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178 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17580
Werther at Work: Intra-Firm Spillovers of Suicides
Martin Halla, Bernhard Schmidpeter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17506
Altruistic Giving and Risk Taking in Human Affairs
Oded Stark, Lukasz Balbus
published online in: Social Choice and Welfare, 4 November 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17070
Healthcare Appointments as Commitment Devices
Laura Derksen, Jason Kerwin, Natalia Ordaz Reynoso, Olivier Sterck
published in: Economic Journal, 2025, 136 (665), 81–118
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17044
Rank, Stress, and Risk: A Conjecture
Oded Stark, Julia Wlodarczyk
published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2024, 350, 116841
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17000
Monitoring and Prudence
Luca Beltrametti, Gabriele Cardullo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16952
Who Cares about Investing Responsibly? Attitudes and Financial Decisions
Alberto Montagnoli, Karl Taylor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16633
The Heritability of Economic Preferences
Nathan Kettlewell, Agnieszka Tymula, Hong Il Yoo
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. 16561
Utilitarianism Is Implied by Social and Individual Dominance
Johan E. Gustafsson, Dean Spears, Stéphane Zuber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16478
Navigating Ambiguity: Imprecise Probabilities and the Updating of Disease Risk Beliefs
Jason Kerwin, Divya Pandey
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16289
Injury Risk, Concussions, Race, and Pay in the NFL
Quinn Keefer, Thomas J. Kniesner
published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2023, 67(2), 107-136
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16084
Risk Aversion and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
Anthony Lepinteur, Liyousew G. Borga, Andrew E. Clark, Claus Vögele, Conchita D'Ambrosio
published in: Health Economics, 2023, 32, 1659-1669
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16013
Workers' Perceptions of Earnings Growth and Employment Risk
Gizem Koşar, Wilbert van der Klaauw
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15908
Risk-laden Migration as a Response to Relative Deprivation: A Hypothesis
Oded Stark
published as 'An Integrated Theory of Relative Deprivation and Risk-Laden Migration' in: Robert M. Sauer (ed.), World Scientific Handbook of Global Migration Vol. 2. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2024, 165–175
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15854
Inequality and Risk Preference
Harry Pickard, Thomas Dohmen, Bert van Landeghem
[This version: February 2024] published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2024, 69, 191 - 217
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15763
On the Psychology of the Relation between Optimism and Risk Taking
Thomas Dohmen, Simone Quercia, Jana Willrodt
published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2023, 67, 193–214.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15712
The Distribution of Ambiguity Attitudes
Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Axel Wogrolly, Christian Zimpelmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15536
How Do Humans Respond to Huge Financial Losses?
Redzo Mujcic, Nattavudh Powdthavee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14993
Parental Separation and the Formation of Economic Preferences
Sarah C. Dahmann, Nathan Kettlewell, Jack Lam
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14835
Reference Points and the Tradeoff between Risk and Incentives
Thomas Dohmen, Arjan Non, Tom Stolp
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 192, 813–831
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