IZA Discussion Papers

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. 7872

Financial Markets, Banks' Cost of Funding, and Firms' Decisions: Lessons from Two Crises

Pierluigi Balduzzi, Emanuele Brancati, Fabio Schiantarelli

published in: Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2018, 36, 1-15

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7851

The Effect of Credit Guarantees on R&D Investment of SMEs in Korea

Almas Heshmati

published in: Asian Journal of Technology Innovation, 2015, 23 (3), 407-421.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7807

When Credit Dries Up: Job Losses in the Great Recession

Samuel Bentolila, Marcel Jansen, Gabriel Jiménez, Sonia Ruano

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7769

Does Patience Matter for Marriage Stability? Some Evidence from Italy

Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 15, 549 - 577

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7407

Post Schooling Human Capital Investments and the Life Cycle Variance of Earnings

Thierry Magnac, Nicolas Pistolesi, Sébastien Roux

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126(3), 1219-1249.

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. 7338

The Radical Innovation Investment Decision Refined

Natasa Bilkic, Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7317

Evidence on Individual Preferences for Longevity Risk

Gaëtan Delprat, Marie-Louise Leroux, Pierre-Carl Michaud

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7273

The Importance of the Cognitive Environment for Intertemporal Choice

Michael A. Kuhn, Peter J. Kuhn, Marie Claire Villeval

Revised version published as "Decision-Environment Effects on Intertemporal Financial Choices: How Relevant are Resource-Depletion Models?" in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 137, 72-89, 2017.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7266

Monitoring Job Search Effort with Hyperbolic Time Preferences and Non-Compliance: A Welfare Analysis

Bart Cockx, Corinna Ghirelli, Bruno Van der Linden

revised version published as 'Is it Socially Efficient to Impose Job Search Requirements on Unemployed Benefit Claimants with Hyperbolic Preferences?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 113, 80-95

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7229

Does Forced Solidarity Hamper Investment in Small and Micro Enterprises?

Michael Grimm, Renate Hartwig, Jann Lay

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45 (4): 827-846.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7225

Migration, Capital Formation, and House Prices

Volker Grossmann, Andreas Schäfer, Thomas M. Steger

published as 'Reversal of Migration Flows: A Fresh Look at the German Reunification' in: Journal of International Economics, 2016, 109, 1-15

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7221

Quasi-Hyperbolic Time Preferences and their Intergenerational Transmission

Fabian Kosse, Friedhelm Pfeiffer

published in: Applied Economics Letters 2013, 20 (10), 983-986

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7165

Time Preferences and Lifetime Outcomes

Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Hans Grönqvist, Lena Lindahl

published as 'Adolescent Time Preferences Predict Lifetime Outcomes' in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (580), F739-F761

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7155

Inequality of Opportunity, Income Inequality and Economic Mobility: Some International Comparisons

Paolo Brunori, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Vito Peragine

published in: Eva Paus (ed.), Getting Development Right, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7154

Framing Effects in an Employee Savings Scheme: A Non-Parametric Analysis

Peter Kooreman, Bertrand Melenberg, Henriëtte M. Prast, Nathanaël Vellekoop

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7083

Income Inequality and Saving

Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado, Mayssun El-Attar

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (6), 1029 - 1061

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. 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. 6784

Does It Pay for Women to Volunteer?

Robert M. Sauer

published in: International Economic Review, 2015, 56(2), 537-564

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6774

How General Are Time Preferences? Eliciting Good-Specific Discount Rates

Diego Ubfal

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 118: 150-170.

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. 6615

Capital Income Taxation and the Mirrlees Review

Patricia Apps, Ray Rees

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. 6461

Productivity and the Welfare of Nations

Susanto Basu, Luigi Pascali, Fabio Schiantarelli, Luis Serven

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (4), 1647–1682

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6441

Are Tall People Less Risk Averse than Others?

Olaf Hübler

published in: Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2013, 133 (1), 23-42

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6385

Interpreting Time Horizon Effects in Inter-Temporal Choice

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6346

Suboptimal Choices and the Need for Experienced Individual Well-Being in Economic Analysis

Christopher K. Hsee, Yuval Rottenstreich, Alois Stutzer

published in: International Journal of Happiness and Development, 2012, 1 (1), 63-85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6311

Under-Savers Anonymous: Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device

Felipe Kast, Stephan Meier, Dina Pomeranz

revised version published as 'Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 133, 275-294.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6247

Impatience among Preschool Children and their Mothers

Fabian Kosse, Friedhelm Pfeiffer

published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 115 (3), 493-495

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6125

Decomposing Changes in Income Risk Using Consumption Data

Richard Blundell, Hamish Low, Ian Preston

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2013, 4 (1), 1–37

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6098

A Continuous Labour Supply Model in Microsimulation: A Life-Cycle Modelling Approach with Heterogeneity and Uncertainty Extension

Jinjing Li, Denisa Maria Sologon

published in: PLoS ONE, 2014, 9 (11), e111903

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6094

Demography, Capital Flows and Unemployment

Luca Marchiori, Olivier Pierrard, Henri R. Sneessens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6046

