IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Intimate partner violence under forced cohabitation and economic stress: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 194, 104350

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13551

H. Gregg Lewis: Perhaps the Father of Modern Labor Economics

Daniel S. Hamermesh

published in: Robert A. Cord (ed.), The Palgrave Companion to Chicago Economics, Vol. II, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, 574-594,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13525

Driven to Succeed? Teenagers' Drive, Ambition and Performance on High-Stakes Examinations

John Jerrim, Nikki Shure, Gill Wyness

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13489

Promoting Female Interest in Economics: Limits to Nudges

Todd Pugatch, Elizabeth Schroeder

published in: American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 2021, 111, 123-127

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13477

Women in Economics: A UK Perspective

Danula K. Gamage, Almudena Sevilla, Sarah Smith

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy 2020, 36 (4), 962 - 982

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13451

Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment

Shyamal Chowdhury, Matthias Sutter, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published as 'Economic preferences across generations and family clusters: A large-scale experiment in a developing country' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (9), 2361-2410.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13451

Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment

Shyamal Chowdhury, Matthias Sutter, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published as 'Economic preferences across generations and family clusters: A large-scale experiment in a developing country' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (9), 2361-2410.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13437

Spatial and Social Mobility in England and Wales: Moving Out to Move On?

Franz Buscha, Emma Gorman, Patrick Sturgis

published as 'Spatial and social mobility in England and Wales: a sub-national analysis of differences and trends over time' in: British Journal of Sociology, 2021, 72 (5), 1378 - 1393

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13436

Entrepreneurial Recovery from COVID-19: Decentralization, Democratization, Demand, Distribution, and Demography

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13428

Timing Matters: Shifting Economic Activity and Intra-Day Variation in Ambient Ozone Concentrations

David Adler, Edson Severnini

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 223, 104905

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13422

Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations

Girum Abebe, Margaret McMillan, Michel Serafinelli

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 158, 102926

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13407

Improving Tax Compliance without Increasing Revenue: Evidence from Population-Wide Randomized Controlled Trials in Papua New Guinea

Christopher Hoy, Luke McKenzie, Mathias Sinning

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2024, 72 (2), 691–723

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13387

Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence

Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Pia Pinger

forthcoming in: Journal of Political Economy, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13384

The Global Distribution of Routine and Non-Routine Work

Piotr Lewandowski, Albert Park, Simone Schotte

published as 'The global divergence in the de-routinisation of jobs' in: Gradín C., Lewandowski P., Schotte S., Sen K. (eds.), Tasks, Skills, and Institutions - The Changing Nature of Work and Inequality, Oxford University Press, 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13373

Allocating Subsidies for Private Investments to Maximize Jobs Impacts

David A. Robalino, Jose M. Romero, Ian Walker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13373

Allocating Subsidies for Private Investments to Maximize Jobs Impacts

David A. Robalino, Jose M. Romero, Ian Walker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13371

Religion in Economic History: A Survey

Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, Ludger Woessmann

published in: A. Bisin, G. Federico (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Economics, London: Academic Press, 2021, 585-639

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13371

Religion in Economic History: A Survey

Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, Ludger Woessmann

published in: A. Bisin, G. Federico (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Economics, London: Academic Press, 2021, 585-639

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13365

On the Exchange Rate and Economic Policy Uncertainty Nexus: A Panel VAR Approach for Emerging Markets

Abir Abid, Christophe Rault

published in: Journal of Quantitative Economics, 2021, 19 (3), 403-425

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13349

Culture and Adult Financial Literacy: Evidence from the United States

Maddalena Davoli, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 78, 102013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13303

Are Economists' Preferences Psychologists' Personality Traits? A Structural Approach

Tomáš Jagelka

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (3), 910–970

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13274

Transmission of US and EU Economic Policy Uncertainty Shock to Asian Economies in Bad and Good Times

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

published as 'Effectiveness of monetary policy under the high and low economic uncertainty states: evidence from the major Asian economies' in: Empirical Economics, 2022, 63, 1741–1769

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13246

Differences across Countries and Time in Household Expenditure Patterns: Implications for the Estimation of Equivalence Scales

Angela Daley, Thesia Garner, Shelley Phipps, Eva Sierminska

published in: International Review of Applied Economics, 2020, 34 (2), 1-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13241

