IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Association between experiencing low healthcare quality and developing dementia' in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2024, 72 (7), 2126-2132

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16818

Disparities in Psychological Traits and Income: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the U.S.

Aurelie Dariel, John C. Ham, Nikos Nikiforakis, Jan Stoop

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16802

Does a Tragic Event Affect Different Aspects of Attitudes toward Immigration?

Odelia Heizler (Cohen), Osnat Israeli

published in: Migration Studies, 2025, 13 (1), mnae001

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16519

Forced Labor and Health-Related Outcomes. The Case of Beggar Children

Nick Drydakis

published in: Child Abuse and Neglect, 2023, 146,:106490

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16484

Does Economic Freedom Moderate Perceived Corruption for Firms in India?

Nabamita Dutta, Saibal Kar, Adam Stivers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16351

Sticky Wages on the Layoff Margin

Steven J. Davis, Pawel M. Krolikowski

published in: American Economic Review, 2025, 115 (2), 491 - 524

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16345

Effects of E-commerce on Local Labor Markets

Anahid Bauer, Sofía Fernández Guerrico

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16283

Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers

David B. Huffman, Collin Raymond, Julia Shvets

published in: American Economic Review, 2022, 112 (10), 3141–3175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16268

What Makes Hiring Difficult? Evidence from Linked Survey-Administrative Data

Antoine Bertheau, Birthe Larsen, Zeyu Zhao

this version: December 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16246

Proud to Not Own Stocks: How Identity Shapes Financial Decisions

Luca Henkel, Christian Zimpelmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16180

Overconfident Boys: The Gender Gap in Mathematics Self-Assessment

Anna Adamecz, John Jerrim, Jean-Baptiste Pingault, Nikki Shure

published as 'Peers, parents, and self-perceptions: the gender gap in mathematics self-assessment' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 33 (2025)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16108

The Long-Term Causal Effects of Winning an ERC Grant

Corinna Ghirelli, Enkelejda Havari, Elena Claudia Meroni, Stefano Verzillo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15934

Cognitive Misperception and Chronic Disease Awareness: Evidence from Blood Biomarker Data

Zhuoer Lin, Mingqi Fu, Xi Chen

published as 'Self-perceived memory is negatively associated with chronic disease awareness: Evidence from blood biomarker data' in: SSM - Population Health, 2023, 22, 101361

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15682

Motivated Belief Updating and Rationalization of Information

Christoph Drobner, Sebastian J. Goerg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15673

Income Misperception and Populism

Thilo N. H. Albers, Felix Kersting, Fabian Kosse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15347

The Perceived Social Rejection of Sexual Minorities: Substance Use and Unprotected Sexual Intercourse

Nick Drydakis

published in: Drug and Alcohol Review, 2022, 41 (6), 1341-1354.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15322

Preferences and Perceptions in Provision and Maintenance Public Goods

Simon Gächter, Felix Kölle, Simone Quercia

revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2022, 135, 338-355.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15307

Perceived Returns to Job Search

Abi Adams-Prassl, Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin, Christopher Rauh

published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 80, 102307

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15145

The Gender Gap in Top Jobs – The Role of Overconfidence

Anna Adamecz, Nikki Shure

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102283

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. 14905

"The Better You Feel, the Harder You Fall": Health Perception Biases and Mental Health among Chinese Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Peng Nie, Lu Wang, Davide Dragone, Haiyang Lu, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 71, 101708

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14905

"The Better You Feel, the Harder You Fall": Health Perception Biases and Mental Health among Chinese Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Peng Nie, Lu Wang, Davide Dragone, Haiyang Lu, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 71, 101708

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14905

"The Better You Feel, the Harder You Fall": Health Perception Biases and Mental Health among Chinese Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Peng Nie, Lu Wang, Davide Dragone, Haiyang Lu, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 71, 101708

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14663

Parental Responses to Children's Achievement Test Results

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Tiffany Ho, Nicolás Salamanca

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14663

Parental Responses to Children's Achievement Test Results

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Tiffany Ho, Nicolás Salamanca

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. 14270

Happiness, Domains of Life Satisfaction, Perceptions, and Valuation Differences Across Genders

