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162 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17822
Trust as a Social Norm? A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment with Refugees in Switzerland
Stefanie S. Baumgartner, Fabio Galeotti, Thierry Madies, Marie Claire Villeval
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17635
The Impact of Learning about AI Advancements on Trust
Milena Nikolova, Marco Angrisani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17553
Corruption Exposure, Political Trust, and Immigrants
Cevat Giray Aksoy, Barry Eichengreen, Anastasia Litina, Cem Özgüzel, Chan Yu
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 174, 103440
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17468
Trusted from Home: Managerial Beliefs and Workers' Spatial Autonomy
Adam Gill, Oskar Nordström Skans
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17342
Does a Lack of Trust Boost Populist Political Parties in Europe? Causal Evidence from Three Methodologies
Jessica Di Cocco, Eugenio Levi, Rama Dasi Mariani, Steven Stillman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16921
War, International Spillovers, and Adolescents: Evidence from Russia's Invasion of Ukraine in 2022
Thomas Siedler, Silke Anger, Bernhard Christoph, Agata Galkiewicz, Shushanik Margaryan, Frauke Peter, Malte Sandner
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 224, 181-193
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16720
Trust and Health Care-Seeking Behavior
Michael E. Darden, Mario Macis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16643
Human Values and Selection into Supervisory Positions: Evidence from Nine European Countries
Mihails Hazans, Jaan Masso, Per Botolf Maurseth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16637
Reciprocity and Learning Effects in Price Competition
Annamaria Nese, Niall O'Higgins, Patrizia Sbriglia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16541
The Societal Costs of Inflation and Unemployment
Olga Popova, Sarah Grace See, Milena Nikolova, Vladimir Otrachshenko
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16346
Behavioural Responses to Unfair Institutions: Experimental Evidence on Rule Compliance, Norm Polarisation, and Trust
Simon Columbus, Lars P. Feld, Matthias Kasper, Matthew D. Rablen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16330
The Effect of Franchise No-Poaching Restrictions on Worker Earnings
Brian Callaci, Matthew Gibson, Sergio Pinto, Marshall Steinbaum, Matt Walsh
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 25 November 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16147
Helping and Antisocial Behavior in the Workplace
Michael Haylock, Patrick Kampkötter, Michael Kosfeld, Ferdinand von Siemens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15961
Health System Trust and Compliance with COVID-19 Restrictions
Joan Costa-Font, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
published as 'Trusting the Health System and COVID 19 Restriction Compliance' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2023, 49, 101235
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15960
Guilt Aversion in (New) Games: Does Partners' Payoff Vulnerability Matter?
Giuseppe Attanasi, Claire Rimbaud, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2023, 142, 690-717
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15929
Trust and Social Preferences in Times of Acute Health Crisis
Fortuna Casoria, Fabio Galeotti, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 154, 5-50
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15929
Trust and Social Preferences in Times of Acute Health Crisis
Fortuna Casoria, Fabio Galeotti, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 154, 5-50
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15904
Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe
Richard A. Easterlin, Kelsey J. O'Connor
published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022, 119 (37), e2210639119.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15888
Is There Hope after Despair? An Analysis of Trust among China's Cultural Revolution Survivors
Massimiliano Tani, Zhiming Cheng, Benno Torgler
published in: Economic Modelling, 2023, 121, 106218
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15517
Competition and Innovation: The Breakup of IG Farben
Felix Poege
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15492
Beliefs, Learning, and Personality in the Indefinitely Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
David Gill, Yaroslav Rosokha
published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2024, 16 (3), 259– 283
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15171
Trust Predicts Compliance with COVID-19 Containment Policies: Evidence from Ten Countries Using Big Data
Francesco Sarracino, Talita Greyling, Kelsey J. O'Connor, Chiara Peroni, Stephanié Rossouw
published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2024, 54, 101412
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15042
Strangers and Foreigners: Trust and Attitudes toward Citizenship
Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico, Gian Luca Tedeschi
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2025, 39, 42-60
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15032
The Politicized Pandemic: Ideological Polarization and the Behavioral Response to COVID-19
Gianluca Grimalda, Fabrice Murtin, David Pipke, Louis Putterman, Matthias Sutter
published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 156, 104472.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14993
Parental Separation and the Formation of Economic Preferences
Sarah C. Dahmann, Nathan Kettlewell, Jack Lam
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14986
Does Group-Based Incentive Pay Lead To Higher Productivity? Evidence from a Complex and Interdependent Industrial Production Process
Anders Frederiksen, Daniel Baltzer Schjødt Hansen, Colleen Flaherty Manchester
published as ' Group-based incentives and individual performance: Unpacking the effort response' in: ILR Review, 2024, 77 (2), 273-293.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14907
Do Police Make Too Many Arrests? The Effect of Enforcement Pullbacks on Crime
Sungwoo Cho, Felipe Gonçalves, Emily Weisburst
