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70 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15583
Intra-Household Negotiation in Ivory Coast: Experimental Evidence from Rural Areas
Ralitza Dimova, Edouard Pokou Abou, Arnab K. Basu, Romane Viennet
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15278
Do Educated Leaders Affect Economic Development? Evidence from India
Chandan Jain, Shagun Kashyap, Rahul Lahoti, Soham Sahoo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13812
Inequality, Institutions and Cooperation
Thomas Markussen, Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal, Finn Tarp
published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 138, 103842, p.13
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13705
What Do Employers' Associations Do?
Pedro S. Martins
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13464
School Choice Design, Risk Aversion, and Cardinal Segregation
Caterina Calsamiglia, Francisco Martínez-Mora, Antonio Miralles
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13207
Prosocial Behavior in the Time of COVID-19: The Effect of Private and Public Role Models
Martin Abel, Willa Brown
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12817
Delegation and Coordination with Multiple Threshold Public Goods: Experimental Evidence
Luca Corazzini, Christopher Cotton, Tommaso G. Reggiani
revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2020, 23 (4), 1030-1068
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12180
To What Do People Contribute? Ongoing Operations vs. Sustainable Supplies
Yuval Arbel, Ronen Bar-El, Mordechai E. Schwarz, Yossef Tobol
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12159
Local Norms Describing the Role of the State and the Private Provision of Training
Andreas Kuhn, Jürg Schweri, Stefan C. Wolter
revised version published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 102226
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11540
Peers or Police? Detection and Sanctions in the Provision of Public Goods
Gregory DeAngelo, Laura Katherine Gee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11457
Social Norms, Endogenous Sorting and the Culture of Cooperation
Ernst Fehr, Tony Williams
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11364
Does Decentralization of Decisions Increase the Stability of Large Groups?
Tjaša Bjedov, Simon Lapointe, Thierry Madies, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2018, 51 (4), 681-716
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11131
Creating an Efficient Culture of Cooperation
Ernst Fehr, Tony Williams
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11093
Efficiency Consequences of Affirmative Action in Politics: Evidence from India
Sabyasachi Das, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Rajas Saroy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11044
Gender Differences in the Development of Other-Regarding Preferences
Katrin John, Stephan L. Thomsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10956
Do Beliefs about Peers Matter for Donation Matching? Experiments in the Field and Laboratory
Laura Katherine Gee, Michael J. Schreck
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10781
Spillover Effects of Institutions on Cooperative Behavior, Preferences and Beliefs
Florian Engl, Arno Riedl, Roberto A. Weber
A revised version (January 2018) can be downloaded at http://www.arnoriedl.com/htm/papers.htm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10517
Conducting Interactive Experiments Online
Antonio A. Arechar, Simon Gächter, Lucas Molleman
revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 21(1), March 2018, 99-131; doi:10.1007/s10683-017-9527-2
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10499
Anger Management: Aggression and Punishment in the Provision of Public Goods
Laura Katherine Gee, Xinxin Lyu, Heather Urry
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10231
Trade Shocks and the Provision of Local Public Goods
Leo Feler, Mine Zeynep Senses
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9842
The Effect of Kinship on Intergenerational Cooperation: A Lab Experiment with Three Generations
José Alberto Molina, Alfredo Ferrer, J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Carlos Gracia-Lazaro, Yamir Moreno, Angel Sanchez
published as 'Intergenerational cooperation within the household: a Public Good game with three generations' in: Review of Economics of the Household (First Online: 07 April 2018)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9650
Market Design for Altruistic Supply: Evidence from the Lab
Robert Slonim, Carmen Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9623
Electoral Incentives and the Allocation of Public Funds
Frederico S. Finan, Maurizio Mazzocco
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9423
Bobos in Paradise: Urban Politics and the New Economy
Gilles Saint-Paul
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9418
Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas (TRAQs), the Syrian Crisis and the New European Agenda on Migration
Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Hillel Rapoport
published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2015, 4:23
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9241
Conditional Cooperation and Betrayal Aversion
Robin Cubitt, Simon Gächter, Simone Quercia
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 111, 53 - 69 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.06.013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9024
Fiscal Decentralization, Rural Industrialization, and Undocumented Labor Mobility in Rural China (1982-87)
Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8955
Mind the Gap: Crowd-Funding and the Role of Seed Money
Joseph Deutsch, Gil S. Epstein, Alon Nir
published in: Managerial and Decision Economics, 2017, 38 (1), 53 - 75
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8683
Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy
Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Hillel Rapoport
published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61 (3-4), 638-672
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8580
Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Simon Gächter, Elke Renner
revised version published as 'Leaders as role models and 'belief managers' in social dilemmas' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 154, 321-334 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2018.08.001
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8532
Voluntary Contributions to the Establishment and Operation of Public Goods: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Yuval Arbel, Ronen Bar-El, Mordechai E. Schwarz, Yossef Tobol
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8504
Growth and Inequality in Public Good Games
Simon Gächter, Friederike Mengel, Elias Tsakas, Alexander Vostroknutov
revised version published in Journal of Public Economics 150, June 2017, 1-13, doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2017.03.002
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8387
Can Elected Minority Representatives Affect Health Worker Visits? Evidence from India
Elizabeth Kaletski, Nishith Prakash
published in: Review of Development Economics, 2017, 21 (1), 67 - 102
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8382
Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity
Coen Teulings, Ioulia V. Ossokina, Henri L.F. de Groot
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8366
Politics Before Pupils? Electoral Cycles and School Resources in India
Sonja Fagernäs, Panu Pelkonen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7932
Ambiguity on Audits and Cooperation in a Public Goods Game
Zhixin Dai, Robin M. Hogarth, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 74, 146-162
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7307
