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552 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18294
All Eyes on the Nerd? The Unequal Distribution of Teachers’ Attention
Sofoklis Goulas, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Tommaso Sartori
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18280
Do Advisors’ Status and Identity Shape Adherence to Advice?
Lata Gangadharan, Pushkar Maitra, Joseph Vecci, Prakashan Chellattan Veettil, Marie Claire Villeval
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18273
Designing Effective Interventions
Sebastian Riedmiller, Matthias Sutter, Sebastian Tonke
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18270
The Stability of Self-Control in Unstable Times
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Anthony Lepinteur, Giorgia Menta
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18252
Women’s Empowerment in Times of Conflict: Evidence from Yemen
Phoebe W. Ishak, Alia Aghajanian, Yashodhan Ghorpade
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18239
Foreign Accents and Employer Beliefs: Experimental Evidence on Hiring Discrimination
Elisa Taveras, Ozlem Tonguc, Maria Zhu, Nicola Miller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18230
Do Women Ask for Less? Evidence from Reservation Wages in Italy
Vincenzo Scoppa, Idola Francesca Spanò
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18210
A Change Is Gonna Come: Universality, Stability, and Shocks in Personality Traits in Rural India
Arnaud Natal, Christophe Jalil Nordman
forthcoming in: The Journal of Development Studies, 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18208
Freed from the Boys: How Single-Sex Schooling Shapes Girls’ Effort and Performance in High-Stakes Exams
Caterina Calsamiglia, Yarine Fawaz, Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Junhee Lee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18172
Relative Income and Gender Norms: Evidence from Latin America
Ercio A. Muñoz, Dario Sansone, João Tampellini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18164
Trading Pay for Pensions: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment in the United Kingdom
Nick Deschacht, Inés Guillemyn, Suncica Vujic
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18122
Social Risk, Fairness Types, and Redistribution
Stefania Bortolotti, Felix Kölle, Ivan Soraperra, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18108
Location Matters: Insights from a Natural Field Experiment to Enhance Small Business Tax Compliance in Indonesia
Sarah Dong, Agung Satyadini, Mathias Sinning
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18096
Unfair Chances and Labor Supply
Nickolas Gagnon, Kristof Bosmans, Arno Riedl
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18086
Adolescent Core Self-Evaluation and Adult Interpersonal Trust: Evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study
Anna Adamecz, Hubert János Kiss
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18076
Early Release via Parole and Recidivism
Armando N. Meier, Jonathan Levav, Stephan Meier, Liora G. Avnaim
this paper presents an update of the former IZA Discussion Paper No. 13035, titled 'Early Release and Recidivism'
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18064
Orchestrating Success: Music Proficiency, Emotional Intelligence and Mental Health in Young Adulthood
Lucia Mangiavacchi, Luca Piccoli, Giulia Gambardella
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18057
Beyond Income: Understanding Preferences for Redistribution Among the Top 1%
Matías Strehl-Pessina, Marcelo Bergolo, Martin Leites
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18004
Childcare as Infrastructure: The Impact of COVID-19 on Childcare and Gender Equity
Alicia Sasser Modestino, Zachary Finn, Jamie Ladge, Alisa Lincoln
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17976
Measuring the Sources of Taste-Based Discrimination Using List Experiments
Ariel Listo, Ercio A. Muñoz, Dario Sansone
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17953
Teacher Gender Effects on Students’ Socio-Emotional Skills
Greta Morando, Sonkurt Sen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17929
The Work-Habit Premium: How Daily Routines Predict CEO Remuneration in the S&P 500
Michael Jan Kendzia, Cyrill Diaz de la Rosa, Jeremy Dela Cruz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17912
Beyond Time: Unveiling the Invisible Burden of Mental Load
Francesca Barigozzi, Pietro Biroli, Chiara Monfardini, Natalia Montinari, Elena Pisanelli, Sveva Vitellozzi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17892
Belief Updating About Moral Norms: Does Group Identity Matter?
