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508 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12066
The Effect of Superstition on Health: Evidence from the Taiwanese Ghost Month
Martin Halla, Chia-Lun Liu, Jin-Tan Liu
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. 11988
The Effect of a Ban on Gender-Based Pricing on Risk Selection in the German Health Insurance Market
Shan Huang, Martin Salm
revised version published in: Health Economics, 2020, 29, 3-17
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11948
The Effect of Risk Assessment Scores on Judicial Behavior and Defendant Outcomes
Carly Will Sloan, George S Naufal, Heather Caspers
published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 08 May 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11947
Economic Behavior of Children and Adolescents - A First Survey of Experimental Economics Results
Matthias Sutter, Claudia Zoller, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler
published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 111, 98-121
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11901
Civil War, Natural Disaster and Risk Preferences: Evidence from Sri Lankan Twins
Nathan Kettlewell, Fruhling Rijsdijk, Sisira Siribaddana, Athula Sumathipala, Agnieszka Tymula, Helena Zavos, Nicholas Glozier
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11840
Capital Income Risk and the Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution
Hoang Khieu, Klaus Wälde
published in: Economic Modelling , 2023, 122, 106243
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11817
Diabetes, Employment and Behavioural Risk Factors in China: Marginal Structural Models versus Fixed Effects Models
Till Seuring, Pieter Serneels, Marc Suhrcke, Max Bachmann
published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2020, 29, 100925
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. 11694
Independent Thinking and Hard Working, or Caring and Well Behaved? Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Gender Identity Norms
Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anastasia Terskaya
substantially revised version published as 'Gender Norms in High School: Impacts on Risky Behaviors from Adolescence to Adulthood' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 196, 429-456
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11643
Estimating Causal Effects of Alcohol Access and Use on a Broad Set of Risky Behaviors: Regression Discontinuity Evidence
Jason M. Fletcher
published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2019, 37 (3), 427-448
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11642
Willingness to Take Risk: The Role of Risk Conception and Optimism
Thomas Dohmen, Simone Quercia, Jana Willrodt
substantially revised version available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 15763
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11642
Willingness to Take Risk: The Role of Risk Conception and Optimism
Thomas Dohmen, Simone Quercia, Jana Willrodt
substantially revised version available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 15763
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11641
Risky Choices and Solidarity: Why Experimental Design Matters
Conny Wunsch, Renate Strobl
published as 'Risky Choices and Solidarity: Disentangling Different Behavioural Channels' in. Experimental Economics, 2021, 24, 1185–1214
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11627
Impacts of Shifting Responsibility for High-Cost Individuals on Health Insurance Exchange Plan Premiums and Cost-Sharing Provisions
Sankar Mukhopadhyay, Jeanne Wendel, Miaomiao Zou
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 66, 180-194.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11539
Domain-Specific Risk and Public Policy
Ohto Kanninen, Petri Böckerman, Ilpo Suoniemi
published online as ' Income–Well-Being Gradient in Sickness and Health' in: Health Economics, 19 November 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11539
Domain-Specific Risk and Public Policy
Ohto Kanninen, Petri Böckerman, Ilpo Suoniemi
published online as ' Income–Well-Being Gradient in Sickness and Health' in: Health Economics, 19 November 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11537
Locus of Control and Consistent Investment Choices
Pia Pinger, Sebastian Schäfer, Heiner Schumacher
published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 75, 66-75
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11358
Demographic Uncertainty and Generational Consumption Risk with Endogenous Human Capital
Patrick M. Emerson, Shawn D. Knabb
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11337
Evaluating Intergenerational Persistence of Economic Preferences: A Large Scale Experiment with Families in Bangladesh
Shyamal Chowdhury, Matthias Sutter, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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