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274 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17287
One Size Fits All? The Interplay of Incentives, Effort Provision, and Personality
Zvonimir Bašić, Stefania Bortolotti, Daniel Salicath, Stefan Schmidt, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17271
Gender Role Models in Education
Sofoklis Goulas, Bhagya N. Gunawardena, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17267
Evaluating Yourself and Your Peers
Mingye Ma, Gerhard Riener, Youzong Xu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17261
The Impact of Role Models on Youths' Aspirations, Gender Attitudes and Education in Somalia
Elijah Kipchumba, Catherine Porter, Danila Serra, Munshi Sulaiman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17096
What Matters for the Decision to Study Abroad? A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Cape Verde
Catia Batista, David M Costa, Pedro Freitas, Gonçalo Lima, Ana B Reis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17078
Assessing Dishonesty in Cocoa Value Chains: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence from Middlemen in Côte D'Ivoire
Delphine Boutin, Marine Jouvin, Louis Olié
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17004
Delegation in Hiring: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit
Bo Cowgill, Patryk Perkowski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16937
Game Changer: Impact of a Reading Intervention on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
Micole De Vera, Javier Garcia-Brazales, Luz Rello
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16923
Do Caseworker Meetings Prevent Unemployment? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Pia Homrighausen, Michael Oberfichtner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16847
Peer Creativity and Academic Achievement
Max van Lent
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16672
Nothing Really Matters: Evaluating Demand-Side Moderators of Age Discrimination in Hiring
Axana Dalle, Louis Lippens, Stijn Baert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16658
Mens Sana in Corpore Sano! The Hiring Premium for Physical versus Mental Exercise in Different Occupations
Dieter Verhaest, Stijn Baert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16625
Strength in Numbers? Gender Composition, Leadership, and Women's Influence in Teams
Christopher F. Karpowitz, Stephen D. O'Connell, Jessica Preece, Olga B. Stoddard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16498
Starting the School Year on the Right Foot. Effects of a Summer Learning Program Targeting Vulnerable Students in Italy
Davide Azzolini, Martina Bazzoli, Sergiu Burlacu, Enrico Rettore
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16457
Mindfulness Training, Cognitive Performance and Stress Reduction
Gary Charness, Yves Le Bihan, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 217, 207-226.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16399
Is Patience Malleable via Educational Intervention? Evidence on the Role of Age in Field Experiments
Tim Kaiser, Lukas Menkhoff, Luis Oberrauch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16284
Incentive Complexity, Bounded Rationality and Effort Provision
Johannes Abeler, David B. Huffman, Collin Raymond
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16218
Roma and Bureaucrats: A Field Experiment on Ethnic and Socioeconomic Discrimination
Stepan Mikula, Josef Montag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16217
Disability, Gender and Hiring Discrimination: A Field Experiment
Vegar Bjørnshagen, Dan-Olof Rooth, Elisabeth Ugreninov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16141
Information Nudges, Subsidies, and Crowding Out of Attention: Field Evidence from Energy Efficiency Investments
Matthias Rodemeier, Andreas Löschel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16102
Financial Literacy, Experimental Preference Measures and Field Behavior – A Randomized Educational Intervention
Matthias Sutter, Michael Weyland, Anna Untertrifaller, Manuel Froitzheim, Sebastian O. Schneider
this paper presents an update of the former IZA Discussion Paper No. 13566
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16082
Discrimination on the Child Care Market: A Nationwide Field Experiment
Henning Hermes, Fabian Mierisch, Frauke Peter, Simon Wiederhold, Philipp Lergetporer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15950
Language Proficiency and Hiring of Immigrants: Evidence from a New Field Experimental Approach
Magnus Carlsson, Stefan Eriksson, Dan-Olof Rooth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15830
The Direct and Indirect Effects of Online Job Search Advice
Steffen Altmann, Anita Marie Glenny, Robert Mahlstedt, Alexander Sebald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15768
Information Provision over the Phone Saves Lives: An RCT to Contain COVID-19 in Rural Bangladesh at the Pandemic's Onset
Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15747
Do Job Seekers Understand the UI Benefit System (And Does It Matter)?