Contribution Games and the End-Game Effect: When Things Get Real – An Experimental Analysis
Ronen Bar-El, Yossef Tobol
published as 'Fundraising to a real-life public good – evidence from the laboratory' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2016, 65, 27-37 (with Yuval Arbel)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6999
Happy Taxpayers? Income Taxation and Well-Being
Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6620
Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice
Thomas Markussen, Ernesto Reuben, Jean-Robert Tyran
published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (574), F163-F195
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6179
The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment: Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments
Alpaslan Akay, Gökhan Karabulut, Peter Martinsson
substantially revised version published as 'Cooperation and punishment: The effect of religiosity and religious festival' in: Economics Letters, 2015, 130, 43–46
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6053
Diversity and Public Goods: A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation
Yann Algan, Camille Hémet, David D. Laitin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5977
Got Water? Social Divisions and Access to Public Goods in Rural India
Divya Balasubramaniam, Santanu Chatterjee, David B. Mustard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5765
Tradable Immigration Quotas
Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Hillel Rapoport
Published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 115, 94-108
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5556
Heterogeneous Productivity in Voluntary Public Good Provision: An Experimental Analysis
Gerlinde Fellner, Yoshio Iida, Sabine Kröger, Erika Seki
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5514
Inequality, Inequity Aversion, and the Provision of Public Goods
Felix Kölle, Dirk Sliwka, Nannan Zhou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5190
Married with Children: A Collective Labor Supply Model with Detailed Time Use and Intrahousehold Expenditure Information
Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Frederic Vermeulen
published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (17), 3377-3405
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4963
Priming Cooperation in Social Dilemma Games
Michalis Drouvelis, Robert Metcalfe, Nattavudh Powdthavee
published in: Theory and Decision, 2015, 79, 479-492
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4850
Recent Advances in the Economics of Individual Subjective Well-Being
Alois Stutzer, Bruno S. Frey
published in: Social Research, 2010, 77 (2), 679-714
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4625
Why Are Economics Students More Selfish than the Rest?
Yoram Bauman, Elaina Rose
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4272
Kinky Choices, Dictators and Split Might: A Non-Cooperative Model for Household Consumption and Labor Supply
Jan Boone, Karen van der Wiel, Frederic Vermeulen
published in IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 3 (11).
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4196
Optimal Redistributive Taxation and Provision of Public Input Goods in an Economy with Outsourcing and Unemployment
Thomas Aronsson, Erkki Koskela
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4112
Everyone is a Winner: Promoting Cooperation through All-Can-Win Intergroup Competition
Ernesto Reuben, Jean-Robert Tyran
published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2010, 26 (1), 25-35
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4016
Volunteering and the State
Franz Hackl, Martin Halla, Gerald J. Pruckner
revised version published in: Public Choice,2012, 151 (3-4), 465 - 495
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3988
Why Praise Inequality? Public Good Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare
Indraneel Dasgupta
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3317
Should Egalitarians Expropriate Philanthropists?
Indraneel Dasgupta, Ravi Kanbur
published as "Does Philanthropy Reduce Inequality?" in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (1), 1-21
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3278
Matching and Challenge Gifts to Charity: Evidence from Laboratory and Natural Field Experiments
Daniel Rondeau, John A. List
published in: Experimental Economics, 2008, 11(3), 253-267
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3059
Where Are the Real Bottlenecks? Evidence from 20,000 Firms in 60 Countries about the Shadow Costs of Constraints to Firm Performance
Wendy Carlin, Mark E Schaffer, Paul Seabright
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2922
The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State
Graziella Bertocchi
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (4), 535-553
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2916
Public Goods Provision and Sanctioning in Privileged Groups
Ernesto Reuben, Arno Riedl
published in: Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2009, 53 (1), 72-93
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2477
Decentralization and the Productive Efficiency of Government: Evidence from Swiss Cantons
Iwan Barankay, Ben Lockwood
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (5-6), 1197-1218
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2288
Institution Formation in Public Goods Games
Michael Kosfeld, Akira Okada, Arno Riedl
published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (4), 1335-1355
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2272
Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision? An Experimental Approach
James P. Habyarimana, Macartan Humphreys, Daniel N. Posner, Jeremy Weinstein
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2143
Control Rights in Public-Private Partnerships
Marco Francesconi, Abhinay Muthoo
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (3), 551-589
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2108
Friendship in a Public Good Experiment
Marco Haan, Peter Kooreman, Tineke Riemersma
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2011
Heterogeneous Social Preferences and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods
Urs Fischbacher, Simon Gächter
substantially revised and split up versions published as: (1) 'Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods' in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (1), 541-556; and (2) 'The Behavioral Validity of the Strategy Method in Public Goods Experiments', Journal of Economic Psychology, 2012, 33 (4), 897-913
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1977
Public Implementation Eliminates Detrimental Effects of Punishment on Human Cooperation
Erte Xiao, Daniel Houser
revised version published as "Punish in Public" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (7-8), 1006-1017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1834
Immigration and Public Spending
René Böheim, Karin Mayr
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1646
The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation
Martijn Egas, Arno Riedl
published as "The economics of altruistic punishment and the maintenance of cooperation" in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B -Biological Sciences, 2008, 275 (1637), 871-878
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1337
Punishing Free-Riders: How Group Size Affects Mutual Monitoring and the Provision of Public Goods
Jeffrey P. Carpenter
published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2007, 60 (1), 31-51
IZA Discussion Paper No. 862
Union Voice
John T. Addison, Clive R. Belfield
published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2004, 25 (4), 563-597
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