IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published as 'Is There Less Discrimination in Occupations Where Recruitment Is Difficult?' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(3), 467-500 [Online Access]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7102

Experimental Labor Markets and Policy Considerations: Incomplete Contracts and Macroeconomic Aspects

Fortuna Casoria, Arno Riedl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7086

Threat of Grade Retention, Remedial Education and Student Achievement: Evidence from Upper Secondary Schools in Italy

Erich Battistin, Antonio Schizzerotto

published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, Volume 56, Issue 2, 651-678

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7085

Framing Effects and Impatience: Evidence from a Large Scale Experiment

Eline van der Heijden, Tobias J. Klein, Wieland Müller, Jan Potters

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84(2), 701-711

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7051

Strategies of Cooperation and Punishment among Students and Clerical Workers

Maria Bigoni, Gabriele Camera, Marco Casari

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7044

Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Sander M. Hoogendoorn, Simon C. Parker, Mirjam C. van Praag

Revised version available here

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7040

Understanding the Mechanisms Through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes

James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter A. Savelyev

published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (6), 2052-86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7040

Understanding the Mechanisms Through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes

James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter A. Savelyev

published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (6), 2052-86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7030

The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power

Ernst Fehr, Holger Herz, Tom Wilkening

published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (4), 1325-59

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6994

New Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life Using Air Bag Regulations as a Quasi-Experiment

Chris Rohlfs, Ryan Sullivan, Thomas J. Kniesner

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015, 7(1), 331-354

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6982

Security of Property as a Public Good: Institutions, Socio-Political Environment and Experimental Behavior in Five Countries

Francisco Campos-Ortiz, Louis Putterman, T.K. Ahn, Loukas Balafoutas, Mongoljin Batsaikhan, Matthias Sutter

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 143, 115-124.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6970

Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Early Meetings and Activation

Jonas Maibom, Michael Rosholm, Michael Svarer

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119 (3), 541 - 570

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6967

Students' Cheating as a Social Interaction: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in a National Evaluation Program

Claudio Lucifora, Marco Tonello

published as: "Cheating and social interactions. Evidence from a randomized experiment in a national evaluation program", Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 115, 2015, 45–66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6939

Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach

Alexander M. Danzer, Firat Yaman

published in: Review of International Economics, 2013, 21 (2), 311–325

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6927

Savings and Prize-Linked Savings Accounts

Kadir Atalay, Fayzan Bakhtiar, Stephen L. Cheung, Robert Slonim

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 107 (A), 86-106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6922

To See Is To Believe: Common Expectations in Experimental Asset Markets

Stephen L. Cheung, Morten Hedegaard, Stefan Palan

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 66, 84-96

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6919

Truth-Telling: A Representative Assessment

Johannes Abeler, Anke Becker, Armin Falk

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 113, 96-104

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6914

Experimental Evidence on the Relationship between Tax Evasion Opportunities and Labor Supply

Philipp Doerrenberg, Denvil Duncan

substantially revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 68, 48–70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6896

Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-Up, Growth, and Dynamics: Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 106: 199-210

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6895

What Are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations around the Developing World?

David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff

revised version published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2014, 29(1), 48-82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6888

Does Money Burn Fat? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Boris Augurzky, Thomas K. Bauer, Arndt R. Reichert, Christoph M. Schmidt, Harald Tauchmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6871

Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being

Steven Stillman, John Gibson, David McKenzie, Halahingano Rohorua

published in: World Development, 2013, [Online First]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6865

Opting-In: Participation Biases in the Lab

Robert Slonim, Carmen Wang, Ellen Garbarino, Danielle Merrett

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 90, 43-70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6861

An Experimental Test of a Committee Search Model

Yoichi Hizen, Keisuke Kawata, Masaru Sasaki

published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 61, 59-76

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6851

Trust and Trustworthiness under the Prospect Theory: A Field Experiment in Vietnam

Quang Nguyen, Marie Claire Villeval, Hui Xu

revised version published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, 64 (3), 545-572

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6815

Incentives and Group Identity

Paolo Masella, Stephan Meier, Philipp Zahn

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2014, 86, 12-25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6803

Comparing Quasi-Experimental Designs and Structural Models for Policy Evaluation: The Case of a Reform of Lone Parental Welfare

Chiara D. Pronzato

forthcoming in: CESifo Economic Studies

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6763

Measuring the Relative Productivity of Multitasking to Sole-tasking in Household Production: New Experimental Evidence

Gigi Foster, Charlene M. Kalenkoski

published in: Applied Economics, Vol. 47, No. 18, 2015, pp. 1847-1862

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6748

Estimating Equilibrium Effects of Job Search Assistance

Pieter A. Gautier, Paul Muller, Bas van der Klaauw, Michael Rosholm, Michael Svarer

Published in Journal of Labor Economics 36(4), 1073-1125

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6744

Aircraft Noise, Health, and Residential Sorting: Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments

Stefan Boes, Stephan Nüesch, Steven Stillman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6731

Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Sander M. Hoogendoorn, Mirjam C. van Praag

Revised version available here

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6725

Cheating in the Workplace: An Experimental Study of the Impact of Bonuses and Productivity

David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse, Michael Vlassopoulos

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 96 (December), 120-134

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6716

Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment

Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos

substantially revised version published as 'Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment' in: Management Science, 2015, 61(8), 1795-1811

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6699

Nudges at the Dentist

Steffen Altmann, Christian Traxler

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 72, 19-38

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6691

What is the Right Profile for Getting a Job? A Stated Choice Experiment of the Recruitment Process

Stefan Eriksson, Per Johansson, Sophie Langenskiöld

forthcoming in: Emperical Economics. DOI: 10.1007/s00181-016-1133-1

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6682

Sharpening the Effectiveness of Natural Experiments as an Analytical Tool

Harriet Duleep

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6642

Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank

Thierry Madies, Marie Claire Villeval, Malgorzata Wasmer

revised version published as 'Intergenerational Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition' in: European Economic Review, 2013, 61, 153-168.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6563

Preferences and Skills of Indian Public Sector Teachers

Sonja Fagernäs, Panu Pelkonen

published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2012, 1:3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6554

Income Inequality and Health: Lessons from a Refugee Residential Assignment Program

Hans Grönqvist, Per Johansson, Susan Niknami

published in: Journal of Health Economics 2012, 31 (4), 617-629

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6553

Early Interventions and Disability Insurance: Experience from a Field Experiment

Per Engström, Pathric Hägglund, Per Johansson

forthcoming in: Economic Journal [Online First]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6530

Ingratiation and Favoritism: Experimental Evidence

Stéphane R. Robin, Agnieszka Rusinowska, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 66, 16-38.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6512

The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Laura Rosendahl Huber, Randolph Sloof, Mirjam C. van Praag

revised version available here, published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 72, 76-97

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6491

The Good, the Bad and the Naive: Do Fair Prices Signal Good Types or Do They Induce Good Behaviour?

Uwe Dulleck, David W. Johnston, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Matthias Sutter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6480

The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments: A Natural Field Experiment

Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur, Arjan Non, Willem Verbeke

revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33(3), 521-569

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6475

Quitting and Peer Effects at Work

Julie Rosaz, Robert Slonim, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 39, 55-67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6460

Pro-Social Missions and Worker Motivation: An Experimental Study

Sebastian Fehrler, Michael Kosfeld

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 100, 99-110

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6448

The Role of Salience in Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Florian Englmaier, Andreas Roider, Uwe Sunde

revised version published as 'The Role of Communication of Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment' in: Management Science, 2017, 63(12), 4061-4080

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6425

Image and Misreporting

Mara Ewers, Florian Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6421

Gender, Economic Development and Islam: A Perspective from France

Claire L. Adida, David D. Laitin, Marie-Anne Valfort

published in: Economics and Politics, 2015, 26 (1), 79-95

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6417

Social Identity and Inequality: The Impact of China's Hukou System

Farzana Afridi, Sherry Xin Li, Yufei Ren

published in Journal of Public Economics,Vol. 123, March 2015: 17-29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6415

Testing a Forgotten Aspect of Akerlof's Gift Exchange Hypothesis: Relational Contracts with Individual and Uniform Wages

Martin G. Kocher, Wolfgang J. Luhan, Matthias Sutter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6411

Information and Competition Entry

Mara Ewers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6410

The Multi-Dimensional Effects of Reciprocity on Worker Effort: Evidence from a Hybrid Field-Laboratory Labor Market Experiment

Min-Taec Kim, Robert Slonim

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6401

Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program

Julián P. Cristia, Pablo Ibarrarán, Santiago Cueto, Ana Santiago, Eugenio Severín

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6378

The Pitfalls of Work Requirements in Welfare-to-Work Policies: Experimental Evidence on Human Capital Accumulation in the Self-Sufficiency Project

Chris Riddell, W. Craig Riddell

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 117, 39-49

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6345

Peer Effects in Pro-Social Behavior: Social Norms or Social Preferences?

Simon Gächter, Daniele Nosenzo, Martin Sefton

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (3), 548-573; doi:10.1111/jeea.12015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6342

Positional Concerns through the Life Cycle: Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data and Survey Experiments

Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6316

Sabotage in Tournaments: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Loukas Balafoutas, Florian Lindner, Matthias Sutter

revised version published in: Kyklos, 2012, 65 (4), 425-441

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6311

Under-Savers Anonymous: Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device

Felipe Kast, Stephan Meier, Dina Pomeranz

revised version published as 'Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 133, 275-294.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6304

Testing Canonical Tournament Theory: On the Impact of Risk, Social Preferences and Utility Structure

Roman M. Sheremeta, Steven Y. Wu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6300

