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85 IZA Discussion Papers
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. 16573
Can Altruism Lead to a Willingness to Take Risks?
Oded Stark
published in: Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 2024, 48 (2), 272-278
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16084
Risk Aversion and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
Anthony Lepinteur, Liyousew G. Borga, Andrew E. Clark, Claus Vögele, Conchita D'Ambrosio
published in: Health Economics, 2023, 32, 1659-1669
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15048
What's the Risk from Competing? Competition Aversion and the Gender Wage Gap
Chung Choe, SeEun Jung, Ronald L. Oaxaca
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14755
On the Stability of Risk Preferences: Measurement Matters
Joop Adema, Till Nikolka, Panu Poutvaara, Uwe Sunde
published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 210, 110172
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14633
Buying Control? 'Locus of Control' and the Uptake of Supplementary Health Insurance
Eric Bonsang, Joan Costa-Font, Sonja C. de New
published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2022, 204, 466 - 489
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14373
Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from Business Majors
Patricia Cortes, Jessica Pan, Laura Pilossoph, Basit Zafar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13646
Higher Order Risk Preferences: New Experimental Measures, Determinants and Field Behavior
Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13616
The Economic Impacts of Direct Natural Disaster Exposure
Meliyanni Johar, David W. Johnston, Michael A. Shields, Peter Siminski, Olena Stavrunova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13031
What Does Someone's Gender Identity Signal to Employers?
Hannah Van Borm, Marlot Dhoop, Allien Van Acker, Stijn Baert
revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2020, 41 (6), 753 - 777
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12756
Relative Deprivation as a Cause of Risky Behaviors
Oded Stark
published in: Journal of Gambling Studies, 2021, 37, 817–835
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12667
Paying Gig Workers – Evidence from a Field Experiment
Sebastian Butschek, Roberto González Amor, Patrick Kampkötter, Dirk Sliwka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12637
Pure Rank Preferences and Variation in Risk-Taking Behavior
Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski, Marcin Jakubek
published in: Economics Letters, 2019, 184, 108636
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12518
The Likelihood of Divorce and the Riskiness of Financial Decisions
Oded Stark, Krzysztof Szczygielski
published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2019, 85 (3), 209 - 229
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12466
Compensation in Personal Injury Cases: Mean or Median Income?
Leif Danziger, Eliakim Katz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12423
On Social Preferences and the Intensity of Risk Aversion
Oded Stark
published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2019, 86 (3), 807 - 826
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12182
Girls' and Boys' Performance in Competitions: What We Can Learn from a Korean Quiz Show
Alison L. Booth, Jungmin Lee
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 187, 431-447.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11539
Domain-Specific Risk and Public Policy
Ohto Kanninen, Petri Böckerman, Ilpo Suoniemi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11096
Reluctant to Reform? A Note on Risk-Loving Politicians and Bureaucrats
Tobias Thomas, Moritz Heß, Gert G. Wagner
published in: Review of Economics (Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftswissenschaften), 2017, 68 (3), 167-179
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10983
Does Reminding of Behavioural Biases Increase Returns from Financial Trading? A Field Experiment
Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia, Fabio Piluso
published in:International Journal of Economics and Finance, 2020, 12 (2),1-22
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10603
Risk Attitudes and Household Migration Decisions
Christian Dustmann, Francesco Fasani, Xin Meng, Luigi Minale
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023 58 (1), 112-145
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10542
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Nick Zubanov, Bram Cadsby, Fei Song
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2019, 57 (4), 1997 - 2016
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10519
Risk Aversion and Son Preference: Experimental Evidence from Chinese Twin Parents
Soo Hong Chew, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang, Songfa Zhong
published in: Management Science, 2018, 64 (8), 3496 - 3970
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10372
The More You Know: Information Effects on Job Application Rates in a Large Field Experiment
Laura Katherine Gee
published in: Management Science, 2018, 65 (5), 2077 - 2094
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10350
Rain, Emotions and Voting for the Status Quo
Armando N. Meier, Lukas D. Schmid, Alois Stutzer
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 119, 434-451
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10348
Internal and External Validity of Experimental Risk and Time Preferences
Christian Belzil, Modibo Sidibé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10132
Gender Wage Gaps and Risky vs. Secure Employment: An Experimental Analysis
Seeun Jung, Chung Choe, Ronald L. Oaxaca
published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 112-121
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9565
Psychological Incentives, Financial Incentives, and Risk Attitudes in Tournaments: An Artefactual Field Experiment
Bram Cadsby, Jim Engle-Warnick, Tony Fang, Fei Song
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, 72, 64-79
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9536
Hiring a Homosexual, Taking a Risk? A Lab Experiment on Employment Discrimination and Risk Aversion
Stijn Baert
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
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