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IZA Discussion Paper No. 14518
Fighting Climate Change: The Role of Norms, Preferences, and Moral Values
Peter Andre, Teodora Boneva, Felix Chopra, Armin Falk
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14467
The Roots of Cooperation
Zvonimir Bašić, Parampreet C. Bindra, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Angelo Romano, Matthias Sutter, Claudia Zoller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14452
Transitory Income Changes and Consumption Smoothing: Evidence from Mexico
Manuela Angelucci, Carlos Chiapa, Silvia Prina, Irvin Rojas
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 230, 105013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14440
The Dynamics of Inattention in the (Baseball) Field
James Archsmith, Anthony Heyes, Matthew Neidell, Bhaven Sampat
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14433
Do Women Give Up Competing More Easily? Evidence from Speedcubers
Chao Fang, Ernest Zhang, Junfu Zhang
published in: Economics Letters, 2021, 205, 109943.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14421
The Creativity Premium
David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse
published as 'The Creativity Premium: Exploring the Link between Childhood Creativity and Life Outcomes' in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2024, 2 (3), 495–526
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14373
Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from Business Majors
Patricia Cortes, Jessica Pan, Laura Pilossoph, Basit Zafar
published as 'Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from the Field and Lab' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023, 138 (4), 2069–2126
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14351
Formation of College Plans: Expected Returns, Preferences and Adjustment Process
Ghazala Azmat, Katja Maria Kaufmann
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, 22 (2), 669–711
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14316
Mental Health and Abortions among Young Women: Time-Varying Unobserved Heterogeneity, Health Behaviors, and Risky Decisions
Lena Janys, Bettina M. Siflinger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14257
Evaluating the Sunk Cost Effect
David Ronayne, Daniel Sgroi, Anthony Tuckwell
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 186, 318 - 327
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14198
Income Changes Do Not Influence Political Participation: Evidence from Comparative Panel Data
Sebastian Jungkunz, Paul Marx
published as 'Income changes do not influence political involvement in panel data from six countries' in: European Journal of Political Research, 2022, 61 (3), 829-841
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14176
Moral Hazard Heterogeneity: Genes and Health Insurance Influence Smoking after a Health Shock
Pietro Biroli, Laura Zwyssig
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14155
Why Do Migrants Stay Unexpectedly? Misperceptions and Implications for Integration
Marc Kaufmann, Joël Machado, Bertrand Verheyden
substantially revised version published in: Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2025, 117, 103099.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14142
Motivational Goal Bracketing with Non-rational Goals
Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger
published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2021, 94, 101740
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14137
Cognitive Load and Occupational Injuries
Eric Bonsang, Eve Caroli
published in: Industrial Relations, 2021, 60(2), 219-242.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14111
Altruism or Money? Reducing Teacher Sorting Using Behavioral Strategies in Peru
Nicolas Ajzenman, Eleonora Bertoni, Gregory Elacqua, Luana Marotta, Carolina Méndez Vargas
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 1049–1091
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14069
Gender Match and the Gender Gap in Venture Capital Financing: Evidence from Shark Tank
Michael Jetter, Kieran Stockley
published as 'Gender match and negotiation: evidence from angel investment on Shark Tank' in: Empirical Economics, 2023, 64, 1947 - 1977
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14030
Parental Paternalism and Patience
Lukas Kiessling, Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13977
Fraud Deterrence Institutions Reduce Intrinsic Honesty
Fabio Galeotti, Valeria Maggian, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (638), 2508-2528.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13974
Spillovers and Long-Run Effects of Messages on Tax Compliance: Experimental Evidence from Peru
Juan Francisco Castro, Daniel Velásquez, Arlette Beltrán, Gustavo Yamada
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13964
Interregional Contact and National Identity
Manuel Bagues, Christopher Roth
published as 'Interregional Contact and the Formation of a Shared Identity' in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (3), 322–350
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13956
Using Social Recognition to Address the Gender Difference in Volunteering for Low Promotability Tasks
Ritwik Banerjee, Priyoma Mustafi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13943
The Health-Wealth Trade-off during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Communication Matters
Vincenzo Carrieri, Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia
published in: PLoS ONE, 2021,16 (9), e0256103.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13925
The Effects of a Green Nudge on Municipal Solid Waste: Evidence from a Clear Bag Policy
Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Catherine Boulatoff
published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021, 106, 102404.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13901
Cognitive Skills, Strategic Sophistication, and Life Outcomes
Eduardo Fe, David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (10), 2643–2704