Deliberation Enhances the Confirmation Bias: An Examination of Politics and Religion

David L. Dickinson

published as 'Deliberation, mood response, and the confirmation bias in the religious belief domain' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2024, 109, 102161.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13239

The Accumulation of Human and Market Capital in the United States: The Long View, 1948–2013

Barbara M. Fraumeni, Michael S. Christian, Jon D. Samuels

published in: Barbara M. Fraumeni (Ed.), Human Capital Measurement, Academic Press, 2021, 167 - 197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13238

Towards Economic Democracy and Social Justice: Profit Sharing, Co-Determination, and Employee Ownership

Felix FitzRoy, Michael A. Nolan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13223

Does Economics Make You Sexist?

Valentina Paredes, M. Daniele Paserman, Francisco J. Pino

published online in: Review of Econonomics and Statistics, 24 July 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13203

Why Does the U.S. Have the Best Research Universities? Incentives, Resources, and Virtuous Circles

W. Bentley MacLeod, Miguel Urquiola

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2021, 35 (1), 185 - 205

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13199

What Determines the Capital Share over the Long Run of History?

Erik Bengtsson, Enrico Rubolino, Daniel Waldenström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13179

Inequality and Panel Income Changes: Conditions for Possibilities and Impossibilities

Robert Duval Hernández, Gary S. Fields, George H. Jakubson

published as 'Inequality and Panel Income Changes: Conditions for Possibilities and Impossibilities' in: International Economic Review, 2023, 64 (1), 295-324.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13168

Misclassification-Errors-Adjusted Sahm Rule for Early Identification of Economic Recession

Shuaizhang Feng, Jiandong Sun

published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2021, 75, 101319

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13149

Lift the Ban? Initial Employment Restrictions and Refugee Labour Market Outcomes

Francesco Fasani, Tommaso Frattini, Luigi Minale

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (5), 2803 - 2854

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13135

Revisiting a Remedy against the Chain of Unkindness

Wendelin Schnedler, Nina Lucia Stephan

published in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 2020, 72, 347–364

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13129

The Effect of Labor Market Conditions at Entry on Workers' Long-Term Skills

Jaime Arellano-Bover

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104(5), 1028-1045

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13123

Macroeconomic Conditions When Young Shape Job Preferences for Life

Maria Cotofan, Lea Cassar, Robert Dur, Stephan Meier

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (2), 467–473

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13122

Human Capital as Engine of Growth the Role of Knowledge Transfers in Promoting Balanced Growth within and across Countries

Isaac Ehrlich, Yun Pei

published in: Asian Development Review, 2020, 37 (2), 225 - 263

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13120

The Economic Outcomes of an Ethnic Minority: The Role of Barriers

Nitsa Kaliner Kasir, Eran Yashiv

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13112

What Makes Work Meaningful and Why Economists Should Care about It

Milena Nikolova, Femke Cnossen

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101847

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13091

Macroeconomic Conditions and Health in Britain: Aggregation, Dynamics and Local Area Heterogeneity

Katharina Janke, Kevin Lee, Carol Propper, Kalvinder Shields, Michael A. Shields

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13078

Does Birthplace Diversity Affect Economic Complexity? Cross-Country Evidence

Dany Bahar, Hillel Rapoport, Riccardo Turati

published as 'Birthplace diversity and economic complexity: Cross-country evidence' in: Research Policy, 2022, 51 (8), 103991

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13075

The Ecological Impact of Place-Based Economic Policies

Teevrat Garg, Ajay Shenoy

published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2021, 103 (4), 1239-1250

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13045

Article Length and Citation Outcomes

Syed Hasan, Robert Breunig

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13039

Regional Convergence in Russia: Estimating a Neoclassical Growth Model

Hartmut Lehmann, Aleksey Oshchepkov, Maria Giulia Silvagni

revised version published as 'Regional Convergence in Russia: Estimating an Augmented Solow Model' in: Economic Systems, 2023, 47 (4), 101128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13039

Regional Convergence in Russia: Estimating a Neoclassical Growth Model

Hartmut Lehmann, Aleksey Oshchepkov, Maria Giulia Silvagni

revised version published as 'Regional Convergence in Russia: Estimating an Augmented Solow Model' in: Economic Systems, 2023, 47 (4), 101128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13022

