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1,155 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18258
Why Do Workers Make Job Referrals? Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
Marc J. Witte
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18239
Foreign Accents and Employer Beliefs: Experimental Evidence on Hiring Discrimination
Elisa Taveras, Ozlem Tonguc, Maria Zhu, Nicola Miller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18220
Wage Information and Applicant Selection
Maria Balgova, Tsegay Tekleselassie, Lukas Hensel, Marc J. Witte
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18208
Freed from the Boys: How Single-Sex Schooling Shapes Girls’ Effort and Performance in High-Stakes Exams
Caterina Calsamiglia, Yarine Fawaz, Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Junhee Lee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18200
The Role of Fairness Ideals in Coordination Failure and Success
Andrzej Baranski, Ernesto Reuben, Arno Riedl
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18196
Beliefs and the Demand for Employee Ownership
Gabriel Burdin, Fabio Landini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18164
Trading Pay for Pensions: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment in the United Kingdom
Nick Deschacht, Inés Guillemyn, Suncica Vujic
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18154
Air Quality and Conferences’ Engagement
Ludovica Gazze, Tanu Gupta, Allen (Weiyi) Huang, Valentina Londono, Santiago Saavedra, Mattie Toma
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18145
Effects of Team Diversity on Individual Performance and Voice: A Field Experiment of Group Composition by Gender and Language
Valentina Contreras, Chiara Orsini, Berkay Özcan, Johann Koehler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18124
Citizen Training and the Urban Waste Footprint
Swati Dhingra, Fjolla Kondirolli, Stephen Machin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18122
Social Risk, Fairness Types, and Redistribution
Stefania Bortolotti, Felix Kölle, Ivan Soraperra, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18115
Strategic Responses to Disparities in Spousal Desired Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Rural Tanzania
Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Aine Seitz McCarthy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18108
Location Matters: Insights from a Natural Field Experiment to Enhance Small Business Tax Compliance in Indonesia
Sarah Dong, Agung Satyadini, Mathias Sinning
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18073
Can’t Buy Me Home: Beliefs, Facts, and Policy in the Housing Affordability Crisis
Alda Botelho Azevedo, Inês Gonçalves, João Pereira dos Santos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18072
Unbiased and Accurate: Measuring Sensitive Outcomes Through Ballot-Bag Surveys
Bruno Crépon, Ahmed Elsayed, Jules Gazeaud
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18066
Top vs. Bottom: Experimental Evidence on Priming, Information, and Redistribution Preferences
Luna Bellani, Nona Bledow
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18054
Mine, Theirs or Ours? A Multi-Country Experiment on Citizens’ Motivations to Invest in Mental Health
Pierluigi Conzo, Marina Della Giusta, Florent Dubois, Giacomo Rosso, Giovanni Razzu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18043
Deservingness of the Rich, Wealth Taxation, and the Paradox of Inheritance
Sharon Baute, Luna Bellani, Katharina Hecht
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18015
Spatial Patterns in the Formation of Economic Preferences
Shyamal Chowdhury, Manuela Puente-Beccar, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18011
Disconnecting Women: Gender Disparities in the Impact of Online Instruction
Xiaoyue Shan, Ulf Zölitz, Uschi Backes-Gellner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17987
The Value of Bonding at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Michèle Belot, Rustamdjan Hakimov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17974
The Right Timing Matters: Sensitive Periods in the Formation of Socio-Emotional Skills
Laura Breitkopf, Shyamal Chowdhury, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17951
Correcting Beliefs About Job Opportunities and Wages: A Field Experiment on Education Choices
Bart K. de Koning, Didier Fouarge, Robert Dur
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17946
Seeing It in a New Light: Do Cross-Disciplinary Comparisons Make Learning Economic and Financial Concepts Click?