Steffen Altmann, Sofie Cairo, Robert Mahlstedt, Alexander Sebald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15723
Keep Calm and Carry On: The Short- vs. Long-Run Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on (Academic) Performance
Lea Cassar, Mira Fischer, Vanessa Valero
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15698
Empirical Evaluation of Broader Job Search Requirements for Unemployed Workers
Bas van der Klaauw, Heike Vethaak
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15683
Reputation vs Selection Effects in Markets With Informational Asymmetries
Theodore Alysandratos, Sotiris Georganas, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15452
Do the Long-Term Unemployed Benefit from Automated Occupational Advice during Online Job Search?
Michèle Belot, Philipp Kircher, Paul Muller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15266
The Relationship between Cognitive Ability and Risk Preferences in a Developing Nation: Findings from the Field
Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Daniel Sgroi
published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 216, 110576
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15186
How to Reduce Discrimination? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Amateur Soccer
Robert Dur, Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez, Cornel Nesseler
revised version published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2023, 49 (1), 175 - 191
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15183
Can Meaning Make Cents? Making the Meaning of Work Salient for US Manufacturing Workers
Alberto Salamone, Grace Lordan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14940
Transparency of the Welfare System and Labor Market Outcomes of Unemployed Workers
Sofie Cairo, Robert Mahlstedt
substantially revised version published as 'The disparate effects of information provision: A field experiment on the work incentives of social welfare' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 226, 104987
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14886
Testing for Ethnic Discrimination in Outpatient Health Care: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Germany
Martin Halla, Christopher Kah, Rupert Sausgruber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14839
Formalized Employee Search and Labor Demand
Lukas Hensel, Tsegay Tekleselassie, Marc J. Witte
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14768
How Property Shapes Distributional Preferences
Marco Fabbri, Maria Bigoni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14671
Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Labor Market against Gay Men
Nick Drydakis
published in:Review of Economics of the Household, 2022, 20, 1027 - 1058
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. 14594
Estimating Coherency between Survey Data and Incentivized Experimental Data
Christian Belzil, Julie Pernaudet, François Poinas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14401
Children's Patience and School-Track Choices Several Years Later: Linking Experimental and Field Data
Silvia Angerer, Jana Bolvashenkova, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Philipp Lergetporer, Matthias Sutter
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 220, 104837
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14384
More Opportunity, More Cooperation? The Behavioral Effects of Birthright Citizenship on Immigrant Youth
Christina Felfe, Martin G. Kocher, Helmut Rainer, Judith Saurer, Thomas Siedler
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 200, 104448
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14383
Signals from On High and the Power of Growth Mindset: A Natural Field Experiment in Attracting Minorities to High-Profile Positions
Jeffrey A. Flory, Andreas Leibbrandt, Christina Rott, Olga B. Stoddard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14260
Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment and a Structural Model
Vincent Boucher, Semih Tumen, Michael Vlassopoulos, Jackline Wahba, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14253
Trying to Make a Good First Impression: A Natural Field Experiment to Engage New Entrants to the Tax System
Sarah Dong, Mathias Sinning
published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2022, 100, 101900
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14252
Social Norms or Enforcement? A Natural Field Experiment to Improve Traffic and Parking Fine Compliance
Mathias Sinning, Yinjunjie (Jacquelyn) Zhang
forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14199
Information Provision, Incentives, and Attention: A Field Experiment on Facilitating and Influencing Managers' Decisions
Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka, Timo Vogelsang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14147
The Fetters of the Sib: An Experimental Study in Burkina Faso
Björn Vollan, Myriam Hadnes, Marco Nilgen, Michael Kosfeld
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14097
Can Mentoring Alleviate Family Disadvantage in Adolescence? A Field Experiment to Improve Labor-Market Prospects
Sven Resnjanskij, Jens Ruhose, Simon Wiederhold, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (3), 1013-1062
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13999
Improving Healthy Eating in Children: Experimental Evidence
Gary Charness, Ramón Cobo-Reyes, Erik Eyster, Gabriel Katz, Ángela Sánchez, Matthias Sutter
revised version publishedd as 'Improving children’s food choices: Experimental evidence from the field: in: European Economic Review, 2023, 159, 104562