This version: 8/2022; First version (IZA Working Paper): 12/2021.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14903
A Year of Pandemic: Levels, Changes and Validity of Well-Being Data from Twitter. Evidence from Ten Countries
Francesco Sarracino, Talita Greyling, Kelsey J. O'Connor, Chiara Peroni, Stephanié Rossouw
published in: PLos ONE, 2023, 18(2), e0275028.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14734
The Heritability of Trust and Trustworthiness Depends on the Measure of Trust
Nathan Kettlewell, Agnieszka Tymula
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14632
The Analysis of Human Feelings: A Practical Suggestion for a Robustness Test
Jeffrey R. Bloem, Andrew J. Oswald
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68 (3), 689 - 710
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14303
How Does It Feel to Be Part of the Minority? Impacts of Perspective-Taking on Prosocial Behaviors
Marisol Rodríguez Chatruc, Sandra V. Rozo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14287
Common Ownership of Competing Firms: Evidence from Australia
Andrew Leigh, Adam Triggs
published in: Economic Record, 2021, 97 (318), 333-349
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14032
The Political Cost of Lockdown's Enforcement
Andrea Fazio, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Fabio Sabatini
revised version published as 'The political cost of sanctions: evidence from COVID-19' in: Health Policy ,2022, 126 (9), 872-878
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13865
Revenge of the Experts: Will COVID-19 Renew or Diminish Public Trust in Science?
Barry Eichengreen, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Orkun Saka
revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 193, 104343
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13850
Comrades in the Family? Soviet Communism and Informal Family Insurance
Joan Costa-Font, Anna Nicinska
published in: Kyklos, 2023, 76 (4), 526-612
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13783
Cultural Identity and Social Capital in Italy
Daniel Sgroi, Michela Redoano, Federica Liberini, Ben Lockwood, Emanuele Bracco, Francesco Porcelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13583
Trustworthiness in the Financial Industry
Andrej Gill, Matthias Heinz, Heiner Schumacher, Matthias Sutter
revised version published as 'Social Preferences of Young Professionals and the Financial Industry' in: Management Science, 2023, 69 (7), 3905-3919.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13386
Trust in the Time of Corona
Tilman Brück, Neil T.N. Ferguson, Patricia Justino, Wolfgang Stojetz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13351
The Political Scar of Epidemics
Cevat Giray Aksoy, Barry Eichengreen, Orkun Saka
revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (600), 1683–1700,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13270
Institutions, Opportunism and Prosocial Behavior: Some Experimental Evidence
Antonio Cabrales, Irma Clots-Figueras, Roberto Hernán-González, Praveen Kujal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13270
Institutions, Opportunism and Prosocial Behavior: Some Experimental Evidence
Antonio Cabrales, Irma Clots-Figueras, Roberto Hernán-González, Praveen Kujal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13234
Stay-At-Home Orders, Social Distancing and Trust
Abel Brodeur, Idaliya Grigoryeva, Lamis Kattan
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34 (4), 1321-1354
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13205
Trust and Compliance to Public Health Policies in Times of COVID-19
Olivier B. Bargain, Ulugbek Aminjonov
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 192, 104316
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13150
The Determinants of Trust: Evidence from Rural South India
Anne Hilger, Christophe Jalil Nordman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12721
Police Trust and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Immigration Policies
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo
published as 'Police trust and domestic violence among immigrants: evidence from VAWA self-petitions' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2022, 22 (2), 395 - 422
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12457
From Citizen's Rights to Civic Responsibilities
Lucas Ronconi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12398
Business Culture: The Role of Personal and Impersonal Business Relationships on Market Efficiency
Manuel Munoz-Herrera, Ernesto Reuben
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12330
The Economic Preferences of Cooperative Managers
Guillermo Alves, Pablo Blanchard, Gabriel Burdin, Mariana Chávez, Andres Dean
revised version published as 'Like principal, like agent? Managerial preferences in employee-owned firms' in: Journal of Institutional Economics, 2022, 18 (6), 877 - 899
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12326
Stalin and the Origins of Mistrust
Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova, Vladimir Otrachshenko
revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 208, 104629
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12326
Stalin and the Origins of Mistrust
Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova, Vladimir Otrachshenko
revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 208, 104629
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12326
Stalin and the Origins of Mistrust
Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova, Vladimir Otrachshenko
revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 208, 104629
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12216
Trust and Workplace Performance
John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira
revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (4), 874-903.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12098
Is There a Tradeoff between Ethnic Diversity and Redistribution? The Case of Income Assistance in Canada
David A. Green, W. Craig Riddell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12086
The Effects of Status Mobility and Group Identity on Trust
Rémi Suchon, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 163, 430-463
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11965
HPWS in the Public Sector: Are There Mutual Gains?
