IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'The impact of educated leaders on economic development: Evidence from India' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2023, 51 (3), 1068-1093

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15117

Compensating Differentials for Occupational Health and Safety Risks: Implications of Recent Evidence

Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2023, 50, 83-116

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15113

Can Public Policy Increase Paternity Acknowledgment? Evidence from Earnings-Related Parental Leave

Anna Raute, Andrea Weber, Galina Zudenkova

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15076

Wheels of Change: Transforming Girls' Lives with Bicycles

Nathan Fiala, Ana Garcia-Hernandez, Kritika Narula, Nishith Prakash

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14932

Spatial and Time Spillovers of Driving Restrictions: Causal Evidence from Lima's Pico Y Placa Policy

Edgar Salgado, Oscar A. Mitnik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14880

Access to Head Start and Maternal Labor Supply: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Jocelyn Wikle, Riley Wilson

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (4), 1081–1127

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14775

Civil War, Famine and the Persistence of Human Capital: Evidence from Tajikistan

Louise Grogan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14575

The Lasting Effects of Early Childhood Education on Promoting the Skills and Social Mobility of Disadvantaged African Americans

Jorge Luis García, James J. Heckman, Victor Ronda

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 131 (6), 1477 - 1506

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14553

Can a Supranational Medicines Agency Restore Trust After Vaccine Suspensions? The Case of Vaxzevria

Andrea Albanese, Francesco Fallucchi, Bertrand Verheyden

published in: PLoS ONE, 2022, 17 (11), e02777554

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14525

The Dynastic Benefits of Early Childhood Education

Jorge Luis García, Frederik H. Bennhoff, Duncan Ermini Leaf, James J. Heckman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14522

Measuring Performance: Ranking State Success over Two Decades in India

Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Arka Roy Chaudhuri, Saattvic

published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2022, 83, 101550

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14475

The Social Value of a SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine: Willingness to Pay Estimates from Four Western Countries

Joan Costa-Font, Caroline Rudisill, Sayward Harrison, Luca Salmasi

published in: Health Economics, 2023, 32 (8), 1818 - 1835

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14467

The Roots of Cooperation

Zvonimir Bašić, Parampreet C. Bindra, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Angelo Romano, Matthias Sutter, Claudia Zoller

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14314

Understanding the Origins of Populist Political Parties and the Role of External Shocks

Eugenio Levi, Isabelle Sin, Steven Stillman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14222

A Soul's View of the Optimal Population Problem

David de la Croix, Matthias Doepke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14209

Design and Effectiveness of Start-up Subsidies: Evidence from a Policy Reform in Germany

Marco Caliendo, Stefan Tübbicke

published in: Economic Analysis and Policy, 2021, 70, 333 - 340

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14195

Welfare Effects of Property Taxation

Max Löffler, Sebastian Siegloch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14185

Lessons from Denmark about Inequality and Social Mobility

James J. Heckman, Rasmus Landersø

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14153

Employee Training and Firm Performance: Evidence from ESF Grant Applications

Pedro S. Martins

published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 72, 102056

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14073

Democratisation under Diversity: Theory and Evidence from Indonesian Communities

Anirban Mitra, Sarmistha Pal

published as 'Ethnic Diversity, Social Norms and Elite Capture: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia' in: Economica, 2022, 89 (356), 947 - 996

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14031

Does Online Search Improve the Match Quality of New Hires?

Nicole Gürtzgen, Benjamin Lochner, Laura Pohlan, Gerard J. van den Berg

published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 70, 101981

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13974

Spillovers and Long-Run Effects of Messages on Tax Compliance: Experimental Evidence from Peru

Juan Francisco Castro, Daniel Velásquez, Arlette Beltrán, Gustavo Yamada

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13954

Revisiting the Causal Effect of Education on Political Participation and Interest

Nadja Bömmel, Guido Heineck

substantially revised version published in: Education Economics, 2023, 31 (6), 664-682

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13924

Strategic Compromise, Policy Bundling and Interest Group Power

Luna Bellani, Vigile Marie Fabella, Francesco Scervini

revised version published as 'Strategic compromise, policy bundling and interest group power: Theory and evidence on education policy' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 77, 102283

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13847

The Impact of Employment Quotas on the Economic Lives of Disadvantaged Minorities in India

Nishith Prakash

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 180, 494-509

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13812

Inequality, Institutions and Cooperation

Thomas Markussen, Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal, Finn Tarp

published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 138, 103842, p.13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13705

What Do Employers' Associations Do?

