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385 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12066
The Effect of Superstition on Health: Evidence from the Taiwanese Ghost Month
Martin Halla, Chia-Lun Liu, Jin-Tan Liu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12059
Relationship of Gender Differences in Preferences to Economic Development and Gender Equality
Armin Falk, Johannes Hermle
published in: Science, 2018, 362 (6412) (data available here: https://gps.iza.org/home)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12058
Motivated Memory in Dictator Games
Charlotte Saucet, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2019, 117, 250-275
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12057
Risk Aversion and Entrepreneurship: New Evidence Exploiting Exposure to Massive Earthquakes in Italy
Guido de Blasio, Maria De Paola, Samuele Poy, Vincenzo Scoppa
published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57, 295-322
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11970
Effects of Timing and Reference Frame of Feedback: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Mira Fischer, Valentin Wagner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11944
Anti-Social Behavior in Groups
Michal Bauer, Jana Cahlíková, Dagmara Celik Katreniak, Julie Chytilová, Lubomir Cingl, Tomáš Želinský
revised version published as 'Nastiness in Groups' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, 22 (5), 2075–2107
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11917
The Causal Effect of Trust
Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, David B. Huffman, Nick Netzer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11901
Civil War, Natural Disaster and Risk Preferences: Evidence from Sri Lankan Twins
Nathan Kettlewell, Fruhling Rijsdijk, Sisira Siribaddana, Athula Sumathipala, Agnieszka Tymula, Helena Zavos, Nicholas Glozier
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11900
The Effect of Media Coverage on Mass Shootings
Michael Jetter, Jay K. Walker
final version published as 'News coverage and mass shootings in the US' in: European Economic Review, 2022, 148, 104221
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11876
More Women in Tech? Evidence from a Field Experiment Addressing Social Identity
Lucía Del Carpio, Maria Guadalupe
published in: Management Science, 2024, 68 (5), 3196–3218
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11855
Broadband Internet and Social Capital
Andrea Geraci, Mattia Nardotto, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Fabio Sabatini
revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 206, 104578
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11830
Pension Strategies of Workers in a Country Getting Old before Getting Rich
Sonia Buchholtz, Jan Gaska, Marek Góra
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11816
Climatic Roots of Loss Aversion
Oded Galor, Viacheslav Savitskiy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11803
Leader Identity and Coordination
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras, Lakshmi Iyer, Joseph Vecci
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (1), 175–189.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11799
Can Online Surveys Represent the Entire Population?
Elisabeth Grewenig, Philipp Lergetporer, Lisa Simon, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann
published as 'Can Internet Surveys Represent the Entire Population? A Practitioners’ Analysis' in: European Journal of Political Economy 2023, 78, 102382
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11762
Predicting Retirement Savings Using Survey Measures of Exponential-Growth Bias and Present Bias
Gopi Shah Goda, Matthew R. Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner, Joshua Tasoff
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2019, 57 (3), 1636 - 1658
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11720
When the Market Drives You Crazy: Stock Market Returns and Fatal Car Accidents
Corrado Giulietti, Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 70, 102245
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11665
Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning
Roland Benabou, Armin Falk, Jean Tirole
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11642
Willingness to Take Risk: The Role of Risk Conception and Optimism
Thomas Dohmen, Simone Quercia, Jana Willrodt
substantially revised version available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 15763
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11564
Looking at the Bright Side: The Motivation Value of Overconfidence
Si Chen, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 120, 103302
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11563
Mind, Body, Bubble! Psychological and Biophysical Dimensions of Behavior in Experimental Asset Markets
David Butler, Stephen L. Cheung
published in: Gigi Foster (ed), Biophysical Measurement in Experimental Social Science Research, Academic Press, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11508
Does the Framing of Patient Cost-Sharing Incentives Matter? The Effects of Deductibles vs. No-Claim Refunds
Arthur P. Hayen, Tobias J. Klein, Martin Salm
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 80, 102520
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11505
Sales Performance and Social Preferences
Andrea Essl, Frauke von Bieberstein, Michael Kosfeld, Markus Kröll
published in: Journals of Economics & Management Strategy, 2023, 32 (4), 882-905
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11326
Cognitive Skills and the Development of Strategic Sophistication
Eduardo Fe, David Gill
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11291
Crushing Hope: Short Term Responses to Tragedy Vary by Hopefulness
Jason M. Fletcher
published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2018, 201, 59-62
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11290
Civility and Trust in Social Media
Angelo Antoci, Laura Bonelli, Fabio Paglieri, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Fabio Sabatini
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 160, 83-99
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11288
Do Preferences and Biases Predict Life Outcomes? Evidence from Education and Labor Market Entry Decisions
Uschi Backes-Gellner, Holger Herz, Michael Kosfeld, Yvonne Oswald
published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 134, 103709
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11265
The Impact of High School Financial Education on Financial Knowledge and Choices: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Spain
Olympia Bover, Laura Hospido, Ernesto Villanueva
published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 08 January 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11201
Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Risk-Taking among Children, Teenagers, and College Students: Evidence from Jeopardy!
