IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published as 'Peer effects and social preferences in voluntary cooperation: A theoretical and experimental analysis' in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2015, 48, 72 - 88

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. 6232

Mommies' Girls Get Dresses, Daddies' Boys Get Toys: Gender Preferences in Poland and their Implications

Krzysztof Karbownik, Michal Myck

revised published as 'Who gets to look nice and who gets to play? Effects of child gender on household expenditures' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15(3), 925-944

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6216

Health and the Political Agency of Women

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6 (2), 164-97

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6133

Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?

Alison L. Booth, Lina Marcela Cardona Sosa, Patrick J. Nolen

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 99, 126-154

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6127

Job Preferences as Revealed by Employee Initiated Job Changes

Christian Grund

published in: International Journal of Human Resource Management 24 (2013), 2825-2850

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6038

On Intergenerational Transmission of Reading Habits in Italy: Is a Good Example the Best Sermon?

Anna Laura Mancini, Chiara Monfardini, Silvia Pasqua

published as 'Is a Good Example the Best Sermon? Children's Imitation of Parental Reading' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15 (3), 965 - 993

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. 5965

Vote-Buying and Reciprocity

Frederico S. Finan, Laura Schechter

published in: Econometrica, 2012, 80 (2), 863-881

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5957

Learning about a Class of Belief-Dependent Preferences without Information on Beliefs

Charles Bellemare, Alexander Sebald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5919

Tastes, Castes, and Culture: The Influence of Society on Preferences

Ernst Fehr, Karla Hoff

published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (556), 396-412

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5840

Preferences for Consistency

Armin Falk, Florian Zimmermann

published as 'A Taste for Consistency and Survey Response Behavior' in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2013, 59 (1), 181–193

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5802

Goals and Psychological Accounting

Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger

revised version published as 'Goals and Bracketing under Mental Accounting' in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 162, 305–351.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5720

Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay

Armin Falk, Ingo Menrath, Pablo Emilio Verde, Johannes Siegrist

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5699

Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Guillermo Cruces, Ricardo Perez Truglia, Martin Tetaz

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 98, 100-112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5573

Inequality Perceptions, Distributional Norms, and Redistributive Preferences in East and West Germany

Andreas Kuhn

revised and shortened version published in: German Economic Review, 2013, 14(4), 483-499

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5573

Inequality Perceptions, Distributional Norms, and Redistributive Preferences in East and West Germany

Andreas Kuhn

revised and shortened version published in: German Economic Review, 2013, 14(4), 483-499

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5530

The Development of Egalitarianism, Altruism, Spite and Parochialism in Childhood and Adolescence

Ernst Fehr, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Matthias Sutter

published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 64, 369-383

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. 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. 5440

Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US: Between Equity and Efficiency

Olivier B. Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch

revised version pubished in 2 parts - as 'Comparing inequality aversion across countries when labor supply responses differ' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 21, 845 - 873 (also available as IZA DP 7215) and as 'Tax-Benefit Revealed Social Preferences in Europe and the US' in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 113/114, 257 -28

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5404

Impatience and Uncertainty: Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior

Matthias Sutter, Martin G. Kocher, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Stefan T. Trautmann

extended version published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (1), 510-531

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5380

Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed: Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?

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

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 825-851

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5319

The Public Perception and Normative Valuation of Executive Compensation: An International Comparison

Andreas Kuhn

revised version, using updated and expanded data, published as `International Evidence on the Perception and Normative Valuation of Executive Compensation' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55(1), 112-136

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5221

Tax-Benefit Revealed Redistributive Preferences Over Time: Ireland 1987-2005

Olivier B. Bargain, Claire Keane

published in: Labour, 2010, 24 (s1), 141–167

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5180

Why Do Low-Educated Workers Invest Less in Further Training?

Didier Fouarge, Trudie Schils, Andries de Grip

published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (18), 2587-2601

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5157

Economic Choices and Status: Measuring Preferences for Income Rank

Redzo Mujcic, Paul Frijters

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2013, vol. 65(1), 47-73

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5127

Household Decision Making in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses

Fredrik Carlsson, Haoran He, Peter Martinsson, Ping Qin, Matthias Sutter

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84 (2), 525-536

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5122

Does Culture Matter?

