IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published as 'Hiring a Gay Man, Taking a Risk?: A Lab Experiment on Employment Discrimination and Risk Aversion' in: Journal of Homosexuality, 2018, 65 (8), 1015 - 1031

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9347

Risk Attitudes and Migration

Mehtap Akgüç, Xingfei Liu, Massimiliano Tani, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37, 166 - 176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8947

Parenthood and Risk Preferences

Katja Görlitz, Marcus Tamm

extended version published as 'Parenthood, risk attitudes and risky behavior' in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2020, 79, 102189

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8820

Compensating Differentials in Experimental Labor Markets

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Peter Hans Matthews, Andrea Robbett

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 69, 50-60

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8577

Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment

Martin Koudstaal, Randolph Sloof, Mirjam C. van Praag

published in: Management Science, 2016, 62 (10), 2897 - 2915

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8309

Loss Aversion in the Laboratory

William G. Morrison, Robert J. Oxoby

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8238

Are Public Sector Workers Different? Cross-European Evidence from Elderly Workers and Retirees

Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 4:11, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8060

Effects of Stress on Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments

Liam Delaney, Günther Fink, Colm P. Harmon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7984

Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Catia Batista, Janis Umblijs

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (1), 108-130.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7950

Stated and Revealed Heterogeneous Risk Preferences in Educational Choice

Frank M. Fossen, Daniela Glocker

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 97, 1-25.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7781

Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Catia Batista, Janis Umblijs

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3:17

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. 7684

Confucianism and Preferences: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China

Elaine M. Liu, Juanjuan Meng, Joseph Tao-yi Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7679

Laterborns Don't Give Up: The Effects of Birth Order on Earnings in Europe

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello

published in: Demography, 2016, 53 (2), 449-470

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7613

Female-Led Firms: Performance and Risk Attitudes

Pierpaolo Parrotta, Nina Smith

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7579

Preferences and Biases in Educational Choices and Labor Market Expectations: Shrinking the Black Box of Gender

Ernesto Reuben, Matthew Wiswall, Basit Zafar

published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 2153-2186

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7517

Braving the Waves: The Role of Time and Risk Preferences in Illegal Migration from Senegal

Jean-Louis Arcand, Linguère Mously Mbaye

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7317

Evidence on Individual Preferences for Longevity Risk

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7206

Risk Tolerance and Entrepreneurship

Hans K. Hvide, Georgios A. Panos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6877

An Alternative Explanation for the Variation in Reported Estimates of Risk Aversion

Denis Conniffe, Donal O'Neill

published in: Journal of Risk, 2013, 15 (4), 91-102

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6866

Constrained Firms, Not Subsistence Activities: Evidence on Capital Returns and Accumulation in Peruvian Microenterprises

Kristin Göbel, Michael Grimm, Jann Lay

published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 33, 94-110

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6756

Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters

Lisa A. Cameron, Manisha Shah

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50 (2), 484-515

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6710

The "Bomb" Risk Elicitation Task

Paolo Crosetto, Antonio Filippin

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2013, 47(1), 31-65

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6467

Cultural Integration: Experimental Evidence of Changes in Immigrants' Preferences

Lisa A. Cameron, Nisvan Erkal, Lata Gangadharan, Marina Zhang

published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 111, 38-58.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6327

Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits

Oded Galor, Stelios Michalopoulos

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2012, 147(2), 759-780

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5862

Chicken or Checkin'? Rational Learning in Repeated Chess Games

Christer Gerdes, Patrik Gränsmark, Michael Rosholm

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5790

Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality: New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research

Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2012, 33 (2), 319-324

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5575

Experts in Experiments: How Selection Matters for Estimated Distributions of Risk Preferences

Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Arthur van Soest, Erik Wengström

revised version published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2011, 42 (2), 159–190

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5566

Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed

Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos

revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2014, 42 (4), 787-814

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5330

Universities as Stakeholders in their Students' Careers: On the Benefits of Graduate Taxes to Finance Higher Education

Tom McKenzie, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2011, 167 (4), 726-742

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5279

Risk Attitudes and Well-Being in Latin America

Juan Camilo Cardenas, Jeffrey P. Carpenter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4793

Strategic Behavior across Gender: A Comparison of Female and Male Expert Chess Players

Christer Gerdes, Patrik Gränsmark

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 766-775

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4401

Public Sector Employees: Risk Averse and Altruistic?