The Disappearing Gender Gap: The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work

Raquel Fernández, Joyce Cheng Wong

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5993

The Frisch Elasticity in the Mercosur Countries: A Pseudo-Panel Approach

Roberto González, Hector Sala

published in: Development Policy Review, 2015, 33 (1), 107-131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5858

Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform

Peter Haan, Victoria L. Prowse

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2014, 178 (3), 582-601

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5808

Which Measures of Time Preference Best Predict Outcomes? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Aldo Rustichini

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84 (1), 308-320

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5802

Goals and Psychological Accounting

Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger

revised version published as 'Goals and Bracketing under Mental Accounting' in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 162, 305–351.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5715

Portability of Pension, Health, and Other Social Benefits: Facts, Concepts, Issues

Robert Holzmann, Johannes Koettl

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61 (2), 377– 415,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5653

Debt Portfolios

Thomas Hintermaier, Winfried Koeniger

revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2016, 8 (4), 103-141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5465

Why Are Saving Rates So High in China?

Dennis T. Yang, Junsen Zhang, Shaojie Zhou

published in: Joseph Fan and Randall Morck (eds.), 2012, Capitalizing China. University of Chicago Press, 249-282

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5404

Impatience and Uncertainty: Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior

Matthias Sutter, Martin G. Kocher, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Stefan T. Trautmann

extended version published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (1), 510-531

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5359

Sequentiality versus Simultaneity: Interrelated Factor Demand

Magne Krogstad Asphjell, Wilko Letterie, Øivind Anti Nilsen, Gerard A. Pfann

revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96 (5), 986-998

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5331

Income Uncertainty and Household Savings in China

Marcos Chamon, Kai Liu, Eswar Prasad

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 105, 164-177

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5173

House Price Volatility and the Housing Ladder

James Banks, Richard Blundell, Zoë Oldfield, James P. Smith

published in D. Wise (ed), Insights in the Economics of Ageing, Chapter 3, University of Chicago Press, 2017.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5168

Housing Mobility and Downsizing at Older Ages in Britain and the United States

James Banks, Richard Blundell, Zoë Oldfield, James P. Smith

published in: Economica, 2012, 79 (313), 1-26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5144

Micro-Level Determinants of Lecture Attendance and Additional Study-Hours

Martin Ryan, Liam Delaney, Colm P. Harmon

published as "The Role of Noncognitive Traits in Undergraduate Study Behaviours" in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 32, 181-195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5050

Investing in Our Young People

Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman

published in: Arthur Reynolds, Arthur Rolnick, Michelle M. Englund, and Judy A. Temple (eds.), Cost-Effective Programs in Children's First Decade: A Human Capital Integration, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 381-414

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4901

Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit: Experimental and Survey Evidence from Rural India

Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová, Jonathan Morduch

published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (2), 1118-1139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4894

Estimating the Impact of Immigrants on the Host Country Social Security System When Return Migration is an Endogenous Choice

Murat Güray Kirdar

published in: International Economic Review, 2012, 53 (2), 453-486

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4854

Loss Aversion and Intertemporal Choice: A Laboratory Investigation

Robert J. Oxoby, William G. Morrison

published as 'The endowment effect and intertemporal choice: a laboratory investigation' in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2013, 46 (2), 689 - 704

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4758

Mortgage Finance in Central and Eastern Europe: Opportunity or Burden?

Thorsten Beck, Katie Kibuuka, Erwin R. Tiongson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4756

Stability of Time Preferences

Stephan Meier, Charles Sprenger

revised version published as 'Temporal Stability of Time Preferences' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(2), 273-286

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4714

Measuring Long-Term Inequality of Opportunity

Rolf Aaberge, Magne Mogstad, Vito Peragine

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 193-204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4699

On the Measurement of Long-Term Income Inequality and Income Mobility

Rolf Aaberge, Magne Mogstad

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4612

Productivity, Welfare and Reallocation: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence

Susanto Basu, Luigi Pascali, Fabio Schiantarelli, Luis Serven

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4471

Motivational Goal Bracketing

Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2021, 94, 101740

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4402

The Life-Cycle and the Business-Cycle of Wage Risk: A Cross-Country Comparison

Christian Bayer, Falko Juessen

published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (3), 831-833

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4241

Women, Children and Patience: Experimental Evidence from Indian Villages

Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová

revised version published in: Review of Development Economics, 2013, 17 (4), 662-675

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4198

Present-Biased Preferences and Credit Card Borrowing

Stephan Meier, Charles Sprenger

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2 (1), 193-210

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4057

The Impact of Education on the Subjective Discount Rate in Ugandan Villages

Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2010, 58 (4), 643–669

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3893

Self-Regulation through Goal Setting

Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011, 113 (1), 212-227;

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3853

Fertility and Female Employment Dynamics in Europe: The Effect of Using Alternative Econometric Modeling Assumptions

