IZA Discussion Papers

Crick Lund, Kate Orkin, Marc J. Witte, John Walker, Thandi Davies, Johannes Haushofer, Sarah Murray, Judy Bass, Laura Murray, Wietse Tol, Vikram Patel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17059

The Effect of Postsecondary Educational Institutions on Local Economies: A Bird's-Eye View

Patrick Lehnert, Madison Dell, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Eric Bettinger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17056

Understanding the Educational Attainment Polygenic Index and Its Interactions with SES in Determining Health in Young Adulthood

Atticus Bolyard, Peter A. Savelyev

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17028

Experimental Impacts of a Virtual Parenting Program with Mothers and Fathers

Lara Lebedinski, Pedro Carneiro, Tamara Arnold Urzua, Julie Perng, Ana Maria Munoz Boudet, Katia Herrera Sosa

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16977

The Parental Wage Gap and the Development of Socio-Emotional Skills in Children

Paul Hufe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16961

Forced Displacement, Mental Health, and Child Development: Evidence from the Rohingya Refugees

Asadul Islam, Tanvir Ahmed Mozumder, Tabassum Rahman, Tanvir Shatil, Abu Siddique

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16951

Impact of Temporary Migration on Long-Run Economic Development: The Legacy of the Sent-down Youth Program

Tue Gorgens, Xin Meng, Guochang Zhao

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16938

Meritocracy across Countries

Oriana Bandiera, Ananya Kotia, Ilse Lindenlaub, Christian Moser, Andrea Prat

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16925

Urban Redevelopment Program and Demand Externality

Daiji Kawaguchi, Keisuke Kawata, Chigusa Okamoto

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16914

The Impact of Climate Change on Work Lessons for Developing Countries

Moustafa Feriga, Nancy Lozano Gracia, Pieter Serneels

published online in: World Bank Research Observer, 09 May 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16881

Daycare Enrollment Age and Child Development

Mette Gørtz, Vibeke Myrup Jensen, Sarah Sander

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16823

Global Labor Market Power

Francesco Amodio, Emanuele Brancati, Peter Brummund, Nicolás de Roux, Michele Di Maio

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16784

The Impact of the Level and Timing of Parental Resources on Child Development and Intergenerational Mobility

Sadegh S. M. Eshaghnia, James J. Heckman, Rasmus Landersø

published online in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2 August 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16761

Decentralizing Development: Evidence from Government Splits

Ricardo Dahis, Christiane Szerman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16691

Volume, Risk, Complexity: What Makes Development Finance Projects Succeed or Fail?

Yota Eilers, Jochen Kluve, Jörg Langbein, Lennart Reiners

published online in: World Bank Economic Review, 4 February 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16624

Can Workforce Development Help Us Reach Full Employment?

Harry J. Holzer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16563

The Role of Regulation and Regional Government Quality for High Growth Firms: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Sara Amoroso, Benedikt Herrmann, Alexander S. Kritikos

published in: Regional Studies, 2024, 58 (9), 1710–1727

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16529

Labor Market Power and Development

Tristany Armangué-Jubert, Nezih Guner, Alessandro Ruggieri

forthcoming in: American Economic Review: Insights

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16494

Religion and Growth

Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2024, 62 (3), 1094–1142

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16465

Economic Mobility and Fairness in a Developing Country: Evidence from Peru

Juan Francisco Castro, Gustavo Yamada, Santiago Medina, Joaquin Armas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16441

Parenting with Patience: Parental Incentives and Child Development

Daniela Del Boca, Christopher Flinn, Ewout Verriest, Matthew Wiswall

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16408

Is Productive Entrepreneurship Getting Scarcer? A Reflection on the Contemporary Relevance of Baumol's Typology

Maria Minniti, Wim Naudé, Erik Stam

published in: W. Naudé and B. Power (eds.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, Elgar, 2024, 18 - 44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16398

When Effective Teacher Training Falls Short in the Classroom: Evidence from an Experiment in Primary Schools

Suzanne Bellue, Adrien Bouguen, Marc Gurgand, Valerie Munier, André Tricot

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2024,103,102599

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16392

Group Meetings and Boosters to Sustain Early Impacts on Child Development: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Italo Lopez Garcia, Jill E. Luoto, Frances E. Aboud, Lia C.H. Fernald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16377

Population Aging and Economic Growth: From Demographic Dividend to Demographic Drag?

Rainer Kotschy, David E. Bloom

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16367

When It Hurts the Most: Timing of Parental Job Loss and a Child's Education

Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari, Marco Ovidi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16355

Were COVID and the Great Recession Well-Being Reducing?

