IZA Discussion Papers

published online as 'The Representativeness of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings and its Implications for UK Wage Policy' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 25 August 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17159

Biological Age and Predicting Future Health Care Utilisation

Apostolos Davillas, Andrew M. Jones

revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2025, 99, 102956

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17154

(Don't) Walk This Way: The Econometrics of Crosswalks

Daniel L. Millimet

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17120

Higher-Order Beliefs and Risky Asset Holdings

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Xiao Yin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17073

Citizenship Question Effects on Household Survey Response

J. David Brown, Misty L. Heggeness

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17064

Addressing Soil Quality Data Gaps with Imputation: Evidence from Ethiopia and Uganda

Hai-Anh H Dang, Calogero Carletto, Sydney Gourlay, Kseniya Abanokova

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17052

Sorting through Cheap Talk: Theory and Evidence from a Labor Market

John J. Horton, Ramesh Johari, Philipp Kircher

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17014

A Hands-on Machine Learning Primer for Social Scientists: Math, Algorithms and Code

Nikos Askitas

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IZA Discussion Paper No. 16912

Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope

Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikola, Nikolai Cook

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16892

Country Statistical Capacity: A Recent Assessment Tool and Further Reflections on the Way Forward

Hai-Anh H Dang, Dean Jolliffe, Umar Serajuddin, Brian Stacy

published in: Statistical Journal of the IAOS, 2024, 40 (2), 211–225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16865

The Missing Type: Where Are the Inequality Averse (Students)?

Thomas Epper, Julien Senn, Ernst Fehr

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16757

Basic Income Advocates, Sober Up.

Ive Marx

published in: Sarah Marchal and Ive Marx (eds.), Zero Poverty Society: Ensuring a Decent Income for All, Oxford University Press, 2024, 207–227

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16745

Reviewing Assessment Tools for Measuring Country Statistical Capacity

Hai-Anh H Dang, John Pullinger, Umar Serajuddin, Brian Stacy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16694

When Randomization Is Not Feasible: The Case of Parenting Skills Programs

Daniela Del Boca, Chiara D. Pronzato, Lucia Schiavon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16674

Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis

Ali Almelhem, Murat Iyigun, Austin Kennedy, Jared Rubin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16661

A New Time-Use Diary App to Measure Parental Investments

Maria Bigoni, Stefania Bortolotti, Margherita Fort, Annalisa Guarini, Daniela Iorio, Chiara Monfardini, Alessandra Sansavini, Davide Sansone, Chiara Suttora

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16630

(Frisch-Waugh-Lovell)' On the Estimation of Regression Models by Row

Damian Clarke, Nicolás Paris Torres, Benjamin Villena-Roldan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16628

Gender Gaps in Financial Literacy: A Multi-Arm RCT to Break the Response Bias in Surveys

Laura Hospido, Nagore Iriberri, Margarita Machelett

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16598

Discrimination against Women in Hiring

Adam Osman, Jamin D. Speer, Andrew Weaver

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2025, 73 (2), 781-809

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16501

Understanding Urban Economies, Land Use, and Social Dynamics in the City: Big Data and Measurement

Albert Saiz, Arianna Salazar-Miranda

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16417

What If It Never Happened? Subjective Treatment Effects of a Negative Shock on Youth Labour Market Outcomes in Developing Countries

Marta Favara, Richard Freund, Marcello Perez-Alvarez

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16343

Order Effects in Eliciting Preferences

Orestis Kopsacheilis, Sebastian J. Goerg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16337

Documenting and Explaining the Dramatic Rise of the New Society Journals in Economics

John C. Ham, Julian Wright, Ziqiu Ye

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16163

Sendemails: An Automated Email Package with Multiple Applications

Luca Fumarco, S. Michael Gaddis, Francesco Sarracino, I. Snoddy

revised version published in:Stata Journal, 2024, 24 (1), 130-160

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16143

For Better or Worse? Subjective Expectations and Cost-Benefit Trade-Offs in Health Behavior

