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IZA Discussion Paper No. 8307
Old Money, the Nouveaux Riches and Brunhilde's Marriage Strategy
Anne-Kathrin Bronsert, Amihai Glazer, Kai A. Konrad
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (1), 163-188
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8288
Search and Retirement under Asymmetric Information
Sheng Bi, François Langot
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8237
Jacks-of-All-Trades? The Effect of Balanced Skills on Team Performance
Laura Rosendahl Huber, Randolph Sloof, Mirjam C. van Praag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8236
Cognitive Ability, Character Skills, and Learning to Play Equilibrium: A Level-k Analysis
David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 124 (6), 1619-1676
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8184
A Reconsideration of Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes
Antonio Filippin, Paolo Crosetto
published in: Management Science, 2016, 62 (11), 3138 - 3160
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8172
Surprising Selection Effects in the UK Car Insurance Market
Edmund Cannon, Giam Pietro Cipriani, Katia Bazar-Rosen
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (4), 879-897
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8108
Playing 'Hard to Get': An Economic Rationale for Crowding Out of Intrinsically Motivated Behavior
Wendelin Schnedler, Christoph Vanberg
published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 68, 106–115
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8105
Does the Home Advantage Depend on Crowd Support? Evidence from Same-Stadium Derbies
Michela Ponzo, Vincenzo Scoppa
published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2018, 19 (4), 562-582
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8104
Experimental Games on Networks: Underpinnings of Behavior and Equilibrium Selection
Gary Charness, Francesco Feri, Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez, Matthias Sutter
slightly revised version published in: Econometrica, 2014, 82(5), 1615-1670
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8103
The Superstar Quest: Does Youth Talent Predict Professional Success for Female and Male Tennis Players?
Wayne A. Grove, Michael Jetter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8058
Attention Discrimination: Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information Acquisition
Vojtech Bartos, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová, Filip Matejka
revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (6), 1437-1475
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7984
Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Catia Batista, Janis Umblijs
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (1), 108-130.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7981
The Formation of Migrant Networks
Margherita Comola, Mariapia Mendola
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2015, 117(2), 592-618
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7961
Dynamic Contracts and Learning by Doing
Julien Prat
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7950
Stated and Revealed Heterogeneous Risk Preferences in Educational Choice
Frank M. Fossen, Daniela Glocker
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 97, 1-25.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7933
An Experimental Test of a Search Model under Ambiguity
Takao Asano, Hiroko Okudaira, Masaru Sasaki
published in: Theory and Decision, 2015, 79, 627-637
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7932
Ambiguity on Audits and Cooperation in a Public Goods Game
Zhixin Dai, Robin M. Hogarth, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 74, 146-162
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7925
The Value of Connections: Evidence from the Italian-American Mafia
Giovanni Mastrobuoni
published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (586), F256 - F288
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7896
Selfish Altruism, Fierce Cooperation and the Emergence of Cooperative Equilibria from Passing and Shooting
Nikos Askitas
published as 'Selfish altruism, fierce cooperation and the predator' in: Journal of Biological Dynamics, 2018, 12 (1), 471 - 485
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7894
The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior
Tim Friehe, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
published as 'Predicting norm enforcement: the individual and joint predictive power of economic preferences, personality, and self-control' in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 2018, 45, 127 - 146
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7890
Is Soccer Good for You? The Motivational Impact of Big Sporting Events on the Unemployed
Philipp Doerrenberg, Sebastian Siegloch
published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 123 (1), 66-69
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7806
Hidden Insurance in a Moral Hazard Economy
Giuseppe Bertola, Winfried Koeniger
revised version published in: RAND Journal of Economics, 2015, 46 (4), 777-790
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7760
Prospect Theory and Tax Evasion: A Reconsideration of the Yitzhaki Puzzle
Amedeo Piolatto, Matthew D. Rablen
published in: Theory and Decision, 2017, 82 (4), 543-565
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7758
Subjective Evaluations: Discretionary Bonuses and Feedback Credibility
William Fuchs
published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2015, 7 (1), 99–108
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7740
Structural Empirical Evaluation of Job Search Monitoring
Gerard J. van den Berg, Bas van der Klaauw
published in: International Economic Review, 2019, 60 (2), 879-903
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7714
Second-Degree Moral Hazard in a Real-World Credence Goods Market
Loukas Balafoutas, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Matthias Sutter
