IZA Discussion Papers

published online as 'Information Technology, Improved Access, and Use of Prescription Drugs' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 30 April 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12269

The Third Theorem of Welfare Economics: Report from a Fictional Field Study

Karine Nyborg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12249

Do Party Positions Affect the Public's Policy Preferences?

Elisabeth Grewenig, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 179, 523-543

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12196

Do Constraints on Women Worsen Child Deprivations? Framework, Measurement, and Evidence from India

Alberto Posso, Stephen C. Smith, Lucia Ferrone

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12193

Promoting Breast Cancer Screening Take-Ups with Zero Cost: Evidence from an Experiment on Formatting Invitation Letters in Italy

Marco Bertoni, Luca Corazzini, Silvana Robone

published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 6 (3), 372-409.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12184

Credence Goods Markets and the Informational Value of New Media: A Natural Field Experiment

Rudolf Kerschbamer, Daniel Neururer, Matthias Sutter

extended version published as 'Credence goods markets, online information and repair prices: A natural field experiment' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 220, 104891

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12175

The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance: How Information and Design Affect Public Preferences for Tuition

Philipp Lergetporer, Ludger Woessmann

now IZA Discussion Papers 14386 and 14991

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12056

I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The Effect of Crime News Coverage on Crime Perception and Trust

Daniel Velásquez, Santiago Medina, Gustavo Yamada, Pablo Lavado, Miguel Núñez, Hugo Alatrista, Juandiego Morzan

published in: World Development, 2020, 136, 105111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11963

Informing Employees in Small and Medium Sized Firms about Training: Results of a Randomized Field Experiment

Gerard J. van den Berg, Christine Dauth, Pia Homrighausen, Gesine Stephan

revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2023, 61, 162-178.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11937

Strategic Fertility Behaviour, Early Childhood Human Capital Investments and Gender Roles in Albania

Louise Grogan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11929

Unblurring the Market for Vision Correction: A Willingness to Pay Experiment in Rural Burkina Faso

Michael Grimm, Renate Hartwig

published as 'All Eyes on the Price: An Assessment of the Willingness-to-Pay for Eyeglasses in Rural Burkina Faso' in: Health Economics, 2022, 31 (7), 1347 - 1367

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11845

Information Provision and Streamlined Medical Service: Evidence from a Mobile Appointment App

Changcheng Song, Nan Yang, Junjian Yi, Ye Yuan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11845

Information Provision and Streamlined Medical Service: Evidence from a Mobile Appointment App

Changcheng Song, Nan Yang, Junjian Yi, Ye Yuan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11801

Basic Information and Communication Technology Skills among Canadian Immigrants and Non-Immigrants

N. T. Khuong Truong, Arthur Sweetman

published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2018, 44 (S1), S91 - S112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11777

Migration, Political Institutions, and Social Networks

Catia Batista, Julia Seither, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: World Development, 2019, 117, 328-343

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11730

Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 188, 104226

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11555

Do Digital Information Technologies Help Unemployed Job Seekers Find a Job? Evidence from the Broadband Internet Expansion in Germany

Nicole Gürtzgen, André Nolte, Laura Pohlan, Gerard J. van den Berg

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 132, 103657

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11538

Less Is Not More: Information Presentation Complexity and 401(k) Planning Choices

Eric Cardella, Charlene M. Kalenkoski, Michael Parent

published as 'Less is not more: 401(k) plan information and retirement planning choices' in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2023, 22 (3), 331-351.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11536

Information Frictions and Learning Dynamics: Evidence from Tax Avoidance in Ecuador

Albrecht Bohne, Jan Sebastian Nimczik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11506

What Do Workers Want? The Shortfall in Employee Participation at the European Workplace

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira

revised version published as 'What Do Workers Want? The Representation Gap at the EU Establishment as Perceived by Their Workplace Representatives' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2020, 49, 1-39

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11491

News Media and Crime Perceptions: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Nicola Mastrorocco, Luigi Minale

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 165, 230-255

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11453

Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economica, 2021, 88(351), 624-670

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11137

Does Information Empower the Poor? Evidence from Indonesia's Social Security Card

Achmad Tohari, Christopher Parsons, Anu Rammohan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11058

Informal Search, Bad Search? The Effects of Job Search Method on Wages among Rural Migrants in Urban China

Yuanyuan Chen, Le Wang, Min Zhang

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (3), 837-876

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10919

Positively Aware? Conflicting Expert Reviews and Demand for Medical Treatment

Jorge Balat, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Shaiza Qayyum

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10753

Opinion Copulas, Homophily and Multimodal Marginals

Nikos Askitas

Published in: PLoS ONE, 2017, 12(8), e0183277

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10735

Healer or Gatekeeper? Physicians' Role Conflict When Symptoms Are Non-Verifiable

Benedicte Carlsen, Karine Nyborg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10710

Information, Belief Elicitation and Threshold Effects in the 5X1000 Tax Scheme: A Framed Field Experiment

Leonardo Becchetti, Vittorio Pelligra, Tommaso G. Reggiani

revised version published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2017, 24 (6), 1026-1049

