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90 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17941
Self-Selection into Health Professions
Alessandro Fedele, Mirco Tonin, Daniel Wiesen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17833
Bequest Division: The Roles of Parental Motives and Children’s Gender Composition
Warn N. Lekfuangfu, Javier Olivera, Philippe Van Kerm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17795
For the Future of Our Grandchildren: Grandparenthood and Climate Change Concerns
Lieke Voorintholt, Gerard J. van den Berg, Adriaan R. Soetevent
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17506
Altruistic Giving and Risk Taking in Human Affairs
Oded Stark, Lukasz Balbus
published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2025, 64, 373–392
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17506
Altruistic Giving and Risk Taking in Human Affairs
Oded Stark, Lukasz Balbus
published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2025, 64, 373–392
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17484
When Transparency Fails: How Altruistic Framing Sustains Demand for Useless Advice Despite Complete Information
Nattavudh Powdthavee, Yohanes E. Riyanto, Xiaojie Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16865
The Missing Type: Where Are the Inequality Averse (Students)?
Thomas Epper, Julien Senn, Ernst Fehr
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16825
Altruism, Human Capital and Environmental Preservation in a Globalized Economy
Stéphane Bouché, Leonor Modesto
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16640
Who Is in Favor of Affirmative Action? Representative Evidence from an Experiment and a Survey
Sabrina Herzog, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Chi Trieu, Jana Willrodt
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. 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. 16535
The Fundamental Properties, Stability and Predictive Power of Distributional Preferences
Ernst Fehr, Thomas Epper, Julien Senn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16343
Order Effects in Eliciting Preferences
Orestis Kopsacheilis, Sebastian J. Goerg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16205
A Behaviorally-Validated Warm Glow Questionnaire
Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Alex Lyford, Mingfang Zhang
published in: Journal of the Economic Sciene Association, 2024, 10, 310–329
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16200
Social Preferences: Fundamental Characteristics and Economic Consequences
Ernst Fehr, Gary Charness
(this version: March 2024) published in: Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Literature, 2025, 63 (2), 440–514
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16046
Social Media Charity Campaigns and Pro-social Behaviour. Evidence from the Ice Bucket Challenge
Andrea Fazio, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Francesco Scervini
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2023, 96, 102624
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15806
A Field Study of Donor Behaviour in the Iranian Kidney Market
Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Daniel Sgroi
published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 170, 104887
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15590
Measuring Socially Appropriate Social Preferences
Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Andrea Robbett
published in: Games and Economic Behavior 2024, 147, 517 - 532
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15576
It Hurts to Ask
Roland Benabou, Ania Jaroszewicz, George Loewenstein
published in: European Economic Review, 2025,171, 104911
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15322
Preferences and Perceptions in Provision and Maintenance Public Goods
Simon Gächter, Felix Kölle, Simone Quercia
revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2022, 135, 338-355.
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