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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. 10754

Disappointment Aversion and Social Comparisons in a Real-Effort Competition

Simon Gächter, Lingbo Huang, Martin Sefton

revised version published in Economic Inquiry, 2018, 56 (3), 1512-1525

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10672

Occupation and Gender

Patricia Cortes, Jessica Pan

published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10627

Can Gender Differences in Distributional Preferences Explain Gender Gaps in Competition?

Subha Mani, Utteeyo Dasgupta, Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, 70, 1-11

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. 10562

Challenges in Research on Preferences and Personality Traits: Measurement, Stability, and Inference

Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 60, 1-6.

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. 10407

Locus of Control and Investment in Risky Assets

Nicolás Salamanca, Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge, Raymond Montizaan

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 177, 548-568

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10397

On the Interpretation of Non-Cognitive Skills: What Is Being Measured and Why It Matters

John Eric Humphries, Fabian Kosse

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017,136,174 - 185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10357

How Information Affects Support for Education Spending: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States

Martin R. West, Ludger Woessmann, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 167, 138-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10349

Do Politicians Change Public Attitudes?

Magnus Carlsson, Gordon B. Dahl, Dan-Olof Rooth

published as 'Backlash in policy attitudes after the election of an extreme political party' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 204, 104533

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10309

Conditional Cash Transfers: Do They Change Time Preferences and Educational Aspirations?

Diana Contreras Suarez, Lisa A. Cameron

published as 'Conditional Cash Transfers: Do They Result in More Patient Choices and Increased Educational Aspirations?' in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2020, 68 (3), 729 - 761

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10291

A Short Note on Discrimination and Favoritism in the Labor Market

Nicolás Salamanca, Jan Feld

published in: BE Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2017, 17 (1), 20160133.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10187

Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions: A Choice Experiment

Julio Elias, Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis

revised version published as 'Paying for Kidneys? A Randomized Survey and Choice Experiment' in: American Economic Review, 2019, 109 (8), 2855 - 2888

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10172

Beliefs and Utility: Experimental Evidence on Preferences for Information

Armin Falk, Florian Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10172

Beliefs and Utility: Experimental Evidence on Preferences for Information

Armin Falk, Florian Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10171

The Rapid Evolution of Homo Economicus: Brief Exposure to Neoclassical Assumptions Increases Self-Interested Behavior

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 75 ,55 - 65

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10129

Does Rosie Like Riveting? Male and Female Occupational Choices

Grace Lordan, Jörn-Steffen Pischke

published in: Economica, 2022, 89 (353), 110 - 130

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. 10038

Social Comparisons of Wage Increases and Job Satisfaction

Christian Grund, Maike Rubin

published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49, 1345-1350

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9998

Choosing a Partner for Social Exchange: Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness

Sebastian Fehrler, Wojtek Przepiorka

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 129, 157-171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9997

Can War Foster Cooperation?

Michal Bauer, Christopher J. Blattman, Julie Chytilová, Joseph Henrich, Edward Miguel, Tamar Mitts

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30(3), 249-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9968

Information and Preferences for Public Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Guido Schwerdt, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 167, 138-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9870

The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (3), 547 - 599

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9861

The Formation of Prosociality: Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment

Fabian Kosse, Thomas Deckers, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Armin Falk

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (2), 434 - 467

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9861

The Formation of Prosociality: Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment

Fabian Kosse, Thomas Deckers, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Armin Falk

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (2), 434 - 467

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9857

Procedures for Eliciting Time Preferences

David Freeman, Paola Manzini, Marco Mariotti, Luigi Mittone

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2016, 126 (Part A), 235–242

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9767

Lab Measures of Other-Regarding Preferences Can Predict Some Related On-the-Job Behavior: Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment

Stephen V. Burks, Daniele Nosenzo, Jon E. Anderson, Matthew Bombyk, Derek Ganzhorn, Lorenz Götte, Aldo Rustichini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9765

Eliciting Risk Preferences: Firefighting in the Field

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal

published as 'Internal and external validity: Comparing two simple risk elicitation tasks' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2019, 81, 39 - 46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9747

China's Sex Ratio and Crime: Behavioral Change or Financial Necessity?

Lisa A. Cameron, Xin Meng, Dandan Zhang

published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (618), 790–820,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9703

Cooperation, Motivation and Social Balance

Steven J. Bosworth, Tania Singer, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 126 (Part B), 72-94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9669

Gender in Jeopardy!: The Role of Opponent Gender in High-Stakes Competition

Michael Jetter, Jay K. Walker

published as 'The gender of opponents: Explaining gender differences in performance and risk-taking' in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 238 - 256

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9612

Women Do Not Play Their Aces: The Consequences of Shying Away

Jörg Claussen, Eszter Czibor, Mirjam C. van Praag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9526

Terrorism and Employment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks

Abel Brodeur

published as 'The Effect of Terrorism on Employment and Consumer Sentiment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (4), 246-82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9504

The Nature and Predictive Power of Preferences: Global Evidence

Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

revised version published as 'Global Evidence on Economic Preferences' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018, 133 (4), 1645-1692

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9462

Demanding Occupations and the Retirement Age

Niels Vermeer, Mauro Mastrogiacomo, Arthur van Soest

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 43, 159-170

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