Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17663

Offshoring, Matching, and Wage Inequality: Theory and Evidence

Gueyon Kim, Dohyeon Lee, Dario Pozzoli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17563

Modelling Monospony on the Labor Market with Separable Matching Models

Pauline Corblet, Arnaud Dupuy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17460

When Matthew Met Larry: Explaining the Persistence of Gender Underrepresentation in High Status Organizations

Steven J. Bosworth, Marina Della Giusta

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17335

Job Displacement, Remarriage, and Marital Sorting

Hanno Foerster, Tim Obermeier, Bastian Schulz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17246

Competitive Search with Private Information: Can Price Signal Quality?

James Albrecht, Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Susan Vroman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16938

Meritocracy across Countries

Oriana Bandiera, Ananya Kotia, Ilse Lindenlaub, Christian Moser, Andrea Prat

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16824

Spatial Search

Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Ronald P. Wolthoff

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2025, 224, 105976

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16809

A General Measure of Bargaining Power for Non-cooperative Games

Joseph-Simon Goerlach, Nicolas Motz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16776

Setting Priorities in School Choice Enrollment Systems: Who Benefits from Placement Algorithm Preferences?

Jon Valant, Brigham Walker

published online as 'Setting Priorities in School Choice: How Placement Algorithms Affect Enrollment Patterns by Race and Family Income' in: Journal of Human Resources, 08 October 2025, 0124-13347R2

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16768

The Impact of the Menstrual Cycle on Bargaining Behavior

Lina Lozano, Arno Riedl, Christina Rott

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16197

Playing the System: Address Manipulation and Access to Schools

Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen, Lykke Sterll Christensen, Mikkel Høst Gandil, Hans Henrik Sievertsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14803

The Market for CEOs: Building Legacy and Feeling Empowered Matter

Arnaud Dupuy, John Kennes, Ran Sun Lyng

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14688

Stable Marriage, Household Consumption and Unobserved Match Quality

Martin J. Browning, Laurens Cherchye, Thomas Demuynck, Bram De Rock, Frederic Vermeulen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14621

Rules, Preferences and Evolution from the Family Angle

Alessandro Cigno

published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook fo Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14524

On the Foundations of Competitive Search Equilibrium with and without Market Makers

James Albrecht, Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Susan Vroman

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2023, 208, 105605

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14501

Search, Screening and Sorting

Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Ronald P. Wolthoff

forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13328

Taxation in Matching Markets

Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon, Sonia Jaffe, Scott Duke Kominers

published in: International Economic Review, 2020, 61 (4), 1591-1634

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13128

A Strictly Economic Explanation of Gender Norms: The Lasting Legacy of the Plough

Alessandro Cigno

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2022, 20, 1-13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12512

Multiple Applications, Competing Mechanisms, and Market Power

James Albrecht, Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Susan Vroman

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2020, 190, 105121

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12373

Evolution of Individual Preferences and Persistence of Family Rules

Alessandro Cigno, Alessandro Gioffré, Annalisa Luporini

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 19, 935-958

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12205

Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design

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

published in: Econometrica, 2022, 90 (1), 117–151

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11823

The Empirical Content of Marital Surplus in Matching Models

Karina Doorley, Arnaud Dupuy, Simon Weber

published in: Economics Letters, 2019, 176, 51-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11595

Voting as a War of Attrition

Maksymilian Kwiek, Helia Marreiros, Michael Vlassopoulos

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 167, 104-121, 2019.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11572

Marital Patterns and Income Inequality

Arnaud Dupuy, Simon Weber

published in: Economica, 2022, 89, 29-43

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10900

A Note on the Estimation of Job Amenities and Labor Productivity

Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2022, 13 (1), 153-177.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10723

How Asymmetrically Increasing Joint Strike Costs Need Not Lead to Fewer Strikes

Archontis L. Pantsios, Solomon Polachek

published in: Atlantic Economic Journal, 2017, 45 (2), 149-161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10468

Labor Market Regulation, International Trade and Footloose Capital

Tapio K. Palokangas

revised version "Public Policy, Footloose Capital, and Union Influence" published in: Review of International Economics, 2020, 28 (4), 976-991.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10393

