IZA Discussion Papers

published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, first Online: 06 November 2022 (latest version)

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. 13777

The Effect of Antimalarial Campaigns on Child Mortality and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa

Joshua Wilde, Bénédicte Apouey, Joseph Coleman, Gabriel Picone

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13763

A Subscription vs. Appropriation Framework for Natural Resource Conflicts

Dripto Bakshi, Indraneel Dasgupta

published in: A. Markandya and D. Rübbelke (eds.), Climate and Development; World Scientific, 2021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13735

Expanding the Measurement of Culture with a Sample of Two Billion Humans

Nick Obradovich, Ömer Özak, Ignacio Martín, Edmond Awad, Manuel Cebrián, Rubén Cuevas, Klaus Desmet, Iyad Rahwan, Ángel Cuevas

published in: Journal of the Royal Society - Interface, 2022, 190, 1920220085

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13653

Measuring Gender Attitudes Using List Experiments

Niaz Asadullah, Elisabetta De Cao, Fathema Zhura Khatoon, Zahra Siddique

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34: 367-400

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13363

Measuring Monetary Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region: Data Gaps and Different Options to Address Them

Aziz Atamanov, Sharad Tandon, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Mexico Alberto Vergara Bahena

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13130

Exposure to Transit Migration, Public Attitudes and Entrepreneurship

Nicolas Ajzenman, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Sergei Guriev

revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 158, 102899

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12963

Going Beyond GDP with a Parsimonious Indicator: Inequality-Adjusted Healthy Lifetime Income

David E. Bloom, Victoria Y. Fan, Vadim Kufenko, Osondu Ogbuoji, Klaus Prettner, Gavin Yamey

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12818

The Employment Effects of Ethnic Politics

Francesco Amodio, Giorgio Chiovelli, Sebastian Hohmann

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (2), 456–491

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12727

Baumol versus Engel: Accounting for 100 years (1885-1985) of Structural Transformation in Japan

Kyoji Fukao, Saumik Paul

published in: Economic History Review, 2021, 74 (1), 164-180

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12644

Creativity over Time and Space

Michel Serafinelli, Guido Tabellini

published as 'Creativity over time and space: A historical analysis of European cities' in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2022, 27, 1-43

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12524

Do Pension Benefits Accelerate Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Rural China

Plamen Nikolov, Alan Adelman

updated version published as DP15742 . (published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 594 - 617).

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11982

Geographical Roots of the Coevolution of Cultural and Linguistic Traits

Oded Galor, Ömer Özak, Assaf Sarid

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11816

Climatic Roots of Loss Aversion

Oded Galor, Viacheslav Savitskiy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11690

Violent Conflict and the Child Quantity-Quality Tradeoff

Apsara Karki Nepal, Martin Halla, Steven Stillman

published online in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 18 December 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11613

Mass Refugee Inflow and Long-Run Prosperity: Lessons from the Greek Population Resettlement

Elie Murard, Seyhun Orcan Sakalli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11554

The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Modern Times

Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Ömer Özak

published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2020, 25 (3), 297-340

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11389

Do Developing Countries Enjoy Faster Poverty Reduction as Their Initial Poverty Incidences Decline over Time? A Dynamic Panel Analysis

Yusi Ouyang, Abebe Shimeles, Erik Thorbecke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11388

Revisiting Cross-Country Poverty Convergence in the Developing World with a Special Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa

Yusi Ouyang, Abebe Shimeles, Erik Thorbecke

published in: World Development, 2019, 117 (C), 13 - 28

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11387

Time Is on My Side: Relational Contracts and Aggregate Welfare

Bohdan Kukharskyy, Michael P. Pflüger

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71 (3), 709 - 732

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11262

Women's Empowerment, the Gender Gap in Desired Fertility, and Fertility Outcomes in Developing Countries

Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt

published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108, 358–362

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10881

Between-Group Contests over Group-Specific Public Goods with Within-Group Fragmentation

Indraneel Dasgupta, Ranajoy Guha Neogi

published in: Public Choice, 2018, 174 (3-4), 315-334.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10379

Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures

Oded Galor, Ömer Özak, Assaf Sarid

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10297

Privatisation in Developing Countries: What Are the Lessons of Recent Experience?

Saul Estrin, Adeline Pelletier

published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2018, 33 (1), 65–102,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10161

Africa's Prospects for Enjoying a Demographic Dividend

David E. Bloom, Michael Kuhn, Klaus Prettner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10115

Can Natural Gas Save Lives? Evidence from the Deployment of a Fuel Delivery System in a Developing Country

Resul Cesur, Erdal Tekin, Aydogan Ulker

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 59, 91 - 108

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10088

Happiness and Development

Milena Nikolova

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9997

Can War Foster Cooperation?

Michal Bauer, Christopher J. Blattman, Julie Chytilová, Joseph Henrich, Edward Miguel, Tamar Mitts

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30(3), 249-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9808

Absence of Altruism? Female Disadvantage in Private School Enrolment in India

Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal, Anurag Sharma

published in: World Development, 2016, 86, 105–125

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9744

The Entrepreneurship Beveridge Curve

Thomas Gries, Stefan Jungblut, Wim Naudé

published in: International Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 12 (2), 151-165

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9731

Identity Conflict with Cross-Border Spillovers

Dripto Bakshi, Indraneel Dasgupta

published in: Defence and Peace Economics, 2020, 31 (7), 786-809

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9705

Identity-driven Cooperation versus Competition

Dennis J. Snower, Steven J. Bosworth

published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (5), 420–424

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9676

Paradox Lost?