Pedro S. Martins

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13676

Immigration and Redistribution

Benjamin Elsner, Jeff Concannon

published in: Robert M. Sauer (ed.):World Scientific Handbook of Global Migration, 2024, 5-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13611

The Long Shadow of Slavery: The Persistence of Slave Owners in Southern Law-Making

Luna Bellani, Anselm Hager, Stephan Ernst Maurer

revised version published in: Journal of Economic History, 2022, 82 (1), 250 - 283

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13560

Socially Optimal Mistakes? Debiasing COVID-19 Mortality Risk Perceptions and Prosocial Behavior

Martin Abel, Tanya Byker, Jeffrey P. Carpenter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13487

Did Medicaid Expansion Reduce Medical Divorce?

David Slusky, Donna K. Ginther

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13464

School Choice Design, Risk Aversion, and Cardinal Segregation

Caterina Calsamiglia, Francisco Martínez-Mora, Antonio Miralles

published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (635), 1081–1104

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13431

A Theory of Social Impact Bonds

Daniel L. Tortorice, David E. Bloom, Paige Kirby, John Regan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13324

Do Reemployment Programs for the Unemployed Work for Youth? Evidence from the Great Recession in the United States

Marios Michaelides, Peter R. Mueser, Jeffrey A. Smith

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2021, 59 (1), 162-185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13321

Optimal Incentives to Give

Marco Castillo, Ragan Petrie

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13207

Prosocial Behavior in the Time of COVID-19: The Effect of Private and Public Role Models

Martin Abel, Willa Brown

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2022, 101, 101942

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13167

Heterogeneous Effects of Missing out on a Place at a Preferred Secondary School in England

Emma Gorman, Ian Walker

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 81, 102082

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13097

Do Compulsory Schooling Laws Always Work? A Study of Youth Crime in Brazilian Municipalities

Marislei Nishijima, Sarmistha Pal

published as 'Compulsory Schooling Laws, Overcrowding and Youth Crime: A Quasi-Experimental Study of Brazilian Municipalities' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2023, 59 (10), 1589–1607

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13036

The Effect of Open-Air Waste Burning on Infant Health: Evidence from Government Failure in Lebanon

Pierre Mouganie, Ruba Ajeeb, Mark Hoekstra

published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 08 March 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12971

Long-Run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap

Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, Laura M. Talpey, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2022, 17 (4), 608-640

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12957

Efficiency Versus Equity in the Provision of In-Kind Benefits: Evidence from Cost Containment in the California WIC Program

Katherine Meckel, Maya Rossin-Slater, Lindsey Uniat

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12897

Elite School Designation and Housing Prices: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Beijing, China

Bin Huang, Xiaoyan He, Lei Xu, Yu Zhu

published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2020, 50, 101730

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12839

Understanding Program Complementarities: Estimating the Dynamic Effects of a Training Program with Multiple Alternatives

Antonio Dalla-Zuanna, Kai Liu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12817

Delegation and Coordination with Multiple Threshold Public Goods: Experimental Evidence

Luca Corazzini, Christopher Cotton, Tommaso G. Reggiani

revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2020, 23 (4), 1030-1068

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12814

Childcare and Maternal Employment: Evidence from Vietnam

Hai-Anh H Dang, Masako Hiraga, Cuong Viet Nguyen

published in: World Development, 2022, 159, 106022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12807

Selection into Experiments: Evidence from a Population of Students

Jonathan F. Schulz, Uwe Sunde, Petra Thiemann, Christian Thöni

revised version published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2022, 98, 101871

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. 12731

How Do Low-Income Enrollees in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces Respond to Cost-Sharing?

Kurt Lavetti, Thomas DeLeire, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

revised version published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2023, 90 (1), 155 - 183

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12713

The Economic Benefits of Volunteering and Social Class

Robert M. Sauer, John Wilson, Noemi Mantovan

published in: Social Science Research, 2020, 85 (1), 102368

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12662

The Quasi-Market of Employment Services in Italy

Francesco Pastore

published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2020, 42 (6), 1248-1269.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12508

One Step at a Time: Does Gradualism Build Coordination?

Maoliang Ye, Jie Zheng, Plamen Nikolov, Samuel Asher

published in: Management Science, 2019, 66 (1), 113-129.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12506

Parental Beliefs, Investments, and Child Development: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment

Pedro Carneiro, Emanuela Galasso, Italo Lopez Garcia, Paula Bedregal, Miguel Cordero

revised version published as 'Impacts of a Large-Scale Parenting Program: Experimental Evidence from Chile' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (4), 1113–1161

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. 12220

Policy in the Pipeline: Identifying Regional Public Investment Priorities Using a Natural Experiment

Michal Myck, Mateusz Najsztub

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12180

To What Do People Contribute? Ongoing Operations vs. Sustainable Supplies

Yuval Arbel, Ronen Bar-El, Mordechai E. Schwarz, Yossef Tobol

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12159

Local Norms Describing the Role of the State and the Private Provision of Training