IZA Discussion Papers

published in: Chang, Y., Lee, S. and Miller, J.I. (Eds.) Essays in Honor of Joon Y. Park: Econometric Methodology in Empirical Applications (Advances in Econometrics, Vol. 45B), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, 2023, 385-410

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13613

Two-Stage Least Squares Random Forests with an Application to Angrist and Evans (1998)

Martin Biewen, Philipp Kugler

shorter version published in: Economics Letters, 2021, 204, 109893

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13430

Bounding Program Benefits When Participation Is Misreported

Denni Tommasi, Lina Zhang

published in: Journal of Econometrics 2024, 238, (1), 105556

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13176

Loss Aversion and the Welfare Ranking of Policy Interventions

Sergio Firpo, Antonio F. Galvao, Martyna Kobus, Thomas Parker, Pedro Rosa-Dias

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13099

Using Machine Learning to Predict Nosocomial Infections and Medical Accidents in a NICU

Marc Beltempo, Georges Bresson, Guy Lacroix

forthcoming in: Health & Technology

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13046

Infections, Accidents and Nursing Overtime in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Bayesian Semiparametric Panel Data Logit Model

Marc Beltempo, Georges Bresson, Jean-Michel Etienne, Guy Lacroix

published as 'Infections, accidents and nursing overtime in a neonatal intensive care unit' in: European Journal of Health Economics, Published: 19 October 2021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13020

Bounding the Joint Distribution of Disability and Employment with Contaminated Data

Ding Liu, Daniel L. Millimet

published as 'Bounding the Joint Distribution of Disability and Employment with Misclassification' in: Health Economics, 2021, 30, 1628-1647

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13016

Hours Worked and the U.S. Distribution of Real Annual Earnings 1976–2016

Iván Fernández-Val, Franco Peracchi, Aico van Vuuren, Francis Vella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12801

Wild Bootstrap for Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Designs: Obtaining Robust Bias-Corrected Confidence Intervals

Yang He, Otávio Bartalotti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12755

Do Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed Affect Participants' Well-Being? A Rigorous Look at (Un-)Intended Consequences of Labor Market Policies

Marco Caliendo, Stefan Tübbicke

published in: Evaluation Review, 2022, 46 (5), 517-554

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12470

Long-Run Effects of Dynamically Assigned Treatments: A New Methodology and an Evaluation of Training Effects on Earnings

Gerard J. van den Berg, Johan Vikström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12366

A Correction for Regression Discontinuity Designs with Group-Specific Mismeasurement of the Running Variable

Otávio Bartalotti, Quentin Brummet, Steven G. Dieterle

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12261

New Evidence on Long-Term Effects of Start-Up Subsidies: Matching Estimates and Their Robustness

Marco Caliendo, Stefan Tübbicke

published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59 (4), 1605-1631

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12154

Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance

David S. Lee, Pauline Leung, Christopher J. O'Leary, Zhuan Pei, Simon Quach

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (S2), S455-S506.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12044

Decomposing Real Wage Changes in the United States

Iván Fernández-Val, Aico van Vuuren, Francis Vella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11924

Public Sector Wage Gaps over the Long-Run: Evidence from Panel Administrative Data

Olivier Bargain, Audrey Etienne, Blaise Melly

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11914

An Introduction to Nonparametric Regression for Labor Economists

Daniel J. Henderson, Anne-Charlotte Souto

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2018, 39, 355-382

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11634

The Role of Hours Changes for the Increase in German Earnings Inequality

Martin Biewen, Daniela Plötze

revised version published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 239, 1-28

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11584

Two Stories of Wage Dynamics in Latin America: Different Policies, Different Outcomes

Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza, Luis C. Carvajal-Osorio

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2020, 41, 128–168,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11522

From Classes to Copulas: Wages, Capital, and Top Incomes

Rolf Aaberge, Anthony B. Atkinson, Sebastian Königs

published in: The Journal of Economic Inequality, June 2018, Vol. 16(2), 295–320.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11517

Are Rushed Privatizations Substandard? Analyzing Firm-Level Privatization under Fiscal Pressure

Jan Hagemeier, Jan Svejnar, Joanna Tyrowicz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11502

Minimum Wages and the Gender Gap in Pay: New Evidence from the UK and Ireland

Olivier Bargain, Karina Doorley, Philippe Van Kerm

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65 (3), 514-539

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11294

Nonseparable Sample Selection Models with Censored Selection Rules: An Application to Wage Decompositions

Iván Fernández-Val, Aico van Vuuren, Francis Vella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11261