Michael Jetter, Jay K. Walker
published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2020, 20 (2), 20190179.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11130
The Effect of Positive Mood on Cooperation in Repeated Interaction
Eugenio Proto, Daniel Sgroi, Mahnaz Nazneen
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 168, 209-228
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11129
Deadlines and Cognitive Limitations
Steffen Altmann, Christian Traxler, Philipp Weinschenk
substantially revised version published in: Management Science, 2022, 68 (9), 6733-6750
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11120
Wealth Transfers and Tax Planning: Evidence for the German Bequest Tax
Eric Sommer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11102
Subjective Well-Being and Public Policy
Reto Odermatt, Alois Stutzer
published in: Ed Diener, Shigehiro Oishi and Louis Tay (eds.), Handbook of Well-Being. Noba Scholar Handbook Series: Subjective Well-being. Salt Lake City, UT: DEF Publishers, 2018.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11098
Overoptimistic Entrepreneurs: Predicting Wellbeing Consequences of Self-Employment
Reto Odermatt, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Alois Stutzer
revised version published as 'Are Newly Self-Employed Overly Optimistic About Their Future Well-Being?' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2021, 95, 101779
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11034
Is There Always a Trade-off between Insurance and Incentives? The Case of Unemployment with Subsistence Constraints
Juliana Mesén Vargas, Bruno Van der Linden
published as 'Why cash transfer programsan both stimulate and slow down job finding' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 8 (1)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11031
Partners in Crime: Diffusion of Responsibility in Antisocial Behaviors
Sascha Behnk, Li Hao, Ernesto Reuben
published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 145, 104116
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10985
Bayesian versus Heuristic-Based Choice under Sleep Restriction and Suboptimal Times of Day
David L. Dickinson, Todd McElroy
revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2019, 115, 48-59.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10955
Motivational Goal Bracketing: An Experiment
Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger
published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2020, 185, 104949
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10452
The Great Recession and Life Satisfaction: The Unique Decline for Americans Approaching Retirement Age
John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Amanda Cabacungan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10451
Wage Risk, Employment Risk and the Rise in Wage Inequality
Ariel Mecikovsky, Felix Wellschmied
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10311
Buffer-Stock Saving and Households' Response to Income Shocks
Giulio Fella, Serafin Frache, Winfried Koeniger
revised version published in: International Economic Review, 2020, 61, 1359-1382.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10309
Conditional Cash Transfers: Do They Change Time Preferences and Educational Aspirations?
Diana Contreras Suarez, Lisa A. Cameron
published as 'Conditional Cash Transfers: Do They Result in More Patient Choices and Increased Educational Aspirations?' in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2020, 68 (3), 729 - 761
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10131
Measuring Women's Empowerment in Rwanda
Abdou Musonera, Almas Heshmati
published in: A. Heshmati (ed.), Studies on Economic Development and Growth in Selected African Countries, Springer, 2017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10013
Pension Incentives and the Retirement Decisions of Couples
Kadir Atalay, Garry F. Barrett
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32 (3), 735 - 767
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9572
Unemployment Risk and Over-Indebtedness: A Micro-Econometric Perspective
Philip Du Caju, François Rycx, Ilan Tojerow
also available as: European Central Bank Working Papers, 2016, No. 1908
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9409
Household Debt and Crises of Confidence
Thomas Hintermaier, Winfried Koeniger
revised version published in: Quantitative Economics, 2018, 9, 1489-1542.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9377
Life-Cycle and Intergenerational Effects of Child Care Reforms
Marc K. Chan, Kai Liu
published in: Quantitative Economics, 2018, 9 (2), 659 - 706
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9344
Earnings and Consumption Dynamics: A Nonlinear Panel Data Framework
Manuel Arellano, Richard Blundell, Stephane Bonhomme
published in: Econometrica, 2017, 85 (3), 693 - 734
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9256
Wage Risk and the Value of Job Mobility in Early Employment Careers
Kai Liu
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (1), 139 - 185
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9255
Explaining the Gender Wage Gap: Estimates from a Dynamic Model of Job Changes and Hours Changes
Kai Liu
published in: Quantitative Economics, 2016, 7, 411- 447
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