Michael White, Alex Bryson
published in: F. Origio and S. Tomelleri (eds.), Rethinking entrepreneurial human capital, Springer, 2018, 43-62
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11917
The Causal Effect of Trust
Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, David B. Huffman, Nick Netzer
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. 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. 11712
More than the Money: Payoff-Irrelevant Terms in Relational Contracts
Erich Cromwell, Sebastian J. Goerg, Monika Leszczynska
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11521
Using Social Connections and Financial Incentives to Solve Coordination Failure: A Quasi-Field Experiment in India's Manufacturing Sector
Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Sherry Xin Li, Swati Sharma
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 144, 102445
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11487
Diversity and Conflict
Cemal Eren Arbatli, Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor, Marc Klemp
published in: Econometrica, 2020, 88 (2), 727-797
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11459
Evaluating Trust and Trustworthiness in Social Groups and Networks
Niall O'Higgins, Clelia Mazzoni, Patrizia Sbriglia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11290
Civility and Trust in Social Media
Angelo Antoci, Laura Bonelli, Fabio Paglieri, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Fabio Sabatini
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 160, 83-99
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11290
Civility and Trust in Social Media
Angelo Antoci, Laura Bonelli, Fabio Paglieri, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Fabio Sabatini
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 160, 83-99
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11204
Financial Shocks and the Erosion of Interpersonal Trust: Evidence from Longitudinal Data
Michael Jetter, Ingebjørg Kristoffersen
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2018, 67, 162 - 176
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10854
Perception of Corruption and Public Support for Redistribution in Latin America
Esther Hauk, Mónica Oviedo, Xavier Ramos
published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 74, 102174
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10585
Gender Differences in the Link between Income and Trust Levels: Evidence from Longitudinal Data
Jessica R. Bilson, Michael Jetter, Ingebjørg Kristoffersen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10585
Gender Differences in the Link between Income and Trust Levels: Evidence from Longitudinal Data
Jessica R. Bilson, Michael Jetter, Ingebjørg Kristoffersen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10575
Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Trust: Evidence from Cross-Country Data
John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 159, 109-133.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10410
Trust the Police? Self-Selection of Motivated Agents into the German Police Force
Guido Friebel, Michael Kosfeld, Gerd Thielmann
published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2019, 11 (4), 59-78
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10189
Responding to (Un)Reasonable Requests
Vittorio Pelligra, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Daniel John Zizzo
revised version published as 'Responding to (un)reasonable requests by an authority' in: Theory and Decision, 2020, 89 (3), 287-311
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10189
Responding to (Un)Reasonable Requests
Vittorio Pelligra, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Daniel John Zizzo
revised version published as 'Responding to (un)reasonable requests by an authority' in: Theory and Decision, 2020, 89 (3), 287-311
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10176
Who Trusts Others? Community and Individual Determinants of Social Capital in a Low Income Country
Niaz Asadullah
published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2017, 41(2): 515-544.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9999
The Chips Are Down: The Influence of Family on Children's Trust Formation
Corrado Giulietti, Enrico Rettore, Sara Tonini
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 36, 211 - 233
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. 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. 9872
On the Interpretation of World Values Survey Trust Question: Global Expectations vs. Local Beliefs
Ritwik Banerjee
published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 55, 491-510
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. 9859
Corruption, Norm Violation and Decay in Social Capital
Ritwik Banerjee
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 137, 14–27
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9704
Gossip and the Efficiency of Interactions
Dietmar Fehr, Matthias Sutter
published in: Games and Economic Behavior 2019, 113, 448-460.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9673
