IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12231

Tobacco Sales Prohibition and Teen Smoking

Armando N. Meier, Reto Odermatt, Alois Stutzer

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 188, 998-1014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11929

Unblurring the Market for Vision Correction: A Willingness to Pay Experiment in Rural Burkina Faso

published as 'All Eyes on the Price: An Assessment of the Willingness-to-Pay for Eyeglasses in Rural Burkina Faso' in: Health Economics, 2022, 31 (7), 1347 - 1367

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11881

Personality Traits and Household Consumption Choices

Lucia Mangiavacchi, Luca Piccoli, Chiara Rapallini

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 2021, 21 (2), 433-468

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11653

Validating the Collective Model of Household Consumption Using Direct Evidence on Sharing

Olivier B. Bargain, Guy Lacroix, Luca Tiberti

published as 'Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Individual Poverty: Assessing Collective Model Predictions using Direct Evidence on Sharing' in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (643), 865 - 905

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11631

The Health Effects of Smoking Bans: Evidence from German Hospitalization Data

Michael Kvasnicka, Thomas Siedler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (11), 1738-1753

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11458

Water Tariffs and Consumers' Inaction

Carmine Ornaghi, Mirco Tonin

published as 'Inattention Matters: An Analysis of Consumers’ Inaction in Choosing a Water Tariff' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (4), 1686–1719,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11391

A Path Out: Prescription Drug Abuse, Treatment, and Suicide

Mark Borgschulte, Adriana Corredor-Waldron, Guillermo Marshall

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 149, 169 - 184

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11205

A New Year, a New You? Heterogeneity and Self-Control in Food Purchases

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Rachel Griffith, Martin O’Connell, Kate Smith, Frederic Vermeulen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10919

Positively Aware? Conflicting Expert Reviews and Demand for Medical Treatment

Jorge Balat, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Shaiza Qayyum

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10910

Financial Hardship and Saving Behaviour: Bayesian Analysis of British Panel Data

Sarah Brown, Pulak Ghosh, Bhuvanesh Pareek, Karl Taylor

published in: Journal of Empirical Finance, 2021, 63, 57-72

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10870

Introducing Risk Adjustment and Free Health Plan Choice in Employer-Based Health Insurance: Evidence from Germany

Adam Pilny, Ansgar Wübker, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 56, 330-351

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10860

Does Daughter Deficit Promote Parental Substance Use? Longitudinal Evidence on Smoking from Rural China

Xi Chen

paper 1 (results on smoking) published as 'Do skewed sex ratios among children promote parental smoking? Longitudinal evidence from rural China' in: Journal of Substance Abuse, 2018, 23 (4), 366-370; paper 2 (results on alcohol abuse) published as 'Does daughter deficit promote paternal substance use? Evidence from China' in: Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy, 2018, 2:47

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10765

The 'Soda Tax' is Unlikely to Make Mexicans Lighter: New Evidence on Biases in Elasticities of Demand for Soda

Mabel Andalón, John Gibson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10754

Disappointment Aversion and Social Comparisons in a Real-Effort Competition

Simon Gächter, Lingbo Huang, Martin Sefton

revised version published in Economic Inquiry, 2018, 56 (3), 1512-1525

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10509

Regular versus Lump-Sum Payments in Union Contracts and Household Consumption

Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Roberta Zizza

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10427

Demand for Off-Grid Solar Electricity: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda