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262 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17892
Belief Updating About Moral Norms: Does Group Identity Matter?
David L. Dickinson, Marie Claire Villeval
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17888
Identity Under Scrutiny: Media Attention and Rule Compliance
Sulin Sardoschau, Giorgio Gulino, Federico Masera
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17840
Gender Norms, Stereotypical Beliefs, and Competitiveness
Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17822
Trust as a Social Norm? A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment with Refugees in Switzerland
Stefanie S. Baumgartner, Fabio Galeotti, Thierry Madies, Marie Claire Villeval
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17763
The Cost of Tolerating Intolerance: Right-Wing Protest and Hate Crimes
Sulin Sardoschau, Annalí Casanueva-Artís
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17762
Firms’ Beliefs About Wage Setting
Antoine Bertheau, Christian Philip Hoeck
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17748
Mutual Knowledge of Social Norms and Political Behavior
Anselm Hager, Elnura Kazakbaeva, Lukas Hensel, Damir Esenaliev
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17733
Top-Performing Girls Are More Impactful Peer Role Models than Boys, Teachers Say
Sofoklis Goulas, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Panagiotis Sotirakopoulos
published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2025, 122 (6), e2421436122
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17635
The Impact of Learning about AI Advancements on Trust
Milena Nikolova, Marco Angrisani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17578
How Malleable Are Pro-environmental Preferences? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment
Giorgia Menta, Michela Piccari, Bertrand Verheyden
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17574
Beliefs on Children's Human Capital Formation and Mothers at Work
Césarine Boinet, Jonathan Norris, Agnese Romiti, Zhan Shi, Paul Telemo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17534
Invitation Messages for Business Surveys: A Multi-Armed Bandit Experiment
Johannes J. Gaul, Florian Keusch, Davud Rostam-Afschar, Thomas Simon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17488
We Need to Talk: Audio Surveys and Information Extraction
Vincenzo Galasso, Tommaso Nannicini, Debora Nozza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17468
Trusted from Home: Managerial Beliefs and Workers' Spatial Autonomy
Adam Gill, Oskar Nordström Skans
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17407
The Role of Social Mobility Experience in Zero-Sum Beliefs
Kelly J. Liu, Alois Stutzer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17396
Minority Salience and Criminal Justice Decisions
Kyra Hanemaaijer, Nadine Ketel, Olivier Marie
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17335
Job Displacement, Remarriage, and Marital Sorting
Hanno Foerster, Tim Obermeier, Bastian Schulz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17332
Noncognitive Human Capital and Misreporting Behavior in Online Surveys
Haizheng Li, Qinyi Liu, Yiting Xu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17246
Competitive Search with Private Information: Can Price Signal Quality?
James Albrecht, Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Susan Vroman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17198
The Accuracy of Job Seekers' Wage Expectations
Marco Caliendo, Robert Mahlstedt, Aiko Schmeißer, Sophie Wagner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17099
Information Provision and Support for Inheritance Taxation: Evidence from a Representative Survey Experiment in Germany
Luna Bellani, Kattalina Berriochoa, Mark Kapteina, Guido Schwerdt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17098
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman! Using Mass Media to Fight Intolerance
Alex Armand, Paul Atwell, Joseph Gomes, Giuseppe Musillo, Yannik Schenk
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17077
Decoding Gender Bias: The Role of Personal Interaction
Abdelrahman Amer, Ashley C Craig, Clémentine Van Effenterre
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17052
Sorting through Cheap Talk: Theory and Evidence from a Labor Market
John J. Horton, Ramesh Johari, Philipp Kircher
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17029
Do Female Experts Face an Authority Gap? Evidence from Economics
Hans Henrik Sievertsen, Sarah Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17017
News, Emotions, and Policy Views on Immigration
Elena Manzoni, Elie Murard, Simone Quercia, Sara Tonini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17013
Can Reminders Promote Regular Pro-Environmental Behavior? Experimental Evidence from Peru
Hanna Fuhrmann-Riebel, Ben D'Exelle, Kristian López Vargas, Sebastian Tonke, Arjan Verschoor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17007