Stefani Milovanska-Farrington, Stephen Farrington

published in: Acta Psychologica, 2022, 230, 103720

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14167

Selection and Endogenous Treatment Models with Social Interactions: An Application to the Impact of Exercise on Self-Esteem

Zhongjian Lin, Francis Vella

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. 14087

Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions

Nicolas Ajzenman, Patricio Dominguez-Rivera, Raimundo Undurraga

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14058

Quality and Price Setting of High-Tech Goods

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Oleksandr Talavera, Nam Vu

published in: Economic Modelling, 2021, 98, 69 - 85

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. 13793

Search Costs and the Determinants of Job Search

Emily A. Beam

published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 69, 101968

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. 13637

Where Do I Stand? Assessing Researchers' Beliefs about Their Relative Productivity

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello, Daniele Checchi, Lorenzo Rocco

published as 'Where do I stand? Assessing researchers' beliefs about their productivity' in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2021, 185, 61-80

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13625

Modern Infectious Diseases: Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses

David E. Bloom, Michael Kuhn, Klaus Prettner

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2022, 60 (1), 85–131

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. 13517

Overconfidence and Gender Differences in Wage Expectations

Stephanie Briel, Aderonke Osikominu, Gregor Pfeifer, Mirjam Reutter, Sascha Satlukal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13463

Gender Inequality in COVID-19 Times: Evidence from UK Prolific Participants

Sonia Oreffice, Climent Quintana-Domeque

revised version published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2021, 87 (2), 261-287

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13308

Biased Health Perceptions and Risky Health Behaviors: Theory and Evidence

Patrick Arni, Davide Dragone, Lorenz Götte, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 76, 102425

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13308

Biased Health Perceptions and Risky Health Behaviors: Theory and Evidence

Patrick Arni, Davide Dragone, Lorenz Götte, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 76, 102425

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13308

Biased Health Perceptions and Risky Health Behaviors: Theory and Evidence

Patrick Arni, Davide Dragone, Lorenz Götte, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 76, 102425

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13308

Biased Health Perceptions and Risky Health Behaviors: Theory and Evidence

Patrick Arni, Davide Dragone, Lorenz Götte, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 76, 102425

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13273

Drinking Is Different! Examining the Role of Locus of Control for Alcohol Consumption

Marco Caliendo, Juliane Hennecke

revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2022, 63, 2785 - 2815

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13144

A Natural Experiment on Job Insecurity and Fertility in France

Andrew E. Clark, Anthony Lepinteur

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104, 386-398

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12945

Self-Perceptions about Academic Achievement: Evidence from Mexico City

Matteo Bobba, Veronica Frisancho

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 231 (1), 58 - 73

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12899

Time Spent Exercising and Obesity: An Application of Lewbel's Instrumental Variables Method

Charles Courtemanche, Joshua C. Pinkston, Jay Stewart

published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2021, 41, 100940

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12618

Analyzing the Perceptions of Egyptian Youth about the Arab Spring

Ali Fakih, Pascal L. Ghazalian

published in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2021, 48 (1), 1658-1676

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. 12282

Bullshitters. Who Are They and What Do We Know about Their Lives?

John Jerrim, Phil Parker, Nikki Shure

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12095

Measuring the Spatial Misallocation of Labor: The Returns to India-Gulf Guest Work in a Natural Experiment

Michael A. Clemens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11942

Leveraging Patients' Social Networks to Overcome Tuberculosis Underdetection: A Field Experiment in India

Jessica Goldberg, Mario Macis, Pradeep Chintagunta

published as 'Incentivized Peer Referrals for Tuberculosis Screening: Evidence from India' in: American Economic Review: Applied Economics, 2023, 15 (1), 259 - 291

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11709

Disease Control and Inequality Reduction: Evidence from a Tuberculosis Testing and Vaccination Campaign

Aline Bütikofer, Kjell G. Salvanes

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2020, 87 (5), 2087–2125

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11644

Salience of Law Enforcement: A Field Experiment

Robert Dur, Ben Vollaard

published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2019, 93, 208-220

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11589

Do Walmart Supercenters Improve Food Security?

