IZA Discussion Papers

published in: W. Naudé (ed.), Economic Growth and Societal Collapse: Beyond Green Growth and Degrowth Fairy Tales, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16142

Donations and Unpaid Activities

Olaf Hübler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16139

Melancholy Hues: The Futility of Green Growth and Degrowth, and the Inevitability of Societal Collapse

Wim Naudé

published in: W. Naudé (ed.), Economic Growth and Societal Collapse: Beyond Green Growth and Degrowth Fairy Tales, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16046

Social Media Charity Campaigns and Pro-social Behaviour. Evidence from the Ice Bucket Challenge

Andrea Fazio, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Francesco Scervini

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2023, 96, 102624

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15924

Extraterrestrial Artificial Intelligence: The Final Existential Risk?

Wim Naudé

published in: W. Naudé and T. Gries and N. Dimitri (eds.), Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15713

The Future Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Mythical Agents, a Singleton and the Dark Forest

Wim Naudé

published in: W. Naudé and T. Gries and N. Dimitri (eds.), Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15576

It Hurts to Ask

Roland Benabou, Ania Jaroszewicz, George Loewenstein

published in: European Economic Review, 2025,171, 104911

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15545

Exposure to Past Immigration Waves and Attitudes toward Newcomers

Rania Gihleb, Osea Giuntella, Luca Stella

published in: Migration Studies, 2022, 10 (4), 789-814

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15429

Dynastic Home Equity

Matteo Benetton, Marianna Kudlyak, John Mondragon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15388

Spillover Effects of Old-Age Pension across Generations: Family Labor Supply and Child Outcomes

Katja Maria Kaufmann, Yasemin Özdemir, Han Ye

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15125

Luck or Rights? An Experiment on Preferences for Redistribution Following Inheritance of Opportunity

Warn N. Lekfuangfu, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Yohanes E. Riyanto

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2023,106, 102078

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15050

The Demand for Gratitude as a Restraint on the Use of Child Labor: A Hypothesis

Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski

published in: JODE - Journal of Demographic Economics, 2023, 89 (1), 137-147

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15003

Getting Stuck in the Status Quo Ante: Evidence from the Egyptian Economy

Ömer Tuğsal Doruk, Francesco Pastore

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14955

Sensitivity of Charitable Giving to Realized Income Changes: Evidence from Military Bonuses and the Combined Federal Campaign

Carl J. Wojtaszek, Michael S. Kofoed

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14937

Family Social Norms and Child Labor

Shirit Katav Herz, Gil S. Epstein

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14828

Dissecting Inequality-Averse Preferences

Marcelo Bergolo, Gabriel Burdin, Santiago Burone, Mauricio De Rosa, Matias Giaccobasso, Martin Leites

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 200, 782-802

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14780

Keep It Simple: A Field Experiment on Information Sharing among Strangers

Catia Batista, Marcel Fafchamps, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36 (4), 857 - 888

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14779

The Right Person for the Right Job: Workers' Prosociality as a Screening Device

Maria Bigoni, Matteo Ploner, Thi-Thanh-Tam Vu

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 212, 53 - 73

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14656

Income and Views on Minimum Living Standards

David W. Johnston, Nidhiya Menon

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 199, 18 - 34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14542

Menopause as a Regulatory Device for Matching the Demand for Children with Its Supply: A Hypothesis

Oded Stark

published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2021, 42, 101001.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14518

Fighting Climate Change: The Role of Norms, Preferences, and Moral Values

Peter Andre, Teodora Boneva, Felix Chopra, Armin Falk

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14431

Happy to Help: The Welfare Effects of a Nationwide Micro-Volunteering Programme

Paul Dolan, Christian Krekel, Ganga Shreedhar, Helen Lee, Claire Marshall, Allison Smith

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14304

Malleability of Preferences for Honesty

Johannes Abeler, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse

published online in: Economic Journal, 22 May 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14242

Incentives for Cooperation in Teams: Sociality Meets Decision Rights

Britta Butz, Pablo Guillen Alvarez, Christine Harbring

published in: Review of Managerial Science, 2024, 18, 2925 - 2951

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14067

Who Benefits from Corporate Social Responsibility? Reciprocity in the Presence of Social Incentives and Self-Selection