Ideological Alignment and Evidence-Based Policy Adoption
Jorge Garcia-Hombrados, Marcel Jansen, Ángel Martínez, Berkay Özcan, Pedro Rey-Biel, Antonio Roldán-Monés
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16932
The Big Shift in Working Arrangements: Eight Ways Unusual
Steven J. Davis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16891
Can Crises Affect Citizen Activism? Evidence from a Pandemic
Farzana Afridi, Ahana Basistha, Amrita Dhillon, Danila Serra
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16824
Spatial Search
Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Ronald P. Wolthoff
published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2025, 224, 105976
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16822
Simultaneous Search and Adverse Selection
Sarah Auster, Piero Gottardi, Ronald P. Wolthoff
published online in: Review of Economic Studies, 27 February 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16797
The Impact of Insufficient Sleep on the Serial Reproduction of Information
David L. Dickinson, Sean P.A. Drummond
forthcoming in: SLEEP Advances
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16780
Socioeconomic Inequality in Life Expectancy: Perception and Policy Demand
Lasse J. Jessen, Sebastian Koehne, Patrick Nüß, Jens Ruhose
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16759
Does Information about Inequality and Discrimination in Early Child Care Affect Policy Preferences?
Henning Hermes, Philipp Lergetporer, Fabian Mierisch, Guido Schwerdt, Simon Wiederhold
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 228, 106780, 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16736
Lost in Transmission
Thomas W Graeber, Shakked Noy, Christopher Roth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16703
The Behavioral, Economic, and Political Impact of the Internet and Social Media: Empirical Challenges and Approaches
Fabio Sabatini
revised version published online in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 21 May 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16696
Which Occupations Do Unemployed Workers Target? Insights from Online Job Search Profiles
Steffen Altmann, Robert Mahlstedt, Malte Jacob Rattenborg, Alexander Sebald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16687
Automatability of Occupations, Workers' Labor-Market Expectations, and Willingness to Train
Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Wedel, Katharina Werner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16657
Echoes of the Past: The Enduring Impact of Communism on Contemporary Freedom of Speech Values
Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 227, 106739
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16585
College Attrition and the Dynamics of Information Revelation
Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban Aucejo, Arnaud Maurel, Tyler Ransom
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2025, 133 (1), 53-110
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16541
The Societal Costs of Inflation and Unemployment
Olga Popova, Sarah Grace See, Milena Nikolova, Vladimir Otrachshenko
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16478
Navigating Ambiguity: Imprecise Probabilities and the Updating of Disease Risk Beliefs
Jason Kerwin, Divya Pandey
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16358
Activating Change: The Role of Information and Beliefs in Social Activism
Farzana Afridi, Ahana Basistha, Amrita Dhillon, Danila Serra
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16307
Social Connections and COVID-19 Vaccination
Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Oleg Firsin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16306
Gambling Habits and Probability Judgements in a Bayesian Task Environment
David L. Dickinson, Parker Reid
revised version published in: Journal of Gambling Studies, 2025, 98, 95- 152
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16283
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers
David B. Huffman, Collin Raymond, Julia Shvets
published in: American Economic Review, 2022, 112 (10), 3141–3175
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16253
Fatal Errors: The Mortality Value of Accurate Weather Forecasts
Jeffrey G. Shrader, Laura Bakkensen, Derek Lemoine
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16246
Proud to Not Own Stocks: How Identity Shapes Financial Decisions
Luca Henkel, Christian Zimpelmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16215
Preference-Choice Mismatch and University Dropout
Didier Fouarge, Pascal Heß
pubished in: Labour Economics, 2023, 83, 102405
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16168
Perceived Ability and School Choices: Experimental Evidence and Scale-up Effects
Matteo Bobba, Veronica Frisancho, Marco Pariguana
this paper is an updated version of IZA DP No. 10360 (2016).
