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36 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17188
Specific Egalitarianism? Inequality Aversion across Domains
Joan Costa-Font, Frank A. Cowell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16445
Risk Attitudes and Informal Employment in Ukraine
Thomas Dohmen, Melanie Khamis, Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16138
The Gender Reference Point Gap
Nathan Kettlewell, Jonathan Levy, Agnieszka Tymula, Xueting Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16075
Permanent Instability of Preferences after COVID-19 Crisis: A Natural Experiment from Urban Burkina Faso
Delphine Boutin, Laurene Petifour, Haris Megzari
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15043
Managers' Risk Preferences and Firm Training Investments
Marco Caliendo, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Harald Pfeifer, Arne Uhlendorff, Caroline Wehner
published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 161, 104616
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12672
The Value of Information in Technology Adoption
Asadul Islam, Philip Ushchev, Yves Zenou, Xin Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12057
Risk Aversion and Entrepreneurship: New Evidence Exploiting Exposure to Massive Earthquakes in Italy
Guido de Blasio, Maria De Paola, Samuele Poy, Vincenzo Scoppa
published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57, 295-322
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11758
A Tale of Two Cities: An Experiment on Inequality and Preferences
Maria Bigoni, Stefania Bortolotti, Veronica Rattini
published in: Theory and Decision, 2022, 92, 189 - 222
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10982
The Impact of Non-Cognitive Skills and Risk Preferences on Rural-to-Urban Migration: Evidence from Ukraine
Sinem H. Ayhan, Kseniia Gatskova, Hartmut Lehmann
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2020, 48 (1), 144 - 162.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10793
Safe Options Induce Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes
Paolo Crosetto, Antonio Filippin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10792
Competition and Subsequent Risk-Taking Behaviour: Heterogeneity across Gender and Outcomes
Antonio Filippin, Francesca Gioia
published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 75, 84-94
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10717
Female Babies and Risk-Aversion
Ganna Pogrebna, Andrew J. Oswald, David Haig
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 10 - 17
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10316
Risk Attitude and Nonmarital Birth
Uwe Jirjahn, Cornelia Chadi
revised version published in: Empirical Economics Letters, 2022, 21 (3), 7-13
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10288
Locus of Control and Performance Appraisal
John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn, Cornelia Chadi
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 142, 205-225
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9613
Does Self-Control Depletion Affect Risk Attitudes?
Holger Gerhardt, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Jana Willrodt
published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 100, 463-487.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9347
Risk Attitudes and Migration
Mehtap Akgüç, Xingfei Liu, Massimiliano Tani, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37, 166 - 176
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9333
Time-Varying Individual Risk Attitudes over the Great Recession: A Comparison of Germany and Ukraine
Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44 (1), 182-200
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9029
The Sound of Others: Surprising Evidence of Conformist Behavior
Paolo Crosetto, Antonio Filippin
published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2017, 83 (4), 1038–1051
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8354
New Evidence on the Relationship between Risk Attitudes and Self-Employment
Olga Skriabikova, Thomas Dohmen, Ben Kriechel
published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 176-184
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8354
New Evidence on the Relationship between Risk Attitudes and Self-Employment
Olga Skriabikova, Thomas Dohmen, Ben Kriechel
published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 176-184
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8020
Donations, Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences: A Study on Altruism in Primary School Children
Silvia Angerer, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Philipp Lergetporer, Matthias Sutter
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 67-74
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7712
Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and the Criminal Activity of the 'Children of the Wall'
Arnaud Chevalier, Olivier Marie
revised version publisehd as 'Risky moms, risky kids? fertility and crime after the fall of the wal' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 230, 105048
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6997
Cognitive Skills, Gender and Risk Preferences
Alison L. Booth, Pamela Katic
published in: Economic Record, 2013, 89 (284),19-30
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6860
Why Are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions?
Stefan Bauernschuster, Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich, Jens Suedekum
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 98, 56-69
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. 5219
A Different Look at Lenin's Legacy: Trust, Risk, Fairness and Cooperativeness in the Two Germanies
Guido Heineck, Bernd Süssmuth
revised version published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013, 41 (3), 789-803
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5197
Parental Risk Attitudes and Children's Secondary School Track Choice
Guido Heineck, Oliver Wölfel
revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (5), 727–743
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4807
Can We Measure Individual Risk Attitudes in a Survey?
Xiaohao Ding, Joop Hartog, Yuze Sun
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4703
Inequality Aversion and Risk Attitudes
Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Xavier Ramos
substantially revised version published as "Distaste for Inequality? The Role of Risk Aversion" in: M. Rojas (ed.), The Economics of Happiness, Springer, 2019.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4545
Incentive Effects on Risk Attitude in Small Probability Prospects
Mathieu Lefèbvre, Ferdinand M. Vieider, Marie Claire Villeval
published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 109 (2), 115-120
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4225
Attitudes toward Uncertainty among the Poor: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson, Haileselassie Medhin, Stefan T. Trautmann
revised version published in: Theory and Decision, 2012, 73 (3), 453-464
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4026
Gender Differences in Risk Behaviour: Does Nurture Matter?
Alison L. Booth, Patrick J. Nolen
published in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122 (558), F56 - F78
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3525
The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival
Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2010, 76 (1), 45-63
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2537
Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
Holger Bonin, Amelie F. Constant, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Klaus F. Zimmermann
substantially revised version published in: IZA Journal of Migration , 2012, 1, Article 5
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2168
Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from an Experimentally-Validated Survey
Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2009, 32 (2), 153-167
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1999
Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes
Holger Bonin, Amelie F. Constant, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2009, 16 (15), 1581-1586
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