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13966
The Social Side of Early Human Capital Formation: Using a Field Experiment to Estimate the Causal Impact of Neighborhoods
John A. List, Fatemeh Momeni, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13915
Economic Preferences and Obesity: Evidence from a Clinical Lab-in-Field Experiment
Chiara Pastore, Stefanie Schurer, Agnieszka Tymula, Nicholas Fuller, Ian Caterson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13812
Inequality, Institutions and Cooperation
Thomas Markussen, Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal, Finn Tarp
published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 138, 103842, p.13
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13798
To Buy or Not to Buy? Price Salience in an Online Shopping Field Experiment
Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt, Mats Köster, Matthias Sutter
published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 130, 103593
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13793
Search Costs and the Determinants of Job Search
Emily A. Beam
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13789
Assessing Selection Bias in Non-Experimental Estimates of the Returns to Workplace Training
Jan Sauermann, Anders Stenberg
revised version available here
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13741
Strength in Numbers: A Field Experiment in Gender, Influence, and Group Dynamics
Olga B. Stoddard, Christopher F. Karpowitz, Jessica Preece
updated version available as DP 16625
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13699
Schools' Attitudes Towards Single Parents: Experimental Evidence
Luis Diaz-Serrano, Sabine Flamand
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13696
Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools
Clare Leaver, Owen Ozier, Pieter Serneels, Andrew Zeitlin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13688
Crowding-Out or Crowding-In? Heterogeneous Effects of Insurance on Solidarity
Andreas Landmann, Björn Vollan, Karla Henning, Markus Frölich
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13566
Financial Literacy, Risk and Time Preferences: Results from a Randomized Educational Intervention
Matthias Sutter, Michael Weyland, Anna Untertrifaller, Manuel Froitzheim
an updated version of this paper is available as IZA DP No. 16102
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13498
Team Incentives, Social Cohesion, and Performance: A Natural Field Experiment
Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur, Oke Onemu, Joeri Sol
published in: Management Science, 2022, 68 (1), 230-256
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. 13458
Reading Aloud to Children, Social Inequalities, and Vocabulary Development: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Carlo Barone, Denis Fougère, Karine Martel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13407
Improving Tax Compliance without Increasing Revenue: Evidence from Population-Wide Randomized Controlled Trials in Papua New Guinea
Christopher Hoy, Luke McKenzie, Mathias Sinning
forthcoming in: Economic Development and Cultural Change
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13345
Monetary and Social Incentives in Multi-Tasking: The Ranking Substitution Effect
Matthias Stefan, Jürgen Huber, Michael Kirchler, Matthias Sutter, Markus Walzl
forthcoming in: European Economic Review
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13344
Reveal It or Conceal It: On the Value of Second Opinions in a Low-Entry-Barriers Credence Goods Market
Parampreet Christopher Bindra, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Daniel Neururer, Matthias Sutter
revised version published as 'On the value of second opinions: a credence goods field experiment' in: Economics Letters, 2021, 205, 109925
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13338
The Impact of Working Memory Training on Children's Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills
Eva M. Berger, Ernst Fehr, Henning Hermes, Daniel Schunk, Kirsten Winkel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13323
Gender Gaps in Competition: New Experimental Evidence from UK Professionals
Sophie Clot, Marina Della Giusta, Giovanni Razzu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13321
Optimal Incentives to Give
Marco Castillo, Ragan Petrie
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13269
Market Competition and Discrimination
Abu Siddique, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou
published in: European Economic Review, 152, 104361, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13201
Two Field Experiments on Self-Selection, Collaboration Intensity, and Team Performance
Mira Fischer, Rainer Michael Rilke, B. Burcin Yurtoglu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13154
Apprenticeship and Youth Unemployment
Pierre Cahuc, Jeremy Hervelin
forthcoming in: European Economic Review
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13096
Estimating the Value of Higher Education Financial Aid: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Christian Belzil, Arnaud Maurel, Modibo Sidibé
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021,39 (2), 361-395.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13085
Game of Prejudice: Experiments at the Extensive and Intensive Margin
Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Joseph Vecci, Tomáš Želinský
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12959