David L. Dickinson, Marie Claire Villeval
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. 17840
Gender Norms, Stereotypical Beliefs, and Competitiveness
Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17838
Lifecycle Wages and Human Capital Investments: Selection and Missing Data
Laurent Gobillon, Thierry Magnac, Sébastien Roux
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17832
The Effect of Compulsory Education on Non-Cognitive Skills: Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Antonia Entorf, Thomas Dohmen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17823
War and Peace: How Economic Prospects Drive Conflictuality
Shuguang Jiang, Marie Claire Villeval, Zhengping Zhang, Jie Zheng
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. 17813
How Tinted Are Your Glasses? Gender Views, Beliefs and Recommendations in Hiring
Anna Hochleitner, Fabio Tufano, Giovanni Facchini, Valeria Rueda, Markus Eberhardt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17749
Narratives of Migration and Political Polarization: Private Preferences, Public Preferences and Social Media
Eugenio Levi, Michael Bayerlein, Gianluca Grimalda, Tommaso G. Reggiani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17737
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Examining Efficiency and Equity in Designing Summer Youth Employment Programs
Alicia Sasser Modestino, Mindy Marks, Hanna Hoover, Hitanshu Pandit
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17718
Objective Calls Under the Spotlight: Referee Consistency and Behaviour on Football's Biggest Stage
David Butler, Robert Butler, Carl Singleton
published online in: Journal of Sports Economics, 27 November 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17708
The Role of Interpersonal Uncertainty in Prosocial Behavior
Anujit Chakraborty, Luca Henkel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17687
Revisiting the Dunning-Kruger Effect: Composite Measures and Heterogeneity by Gender
Anna Adamecz, Radina Ilieva, Nikki Shure
published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2025, 116, 102362
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17676
Willingness to Compete in Dirty Competitions
Thomas Buser, Sahar Sangi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17666
Behind the Screen: Gender Differences in the Creator Economy
Francesca Gioia, Leo Morabito
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17634
Homebound Happiness? Teleworkability of Jobs and Emotional Well-Being During Labor and Non-labor Activities
Juliane Hennecke, Andreas Knabe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17628
Dishonesty Concessions in Teams: Theory and Experimental Insights from Local Politicians in India
Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Anustup Kundu, Kunal Sen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17540
Partisan Discrimination in Hiring
Martin Abel, Andrea Robbett, Daniel F. Stone
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17533
Economic Preferences Predict COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions and Behavior
Silvia Angerer, Helena Antonie Baier, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Philipp Lergetporer, Thomas Rittmannsberger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17525
The Rise of Social Media and the Fall in Mental Wellbeing among Young Australians
Andrew Leigh, Stephen Robson
published in: Australian Economic Review, 2025, 58 (1), 33-38
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17512
Inequity Aversion in Subjective Evaluations: Evidence from Referees' Decisions in Soccer
Leo Morabito, Vincenzo Scoppa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17508
Sorting It Out: Contribution-Action Gap in Waste Segregation in Urban India
Ahana Basistha, Nishith Prakash, Raisa Sherif
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17482
Psychology of Debt in Rural South India
Arnaud Natal, Christophe Jalil Nordman
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2025, 61 (7), 1042 - 1057
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17465
The Signaling Value of Government Action: The Effect of Istanbul Convention on Female Murders
Gunes A. Aşık, Naci Mocan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17448
Trump Ante Portas: Political Polarization Undermines Rule-Following Behavior
Christoph Feldhaus, Lukas Reinhardt, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17443
Peer Effects and Marriage Formation
Abigail Wozniak, Michael T. Baker, Susan P. Carter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17418
Stress in the Air: A Conjecture
Oded Stark
published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2024, 55, 101430
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17415
Present Bias in Choices over Food and Money
Alexander M. Danzer, Helen Zeidler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17384
Youngism: Discrimination and Stereotypes
Vojtech Bartos, Michal Bauer, Jana Cahlíková, Julie Chytilová
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17332
Noncognitive Human Capital and Misreporting Behavior in Online Surveys
Haizheng Li, Qinyi Liu, Yiting Xu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17315
Competing for Influence in Networks through Strategic Targeting
Margherita Comola, Agnieszka Rusinowska, Marie Claire Villeval
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17302
Creative and Strategic Capabilities of Generative AI: Evidence from Large-Scale Experiments
Noah Bohren, Rustamdjan Hakimov, Rafael Lalive
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17289
Competitive Peers: The Way to Higher Paying Jobs?
Claudio Schilter, Samuel Lüthi, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17287
One Size Fits All? The Interplay of Incentives, Effort Provision, and Personality
Zvonimir Bašić, Stefania Bortolotti, Daniel Salicath, Stefan Schmidt, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17282
He Said, She Said: Who Gets Believed When Spreading (Mis)Information
Nuzaina Khan, David Rand, Olga Shurchkov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17280
Personality, Weak Signals, and Workplace Relevant Morality
David L. Dickinson, David Masclet
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17267
Evaluating Yourself and Your Peers
Mingye Ma, Gerhard Riener, Youzong Xu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17265
Family Stress and the Intergenerational Correlation in Self-Control
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Haniene Tayeb
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17243
CEO Pay Disclosure and Within-Firm Wage Inequality
Agata Maida, Vincenzo Pezone
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17220
Do Contract Remedies Affect Efficient Renegotiation? An Experiment
Maria Bigoni, Stefania Bortolotti, Francesco Parisi, Xin Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17180
The Meritocratic Illusion: Inequality and the Cognitive Basis of Redistribution
Arthur Blouin, Anandi Mani, Sharun Mukand, Daniel Sgroi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17171
"Should CEOs' Salaries Be Capped?" A Survey Experiment on Limitarian Preferences
João V. Ferreira, Stratos Ramoglou, Foivos Savva, Michael Vlassopoulos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17168
How Cognitive Skills Affect Strategic Behavior: Cognitive Ability, Fluid Intelligence and Judgment
David Gill, Zachary Knepper, Victoria L. Prowse, Junya Zhou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17112
Cognitive Abilities and the Demand for Bad Policy
Salvatore Nunnari, Eugenio Proto, Aldo Rustichini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17087
Do Beliefs in the Model Minority Stereotype Reduce Attention to Inequality That Adversely Affects Asian Americans?