Richard A. Easterlin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9342

Fertility, Household Structure, and Parental Labor Supply: Evidence from Rural China

Hongbin Li, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang

published as 'Fertility, household structure, and parental labor supply: Evidence from China' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (1), 145-156 (with Rufei Guo)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9226

Do Social Networks Improve Chinese Adults' Subjective Well-being?

Xiaoyan Lei, Yan Shen, James P. Smith, Guangsu Zhou

published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2015, 6, 57 - 67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9159

A Model of Dynamic Conflict in Ethnocracies

Dripto Bakshi, Indraneel Dasgupta

published in: Defence and Peace Economics, 2018, 29 (2), 147-170

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9102

The Long-Term Determinants of Female HIV Infection in Africa: The Slave Trade, Polygyny, and Sexual Behavior

Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico

revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 140, 90-105

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9060

Does It Matter Where You Came From? Ancestry Composition and Economic Performance of U.S. Counties, 1850-2010

Scott L. Fulford, Ivan Petkov, Fabio Schiantarelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8967

Economic Development, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight: Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism

Davide Dragone, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published as 'Non-Separable Time Preferences, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight: Theory and Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 51, 41-65.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8653

Making Aid Work: Governance and Decentralization

Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: in Mak Arvin (ed.): Handbook on the Economics of Foreign Aid, Edward Elgar, 2015, 488 - 502

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8610

Gary Becker on the Quantity and Quality of Children

Matthias Doepke

published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81(1), 59-66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8433

The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation

Oded Galor, Marc Klemp

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8197

Cohort Size and Youth Employment Outcomes

David Newhouse, Claudia Wolff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8193

Do Interventions Targeted at Micro-Entrepreneurs and Small and Medium-Sized Firms Create Jobs? A Systematic Review of the Evidence for Low and Middle Income Countries

Michael Grimm, Anna Luisa Paffhausen

published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 32, 67-85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8025

Be Fruitful and Multiply? Moderate Fecundity and Long-Run Reproductive Success

Oded Galor, Marc Klemp

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7507

Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7503

"Sex in Marriage is a Divine Gift": For Whom? Evidence from the Manila Contraceptive Ban

Christelle Dumas, Arnaud Lefranc

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7459

Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth

Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti

published in: Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol. 2, 1-48, December 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7398

What Did the Old Poor Law Really Accomplish? A Redux

Avner Greif, Murat Iyigun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7377

Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth

Avner Greif, Murat Iyigun

published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (3), 534-538

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7341

Cross Sections Are History

Richard A. Easterlin

published in: Population and Development Review, 2012, 38, 302-308

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7259

Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt

Christine Binzel, Jean-Paul Carvalho

revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (607), 2553 - 2580

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7225

Migration, Capital Formation, and House Prices

Volker Grossmann, Andreas Schäfer, Thomas M. Steger

published as 'Reversal of Migration Flows: A Fresh Look at the German Reunification' in: Journal of International Economics, 2016, 109, 1-15

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7199

The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development

Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde

revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2015, 7 (3), 189-225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7187

Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence

Richard A. Easterlin

published in W. Glatzer, L. Camfield, V. Møller, and M. Rojas (eds.): Global Handbook of Quality of Life: Exploration of Well-Being of Nations and Continents, 2015, 283-299

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7179

Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure

Resul Cesur, Erdal Tekin, Aydogan Ulker

pubished in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (600), 330 - 362

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7176

Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation

Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor

published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 528-533

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7108

Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission

Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti

published in: Econometrica, 2017, 85 (5), 1331-1371

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7089

Does Education Matter for Economic Growth?

Michael S. Delgado, Daniel J. Henderson, Christopher F. Parmeter

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76 (3), 334-359

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7069

Income, Democracy, and Critical Junctures

Matteo Cervellati, Florian Jung, Uwe Sunde, Thomas Vischer

substantially revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (2), 707-719

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6870

Conditional Cash Transfers, Political Participation, and Voting Behavior

Javier E. Baez, Adriana Camacho, Emily Conover, Roman Andres Zarate

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6851

Trust and Trustworthiness under the Prospect Theory: A Field Experiment in Vietnam

Quang Nguyen, Marie Claire Villeval, Hui Xu

revised version published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, 64 (3), 545-572

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6334

The Demographic Transition: Causes and Consequences

Oded Galor

published in: Cliometrica, 2012, 6 (1), 1-28

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6330

The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development

Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor

published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (1), 1-46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6328

Inequality, Human Capital Formation and the Process of Development

Oded Galor

published in: Handbook of Economics of Education, North Holland. 2014.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6267

How Large Is the Private Sector in Africa? Evidence from National Accounts and Labor Markets

Marco Stampini, Ron Leung, Setou M. Diarra, Lauréline Pla

revised version published in: South African Journal of Economics, 2013, 81 (1), 140-165

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6215

The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights

Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt, Alessandra Voena

published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2012, 4, 339-372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6139

Decline in Social Mobility: Unfulfilled Aspirations among Egypt's Educated Youth

Christine Binzel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6135

Reforms, Growth and Persistence of Gender Gap: Recent Evidence from Private School Enrolment in India

Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal, Anurag Sharma

revised version forthcoming as 'Economic Reforms and Growth of Private School Enrolment in India: Is There a Cause for Concern?' in: Sonalde Desai, Pallavi Choudhuri, and Amaresh Dubey (eds.), India's Social and Economic Transformation in the 21st Century, Routledge

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5894

Do Employment Quotas Explain the Occupational Choices of Disadvantaged Minorities in India?

Larry L. Howard, Nishith Prakash

published in: International Review of Applied Economics, 2012, 26 (4), 489 - 513

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