IZA Discussion Papers

published in: Bruce Seaman and Dennis Young (eds.), Handbook of Research on Nonprofit Economics and Management, 2nd ed., Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2018, pp. 146-179

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10326

Do Pro-Poor Schools Reach Out to the Poor? Location Choice of BRAC and ROSC Schools in Bangladesh

Niaz Asadullah

published in: Australian Economic Review, 2016, 49(4), 432-452

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10001

The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement

Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30 (3), 3-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9894

Improving the Peer Review Process: A Proposed Market System

Paul Frijters, Benno Torgler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9625

The Support Paradox in Community Enterprise Experiments in The Netherlands

Reinout Kleinhans, Maarten van Ham

published in: International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2017, 31 (4), 570-589

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9365

Are Public or Private Providers of Employment Services More Effective? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Kai Rehwald, Michael Rosholm, Michael Svarer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9261

Is Privatization Working in Ukraine? New Estimates from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Data, 1989-2013

J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Solomiya Shpak, Volodymyr Vakhitov

published as 'Is Privatization Working in Ukraine?' in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2019, 61 (1), 1 - 35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8777

Community Entrepreneurship in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Comparing UK Community Enterprises with US Community Development Corporations

David P. Varady, Reinout Kleinhans, Maarten van Ham

published as 'The Potential of Community Entrepreneurship for Neighbourhood Revitalization in the United Kingdom and the United States' in: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, 2015, 9 (3), 253-276.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8650

Do Women Earn Less Even as Social Entrepreneurs?

Saul Estrin, Ute Stephan, Suncica Vujic

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8321

Legal Corruption, Politically Connected Corporate Governance and Firm Performance

Polona Domadenik, Janez Prašnikar, Jan Svejnar

published as 'Political Connectedness, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance' in: Journal of Business Ethnics, 2016, 139 (2), 411 - 428

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8051

Why Pay NGOs to Involve the Community?

Ronelle Burger, Indraneel Dasgupta, Trudy Owens

published in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2015, 86 (1), 7-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7995

Referral Incentives in Crowdfunding

Victor Naroditskiy, Sebastian Stein, Mirco Tonin, Long Tran-Thanh, Michael Vlassopoulos, Nicholas R. Jennings

published in: Proceedings of the Second AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 2014, 171-183

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7821

Asset Stripping, Rule of Law and Firm Survival: The Hoff-Stiglitz Model and Mass Privatization in Montenegro

Matjaž Koman, Milan Lakičević, Janez Prašnikar, Jan Svejnar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7264

Mixed Oligopoly in Education

Helmuth Cremer, Dario Maldonado

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7014

Charitable Bequests and Wealth at Death

Tony Atkinson, Peter G. Backus, John Micklewright

published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (605), F1-F23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6859

Media Slant Against Foreign Owners: Downsizing

Guido Friebel, Matthias Heinz

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 120 , 97-106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6780

A Citation-Analysis of Economic Research Institutes

Rolf Ketzler, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Scientometrics, 2013, 95 (3), 1095-1112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6716

Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment

Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos

substantially revised version published as 'Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment' in: Management Science, 2015, 61(8), 1795-1811

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6701

Time vs. Money: The Supply of Voluntary Labor and Charitable Donations across Europe

Thomas K. Bauer, Julia Bredtmann, Christoph M. Schmidt

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 32, 80–94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6632

Political Preferences and Public Sector Outsourcing

Mikael Elinder, Henrik Jordahl

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 30, 43-57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6221

A Model of NGO Regulation with an Application to Uganda

Ronelle Burger, Indraneel Dasgupta, Trudy Owens

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2015, 64 (1), 71-111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5616

Unofficial Development Assistance: A Dynamic Model of Charities' Donation Income

Wiji Arulampalam, Peter G. Backus, John Micklewright

revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 77(2), 191–209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5505

Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market

Morris M. Kleiner, Alan B. Krueger

published in: Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (S1, Part 2), S173–S202

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5428

Alumni Giving of Business Executives to the Alma Mater: Panel Data Evidence at a Large Metropolitan Research University

Albert A. Okunade, Phanindra V. Wunnava

published as 'Do Business Executives Give More to Their Alma Mater? Longitudinal Evidence from a Large University' in: American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2013, 72 (3), 761–778

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5024

School Competition and Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions: International Evidence Using Historical Catholic Roots of Private Schooling

Oliver Falck, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 40 (2), 459-478

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4570

Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility

Roland Benabou, Jean Tirole

published in Economica, 2010, 77 (305) , 1-19.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4406

Middlemen, Non-Profits, and Poverty

Nancy H. Chau, Hideaki Goto, Ravi Kanbur

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2016, 14, 81 - 108

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4092

'The' Market for Higher Education: Does It Really Exist?

William E. Becker, David K. Round

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3958

Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness

J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Scott Gehlbach

published in: American Political Science Review, 2009, 103(2), 264-283

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3953

The Financial and Operating Performance of Privatized Firms in Sweden

Motasam Tatahi, Almas Heshmati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3872

Charitable Giving for Overseas Development: UK Trends over a Quarter Century

Tony Atkinson, Peter G. Backus, John Micklewright, Cathy Pharoah, Sylke V. Schnepf

revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2012, 175 (1), 167-190

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3847

Incentives and the Sorting of Altruistic Agents into Street-Level Bureaucracies

Margaretha Buurman, Robert Dur

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (4), 1318-1345

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3818

"Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School": Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition, and Student Achievement across Countries

Martin R. West, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120(546), F229-F255

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3760

Privatization and Changes in the Wage Structure: Evidence from Firm Personnel Records

Blaise Melly, Patrick A. Puhani

published under revised title in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (4), 918-944

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3688

Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization: Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Álmos Telegdy

published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120(545), 683-708

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3685

Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment

Paul Grout, Wendelin Schnedler

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IZA Discussion Paper No. 3422

Wage Effects of Recruitment Methods: The Case of the Italian Social Service Sector

Michele Mosca, Francesco Pastore

published in: Sergio Destefanis and Marco Musella (eds.), Paid and Unpaid Labour in Social Utility Services, Heidelberg: Physica Verlag, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3271

Publications: German Economic Research Institutes on Track

Rolf Ketzler, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Scientometrics, 2009, 80 (1), 233-254

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3242

Gender Differences in Charitable Giving

Greg Piper, Sylke V. Schnepf

revised version published as 'Gender Differences in Charitable Giving in Great Britain' in: Voluntas, 2008, 19 (2), 103-124

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3125

Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials Using LEED from Hungary, 1986–2003

John S. Earle, Álmos Telegdy

published in: Analysis of Firms and Employees - Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (F. Andersson, S. Bender, J. Lane, K. Shaw, and T. von Wachter, eds.), NBER and University of Chicago, 2008.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3057

Who Gives for Overseas Development?

John Micklewright, Sylke V. Schnepf

published in: Journal of Social Policy, 2009, 38(2), 317-341

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. 2254

Relational Goods, Monitoring and Non-Pecuniary Compensations in the Nonprofit Sector: The Case of the Italian Social Services

Michele Mosca, Marco Musella, Francesco Pastore

published in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2007, 78 (1), 57-86