IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'An Integrated Theory of Relative Deprivation and Risk-Laden Migration' in: Robert M. Sauer (ed.), World Scientific Handbook of Global Migration Vol. 2. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2024, 165–175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15590

Measuring Socially Appropriate Social Preferences

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Andrea Robbett

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15523

Social Preferences and the Variability of Conditional Cooperation

Malte Baader, Simon Gächter, Kyeongtae Lee, Martin Sefton

revised version forthcoming in: Economic Theory

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15496

Social Preferences and Rating Biases in Subjective Performance Evaluations

David Kusterer, Dirk Sliwka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15088

Other-Regarding Preferences and Redistributive Politics

Ernst Fehr, Thomas Epper, Julien Senn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15006

The Preference Survey Module: New Evidence on Social Preferences from Tehran

Michael Kosfeld, Zahra Sharafi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14836

Mission of the Company, Prosocial Attitudes and Job Preferences: A Discrete Choice Experiment

Arjan Non, Ingrid M.T. Rohde, Andries de Grip, Thomas Dohmen

published in: Labour Economics, 74, 2022, 102087

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14347

Estimating Social Preferences Using Stated Satisfaction: Novel Support for Inequity Aversion

Lina Diaz, Daniel Houser, John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee

published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 155, 104436

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14050

Turning Relative Deprivation into a Performance Incentive Device

Oded Stark, Grzegorz Kosiorowski

published in: Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 2021, 45 (1), 22-36

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13860

Labor-Market Conditions and Leadership Styles

Robert Dur, Ola Kvaløy, Anja Schöttner

revised version published in: Management Science, 2022, 68 (4), 3150-3168

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13583

Trustworthiness in the Financial Industry

Andrej Gill, Matthias Heinz, Heiner Schumacher, Matthias Sutter

revised version published as 'Social Preferences of Young Professionals and the Financial Industry' in: Management Science, 2023, 69 (7), 3905-3919.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13451

Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment

Shyamal Chowdhury, Matthias Sutter, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published as 'Economic preferences across generations and family clusters: A large-scale experiment in a developing country' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (9), 2361-2410.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13052

Ancient Origins of the Global Variation in Economic Preferences

Anke Becker, Benjamin Enke, Armin Falk

published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2020, 110, 319–323

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13012

Do Workers Discriminate against Their Out-group Employers? Evidence from the Gig Economy

Sher Afghan Asad, Ritwik Banerjee, Joydeep Bhattacharya

published as 'Do workers discriminate against their out-group employers? Evidence from an online platform economy' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 216, 221 - 242

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12869

Ambiguity and Excuse-Driven Behavior in Charitable Giving

Thomas Garcia, Sebastien Massoni, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2020,124, 103412

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12803

The Social Preferences of the Native Inhabitants, and the Decision How Many Asylum Seekers to Admit

Oded Stark, Marcin Jakubek, Krzysztof Szczygielski

published in: Review of World Economics, 2023, 156, 133-152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12756

Relative Deprivation as a Cause of Risky Behaviors

Oded Stark

published in: Journal of Gambling Studies, 2021, 37, 817–835

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12587

Why Join a Team?

David J. Cooper, Krista Saral, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Management Science, 2021, 67 (11), 6980-6997

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12331

The Pure Effect of Social Preferences on Regional Location Choices: The Evolving Dynamics of Convergence to a Steady State Population Distribution

Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski, Grzegorz Kosiorowski

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2019, 59 (5), 883 - 909

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12283

Repercussions of Negatively Selective Migration for the Behavior of Nonmigrants When Preferences Are Social

Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski

published in: JODE - Journal of Demographic Economics, 2019, 85 (2), 165-179

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11947

Economic Behavior of Children and Adolescents - A First Survey of Experimental Economics Results

Matthias Sutter, Claudia Zoller, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler

published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 111, 98-121

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11946

Behavioral Economic Phenomena in Decision-Making for Others

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2020, 77, 102180

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11815

The Many Faces of Human Sociality: Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences

