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80 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17384
Youngism: Discrimination and Stereotypes
Vojtech Bartos, Michal Bauer, Jana Cahlíková, Julie Chytilová
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17180
The Meritocratic Illusion: Inequality and the Cognitive Basis of Redistribution
Arthur Blouin, Anandi Mani, Sharun Mukand, Daniel Sgroi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16865
The Missing Type: Where Are the Inequality Averse (Students)?
Thomas Epper, Julien Senn, Ernst Fehr
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16834
Do Economic Preferences of Children Predict Behavior?
Laura Breitkopf, Shyamal Chowdhury, Shambhavi Priyam, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16702
Too Much of a Good Thing? Using Tax Incentives to Stimulate Dual-Earner Couples
Henk-Wim de Boer, Egbert L. W. Jongen, Patrick Koot
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16464
Fairness and Inequality in Institution Formation
Julian Detemple, Michael Kosfeld
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16200
Social Preferences: Fundamental Characteristics and Economic Consequences
Ernst Fehr, Gary Charness
This version: March 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16147
Helping and Antisocial Behavior in the Workplace
Michael Haylock, Patrick Kampkötter, Michael Kosfeld, Ferdinand von Siemens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16126
After You. Cognition and Health-Distribution Preferences
Martín Brun, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Xavier Ramos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15929
Trust and Social Preferences in Times of Acute Health Crisis
Fortuna Casoria, Fabio Galeotti, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version forthcoming in Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15908
Risk-laden Migration as a Response to Relative Deprivation: A Hypothesis
Oded Stark
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
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