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IZA Discussion Paper No. 15766
Internet Use and Fertility Behavior among Reproductive-Age Women in China
Peng Nie, Xu Peng, Tianyuan Luo
published in: China Economic Review, 2023, 77, 101903
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15763
On the Psychology of the Relation between Optimism and Risk Taking
Thomas Dohmen, Simone Quercia, Jana Willrodt
published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2023, 67, 193–214.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15753
Public Opinion, Racial Bias, and Labor Market Outcomes
Kaveh Majlesi, Silvia Prina, Paul Sullivan
published in: Nature Human Behaviour, 2024, 8, 1493–1505
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15732
The Broken Chain: Evidence against Emotionally Driven Upstream Indirect Reciprocity
Wendelin Schnedler
published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2022, 136, 542-558
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15673
Income Misperception and Populism
Thilo N. H. Albers, Felix Kersting, Fabian Kosse
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15621
The Times Have Changed: Tracking the Evolution of Gender Norms over Time
Andreas Kuhn
revised and partially expanded version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2024, 52B, 131-170
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15590
Measuring Socially Appropriate Social Preferences
Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Andrea Robbett
published in: Games and Economic Behavior 2024, 147, 517 - 532
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15588
Can Grit Be Taught? Lessons from a Nationwide Field Experiment with Middle-School Students
Indhira Santos, Violeta Petroska-Beska, Pedro Carneiro, Lauren Eskreis-Winkler, Ana Maria Munoz Boudet, Inés Berniell, Christian Krekel, Omar Arias, Angela Lee Duckworth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15576
It Hurts to Ask
Roland Benabou, Ania Jaroszewicz, George Loewenstein
published in: European Economic Review, 2025,171, 104911
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15512
Measuring 'Group Cohesion' to Reveal the Power of Social Relationships in Team Production
Simon Gächter, Chris Starmer, Fabio Tufano
revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025, 107 (2), 539–554
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15501
Famous after Death: The Effect of a Writer's Death on Book Sales
Michela Ponzo, Vincenzo Scoppa
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 210, 210-225.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15492
Beliefs, Learning, and Personality in the Indefinitely Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
David Gill, Yaroslav Rosokha
published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2024, 16 (3), 259– 283
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15441
Challenging Encounters and Within-Physician Practice Variability
Gabriel Chodick, Yoav Goldstein, Ity Shurtz, Dan Zeltzer
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 15 March 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15431
Stigma in Welfare Programs
Pablo Celhay, Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15428
Political Ideology, Mood Response, and the Confirmation Bias
David L. Dickinson
published as 'Political ideology, emotion response, and confirmation bias' in: Economic Inquiry, 2025, 63 (1), 181-205
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15367
Study More Tomorrow
Todd Pugatch, Elizabeth Schroeder, Nicholas Wilson
published online in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 08 January 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15306
Locus of Control, Self-Control, and Health Outcomes
Ferdi Botha, Sarah C. Dahmann
published in: SSM - Population Health, 2024, 25, 101566
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15238
Is the Price Right? The Role of Morals, Ideology, and Tradeoff Thinking in Explaining Reactions to Price Surges
Julio Elias, Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15212
Does Social Capital Matter? A Study of Hit-and-Run in US Counties
Stefano Castriota, Sandro Rondinella, Mirco Tonin
published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2023, 329, 116011
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15171
Trust Predicts Compliance with COVID-19 Containment Policies: Evidence from Ten Countries Using Big Data
Francesco Sarracino, Talita Greyling, Kelsey J. O'Connor, Chiara Peroni, Stephanié Rossouw
published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2024, 54, 101412
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15092
American Older Adults in the Time of COVID-19: Vulnerability Types, Aging Attitudes, and Emotional Responses
Mingqi Fu, Jing Guo, Xi Chen, Boxun Han, Farooq Ahmed, Muhammad Shahid, Qilin Zhang
published in: Frontiers in Public Health, 2022, 9, 778084
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15048
What's the Risk from Competing? Competition Aversion and the Gender Wage Gap
Chung Choe, SeEun Jung, Ronald L. Oaxaca
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15043
Managers' Risk Preferences and Firm Training Investments
Marco Caliendo, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Harald Pfeifer, Arne Uhlendorff, Caroline Wehner
published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 161, 104616
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15032
The Politicized Pandemic: Ideological Polarization and the Behavioral Response to COVID-19
Gianluca Grimalda, Fabrice Murtin, David Pipke, Louis Putterman, Matthias Sutter
published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 156, 104472.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14998