Stefani Milovanska-Farrington, Olivier LaForge, Jennifer Burton
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17942
The Value of a Park in Crises: Quantifying the Health and Wellbeing Benefits of Green Spaces Using Exogenous Variations in Use Values
Christian Krekel, Jan Goebel, Katrin Rehdanz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17931
Anchoring Effects in the Elicitation of Multidimensional Beliefs: Evidence from a Representative Survey Experiment
Philipp Lergetporer, Thomas Rittmannsberger, Katharina Werner, Helen Zeidler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17922
Who You Gonna Call? Gender Inequality in External Demands for Parental Involvement
Kristy Buzard, Laura Katherine Gee, Olga B. Stoddard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17905
Advising Job Seekers in Occupations with Poor Prospects: A Field Experiment
Michèle Belot, Bart K. de Koning, Didier Fouarge, Philipp Kircher, Paul Muller, Sandra Philippen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17894
The Impact of Physician-Patient Gender Match on Healthcare Quality: An Experiment in China
Yafei Si, Gang Chen, Zhongliang Zhou, Winnie Yip, Xi Chen
published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2025, 380, 118166
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17892
Belief Updating About Moral Norms: Does Group Identity Matter?
David L. Dickinson, Marie Claire Villeval
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17868
Local Policy Misperceptions and Investment: Experimental Evidence from Firm Decision Makers
Sebastian Blesse, Florian Buhlmann, Philipp Heil, Davud Rostam-Afschar
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. 17823
War and Peace: How Economic Prospects Drive Conflictuality
Shuguang Jiang, Marie Claire Villeval, Zhengping Zhang, Jie Zheng
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17822
Trust as a Social Norm? A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment with Refugees in Switzerland
Stefanie S. Baumgartner, Fabio Galeotti, Thierry Madies, Marie Claire Villeval
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17821
Pre-Registration and Pre-Analysis Plans in Experimental Economics
Taisuke Imai, Séverine Toussaert, Aurélien Baillon, Anna Dreber Almenberg, Seda Ertaç, Magnus Johannesson, Levent Neyse, Marie Claire Villeval
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17813
How Tinted Are Your Glasses? Gender Views, Beliefs and Recommendations in Hiring
Anna Hochleitner, Fabio Tufano, Giovanni Facchini, Valeria Rueda, Markus Eberhardt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17788
Are Elites Meritocratic and Efficiency-Seeking? Evidence from MBA Students
Marcel Preuss, Germán Reyes, Jason Somerville, Joy Wu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17781
“Try to Balance the Baseline”: A Comment on “Parent-Teacher Meetings and Student Outcomes: Evidence from a Developing Country” by Islam (2019)
Carl Bonander, Olle Hammar, Niklas Jakobsson, Gunther Bensch, Felix Holzmeister, Abel Brodeur
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17761
Feedback, Confidence and Job Search Behavior
Tsegay Tekleselassie, Marc J. Witte, Jonas Radbruch, Lukas Hensel, Ingo E. Isphording
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17750
Preferences for Gender Diversity in High-Profile Jobs
Celina Högn, Lea Mayer, Johannes Rincke, Erwin Winkler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17749
Narratives of Migration and Political Polarization: Private Preferences, Public Preferences and Social Media
Eugenio Levi, Michael Bayerlein, Gianluca Grimalda, Tommaso G. Reggiani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17749
Narratives of Migration and Political Polarization: Private Preferences, Public Preferences and Social Media
Eugenio Levi, Michael Bayerlein, Gianluca Grimalda, Tommaso G. Reggiani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17748
Mutual Knowledge of Social Norms and Political Behavior
Anselm Hager, Elnura Kazakbaeva, Lukas Hensel, Damir Esenaliev
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17728
Coaching and Implementation: Insights from a Field Experiment in Danish Schools
Simon Calmar Andersen, Bastien Michel, Helena Skyt Nielsen
published online in: Education Economics, 15 April 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17727
Managing Skills in Organizations - Evidence from a Field Experiment
Leonhard Grabe, Dirk Sliwka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17693
Assessing the Value of Incomplete University Degrees: Experimental Evidence from HR Recruiters
Andrea Diem, Christian Gschwendt, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17692
Design of Partial Population Experiments with an Application to Spillovers in Tax Compliance
Guillermo Cruces, Dario Tortarolo, Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 28 January 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17692
Design of Partial Population Experiments with an Application to Spillovers in Tax Compliance
Guillermo Cruces, Dario Tortarolo, Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 28 January 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17639
Does Learning Economics Make You Less Susceptible to the Sunk Cost Fallacy?
