IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13021

Machiavelli versus Concave Utility Functions: Should Bads Be Spread out or Concentrated?

Paul Frijters, Christian Krekel, Aydogan Ulker

published as 'Should bads be inflicted all at once, like Machiavelli said? Evidence from life-satisfaction data' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 1 - 27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12977

Rethinking Specialisation and the Sexual Division of Labour in the 21st Century

Peter Siminski, Rhiannon Yetsenga

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12948

Gender, Information and the Efficiency of Household Production Decisions: An Experiment in Rural Togo

Marie Christine Apedo-Amah, Habiba Djebbari, Roberta Ziparo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12923

Does the Added Worker Effect Matter?

Nezih Guner, Yuliya Kulikova, Arnau Valladares-Esteban

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12921

Enhancing Employability by Responding to Work Motives: Lessons from a Field Experiment among Israeli Ultra-Religious Women

Yael Goldfarb, Shoshana Neuman

published as 'Labour-Market Integration by Responding to Work Motives: Lessons from a Study of Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Women' in: Journal of Economics, Management and Religion, 2020, 1 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12906

Rational Addiction and Time Consistency: An Empirical Test

Luca Piccoli, Silvia Tiezzi

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 80, 102546

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12868

Can Sanctuary Polices Reduce Domestic Violence?

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Monica Deza

published in: American Law and Economic Review, 2022, 24 (1), 116 - 170

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12836

Who Bears the Welfare Costs of Monopoly? The Case of the Credit Card Industry

Kyle Herkenhoff, Gajendran Raveendranathan

published online in: Review of Economic Studies, rdae098, 24 October 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12813

Improving Access to Savings through Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence from African Smallholder Farmers

Catia Batista, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: World Development, 2020, 129, 104905

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12792

Parental Inputs and Socio-Economic Gaps in Early Child Development

Lindsey Macmillan, Emma Tominey

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 1513–1543

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12753

Some Contributions of Economics to the Study of Personality

James J. Heckman, Tomáš Jagelka, Tim Kautz

published in: O. P. John and R. W. Robins (eds.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research, 4th ed., Guilford Press, 2021, 853–892

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12744

The Effect of Increasing the Early Retirement Age on Savings Behavior Before Retirement

Stefan Etgeton, Björn Fischer, Han Ye

published as 'The Effect of Increasing Retirement Age on Households' Savings and Consumption Expenditure' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 221, 104845

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12743

Differences in Euro-Area Household Finances and their Relevance for Monetary-Policy Transmission

Thomas Hintermaier, Winfried Koeniger

revised version forthcoming in: Quantitative Economics, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12718

Having It All, for All: Child-Care Subsidies and Income Distribution Reconciled

Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer, Kerstin Roeder

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 176, 188--211

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12710

Parenting Values Moderate the Intergenerational Transmission of Time Preferences

Anne Ardila Brenøe, Thomas Epper

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12656