IZA Discussion Papers

published in: Paolo Buonanno, Paolo Vanin, and Juan Vargas (eds). A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime, Elgar Modern Guides, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, 184-204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14929

COVID-19 Government Responses to Labour Market Disruptions and Economic Impacts: The New Zealand Model

Sholeh A. Maani

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14911

Adams and Eves: The Gender Gap in Economics Majors

Graziella Bertocchi, Luca Bonacini, Marina Murat

published as 'Adams and Eves: High school math and the gender gap in Economics majors' in: Economic Inquiry, 2023, 61 (4), 798-817

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14911

Adams and Eves: The Gender Gap in Economics Majors

Graziella Bertocchi, Luca Bonacini, Marina Murat

published as 'Adams and Eves: High school math and the gender gap in Economics majors' in: Economic Inquiry, 2023, 61 (4), 798-817

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14885

Why Do Relatively Few Economists Work on Climate Change? A Survey

Nico Pestel, Andrew J. Oswald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14884

COVID-19 and the Forces behind Social Unrest

Mario Lackner, Uwe Sunde, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published as 'The forces behind social unrest: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic' in: Plos One, 2025, 20 (1), e0314165

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14870

Time, Income and Subjective Well-Being - 20 Years of Interdependent Multidimensional Polarization in Germany

Joachim Merz, Bettina Scherg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14870

Time, Income and Subjective Well-Being - 20 Years of Interdependent Multidimensional Polarization in Germany

Joachim Merz, Bettina Scherg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14857

Are Student-Athletes Exploited?

James J. Heckman, Colleen P. Loughlin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14838

Modeling to Inform Economy-Wide Pandemic Policy: Bringing Epidemiologists and Economists Together

Michael E. Darden, David Dowdy, Lauren Gardner, Barton H. Hamilton, Karen A. Kopecky, Melissa Marx, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Daniel Polsky, Kimberly Powers, Elizabeth Stuart, Matthew V. Zahn

published in: Health Economics, 2022, 31 (7), 1291-1295

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14834

Institutional Integration and Productivity Growth: Evidence from the 1995 Enlargement of the European Union

Nauro F. Campos, Fabrizio Coricelli, Emanuele Franceschi

published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 142, 104014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14834

Institutional Integration and Productivity Growth: Evidence from the 1995 Enlargement of the European Union

Nauro F. Campos, Fabrizio Coricelli, Emanuele Franceschi

published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 142, 104014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14823

Preferences and COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions

Serge Blondel, François Langot, Judith E. Mueller, Jonathan Sicsic

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14814

Employment Effects of Economic Sanctions in Iran

Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Roberto Nistico

published in: World Development, 2022, 151, 105760.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14800

The Origins of Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Earnings Expectations: Causal Evidence from a Mentoring Intervention

Teodora Boneva, Thomas Buser, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14790

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Socioeconomic Inequality in Psychological Distress in the UK: An Update

Xiaoying Gao, Apostolos Davillas, Andrew M. Jones

revised version published in : Health Economics, 2022, 31 (5), 912-920

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. 14778

Gender Differences in Economics PhD Field Specializations with Correlated Choices

Eva Sierminska, Ronald L. Oaxaca

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102289

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14759

Preferences, Financial Literacy, and Economic Development

Maddalena Davoli, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14757

Did the "Bologna Process" Achieve Its Goals? 20 Years of Empirical Evidence on Student Enrolment, Study Success and Labour Market Outcomes

Martina Kroher, Kathrin Leuze, Stephan L. Thomsen, Johannes Trunzer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14750

Immigrant Supply of Marketable Child Care and Native Fertility in Italy

Rama Dasi Mariani, Furio C. Rosati

published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2022, 88 (4), 503 - 533

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14745

Inequality in Mortality between Black and White Americans by Age, Place, and Cause, and in Comparison to Europe, 1990-2018

published in: PNAS, 2021, 118 (40), e210468411

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14733

Social Rejection, Family Acceptance, Economic Recession and Physical and Mental Health of Sexual Minorities

Nick Drydakis

published in: Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2022, 19, 1318–1340

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14732

Working Time Mismatch and Job Satisfaction - The Role of Employees' Time Autonomy and Gender

Christian Grund, Katja Rebecca Tilkes

published in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2023, 34, 4003-4025.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14731

Economic Gradients in Social Health in Britain

Claryn S. J. Kung, Stephen Pudney, Michael A. Shields

published as 'Economic gradients in loneliness, social isolation and social support: Evidence from the UK Biobank' in: Social Science & Medicine, 2022, 306, 115122

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. 14714

Ingroup Bias with Multiple Identities: The Case of Religion and Attitudes Towards Government Size

Daniel Sgroi, Jonathan Yeo, Shi Zhuo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14704

Sex Workers' Self-Reported Physical and Mental Health in Greece: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study in 2009, 2013 and 2019