Stefani Milovanska-Farrington, Dirk Mateer
forthcoming in: Journal of Economics and Finance Education, 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17635
The Impact of Learning about AI Advancements on Trust
Milena Nikolova, Marco Angrisani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17632
Gender Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching: Do Debiasing Campaigns Work?
Sara Ayllón, Camila Zamora
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17629
Just Cheap Talk? Investigating Fairness Preferences in Hypothetical Scenarios
Paul Hufe, Daniel Weishaar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17608
Measuring Economic Preferences with Surveys and Behavioral Experiments
Michael Kosfeld, Zahra Sharafi, Maíra Sontag González, Na Zou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17592
The Value of Remote Work: A Correspondence Experiment on Tutors
Sofoklis Goulas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17578
How Malleable Are Pro-environmental Preferences? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment
Giorgia Menta, Michela Piccari, Bertrand Verheyden
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17539
Disruptive Peers and Academic Performance: Short- and Long-Term Outcomes
Sofoklis Goulas, Silvia Griselda, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17522
Recidivism and Barriers to Reintegration: A Field Experiment Encouraging Use of Reentry Support
Marco Castillo, Sera Linardi, Ragan Petrie
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17519
Coordination Games Played by Children and Teenagers: On the Influence of Age, Group Size and Incentives
Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Matthias Sutter, Claudia Zoller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17508
Sorting It Out: Contribution-Action Gap in Waste Segregation in Urban India
Ahana Basistha, Nishith Prakash, Raisa Sherif
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17497
Not a Lucky Break? Why and When a Career Hiatus Hijacks Hiring Chances
Liam D'hert, Louis Lippens, Stijn Baert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17470
Investigating the Impact of Integration Agreements on Labor Market Outcomes for Welfare Recipients: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Gerard J. van den Berg, Sarah Bernhard, Gesine Stephan, Arne Uhlendorff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17469
Job Training, English Language Skills, and Employability: Evidence from an Experiment in Urban India
Prashant Loyalka, Dinsha Mistree, Robert W. Fairlie, Saurabh Khanna
forthcoming in: Economic Development and Cultural Change
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17451
Parental Leave and Discrimination in the Labor Market
Julia Schmieder, Doris Weichselbaumer, Clara Welteke, Katharina Wrohlich
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17450
Female Empowerment and Male Backlash: Experimental Evidence from India
Claire Cullen, Sarthak Joshi, Joseph Vecci, Julia Talbot-Jones
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17448
Trump Ante Portas: Political Polarization Undermines Rule-Following Behavior
Christoph Feldhaus, Lukas Reinhardt, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17416
Effect of an Information Intervention on Opioid Prescribing: A Preregistered Nationwide Randomized Experiment
Iiro Ahomäki, Petri Böckerman, Jaakko Pehkonen, Leena Saastamoinen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17415
Present Bias in Choices over Food and Money
Alexander M. Danzer, Helen Zeidler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17403
Discrimination in the Austrian Rental Housing Market: The Effect of Information Concerning First and Second-Generation Immigrant Status
Doris Weichselbaumer, Hermann Riess
published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2024, 66, 102030
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17366
English Language Premium in a Marriage Market: Experimental Evidence from Delhi
Tomohisa Miyamoto, Arjun S. Bedi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17358
Estimating Peer Effects among College Students: Evidence from a Field Experiment of One-to-One Pairings in STEM
Robert W. Fairlie, Daniel Oliver, Glenn Millhauser, Randa Roland
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17347
Feeling Observed? A Field Experiment on the Effects of Intense Survey Participation on Job Seekers' Labour Market Outcomes
Gesine Stephan, Clemens Hetschko, Julia Schmidtke, Michael Eid, Mario Lawes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17315
Competing for Influence in Networks through Strategic Targeting
Margherita Comola, Agnieszka Rusinowska, Marie Claire Villeval
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17302
Creative and Strategic Capabilities of Generative AI: Evidence from Large-Scale Experiments
Noah Bohren, Rustamdjan Hakimov, Rafael Lalive
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17287
One Size Fits All? The Interplay of Incentives, Effort Provision, and Personality