Bowling with Trump: Economic Anxiety, Racial Identification, and Well-Being in the 2016 Presidential Election

Mark Fabian, Robert Breunig, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13012

Do Workers Discriminate against Their Out-group Employers? Evidence from the Gig Economy

Sher Afghan Asad, Ritwik Banerjee, Joydeep Bhattacharya

published as 'Do workers discriminate against their out-group employers? Evidence from an online platform economy' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 216, 221 - 242

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12986

The Impact of Air Pollution on Attributable Risks and Economic Costs of Hospitalization for Mental Disorders

Ziting Wu, Xi Chen, Guoxing Li, Lin Tian, Zhan Wang, Xiuqin Xiong, Chuan Yang, Zijun Zhou, Xiaochuan Pan

published as 'Attributable risk and economic cost of hospital admissions for mental disorders due to PM2.5 in Beijing' in: Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 718, 137274

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12977

Rethinking Specialisation and the Sexual Division of Labour in the 21st Century

Peter Siminski, Rhiannon Yetsenga

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12976

Revisiting Economic Assimilation of Mexican and Central Americans Immigrants in the United States

Giovanni Peri, Zachariah Rutledge

published in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2022, 13:3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12971

Long-Run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap

Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, Laura M. Talpey, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2022, 17 (4), 608-640

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12964

Spurring Economic Growth through Human Development: Research Results and Guidance for Policymakers

David E. Bloom, Alexander Khoury, Vadim Kufenko, Klaus Prettner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12898

Children of Crisis: The Effects of Economic Shocks on Newborns

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Seyit Mümin Cilasun, Belgi Turan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12893

Pathways of Disadvantage: Unpacking the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare

Melisa Bubonya, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 80, 102066

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12872

The Economics behind the Epidemic: Afghan Opium Price and Prescription Opioids in the US

Claudio Deiana, Ludovica Giua, Roberto Nistico

published as 'Opium Price Shocks and Prescription Opioids in the US' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 86 (3), 449 - 484

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12826

Is 'First in Family' a Good Indicator for Widening University Participation?

Anna Adamecz, Morag Henderson, Nikki Shure

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 78, 102038.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12804

Rising Intergenerational Income Persistence in China

Yi Fan, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13 (1), 202 - 230

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12782

Incorporating Conditional Morality into Economic Decisions

David Masclet, David L. Dickinson

published online in: Theory and Decision, 28 August 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12753

Some Contributions of Economics to the Study of Personality

James J. Heckman, Tomáš Jagelka, Tim Kautz

published in: O. P. John and R. W. Robins (eds.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research, 4th ed., Guilford Press, 2021, 853–892

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12700

Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Abilities of Immigrants: New Perspectives on Migrant Quality from a Selective Immigration Country

Maryam Naghsh Nejad, Stefanie Schurer

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 203, 107-124

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12668

Why Variable-Population Social Orderings Cannot Escape the Repugnant Conclusion: Proofs and Implications

Dean Spears, Mark Budolfson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12650

Do Perceptions of Economic Well-Being Predict the Onset of War and Peace?

Eik Swee, Haikun Zhan, Nattavudh Powdthavee

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12631

Does Light Touch Cluster Policy Work? Evaluating the Tech City Programme

Max Nathan

published in: Research Policy, 2022, 51 (9), 1104138

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12625

Redistribution of Individual Pension Wealth to Survivor Pensions: Evidence from a Stated Preferences Analysis

Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge, Raymond Montizaan

published in: Journal of Behavior Economics and Organization, 2020, 173, 402-421.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12619

Do Workers Benefit from Resource Booms in Their Home State? Evidence from the Fracking Era

John V. Winters, Zhengyu Cai, Karen Maguire, Shruti Sengupta

published as 'Causal Effects of the Fracking Boom on Long-Term Resident Workers' in: Journal of Region Science, 2021, 61 (2), 387 - 406

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12602

The Decline in Entrepreneurship in the West: Is Complexity Ossifying the Economy?

