IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'The effectiveness of testing, vaccinations and contact restrictions for containing the CoViD-19 pandemic' in: Scientific Reports, 2022, 12, 8048

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14397

SISTA: Learning Optimal Transport Costs under Sparsity Constraints

Guillaume Carlier, Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon, Yifei Sun

published in: Communication on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2023, 76 (9), 1659-1677

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14047

Intra-Industry Trade, Involuntary Unemployment and Macroeconomic Stability

Antoine Le Riche, Teresa Lloyd-Braga, Leonor Modesto

published in: Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2022, 99, 102589

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13899

People Meet People: A Microlevel Approach to Predicting the Effect of Policies on the Spread of COVID-19

Janos Gabler, Tobias Raabe, Klara Röhrl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13524

Implementing the Panel Event Study

Damian Clarke, Kathya Tapia Schythe

published in: Stata Journal, 2021, 21 (4), 853 - 884

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13265

An Economic Model of the COVID-19 Epidemic: The Importance of Testing and Age-Specific Policies

Luiz Brotherhood, Philipp Kircher, Cezar Santos, Michèle Tertilt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13151

Should Contact Bans Be Lifted in Germany? A Quantitative Prediction of Its Effects

Jean Roch Donsimoni, René Glawion, Bodo Plachter, Constantin Weiser, Klaus Wälde

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2020, 66 (2), 115–133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13127

Sibling Spillover in Rural China: A Story of Sisters and Daughters

Cynthia Bansak, Xuan Jiang, Guanyi Yang

published as 'Sibling spillovers in rural China: A story of sisters' in: China Economic Review, 2022, 76, 101873

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13094

Projecting the Spread of COVID-19 for Germany

Jean Roch Donsimoni, René Glawion, Bodo Plachter, Klaus Wälde

published in: German Economic Review, 2020, 21 (2), 181-216.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12966

Consumer Debt and Default: A Macro Perspective

Florian Exler, Michèle Tertilt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12845

The Romano-Wolf Multiple Hypothesis Correction in Stata

Damian Clarke, Joseph P. Romano, Michael Wolf

published in: Stata Journal, 2020, 13 (4), 812-843

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12566

Interest Rate Hysteresis in Macroeconomic Investment under Uncertainty

Ansgar H. Belke, Matthias Göcke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12331

The Pure Effect of Social Preferences on Regional Location Choices: The Evolving Dynamics of Convergence to a Steady State Population Distribution

Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski, Grzegorz Kosiorowski

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2019, 59 (5), 883 - 909

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12272

Evaluating Welfare and Economic Effects of Raised Fertility

Krzysztof Makarski, Joanna Tyrowicz, Magda Malec

published as 'Fiscal and Welfare Effects of Raised Fertility in Poland: Overlapping Generations Model Estimates' in: Population and Development Review, 2019, 45 (4), 795 - 818

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12152

Have Econometric Analyses of Happiness Data Been Futile? A Simple Truth about Happiness Scales

Le-Yu Chen, Ekaterina Oparina, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Sorawoot Srisuma

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11621

Inequality in an OLG Economy with Heterogeneous Cohorts and Pension Systems

Joanna Tyrowicz, Krzysztof Makarski, Marcin Bielecki

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2018, 16 (4), 583-606

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11610

The Changing Structure of Immigration to the OECD: What Welfare Effects on Member Countries?

Michal Burzynski, Frédéric Docquier, Hillel Rapoport

published in: IMF Economic Review, 2018, 66(3), 564-601

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11499

Competitiveness at the Country-Sector Level: New Measures Based on Global Value Chains

Martyna Marczak, Thomas Beissinger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11493

Smooth Income Tax Schedules: Derivation and Consequences

Diana Estévez Schwarz, Eric Sommer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11441

On Welfare Effects of Increasing Retirement Age

Krzysztof Makarski, Joanna Tyrowicz

published in: Journal of Policy Modelling, 2019, 41 (4), 718 - 746

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11094

Would a Euro's Depreciation Improve the French Economy?

Riccardo Magnani, Luca Piccoli, Martine Carré, Amedeo Spadaro

published as 'A Micro-Macro Simulation Model Applied to the French Economy: The Case of a Euro's Real Depreciation' in: In: Perali F., Scandizzo P. (eds) The New Generation of Computable General Equilibrium Models. Springer, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10827

Equilibrium Search and the Impact of Equal Opportunities for Women

Melvyn Coles, Marco Francesconi

revised version published as 'Equilibrium Search with Multiple Attributes and the Impact of Equal Opportunities for Women' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 127 (1), 138-162

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10447

A Simple Method to Estimate Large Fixed Effects Models Applied to Wage Determinants and Matching

Nikolas Mittag

published as 'A Simple Method to Estimate Large Fixed Effects Models Applied to Wage Determinants' in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101766

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10279

Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Swaziland

Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Thierry Kangoye

substantially revised and rewritten version available as IZA DP No.12198

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10125

(In)Equality and (In)Justice

Guillermina Jasso

published in: Civitas – Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2016, 16 (2), 189-217

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10008

Co-authorship and Academic Productivity in Economics: Interaction Maps from the Complex Networks Approach

José Alberto Molina, Alberto Alcolea, Alfredo Ferrer, David Iñiguez, Alejandro Rivero, Gonzalo Ruiz, Alfonso Tarancón

published as 'Network analysis to measure academic performance in Economics' in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 58, 995 - 1018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8338

Bayesian Exploratory Factor Analysis

Gabriella Conti, Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter, James J. Heckman, Rémi Piatek

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2014, 183(1), 31–57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8251

How Diverse Can Spatial Measures of Cultural Diversity Be? Results from Monte Carlo Simulations of an Agent-Based Model

Daniel Arribas-Bel, Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot

published in: Environment and Planning A, 2016, 48(10), 2046-2066

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8120

Can Dreams Come True? Eliminating Extreme Poverty in Africa by 2030

Mthuli Ncube, Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Zorobabel Bicaba

revised version published as 'Can Extreme Poverty be Eliminated in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030?' in: Journal of African Development, 2017, 19 (2), 93 - 110

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7994

Crowdfunding, Cascades and Informed Investors

Simon C. Parker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7804

Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: Efficient, but Regressive?

