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167 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17974
The Right Timing Matters: Sensitive Periods in the Formation of Socio-Emotional Skills
Laura Breitkopf, Shyamal Chowdhury, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17858
Solidarity and Discrimination Within and Between Generations: Evidence from a Dutch Population Sample
Arno Riedl, Hans Schmeets, Peter Werner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17795
For the Future of Our Grandchildren: Grandparenthood and Climate Change Concerns
Lieke Voorintholt, Gerard J. van den Berg, Adriaan R. Soetevent
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17506
Altruistic Giving and Risk Taking in Human Affairs
Oded Stark, Lukasz Balbus
published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2025, 64, 373–392
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17384
Youngism: Discrimination and Stereotypes
Vojtech Bartos, Michal Bauer, Jana Cahlíková, Julie Chytilová
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17252
Elite Universities and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human and Social Capital
Andres Barrios-Fernandez, Christopher A. Neilson, Seth D. Zimmerman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17127
Effects of Parental Death on Labor Market Outcomes and Gender Inequalities
Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen, Ning Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16825
Altruism, Human Capital and Environmental Preservation in a Globalized Economy
Stéphane Bouché, Leonor Modesto
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16803
Preferences over Relative Income within the Household
Johannes Hermle, Elena Herold, Nikolaus Hildebrand
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16742
The Economic Impact of Heritable Physical Traits: Hot Parents, Rich Kid?
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Anwen Zhang
published as 'Human beauty illustrates the economic impact of heritable physical traits' in: PNAS, 2025, 122 (6), e24184241
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16595
The Persistent Effect of Competition on Prosociality
Fabian Kosse, Ranjita Rajan, Michela M. Tincani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16573
Can Altruism Lead to a Willingness to Take Risks?
Oded Stark
published in: Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 2024, 48 (2), 272-278
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16205
A Behaviorally-Validated Warm Glow Questionnaire
Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Alex Lyford, Mingfang Zhang
published in: Journal of the Economic Sciene Association, 2024, 10, 310–329
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16191
We Already Live in a Degrowth World, and We Do Not like It
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. 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
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