Guglielmo Briscese, Nick Feltovich, Robert Slonim

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14059

Intertemporal Altruism

Felix Chopra, Philipp Eisenhauer, Armin Falk, Thomas W Graeber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14030

Parental Paternalism and Patience

Lukas Kiessling, Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Matthias Sutter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13864

Social Proximity and the Erosion of Norm Compliance

Cristina Bicchieri, Eugen Dimant, Simon Gächter, Daniele Nosenzo

revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2022,132, 59-72

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13745

Predictors of Social Distancing and Mask-Wearing Behavior: Panel Survey in Seven U.S. States

Plamen Nikolov, Andreas Pape, Ozlem Tonguc, Charlotte Williams

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13451

Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment

Shyamal Chowdhury, Matthias Sutter, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published as 'Economic preferences across generations and family clusters: A large-scale experiment in a developing country' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (9), 2361-2410.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13321

Optimal Incentives to Give

Marco Castillo, Ragan Petrie

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. 13268

The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States

Paola Giuliano, Marco Tabellini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13081

Do Public Program Benefits Crowd Out Private Transfers in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence

Plamen Nikolov, Matthew Bonci

published in: World Development, 2020, 134, 104967

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12919

The Effect of Financial Constraints on In-Group Bias: Evidence from Rice Farmers in Thailand

Suparee Boonmanunt, Stephan Meier

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 207, 96-109.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12869

Ambiguity and Excuse-Driven Behavior in Charitable Giving

Thomas Garcia, Sebastien Massoni, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2020,124, 103412

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12807

Selection into Experiments: Evidence from a Population of Students

Jonathan F. Schulz, Uwe Sunde, Petra Thiemann, Christian Thöni

revised version published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2022, 98, 101871

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12719

Relative Deprivation in Tanzania

Jean-Marc Bédhat Atsebi, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12558

Education and Prosocial Behavior: Evidence from Time Use Survey

Betul Akar, Pelin Akyol, Cagla Okten

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12532

Do Private Household Transfers to the Elderly Respond to Public Pension Benefits? Evidence from Rural China

Plamen Nikolov, Alan Adelman

published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2019, 14, 100204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12528

The Early Life Influences of Teachers' Genders on Later Life Charitable Giving: Evidence from the Natural Disasters in Japan

Eiji Yamamura, Nattavudh Powdthavee

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12442

Samuelson's Contributions to Population Theory and Overlapping Generations in Economics

Ronald D. Lee

published in: Robert A. Cord, Richard G. Anderson, William A. Barnett (eds.), Paul Samuelson Master of Modern Economics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 471-495

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12375

Sibling Differences in Educational Polygenic Scores: How Do Parents React?

Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anastasia Terskaya

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12130

Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Alberto Alesina, Elie Murard, Hillel Rapoport

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2021, 21 (6), 925–954,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12059

Relationship of Gender Differences in Preferences to Economic Development and Gender Equality

Armin Falk, Johannes Hermle

published in: Science, 2018, 362 (6412) (data available here: https://gps.iza.org/home)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12058

Motivated Memory in Dictator Games

Charlotte Saucet, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2019, 117, 250-275

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11944

Anti-Social Behavior in Groups

Michal Bauer, Jana Cahlíková, Dagmara Celik Katreniak, Julie Chytilová, Lubomir Cingl, Tomáš Želinský

revised version published as 'Nastiness in Groups' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, 22 (5), 2075–2107

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11760

The Shape of Warm Glow: Field Experimental Evidence from a Fundraiser

Jeffrey P. Carpenter

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 191, 555-574

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11721

Altruism or Diminishing Marginal Utility?

