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58 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14091
Eliciting Time Preferences When Income and Consumption Vary: Theory, Validation & Application to Job Search
Michèle Belot, Philipp Kircher, Paul Muller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14062
Household Preferences and Child Labor in Rural Ethiopia
Arnab K. Basu, Ralitza Dimova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14030
Parental Paternalism and Patience
Lukas Kiessling, Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14025
Collective Intertemporal Decisions and Heterogeneity in Groups
Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Philipp Lergetporer, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13566
Financial Literacy, Risk and Time Preferences: Results from a Randomized Educational Intervention
Matthias Sutter, Michael Weyland, Anna Untertrifaller, Manuel Froitzheim
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13451
Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment
Shyamal Chowdhury, Matthias Sutter, Klaus F. Zimmermann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13084
Shaking Things Up: On the Stability of Risk and Time Preferences
Michel Beine, Gary Charness, Arnaud Dupuy, Majlinda Joxhe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13054
Becoming Sensitive: Males' Risk and Time Preferences after the 2008 Financial Crisis
Michael Jetter, Leandro Magnusson, Sebastian Roth
published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 128, 103512
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13052
Ancient Origins of the Global Variation in Economic Preferences
Anke Becker, Benjamin Enke, Armin Falk
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13011
Household Behavioral Preferences and the Child Labor-Education Trade-off: Framed Field Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
Arnab K. Basu, Ralitza Dimova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12710
Parenting Values Moderate the Intergenerational Transmission of Time Preferences
Anne Ardila Brenøe, Thomas Epper
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12535
Eliciting Utility Curvature in Time Preference
Stephen L. Cheung
published in: Experimental Economics, 2020, 23 (2), 493-525
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12330
The Economic Preferences of Cooperative Managers
Guillermo Alves, Pablo Blanchard, Gabriel Burdin, Mariana Chávez, Andres Dean
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11758
A Tale of Two Cities: An Experiment on Inequality and Preferences
Maria Bigoni, Veronica Rattini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11387
Time Is on My Side: Relational Contracts and Aggregate Welfare
Bohdan Kukharskyy, Michael P. Pflüger
forthcoming in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019
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. 11236
The Risk and Time Preferences of Young Truants and Their Parents
Emma Antrobus, Victoria Baranov, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Lorraine Mazerolle, Agnieszka Tymula
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11158
Socio-Economic Status and Inequalities in Children's IQ and Economic Preferences
Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Pia Pinger, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
forthcoming in: Journal of Political Economy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10407
Locus of Control and Investment in Risky Assets
Nicolás Salamanca, Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge, Raymond Montizaan
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 177, 548-568
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10309
Conditional Cash Transfers: Do They Change Time Preferences and Educational Aspirations?
Diana Contreras Suarez, Lisa A. Cameron
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9898
Recent Developments in the Experimental Elicitation of Time Preference
Stephen L. Cheung
published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2016, 11, 1-8
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9857
Procedures for Eliciting Time Preferences
David Freeman, Paola Manzini, Marco Mariotti, Luigi Mittone
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2016, 126 (Part A), 235–242
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9747
China's Sex Ratio and Crime: Behavioral Change or Financial Necessity?
Lisa A. Cameron, Xin Meng, Dandan Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9369
The Relationship between Health and Schooling: What's New?
Michael Grossman
published in: Nordic Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 3 (1), 7 -17, http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/njhe.2362
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8977
How Does Socio-Economic Status Shape a Child's Personality?
Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8427
The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Oded Galor, Ömer Özak
published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (10), 3064-3103
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8021
Procrastination, Academic Success and the Effectiveness of a Remedial Program
Maria De Paola, Vincenzo Scoppa
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 217–236
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7950
Stated and Revealed Heterogeneous Risk Preferences in Educational Choice
Frank M. Fossen, Daniela Glocker
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 97, 1-25.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7894
The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior
Tim Friehe, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
forthcoming in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 2017.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7769
Does Patience Matter for Marriage Stability? Some Evidence from Italy
Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia
published in Review of Economics of the Household
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7684
Confucianism and Preferences: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China
Elaine M. Liu, Juanjuan Meng, Joseph Tao-yi Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7273
The Importance of the Cognitive Environment for Intertemporal Choice
Michael Kuhn, Peter J. Kuhn, Marie Claire Villeval
Revised version published as "Decision-Environment Effects on Intertemporal Financial Choices: How Relevant are Resource-Depletion Models?" in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 137, 72-89, 2017.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7221
Quasi-Hyperbolic Time Preferences and their Intergenerational Transmission
Fabian Kosse, Friedhelm Pfeiffer
published in: Applied Economics Letters 2013, 20 (10), 983-986
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7085
Framing Effects and Impatience: Evidence from a Large Scale Experiment
Eline van der Heijden, Tobias J. Klein, Wieland Müller, Jan Potters
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84(2), 701-711
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6851
Trust and Trustworthiness under the Prospect Theory: A Field Experiment in Vietnam
Quang Nguyen, Marie Claire Villeval, Hui Xu
revised version published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, 64 (3), 545-572
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6786
Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples: Are There Spillovers?
Christoph Wunder, Guido Heineck
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 244-252.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6774
How General Are Time Preferences? Eliciting Good-Specific Discount Rates
Diego Ubfal
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 118: 150-170.
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 online in: Annual Review of Economics, 2012, 4, 453-478
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6385
Interpreting Time Horizon Effects in Inter-Temporal Choice
Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6247
Impatience among Preschool Children and their Mothers
Fabian Kosse, Friedhelm Pfeiffer
published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 115 (3), 493-495
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5808
Which Measures of Time Preference Best Predict Outcomes? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Aldo Rustichini
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84 (1), 308-320
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5728
The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
John Cawley, Christopher J. Ruhm
published in: Mark V. Pauly, Thomas G. McGuire, and Pedro P. Barros (eds.), Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 2. New York: Elsevier, 2012, 95-199 95-199
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5404
Impatience and Uncertainty: Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior
Matthias Sutter, Martin G. Kocher, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Stefan T. Trautmann
extended version published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (1), 510-531
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. 5127
Household Decision Making in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses
Fredrik Carlsson, Haoran He, Peter Martinsson, Ping Qin, Matthias Sutter
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84 (2), 525-536
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4901
Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit: Experimental and Survey Evidence from Rural India
Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová, Jonathan Morduch
published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (2), 1118-1139
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4756
Stability of Time Preferences
Stephan Meier, Charles Sprenger
revised version published as 'Temporal Stability of Time Preferences' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(2), 273-286
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4198
Present-Biased Preferences and Credit Card Borrowing
Stephan Meier, Charles Sprenger
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2 (1), 193-210
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3674
Psychological and Biological Foundations of Time Preference: Evidence from a Day Reconstruction Study with Biological Tracking
Michael Daly, Liam Delaney, Colm P. Harmon
published as 'Psychological and Biological Foundations of Time Preference' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 7 (2-3), 2009, 659 - 669
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3609
Cognitive Skills Explain Economic Preferences, Strategic Behavior, and Job Attachment
Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Aldo Rustichini
revised version published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2009, 106 (19), 7745-7750
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