Wim Naudé

published as ' From the entrepreneurial to the ossified economy' in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2022, 46 (1), 105 - 131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12575

Missing Data in Imputed Highest Grade Completed in the 2015 -2018 NBER CPS Extracts

Joni Hersch, Fernando Mendoza Lopez, Jennifer Bennett Shinall

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12570

Violent Conflict Exposure in Nigeria and Economic Welfare

John Chiwuzulum Odozi, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

forthcoming in: Journal of African Development, 2026

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12564

Trade and Capital Flows: Substitutes or Complements? An Empirical Investigation

Ansgar H. Belke, Clemens Domnick

published in: Review of International Economics, 2021, 29 (3), 573 - 589

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12494

Gender Gaps in the Evaluation of Research: Evidence from Submissions to Economics Conferences

Laura Hospido, Carlos Sanz

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 83(3), 590-618

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12493

Publication Bias and Editorial Statement on Negative Findings

Cristina Blanco-Perez, Abel Brodeur

published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (623), 1226-1247

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12474

Hurricanes, Flood Risk and the Economic Adaptation of Businesses

Agustín Indaco, Francesc Ortega, Süleyman Taspinar

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2021, 21 (4), 557 - 591

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12460

The Remarkable Unresponsiveness of College Students to Nudging and What We Can Learn from It

Philip Oreopoulos, Uros Petronijevic

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12448

Developmental Origins of Health Inequality

Gabriella Conti, Giacomo Mason, Stavros Poupakis

published in: the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, Oxford University Press, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12439

Widening the High School Curriculum to Include Soft Skill Training: Impacts on Health, Behaviour, Emotional Wellbeing and Occupational Aspirations

Grace Lordan, Alistair McGuire

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12381

Do English Skills Affect Muslim Immigrants' Economic and Social Integration Differentially?

Mutlu Yuksel, Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Cahit Guven

published in: Economic Record, 2019, 95 (310), 279-300

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12376

An Analysis of Beverage Size Restrictions

Brian A. Bourquard, Steven Y. Wu

published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020, 102 (1), 169-185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12356

The Marriage Age U-Shape

Pavel Jelnov

published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2023, 89 (2), 211-252

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12345

Catching up with the West: Chinese Pathways to the Global Middle Class

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Xiuna Yang, Terry Sicular

published in: China Journal, 2020, 84, 102-127

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12342

Anti-Elite Politics and Emotional Reactions to Socio-Economic Problems. Experimental Evidence on 'Pocketbook Anger' from France, Germany, and the United States

Paul Marx

published in: British Journal of Sociology, 2020, 71 (4), 608-624.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12326

Stalin and the Origins of Mistrust

Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova, Vladimir Otrachshenko

revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 208, 104629

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12308

Discrimination in Hiring Based on Potential and Realized Fertility: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

Sascha O. Becker, Ana Fernandes, Doris Weichselbaumer

published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 59, 139–152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12280

Behavioral Economics and the Value of a Statistical Life

Thomas J. Kniesner

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2019, 58(2-3), 207-217

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12259

From Ghana to America: The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development

Salvatore Lo Bello, Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta, Hernan Winkler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12255

An Empirical and Qualitative Assessment of Terrorism Sentencing Decisions in Canada since 2001: Shifting Away from the Fundamental Principle and Towards Cognitive Biases

Michael Nesbitt, Robert J. Oxoby, Meagan Potier

published as 'Terrorism Sentencing Decisions in Canada Since 2001: Shifting away from the Fundamental Principle and towards Cognitive Biases' in: UBC Law Review, 2019, 52 (2), Article 5

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12255

An Empirical and Qualitative Assessment of Terrorism Sentencing Decisions in Canada since 2001: Shifting Away from the Fundamental Principle and Towards Cognitive Biases

Michael Nesbitt, Robert J. Oxoby, Meagan Potier

published as 'Terrorism Sentencing Decisions in Canada Since 2001: Shifting away from the Fundamental Principle and towards Cognitive Biases' in: UBC Law Review, 2019, 52 (2), Article 5

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12253

Advanced Counter-Biasing

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Kevin Benscheidt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12234

Out-Of-Partnership Births in East and West Germany

Uwe Jirjahn, Cornelia Struewing

revised version by Uwe Jirjahn and Cornelia Chadi published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, 18 (3), 853-881

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12225

Do Tax Incentives Affect Business Location and Economic Development? Evidence from State Film Incentives

Patrick Button

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 77, 315-339.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12224