Do Women Shy Away from Public Speaking? A Field Experiment
Maria De Paola, Rosetta Lombardo, Valeria Pupo, Vincenzo Scoppa
published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 70, 102001
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12948
Gender, Information and the Efficiency of Household Production Decisions: An Experiment in Rural Togo
Marie Christine Apedo-Amah, Habiba Djebbari, Roberta Ziparo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12939
Vaccines at Work
Manuel Hoffmann, Roberto Mosquera, Adrian Chadi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12919
The Effect of Financial Constraints on In-Group Bias: Evidence from Rice Farmers in Thailand
Suparee Boonmanunt, Stephan Meier
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 207, 96-109.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12907
When Do Teachers Respond to Student Feedback? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Margaretha Buurman, Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur, Robin Zoutenbier
published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101858
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12905
When Too Good Is Too Much: Social Incentives and Job Selection
Tommaso G. Reggiani, Rainer Michael Rilke
revised version published online as 'Designing Donation Incentive Contracts for Online Gig Workers' in: Journal of Business Ethics, 15 May 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12882
Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation Revisited
James J. Heckman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12813
Improving Access to Savings through Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence from African Smallholder Farmers
Catia Batista, Pedro C. Vicente
published in: World Development, 2020, 129, 104905
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12793
Direct and Indirect Effects of Subsidized Dual Apprenticeships
Bruno Crépon, Patrick Premand
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. 12667
Paying Gig Workers – Evidence from a Field Experiment
Sebastian Butschek, Roberto González Amor, Patrick Kampkötter, Dirk Sliwka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12626
Time Delay and Investment Decisions: Evidence from an Experiment in Tanzania
Plamen Nikolov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12572
Learning Management through Matching: A Field Experiment Using Mechanism Design
Girum Abebe, Marcel Fafchamps, Michael Koelle, Simon Quinn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12543
Instruction Time, Information, and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Simon Calmar Andersen, Thorbjørn Sejr Guul, Maria Knoth Humlum
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12514
The Effects of Access to Credit on Productivity: Separating Technological Changes from Changes in Technical Efficiency
Nusrat Abedin Jimi, Plamen Nikolov, Mohammad Abdul Malek, Subal C. Kumbhakar
published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2019, 52 (1-3), 37-55
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12446
Talking about Performance or Paying for it? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka, Timo Vogelsang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12395
Do Measures of Risk Attitude in the Laboratory Predict Behavior under Risk in and outside of the Laboratory?
Gary Charness, Thomas Garcia, Theo Offerman, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2020, 60, 99-123
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12330
The Economic Preferences of Cooperative Managers
Guillermo Alves, Pablo Blanchard, Gabriel Burdin, Mariana Chávez, Andres Dean
revised version forthcoming in: Journal of Institutional Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12193
Promoting Breast Cancer Screening Take-Ups with Zero Cost: Evidence from an Experiment on Formatting Invitation Letters in Italy
Marco Bertoni, Luca Corazzini, Silvana Robone
published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 6 (3), 372-409.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12184
Credence Goods Markets and the Informational Value of New Media: A Natural Field Experiment
Rudolf Kerschbamer, Daniel Neururer, Matthias Sutter
extended version published as 'Credence goods markets, online information and repair prices: A natural field experiment' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 220, 104891
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12183
Student Internships and Employment Opportunities after Graduation: A Field Experiment
Stijn Baert, Brecht Neyt, Thomas Siedler, Ilse Tobback, Dieter Verhaest
revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 83, 102141
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11985
Who's Minding the Kids? Experimental Evidence on the Demand for Child Care Quality
James Gordon, Chris M. Herbst, Erdal Tekin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11971
Work Hard or Play Hard? Degree Class, Student Leadership and Employment Opportunities
Stijn Baert, Dieter Verhaest
revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 83 (4), 1024 - 1047
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11970
Effects of Timing and Reference Frame of Feedback: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Mira Fischer, Valentin Wagner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11859
Performance Pay and Prior Learning: Evidence from a Retail Chain
Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka, Timo Vogelsang
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