IZA Discussion Papers

published in:G. Meramveliotakis and M. Manioudis (eds). Sustainable Economic Development Perspectives from Political Economy and Economics Pluralism, London: Routledge, 2025, 237-264.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17234

Working from Home and Performance Pay: Individual or Collective Payment Schemes?

Uwe Jirjahn, Cinzia Rienzo

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. 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. 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. 17077

Decoding Gender Bias: The Role of Personal Interaction

Abdelrahman Amer, Ashley C Craig, Clémentine Van Effenterre

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17065

The Gender Disclosure Gap: Salary History Bans Unravel When Men Volunteer Their Income

Bo Cowgill, Amanda Agan, Laura Katherine Gee

published in: Organization Science, 2024, 35 (5), 1571–1588

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17017

News, Emotions, and Policy Views on Immigration

Elena Manzoni, Elie Murard, Simone Quercia, Sara Tonini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16915

Application Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment

Henning Hermes, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter, Simon Wiederhold

published online in: Journal of the European Economic Association, jvae054, 20 November 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16840

Competitive Job Seekers: When Sharing Less Leaves Firms at a Loss

Gaurav Chiplunkar, Erin Kelley, Gregory Lane

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16827

Does High Involvement Management Make You Work Longer? Insights from Linked Survey and Register Data

Petri Böckerman, Alex Bryson, Ilari Ilmakunnas, Pekka Ilmakunnas

forthcoming in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16822

Simultaneous Search and Adverse Selection

Sarah Auster, Piero Gottardi, Ronald P. Wolthoff

published online in: Review of Economic Studies, 27 February 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16797

The Impact of Insufficient Sleep on the Serial Reproduction of Information

David L. Dickinson, Sean P.A. Drummond

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16780

Socioeconomic Inequality in Life Expectancy: Perception and Policy Demand

Lasse J. Jessen, Sebastian Koehne, Patrick Nüß, Jens Ruhose

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16768

The Impact of the Menstrual Cycle on Bargaining Behavior

Lina Lozano, Arno Riedl, Christina Rott

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16759

Does Information about Inequality and Discrimination in Early Child Care Affect Policy Preferences?

Henning Hermes, Philipp Lergetporer, Fabian Mierisch, Guido Schwerdt, Simon Wiederhold

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 228, 106780, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16736

Lost in Transmission

Thomas W Graeber, Shakked Noy, Christopher Roth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16687

Automatability of Occupations, Workers' Labor-Market Expectations, and Willingness to Train

Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Wedel, Katharina Werner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16679

Access to Digital Finance: Equity Crowdfunding across Countries and Platforms

Saul Estrin, Susanna Khavul, Alexander S. Kritikos, Jonas Löher

published in: PLoS ONE, 2024, 19 (1), e0293292.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16522

Jobseekers' Beliefs about Comparative Advantage and (Mis)Directed Search

Andrea Kiss, Robert Garlick, Kate Orkin, Lukas Hensel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16426

Predicting Re-Employment: Machine Learning versus Assessments by Unemployed Workers and by Their Caseworkers

Gerard J. van den Berg, Max Kunaschk, Julia Lang, Gesine Stephan, Arne Uhlendorff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16358

Activating Change: The Role of Information and Beliefs in Social Activism

Farzana Afridi, Ahana Basistha, Amrita Dhillon, Danila Serra

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16317

The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage and Political Participation

Tianyi Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16296

Can Information and Alternatives to Irregular Migration Reduce "Backway" Migration from The Gambia?

Tijan L. Bah, Catia Batista, Flore Gubert, David McKenzie

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 165, 103153.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16253

Fatal Errors: The Mortality Value of Accurate Weather Forecasts

Jeffrey G. Shrader, Laura Bakkensen, Derek Lemoine

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16214

Information Campaign on Arsenic Poisoning: Unintended Consequences in Marriage Market

Shyamal Chowdhury, Prachi Singh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16204

Labor Market Frictions and Spillover Effects from Publicly Announced Sectoral Minimum Wages

Gökay Demir

updated version available as DP 17510

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16168

Perceived Ability and School Choices: Experimental Evidence and Scale-up Effects

Matteo Bobba, Veronica Frisancho, Marco Pariguana

this paper is an updated version of IZA DP No. 10360 (2016).

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16150

Improving Health and Safety in the Informal Sector: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Bangladesh

Asadul Islam, Wang-Sheng Lee, Margaret Triyana, Xing Xia

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16141

Information Nudges, Subsidies, and Crowding Out of Attention: Field Evidence from Energy Efficiency Investments

Matthias Rodemeier, Andreas Löschel

published online in: Journal of the European Economic Association, jvae058, 21 January 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16082

Discrimination on the Child Care Market: A Nationwide Field Experiment

Henning Hermes, Fabian Mierisch, Frauke Peter, Simon Wiederhold, Philipp Lergetporer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16064

Should You Meet the Parents? The Impact of Information on Non-test Score Attributes on School Choice

Elisa Facchetti, Lorenzo Neri, Marco Ovidi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16054

