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52 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14835
Reference Points and the Tradeoff between Risk and Incentives
Thomas Dohmen, Arjan Non, Tom Stolp
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14779
The Right Person for the Right Job: Workers' Prosociality as a Screening Device
Maria Bigoni, Matteo Ploner, Thi-Thanh-Tam Vu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14590
Estimating Time Preferences for Leisure
Maria Bigoni, Davide Dragone, Stéphane Luchini, Alberto Prati
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14347
Estimating Social Preferences Using Stated Satisfaction: Novel Support for Inequity Aversion
Lina Diaz, Daniel Houser, John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14242
Incentives for Cooperation in Teams: Sociality Meets Decision Rights
Britta Butz, Pablo Guillen Alvarez, Christine Harbring
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13896
Loss Aversion in Social Image Concerns
Vasilisa Petrishcheva, Gerhard Riener, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13218
Innovation and Communication Media in Virtual Teams – An Experimental Study
Nicola Grözinger, Bernd Irlenbusch, Katharina Laske, Marina Schröder
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12938
Media Bias and Tax Compliance: Experimental Evidence
Miloš Fišar, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Fabio Sabatini, Jiří Špalek
revised version published as 'Media negativity bias and tax compliance: experimental evidence' in: International Tax and Public Finance [Online]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12817
Delegation and Coordination with Multiple Threshold Public Goods: Experimental Evidence
Luca Corazzini, Christopher Cotton, Tommaso G. Reggiani
revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2020, 23 (4), 1030-1068
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12675
Facilitating Healthy Dietary Habits: An Experiment with a Low Income Population
Michèle Belot, Jonathan James, Jonathan Spiteri
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. 11946
Behavioral Economic Phenomena in Decision-Making for Others
John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11564
Looking at the Bright Side: The Motivation Value of Overconfidence
Si Chen, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
forthcoming in: European Economic Review, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11411
Measuring Costly Effort Using the Slider Task
David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse
published in: ​Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2019, 21, 1-9
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10921
Status Inequality, Moral Disengagement and Violence
Armin Falk
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10783
How Do Peers Impact Learning? An Experimental Investigation of Peer-To-Peer Teaching and Ability Tracking
Erik O. Kimbrough, Andrew McGee, Hitoshi Shigeoka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10259
In Front of and Behind the Veil of Ignorance: An Analysis of Motivations for Redistribution
David J. Bjerk
published in: Social Choice and Welfare 47(4): 791-824.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10190
Business Ethics in Organizations: An Experimental Examination of Whistleblowing and Personality
Jenny Bartuli, Behnud Mir Djawadi, René Fahr
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10171
The Rapid Evolution of Homo Economicus: Brief Exposure to Neoclassical Assumptions Increases Self-Interested Behavior
John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9650
Market Design for Altruistic Supply: Evidence from the Lab
Robert Slonim, Carmen Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9388
The Impact of Fine Size and Uncertainty on Punishment and Deterrence: Theory and Evidence from the Laboratory
Eberhard Feess, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Markus Schramm, Ansgar Wohlschlegel
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 149, 58-73
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8762
Communication and Trust in Principal-Team Relationships: Experimental Evidence
Marco Kleine, Sebastian Kube
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8446
Awareness Programs and Change in Taste-based Caste Prejudice
Ritwik Banerjee, Nabanita Datta Gupta
published in: PLOS One, 2015, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0118546
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8170
Economic Behavior under Alcohol Influence: An Experiment on Time, Risk, and Social Preferences
Luca Corazzini, Antonio Filippin, Paolo Vanin
published in: PloS ONE, 10(4), e0121530
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7610
Incentives and Information as Driving Forces of Default Effects
Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, Andreas Grunewald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7445
The Price of Warm Glow
Andrew Lilley, Robert Slonim
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 114, 58-74
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7374
Self-Selection into Economics Experiments Is Driven by Monetary Rewards
Johannes Abeler, Daniele Nosenzo
revised version published as 'Self-Selection into Laboratory Experiments: Pro-Social Motives versus Monetary Incentives' in: Experimental Economics, 2015, 18(2), 195-214
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7373
Complex Tax Incentives: An Experimental Investigation
Johannes Abeler, Simon Jäger
revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015, 7 (3), 1-28
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7102