Zvonimir Bašić, Stefania Bortolotti, Daniel Salicath, Stefan Schmidt, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17282
He Said, She Said: Who Gets Believed When Spreading (Mis)Information
Nuzaina Khan, David Rand, Olga Shurchkov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17280
Personality, Weak Signals, and Workplace Relevant Morality
David L. Dickinson, David Masclet
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17271
Gender Role Models in Education
Sofoklis Goulas, Bhagya N. Gunawardena, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17271
Gender Role Models in Education
Sofoklis Goulas, Bhagya N. Gunawardena, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17267
Evaluating Yourself and Your Peers
Mingye Ma, Gerhard Riener, Youzong Xu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17261
The Impact of Role Models on Youths' Aspirations, Gender Attitudes and Education in Somalia
Elijah Kipchumba, Catherine Porter, Danila Serra, Munshi Sulaiman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17256
Design of Partial Population Experiments with an Application to Spillovers in Tax Compliance
Guillermo Cruces, Dario Tortarolo, Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17256
Design of Partial Population Experiments with an Application to Spillovers in Tax Compliance
Guillermo Cruces, Dario Tortarolo, Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17225
Age Discrimination, Apprenticeship Training and Hiring: Evidence from a Scenario Experiment
Axana Dalle, Toon Wybo, Stijn Baert, Dieter Verhaest
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17186
Adaptive Maximization of Social Welfare
Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Roberto Colomboni, Maximilian Kasy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17168
How Cognitive Skills Affect Strategic Behavior: Cognitive Ability, Fluid Intelligence and Judgment
David Gill, Zachary Knepper, Victoria L. Prowse, Junya Zhou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17165
How Do You Find a Good Manager?
Ben Weidmann, Joseph Vecci, Farah Said, David Deming, Sonia R. Bhalotra
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17121
Alternative Measures of Teachers' Value Added and Impact on Short and Long-Term Outcomes: Evidence from Random Assignment
Victor Lavy, Rigissa Megalokonomou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17112
Cognitive Abilities and the Demand for Bad Policy
Salvatore Nunnari, Eugenio Proto, Aldo Rustichini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17099
Information Provision and Support for Inheritance Taxation: Evidence from a Representative Survey Experiment in Germany
Luna Bellani, Kattalina Berriochoa, Mark Kapteina, Guido Schwerdt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17097
How Scary Is the Risk of Automation? Evidence from a Large Scale Survey Experiment
Maria Alejandra Cattaneo, Christian Gschwendt, Stefan C. Wolter
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, 235, 107034
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17096
What Matters for the Decision to Study Abroad? A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Cape Verde
Catia Batista, David M Costa, Pedro Freitas, Gonçalo Lima, Ana B Reis
pubished in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 173, 103401
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17078
Assessing Dishonesty in Cocoa Value Chains: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence from Middlemen in Côte D'Ivoire
Delphine Boutin, Marine Jouvin, Louis Olié
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17077
Decoding Gender Bias: The Role of Personal Interaction
Abdelrahman Amer, Ashley C Craig, Clémentine Van Effenterre
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17052
Sorting through Cheap Talk: Theory and Evidence from a Labor Market
John J. Horton, Ramesh Johari, Philipp Kircher
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17029
Do Female Experts Face an Authority Gap? Evidence from Economics
Hans Henrik Sievertsen, Sarah Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17017
News, Emotions, and Policy Views on Immigration
Elena Manzoni, Elie Murard, Simone Quercia, Sara Tonini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17006
Proud to Belong: The Impact of Ethics Training on Police Officers in Ghana
Donna Harris, Oana Borcan, Danila Serra, Henry Telli, Bruno Schettini, Stefan Dercon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17004
Delegation in Hiring: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit
Bo Cowgill, Patryk Perkowski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16984
Discrimination in the General Population
Silvia Angerer, Hanna Brosch, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Philipp Lergetporer, Thomas Rittmannsberger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16963
Can Awareness Reduce (and Reverse) Identity-Driven Bias in Judgement? Evidence from International Cricket
Subhasish M Chowdhury, Sarah Jewell, Carl Singleton
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 226, 106697.
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