Voting Patterns and the Gender Wage Gap

Wifag Adnan, Sami H. Miaari

forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11260

Explaining the Gender Test Score Gap in Mathematics: The Role of Gender Inequality

Z. Eylem Gevrek, Christian Neumeier, Deniz Gevrek

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 76 (3), 1-31

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. 11138

Including Covariates in the Regression Discontinuity Design

Markus Frölich, Martin Huber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11055

The Post-Reform Effectiveness of the New German Start-Up Subsidy for the Unemployed

Lutz Bellmann, Marco Caliendo, Stefan Tübbicke

published in: LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2018, 32(3), 293-319

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10867

Assessing the Impact of a Minimum Income Scheme in the Basque Country

Sara de la Rica, Lucía Gorjón

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10801

Regression Discontinuity Design with Continuous Measurement Error in the Running Variable

Laurent Davezies, Thomas Le Barbanchon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10763

Changes in the German Wage Structure: Unions, Internationalization, Tasks, Firms, and Worker Characteristics

Martin Biewen, Matthias Seckler

revised version published as 'Unions, Internationalization, Tasks, Firms, and Worker Characteristics: A Detailed Decomposition Analysis of Rising Wage Inequality in Germany' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019, 17, 461-498

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10747

The Distribution of Returns to Education for People with Disabilities

Daniel J. Henderson, Andrew Houtenville, Le Wang

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2017, 38, 261-282

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10701

Cognitive, Socioemotional and Behavioral Returns to College Quality

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal

published as 'Effects of Peers and Rank on Cognition, Preferences, and Personality' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (3), 587 - 601

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10680

How Do Unemployed Workers Behave Prior to Retirement? A Multi-State Multiple-Spell Approach

Ewa Gałecka-Burdziak, Marek Góra

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10645

Equality of Opportunity, Moral Hazard and the Timing of Luck

Arnaud Lefranc, Alain Trannoy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10531

Comparing Econometric Methods to Empirically Evaluate Job-Search Assistance

Paul Muller, Bas van der Klaauw, Arjan Heyma

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2020, 35 (5), 526-547

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10473

Estimation and Inference for Actual and Counterfactual Growth Incidence Curves

Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Sergio Firpo, Antonio F. Galvao

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34, 385-402

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10450

Trends in the German Income Distribution: 2005/06 to 2010/11

Martin Biewen, Martin Ungerer, Max Löffler

revised version published as “Why Did Income Inequality in Germany Not Increase Further After 2005?” in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20, 471 - 504

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10429

Research Design Meets Market Design: Using Centralized Assignment for Impact Evaluation

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, Yusuke Narita, Parag A. Pathak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10248

Rebuttal of "On Nonparametric Identification of Treatment Effects in Duration Models"

Jaap H. Abbring, Gerard J. van den Berg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10247

On Nonparametric Identification of Treatment Effects in Duration Models

Per Johansson, Myoung-jae Lee

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10076

The Three I's of Public Schools: Irrelevant Inputs, Insufficient Resources and Inefficiency

Daniel J. Henderson, Léopold Simar, Le Wang

published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49(12), 1164-1184

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10057

Proxy Variables and Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects

Xavier de Luna, Philip Fowler, Per Johansson

published in: Economics Letters, 2017, 150, 152–154

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9990

Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Discrete Running Variable

Michal Kolesár, Christoph Rothe

published in: American Economic Review, 2018, 108 (8), 2277 - 2304

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9989

The Value of Knowing the Propensity Score for Estimating Average Treatment Effects

Christoph Rothe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9782

Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Methods for Dynamic Treatment Evaluation

Gerard J. van den Berg, Petyo Bonev, Enno Mammen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9628

Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Martin Weißenberger

published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 86, 87-108

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9604

Identification and Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Manipulated Running Variable

Francois Gerard, Miikka Rokkanen, Christoph Rothe

published as 'Bounds on treatment effects in regression discontinuity designs with a manipulated running variable' in: Quantitative Economics, 2020, 11 (3), 839-870

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9428

Endogeneity and Non-Response Bias in Treatment Evaluation: Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects by Instruments

Hans Fricke, Markus Frölich, Martin Huber, Michael Lechner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9265

Nonparametric Kernel Estimation of the Impact of Tax Policy on the Demand for Private Health Insurance in Australia

Xiaodong Gong, Jiti Gao

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9007

Wage Returns to Mid-Career Investments in Job Training through Employer-Supported Course Enrollment: Evidence for Canada

