IZA Discussion Papers

published as "Schooling and the Vietnam-Era GI Bill: Evidence from the Draft Lottery" in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, 3 (2), 96-118

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3623

Preparing for Policy Changes: Social Security Expectations and Pension Scheme Participation

Karen van der Wiel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3605

The Effect of Expansions in Maternity Leave Coverage on Children's Long-Term Outcomes

Christian Dustmann, Uta Schönberg

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4, 190-224.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3601

Financial Student Aid and Enrollment into Higher Education: New Evidence from Germany

Viktor Steiner, Katharina Wrohlich

revised version published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114(1), 124–147

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3588

Student Loans Repayment and Recovery: International Comparisons

Hua Shen, Adrian Ziderman

published in: Higher Education, 2009, 57, 315-333

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3575

Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives?

Guy Laroque, Bernard Salanié

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3569

Why Should State Government Invest in College Education? An Equilibrium Approach for the US in 2000

Michael P. Shields

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3546

Household Membership Decisions of Adult Children

Maria Concetta Chiuri, Daniela Del Boca

published in: Labour, 2010, 24 (s1), 3-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3527

Why Populist Democracy Promotes Market Liberalization

Pauline Grosjean, Claudia Senik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3521

Reforming Retirement-Income Systems: Lessons from the Recent Experiences of OECD Countries

John P. Martin, Edward Whitehouse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3439

The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada

David A. Jaeger, Esteban F. Klor, Sami H. Miaari, M. Daniele Paserman

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (3-4), 354-368

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3410

Panic on the Streets of London: Police, Crime and the July 2005 Terror Attacks

Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin, Robert Witt

published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (5), 2157-2181

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3408

Qualifying Religion: The Role of Plural Identities for Educational Production

Timo Boppart, Josef Falkinger, Volker Grossmann, Ulrich Woitek, Gabriela Wüthrich

published in: Explorations of Economic History, 2013, 50 (2), 242-266.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3396

Life-Cycle Equilibrium Unemployment

Arnaud Chéron, Jean-Olivier Hairault, François Langot

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31, 843-882

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3248

Sweden's Pensioners: How They Have Fared in the Roller Coaster Ride through the Past Decade and a Half of Deep Recession and Economic Exuberance

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Mats Johansson, Edward Palmer

revised version published as "The Welfare of Sweden's Old-age Pensioners in Times of Bust and Boom from 1990" in: Ageing and Society, 2009, 29 (4), 539-561

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3213

A Model for Industrial Development of the Federal Region of Kurdistan: Science and Technology Policy, Instruments and Institutions

Almas Heshmati

published in: Heshmati, The Economy of Southern Kurdistan, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3078

Analysing the Effects of Tax-Benefit Reforms on Income Distribution: A Decomposition Approach

Olivier Bargain, Tim Callan

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2010, 8 (1), 1 -21

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3041

Individual Responsibility and the Funding of Collective Goods

Louis Lévy-Garboua, Claude Montmarquette, Marie Claire Villeval

revised and augmented version published as 'Voluntary Contributions to a Mutual Insurance Pool' in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2017, 19 (1), 198-218

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3023

The Expansion of Higher Education and Time-Consistent Taxation

Panu Poutvaara

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 27 (2), 257-267

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3004

How Tight Are Safety-Nets in Nordic Countries? Evidence from Finnish Register Data

Olivier Bargain, Herwig Immervoll, Heikki Viitamäki

substantially revised version: IZA DP 5355 / published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2012, 10 (3), 375-395

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2986

Retirement and Consumption in a Life Cycle Model

David M. Blau

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (1), 35-71

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2922

The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State

Graziella Bertocchi

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (4), 535-553

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2890

The Shape of Things to Come? Assessing the Effectiveness of Suicide Attacks and Targeted Killings

David A. Jaeger, M. Daniele Paserman

published in: Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2009, 4(4), 315–342

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2889

Should Market Liberalization Precede Democracy? Causal Relations between Political Preferences and Development

Pauline Grosjean, Claudia Senik

published as "Democracy, Market Liberalization and Political Preferences" in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93(1), 365-381

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2880

Fundamental Determinants of School Efficiency and Equity: German States as a Microcosm for OECD Countries

Ludger Woessmann

published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik , 2010, 230 (2), 234-270

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2872

When Minority Labor Migrants Meet the Welfare State

Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (3), 633-676

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2868

How Did the Elimination of the Earnings Test above the Normal Retirement Age Affect Retirement Expectations?