Charles Courtemanche, Art Carden, Xilin Zhou, Murugi Ndirangu

published in: Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2019, 41 (2), 177-198

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. 11491

News Media and Crime Perceptions: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Nicola Mastrorocco, Luigi Minale

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 165, 230-255

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11302

The Effect of the First Italian Research Evaluation Exercise on Student Enrolment Choices

Daniele Biancardi, Massimiliano Bratti

revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 69, 73-93

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10874

Can Financial Incentives Help People Trying to Establish New Habits? Experimental Evidence with New Gym Members

Mariana Carrera, Heather Royer, Mark Stehr, Justin Syndor

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 202 -214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10874

Can Financial Incentives Help People Trying to Establish New Habits? Experimental Evidence with New Gym Members

Mariana Carrera, Heather Royer, Mark Stehr, Justin Syndor

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 202 -214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10854

Perception of Corruption and Public Support for Redistribution in Latin America

Esther Hauk, Mónica Oviedo, Xavier Ramos

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 74, 102174

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10794

Worker Overconfidence: Field Evidence and Implications for Employee Turnover and Returns from Training

Mitchell Hoffman, Stephen V. Burks

revised version published in: Quantitative Economics, 2020, 11(1), 315-348

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10787

Sir! I'd Rather Go to School, Sir!

Mahdi Majbouri

forthcoming in: Economic Development and Cultural Change

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10611

Estimating the Relationship between Skill and Overconfidence

Jan Feld, Jan Sauermann, Andries de Grip

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 68, 18-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10590

Was the First Public Health Campaign Successful? The Tuberculosis Movement and its Effect on Mortality

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Claudio Las Heras Olivares, Daniel I. Rees

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (2), 143-175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10577

I Can't Get No Satisfaction: The Power of Perceived Differences in Employee Retention and Turnover

Deniz Gevrek, Marilyn Spencer, David Hudgins, Valrie Chambers

published in: Personnel Review, 2017, 46(5), 1019-1043.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10545

True Overconfidence, Revealed through Actions: An Experiment

Stephen L. Cheung, Lachlan Johnstone

revised version forthcoming in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2025.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10407

Locus of Control and Investment in Risky Assets

Nicolás Salamanca, Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge, Raymond Montizaan

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 177, 548-568

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10283

Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments

Damon Clark, David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse, Mark Rush

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (4), 648-663

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10209

The Analysis of Prison-Prisoner Data Using Cluster-Sample Econometrics: Prison Conditions and Prisoners' Assessments of the Future

Horst Entorf, Liliya Sattarova

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10136

Money or Fun? Why Students Want to Pursue Further Education

Chris Belfield, Teodora Boneva, Christopher Rauh, Jonathan Shaw

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9971

Coerced Labor in the Cotton Sector: How Global Commodity Prices (Don't) Transmit to the Poor

Alexander M. Danzer, Robert Grundke

published as 'Export price shocks and rural labor markets: The role of labor market distortions' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 145, 102464

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9804

The Impact of Television Programmes on Teenage Career Aspirations The 'MasterChef Effect'

Giorgio Di Pietro

revised version published as 'Do media play a role in promoting vocational education and training? The case of MasterChef' in: Policy Studies, 2018, 39 (1), 37-53

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9651

Social Insurance with Competitive Insurance Markets and Risk Misperception

Helmuth Cremer, Kerstin Roeder

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 138-147.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9579

The Individual Perception of Wage Inequality: A Measurement Framework and Some Empirical Evidence

Andreas Kuhn

revised version published as `The Individual (Mis-)Perception of Wage Inequality: Measurement, Correlates and Implications' in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 2039-2069

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9579

The Individual Perception of Wage Inequality: A Measurement Framework and Some Empirical Evidence

Andreas Kuhn

revised version published as `The Individual (Mis-)Perception of Wage Inequality: Measurement, Correlates and Implications' in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 2039-2069

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9481

Overconfidence and Health Insurance Participation among the Elderly

Wei Huang, Mi Luo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9406

The Subversive Nature of Inequality: Subjective Inequality Perceptions and Attitudes to Social Inequality

Andreas Kuhn

revised and shortened version published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 59, 331-344

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9335

Earmarking and the Political Support of Fat Taxes

Helmuth Cremer, Catarina Goulão, Kerstin Roeder

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 50, 258-267.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9334