IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8085

FDI Impact on Firm Performance in Enlarged Europe: Evidence from a Meta-Regression Analysis

published in: World Economy,, 2018, 41 (5), 1342-1377

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8019

Inside the Black Box of Class Size: Mechanisms, Behavioral Responses, and Social Background

Peter Fredriksson, Björn Öckert, Hessel Oosterbeek

published as 'Parental Responses to Public Investments in Children: Evidence from a Maximum Class Size Rule' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2016, 51(4), 832-868.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7947

Obesity and the Labor Market: A Fresh Look at the Weight Penalty

Marco Caliendo, Markus Gehrsitz

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 23, 209-225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7939

Does Longer Compulsory Education Equalize Schooling by Gender and Rural/Urban Residence?

Murat Güray Kirdar, Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur, Ismet Koc

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2016, 30 (3), 549-579.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7929

Economic Status, Air Quality, and Child Health: Evidence from Inversion Episodes

Jenny Jans, Per Johansson, Peter Nilsson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7905

Timing of College Enrollment and Family Formation Decisions

Maria Knoth Humlum, Jannie H. G. Kristoffersen, Rune Majlund Vejlin

published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 48: 215-230

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7897

The Long-Term Effects of Early Track Choice

Christian Dustmann, Patrick A. Puhani, Uta Schönberg

published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (603), 1348–1380

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7801

Are Sunk Costs Irrelevant? Evidence from Playing Time in the National Basketball Association

Daniel Leeds, Michael A. Leeds, Akira Motomura

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7741

Penalized Quantile Regression with Semiparametric Correlated Effects: Applications with Heterogeneous Preferences

Matthew Harding, Carlos Lamarche

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32, 342-358

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7723

Incentives for Teacher Relocation: Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance

Todd Pugatch, Elizabeth Schroeder

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 41, 120-136

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7719

Does Apprenticeship Improve Job Opportunities? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Matteo Picchio, Stefano Staffolani

published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 56 (1), 23-60

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7709

Household Consumption at Retirement: A Regression Discontinuity Study on French Data

Nicolas Moreau, Elena G. F. Stancanelli

published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 117-118, 253-276

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7708

What If You Had Been Less Fortunate: The Effects of Poor Family Background on Current Labor Market Outcomes

Sungwook Cho, Almas Heshmati

published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2015, 42 (1), 20-33.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7673

Industry-Wide Work Rules and Productivity: Evidence from Argentine Union Contract Data

Carlos Lamarche

published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2013, 2:11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7589

Assessing the Welfare Effects of Unemployment Benefits Using the Regression Kink Design

Camille Landais

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7577

Job Contact Networks and Wages of Rural-Urban Migrants in China

Wenjin Long, Simon Appleton, Lina Song

Published with a revised title “The Impacts of job contact network on wages of rural-urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach”, in Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2017, 15 (1) 81-101

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7561

Moderating Political Extremism: Single Round vs Runoff Elections under Plurality Rule

Massimo Bordignon, Tommaso Nannicini, Guido Tabellini

published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (8), 2349-70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7540

Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Eric Bartelsman, Sabien Dobbelaere, Bettina Peters

published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2015, 24(5), 875-949

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7508

Putting Structure on the RD Design: Social Transfers and Youth Inactivity in France

Olivier B. Bargain, Karina Doorley

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (4), 1032-1059.