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Arthur van Soest

published in: Fiscal Studies, 2008, 29 (2), 197-231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2847

Effects of Intergenerational Transfers on Elderly Coresidence with Adult Children: Evidence from Rural India

Sarmistha Pal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2747

Brain Drain, Fiscal Competition, and Public Education Expenditure

Hartmut Egger, Josef Falkinger, Volker Grossmann

published in: Review of International Economics, 2012, 20 (1), 81-94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2725

The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children

James J. Heckman, Dimitriy V. Masterov

published in: Review of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 29 (3), 446-493

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2700

Policy Evaluation and Economic Policy Advice

Christoph M. Schmidt

published in: AStA: Advances in Statistical Analysis, 2007, 91 (4), 379-389

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2653

Resources and Standards in Urban Schools

Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally, Costas Meghir

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2010, 4 (4), 365-393

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2616

Should Old-Age Benefits Be Earnings-Tested?

Niku Määttänen, Panu Poutvaara

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2603

Territorial Differences in Italian Students’ Mathematical Competencies: Evidence from PISA 2003

Massimiliano Bratti, Daniele Checchi, Antonio Filippin

revised version published as "Geographical Differences in Italian Students' Mathematical Competencies: Evidence from PISA 2003" in: Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 2007, 66(3), 299-333

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2597

Job Creation and Job Destruction over the Life Cycle: The Older Workers in the Spotlight

Jean-Olivier Hairault, Arnaud Chéron, François Langot

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2504

How to Help Unemployed Find Jobs Quickly: Experimental Evidence from a Mandatory Activation Program

Brian Krogh Graversen, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (10-11), 2020-2035

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2492

Financial Incentives and the Timing of Retirement: Evidence from Switzerland

Barbara Hanel, Regina T. Riphahn

published as 'The Timing of Retirement - New Evidence from Swiss Female Workers' in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19(5), 718-728

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2478

Public Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying to Migrate and Teaching to Stay?

Panu Poutvaara

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (3), 591–608

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2477

Decentralization and the Productive Efficiency of Government: Evidence from Swiss Cantons

Iwan Barankay, Ben Lockwood

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (5-6), 1197-1218

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2417

Intergenerational Conflict, Partisan Politics, and Public Higher Education Spending: Evidence from the German States

Ulrich Oberndorfer, Viktor Steiner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2354

The Income of the Swedish Baby Boomers

Lennart Flood, N. Anders Klevmarken, Andreea Mitrut

published in A. Klevmarken and B. Lindgren (eds.), Simulating an Ageing Population. A microsimulation approach to Sweden, Contributions to Economic Analysis No 285, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, U.K. 2008

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2273

Part-Time Pensions and Part-Time Work in Sweden

Eskil Wadensjö

published in: European Papers on the New Welfare, 2006, 6, 29-45

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2234

New Technology in Schools: Is There a Payoff?

Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally, Olmo Silva

published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (522), 1145-1167

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2211

Performance Related Pay and Labor Productivity

Anne C. Gielen, Marcel Kerkhofs, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 291-301

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2179

Transition with Heterogeneous Labor

Katalin Balla, János Köllő, András Simonovits

published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2008, 19 (3), 203-220.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2173

An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries

Thai-Thanh Dang, Herwig Immervoll, Daniela Mantovani, Kristian Orsini, Holly Sutherland

also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2171

Shortening the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits Does Not Affect the Quality of Post-Unemployment Jobs: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Jan C. van Ours, Milan Vodopivec

revised version published as 'Does reducing unemployment insurance generosity reduce job match quality?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (3-4), 684-695

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2081

Optimal Accumulation in an Endogenous Growth Setting with Human Capital

Frédéric Docquier, Oliver Paddison, Pierre Pestieau

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2006, 134 (1), 361-378

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. 1995

Welfare State Retrenchment: The Partisan Effect Revisited

Bruno Amable, Donatella Gatti, Jan Schumacher

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2006, 22 (3), 426-444

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1967

Is There a Social Security Tax Wedge?

Alessandro Cigno

published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (1), 68-77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1923

Israel, the Palestinian Factions, and the Cycle of Violence

David A. Jaeger, M. Daniele Paserman

published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (2), 45-49

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1906

Education Policy and Equality of Opportunity

Gabriela Schütz, Heinrich W. Ursprung, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Kyklos, 2008, 61 (2), 279-308

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1863

International Capital Market Integration, Educational Choice and Economic Growth

Hartmut Egger, Peter Egger, Josef Falkinger, Volker Grossmann

published as "The Impact of Capital Market Integration on Educational Choice and the Consequences for Economic Growth" in: World Economy, 2010, 33 (10), 1241-1268

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1854

Why Is the Timing of School Tracking So Heterogeneous?