Raquel Fernández

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5034

Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive: Experimental Evidence

Gary Charness, David Masclet, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'The dark side of competition for status' in: Management Science, 2014, 60 (1), 38–55

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5022

Gender Differences and Dynamics in Competition: The Role of Luck

David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2014, 5 (2), 351-376

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5016

Social Preferences in Childhood and Adolescence: A Large-Scale Experiment

Matthias Sutter, Francesco Feri, Martin G. Kocher, Peter Martinsson, Katarina Nordblom, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 146, 16-30.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4994

Public Employment and Political Pressure: The Case of French Hospitals

Andrew E. Clark, Carine Milcent

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 1103-1112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4756

Stability of Time Preferences

Stephan Meier, Charles Sprenger

revised version published as 'Temporal Stability of Time Preferences' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(2), 273-286

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4710

Screening, Competition, and Job Design: Economic Origins of Good Jobs

Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, Klaus M. Schmidt

published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (2), 834-864

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4647

The Impact of Distributional Preferences on (Experimental) Markets for Expert Services

Rudolf Kerschbamer, Matthias Sutter, Uwe Dulleck

published with new title "How social preferences shape incentives in (experimental) markets for credence goods" in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 393-416.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4616

Gender Differences in Native Preferences towards Undocumented and Legal Immigration: Evidence from San Diego

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Thitima Puttitanun

published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2011, 29 (1), 31-45

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4536

A Structural Analysis of Disappointment Aversion in a Real Effort Competition

David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse

published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (1), 469-503

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4479

Eliciting Individual Preferences for Pension Reform

Yosr Abid Fourati, Cathal O'Donoghue

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4401

Public Sector Employees: Risk Averse and Altruistic?

Margaretha Buurman, Robert Dur, Seth van den Bossche

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 83 (3), 279-291

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4343

Caste and Punishment: The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement

Karla Hoff, Mayuresh Kshetramade, Ernst Fehr

published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (556), 449-475

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4198

Present-Biased Preferences and Credit Card Borrowing

Stephan Meier, Charles Sprenger

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2 (1), 193-210

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4109

Hostility Toward Immigration in Spain

Ferran Martínez i Coma, Robert Duval Hernández

published in: Jorge Durand and Jorge A. Schiavon (eds.), Perspectivas migratorias: Un análisis interdisciplinario de la migración internacional, Mexico: CIDE, 2010.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4084

Do the Selfish Mimic Cooperators? Experimental Evidence from Finitely-Repeated Labor Markets

Brian E. Roe, Steven Y. Wu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4080

Other-Regarding Preferences and Leadership Styles

Martin G. Kocher, Ganna Pogrebna, Matthias Sutter

revised and extended version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 88, 109-132

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4056

Preferences for Redistribution

Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano

published in: Jess Benhabib, Alberto Bisin, Matthew O. Jackson (eds.): Handbook of Social Economics, Vol. 1A, The Netherlands: North-Holland 2010, 93-131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4049

Commitment to Self-Rewards

Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger

published in European Economic Review, 2014, 68, 151-167.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3960

Sick of Your Colleagues' Absence?

Patrik Hesselius, Per Johansson, Peter Nilsson

published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2009, 7 (2–3), 1–12

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. 3914

Who Makes a Good Leader? Social Preferences and Leading-by-Example

Simon Gächter, Daniele Nosenzo, Elke Renner, Martin Sefton

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2012, 50 (4), 867–879; 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2010.00295.x

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3895

On the Economics and Biology of Trust

Ernst Fehr

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 235-266

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3815

Children and Parents Time Use: Empirical Evidence on Investment in Human Capital in France, Italy and Germany

Ana Rute Cardoso, Elsa Fontainha, Chiara Monfardini

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (4), 479-504

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3794

An Afriat Theorem for the Collective Model of Household Consumption

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Frederic Vermeulen

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2010, 145(3), 1142-1163.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3794

An Afriat Theorem for the Collective Model of Household Consumption

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Frederic Vermeulen

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2010, 145(3), 1142-1163.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3694

Preferences for Childcare Policies: Theory and Evidence

Rainald Borck, Katharina Wrohlich

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 27 (3), 436-454

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3674

Psychological and Biological Foundations of Time Preference: Evidence from a Day Reconstruction Study with Biological Tracking