published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 1-18.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7646
Tax Me If You Can! Optimal Nonlinear Income Tax between Competing Governments
Etienne Lehmann, Laurent Simula, Alain Trannoy
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014, 129 (4), 1995-2030
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7610
Incentives and Information as Driving Forces of Default Effects
Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, Andreas Grunewald
substantially revised version forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7604
Unmet Aspirations as an Explanation for the Age U-shape in Human Wellbeing
Hannes Schwandt
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 122, 75-87
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7579
Preferences and Biases in Educational Choices and Labor Market Expectations: Shrinking the Black Box of Gender
Ernesto Reuben, Matthew Wiswall, Basit Zafar
published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 2153-2186
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7487
Determinants and Policy Simulation of Firms Cooperation in Innovation
Almas Heshmati, Flávio Lenz-Cesar
published in: Research Evaluation, 2015, 24(3), 293-311.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7477
Can Contracts Signal Social Norms? Experimental Evidence
Anastasia Danilov, Dirk Sliwka
revised version published in: Management Science, 2017, 63 (2), 459–476
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7476
Parental Investment and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences and Attitudes
Maria Zumbühl, Thomas Dohmen, Gerard A. Pfann
published as 'Parental Involvement and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences, Attitudes, and Personality Traits' in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (638), 2642–2670
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7430
Economic Consequences of Mispredicting Utility
Bruno S. Frey, Alois Stutzer
published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2014, 15(4), 937-956
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7383
The Impact of Risk Perception and Risk Attitudes on Corrupt Behavior: Evidence from a Petty Corruption Experiment
Behnud Mir Djawadi, René Fahr
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7372
Correlation Neglect in Belief Formation
Benjamin Enke, Florian Zimmermann
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86 (1), 313–33
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7346
Firm-Level Heterogeneity and the Decision to Export: A Real Option Approach
Wim Naudé, Thomas Gries, Natasa Bilkic
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7340
How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign
Chad Kendall, Tommaso Nannicini, Francesco Trebbi
published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (1), 322-353
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7338
The Radical Innovation Investment Decision Refined
Natasa Bilkic, Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7322
Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets
Roland Benabou
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (2), 429-462
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7321
Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking
Roland Benabou, Jean Tirole
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 124 (2), 305–370
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7311
Does Mental Productivity Decline with Age? Evidence from Chess Players
Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Rocco
published as 'Selection and the Age-Productivity Profile: Evidence from Chess Players' in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2015, 110, 45–58
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7271
Authority and Incentives in Organizations
Matthias Kräkel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7265
Does Everyone Use Probabilities? Intuitive and Rational Decisions about Stockholding
Johannes Binswanger, Martin Salm
revised version published as 'Does everyone use probabilities? The role of cognitive skills' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 98, 73-85
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7247
The Effect of Deceptive Advertising on Consumption of the Advertised Good and its Substitutes: The Case of Over-the-Counter Weight Loss Products
John Cawley, Rosemary Avery, Matthew Eisenberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7243
Gender and Competition: Evidence from Jumping Competitions
René Böheim, Mario Lackner
published as 'Gender and risk taking: evidence from jumping competitions' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 2015, 178( 4), 883–902
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7217
On the Power of Childhood Impressions for Skill Formation: Initial Evidence and Unsettled Questions
Friedhelm Pfeiffer
published in: German Review of Social Policy, 2013, 62 (5), 131-139
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7216
Early Life Adversity and Children's Competence Development: Evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk
Dorothea Blomeyer, Katja Coneus, Manfred Laucht, Friedhelm Pfeiffer
published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics 2013, 233 (4), 468-485
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7183
Social Distance and Trust: Experimental Evidence from a Slum in Cairo
Christine Binzel, Dietmar Fehr
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 103, 99-106
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7163
Competing with Asking Prices
Benjamin R. Lester, Ludo Visschers, Ronald P. Wolthoff
published in: Theoretical Economics, 2017, 12 (2), 731-770
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7147
Asymmetric Information between Employers
Lisa B. Kahn
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (4), 165-205
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7085
Framing Effects and Impatience: Evidence from a Large Scale Experiment
Eline van der Heijden, Tobias J. Klein, Wieland Müller, Jan Potters