Migration Policy Can Boost PISA Results: Findings from a Natural Experiment

Maria Alejandra Cattaneo, Stefan C. Wolter

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6298

Insurance versus Savings for the Poor: Why One Should Offer Either Both or None

Andreas Landmann, Björn Vollan, Markus Frölich

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6286

Whom to Choose as a Team Mate? A Lab Experiment about In-Group Favouritism

Andrea Hammermann, Alwine Mohnen, Petra Nieken

published in: Review of Managerial Science, 2014, 8(3), 327–350

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6282

Exogenous Treatment and Endogenous Factors: Vanishing of Omitted Variable Bias on the Interaction Term

Olena Y. Nizalova, Irina Murtazashvili

published in Journal of Econometric Methods, 2016, 5(1), 71-78

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6247

Impatience among Preschool Children and their Mothers

Fabian Kosse, Friedhelm Pfeiffer

published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 115 (3), 493-495

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6239

Excess Worker Turnover and Fixed-Term Contracts: Causal Evidence in a Two-Tier System

Mario Centeno, Alvaro A. Novo

published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (3), 320-328

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6235

Do Employers Use Unemployment as a Sorting Criterion When Hiring? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Stefan Eriksson, Dan-Olof Rooth

published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (3), 1014-1039

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6223

Efficient Coordination in Weakest-Link Games

Arno Riedl, Ingrid M.T. Rohde, Martin Strobel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6187

Costless Discrimination and Unequal Achievements in a Labour Market Experiment

Antonio Filippin, Francesco Guala

published in: Experimental Economics, 2013, 16(3), 285-305

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6179

The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment: Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments

Alpaslan Akay, Gökhan Karabulut, Peter Martinsson

substantially revised version published as 'Cooperation and punishment: The effect of religiosity and religious festival' in: Economics Letters, 2015, 130, 43–46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6153

Revealing Taste-Based Discrimination in Hiring: A Correspondence Testing Experiment with Geographic Variation

Magnus Carlsson, Dan-Olof Rooth

published in: Applied Economic Letters, 2012, 19 (18), 1861-1864

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6122

"One Muslim is Enough!" - Evidence from a Field Experiment in France

Claire L. Adida, David D. Laitin, Marie-Anne Valfort

published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 121-122, 121-160

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6100

Anonymous Job Applications of Fresh Ph.D. Economists

Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Ulf Rinne, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (2), 441-444 [Open Access]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6087

Strategic Ignorance in Bargaining

Julian Conrads, Bernd Irlenbusch

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 92, 104-115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6049

The Effects of Tax Salience and Tax Experience on Individual Work Efforts in a Framed Field Experiment

Martin Fochmann, Joachim Weimann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6049

The Effects of Tax Salience and Tax Experience on Individual Work Efforts in a Framed Field Experiment

Martin Fochmann, Joachim Weimann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6026

Effects of Parental Background on Other-Regarding Preferences in Children

Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová, Barbara Pertold-Gebicka

revised version published as 'Parental Background and Other-regarding Preferences in Children' in: Experimental Economics, 2014, 17(1), 24-46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5999

Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?

Peter J. Kuhn, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Are Women More Attracted to Co-operation Than Men?' in: Economic Journal, 2014, 125, 115-140.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5976

The Effects of Training on Own and Co-Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Andries de Grip, Jan Sauermann

published in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122 (559), 376-399

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5968

Lying and Team Incentives

Julian Conrads, Bernd Irlenbusch, Rainer Michael Rilke, Gari Walkowitz

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2013, 34, 1-7

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5948

Search, Effort, and Locus of Control

Andrew McGee, Peter McGee

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 126 (Part A), 89 - 101

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5925

Big Experimenter Is Watching You! Anonymity and Prosocial Behavior in the Laboratory

Franziska Barmettler, Ernst Fehr, Christian Zehnder

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2012, 75 (1), 17-34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5892

Role Selection and Team Performance

David J. Cooper, Matthias Sutter

published in: International Economic Review, 2018, 59(3), 1547-1569.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5888

Child Care, Maternal Employment and Persistence: A Natural Experiment from Spain

Natalia Nollenberger, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

substantially revised version forthcoming as “Full-Time Universal Childcare in a Context of Low Maternal Employment: Modest but Persistent Effects" in Labour Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5884

Lies and Biased Evaluation: A Real-Effort Experiment

Julie Rosaz, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84 (2), 537-549.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5844

Teams or Tournaments? A Field Experiment on Cooperation and Competition among University Students

Maria Bigoni, Margherita Fort, Mattia Nardotto, Tommaso G. Reggiani

revised version published as 'Cooperation or Competition? A Field Experiment on Non-Monetary Learning Incentives' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2015, 15 (4), 1753-1792 - DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2014-0109

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5840

Preferences for Consistency

Armin Falk, Florian Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5818

A Multi-Method Approach to Identifying Norms and Normative Expectations within a Corporate Hierarchy: Evidence from the Financial Services Industry

Stephen V. Burks, Erin L. Krupka

revised version published in: Management Science, 2012, 1 (58), 203-217

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5808

Which Measures of Time Preference Best Predict Outcomes? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Aldo Rustichini

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84 (1), 308-320

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5801