IZA Discussion Papers

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

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

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

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

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16324

Does Unfairness Hurt Women? The Effects of Losing Unfair Competitions

Stefano Piasenti, Marica Valente, Roel van Veldhuizen, Gregor Pfeifer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16306

Gambling Habits and Probability Judgements in a Bayesian Task Environment

David L. Dickinson, Parker Reid

revised version published online in: Journal of Gambling Studies, 28 August 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16304

Can a Mobile-App-Based Behavioral Intervention Teach Financial Skills to Youth? Experimental Evidence from a Financial Diaries Study

Veronica Frisancho, Alejandro Herrera, Silvia Prina

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16293

Corrupted by Algorithms? How AI-Generated and Human-Written Advice Shape (Dis)Honesty

Margarita Leib, Nils Köbis, Rainer Michael Rilke, Marloes Hagens, Bernd Irlenbusch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16284

Incentive Complexity, Bounded Rationality and Effort Provision

Johannes Abeler, David B. Huffman, Collin Raymond

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16264

Covid-19 and Income Inequality in OECD Countries: A Methodological Comment

Oded Stark

published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 24, 1235–1237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16224

The Anatomy of Competitiveness

Thomas Buser, Hessel Oosterbeek

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16205

A Behaviorally-Validated Warm Glow Questionnaire

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Alex Lyford, Mingfang Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16200

Social Preferences: Fundamental Characteristics and Economic Consequences

Ernst Fehr, Gary Charness

this version: March 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16187

Socioemotional Development during Adolescence: Evidence from a Large Macro Shock

Ghazala Azmat, Katja Maria Kaufmann, Yasemin Özdemir

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16179

When Fairness Is Not Enough: The Disproportionate Contributions of the Poor in a Collective Action Problem

Eugene Malthouse, Charlie Pilgrim, Thomas Hills, Daniel Sgroi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16151

Free to Fail? Paternalistic Preferences in the United States

Björn Bartling, Alexander W. Cappelen, Henning Hermes, Marit Skivenes, Bertil Tungodden

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16142

Donations and Unpaid Activities

Olaf Hübler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16138

The Gender Reference Point Gap

Nathan Kettlewell, Jonathan Levy, Agnieszka Tymula, Xueting Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16137

Nudging in Complex Environments

Alexander K. Koch, Dan Monster, Julia Nafziger

published as 'Spillover effects of reminder nudges in complex environments' in: PNAS, 2024; 121 (17), e23225491

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16130

On a Tendency in Health Economics to Dwell on Income Inequality and Underestimate Social Stress

Oded Stark

published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2023, 49, 101232

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16126

After You. Cognition and Health-Distribution Preferences

Martín Brun, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Xavier Ramos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16125

Using Genes to Explore the Relationship of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills with Education and Labor Market Outcomes

Thomas Buser, Rafael Ahlskog, Magnus Johannesson, Philipp Koellinger, Sven Oskarsson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16075

Permanent Instability of Preferences after COVID-19 Crisis: A Natural Experiment from Urban Burkina Faso

Delphine Boutin, Laurene Petifour, Haris Megzari

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. 16054

Peacefully Demobilizing Rebels: Identity, Emotional Cues, and the FARC

Juan P. Aparicio, Michael Jetter, Christopher Parsons

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16028

Overexertion of Effort under Working Time Autonomy and Feedback Provision

Thomas Dohmen, Elena Shvartsman

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 212, 255-1266

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16027

Accounting For Individual-Specific Reliability of Self-Assessed Measures of Economic Preferences and Personality Traits

Thomas Dohmen, Tomáš Jagelka

published in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2024, 23, 399–462

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16026

Religion and Cooperation across the Globe

Felipe Valencia Caicedo, Thomas Dohmen, Andreas Pondorfer

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 215, 479–489.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16025

Tournament Incentives Affect Perceived Stress and Hormonal Stress Responses

Thomas Dohmen, Ingrid M.T. Rohde, Tom Stolp

published in: Experimental Economics, 2023, 26 (4), 955–985.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16006

Social Norms and Female Labor Force Participation in Bangladesh: The Role of Social Expectations and Reference Networks

Luna Bellani, Kumar Biswas, Sebastian Fehrler, Paul Marx, Shwetlena Sabarwal, Syed Rashed Al-Zayed Josh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15972

Temperature and Low-Stakes Cognitive Performance

Xin Zhang, Xi Chen, Xiaobo Zhang

published in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2024, 11 (1), 75–96

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15960

Guilt Aversion in (New) Games: Does Partners' Payoff Vulnerability Matter?

Giuseppe Attanasi, Claire Rimbaud, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2023, 142, 690-717

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15934

Cognitive Misperception and Chronic Disease Awareness: Evidence from Blood Biomarker Data

Zhuoer Lin, Mingqi Fu, Xi Chen

published as 'Self-perceived memory is negatively associated with chronic disease awareness: Evidence from blood biomarker data' in: SSM - Population Health, 2023, 22, 101361

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15909

Through the Looking Glass: Transparency about Others' Luck and Effort Enhances Redistribution

Juliane V. Wiese, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Jonathan Yeo, Yohanes E. Riyanto

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. 15897

Who Gets Vaccinated? Cognitive and Non-cognitive Predictors of Individual Behavior in Pandemics

Mark A. Andor, Thomas K. Bauer, Jana Eßer, Christoph M. Schmidt, Lukas Tomberg

published online in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 7 October 2024

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. 15848

Self-Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Performance of Start-Ups

Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos, Daniel Rodriguez, Claudia Stier

published in: Small Business Economics, 2023, 61, 1027–1051