Adrian Bruhin, Ernst Fehr, Daniel Schunk

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17 (4), 1025–1069

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11337

Evaluating Intergenerational Persistence of Economic Preferences: A Large Scale Experiment with Families in Bangladesh

Shyamal Chowdhury, Matthias Sutter, Klaus F. Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10986

Insurance and Solidarity: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Cambodia

Friederike Lenel, Susan Steiner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10781

Spillover Effects of Institutions on Cooperative Behavior, Preferences and Beliefs

Florian Engl, Arno Riedl, Roberto A. Weber

published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2021, 13 (4), 261 - 299

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10171

The Rapid Evolution of Homo Economicus: Brief Exposure to Neoclassical Assumptions Increases Self-Interested Behavior

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 75 ,55 - 65

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9998

Choosing a Partner for Social Exchange: Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness

Sebastian Fehrler, Wojtek Przepiorka

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 129, 157-171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9997

Can War Foster Cooperation?

Michal Bauer, Christopher J. Blattman, Julie Chytilová, Joseph Henrich, Edward Miguel, Tamar Mitts

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30(3), 249-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9861

The Formation of Prosociality: Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment

Fabian Kosse, Thomas Deckers, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Armin Falk

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (2), 434 - 467

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9767

Lab Measures of Other-Regarding Preferences Can Predict Some Related On-the-Job Behavior: Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment

Stephen V. Burks, Daniele Nosenzo, Jon E. Anderson, Matthew Bombyk, Derek Ganzhorn, Lorenz Götte, Aldo Rustichini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9462

Demanding Occupations and the Retirement Age

Niels Vermeer, Mauro Mastrogiacomo, Arthur van Soest

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 43, 159-170

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9251

Third-Party vs. Second-Party Control: Disentangling the Role of Autonomy and Reciprocity

Gabriel Burdin, Simon Halliday, Fabio Landini

revised version published as 'The hidden benefits of abstaining from control' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 147, 1-12.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8860

Gender Effects, Culture and Social Influence in the Dictator Game: An Italian Study

Niall O'Higgins, Arturo Palomba, Patrizia Sbriglia

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8310

Using Cognitive Dissonance to Manipulate Social Preferences

Robert J. Oxoby, Alexander Apt Smith

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8133

Gender Differences in Shirking: Monitoring or Social Preferences? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Per Johansson, Arizo Karimi, Peter Nilsson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8109

Crime and Self-Control Revisited: Disentangling the Effect of Self-Control on Risk and Social Preferences

Tim Friehe, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

published in: International Review of Law and Economics, 2017, 49, 23–32.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7857

Social Preferences and Lying Aversion in Children

Valeria Maggian, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 19 (3), 663-685, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7567

Do Institutions Affect Social Preferences? Evidence from Divided Korea

Byung-Yeon Kim, Syngjoo Choi, Jungmin Lee, Sokbae Lee, Kyunghui Choi

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45 (4), 865 - 888

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7374

Self-Selection into Economics Experiments Is Driven by Monetary Rewards

Johannes Abeler, Daniele Nosenzo

revised version published as 'Self-Selection into Laboratory Experiments: Pro-Social Motives versus Monetary Incentives' in: Experimental Economics, 2015, 18(2), 195-214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7215

Comparing Inequality Aversion across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ

Olivier B. Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch

revised version published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 21(5), 845-873

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7148

Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness: Disentangling the Signaling Benefits of Altruistic Acts

Sebastian Fehrler, Wojtek Przepiorka

published in: Evolution and Human Behavior, 2013, 34, 139-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6815

Incentives and Group Identity

Paolo Masella, Stephan Meier, Philipp Zahn

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2014, 86, 12-25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6590

Moral Hypocrisy, Power and Social Preferences

Aldo Rustichini, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 107, 10-24.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6470

The Relationship Between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures

Anke Becker, Thomas Deckers, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse

published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2012, 4, 453-478

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6467

Cultural Integration: Experimental Evidence of Changes in Immigrants' Preferences

Lisa A. Cameron, Nisvan Erkal, Lata Gangadharan, Marina Zhang

published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 111, 38-58.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6345

Peer Effects in Pro-Social Behavior: Social Norms or Social Preferences?