Peacefully Demobilizing Rebels: Identity, Emotional Cues, and the FARC

Juan P. Aparicio, Michael Jetter, Christopher Parsons

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16048

Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival

Stacey H. Chen, Jennjou Chen, Hongwei Chuang, Tzu-Hsin Lin

published online in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2025, 43 (1), 15- 46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15989

Pay-As-They-Get-In: Attitudes Towards Migrants and Pension Systems

Tito Boeri, Matteo Gamalerio, Massimo Morelli, Margherita Negri

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2024, 24 (1), 63–78

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15899

Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy Using Local Ambassadors: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Indonesia

Asadul Islam, Gita Kusnadi, Jahen Rezki, Armand Sim, Giovanni van Empel, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou

published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 163, 104683

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15881

Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment: Thirty Years On

W. Bentley MacLeod, James Malcomson

published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economicsi (JITE), 2023, 179 (3), 470 - 499

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15831

Forecasts: Consumption, Production, and Behavioral Responses

Husnain F. Ahmad, Matthew Gibson, Fatiq Nadeem, Sanval Nasim, Arman Rezaee

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15830

The Direct and Indirect Effects of Online Job Search Advice

Steffen Altmann, Anita Marie Glenny, Robert Mahlstedt, Alexander Sebald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15768

Information Provision over the Phone Saves Lives: An RCT to Contain COVID-19 in Rural Bangladesh at the Pandemic's Onset

Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15747

Do Job Seekers Understand the UI Benefit System (And Does It Matter)?

Steffen Altmann, Sofie Cairo, Robert Mahlstedt, Alexander Sebald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15683

Reputation vs Selection Effects in Markets With Informational Asymmetries

Theodore Alysandratos, Sotiris Georganas, Matthias Sutter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15650

Optimal Allocations in Growth Models with Private Information

Tom Krebs, Martin Scheffel

published in: Economic Theory, 2024, 78, 125 - 154

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. 15526

COVID-19 and Entrepreneurship Entry and Exit: Opportunity Amidst Adversity

Vladimir Otrachshenko, Olga Popova, Milena Nikolova, Elena Tyurina

published in: Technology in Society, 2022, 71, 102093

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15493

Too Healthy to Fall Sick? Longevity Expectations and Protective Health Behaviours during the First Wave of COVID-19

Martina Celidoni, Joan Costa-Font, Luca Salmasi

published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2022, 202, 733 - 745

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15491

Information and Communication Technology, Hierarchy, and Job Design

Elisa Gerten, Michael Beckmann, Matthias Kräkel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15462

When Reality Bites: Local Deaths and Vaccine Take-up

Corrado Giulietti, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou

published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 156, 104463

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15458

Help in a Foreign Land: Internationalized Banks and Firms’ Export

Emanuele Brancati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15443

Consumption Choices and Earnings Expectations: Empirical Evidence and Structural Estimation

Christian A. Stoltenberg, Arne Uhlendorff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15398

Public Health Policy at Scale: Impact of a Government-Sponsored Information Campaign on Infant Mortality in Denmark

Onur Altindag, Jane Greve, Erdal Tekin

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (3), 882–893.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15251

Working from Home during a Pandemic – A Discrete Choice Experiment in Poland

Piotr Lewandowski, Katarzyna Lipowska, Mateusz Smoter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15103

Corporate Disclosure, Compliance and Consequences: Evidence from Russia

Suman Banerjee, Saul Estrin, Sarmistha Pal

published in: European Journal of Finance, 2022, 28 (17), 1770-1802

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15090

Information Frictions among Firms and Households

Sebastian Link, Andreas Peichl, Christopher Roth, Johannes Wohlfart

published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2023,135, 99-115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15073

Opportunity and Inequality across Generations

Winfried Koeniger, Carlo Zanella

revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 208, 104623

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14998

Reducing Sexual-Orientation Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from Basic Information Treatments

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Christopher S. Carpenter, Ralph De Haas, Mathias Dolls, Lisa Windsteiger

revised version published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2023, 42 (1), 35 - 59

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14957

Do Economic Incentives Promote Physical Activity? Evidence from the London Congestion Charge

Ryota Nakamura, Andrea Albanese, Emma Coombes, Marc Suhrcke

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 2024, 187 (2), 305–320

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14945

Information, Intermediaries, and International Migration

Samuel Bazzi, Lisa A. Cameron, Simone G. Schaner, Firman Witoelar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14940

Transparency of the Welfare System and Labor Market Outcomes of Unemployed Workers

Sofie Cairo, Robert Mahlstedt

substantially revised version published as 'The disparate effects of information provision: A field experiment on the work incentives of social welfare' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 226, 104987

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14876

Biased Survival Expectations and Behaviours: Does Domain Specific Information Matter?