Reducing Sexual-Orientation Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from Basic Information Treatments
Cevat Giray Aksoy, Christopher S. Carpenter, Ralph De Haas, Mathias Dolls, Lisa Windsteiger
revised version published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2023, 42 (1), 35 - 59
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14993
Parental Separation and the Formation of Economic Preferences
Sarah C. Dahmann, Nathan Kettlewell, Jack Lam
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14987
Self-Control and Unhealthy Body Weight: The Role of Impulsivity and Restraint
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2023, 50, 101263
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14976
The Stability of Self-Control in a Population Representative Study
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Nancy Kong, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2023, 95, 102599.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14963
Worker Beliefs about Outside Options
Simon Jäger, Christopher Roth, Nina Roussille, Benjamin Schoefer
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2024, 139 (3), 1505–1556,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14937
Family Social Norms and Child Labor
Shirit Katav Herz, Gil S. Epstein
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14920
The Predictive Power of Self-Control for Life Outcomes
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 197, 725-744
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14916
Digital Access to Healthcare Services and Healthcare Utilization: A Quasi-Experiment
Armenak Antinyan, Stefania Bellio, Marco Bertoni, Luca Corazzini, Elena Narne
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14835
Reference Points and the Tradeoff between Risk and Incentives
Thomas Dohmen, Arjan Non, Tom Stolp
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 192, 813–831
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14820
Individualism, Human Capital Formation, and Labor Market Success
Katharina Hartinger, Sven Resnjanskij, Jens Ruhose, Simon Wiederhold
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14799
Interview Sequences and the Formation of Subjective Assessments
Jonas Radbruch, Amelie Schiprowski
substantially revised version published online in: Review of Economic Studies, 10 April 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14760
Measuring Youth Empowerment: An Illustration Using the Example of Tunisia
Micheline Goedhuys, Michael Grimm, Aline Meysonnat, Eleonora Nillesen, Ann-Kristin Reitmann
published as 'Measuring youth empowerment: An application to Tunisia' in: Journal of International Development, 2024, 36 (4), 1945-1964
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14755
On the Stability of Risk Preferences: Measurement Matters
Joop Adema, Till Nikolka, Panu Poutvaara, Uwe Sunde
published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 210, 110172
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14734
The Heritability of Trust and Trustworthiness Depends on the Measure of Trust
Nathan Kettlewell, Agnieszka Tymula
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14718
Air Pollution Affects Decision-Making: Evidence from the Ballot Box
Luna Bellani, Stefano Ceolotto, Benjamin Elsner, Nico Pestel
published as 'The Political Fallout of Air Pollution' in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024, 121(18), e2314428121
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14714
Ingroup Bias with Multiple Identities: The Case of Religion and Attitudes Towards Government Size
Daniel Sgroi, Jonathan Yeo, Shi Zhuo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14702
The Australian Twins Economic Preferences Survey
Nathan Kettlewell, Agnieszka Tymula
published in: Twin Research and Human Genetics, 2021, 24 (6), 365-370
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14690
Order Effects and Employment Decisions: Experimental Evidence from a Nationwide Program
Nicolas Ajzenman, Gregory Elacqua, Luana Marotta, Anne Sofie Olsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14625
Quasi-Hyperbolic Present Bias: A Meta-Analysis
Stephen L. Cheung, Agnieszka Tymula, Xueting Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14609
Sophistication about Self-Control
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 238, 105196
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14608
Shifting Punishment on Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating
Michal Bauer, Jana Cahlíková, Julie Chytilová, Gerald Roland
published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (652), 1626–1640
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14607
Psychological Effects of Poverty on Time Preferences
Vojtech Bartos, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová, Ian Levely
published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (638), 2357 - 2382
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14594
Estimating Coherency between Survey Data and Incentivized Experimental Data
Christian Belzil, Julie Pernaudet, François Poinas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14590
Estimating Time Preferences for Leisure
Maria Bigoni, Davide Dragone, Stéphane Luchini, Alberto Prati
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14537
Unethical Decision Making and Sleep Restriction: Experimental Evidence
David L. Dickinson, David Masclet
revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2023,141, 484-502.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14526
Limited Self-Knowledge and Survey Response Behavior
Armin Falk, Thomas Neuber, Philipp Strack
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