Experimental Labor Markets and Policy Considerations: Incomplete Contracts and Macroeconomic Aspects
Fortuna Casoria, Arno Riedl
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. 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. 5801
A Novel Computerized Real Effort Task Based on Sliders
David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5727
Equity and Efficiency in Multi-Worker Firms: Insights from Experimental Economics
Johannes Abeler, Steffen Altmann, Sebastian J. Goerg, Sebastian Kube, Matthias Wibral
published in: Analyse & Kritik, 2011, 33(1), 325-347
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5575
Experts in Experiments: How Selection Matters for Estimated Distributions of Risk Preferences
Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Arthur van Soest, Erik Wengström
revised version published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2011, 42 (2), 159–190
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5501
Can Higher Bonuses Lead to Less Effort? Incentive Reversal in Teams
Esteban F. Klor, Sebastian Kube, Eyal Winter, Ro'i Zultan
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, 97, 72-83
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5488
Is There Selection Bias in Laboratory Experiments? The Case of Social and Risk Preferences
Blair L. Cleave, Nikos Nikiforakis, Robert Slonim
published in: Experimental Economics, 2013, 16 (3) 372-382
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5389
Self Selection Does Not Increase Other-Regarding Preferences among Adult Laboratory Subjects, but Student Subjects May Be More Self-Regarding than Adults
Jon E. Anderson, Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Karsten Maurer, Daniele Nosenzo, Ruth Potter, Kim Rocha, Aldo Rustichini
revised version published as 'Self-Selection and Variations in the Laboratory Measurement of Other-Regarding Preferences Across Subject Pools: Evidence From One College Student and Two Adult Samples' in: Experimental Economics, 2013, 16 (2), 170-189; selected as best paper of 2013 by the Editors of the journal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4941
Lab Labor: What Can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab?
Gary Charness, Peter J. Kuhn
published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4540
Lab Experiments Are a Major Source of Knowledge in the Social Sciences
Armin Falk, James J. Heckman
definitive version published in: Science, 2009, 326 (5952), 535-538
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3959
Treating Equals Unequally: Incentives in Teams, Workers' Motivation and Production Technology
Sebastian J. Goerg, Sebastian Kube, Ro'i Zultan
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (4), 747 - 772
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3835
Promotions and Incentives: The Case of Multi-Stage Elimination Tournaments
Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, Matthias Wibral
revised and extended version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2012, 30 (1), 149-174
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3673
Elite Capture, Political Voice and Exclusion from Aid: An Experimental Study
Ben D'Exelle, Arno Riedl
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3500
Fungibility, Labels, and Consumption
Johannes Abeler, Felix Marklein
substantially revised version forthcoming in Journal of the European Economic Association
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3321
Selection and Mode Effects in Risk Preference Elicitation Experiments
Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Arthur van Soest, Erik Wengström
Superseeded by IZA DP 5575 and the published version.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3010
Do the Reciprocal Trust Less?
Steffen Altmann, Thomas Dohmen, Matthias Wibral
published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 99 (3), 454-457
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2500
Reciprocity and Payment Schemes: When Equality Is Unfair
Johannes Abeler, Steffen Altmann, Sebastian Kube, Matthias Wibral
substantially revised version appeared as DP No. 4262
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2310
Studying Labor Market Institutions in the Lab: Minimum Wages, Employment Protection and Workfare
Armin Falk, David B. Huffman
published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2007, 163 (1), 30-45
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1769
Competition and Well-Being
Jordi Brandts, Arno Riedl, Frans van Winden
published as "Competitive Rivalry, Social Disposition, and Subjective Well-Being: An Experiment" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (11-12), 1158-1167
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1754
In Search of Stars: Network Formation among Heterogeneous Agents
Jacob K. Goeree, Arno Riedl, Aljaz Ule
published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2009, 67 (2), 445-466
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1375
Dividing Justly in Bargaining Problems with Claims: Normative Judgments and Actual Negotiations
Simon Gächter, Arno Riedl
published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2006, 27, 571-594; doi:0.1007/s00355-006-0141-z
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1359
Tax Evasion and Social Interactions
Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix, Marie Claire Villeval
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (11-12), 2089-2112.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1344
Input versus Output Taxation in an Experimental International Economy
Arno Riedl, Frans van Winden
published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (2), 216-232
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