David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson

published in: PloS ONE, 2024, 19 (11), e0305347

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16328

Maternal Education and Early Child Development: The Roles of Parental Support for Learning, Learning Materials, and Father Characteristics

Yusuf Emre Akgündüz, Pelin Akyol, Abdurrahman B. Aydemir, Murat Demirci, Murat Güray Kirdar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16229

The Historical Impact of Coal on Cities

Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis, Edson Severnini

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2024, 107, 103951

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16212

Baby Bump? Birth Month, Family Income, and Early Childhood Development

Dave E. Marcotte, Katherine Engel

published in: Economics & Human, 2024, 54, 101409

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16191

We Already Live in a Degrowth World, and We Do Not like It

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16187

Socioemotional Development during Adolescence: Evidence from a Large Macro Shock

Ghazala Azmat, Katja Maria Kaufmann, Yasemin Özdemir

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16155

Maternal Life Satisfaction and Child Development from Toddlerhood to Adolescence

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Jonas Jessen, C. Katharina Spieß

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16139

Melancholy Hues: The Futility of Green Growth and Degrowth, and the Inevitability of Societal Collapse

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16136

Women's Transitions in the Labour Market as a Result of Childbearing: The Challenges of Formal Sector Employment in Indonesia

Lisa A. Cameron, Diana Contreras Suarez, Yi-Ping Tseng

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16052

Social Inclusion and Levels of Urbanisation: Does It Matter Where You Live?

Adele Whelan, Anne Devlin, Seamus McGuinness

revised version published as 'Barriers to social inclusion and levels of urbanisation: Does it matter where you live?' in: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2024, 17 (1), 59 - 74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16047

(De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Land Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa

Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Ömer Özak

published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 243, 111921

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16043

Africa's Industrialization Prospects: A Fresh Look

Wim Naudé, Fiona Tregenna

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16038

Maximum Impact Intergenerational Associations

Sadegh S. M. Eshaghnia, James J. Heckman, Rasmus Landersø

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15925

Socioemotional Skills in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Maternal Psychosocial Intervention

Dilek Sevim, Victoria Baranov, Sonia R. Bhalotra, Joanna Maselko, Pietro Biroli

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (S), S365-S401

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15889

Economic Foundations of Contraceptive Transitions: Theories and a Review of the Evidence

Mahesh Karra, Joshua Wilde

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15800

Highway to Hell? Interstate Highway System and Crime

Francesca Calamunci, Jakub Lonsky

updated version published online as 'The Road to Crime: An Unintended Consequence of the Interstate Highway System' in: Economic Journal, 23 July 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15796

Gender Differences in Adolescents' Socioemotional Development and Their Later Economic Consequences

Ghazala Azmat, Katja Maria Kaufmann, Yasemin Özdemir

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15705

Public Childcare, Labor Market Outcomes of Caregivers, and Child Development: Experimental Evidence from Brazil

Orazio Attanasio, Ricardo Paes de Barros, Pedro Carneiro, David K. Evans, Lycia Lima, Pedro Olinto, Norbert Schady

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15680

The Effect of Firm-Level Investment on Inequality and Poverty around the World

Mehmet S. Tosun, Ethan D. Watson, Serhat Yildiz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15672

Parenting Promotes Social Mobility Within and Across Generations

Jorge Luis García, James J. Heckman

published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2023, 15, 349 - 388

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15648

Global Universal Basic Skills: Current Deficits and Implications for World Development

Sarah Gust, Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 166, 103205

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15637

Economic Development and the Organisation of Labour: Evidence from the Jobs of the World Project

Oriana Bandiera, Ahmed Elsayed, Anton Heil, Andrea Smurra

published in: the Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (6), 2226 - 2270

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15615

Identifying the Poor – Accounting for Household Economies of Scale in Global Poverty Estimates

Dean Jolliffe, Samuel Kofi Tetteh-Baah

published in: World Development, 2024, 179, 106593

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15609

Analysis of Twins

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Damian Clarke

published in: Klaus. F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer Nature, 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15598

The Political U: New Evidence on Democracy and Income

Nauro F. Campos, Fabrizio Coricelli, Marco Frigerio

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15598

The Political U: New Evidence on Democracy and Income

Nauro F. Campos, Fabrizio Coricelli, Marco Frigerio

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15551

Social Protection and Foundational Cognitive Skills during Adolescence: Evidence from a Large Public Works Programme

Richard Freund, Marta Favara, Catherine Porter, Jere R. Behrman

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2024, 38 (2), 296 - 318

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15547

Child Care in the United States: Markets, Policy, and Evidence

Chris M. Herbst

published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2023, 42 (1), 255-304

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15544

Prenatal Sugar Consumption and Late-Life Human Capital and Health: Analyses Based on Postwar Rationing and Polygenic Scores

Gerard J. van den Berg, Stephanie von Hinke, R. Adele H. Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15477

Labor Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development

Francesco Amodio, Pamela Medina, Monica Morlacco

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15463

Reversing Fortunes of German Regions, 1926–2019: Boon and Bane of Early Industrialization?