Dynamic Incentive Effects of Team Formation: Experimental Evidence

Thomas Gall, Xiaocheng Hu, Michael Vlassopoulos

published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 28(4), 687-712, 2019.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9950

Search Frictions, Competing Mechanisms and Optimal Market Segmentation

Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Ronald P. Wolthoff

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2017, 169, 453-473

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9506

On the Impact of Quotas and Decision Rules in Ultimatum Collective Bargaining

Robert Feicht, Veronika Grimm, Holger A. Rau, Gesine Stephan

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 100, 175-192.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9455

Firm-Size Wage Gaps along the Formal-Informal Divide: Theory and Evidence

Binnur Balkan, Semih Tumen

published in: Industrial Relations, 2016, 55(2), 235-266

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9336

An Experimental Study of Voting with Costly Delay

Maksymilian Kwiek, Helia Marreiros, Michael Vlassopoulos

published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 140, 23-26.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8976

Improving the Allocation of Spots in Child Care Facilities for Toddlers in Germany: A Mechanism Design Approach

Sissa Carlsson, Stephan L. Thomsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8936

Heterogeneity in Spousal Matching Models

Jason M. Fletcher, Norma Padrón

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8739

Would I Care if I Knew? Image Concerns and Social Confirmation in Giving

Alexander S. Kritikos, Jonathan H. W. Tan

substantially revised version published as 'Influence in the Face of Impunity' in: Economics Letters, 2016, 141, 119-121.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8357

Meeting Technologies and Optimal Trading Mechanisms in Competitive Search Markets

Benjamin R. Lester, Ludo Visschers, Ronald P. Wolthoff

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2015, 155, 1-15

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8202

The Illusion of School Choice: Empirical Evidence from Barcelona

Caterina Calsamiglia, Maia Güell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8070

Household Consumption When the Marriage Is Stable

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

published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107 (6), 1507 - 1534

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7625

Self-Serving Use of Equity Rules in Bargaining with Asymmetric Outside Options

Heike Hennig-Schmidt, Bernd Irlenbusch, Rainer Michael Rilke, Gari Walkowitz

completely revised and extended version published as 'Designing Feedback in Voluntary Contribution Games: The Role of Transparency" in: Experimental Economics 2019, 22(2), 552–576

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7163

Competing with Asking Prices

Benjamin R. Lester, Ludo Visschers, Ronald P. Wolthoff

published in: Theoretical Economics, 2017, 12 (2), 731-770

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7025

Nash Bargaining and the Wage Consequences of Educational Mismatches

Joop Hartog, Michael Sattinger

published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 23, 50-56

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6942

Canonical Correlation and Assortative Matching: A Remark

Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon

published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 119/120, 375 - 383

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6087

Strategic Ignorance in Bargaining

Julian Conrads, Bernd Irlenbusch

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 92, 104-115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5181

Does Bargaining Matter in the Small Firm Matching Model?

Olivier L'Haridon, Franck Malherbet, Sébastien Pérez-Duarte

published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 42-58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4344

Employment Fluctuations with Downward Wage Rigidity: The Role of Moral Hazard

James Costain, Marcel Jansen

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, special issue: "Price and Wage Dynamics", 2010, 112(4), 782-811

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4341

Marriage, Cohabitation and Commitment

Murat Iyigun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4004

Identifying Sorting: In Theory

Jan Eeckhout, Philipp Kircher

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2011, 78 (3), 872–906

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3261

Telling the Truth May Not Pay Off: An Empirical Study of Centralised University Admissions in Germany

Sebastian Till Braun, Nadja Dwenger, Dorothea Kübler

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2646

Public Goods, Transferable Utility and Divorce Laws

Pierre-André Chiappori, Murat Iyigun, Yoram Weiss

published as 'The Becker-Coase Theorem Reconsidered' in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81 (2), 157-77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2544

Bargaining at Divorce: The Allocation of Custody

Christine Atteneder, Martin Halla