Joan Costa-Font, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2022, 65, 285 - 317

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14856

Careful What You Say: The Effect of Manipulative Information on the 2013 Czech Presidential Run-off Election

Martin Guzi, Stepan Mikula

published in: Economic Letters, 2021, 209, 110152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14808

The Value of Sick Pay

Abi Adams-Prassl, Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin, Christopher Rauh

published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 151, 104314

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14780

Keep It Simple: A Field Experiment on Information Sharing among Strangers

Catia Batista, Marcel Fafchamps, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36 (4), 857 - 888

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14698

Behavioral Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment

Henning Hermes, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter, Simon Wiederhold

this is an earlier version of: IZA DP No. 16915: Application Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14663

Parental Responses to Children's Achievement Test Results

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Tiffany Ho, Nicolás Salamanca

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14501

Search, Screening and Sorting

Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Ronald P. Wolthoff

forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14480

Does Knowledge Empower? Education, Legal Awareness and Intimate Partner Violence

Bilge Erten, Pinar Keskin

published in: Feminist Economics, 2022, 28 (4), 29 - 59

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14402

Education, Information, and COVID-19 Excess Mortality

Piera Bello, Lorenzo Rocco

published as 'Education and COVID-19 excess mortality' in: Economics & Human Biology, 2022, 47, 101194

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14386

Earnings Information and Public Preferences for University Tuition: Evidence from Representative Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 226, 104968

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14358

Literacy and Information

Achmad Tohari, Christopher Parsons, Anu Rammohan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14199

Information Provision, Incentives, and Attention: A Field Experiment on Facilitating and Influencing Managers' Decisions

Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka, Timo Vogelsang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14197

Anemia, Diet, and Cognitive Development: Impact of Health Information on Diet Quality and Child Nutrition in Rural India

Marion Krämer, Santosh Kumar, Sebastian Vollmer

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021,190 (C), 495-523

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14106

Health Information and Lifestyle Behaviours: The Impact of a Diabetes Diagnosis

Alessio Gaggero, Joan Gil, Dolores Jiménez-Rubio, Eugenio Zucchelli

published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2022, 314, 115420

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14093

Can Information Influence the Social Insurance Participation Decision of China's Rural Migrants?

John T. Giles, Xin Meng, Sen Xue, Guochang Zhao

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021,150,102645.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14072

Informed Choices: Gender Gaps in Career Advice

Yana Gallen, Melanie Wasserman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14031

Does Online Search Improve the Match Quality of New Hires?

Nicole Gürtzgen, Benjamin Lochner, Laura Pohlan, Gerard J. van den Berg

published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 70, 101981

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13995

Stigma and Misconceptions in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Field Experiment in India

Asadul Islam, Debayan Pakrashi, Michael Vlassopoulos, Liang Choon Wang

published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2021, 278, 113966

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13980

Information, Preferences, and Household Demand for School Value Added

Robert Ainsworth, Rajeev Dehejia, Cristian Pop-Eleches, Miguel Urquiola

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13926

Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing

Petri Böckerman, Liisa Laine, Mikko Nurminen, Tanja Saxell

published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 7 December 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13900

Labor Supply Responses to Learning the Tax and Benefit Schedule

Andreas Ravndal Kostøl, Andreas S. Myhre

published in: American Economic Review, 2021, 111 (11), 3733–3766

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13851

Price and Saliency in Health Care: When Can Targeted Nudges Change Behaviors?

Brigham Walker

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2023, 107, 102102

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13778

Determinants of the Community Mobility during the COVID-19 Epidemic: The Role of Government Regulations and Information

Silvia Mendolia, Olena Stavrunova, Oleg Yerokhin

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 184, 199-231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13749

Act Early to Prevent Infections and Save Lives: Causal Impact of Diagnostic Efficiency on the COVID-19 Pandemic

Simiao Chen, Zhangfeng Jin, David E. Bloom

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13746

Committee Decision-Making under the Threat of Leaks

Sebastian Fehrler, Volker Hahn

published in: Journal of Politics, 2023, 85 (3), 1107–1122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13703

Strengthening Producer Organizations to Increase Market Access of Smallholder Farmers in Uganda

Ruth Vargas Hill, Eduardo Maruyama, Markus Olapade, Markus Frölich

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13655

The Price of Indoor Air Pollution: Evidence from Radon Maps and the Housing Market

Edward W. Pinchbeck, Sefi Roth, Nikodem Szumilo, Enrico Vanino

published in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2023, 10 (6), 1439–1473

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13575

Economic Impact of Targeted Government Responses to COVID-19: Evidence from the First Large-scale Cluster in Seoul

Jinwook Shin, Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 192, 199-221

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13547

Against All Odds: Tentative Steps Toward Efficient Information Sharing in Groups

Darius Schlangenotto, Wendelin Schnedler, Radovan Vadovic

published in: Games, 2020, 11 (3), 31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13475

Biased Beliefs and Entry into Scientific Careers

Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Danijela Vuletić Čugalj

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13450

Should School-Level Results of National Assessments Be Made Public?

Atsuyoshi Morozumi, Ryuichi Tanaka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13088

Chain Restaurant Calorie Posting Laws, Obesity, and Consumer Welfare

Charles Courtemanche, David E. Frisvold, David Jimenez-Gomez, Mariétou H. Ouayogodé, Michael Price

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13083

Rational Inattention and Migration Decisions

Simone Bertoli, Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Lucas Guichard

published in: Journal of International Economics, 2020, 126, 103364

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