Nick Drydakis

published in: Culture Health and Sexuality, 2022, 24 (11), 1514 - 1530

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14702

The Australian Twins Economic Preferences Survey

Nathan Kettlewell, Agnieszka Tymula

published in: Twin Research and Human Genetics, 2021, 24 (6), 365-370

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14691

(Successful) Democracies Breed Their Own Support

Daron Acemoglu, Nicolas Ajzenman, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Martin Fiszbein, Carlos Molina

published online in: Review of Economic Studies, 16 May 2024.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14673

Labor Market Transitions of Members of Opposite-Sex Couples: Nonparticipation, Unemployed Search, and Employment

Hans Bloemen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14671

Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Labor Market against Gay Men

Nick Drydakis

published in:Review of Economics of the Household, 2022, 20, 1027 - 1058

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14659

The Use of Quantile Methods in Economic History

Damian Clarke, Manuel Llorca-Jaña, Daniel Pailañir

published in: Historical Methods, 2023, 56 (2), 115-132

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14653

Child Education-Induced Migration and Its Impact on the Economic Behaviors of Migrated Households in China

Weibo Yan, Peng Nie

published in: Applied Economics, 2023, 55 (7), 691-709

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14652

College Credit on the Table? Advanced Placement Course and Exam Taking

Ishtiaque Fazlul, Todd R. Jones, Jonathan Smith

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14645

Why Does Happiness Respond Differently to an Increase vs. Decrease in Income?

Richard A. Easterlin

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 209, 200 - 204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14643

Publishing Economics: How Slow? Why Slow? Is Slow Productive? Fixing Slow?

Aboozar Hadavand, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Wesley W. Wilson

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2024, 62 (1), 269 - 293

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14630

Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses

Maksim Belitski, Christina Guenther, Alexander S. Kritikos, Roy Thurik

published in: Small Business Economics, 2022, 58 (2), 593-609

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14611

Long-Term Consequences of Teaching Gender Roles: Evidence from Desegregating Industrial Arts and Home Economics in Japan

Hiromi Hara, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14584

Athletes Greatly Benefit from Participation in Sports at the College and Secondary Level

James J. Heckman, Colleen P. Loughlin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14580

Intergenerational Educational Mobility – The Role of Non-cognitive Skills

Anna Adamecz, Morag Henderson, Nikki Shure

published in: Education Economcis, 2024, 32 (1), 59 - 78

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14540

For Some, Luck Matters More: The Impact of the Great Recession on the Early Careers of Graduates from Different Socio-Economic Backgrounds

Emilia Del Bono, Greta Morando

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (3), 869 - 893

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14527

What's Worth Knowing? Economists' Opinions about Economics

Peter Andre, Armin Falk

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14518

Fighting Climate Change: The Role of Norms, Preferences, and Moral Values

Peter Andre, Teodora Boneva, Felix Chopra, Armin Falk

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14516

Do Ethnically-Congruent Teachers Really Matter Little for Hispanic Students? A Re-Examination of the Data

Kelvin Seah

published in: Economics Letters, 2021, 206, Article 109976

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14476

The Economic Incentives of Cultural Transmission: Spatial Evidence from Naming Patterns across France

Yann Algan, Clément Malgouyres, Thierry Mayer, Mathias Thoenig

published in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (642), 437 - 470

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14467

The Roots of Cooperation

Zvonimir Bašić, Parampreet C. Bindra, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Angelo Romano, Matthias Sutter, Claudia Zoller

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14450

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

Michael Berlemann, Erik Haustein, Max F. Steinhardt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14440

The Dynamics of Inattention in the (Baseball) Field

James Archsmith, Anthony Heyes, Matthew Neidell, Bhaven Sampat

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14422

Do Universities Improve Local Economic Resilience?

Greg Howard, Russell Weinstein, Yuhao Yang

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (4), 1129–1145.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14420

Effectives of Monetary Policy under the High and Low Economic Uncertainty States: Evidence from the Major Asian Economies

Mehmet Balcilar, Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir, Huseyin Ozdemir, Gurcan Aygun, Mark E. Wohar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14418

A Simple Nudge Increases Socioeconomic Diversity in Undergraduate Economics

Todd Pugatch, Elizabeth Schroeder

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2024, 62 (1), 287 - 307

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14414

Explaining Trends in Adult Height in China: 1950 to 1990

Minhee Chae, Timothy J. Hatton, Xin Meng

published in: World Development, 2023, 161, 106075

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14392

Urban Economics in a Historical Perspective: Recovering Data with Machine Learning

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Laurent Gobillon, Yanos Zylberberg

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 94, 103711

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14351

Formation of College Plans: Expected Returns, Preferences and Adjustment Process

Ghazala Azmat, Katja Maria Kaufmann

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, 22 (2), 669–711

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14327

Experiencing Booms and Busts in the Welfare State and Support for Redistribution

Kerstin F. Hansen, Alois Stutzer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14272

The Effect of a Health and Economic Shock on the Gender, Ethnic and Racial Gap in Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from COVID-19

Stefani Milovanska-Farrington

updated version published as 'The Effect of Covid-19 as an Economic Shock on the Gender and Ethnic Gap in Labor Market Outcomes' in: Studies in Microeconomics, 2021, 9 (2), 227–255