Gabriella Conti, Pamela Giustinelli

published in: Health Economics, 2025, 34, 992 - 1012

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16106

Inflation Expectations and Misallocation of Resources: Evidence from Italy

Tiziano Ropele, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Olivier Coibion

published in: American Economic Review: Insights, 2024, 6 (2), 246–261

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16027

Accounting For Individual-Specific Reliability of Self-Assessed Measures of Economic Preferences and Personality Traits

Thomas Dohmen, Tomáš Jagelka

published in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2024, 23, 399–462

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15963

ddml: Double/Debiased Machine Learning in Stata

Achim Ahrens, Christian B. Hansen, Mark E Schaffer, Thomas Wiemann

published in: Stata Journal, 2024, 24 (1), 3-45.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15952

Not That Basic: How Level, Design and Context Matter for the Redistributive Outcomes of Universal Basic Income

Elise Aerts, Ive Marx, Gerlinde Verbist

published in: Journal of Social Policy, 2025, 54 (2), 351-373

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15949

First Impressions Matter. Interview Interactions and Interviewers' Subjective Measures

Karina Doorley, Eva Sierminska

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15941

On the Validity of Using Webpage Texts to Identify the Target Population of a Survey: An Application to Detect Online Platforms

Piet Daas, Wolter Hassink, Bart Klijs

published in: Journal of Official Statistics, 2024, 40 (1), 190-211

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15907

Synthetic Difference-in-Differences Estimation

Damian Clarke, Daniel Pailañir, Susan Athey, Guido W. Imbens

published in: Stata Journal, 2024, 24 (4), 557-598

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15884

Overseas GPs and Prescription Behaviour in England

Catia Nicodemo, Cristina E. Orso, Cristina Tealdi

published as 'Overseas general practitioners (GPs) and prescription behaviour in England' in: Health Policy, 2024, 140, 104967

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15868

Who Pays for Higher Carbon Prices? Illustration for Lithuania and a Research Agenda

Herwig Immervoll, Jules Linden, Cathal O'Donoghue, Denisa M. Sologon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15651

Distributional National Accounts for Australia, 1991-2018

Matthew Fisher-Post, Nicolas Herault, Roger Wilkins

published online in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 18 July 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15643

Temporal Discounting in Later Life

Ellam Kulati, Michal Myck, Giacomo Pasini

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 213, 87-101

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15597

Social Media as a Recruitment and Data Collection Tool: Experimental Evidence on the Relative Effectiveness of Web Surveys and Chatbots

Emily A. Beam

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 162, 103069

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15506

Using Online Vacancy and Job Applicants' Data to Study Skills Dynamics

Fidel Bennett, Veronica Escudero, Hannah Liepmann, Ana Podjanin

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2024, 52B, 35-99.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15380

A Model of Errors in BMI Based on Self-Reported and Measured Anthropometrics with Evidence from Brazilian Data

Apostolos Davillas, Victor Hugo de Oliveira, Andrew M. Jones

revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2024, 67, 2371–2410

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15372

Partisanship and Survey Refusal

Mark Borgschulte, Heepyung Cho, Darren Lubotsky

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 200, 332-357

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15252

Measuring Knowledge

James J. Heckman, Jin Zhou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15085

Is Inconsistent Reporting of Self-Assessed Health Persistent and Systematic? Evidence from the UKHLS

Apostolos Davillas, Victor Hugo de Oliveira, Andrew M. Jones

revised version published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2023, 49, 101219

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15044

I Won't Make the Same Mistake Again: Burnout History and Job Preferences

Philippe Sterkens, Stijn Baert, Eline Moens, Eva Derous, Joey Wuyts

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15041

Improving Survey Quality Using Paradata: Lessons from the India Working Survey

Deepti Goel, Rosa Abraham, Rahul Lahoti

published as 'Improving survey quality using paradata: Lessons from a field survey in India' in: Development Policy Review, 2025, 43, e12813,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15006

The Preference Survey Module: New Evidence on Social Preferences from Tehran

Michael Kosfeld, Zahra Sharafi

published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2024, 10, 152–164

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14997

Recall Bias Revisited: Measure Farm Labor Using Mixed-Mode Surveys and Multiple Imputation

Hai-Anh H Dang, Calogero Carletto

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14996

Getting the Measure of Inequality

Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: Oxford Open Economics, 2024, 3 (S1), i156–i166

