IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10784

Nudging Study Habits: A Field Experiment on Peer Tutoring in Higher Education

Nicholas Wilson, Todd Pugatch

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 62, 151 - 161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10760

Committee Search with Ex-ante Heterogeneous Agents: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Keigo Inukai, Keisuke Kawata, Masaru Sasaki

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. 10744

Nudging Households to Take Up Health Insurance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Burkina Faso

Fadima Bocoum, Michael Grimm, Renate Hartwig, Nathalie Zongo

published as 'Can information increase the understanding and uptake of insurance? Lessons from a randomized experiment in rural Burkina Faso' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 220, 102-111.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10717

Female Babies and Risk-Aversion

Ganna Pogrebna, Andrew J. Oswald, David Haig

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 10 - 17

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10684

Digital and Competing Information Sources: Impact on Environmental Concern and Prospects for Cooperation

Vladimir Udalov, Paul J. J. Welfens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10683

Is Transparency an Anti-Corruption Myth?

Cameron K. Murray, Paul Frijters, Markus Schaffner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10607

Whistle-Blower Protection: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Lydia Mechtenberg, Gerd Muehlheusser, Andreas Roider

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 126, 103447

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10603

Risk Attitudes and Household Migration Decisions

Christian Dustmann, Francesco Fasani, Xin Meng, Luigi Minale

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023 58 (1), 112-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10545

True Overconfidence, Revealed through Actions: An Experiment

Stephen L. Cheung, Lachlan Johnstone

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10530

Identification and Decompositions in Probit and Logit Models

Chung Choe, Seeun Jung, Ronald L. Oaxaca

published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 1479–1492 .

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10520

Pledging, Praising and Shaming: Experimental Labour Markets in Ghana

Elwyn Davies, Marcel Fafchamps

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10519

Risk Aversion and Son Preference: Experimental Evidence from Chinese Twin Parents

Soo Hong Chew, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang, Songfa Zhong

published in: Management Science, 2018, 64 (8), 3496 - 3970

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10467

Public-Sector Employment in an Equilibrium Search and Matching Model

James Albrecht, Monica Robayo-Abril, Susan Vroman

published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (617), 35-61

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10434

Unawareness and Selective Disclosure: The Effect of School Quality Information on Property Prices

John de New, Syed Hasan, Nikhil Jha, Mathias Sinning

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 145, 449-464

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10406

Locus of Control and Investment in Training

Marco Caliendo, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Helke Seitz, Arne Uhlendorff

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57(4), 1311-1349

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10396

Exposing Corruption: Can Electoral Competition Discipline Politicians?

Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Eilon Solan

published as 'Electoral Competition, Electoral Uncertainty and Corruption: Theory and Evidence from India' in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2024, 227, 1056640

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10372

The More You Know: Information Effects on Job Application Rates in a Large Field Experiment

Laura Katherine Gee

published in: Management Science, 2018, 65 (5), 2077 - 2094

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10360

Learning about Oneself: The Effects of Performance Feedback on School Choice

Matteo Bobba, Veronica Frisancho

Updated version available as DP 16168.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10357

How Information Affects Support for Education Spending: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States

Martin R. West, Ludger Woessmann, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 167, 138-157