IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17843

Place-Based Policies in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Opportunities for Preexisting Residents and Neighbourhood Revitalisation?

Anna Piil Damm, Ahmad Hassani, Jonas Søndergaard Sørensen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17341

Discrimination and Health Outcomes in England's Black Communities amid the Cost-of-Living Crisis: Evaluating the Role of Inflation and Bank Rates

Nick Drydakis

published online in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 23 October 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16387

The Effect of Universal Free School Meals on Child BMI

Will Davis, Daniel Kreisman, Tareena Musaddiq

published in. Education Finance & Policy, 2024, 19 (3), 461 - 491

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16350

An Ounce of Prevention for a Pound of Cure: Efficiency of Community-Based Healthcare

Antonella Bancalari, Pedro Bernal, Pablo Celhay, Sebastian Martinez, Maria Deni Sánchez

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. 15784

The Effect of Brazil's Family Health Program on Cognitive Skills

Pinar Mine Gunes, Magda Tsaneva

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15777

Getting Students to Stick Around: The Effects of Completing an Introductory Course on Persistence for Community College Students

Dora Gicheva, Julie Edmunds, Marie C. Hull, Beth Thrift

published online in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 07 January 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15424

The Impact of COVID-19 on Community College Enrollment and Student Success: Evidence from California Administrative Data

George Bulman, Robert W. Fairlie

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15384

The Labor Market Impacts of Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Brazil

Mrittika Shamsuddin, Pablo A. Acosta, Rovane Battaglin Schwengber, Jedediah Fix, Nikolas Pirani

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15210

Are the East African Community's Countries Ready for a Common Currency?

Thomas Kigabo-Rusuhuzwa, Almas Heshmati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15196

The Impact of COVID-19 on Community College Enrollment and Student Success: Evidence from California Administrative Data

George Bulman, Robert W. Fairlie

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14907

Do Police Make Too Many Arrests? The Effect of Enforcement Pullbacks on Crime

Sungwoo Cho, Felipe Gonçalves, Emily Weisburst

This version: 8/2022; First version (IZA Working Paper): 12/2021.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14681

Does the Community Reinvestment Act Increase Small Business Lending in Lower Income Neighborhoods?

Mee Jung Kim, Kyung Min Lee, John S. Earle

published in: Economics Letters, 2021, 209, 110146

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. 14449

Women at Work in the United States since 1860: An Analysis of Unreported Family Workers

Barry R. Chiswick, RaeAnn Halenda Robinson

published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2021, 82, 101406

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14408

Mothers' Caregiving during COVID: The Impact of Divorce Laws and Homeownership on Women's Labor Force Status

Cynthia Bansak, Shoshana Grossbard, Crystal (Ho Po) Wong

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14403

Black Entrepreneurs, Job Creation, and Financial Constraints

Mee Jung Kim, Kyung Min Lee, J. David Brown, John S. Earle

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14192

Enhancing Human Capital at Scale

Francesco Agostinelli, Ciro Avitabile, Matteo Bobba

this version: September 2022.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14109

Should the Federal Government Fund Short-Term Postsecondary Certificate Programs?

Sandy Baum, Harry J. Holzer, Grace Luetmer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14002

Community Influence as an Explanatory Factor Why Roma Children Get Little Schooling

Oded Stark, Ruxanda Berlinschi

published in: Public Choice, 2021, 189, 93–11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13822

The Effect of Course Shutouts on Community College Students: Evidence from Waitlist Cutoffs

Silvia Robles, Max Gross, Robert W. Fairlie

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 199, 104409

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13724

The Effect of Community Size on Electoral Preferences: Evidence From Post-WWII Southern Germany

Luciana C. Fiorini, Michael Jetter, Christopher F. Parmeter, Christopher Parsons

revised version published as 'Community Size and Electoral Preferences: Evidence From Post-Second World War Baden-Württemberg' in: British Journal of Political Science, 2024, 54 (3), 573 - 594

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13642

Delineating Functional Labour Market Areas with Estimable Classification Stabilities

Benjamin Davies, David C. Maré

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12463

Losing Insurance and Behavioral Health Hospitalizations: Evidence from a Large-Scale Medicaid Disenrollment

J. Catherine Maclean, Sebastian Tello-Trillo, Douglas A. Webber

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 508-527

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12319

Community College Pathways for Disadvantaged Students

Harry J. Holzer, Zeyu Xu

published in: Community College Review, 2021, 49 (4), 351 - 388

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11935

How Important Are Fixed Effects and Time Trends in Estimating Returns to Schooling? Evidence from a Replication of Jacobson, Lalonde and Sullivan, 2005

Susan Dynarski, Brian A. Jacob, Daniel Kreisman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11446

A Community Based Program Promotes Sanitation

María Laura Alzúa, Habiba Djebbari, Amy J. Pickering

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2020, 62 (3), 357–390

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10939

The Joint Effects of a Health Insurance and a Public Works Scheme in Rural Ethiopia

Zemzem Shigute, Christoph Strupat, Francesco Burchi, Getnet Alemu, Arjun S. Bedi

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56 (2), 431 - 448

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10202

The Returns to Education at Community Colleges: New Evidence from the Education Longitudinal Survey

Dave E. Marcotte

published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2019, 14 (4), 523-547.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9833

Uptake of Health Insurance and the Productive Safety Net Program in Rural Ethiopia

Zemzem Shigute, Anagaw Derseh Mebratie, Robert Sparrow, Zelalem Yilma, Getnet Alemu, Arjun S. Bedi

published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2017, 176, 133-141

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. 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. 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. 9500

The Impact of Missionary Type on the English Language Proficiency and Earnings of Immigrants

Nicholas Larsen, Barry R. Chiswick

published as 'The impact of exposure to missionaries on the English language proficiency and earnings of immigrants in the USA' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2019, 40 (4), 574 - 590

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. 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. 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. 7936

Family Employees and Absenteeism

Jörn Block, Laszlo Goerke, José María Millán, Concepción Román

published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 123 (1), 94-99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7764

Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Robert W. Fairlie, Samantha H. Grunberg

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2014, 52 (3), 1040 - 1059