Simon Gächter, Daniele Nosenzo, Martin Sefton

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (3), 548-573

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6304

Testing Canonical Tournament Theory: On the Impact of Risk, Social Preferences and Utility Structure

Roman M. Sheremeta, Steven Y. Wu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6277

Peer Effects and Social Preferences in Voluntary Cooperation

Christian Thöni, Simon Gächter

revised version published as 'Peer effects and social preferences in voluntary cooperation: A theoretical and experimental analysis' in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2015, 48, 72 - 88

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6216

Health and the Political Agency of Women

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6 (2), 164-97

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5965

Vote-Buying and Reciprocity

Frederico S. Finan, Laura Schechter

published in: Econometrica, 2012, 80 (2), 863-881

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5720

Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay

Armin Falk, Ingo Menrath, Pablo Emilio Verde, Johannes Siegrist

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5488

Is There Selection Bias in Laboratory Experiments? The Case of Social and Risk Preferences

Blair L. Cleave, Nikos Nikiforakis, Robert Slonim

published in: Experimental Economics, 2013, 16 (3) 372-382

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5440

Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US: Between Equity and Efficiency

Olivier B. Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch

revised version pubished in 2 parts - as 'Comparing inequality aversion across countries when labor supply responses differ' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 21, 845 - 873 (also available as IZA DP 7215) and as 'Tax-Benefit Revealed Social Preferences in Europe and the US' in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 113/114, 257 -28

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5389

Self Selection Does Not Increase Other-Regarding Preferences among Adult Laboratory Subjects, but Student Subjects May Be More Self-Regarding than Adults

Jon E. Anderson, Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Karsten Maurer, Daniele Nosenzo, Ruth Potter, Kim Rocha, Aldo Rustichini

revised version published as 'Self-Selection and Variations in the Laboratory Measurement of Other-Regarding Preferences Across Subject Pools: Evidence From One College Student and Two Adult Samples' in: Experimental Economics, 2013, 16 (2), 170-189

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5221

Tax-Benefit Revealed Redistributive Preferences Over Time: Ireland 1987-2005

Olivier B. Bargain, Claire Keane

published in: Labour, 2010, 24 (s1), 141–167

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5016

Social Preferences in Childhood and Adolescence: A Large-Scale Experiment

Matthias Sutter, Francesco Feri, Martin G. Kocher, Peter Martinsson, Katarina Nordblom, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 146, 16-30.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4710

Screening, Competition, and Job Design: Economic Origins of Good Jobs

Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, Klaus M. Schmidt

published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (2), 834-864

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4343

Caste and Punishment: The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement

Karla Hoff, Mayuresh Kshetramade, Ernst Fehr

published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (556), 449-475

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4084

Do the Selfish Mimic Cooperators? Experimental Evidence from Finitely-Repeated Labor Markets

Brian E. Roe, Steven Y. Wu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3959

Treating Equals Unequally: Incentives in Teams, Workers' Motivation and Production Technology

Sebastian J. Goerg, Sebastian Kube, Ro'i Zultan

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (4), 747 - 772

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3429

The Effect of Intragroup Communication on Preference Shifts in Groups

Michael P. Brady, Steven Y. Wu

published as "The aggregation of preferences in groups: Identity, responsibility, and polarization" in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31(6), 950-963

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3010

Do the Reciprocal Trust Less?

Steffen Altmann, Thomas Dohmen, Matthias Wibral

published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 99 (3), 454-457

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2293

Trust as a Signal of a Social Norm and the Hidden Costs of Incentive Schemes

Dirk Sliwka

published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (3), 999-1012

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2013

Performance Pay and the Erosion of Worker Cooperation: Field Experimental Evidence

Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 70 (3), 458-469