month

Martin Halla, Chia-Lun Liu, Jin-Tan Liu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12059

Relationship of Gender Differences in Preferences to Economic Development and Gender Equality

Armin Falk, Johannes Hermle

published in: Science, 2018, 362 (6412) (data available here: https://gps.iza.org/home)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12058

Motivated Memory in Dictator Games

Charlotte Saucet, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2019, 117, 250-275

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12057

Risk Aversion and Entrepreneurship: New Evidence Exploiting Exposure to Massive Earthquakes in Italy

Guido de Blasio, Maria De Paola, Samuele Poy, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57, 295-322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11970

Effects of Timing and Reference Frame of Feedback: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Mira Fischer, Valentin Wagner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11944

Anti-Social Behavior in Groups

Michal Bauer, Jana Cahlíková, Dagmara Celik Katreniak, Julie Chytilová, Lubomir Cingl, Tomáš Želinský

revised version published as 'Nastiness in Groups' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, 22 (5), 2075–2107

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11917

The Causal Effect of Trust

Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, David B. Huffman, Nick Netzer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11901

Civil War, Natural Disaster and Risk Preferences: Evidence from Sri Lankan Twins

Nathan Kettlewell, Fruhling Rijsdijk, Sisira Siribaddana, Athula Sumathipala, Agnieszka Tymula, Helena Zavos, Nicholas Glozier

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11900

The Effect of Media Coverage on Mass Shootings

Michael Jetter, Jay K. Walker

final version published as 'News coverage and mass shootings in the US' in: European Economic Review, 2022, 148, 104221

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11876

More Women in Tech? Evidence from a Field Experiment Addressing Social Identity

Lucía Del Carpio, Maria Guadalupe

published in: Management Science, 2024, 68 (5), 3196–3218

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11855

Broadband Internet and Social Capital

Andrea Geraci, Mattia Nardotto, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Fabio Sabatini

revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 206, 104578

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11830

Pension Strategies of Workers in a Country Getting Old before Getting Rich

Sonia Buchholtz, Jan Gaska, Marek Góra

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11816

Climatic Roots of Loss Aversion

Oded Galor, Viacheslav Savitskiy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11803

Leader Identity and Coordination

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras, Lakshmi Iyer, Joseph Vecci

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (1), 175–189.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11799

Can Online Surveys Represent the Entire Population?

Elisabeth Grewenig, Philipp Lergetporer, Lisa Simon, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published as 'Can Internet Surveys Represent the Entire Population? A Practitioners’ Analysis' in: European Journal of Political Economy 2023, 78, 102382

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11762

Predicting Retirement Savings Using Survey Measures of Exponential-Growth Bias and Present Bias

Gopi Shah Goda, Matthew R. Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner, Joshua Tasoff

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2019, 57 (3), 1636 - 1658

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11720

When the Market Drives You Crazy: Stock Market Returns and Fatal Car Accidents

Corrado Giulietti, Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 70, 102245

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11665

Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning

Roland Benabou, Armin Falk, Jean Tirole

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11642

Willingness to Take Risk: The Role of Risk Conception and Optimism

Thomas Dohmen, Simone Quercia, Jana Willrodt

substantially revised version available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 15763

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11564

Looking at the Bright Side: The Motivation Value of Overconfidence

Si Chen, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 120, 103302

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11563

Mind, Body, Bubble! Psychological and Biophysical Dimensions of Behavior in Experimental Asset Markets

David Butler, Stephen L. Cheung

published in: Gigi Foster (ed), Biophysical Measurement in Experimental Social Science Research, Academic Press, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11508

Does the Framing of Patient Cost-Sharing Incentives Matter? The Effects of Deductibles vs. No-Claim Refunds

Arthur P. Hayen, Tobias J. Klein, Martin Salm

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 80, 102520

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11505

Sales Performance and Social Preferences

Andrea Essl, Frauke von Bieberstein, Michael Kosfeld, Markus Kröll

published in: Journals of Economics & Management Strategy, 2023, 32 (4), 882-905

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11326

Cognitive Skills and the Development of Strategic Sophistication

Eduardo Fe, David Gill

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11291

Crushing Hope: Short Term Responses to Tragedy Vary by Hopefulness

Jason M. Fletcher

published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2018, 201, 59-62

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11290

Civility and Trust in Social Media

Angelo Antoci, Laura Bonelli, Fabio Paglieri, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Fabio Sabatini

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 160, 83-99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11288

Do Preferences and Biases Predict Life Outcomes? Evidence from Education and Labor Market Entry Decisions

Uschi Backes-Gellner, Holger Herz, Michael Kosfeld, Yvonne Oswald

published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 134, 103709

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11265

The Impact of High School Financial Education on Financial Knowledge and Choices: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Spain

Olympia Bover, Laura Hospido, Ernesto Villanueva

published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 08 January 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11201

Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Risk-Taking among Children, Teenagers, and College Students: Evidence from Jeopardy!

Michael Jetter, Jay K. Walker

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2020, 20 (2), 20190179.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11130

The Effect of Positive Mood on Cooperation in Repeated Interaction

Eugenio Proto, Daniel Sgroi, Mahnaz Nazneen

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 168, 209-228

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11129

Deadlines and Cognitive Limitations

Steffen Altmann, Christian Traxler, Philipp Weinschenk

substantially revised version published in: Management Science, 2022, 68 (9), 6733-6750

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11120

Wealth Transfers and Tax Planning: Evidence for the German Bequest Tax

Eric Sommer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11102

Subjective Well-Being and Public Policy

Reto Odermatt, Alois Stutzer

published in: Ed Diener, Shigehiro Oishi and Louis Tay (eds.), Handbook of Well-Being. Noba Scholar Handbook Series: Subjective Well-being. Salt Lake City, UT: DEF Publishers, 2018.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11098

Overoptimistic Entrepreneurs: Predicting Wellbeing Consequences of Self-Employment

Reto Odermatt, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Alois Stutzer

revised version published as 'Are Newly Self-Employed Overly Optimistic About Their Future Well-Being?' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2021, 95, 101779

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11034

Is There Always a Trade-off between Insurance and Incentives? The Case of Unemployment with Subsistence Constraints

Juliana Mesén Vargas, Bruno Van der Linden

published as 'Why cash transfer programsan both stimulate and slow down job finding' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 8 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11031

Partners in Crime: Diffusion of Responsibility in Antisocial Behaviors

Sascha Behnk, Li Hao, Ernesto Reuben

published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 145, 104116

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10985

Bayesian versus Heuristic-Based Choice under Sleep Restriction and Suboptimal Times of Day

David L. Dickinson, Todd McElroy

revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2019, 115, 48-59.