Michael Daly, Liam Delaney, Colm P. Harmon

published as 'Psychological and Biological Foundations of Time Preference' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 7 (2-3), 2009, 659 - 669

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3507

Discounting Financial Literacy: Time Preferences and Participation in Financial Education Programs

Stephan Meier, Charles Sprenger

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 95, 159–174

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3429

The Effect of Intragroup Communication on Preference Shifts in Groups

Michael P. Brady, Steven Y. Wu

published as "The aggregation of preferences in groups: Identity, responsibility, and polarization" in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31(6), 950-963

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3238

Reference-Dependent Preferences and Loss Aversion: A Discrete Choice Experiment in the Health-Care Sector

Einat Neuman, Shoshana Neuman

published in: Judgment and Decision Making, 2008, 3(2), 162-173

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3062

The Revealed Preference Approach to Collective Consumption Behavior: Testing, Recovery and Welfare Analysis

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Frederic Vermeulen

published as 'The revealed preference approach to collective consumption behavior: testing and sharing rule recovery' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2011, 78 (1), 175 - 198

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3044

Job Changes and Hours Changes: Understanding the Path of Labour Supply Adjustment

Richard Blundell, Mike Brewer, Marco Francesconi

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (3), 421 - 453

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. 2949

Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism

Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008, 123 (2), 747-793

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2883

Behavioural Economics and Drinking Behaviour: Preliminary Results from an Irish College Study

Liam Delaney, Colm P. Harmon, Patrick G. Wall

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46 (1), 29-36

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2727

Agency in Health-Care: Are Medical Care-Givers Perfect Agents?

Einat Neuman, Shoshana Neuman

published in: Applied Economic Letters, 2009, 16 (13-15), 1355-1360

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2618

Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective

Conchita D'Ambrosio, Joachim R. Frick

published in: Economica, 2012, 79 (314), 284-302

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2530

The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide

Amelie F. Constant, Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Eastern European Economics, 2011, 49 (6), 103-115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2484

Long Work Hours: Volunteers and Conscripts

Robert Drago, Mark Wooden, David Black

Published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2009, 47(3), 571-600. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8543.2009.00717.x

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2467

Can Subjective Mortality Expectations and Stated Preferences Explain Varying Consumption and Saving Behaviors among the Elderly?

Martin Salm

revised version published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2010, 43(3), 1040-1057

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2404

Who Wants Flexibility? Changing Work Hours Preferences and Life Events

Robert Drago, Mark Wooden, David Black

Published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2009, 62(3), 394-414. doi:10.1177/001979390906200308

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2380

The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79 (2), 645-677

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2293

Trust as a Signal of a Social Norm and the Hidden Costs of Incentive Schemes

Dirk Sliwka

published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (3), 999-1012

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2103

Daughters and Left-Wing Voting

Andrew J. Oswald, Nattavudh Powdthavee

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92 (2), 213-227

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2028

Explorations of the Effect of Experience on Preferences: Two Health-Care Case Studies

Einat Neuman, Shoshana Neuman

revised version published as 'Explorations of the effect of experience on preferences for a health-care service' in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2010, 39 (3), 407-419

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2015

Exploring the Nature of Loss Aversion

Eric J. Johnson, Simon Gächter, Andreas Herrmann

revised version published as 'Moderating loss aversion: loss aversion has moderators, but reports of its death are greatly exaggerated' in: Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2020, 30 (3), 407-428

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2004

Nonparametric Analysis of Household Labor Supply: Goodness-of-Fit and Power of the Unitary and the Collective Model

Laurens Cherchye, Frederic Vermeulen

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (2), 267-274

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2001

Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences and Gender

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk

published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 556-590

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1930

Cross-sectional Earnings Risk and Occupational Sorting: The Role of Risk Attitudes

Holger Bonin, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14(6), 926-937

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1730

Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner

revised version published as 'Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants, and Behavioral Consequences' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (3), 522–550

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1703

Giving in Dictator Games: Regard for Others or Regard by Others?

Alexander K. Koch, Hans-Theo Normann

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2008, 75 (1), 223-231. revised working paper version

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1641