Romain Gauriot, Stephanie A. Heger, Robert Slonim

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 180, 24-48

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11665

Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning

Roland Benabou, Armin Falk, Jean Tirole

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11626

Identification of Causal Mechanisms Based on Between-Subject Double Randomization Designs

Conny Wunsch, Renate Strobl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11509

Moral Nimby-ism? Understanding Societal Support for Monetary Compensation to Plasma Donors in Canada

Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis

published in: Law and Contemporary Problems, 2018, 81, 83 - 105

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11460

Help, Prejudice and Headscarves

Luis Artavia-Mora, Arjun S. Bedi, Matthias Rieger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11366

Pay-What-You-Want to Support Independent Information: A Field Experiment on Motivation

Alessandra Casarico, Mirco Tonin

substantially revised version published as 'A field experiment on fundraising to support independent information' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 186, 227-250

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11315

The Misaddressed Letter Experiment

Gweneth Leigh, Andrew Leigh

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2018, 25 (21), 1527-1530

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11158

Socio-Economic Status and Inequalities in Children's IQ and Economic Preferences

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

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (9), 2504 -2545

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11097

Nudging Generosity: Choice Architecture and Cognitive Factors in Charitable Giving

Jonathan F. Schulz, Petra Thiemann, Christian Thöni

revised version published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 74, 139-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11095

Serving the Public Interest in Several Ways: Theory and Empirics

Robert Dur, Max van Lent

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 13-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10956

Do Beliefs about Peers Matter for Donation Matching? Experiments in the Field and Laboratory

Laura Katherine Gee, Michael J. Schreck

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2018, 107, 282 - 297

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10736

The Sequencing of Gift Exchange: A Field Trial

Jeffrey P. Carpenter

published in: the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 139, 26 - 31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10710

Information, Belief Elicitation and Threshold Effects in the 5X1000 Tax Scheme: A Framed Field Experiment

Leonardo Becchetti, Vittorio Pelligra, Tommaso G. Reggiani

revised version published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2017, 24 (6), 1026-1049

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10606

Facing Yourself: A Note on Self-Image

Armin Falk

revised version available from the briq website

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. 10331

What's in a Name in a War

Štepán Jurajda, Dejan Kovač

published in: Journal of Population Economics 2021, 34 (1), 1-33

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10277

Spatial Segregation and Socio-Economic Mobility in European Cities

Maarten van Ham, Tiit Tammaru, Elise de Vuijst, Merle Zwiers

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. 10127

Charitable Donations by China's Private Enterprises

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Xiuna Yang, Gang Shuge, Dai Jianzhong

published in: Economic Systems, 2017, 41 (3), 456 - 469

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9947

Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy

S. Nageeb Ali, Roland Benabou

published as 'Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy' in: American Economic Review, 2020, 13 (3), 116 - 164

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9886

Why Do Some Young Adults Not Graduate from Upper Secondary School? On the Importance of Signals of Labour Market Failure

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Katarina Katz, Torun Österberg

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2017, 61 (6), 701 - 720

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9871

Intuitive Cooperation and Punishment in the Field

Luis Artavia-Mora, Arjun S. Bedi, Matthias Rieger

published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 92, 133-145

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. 9842

The Effect of Kinship on Intergenerational Cooperation: A Lab Experiment with Three Generations

José Alberto Molina, Alfredo Ferrer, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Carlos Gracia-Lazaro, Yamir Moreno, Angel Sanchez

published as 'Intergenerational cooperation within the household: a Public Good game with three generations' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 17, 535 - 552

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9763

Immigrant Volunteering: A Way Out of Labour Market Discrimination?

Stijn Baert, Suncica Vujic

revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 146, 95 - 98

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. 9657

Gender Differences in Altruism: Responses to a Natural Disaster

Matthew Lilley, Robert Slonim

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9650

Market Design for Altruistic Supply: Evidence from the Lab

Robert Slonim, Carmen Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9649

Does It Pay to Care? Prosocial Engagement and Employment Opportunities

Stijn Baert, Suncica Vujic

revised version published as 'Does it Pay to Care? Volunteering and Employment Opportunities' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31, 819 - 836.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9388

The Impact of Fine Size and Uncertainty on Punishment and Deterrence: Theory and Evidence from the Laboratory

Eberhard Feess, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Markus Schramm, Ansgar Wohlschlegel

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 149, 58-73

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8977

How Does Socio-Economic Status Shape a Child's Personality?

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8952

Incentives and the Design of Charitable Fundraisers: Lessons from a Field Experiment

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Peter Hans Matthews

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8680

Defaults and Donations: Evidence from a Field Experiment