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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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5799

The Happiness-Income Paradox Revisited

Richard A. Easterlin, Laura Angelescu McVey, Maggie Switek, Onnicha Sawangfa, Jacqueline Smith Zweig

published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010, 107 (52), 22463-22468

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5659

School Access, Resources, and Learning Outcomes: Evidence from a Non-formal School Program in Bangladesh

Hai-Anh H Dang, Leopold Sarr, Niaz Asadullah

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5637

Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?

Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5598

Risk, Institutions and Growth: Why England and Not China?

Avner Greif, Murat Iyigun, Diego Sasson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5422

The Long-Run Effects of Mortality Decline in Developing Countries

Ulla Lehmijoki, Tapio K. Palokangas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5406

Consumption and Social Identity: Evidence from India

Melanie Khamis, Nishith Prakash, Zahra Siddique

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 83 (3), 353-371

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5249

Are Microloans Bad for Growth?

Patrick M. Emerson, Bruce McGough

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5164

Do Natural Disasters Affect Human Capital? An Assessment Based on Existing Empirical Evidence

Javier E. Baez, Alejandro de la Fuente, Indhira Santos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5149

Estimating the Effect of the One-Child Policy on Sex Ratio Imbalance in China: Identification Based on the Difference-in-Differences

Hongbin Li, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang

published in: Demography, 2011, 48 (4), 1535-1557

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5122

Does Culture Matter?

Raquel Fernández

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4393

Re-Orient? MNC Penetration and Contemporary Shifts in the Global Political Economy

Arno Tausch, Almas Heshmati

published in: Sociológia - Slovak Sociological Review, 2011, 44 (3), 1-20

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4386

Improving the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities: The Role of Employment Quota

Nishith Prakash

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4214

Do International Labor Standards Contribute to the Persistence of the Child Labor Problem?

Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti

published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2010, 15(1), 1-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4160

Life Expectancy and Economic Growth: The Role of the Demographic Transition

Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2011, 16 (2), 99-133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4116

Cultures, Clashes and Peace

Erin K. Fletcher, Murat Iyigun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4060

Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox

Richard A. Easterlin, Laura Angelescu McVey

published in: R.A. Easterlin, Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle, Chapter 5, Oxford University Press, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4000

Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries

Richard A. Easterlin, Onnicha Sawangfa

published in: E. Diener, J. Helliwell, and D. Kahneman (eds.), International Differences in Well-Being. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3742

International Labor Standards and the Political Economy of Child Labor Regulation

Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 508- 518

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3585

Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation

Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 89(1), 12-18

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3556

Lessons from the Ottoman Harem (On Ethnicity, Religion and War)

Murat Iyigun

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2013, 61 (4), 693-730

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3526

Fertility in Sub-Saharan African Countries with Consideration to Health and Poverty

Yongil Jeon, Sang-Young Rhyu, Michael P. Shields

published in: African Development Review, 2010, 22 (4), 540–555

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3468

Civil Wars beyond their Borders: The Human Capital and Health Consequences of Hosting Refugees

Javier E. Baez

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 2011, 96 (2), 391 - 408

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. 3389

Entrepreneurial Innovation and Sustained Long-Run Growth without Weak or Strong Scale Effects

Volker Grossmann

published as "Entrepreneurial Innovation and Economic Growth" in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2009, 31 (4), 602-613

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3346

Consequences of Data Error in Aggregate Indicators: Evidence from the Human Development Index

Hendrik Wolff, Howard Chong, Maximilian Auffhammer

published as 'Classification, Detection and Consequences of Data Error: Evidence from the Human Development Index' in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (553), 843 - 870

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3252

Establishment of Science Parks in the Federal Region of Kurdistan

Almas Heshmati

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3208

Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research: With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan

Almas Heshmati

published in: Tocha (ed.), Development Economics Research Trends, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3116

Monotheism (From a Sociopolitical and Economic Perspective)

Murat Iyigun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3012

The Quantity-Quality Tradeoff of Children in a Developing Country: Identification Using Chinese Twins

Hongbin Li, Junsen Zhang, Yi Zhu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2967

To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy

David de la Croix, Matthias Doepke

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2009, 76(2), 597-628

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2935

Social Attitudes and Economic Development: An Epidemiological Approach

Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc

published as 'Inherited Trust and Growth' in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (5), 2060 - 2092

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2905

Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility: A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition

Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde

see IZA DP 7199 for a substantially revised and extended version

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2878

Birth Spacing, Fertility Selection and Child Survival: Analysis Using a Correlated Hazard Model

Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (3), 690-705

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2558

Growth, Development, and Technological Change

Volker Grossmann, Thomas M. Steger

published in: Wei-Bin Zhang (ed.), UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (Mathematical Models in Economics), Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK: 2007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2272

Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision? An Experimental Approach

James P. Habyarimana, Macartan Humphreys, Daniel N. Posner, Jeremy Weinstein

published as 'Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision?' in: American Political Science Review, 2007, 101 (4), 709 - 725

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2244

Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Demokratie: Ist Demokratie ein Wohlstandsmotor oder ein Wohlstandsprodukt?

Uwe Sunde

published in: Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2006, 7(4), 471-499

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1973

Ottoman Conquests and European Ecclesiastical Pluralism

Murat Iyigun

published as 'Luther & Suleyman' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008,123 (4), 1465-1494.

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. 1838

Is There a Link between Economic Outcomes and Genetic Evolution? Cross-Country Evidence from the Major Histocompatibility Complex

José A.M. Borghans, Lex Borghans, Bas ter Weel

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. 1734

Alternative Composite Lisbon Development Strategy Indices

Almas Heshmati, Jong-Eun Oh

published in: European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 3(2), 133-170

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1242