Margaretha Buurman, Robert Dur, Seth van den Bossche

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 83 (3), 279-291

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4081

Efficient Probit Estimation with Partially Missing Covariates

Denis Conniffe, Donal O'Neill

published in: D. Drukker (ed.): Advances in Econometrics, Vol. 27A, Missing Data Methods, 2011, 213-249.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4026

Gender Differences in Risk Behaviour: Does Nurture Matter?

Alison L. Booth, Patrick J. Nolen

published in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122 (558), F56 - F78

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4022

Heterogeneity in Risky Choice Behaviour in a Broad Population

Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Arthur van Soest, Erik Wengström

published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 664-694

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3985

Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion

Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn, James J. Heckman, Huub Meijers

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 649-658

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3939

Reference Points and Effort Provision

Johannes Abeler, Armin Falk, Lorenz Götte, David B. Huffman

published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 470-492

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3609

Cognitive Skills Explain Economic Preferences, Strategic Behavior, and Job Attachment

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

revised version published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2009, 106 (19), 7745-7750

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3523

A Note on Risk Aversion and Labour Market Outcomes: Further Evidence from German Survey Data

Christian Pfeifer

published as "Risk Aversion and Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from German Survey Data" in: Empirical Economics Letters, 2009, 8(3)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3503

Risk Aversion and Sorting into Public Sector Employment

Christian Pfeifer

published in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (1), 85 - 99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3351

Risk Aversion and Trade Union Membership

Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg

substantially revised version published as 'Risk Aversion, Collective Bargaining, and Wages in Germany' in: Labour, 2012, 26 (2), 156 - 173

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3321

Selection and Mode Effects in Risk Preference Elicitation Experiments

Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Arthur van Soest, Erik Wengström

superseeded by IZA DP 5575 and the published version.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2994

Risk Aversion and Schooling Decisions

Christian Belzil, Marco Leonardi

published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 111/112, 35-70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2806

Risk Aversion and Reservation Wages

Markus Pannenberg

substantially revised version published as 'Risk attitudes and reservation wages of unemployed workers: Evidence from panel data' in: Economics Letters, 2010, 106 (3), 223-226

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2789

Using Behavioral Economic Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier: The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project

Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Kristen Monaco, Kay Porter, Aldo Rustichini

published in: Stefan Bender, Julia Lane, Kathryn Shaw, Fredrik Andersson, and Till Von Wachter (eds.), The Analysis of Firms and Employees: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2008, 45-106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2655

Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration

David A. Jaeger, Holger Bonin, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92(3), 684–689

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2227

Sorting, Incentives and Risk Preferences: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Charles Bellemare, Bruce S. Shearer

published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 108 (3), 345-348

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2123

Can Risk Aversion Explain Schooling Attainments? Evidence from Italy

Christian Belzil, Marco Leonardi

published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (6), 657-970

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2012

Performance Pay and Risk Aversion

Christian Grund, Dirk Sliwka

revised version published as "Evidence on Performance Pay and Risk Aversion" in: Economics Letters, 2010, 106 (1), 8-11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1881

Preferences, Gender Segregation and Affirmative Action

Peter J. Sloane, Suzanne Grazier, Richard J. Jones

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1572

Two-Sided Search, Heterogeneous Skills and Labor Market Performance

Samuel Danthine

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1208

On the Negative Relationship between Labor Income Uncertainty and Homeownership: Risk Aversion vs. Credit Constraints

Luis Diaz-Serrano

published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2005, 14 (2), 109-126

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1008

Labour Income Uncertainty, Risk Aversion and Home Ownership

Luis Diaz-Serrano

published as 'Labor income uncertainty, skewness and homeownership: A panel data study for Germany and Spain ' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2005, 58 (1), 156-176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 610

Unemployment Benefits, Risk Aversion, and Migration Incentives

Axel Heitmueller

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18(1), 93-112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 513

Earnings Dispersion, Risk Aversion and Education

Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2004, 23, 335-358

IZA Discussion Paper No. 43

Household Characteristics, Ability and Education: Evidence from a Dynamic Expected Utility Model

Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen

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