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84(2), 701-711
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7063
Competition and Educational Productivity: Incentives Writ Large
W. Bentley MacLeod, Miguel Urquiola
published in: Paul Glewwe (ed.), Education Policy in Developing Countries, Chapter 7, University of Chicago Press, 2013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7051
Strategies of Cooperation and Punishment among Students and Clerical Workers
Maria Bigoni, Gabriele Camera, Marco Casari
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 94, 172-182
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7044
Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
Sander M. Hoogendoorn, Simon C. Parker, Mirjam C. van Praag
published online in: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 30 November 2017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7030
The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power
Ernst Fehr, Holger Herz, Tom Wilkening
published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (4), 1325-59
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7029
Use and Abuse of Authority: A Behavioral Foundation of the Employment Relation
Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, Klaus M. Schmidt
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. 6947
Gender, Risk and Venture Creation Intentions
Christopher Dawson, Andrew Henley
published in: Journal of Small Business Management, 2015, 53(2), 501-515
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6922
To See Is To Believe: Common Expectations in Experimental Asset Markets
Stephen L. Cheung, Morten Hedegaard, Stefan Palan
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 66, 84-96
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6919
Truth-Telling: A Representative Assessment
Johannes Abeler, Anke Becker, Armin Falk
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 113, 96-104
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6877
An Alternative Explanation for the Variation in Reported Estimates of Risk Aversion
Denis Conniffe, Donal O'Neill
published in: Journal of Risk, 2013, 15 (4), 91-102
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6861
An Experimental Test of a Committee Search Model
Yoichi Hizen, Keisuke Kawata, Masaru Sasaki
published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 61, 59-76
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. 6851
Trust and Trustworthiness under the Prospect Theory: A Field Experiment in Vietnam
Quang Nguyen, Marie Claire Villeval, Hui Xu
revised version published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, 64 (3), 545-572
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6844
Entrepreneurship: Cause or Consequence of Financial Optimism?
Christopher Dawson, David Emmanuel de Meza, Andrew Henley, Reza Arabsheibani
published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2014, 23(4), 717–742
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6824
Risk and Saving in Two-Person Households: More Scope for Precautionary Saving
Patricia Apps, Yuri Andrienko, Ray Rees
published as 'Risk and Precautionary Saving in Two-Person Households' in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (3), 1040-1046
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6762
Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences: Comment
Stephen L. Cheung
revised version published as 'Comment on "Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences": On the Elicitation of Time Preference under Conditions of Risk' in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (7), 2242-2260
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6756
Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters
Lisa A. Cameron, Manisha Shah
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50 (2), 484-515
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6750
Toward the Integration of Personality Theory and Decision Theory in the Explanation of Economic and Health Behavior
Aldo Rustichini, Colin G. DeYoung, Jon E. Anderson, Stephen V. Burks
revised version published as 'Toward the Integration of Personality Theory and Decision Theory in the Explanation of Economic Behavior' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2016, 64, 122-137
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6731
Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
Sander M. Hoogendoorn, Mirjam C. van Praag
revised version available here
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6710
The "Bomb" Risk Elicitation Task
Paolo Crosetto, Antonio Filippin
published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2013, 47(1), 31-65
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6642
Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank
Thierry Madies, Marie Claire Villeval, Malgorzata Wasmer
revised version published as 'Intergenerational Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition' in: European Economic Review, 2013, 61, 153-168.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6623
Employer Learning and the "Importance" of Skills
Audrey Light, Andrew McGee
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50(1), 72-107
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6592
Medical Marijuana Laws and Teen Marijuana Use
D. Mark Anderson, Benjamin Hansen, Daniel I. Rees
published in: American Law and Economics Review, 2015,17 (2), 495-528
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6560
Do Public Health Interventions Crowd Out Private Health Investments? Malaria Control Policies in Eritrea
Pedro Carneiro, Andrea Locatelli, Tewolde Ghebremeskel, Joseph Keating
substantially revised version pubished in: Labour Economics, 2017, 45, 107 - 115
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6530
Ingratiation and Favoritism: Experimental Evidence
Stéphane R. Robin, Agnieszka Rusinowska, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 66, 16-38.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6491
The Good, the Bad and the Naive: Do Fair Prices Signal Good Types or Do They Induce Good Behaviour?