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14951

Top-Income Adjustments and Official Statistics on Income Distribution: The Case of the UK

Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2022, 20, 151 - 168

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14904

E-Learning Engagement Gap during School Closures: Differences by Academic Performance

Josep Amer-Mestre, Alaitz Ayarza-Astigarraga, Marta C Lopes

published in: Applied Economics, 2023, 56 (3), 337–359

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14838

Modeling to Inform Economy-Wide Pandemic Policy: Bringing Epidemiologists and Economists Together

Michael E. Darden, David Dowdy, Lauren Gardner, Barton H. Hamilton, Karen A. Kopecky, Melissa Marx, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Daniel Polsky, Kimberly Powers, Elizabeth Stuart, Matthew V. Zahn

published in: Health Economics, 2022, 31 (7), 1291-1295

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14737

Rising Top-Income Persistence in Australia: Evidence from Income Tax Data

Nicolas Herault, Dean R. Hyslop, Stephen P. Jenkins, Roger Wilkins

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2024, 70 (1), 154-186

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14526

Limited Self-Knowledge and Survey Response Behavior

Armin Falk, Thomas Neuber, Philipp Strack

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14502

Why Making Promotion after a Burnout Is like Boiling the Ocean

Philippe Sterkens, Stijn Baert, Claudia Rooman, Eva Derous

revised version published in: European Sociological Review , 2023, 39 (4), 516- 531

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14405

Reconciling Reports: Modelling Employment Earnings and Measurement Errors Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data

Stephen P. Jenkins, Fernando Rios-Avila

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 2023, 186 (1), 110 - 136

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14404

Finite Mixture Models for Linked Survey and Administrative Data: Estimation and Post-estimation

Stephen P. Jenkins, Fernando Rios-Avila

published in: Stata Journal, 2023, 23 (1), 53 - 85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14398

Five Decades of Union Wages, Nonunion Wages, and Union Wage Gaps at Unionstats.com

David A. Macpherson, Barry Hirsch

published as 'Five decades of CPS wages, methods, and union-nonunion wage gaps at Unionstats.com' in: Industrial Relations, 2023, 62 (4), 439-452

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14396

Errors in Reporting and Imputation of Government Benefits and Their Implications

Pablo Celhay, Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14392

Urban Economics in a Historical Perspective: Recovering Data with Machine Learning

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Laurent Gobillon, Yanos Zylberberg

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 94, 103711

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14258

Measuring National Life Satisfaction with Music

Emmanouil Benetos, Alessandro Ragano, Daniel Sgroi, Anthony Tuckwell

published as 'Measuring national mood with music: using machine learning to construct a measure of national valence from audio data' in: Behavior Research Methods, 2022, 54, 3085–3092

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14257

Evaluating the Sunk Cost Effect

David Ronayne, Daniel Sgroi, Anthony Tuckwell

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 186, 318 - 327

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14221

Using Machine Learning and Qualitative Interviews to Design a Five-Question Women's Agency Index

Seema Jayachandran, Monica Biradavolu, Jan Cooper

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14172

Measurement Error in Earnings Data: Replication of Meijer, Rohwedder, and Wansbeek's Mixture Model Approach to Combining Survey and Register Data

Stephen P. Jenkins, Fernando Rios-Avila

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021, 36 (4), 474 - 483

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14114

Fiscal Policy and Households' Inflation Expectations: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Michael Weber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13917

Left Behind, but Not Alone: Changes in Living Arrangements and the Effects of Migration and Remittances in Mexico

Simone Bertoli, Elsa Gautrain, Elie Murard

revised version published as 'Left behind, but not immobile: Living arrangements of Mexican transnational households' in :Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2023, 71(4), 1359-1395

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13895

Measuring the Statistical Capacity of Nations

Grant J. Cameron, Hai-Anh H Dang, Mustafa Dinc, James Foster, Michael Lokshin

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 83 (4), 870-896.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13826

Gender Bias in Agricultural Child Labor: Evidence from Survey Design Experiments

Jose C. Galdo, Ana C. Dammert, Degnet Abebaw

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2021, 35 (4), 872-892

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13823

Political Polarization and Expected Economic Outcomes

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Michael Weber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13783