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13896
Loss Aversion in Social Image Concerns
Vasilisa Petrishcheva, Gerhard Riener, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
published in: Experimental Economics, 2023, 26, 622–645.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13894
Big Five Personality Traits and Sex
Uwe Jirjahn, Martha Ottenbacher
revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 549 - 580
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13873
The Effect of Group Identity on Hiring Decisions with Incomplete Information
Fortuna Casoria, Ernesto Reuben, Christina Rott
published in: Management Science, 2022, 68, 6336-6345
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13783
Cultural Identity and Social Capital in Italy
Daniel Sgroi, Michela Redoano, Federica Liberini, Ben Lockwood, Emanuele Bracco, Francesco Porcelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13775
Dancing with the Populist: New Parties, Electoral Rules and Italian Municipal Elections
Massimo Bordignon, Tommaso Colussi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13771
An Intensive, School-Based Learning Camp Targeting Academic and Non-Cognitive Skills Evaluated in a Randomized Trial
Charlotte Hvidman, Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger, Søren Albeck Nielsen, Michael Rosholm
published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 88, 102535
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13745
Predictors of Social Distancing and Mask-Wearing Behavior: Panel Survey in Seven U.S. States
Plamen Nikolov, Andreas Pape, Ozlem Tonguc, Charlotte Williams
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13733
Do Recruiters Select Workers with Different Personality Traits for Different Tasks? A Discrete Choice Experiment
Caroline Wehner, Andries de Grip, Harald Pfeifer
published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102186
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13732
Nudging Demand for Academic Support Services: Experimental and Structural Evidence from Higher Education
Todd Pugatch, Nicholas Wilson
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (5), 1637-1682
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13723
How People Know Their Risk Preference
Ruben C. Arslan, Martin Brümmer, Thomas Dohmen, Johanna Drewelies, Ralph Hertwig, Gert G. Wagner
published in: Scientific Reports, 2020, 10, 15365
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13690
Are Happier People More Compliant? Global Evidence From Three Large-Scale Surveys During Covid-19 Lockdowns
Christian Krekel, Sarah Swanke, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Daisy Fancourt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13661
Anger and Strategic Behavior: A Level-k Analysis
Alessandro Castagnetti, Eugenio Proto
published as 'Anger impairs strategic behavior: A Beauty-Contest based analysis' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 213, 128-141
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13646
Higher Order Risk Preferences: New Experimental Measures, Determinants and Field Behavior
Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13628
Psychological Pressure and the Right to Determine the Moves in Dynamic Tournaments: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Mark Kassis, Sascha L. Schmidt, Dominik Schreyer, Matthias Sutter
published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, 126, 278-287.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13619
Large Losses from Little Lies: Randomly Assigned Opportunity to Misrepresent Substantially Lowers Later Cooperation and Worsens Income Inequality
Michalis Drouvelis, Jennifer Gerson, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Yohanes E. Riyanto
publishled in: PLoS ONE, 2023, 18 (3), e0282335.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13595
Social Pressure in the Stadiums: Do Agents Change Behavior without Crowd Support?
Vincenzo Scoppa
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2021, 82, 102344.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13582
The Role of Beliefs in Long Sickness Absence: Experimental Evidence from a Psychological Intervention
Gabriel Pons Rotger, Michael Rosholm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13578
Experimental Effects of an Absent Crowd on Performances and Refereeing Decisions during COVID-19
Alex Bryson, Peter Dolton, J. James Reade, Dominik Schreyer, Carl Singleton
published as 'Causal effects of an absent crowd on performances and refereeing decisions during Covid-19' in: Economic Letters , 2021, 198, 109664
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13560
Socially Optimal Mistakes? Debiasing COVID-19 Mortality Risk Perceptions and Prosocial Behavior
Martin Abel, Tanya Byker, Jeffrey P. Carpenter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13559
Short Moves and Long Stays: Homeless Family Responses to Exogenous Shelter Assignments in New York City
Michael T. Cassidy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13558
A Closer Look: Proximity Boosts Homeless Student Performance in New York City
Michael T. Cassidy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13517
Overconfidence and Gender Differences in Wage Expectations
Stephanie Briel, Aderonke Osikominu, Gregor Pfeifer, Mirjam Reutter, Sascha Satlukal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13497
License to Fire? Unemployment Insurance and the Moral Cost of Layoffs
Daniel Keum, Stephan Meier
published as 'License to Layoff? Unemployment Insurance and the Moral Cost of Layoffs' in: Organization Science, 2023, 35 (3), 994-1014
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13474
Selection and Incentives under Time Pressure: The Importance of Framing
Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia, Valeria Pupo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13426
Climate Change and Diet
Neha Bose, Thomas Hills, Daniel Sgroi
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