Wen Ci, Jose C. Galdo, Marcel Voia, Christopher Worswick

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy. 2015, 4:9

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8886

Employment Subsidies, Informal Economy and Women's Transition into Work in a Depressed Area: Evidence from a Matching Approach

Manuela Deidda, Adriana Di Liberto, Marta Foddi, Giovanni Sulis

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4:7

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8817

Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups

Marco Caliendo, Jens Hogenacker, Steffen Künn, Frank Wießner

published in: Small Business Economics, 45(1), 2015, 165-190

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8771

The Inequality-Growth Plateau

Daniel J. Henderson, Junhui Qian, Le Wang

published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 128, 17-20

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8758

Robust Confidence Intervals for Average Treatment Effects under Limited Overlap

Christoph Rothe

published in: Econometrica; 2017, 85 (2), 645 - 660

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8757

Inference on Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design

David Card, David S. Lee, Zhuan Pei, Andrea Weber

revised version published in: Econometrica, 2015, 83(6), 2453–2483

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8736

Additive Kernel Estimates of Returns to Schooling

Deniz Ozabaci, Daniel J. Henderson

published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 48, 227-251

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8654

From Riches to Rags, and Back? Institutional Change, Financial Development and Economic Growth in Argentina since the 1890s

Nauro F. Campos, Menelaos G. Karanasos, Bin Tan

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52(2), 206 - 223

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8649

Dual Labour Markets and (Lack of) On-the-Job Training: PIAAC Evidence from Spain and Other EU Countries

Antonio Cabrales, Juan J. Dolado, Ricardo Mora

published in SERIEs Journal of the Spanish Economic Association (2017), 8, 345-371.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8528

Peer Effects on Childhood and Adolescent Obesity in China

Peng Nie, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Xiaobo He

published in: China Economic Review, 2015, 35, 47-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8503

Equalization of Opportunity: Definitions, Implementable Conditions and Application to Early-Childhood Policy Evaluation

Francesco Andreoli, Tarjei Havnes, Arnaud Lefranc

published as 'Robust Inequality of Opportunity Comparisons: Theory and Application to Early Childhood Policy Evaluation' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101, (2), 355 - 369

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8450

Policy Discontinuity and Duration Outcomes

Gerard J. van den Berg, Antoine Bozio, Monica Costa Dias

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8405

Counting Rotten Apples: Student Achievement and Score Manipulation in Italian Elementary Schools

Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai, Daniela Vuri

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 200 (2), 344-362

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8339

A General Semiparametric Approach to Inference with Marker-Dependent Hazard Rate Models

Gerard J. van den Berg, Lena Janys, Enno Mammen, Jens P. Nielsen

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2021, 221, 43-67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8322

Inequality in Total Returns to Work in Ukraine: Taking a Closer Look at Workplace (Dis)amenities

Olena Y. Nizalova

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8282

A Permutation Test and Estimation Alternatives for the Regression Kink Design

Peter Ganong, Simon Jäger

revised version published as 'A Permutation Test for the Regression Kink Design' in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2018, 113 (522), 494-504

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8280

Direct and Indirect Treatment Effects: Causal Chains and Mediation Analysis with Instrumental Variables

Markus Frölich, Martin Huber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8144

Additive Nonparametric Regression in the Presence of Endogenous Regressors

Deniz Ozabaci, Daniel J. Henderson, Liangjun Su

published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2014, 32, 555-575

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8070

Household Consumption When the Marriage Is Stable

Laurens Cherchye, Thomas Demuynck, Bram De Rock, Frederic Vermeulen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8049

Matching Methods in Practice: Three Examples

Guido W. Imbens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7972

Treatment Evaluation with Multiple Outcome Periods under Endogeneity and Attrition

Markus Frölich, Martin Huber

published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2014, 109(508), 1697-1711

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. 7886

More Is Better! What Can Firm-Specific Estimates of the Impact of Institutional Quality on Performance Tell Us?

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ralitza Dimova, Subal C. Kumbhakar, Kai Sun

published as 'Is Tinkering with Institutional Quality a Panacea for Firm Performance? Insights from a Semiparametric Approach to Modeling Firm Performance' in: Review of Development Economics, 2018, 22 (1), 1-22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7840

New Evidence on the Healthy Immigrant Effect

Lídia Farré

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7768

After-School Care and Parents' Labor Supply

Christina Felfe, Michael Lechner, Petra Thiemann

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 62-75

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7731

Income vs. Consumption Inequality in South Korea: Evaluating Stochastic Dominance Rankings by Various Household Attributes

Almas Heshmati, Robert Rudolf

published in: Asian Economic Journal, 2014, 28(4), 413-436.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7689