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36 IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17188

Specific Egalitarianism? Inequality Aversion across Domains

Joan Costa-Font, Frank A. Cowell

forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16445

Risk Attitudes and Informal Employment in Ukraine

Thomas Dohmen, Melanie Khamis, Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16138

The Gender Reference Point Gap

Nathan Kettlewell, Jonathan Levy, Agnieszka Tymula, Xueting Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16075

Permanent Instability of Preferences after COVID-19 Crisis: A Natural Experiment from Urban Burkina Faso

Delphine Boutin, Laurene Petifour, Haris Megzari

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15043

Managers' Risk Preferences and Firm Training Investments

Marco Caliendo, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Harald Pfeifer, Arne Uhlendorff, Caroline Wehner

published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 161, 104616

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12672

The Value of Information in Technology Adoption

Asadul Islam, Philip Ushchev, Yves Zenou, Xin Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12057

Risk Aversion and Entrepreneurship: New Evidence Exploiting Exposure to Massive Earthquakes in Italy

Guido de Blasio, Maria De Paola, Samuele Poy, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57, 295-322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11758

A Tale of Two Cities: An Experiment on Inequality and Preferences

Maria Bigoni, Stefania Bortolotti, Veronica Rattini

published in: Theory and Decision, 2022, 92, 189 - 222

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10982

The Impact of Non-Cognitive Skills and Risk Preferences on Rural-to-Urban Migration: Evidence from Ukraine

Sinem H. Ayhan, Kseniia Gatskova, Hartmut Lehmann

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2020, 48 (1), 144 - 162.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10793

Safe Options Induce Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes

Paolo Crosetto, Antonio Filippin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10792

Competition and Subsequent Risk-Taking Behaviour: Heterogeneity across Gender and Outcomes

Antonio Filippin, Francesca Gioia

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 75, 84-94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10717

Female Babies and Risk-Aversion

Ganna Pogrebna, Andrew J. Oswald, David Haig

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 10 - 17

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10316

Risk Attitude and Nonmarital Birth

Uwe Jirjahn, Cornelia Chadi

revised version published in: Empirical Economics Letters, 2022, 21 (3), 7-13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10288

Locus of Control and Performance Appraisal

John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn, Cornelia Chadi

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 142, 205-225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9613

Does Self-Control Depletion Affect Risk Attitudes?

Holger Gerhardt, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Jana Willrodt

published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 100, 463-487.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9347

Risk Attitudes and Migration

Mehtap Akgüç, Xingfei Liu, Massimiliano Tani, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37, 166 - 176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9333

Time-Varying Individual Risk Attitudes over the Great Recession: A Comparison of Germany and Ukraine

Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44 (1), 182-200

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9029

The Sound of Others: Surprising Evidence of Conformist Behavior

Paolo Crosetto, Antonio Filippin

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2017, 83 (4), 1038–1051

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8354

New Evidence on the Relationship between Risk Attitudes and Self-Employment

Olga Skriabikova, Thomas Dohmen, Ben Kriechel

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 176-184

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8354

New Evidence on the Relationship between Risk Attitudes and Self-Employment

Olga Skriabikova, Thomas Dohmen, Ben Kriechel

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 176-184

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8020

Donations, Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences: A Study on Altruism in Primary School Children

Silvia Angerer, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Philipp Lergetporer, Matthias Sutter

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 67-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7712

Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and the Criminal Activity of the 'Children of the Wall'

Arnaud Chevalier, Olivier Marie

revised version publisehd as 'Risky moms, risky kids? fertility and crime after the fall of the wal' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 230, 105048

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6997

Cognitive Skills, Gender and Risk Preferences

Alison L. Booth, Pamela Katic

published in: Economic Record, 2013, 89 (284),19-30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6860

Why Are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions?

Stefan Bauernschuster, Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich, Jens Suedekum

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 98, 56-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5380

Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed: Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?

Amelie F. Constant, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Ulf Rinne, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 825-851

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5219

A Different Look at Lenin's Legacy: Trust, Risk, Fairness and Cooperativeness in the Two Germanies

Guido Heineck, Bernd Süssmuth

revised version published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013, 41 (3), 789-803

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5197

Parental Risk Attitudes and Children's Secondary School Track Choice

Guido Heineck, Oliver Wölfel

revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (5), 727–743

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4807

Can We Measure Individual Risk Attitudes in a Survey?

Xiaohao Ding, Joop Hartog, Yuze Sun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4703

Inequality Aversion and Risk Attitudes

Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Xavier Ramos

substantially revised version published as "Distaste for Inequality? The Role of Risk Aversion" in: M. Rojas (ed.), The Economics of Happiness, Springer, 2019.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4545

Incentive Effects on Risk Attitude in Small Probability Prospects

Mathieu Lefèbvre, Ferdinand M. Vieider, Marie Claire Villeval

published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 109 (2), 115-120

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4225

Attitudes toward Uncertainty among the Poor: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson, Haileselassie Medhin, Stefan T. Trautmann

revised version published in: Theory and Decision, 2012, 73 (3), 453-464

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4026

Gender Differences in Risk Behaviour: Does Nurture Matter?

Alison L. Booth, Patrick J. Nolen

published in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122 (558), F56 - F78