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10684

Digital and Competing Information Sources: Impact on Environmental Concern and Prospects for Cooperation

Vladimir Udalov, Paul J. J. Welfens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10650

Knowing Is Not Half the Battle: Impacts of the National Health Screening Program in Korea

Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Suejin Lee, Wilfredo Lim

published in:: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 65, 1 - 14

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10598

Local Labor Markets and Human Capital Investments

Russell Weinstein

forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10591

Zika Virus Prevalence, Correlates and Preventive Behaviors: New Evidence from Survey Data

José-Raimundo Carvalho, Victor Hugo de Oliveira, Climent Quintana-Domeque

revised version published as 'Zika virus incidence, preventive and reproductive behaviors: Correlates from new survey data' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2018, 30, 14-23.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10434

Unawareness and Selective Disclosure: The Effect of School Quality Information on Property Prices

John de New, Syed Hasan, Nikhil Jha, Mathias Sinning

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 145, 449-464

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10420

Countering Public Opposition to Immigration: The Impact of Information Campaigns

Giovanni Facchini, Yotam Margalit, Hiroyuki Nakata

published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 141, 103959

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. 10360

Learning about Oneself: The Effects of Performance Feedback on School Choice

Matteo Bobba, Veronica Frisancho

Updated version available as DP 16168.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10357

How Information Affects Support for Education Spending: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States

Martin R. West, Ludger Woessmann, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 167, 138-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10188

Preferences for Truth-Telling

Johannes Abeler, Daniele Nosenzo, Collin Raymond

published in: Econometrics, 2019, 87 (4), 1115–1153

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10172

Beliefs and Utility: Experimental Evidence on Preferences for Information

Armin Falk, Florian Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9968

Information and Preferences for Public Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Guido Schwerdt, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 167, 138-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9941

Asymmetric Information under the Kafala Sponsorship System: Impacts on Foreign Domestic Workers' Income and Employment Status in the GCC Countries

Froilan T. Malit Jr., George S Naufal

published in: International Migration, 2016, 54(5), 76-90

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9911

Information, Financial Aid and Training Participation: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Katja Görlitz, Marcus Tamm

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 138-148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9575

The Effectiveness of Early Vacancy Information in the Presence of Monitoring and ALMP

Ricarda Schmidl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9567

Differential and Distributional Effects of Energy Efficiency Surveys: Evidence from Electricity Consumption

Thomas J. Kniesner, Galib Rustamov

published in: Journal of Benefit Cost Analysis, 2018, 9(3), 375-406

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9445

Intended College Attendance: Evidence from an Experiment on College Returns and Cost

Zachary Bleemer, Basit Zafar

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 157, 184-211

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9372

Post-Secondary Education and Information on Labor Market Prospects: A Randomized Field Experiment

Sari Pekkala Kerr, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Matti Sarvimäki, Roope Uusitalo

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 66, 101888

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9240

Social Responsibility in Market Interaction

Bernd Irlenbusch, David Saxler

completely revised and extended version published as 'The Role of Social Information, Market Framing, and Diffusion of Responsibility as Determinants of Socially Responsible Behavior' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2019, 80, 141-161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9040

Learning about Job Search: A Field Experiment with Job Seekers in Germany

Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, Simon Jäger, Florian Zimmermann

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 164, 33-49

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9027

How Transparency Kills Information Aggregation: Theory and Experiment

Sebastian Fehrler, Niall Hughes

published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2018, 10, 181-209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9013

Tax Compliance and Information Provision: A Field Experiment with Small Firms

Philipp Doerrenberg, Jan Schmitz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8858

Biased Beliefs and Imperfect Information

Eugenio Proto, Daniel Sgroi

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 136, 186 - 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8765

Experts' Awards and Economic Success: Evidence from an Italian Literary Prize

Michela Ponzo, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Journal of Cultural Economics, 2015, 39, 341-367

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8691

Candidate Ballot Information and Election Outcomes: The Czech Case

Štepán Jurajda, Daniel Münich

published in: PostSoviet Affairs, 2015, 31 (5), 448-469

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8596

Student Awareness of Costs and Benefits of Educational Decisions: Effects of an Information Campaign and Media Exposure

Martin McGuigan, Sandra McNally, Gill Wyness

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2016, 10 (4), 482–519

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8585

Turf Wars

Helios Herrera, Ernesto Reuben, Michael M. Ting

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 152, 143-153

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8490

When the Baby Cries at Night: Inelastic Buyers in Non-Competitive Markets

Giacomo Calzolari, Andrea Ichino, Francesco Manaresi, Viki Nellas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8476

Private Education Market, Information on Test Scores and Tuition Practices

Sergio Firpo, Vladimir Ponczek, Vítor Augusto Possebom

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8452

Do Criminal Representatives Hinder or Improve Constituency Outcomes? Evidence from India

Nishith Prakash, Marc Rockmore, Yogesh Uppal

published as 'Do criminally accused politicians affect economic outcomes? Evidence from India' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 141, 102370

