IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Climate risk and beliefs in New York floodplains' in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2020, 7 (6), 1069-1111.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13510

Does the Dream of Home Ownership Rest upon Biased Beliefs? A Test Based on Predicted and Realized Life Satisfaction

Reto Odermatt, Alois Stutzer

revised version published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23 (8), 3731-3763

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13475

Biased Beliefs and Entry into Scientific Careers

Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Danijela Vuletić Čugalj

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13445

Subjective Expectations for Health Service Use and Consequences for Health Insurance Behavior

Nathan Kettlewell

published as 'The informational content of subjective expectations for health service use' in: BMC Health Services Research, 2021, 21, 464 (2021)

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. 13230

Six-Country Survey on COVID-19

Michèle Belot, Syngjoo Choi, Julian C. Jamison, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Egon Tripodi, Eline van den Broek-Altenburg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13192

The Role of Faith and Faith Schooling in Educational, Economic, and Faith Outcomes

Andrew McKendrick, Ian Walker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13065

Parents' Responses to Teacher Qualifications

Simon Chang, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Nicolás Salamanca

publisehd in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 197, 419 - 446

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13060

Why Do We Procrastinate? Present Bias and Optimism

Zachary Breig, Matthew Gibson, Jeffrey G. Shrader

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13056

Maternal Investments in Children: The Role of Expected Effort and Returns

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Adeline Delavande, Paulino Font Gilabert, Joanna Maselko

published in: Economic Journal, 2025, 135 (667), 712–747

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12759

Political Activists as Free-Riders: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Anselm Hager, Lukas Hensel, Johannes Hermle, Christopher Roth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12508

One Step at a Time: Does Gradualism Build Coordination?

Maoliang Ye, Jie Zheng, Plamen Nikolov, Samuel Asher

published in: Management Science, 2019, 66 (1), 113-129.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12217

Incentives, Search Engines, and the Elicitation of Subjective Beliefs: Evidence from Representative Online Survey Experiments

Elisabeth Grewenig, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann, Philipp Lergetporer

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 231 (1), 304-326

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12153

Measuring Belief-Dependent Preferences without Information about Beliefs

Charles Bellemare, Alexander Sebald

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. 11954

A Theory of Conservative Revivals

Murat Iyigun, Jared Rubin, Avner Seror

published as 'A Theory of Cultural Revivals' in: European Economic Review, 2021, 135, 103-134.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11917

The Causal Effect of Trust

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11758

A Tale of Two Cities: An Experiment on Inequality and Preferences

Maria Bigoni, Stefania Bortolotti, Veronica Rattini

published in: Theory and Decision, 2022, 92, 189 - 222

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11336

Parental Beliefs about Returns to Child Health Investments

Pietro Biroli, Teodora Boneva, Akash Raja, Christopher Rauh

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 231 (1), 33 - 57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10956

Do Beliefs about Peers Matter for Donation Matching? Experiments in the Field and Laboratory

Laura Katherine Gee, Michael J. Schreck

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2018, 107, 282 - 297

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10781

Spillover Effects of Institutions on Cooperative Behavior, Preferences and Beliefs

Florian Engl, Arno Riedl, Roberto A. Weber

published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2021, 13 (4), 261 - 299

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10703

The Ideological Roots of Institutional Change

Murat Iyigun, Jared Rubin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10625

Let the Girls Learn! I It is not Only about Math... It’s about Gender Social Norm

Natalia Nollenberger, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 62, 230-253

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10622

The Intergenerational Transmission of Math Culture

Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Chiara Rapallini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10567

Genetic Ability, Wealth, and Financial Decision-Making

Daniel Barth, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Kevin Thom

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (4),1474-1522

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. 10419

Does Information Change Attitudes Towards Immigrants? Representative Evidence from Survey Experiments

Alexis Grigorieff, Christopher Roth, Diego Ubfal

published in: Demography, 2020, 57, 1111-1143

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10360

Learning about Oneself: The Effects of Performance Feedback on School Choice

Matteo Bobba, Veronica Frisancho

Updated version available as DP 16168.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10344

Subjective Completion Beliefs and the Demand for Post-Secondary Education

Johannes S. Kunz, Kevin E. Staub

published as 'Early subjective completion beliefs and the demand for post-secondary education' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 177, 34-55

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10172

Beliefs and Utility: Experimental Evidence on Preferences for Information

Armin Falk, Florian Zimmermann

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. 10110

The Long-Term Impact of International Migration on Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from a Migration Lottery and Lab-in-the-Field Experiments

John Gibson, David McKenzie, Halahingano Rohorua, Steven Stillman

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 138, 99-115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9872

On the Interpretation of World Values Survey Trust Question: Global Expectations vs. Local Beliefs

Ritwik Banerjee

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 55, 491-510

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9856

Subjective Belief Distributions and the Characterization of Economic Literacy

Amalia Di Girolamo, Glenn Harrison, Morten Lau, J. Todd Swarthout

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9617

Opening the Blackbox: How Does Labor Market Policy Affect the Job Seekers' Behavior? A Field Experiment

Patrick Arni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9478

Rank, Sex, Drugs, and Crime

Benjamin Elsner, Ingo E. Isphording

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53(2), 356-381

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. 8975

Religion and Innovation

Roland Benabou, Davide Ticchi, Andrea Vindigni

published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (5), 346–351

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8858

Biased Beliefs and Imperfect Information

Eugenio Proto, Daniel Sgroi

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 136, 186 - 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8698

Compulsory Schooling Laws and Formation of Beliefs: Education, Religion and Superstition

Naci Mocan, Luiza Pogorelova

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 142, 509-539

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8580

Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Simon Gächter, Elke Renner

revised version published as 'Leaders as role models and 'belief managers' in social dilemmas' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 154, 321-334

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8409

Immigration, Cultural Distance and Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants: Evidence from Swiss Voting Results

Beatrice Brunner, Andreas Kuhn

revised version published in: Kyklos, 2018, 71(1), 28-58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7932

Ambiguity on Audits and Cooperation in a Public Goods Game

Zhixin Dai, Robin M. Hogarth, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 74, 146-162

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7372

Correlation Neglect in Belief Formation

Benjamin Enke, Florian Zimmermann

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86 (1), 313–33