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14259

The Effect of Sport in Online Dating: Evidence from Causal Machine Learning

Daniel Boller, Michael Lechner, Gabriel Okasa

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14237

Left-Handedness and Economic Development

Fabio Mariani, Marion Mercier, Luca Pensieroso

published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2023, 28, 79 - 123

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14171

Modelling Artificial Intelligence in Economics

Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé

published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2022, 56, 12 (2022)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14143

Wage Determination in the Shadow of the Law: The Case of Works Councilors in Germany

Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg

substantially revised version published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2024, 45 (1), 38 - 115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14070

The Influence of Dietary Patterns on Outcomes in a Bayesian Choice Task

David L. Dickinson, Caleb Garbuio

revised version published in: Health Science Reports, 2021, 4 (3), e369

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14057

The First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Socioeconomic Inequality in Psychological Distress in the UK

Apostolos Davillas, Andrew M. Jones

revised version published in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (7), 1668 - 1683

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14037

Between the Dockyard and the Deep Blue Sea: Retention and Personnel Economics in the Royal Navy

Darrell J. Glaser, Ahmed S. Rahman

published in: Labour Economics 2023, 84, 102407

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14035

Illicit Drugs and the Decline of the Middle Class

Volker Grossmann, Holger Strulik

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 183, 718-743

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14017

The Recovery from the Great Recession: A Long, Evolving Expansion

Jay C. Shambaugh, Michael R. Strain

published in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2021, 695 (1), 24 - 28

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13943

The Health-Wealth Trade-off during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Communication Matters

Vincenzo Carrieri, Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia

published in: PLoS ONE, 2021,16 (9), e0256103.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13940

China's Great Boom as a Historical Process

Loren Brandt, Thomas G. Rawski

published in: In: Ma, D, and von Glahn, R. (eds.), The Cambridge Economic History of China, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 775-828

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13923

The Easterlin Paradox

Richard A. Easterlin, Kelsey J. O'Connor

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. 13921

School to Work Transition and Macroeconomic Conditions in the Turkish Economy

Ömer Tuğsal Doruk, Francesco Pastore

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13915

Economic Preferences and Obesity: Evidence from a Clinical Lab-in-Field Experiment

Chiara Pastore, Stefanie Schurer, Agnieszka Tymula, Nicholas Fuller, Ian Caterson

published in: Health Economics, 2023, 32 (9), 2147-2167

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13911

The Labor Market Returns to 'First in Family' University Graduates

Anna Adamecz, Morag Henderson, Nikki Shure

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 1395–1429

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13911

The Labor Market Returns to 'First in Family' University Graduates

Anna Adamecz, Morag Henderson, Nikki Shure

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 1395–1429

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13905

How Threatening Are Transformations of Happiness Scales to Subjective Wellbeing Research?

Caspar F. Kaiser, Maarten C.M. Vendrik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13894

Big Five Personality Traits and Sex

Uwe Jirjahn, Martha Ottenbacher

revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 549 - 580

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13877

Gender Economics: An Assessment

Almudena Sevilla

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2020, 36 (4), 725–742,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13813

Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: It Is Not Who You Teach, but How You Teach

George Orlov, Douglas McKee, James Berry, Austin Boyle, Thomas J. DiCiccio, Tyler Ransom, Alex Rees-Jones, Joerg Stoye

published in: Economics Letters, 2021, 202, 109812

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13797

Economics and Epidemics: Evidence from an Estimated Spatial Econ-SIR Model

Mark Bognanni, Doug Hanley, Daniel Kolliner, Kurt Mitman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13745

Predictors of Social Distancing and Mask-Wearing Behavior: Panel Survey in Seven U.S. States

Plamen Nikolov, Andreas Pape, Ozlem Tonguc, Charlotte Williams

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13745

Predictors of Social Distancing and Mask-Wearing Behavior: Panel Survey in Seven U.S. States

Plamen Nikolov, Andreas Pape, Ozlem Tonguc, Charlotte Williams

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13742

Lives Saved during Economic Downturns: Evidence from Australia

Kadir Atalay, Rebecca Edwards, Stefanie Schurer, David Ubilava

published in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (10), 2452 - 2467

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13721

First in Their Families at University: Can Non-cognitive Skills Compensate for Social Origin?

Rebecca Edwards, Rachael Gibson, Colm P. Harmon, Stefanie Schurer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13718

Promises and Limitations of Nudging in Education

Philip Oreopoulos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13686

Further from the Truth: The Impact of In-Person, Online, and mTurk on Dishonest Behavior

David L. Dickinson, David M. McEvoy

revised version published as 'Further from the truth: The impact of moving from in-person to online settings on dishonest behavior' in: Journal of Experimental and Behavioral Economics , 2021, 90, 101649

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13668

The Effect on Foreign Direct Investment of Membership in the European Union

Randolph Luca Bruno, Nauro F. Campos, Saul Estrin

published in: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2021, 59 (4), 802-821

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13665

Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing: Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land

Charlotte Bartels, Simon Jäger, Natalie Obergruber

published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (664), 3137–3172

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13665

Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing: Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land

Charlotte Bartels, Simon Jäger, Natalie Obergruber

published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (664), 3137–3172