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8395

Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks

Joachim De Weerdt, Garance Genicot, Alice Mesnard

published in: JHR Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (1), 225 - 254

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8285

Corporate Efficiency, Credit Status and Investment

Manzur Quader, Karl Taylor

published in: European Journal of Finance, 2018, 24 (6), 439-457

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8165

Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany

Verena Dill, Uwe Jirjahn, Stephen C. Smith

published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2016, 40(1), 123-140

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8108

Playing 'Hard to Get': An Economic Rationale for Crowding Out of Intrinsically Motivated Behavior

Wendelin Schnedler, Christoph Vanberg

published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 68, 106–115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8104

Experimental Games on Networks: Underpinnings of Behavior and Equilibrium Selection

Gary Charness, Francesco Feri, Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez, Matthias Sutter

slightly revised version published in: Econometrica, 2014, 82(5), 1615-1670

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8100

The Effects of Occupational Knowledge: Job Information Centers, Educational Choices, and Labor Market Outcomes

Nils Saniter, Thomas Siedler

revised version published as 'Occupational Knowledge and Educational Mobility: Evidence from the Introduction of Job Information Centers' (with D. Schnitzlein) in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 69, 108-124

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8100

The Effects of Occupational Knowledge: Job Information Centers, Educational Choices, and Labor Market Outcomes

Nils Saniter, Thomas Siedler

revised version published as 'Occupational Knowledge and Educational Mobility: Evidence from the Introduction of Job Information Centers' (with D. Schnitzlein) in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 69, 108-124

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8058

Attention Discrimination: Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information Acquisition

Vojtech Bartos, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová, Filip Matejka

revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (6), 1437-1475

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7980

The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic

Toman Omar Mahmoud, Hillel Rapoport, Andreas Steinmayr, Christoph Trebesch

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9(3): 36-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7940

"I wish I knew ..." - Misperceived Ability, School Track Counseling Services and Performances in Upper Secondary Education

Martino Bernardi, Massimiliano Bratti, Gianfranco De Simone

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7863

Migrant Networks and the Spread of Misinformation

Benjamin Elsner, Gaia Narciso, Jacco J. J. Thijssen

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (3), 659-688

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7839

Migrant Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Catia Batista, Gaia Narciso

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2018, 32(1), 203–219.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7714

Second-Degree Moral Hazard in a Real-World Credence Goods Market

Loukas Balafoutas, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Matthias Sutter

published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 1-18.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7658

Labor Market Transparency

Eskil Wadensjö

published in: Jens Forssbaeck and Lars Oxelheim (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Economic and Institutional Transparency, New York: Oxford University Press, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7548

Migration and Cross-Border Financial Flows

Maurice Kugler, Oren Levintal, Hillel Rapoport

Published in: World Bank Economic Review, 32, 1, 2018: 148–162

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7340

How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign

Chad Kendall, Tommaso Nannicini, Francesco Trebbi

published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (1), 322-353

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7247

The Effect of Deceptive Advertising on Consumption of the Advertised Good and its Substitutes: The Case of Over-the-Counter Weight Loss Products

John Cawley, Rosemary Avery, Matthew Eisenberg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7147

Asymmetric Information between Employers

Lisa B. Kahn

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (4), 165-205

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7125

Information and Learning in Oligopoly: An Experiment

Maria Bigoni, Margherita Fort

revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2013, 81, 192-214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7063

Competition and Educational Productivity: Incentives Writ Large

W. Bentley MacLeod, Miguel Urquiola

published in: Paul Glewwe (ed.), Education Policy in Developing Countries, Chapter 7, University of Chicago Press, 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6919

Truth-Telling: A Representative Assessment

Johannes Abeler, Anke Becker, Armin Falk

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 113, 96-104

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6821

The Role of Connections in Academic Promotions

Natalia Zinovyeva, Manuel Bagues

published in: American Economic Journals: Applied Economics, 2015, 7 (2), 264-292

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6635

Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management

Maria Guadalupe, Hongyi Li, Julie M. Wulf

published in: Management Science, 2014, 60 (4), 824–844

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6560

Do Public Health Interventions Crowd Out Private Health Investments? Malaria Control Policies in Eritrea

Pedro Carneiro, Andrea Locatelli, Tewolde Ghebremeskel, Joseph Keating

substantially revised version pubished in: Labour Economics, 2017, 45, 107 - 115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6557

Why Do People Pay for Useless Advice? Implications of Gambler's and Hot-Hand Fallacies in False-Expert Setting

Nattavudh Powdthavee, Yohanes E. Riyanto

published as 'Would You Pay for Transparently Useless Advice? A Test of Boundaries of Beliefs in the Folly of Predictions' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97 (2), 257 - 272

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6411

Information and Competition Entry

Mara Ewers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6060

Private Information, Human Capital, and Optimal "Home Bias" in Financial Markets

Isaac Ehrlich, Jong Kook Shin, Yong Yin

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2011, 5 (3), 255-301

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6012

Media Exposure and Internal Migration: Evidence from Indonesia

Lídia Farré, Francesco Fasani

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 102, 48–61

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