Sleep Restriction and Time?of?Day Impacts on Simple Social Interaction
David L. Dickinson, Todd McElroy
revised version published as 'Sleep restriction and circadian effects on social decisions' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 97, 57 - 71
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9616
Religion, Discrimination and Trust
Swee Hoon Chuah, Simon Gächter, Robert Hoffmann, Jonathan H. W. Tan
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 90, 280-301
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9587
Collective Bargaining Systems and Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Flexibility: The Quest for Appropriate Institutional Forms in Advanced Economies
John T. Addison
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2016, 5: 19
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9544
Ethnic Diversity and Trust: New Evidence from Australian Data
Silvia Mendolia, Alex Tosh, Oleg Yerokhin
published in Economic Record, 2016, 92 (299): 648-665.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9251
Third-Party vs. Second-Party Control: Disentangling the Role of Autonomy and Reciprocity
Gabriel Burdin, Simon Halliday, Fabio Landini
revised version published as 'The hidden benefits of abstaining from control' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 147, 1-12.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9245
The Economic Costs of Mass Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany
Andreas Lichter, Max Löffler, Sebastian Siegloch
substantially revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (2), 741 - 789
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9241
Conditional Cooperation and Betrayal Aversion
Robin Cubitt, Simon Gächter, Simone Quercia
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 111, 53 - 69
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9207
Building Trust in Rural Producer Organizations in Senegal: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Tanguy Bernard, Markus Frölich, Andreas Landmann, Pia Naima Unte, Angelino Viceisza, Fleur Wouterse
published in: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2021, 50 (3), 465 - 484
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8974
Culture of Trust and Division of Labor
Stephan Meier, Matthew Stephenson
revised version published as 'Culture of Trust and Division of Labor in Non-Hierarchical Teams' in: Strategic Management Journal, 2019, 40 (8), 1171-1193 (with Patryk Perkowski)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8384
Diversity and Social Capital in the U.S: A Tale of Conflict, Contact or Total Mistrust?
Willie Belton, Yameen Huq, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
published in: Review of Economics and Institutions, 2018, 9 (2), Article 1
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8284
Employee Trust and Workplace Performance
Sarah Brown, Daniel Gray, Jolian McHardy, Karl Taylor
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116, 361-378
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8277
Trust and the Welfare State: The Twin Peaks Curve
Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc, Marc Sangnier
published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (593), 861-883
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8238
Are Public Sector Workers Different? Cross-European Evidence from Elderly Workers and Retirees
Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 4:11, 2015
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8216
Identity Changes and the Efficiency of Reputation Systems
Matthias Wibral
published in: Experimental Economics, 2015, 18(3), 408-431
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8169
Trust and In-Group Favoritism in a Culture of Crime
Stephan Meier, Lamar Pierce, Antonino Vaccaro
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 132 (Part A), 78-92
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8107
Trusting Former Rebels: An Experimental Approach to Understanding Reintegration after Civil War
Michal Bauer, Nathan Fiala, Ian Levely
revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128, 1786-1819.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8097
Trust-Based Work-Time and Product Improvements: Evidence from Firm Level Data
Olivier Godart, Holger Görg, Aoife Hanley
published in: Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 2017, 70(4), 894-918
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7966
The Divorce Revolution and Generalized Trust: Evidence from the United States 1973-2010
Tarja Viitanen
published in: International Review of Law and Economics, 2014, 38, 25-32
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7715
Amerisclerosis? The Puzzle of Rising U.S. Unemployment Persistence
Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Dmitri Koustas
published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2013, 47 (2), 193-26
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7684
Confucianism and Preferences: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China
Elaine M. Liu, Juanjuan Meng, Joseph Tao-yi Wang
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