Nico Pestel, Eric Sommer

revised version published as 'Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: More Employment and more Inequality?' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2017, 63 (3), 524-563

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7705

Assessing the Impact of the Maternity Capital Policy in Russia Using a Dynamic Model of Fertility and Employment

Fabian Slonimczyk, Anna Yurko

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 265-281

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7235

Measurement of Environmentally Sensitive Productivity Growth in Korean Industries

Yeimin Chung, Almas Heshmati

published in: Journal of Cleaner Production, 2015, 104, 380-391.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7215

Comparing Inequality Aversion across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ

Olivier B. Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch

revised version published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 21(5), 845-873

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6908

Household Search or Individual Search: Does It Matter? Evidence from Lifetime Inequality Estimates

Luca Flabbi, James Mabli

published as 'Household Search or Individual Search: Does It Matter?' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 35 (1), 1 - 46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6784

Does It Pay for Women to Volunteer?

Robert M. Sauer

published in: International Economic Review, 2015, 56(2), 537-564

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6248

Agreement Theory and Consensus

Juan Carlos Candeal, Esteban Induráin, José Alberto Molina

published as 'The consensus functional equation in agreement theory' in: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2013, 228, 219-235

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6094

Demography, Capital Flows and Unemployment

Luca Marchiori, Olivier Pierrard, Henri R. Sneessens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5811

Do Frictions Matter in the Labor Market? Accessions, Separations and Minimum Wage Effects

Arindrajit Dube, T. William Lester, Michael Reich

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5603

Market Distortions and Local Indeterminacy: A General Approach

Teresa Lloyd-Braga, Leonor Modesto, Thomas Seegmuller

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2014, 151, 216–247

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5440

Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US: Between Equity and Efficiency

Olivier B. Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch

revised version pubished in 2 parts - as 'Comparing inequality aversion across countries when labor supply responses differ' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 21, 845 - 873 (also available as IZA DP 7215) and as 'Tax-Benefit Revealed Social Preferences in Europe and the US' in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 113/114, 257 -28

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5221

Tax-Benefit Revealed Redistributive Preferences Over Time: Ireland 1987-2005

Olivier B. Bargain, Claire Keane

published in: Labour, 2010, 24 (s1), 141–167

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5013

Selective Reductions in Labor Taxation: Labor Market Adjustments and Macroeconomic Performance

Anna Batyra, Henri R. Sneessens

published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2010, 32 (4), 531–543

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4794

Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects on Hazard Rates

Simen Gaure, Knut Røed, Gerard J. van den Berg, Tao Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4071

Optimal Unemployment Insurance for Older Workers

Jean-Olivier Hairault, François Langot, Sébastien Ménard, Thepthida Sopraseuth

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (5-6), 509-519

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3757

Dynamics of Intrahousehold Bargaining

Joaquín Andaluz, Miriam Marcén, José Alberto Molina

published as 'Which spouse first decides in the household? The dynamics of bargaining' in: Theoretical Economics Letters, 2013, 3, 69-77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3495

Taking the Easy Way Out: How the GED Testing Program Induces Students to Drop Out

James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, Paul A. LaFontaine, Pedro L. Rodríguez

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2012, 30 (3), 495-520

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3480

Employment Effects of Welfare Reforms: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Life-Cycle Model

Peter Haan, Victoria L. Prowse, Arne Uhlendorff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3330

On the Dynamics of Interstate Migration: Migration Costs and Self-Selection

Christian Bayer, Falko Juessen

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2012, 15 (3), 377-401

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3246

Stability and Dynamics in an Overlapping Generations Economy with Flexible Wage Negotiations

Erkki Koskela, Mikko Puhakka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3197

Why Develop Open Source Software? The Role of Non-Pecuniary Benefits, Monetary Rewards and Open Source Licence Type

Robert M. Sauer

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2007, 23 (4), 605-619

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2817

The Terms and Relations of Comparison, Referential, and Relative Processes

Guillermina Jasso

published in: Andreas Diekmann, Klaus Eichner, Peter Schmidt, and Thomas Voss (eds.), Rational Choice: Theoretische Analyse und Empirische Resultate. Festschrift für Karl-Dieter Opp. Wiesbaden, Germany: VS Verlag, 2008

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2616

Should Old-Age Benefits Be Earnings-Tested?

Niku Määttänen, Panu Poutvaara

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2594

Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility: An Algebraic Characterization of Projective Preorders and Some Welfare Consequences

Juan Carlos Candeal, Esteban Induráin, José Alberto Molina

published as 'Numerical representability or ordered topological spaces with compatible algebraic structure' in: Order, 2012, 29, 131-146

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2022

Military Draft and Economic Growth in OECD Countries

Katarina Keller, Panu Poutvaara, Andreas Wagener

published in: Defense and Peace Economics, 2009, 20 (5), 373-393

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1917