Uwe Dulleck, David W. Johnston, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6475
Quitting and Peer Effects at Work
Julie Rosaz, Robert Slonim, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 39, 55-67
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6470
The Relationship Between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures
Anke Becker, Thomas Deckers, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse
published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2012, 4, 453-478
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6448
The Role of Salience in Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Florian Englmaier, Andreas Roider, Uwe Sunde
revised version published as 'The Role of Communication of Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment' in: Management Science, 2017, 63(12), 4061-4080
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6447
Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data: An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes
Daniel Pollmann, Thomas Dohmen, Franz C. Palm
published in: De Economist, 2020, 168, 519 - 540
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6425
Image and Misreporting
Mara Ewers, Florian Zimmermann
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 13 (2), 363-380
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6411
Information and Competition Entry
Mara Ewers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6400
Salience, Risky Choices and Gender
Alison L. Booth, Patrick J. Nolen
published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (2), 517 - 520
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6380
Does Family Composition Affect Social Networking?
Odelia Heizler (Cohen), Ayal Kimhi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6325
Announcing an Increase in the State Pension Age and the Recession: Which Mattered More for Expected Retirement Ages?
Alan Barrett, Irene Mosca
published as 'Increasing the State Pension Age, the Recession and Expected Retirement Ages' in: Economic and Social Review 2013, 44 (4), 447-472
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6304
Testing Canonical Tournament Theory: On the Impact of Risk, Social Preferences and Utility Structure
Roman M. Sheremeta, Steven Y. Wu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6290
Laws and Norms
Roland Benabou, Jean Tirole
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6288
Financing Entrepreneurship and the Old-Boy Network
Eren Inci, Simon C. Parker
published in: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2013, 22 (2), 232-258
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6223
Efficient Coordination in Weakest-Link Games
Arno Riedl, Ingrid M.T. Rohde, Martin Strobel
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2016, 83 (2), 737-767
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6203
Updating, Self-Confidence and Discrimination
Konstanze Albrecht, Emma von Essen, Juliane Parys, Nora Szech
published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 60, 144-169
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6200
Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Chihmao Hsieh, Simon C. Parker, Mirjam C. van Praag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6133
Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?
Alison L. Booth, Lina Marcela Cardona Sosa, Patrick J. Nolen
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 99, 126-154
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6117
Family Background, Self-Confidence and Economic Outcomes
Antonio Filippin, Marco Paccagnella
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31, 824-834
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6095
How Do Informal Agreements and Renegotiation Shape Contractual Reference Points?
Ernst Fehr, Oliver Hart, Christian Zehnder
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 13 (1), 1-28
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6087
Strategic Ignorance in Bargaining
Julian Conrads, Bernd Irlenbusch
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 92, 104-115
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6061
Add-on Pricing, Naive Consumers, and the Hidden Welfare Costs of Education
Michael Kosfeld, Ulrich Schüwer
published as 'Add-on Pricing in Retail Financial Markets and the Fallacies of Consumer Education' in: Review of Finance, 2017, 21 (3), 1189 - 1216
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6060
Private Information, Human Capital, and Optimal "Home Bias" in Financial Markets
Isaac Ehrlich, Jong Kook Shin, Yong Yin
published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2011, 5 (3), 255-301
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6002
It's About Time: Implications of the Period Length in an Equilibrium Job Search Model
Ronald P. Wolthoff
published in: International Economic Review, 2014, 55 (3), 839-867
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