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Konstantinos Tatsiramos

revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 26 (4), 641 - 668

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3808

Internal Finance and Growth: Microeconometric Evidence on Chinese Firms

Alessandra Guariglia, Xiaoxuan Liu, Lina Song

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 96 (1), 79 - 94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3726

The Risk of Divorce and Household Saving Behavior

Libertad González, Berkay Özcan

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2013, 48 (2), 404-434

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3700

Wage Risk and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle

Hamish Low, Costas Meghir, Luigi Pistaferri

published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (4), 1432-1467

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3674

Psychological and Biological Foundations of Time Preference: Evidence from a Day Reconstruction Study with Biological Tracking

Michael Daly, Liam Delaney, Colm P. Harmon

published as 'Psychological and Biological Foundations of Time Preference' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 7 (2-3), 2009, 659 - 669

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3623

Preparing for Policy Changes: Social Security Expectations and Pension Scheme Participation

Karen van der Wiel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3507

Discounting Financial Literacy: Time Preferences and Participation in Financial Education Programs

Stephan Meier, Charles Sprenger

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 95, 159–174

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3481

Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases

Jörg Oechssler, Andreas Roider, Patrick W. Schmitz

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 72 (1), 147-152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3386

Private Wealth and Job Exit at Older Age: A Random Effects Model

Hans Bloemen

revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2016, 51 (2), 763-807

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3336

‘Arranged’ Marriage, Co-Residence and Female Schooling: A Model with Evidence from India

Indraneel Dasgupta, Pushkar Maitra, Diganta Mukherjee

published in: Mukhopadhyay, H. et al. (eds.), Dimensions of Economic Theory and Policy, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3239

Heterogeneous Life-Cycle Profiles, Income Risk and Consumption Inequality

Giorgio E. Primiceri, Thijs van Rens

published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2009, 56(1), 20-39

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3237

Credit Constraints as a Barrier to the Entry and Post-Entry Growth of Firms

Philippe Aghion, Thibault Fally, Stefano Scarpetta

published in: Economic Policy, 2007, 22, 731-779

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3032

Large Panels with Common Factors and Spatial Correlations

M. Hashem Pesaran, Elisa Tosetti

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2011, 161 (2), 182-202

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2993

Choice Over Time

Paola Manzini, Marco Mariotti

published in: P. Anand, P. Pattanaik and C. Puppe (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Rational and Social Choice, Oxford: OUP, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2966

Determinants of Savings and Remittances: Empirical Evidence from Immigrants to Germany

Mathias Sinning

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 45-67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2939

Pension Plan Characteristics and Framing Effects in Employee Savings Behavior

David Card, Michael R. Ransom

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (1), 228 - 243

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2925

Limited Self-Control, Obesity and the Loss of Happiness

Alois Stutzer

published in: Health Economics, 2015, 25, 1409–1424

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2842

Formal and Informal Risk Sharing in LDCs: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Pierre Dubois, Bruno Jullien, Thierry Magnac

published in: Econometrica, 2008, 76(4), 679-726

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2735

Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (3), 1238–1260

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2663

Gender, Affect and Intertemporal Consistency: An Experimental Approach

Kendra N. McLeish, Robert J. Oxoby

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2659

On the Definition and Measurement of Chronic Poverty

Rolf Aaberge, Magne Mogstad

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2583

Identity, Dignity and Taboos: Beliefs as Assets

Roland Benabou, Jean Tirole

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2467

Can Subjective Mortality Expectations and Stated Preferences Explain Varying Consumption and Saving Behaviors among the Elderly?

Martin Salm

revised version published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2010, 43(3), 1040-1057

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2341

Two-Stage Boundedly Rational Choice Procedures: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Paola Manzini, Marco Mariotti

published as 'Categorize Then Choose: Boundedly Rational Choice and Welfare' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (5), 1141-1165

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2247

The Impact of Wealth on Job Exit Rates of Elderly Workers

Hans Bloemen

published as 'The effect of private wealth on the retirement rate: an empirical analysis' in: Economica, 2011, 78 (312), 637 - 655

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2237

Is Man Doomed to Progress?

Claudia Senik

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 68 (1), 140-152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2129

Choosing Monetary Sequences: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Paola Manzini, Marco Mariotti, Luigi Mittone

published in: Theory and Decision, 2010, 65 (3), 327-354

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2081

Optimal Accumulation in an Endogenous Growth Setting with Human Capital

Frédéric Docquier, Oliver Paddison, Pierre Pestieau

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2006, 134 (1), 361-378

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1992

Early Retirement Behaviour in the Netherlands: Evidence from a Policy Reform

Rob Euwals, Daniel van Vuuren, Ronald P. Wolthoff

published in: De Economist, 2010, 158(3), 209-236

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1952

What Happiness Research Can Tell Us About Self-Control Problems and Utility Misprediction

Alois Stutzer, Bruno S. Frey

published in: Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer (eds.), Economics and Psychology. A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007, 169-195

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