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16141
Information Nudges, Subsidies, and Crowding Out of Attention: Field Evidence from Energy Efficiency Investments
Matthias Rodemeier, Andreas Löschel
published online in: Journal of the European Economic Association, jvae058, 21 January 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16061
Locus of Control and the Preference for Agency
Marco Caliendo, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Juliana Silva Goncalves, Arne Uhlendorff
published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 165, 104737
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16048
Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival
Stacey H. Chen, Jennjou Chen, Hongwei Chuang, Tzu-Hsin Lin
published online in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2025, 43 (1), 15- 46
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15989
Pay-As-They-Get-In: Attitudes Towards Migrants and Pension Systems
Tito Boeri, Matteo Gamalerio, Massimo Morelli, Margherita Negri
published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2024, 24 (1), 63–78
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15941
On the Validity of Using Webpage Texts to Identify the Target Population of a Survey: An Application to Detect Online Platforms
Piet Daas, Wolter Hassink, Bart Klijs
published in: Journal of Official Statistics, 2024, 40 (1), 190-211
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15830
The Direct and Indirect Effects of Online Job Search Advice
Steffen Altmann, Anita Marie Glenny, Robert Mahlstedt, Alexander Sebald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15804
Broadband Internet and Attitudes Towards Migrants: Evidence from Spain
Marta Golin, Alessio Romarri
published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 85, 102579
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15774
Social Networks and the Labour Market
Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon
published online in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 16 September 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15747
Do Job Seekers Understand the UI Benefit System (And Does It Matter)?
Steffen Altmann, Sofie Cairo, Robert Mahlstedt, Alexander Sebald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15682
Motivated Belief Updating and Rationalization of Information
Christoph Drobner, Sebastian J. Goerg
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. 15562
Climate Change Salience, Economic Insecurity, and Support for Mitigation Policies
David W. Johnston, Rachel Knott, Silvia Mendolia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15452
Do the Long-Term Unemployed Benefit from Automated Occupational Advice during Online Job Search?
Michèle Belot, Philipp Kircher, Paul Muller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15438
Intelligence Disclosure and Cooperation in Repeated Interactions
Marco Lambrecht, Eugenio Proto, Aldo Rustichini, Andis Sofianos
published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2024, 16 (3), 199–231
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15090
Information Frictions among Firms and Households
Sebastian Link, Andreas Peichl, Christopher Roth, Johannes Wohlfart
published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2023,135, 99-115
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14945
Information, Intermediaries, and International Migration
Samuel Bazzi, Lisa A. Cameron, Simone G. Schaner, Firman Witoelar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14940
Transparency of the Welfare System and Labor Market Outcomes of Unemployed Workers
Sofie Cairo, Robert Mahlstedt
substantially revised version published as 'The disparate effects of information provision: A field experiment on the work incentives of social welfare' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 226, 104987
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. 14679
The Formation of Risk Preferences through Small-Scale Events
Silvia Angerer, E. Glenn Dutcher, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Philipp Lergetporer, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14622
Preference Signaling and Worker-Firm Matching: Evidence from Interview Auctions
Ron A. Laschever, Russell Weinstein
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14536
The Impact of Sleep Restriction on Interpersonal Conflict Resolution and the Narcotic Effect
David L. Dickinson, David M. McEvoy, David Bruner
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 194, 71-90.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14526
Limited Self-Knowledge and Survey Response Behavior
Armin Falk, Thomas Neuber, Philipp Strack
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14524
On the Foundations of Competitive Search Equilibrium with and without Market Makers
James Albrecht, Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Susan Vroman
published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2023, 208, 105605
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. 14501
Search, Screening and Sorting
Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Ronald P. Wolthoff
forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14440
The Dynamics of Inattention in the (Baseball) Field
James Archsmith, Anthony Heyes, Matthew Neidell, Bhaven Sampat
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14386
Earnings Information and Public Preferences for University Tuition: Evidence from Representative Experiments
Philipp Lergetporer, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 226, 104968
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14373
Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from Business Majors
Patricia Cortes, Jessica Pan, Laura Pilossoph, Basit Zafar
published as 'Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from the Field and Lab' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023, 138 (4), 2069–2126
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14083
Breaking Gender Barriers: Experimental Evidence on Men in Pink-Collar Jobs
Alexia Delfino
published in: Amercian Economic Review, 2024, 114 (6), 1816 -1853
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14064
COVID-19 Relief Programs and Compliance with Confinement Measures
Claudio Deiana, Andrea Geraci, Gianluca Mazzarella, Fabio Sabatini
revised version published as 'Can relief measures nudge compliance in a public health crisis? Evidence from a kinked fiscal policy rule" in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 202, 407-428
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14032
The Political Cost of Lockdown's Enforcement
Andrea Fazio, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Fabio Sabatini
revised version published as 'The political cost of sanctions: evidence from COVID-19' in: Health Policy ,2022, 126 (9), 872-878
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14014
The Distinct Impact of Information and Incentives on Cheating
Julien Benistant, Fabio Galeotti, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published as 'Competition, information, and the erosion of morals' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 204, 148-163,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13995
Stigma and Misconceptions in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Field Experiment in India
Asadul Islam, Debayan Pakrashi, Michael Vlassopoulos, Liang Choon Wang
published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2021, 278, 113966
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13943
The Health-Wealth Trade-off during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Communication Matters
Vincenzo Carrieri, Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia
published in: PLoS ONE, 2021,16 (9), e0256103.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13865
Revenge of the Experts: Will COVID-19 Renew or Diminish Public Trust in Science?
Barry Eichengreen, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Orkun Saka
revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 193, 104343
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13821
Reverse Bayesianism: Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events
Christoph K. Becker, Tigran Melkonyan, Eugenio Proto, Andis Sofianos, Stefan T. Trautmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13793
Search Costs and the Determinants of Job Search
Emily A. Beam
published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 69, 101968
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13753
Framing the Predicted Impacts of COVID-19 Prophylactic Measures in Terms of Lives Saved Rather Than Deaths Is More Effective for Older People
Pietro Biroli, Steven J. Bosworth, Marina Della Giusta, Amalia Di Girolamo, Sylvia Jaworska, Jeremy Vollen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13749
Act Early to Prevent Infections and Save Lives: Causal Impact of Diagnostic Efficiency on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Simiao Chen, Zhangfeng Jin, David E. Bloom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13704
Directed Search with Phantom Vacancies
James Albrecht, Bruno Decreuse, Susan Vroman
published in: International Economic Review, 2023, 64 (2), 837 - 869
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13574
Social Learning along International Migrant Networks
Yuan Tian, Maria Esther Caballero, Brian K. Kovak
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 195, 103-121
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13510
Does the Dream of Home Ownership Rest upon Biased Beliefs? A Test Based on Predicted and Realized Life Satisfaction
Reto Odermatt, Alois Stutzer
revised version published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23 (8), 3731-3763
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13444
Does BMI Predict the Early Spatial Variation and Intensity of COVID-19 in Developing Countries? Evidence from India
Nidhiya Menon
published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2021, 41, 100990
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13427
Public Attention and Policy Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic
Cevat Giray Aksoy, Michael Ganslmeier, Panu Poutvaara
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13308
Biased Health Perceptions and Risky Health Behaviors: Theory and Evidence
Patrick Arni, Davide Dragone, Lorenz Götte, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 76, 102425
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13225
Collaboration, Alphabetical Order and Gender Discrimination – Evidence from the Lab
Vegard Sjurseike Wiborg, Kjell Arne Brekke, Karine Nyborg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13083
Rational Inattention and Migration Decisions
Simone Bertoli, Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Lucas Guichard
published in: Journal of International Economics, 2020, 126, 103364
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13005
Behavioral Aspects of Communication in Organizations
Fortuna Casoria, Arno Riedl, Peter Werner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12953
Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments
Gaurab Aryal, Manudeep Bhuller, Fabian Lange
published in: American Economic Review, 2022, 112 (5), 1669-1702
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