Paul Berbée, Sebastian Till Braun, Richard Franke

published online in: Journal of Economic Growth, 10 October 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15435

The Impact of Centre-Based Childcare on Non-cognitive Skills of Young Children

Greta Morando, Lucinda Platt

published in: Economica, 2022, 356, 908-946

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15418

Genetic and Socioeconomic Achievement Gaps in Elementary School

Mikkel Aagaard Houmark, Victor Ronda, Esben Agerbo, Preben Bo Mortensen, Michael Rosholm

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15388

Spillover Effects of Old-Age Pension across Generations: Family Labor Supply and Child Outcomes

Katja Maria Kaufmann, Yasemin Özdemir, Han Ye

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15291

Beyond Barker: Infant Mortality at Birth and Ischaemic Heart Disease in Older Age

Samuel Baker, Pietro Biroli, Hans van Kippersluis, Stephanie von Hinke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15265

Mother Africa's Exceptionalism? Income and Fertility Redux

Mark Gradstein, Phoebe W. Ishak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15252

Measuring Knowledge

James J. Heckman, Jin Zhou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15179

Developmental Losses in Young Children from Pre-primary Program Closures during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Alejandra Abufhele, David Bravo, Florencia López Bóo, Pamela Soto-Ramirez

published in: Comparative Education Review, 2024, 68 (3), 423 -442

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15106

Beauty, Underage Drinking, and Adolescent Risky Behaviours

Colin P. Green, Luke B. Wilson, Anwen Zhang

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 215, 153 - 166

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15084

Cumulative Climate Shocks and Migratory Flows: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Salvatore Di Falco, Anna B. Kis, Martina Viarengo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14921

Nudging Parents to Increase Preschool Attendance in Uruguay

Nicolas Ajzenman, Laura Becerra Luna, Juan Manuel Hernández-Agramonte, Florencia Lopez Boo, Alejandro Vásquez-Echeverría, Mercedes Mateo Diaz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14892

Short-Term Impacts of Targeted Cash Grants and Business Development Services: Experimental Evidence from Entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso

Michael Grimm, Sidiki Soubeiga, Michael Weber

published as 'Supporting small firms in a fragile context: Comparing matching and cash grants in Burkina Faso' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 171.103344.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14851

Center-Based Care and Parenting Activities

Jonas Jessen, C. Katharina Spieß, Sevrin Waights

revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 84 (6), 1356 - 1379

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14781

Closing the Gender Profit Gap?

Catia Batista, Sandra Sequeira, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: Management Science, 2022, 68 (12), 8515 - 9218,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14781

Closing the Gender Profit Gap?

Catia Batista, Sandra Sequeira, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: Management Science, 2022, 68 (12), 8515 - 9218,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14759

Preferences, Financial Literacy, and Economic Development

Maddalena Davoli, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14752

Two Decades of Welfare Reforms in Australia: How Did They Affect Single Mothers and Their Children?

Alexandra de Gendre, Stefanie Schurer, Angela Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14743

Inequality in Early Care Experienced by U.S. Children

Sarah Flood, Joel McMurry, Aaron Sojourner, Matthew Wiswall

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2022, 36 (2), 199–222

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14727

The Impact of Body Mass Index on Growth, Schooling, Productivity, and Savings: A Cross-Country Study

Aysit Tansel, Ceyhan Öztürk, Erkan Erdil

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14587

Exposure to Neighborhood Violence and Child-Parent Conflict among a Longitudinal Sample of Dutch Adolescents

Jaap Nieuwenhuis, Matt Best, Matt Vogel, Maarten van Ham, Susan Branje, Wim Meeus

published in: Cities, 2023, 136, 104258

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14487

Early-Life Famine Exposure, Hunger Recall and Later-Life Health

Zichen Deng, Maarten Lindeboom

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2022, 37 (4), 771-787

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14477

Liquidity or Capital? The Impacts of Easing Credit Constraints in Rural Mexico

Gabriela Aparicio, Vida Bobic, Fernando De Olloqui, María Carmen, María Carmen Fernández Diez, Maria Paula Gerardino, Oscar A. Mitnik, Sebastian Vargas Macedo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14450

From Stocks to Flows – Evidence for the Climate-Migration-Nexus

Michael Berlemann, Erik Haustein, Max F. Steinhardt

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