Shuai Chen, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Juliane V. Wiese
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17082
The Impact of Peer Performance and Relative Rank on Managerial Career Attainment: Evidence from College Students
Rafael Perez Ribas, Breno Sampaio, Giuseppe Trevisan
pubished in: Management Science, 2025, 71 (5), 4510–4531
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17078
Assessing Dishonesty in Cocoa Value Chains: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence from Middlemen in Côte D'Ivoire
Delphine Boutin, Marine Jouvin, Louis Olié
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17071
The Effects of Mental Health Interventions on Labor Market Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Crick Lund, Kate Orkin, Marc J. Witte, John Walker, Thandi Davies, Johannes Haushofer, Sarah Murray, Judy Bass, Laura Murray, Wietse Tol, Vikram Patel
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. 17039
Coarse Wage-Setting and Behavioral Firms
Germán Reyes
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, June 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17032
On the Psychological Foundations of Ambiguity and Compound Risk Aversion
Keyu Wu, Ernst Fehr, Sean Hofland, Martin Schonger
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. 17011
Ambient Air Pollution and Helping Behavior: Evidence from the Streets in Beijing
Simon Chang, Ishita Chatterjee, Li Yu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17010
The Modification of Social Space as a Tool for Lowering Social Stress
Oded Stark
published in: Economics & Human Biology. 2024, 53, 101349
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16984
Discrimination in the General Population
Silvia Angerer, Hanna Brosch, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Philipp Lergetporer, Thomas Rittmannsberger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16963
Can Awareness Reduce (and Reverse) Identity-Driven Bias in Judgement? Evidence from International Cricket
Subhasish M Chowdhury, Sarah Jewell, Carl Singleton
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 226, 106697.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16877
Beliefs That Entertain
Ashvin Gandhi, Paola Giuliano, Eric Guan, Quinn Keefer, Chase McDonald, Michaela Pagel, Joshua Tasoff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16864
Schooling and Self-Control
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16833
Moving Out of the Comfort Zone: How Cultural Norms Affect Attitudes toward Immigration
Yvonne Giesing, Björn Kauder, Lukas Mergele, Niklas Potrafke, Panu Poutvaara
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16803
Preferences over Relative Income within the Household
Johannes Hermle, Elena Herold, Nikolaus Hildebrand
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16797
The Impact of Insufficient Sleep on the Serial Reproduction of Information
David L. Dickinson, Sean P.A. Drummond
published in: SLEEP Advances, 2025, 6 (2), zpaf026
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16736
Lost in Transmission
Thomas W Graeber, Shakked Noy, Christopher Roth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16711
Adversarial Economic Preferences Predict Right-Wing Voting
Thomas Buser
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16688
Does Dual Vocational Education and Training Pay Off?
Samuel Bentolila, Antonio Cabrales, Marcel Jansen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16643
Human Values and Selection into Supervisory Positions: Evidence from Nine European Countries
Mihails Hazans, Jaan Masso, Per Botolf Maurseth
revised version published online in International Journal of Manpower, 9 September 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16633
The Heritability of Economic Preferences
Nathan Kettlewell, Agnieszka Tymula, Hong Il Yoo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16628
Gender Gaps in Financial Literacy: A Multi-Arm RCT to Break the Response Bias in Surveys
Laura Hospido, Nagore Iriberri, Margarita Machelett
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16562
Killer Alerts? Public Health Warnings and Heat Stroke in Japan
Lester Lusher, Tim Ruberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16534
Are Senior Entrepreneurs Happier than Who? The Role of Income and Health
Michael Fritsch, Alina Sorgner, Michael Wyrwich
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16490
Recession Experiences during Early Adulthood Shape Prosocial Attitudes Later in Life
Jan Bietenbeck, Uwe Sunde, Petra Thiemann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16445
Risk Attitudes and Informal Employment in Ukraine
Thomas Dohmen, Melanie Khamis, Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16404
Humans versus Chatbots: Scaling-up Behavioral Interventions to Reduce Teacher Shortages
Nicolas Ajzenman, Gregory Elacqua, Analía Jaimovich, Graciela Pérez-Núñez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16361
Are Managers More Machiavellian than Other Employees?
Mehrzad B. Baktash, Uwe Jirjahn
revised version forthcoming in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16343
Order Effects in Eliciting Preferences
Orestis Kopsacheilis, Sebastian J. Goerg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16338
Dark versus Light Personality Types and Moral Choice
David L. Dickinson
published in: European Economic Review, 2025, 178, 105092
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16324
Does Unfairness Hurt Women? The Effects of Losing Unfair Competitions
Stefano Piasenti, Marica Valente, Roel van Veldhuizen, Gregor Pfeifer
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