Kenn Ariga, Giorgio Brunello, Roki Iwahashi, Lorenzo Rocco

substantial revision published as 'On the efficiency costs of de-tracking secondary schools in Europe" in: Education Economics, [iFirst]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1853

Crime and Police Resources: The Street Crime Initiative

Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (4), 678 - 701

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1834

Immigration and Public Spending

René Böheim, Karin Mayr

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1831

Why Are More Redistributive Social Security Systems Smaller? A Median Voter Approach

Marko Koethenbuerger, Panu Poutvaara, Paola Profeta

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2008, 60 (2), 275-292

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1824

Household Incomes and Redistribution in the European Union: Quantifying the Equalising Properties of Taxes and Benefits

Herwig Immervoll, Horacio Levy, Christine Lietz, Daniela Mantovani, Cathal O'Donoghue, Holly Sutherland, Gerlinde Verbist

published in: Papadimitriou, D.B. (ed.), The Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation, Palgrave MacMillan 2006

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1808

The Cycle of Violence? An Empirical Analysis of Fatalities in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

David A. Jaeger, M. Daniele Paserman

published in: American Economic Review, 2008, 98 (4), 1591-1604

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1797

A Constitutional Theory of the Family

Alessandro Cigno

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (2), 259-289

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1756

Distribution of Natural Resources, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development: Growth Dynamics with Two Elites

Josef Falkinger, Volker Grossmann

published as "Oligarchic Land Ownership, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development" in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 101 (1), 206-215.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1729

Social Security Incentives, Human Capital Investment and Mobility of Labor

Panu Poutvaara

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (7-8), 1299-1325

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1728

What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments

Marianne P. Bitler, Jonah B. Gelbach, Hilary W. Hoynes

published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (4), 988–1012.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1693

Can Democracy Educate a Society?

Hans Gersbach, Lars Siemers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1559

To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription

Panu Poutvaara, Andreas Wagener

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2007, 23 (4), 975-987

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1544

Should We Extend the Role of Private Social Expenditure?

Mark Pearson, John P. Martin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1537

Pension Incomes in the European Union: Policy Reform Strategies in Comparative Perspective

Daniela Mantovani, Fotis Papadopoulos, Holly Sutherland, Panos Tsakloglou

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 25, 27-71

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1499

A Quantitative Investigation of the Laffer Curve on the Continued Work Tax: The French Case

Jean-Olivier Hairault, François Langot, Thepthida Sopraseuth

published in: International Economic Review, 2008, 49(3), 755-797

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1486

Social Security in Belgium: Distributive Outcomes

Alain Jousten, Mathieu Lefèbvre, Sergio Perelman, Pierre Pestieau

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1408

On the Political Economy of Social Security and Public Education

Panu Poutvaara

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (2), 345-365

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1404

The Political Economy of Job Protection and Income Redistribution

Bruno Amable, Donatella Gatti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1369

Shifting Perspectives in Pensions

Marek Góra, Edward Palmer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1336

Diploma No Problem: Can Private Schools Be of Lower Quality than Public Schools?

Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Rocco

published as 'Educational standards in private and public schools' in: The Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (533), 1866-1887

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1335

Effective Active Labor Market Policies

Jan Boone, Jan C. van Ours

published as 'Bringing Unemployed Back to Work: Effective Active Labor Market Policies' in: De Economist, 2007, 157 (3), 293-313

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1295

The Enrollment Effect of Secondary School Fees in Post-War Germany

Regina T. Riphahn

published as 'Effect of Secondary School Fees on Educational Attainment' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (1), 147 - 176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1287

What Accounts for International Differences in Student Performance? A Re-Examination Using PISA Data

Thomas Fuchs, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Empirical Economics, 2007, 32 (2-3), 433-464

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1285

Technical Change and the Wage Structure During the Second Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the Merchant Marine, 1865-1912

Aimee Chin, Chinhui Juhn, Peter Thompson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1284

How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States

Ludger Woessmann

published in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2008, 78 (1), 45-70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1242

Institutions and Development: The Interaction between Trade Regime and Political System

Josef Falkinger, Volker Grossmann

published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2005, 10 (3), 229-270

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1181

How Changes in Benefits Entitlement Affect Job-Finding: Lessons from the Slovenian "Experiment"

Jan C. van Ours, Milan Vodopivec

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24 (2), 351-378

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