IZA Discussion Papers

published in: Ed Diener, Shigehiro Oishi and Louis Tay (eds.), Handbook of Well-Being. Noba Scholar Handbook Series: Subjective Well-being. Salt Lake City, UT: DEF Publishers, 2018.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11098

Overoptimistic Entrepreneurs: Predicting Wellbeing Consequences of Self-Employment

Reto Odermatt, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Alois Stutzer

revised version published as 'Are Newly Self-Employed Overly Optimistic About Their Future Well-Being?' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2021, 95, 101779

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11034

Is There Always a Trade-off between Insurance and Incentives? The Case of Unemployment with Subsistence Constraints

Juliana Mesén Vargas, Bruno Van der Linden

published as 'Why cash transfer programsan both stimulate and slow down job finding' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 8 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11031

Partners in Crime: Diffusion of Responsibility in Antisocial Behaviors

Sascha Behnk, Li Hao, Ernesto Reuben

published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 145, 104116

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10985

Bayesian versus Heuristic-Based Choice under Sleep Restriction and Suboptimal Times of Day

David L. Dickinson, Todd McElroy

revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2019, 115, 48-59.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10955

Motivational Goal Bracketing: An Experiment

Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2020, 185, 104949

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10452

The Great Recession and Life Satisfaction: The Unique Decline for Americans Approaching Retirement Age

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Amanda Cabacungan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10451

Wage Risk, Employment Risk and the Rise in Wage Inequality

Ariel Mecikovsky, Felix Wellschmied

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10311

Buffer-Stock Saving and Households' Response to Income Shocks

Giulio Fella, Serafin Frache, Winfried Koeniger

revised version published in: International Economic Review, 2020, 61, 1359-1382.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10309

Conditional Cash Transfers: Do They Change Time Preferences and Educational Aspirations?

Diana Contreras Suarez, Lisa A. Cameron

published as 'Conditional Cash Transfers: Do They Result in More Patient Choices and Increased Educational Aspirations?' in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2020, 68 (3), 729 - 761

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10131

Measuring Women's Empowerment in Rwanda

Abdou Musonera, Almas Heshmati

published in: A. Heshmati (ed.), Studies on Economic Development and Growth in Selected African Countries, Springer, 2017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10013

Pension Incentives and the Retirement Decisions of Couples

Kadir Atalay, Garry F. Barrett

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32 (3), 735 - 767

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9572

Unemployment Risk and Over-Indebtedness: A Micro-Econometric Perspective

Philip Du Caju, François Rycx, Ilan Tojerow

also available as: European Central Bank Working Papers, 2016, No. 1908