IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10297

Privatisation in Developing Countries: What Are the Lessons of Recent Experience?

published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2018, 33 (1), 65–102,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10289

The Diversity of Personnel Practices and Firm Performance

Pedro S. Martins

published in: S. W. Polachek, K. Tatsiramos, G. Russo, G. van Houten (eds.), Workplace Productivity and Management Practices', (Research in Labour Economics 49), 2021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10277

Spatial Segregation and Socio-Economic Mobility in European Cities

Maarten van Ham, Tiit Tammaru, Elise de Vuijst, Merle Zwiers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10253

Sibling Health, Schooling and Longer-Term Developmental Outcomes

Chris Ryan, Anna Zhu

published in: S. Mendolina, M. O'Brien, A. R. Paloya, O. Yerokhin (eds.), Critial Perspectives on Economics of Education, Routledge, 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10249

Coping with Change: International Differences in the Returns to Skills

Eric A. Hanushek, Guido Schwerdt, Simon Wiederhold, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economics Letters, 2017, 153, 15-19

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10232

Understanding the Effects of Homeownership and Regional Unemployment Levels on Migration during the Economic Crisis in Spain

Isabel Palomares-Linares, Maarten van Ham

published in: Regional Studies, 2020, 54, 515 - 526

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10190

Business Ethics in Organizations: An Experimental Examination of Whistleblowing and Personality

Jenny Bartuli, Behnud Mir Djawadi, René Fahr

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10171

The Rapid Evolution of Homo Economicus: Brief Exposure to Neoclassical Assumptions Increases Self-Interested Behavior

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 75 ,55 - 65

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10164

Demography of Global Aging

David E. Bloom, Elizabeth Mitgang, Benjamin Osher

published in: Jean-Pierre Michel (ed.), Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine, Oxford University Press, 2017, 3 - 10

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10163

The Global Demography of Aging: Facts, Explanations, Future

David E. Bloom, Dara Lee Luca

published in: J. Poot, M. Roskruge (eds.), Population Change and Impacts in Asia and the Pacific, Springer, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10162

Population Aging in India: Facts, Issues, and Options

Arunika Agarwal, Alyssa Lubet, Elizabeth Mitgang, Sanjay Mohanty, David E. Bloom

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10151

Anchoring in Financial Decision-Making: Evidence from the Field

Michael Jetter, Jay K. Walker

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 141: 164-176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10113

Migration and Urbanisation in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Jan David Bakker, Christopher Parsons, Ferdinand Rauch

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2020, 34 (2), 509 - 532

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10110

The Long-Term Impact of International Migration on Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from a Migration Lottery and Lab-in-the-Field Experiments

John Gibson, David McKenzie, Halahingano Rohorua, Steven Stillman

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 138, 99-115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10097

The End of Cheap Labour: Are Foreign Investors Leaving China?

Julian Donaubauer, Christian Dreger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10081

Research Funding and Regional Economies

Nathan Goldschlag, Stefano Bianchini, Julia Lane, Joseba SanMartin Sola, Bruce A. Weinberg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10058

Towards a Theory of Life Satisfaction Accounting for Stability, Change and Volatility in 25-Year Life Trajectories in Germany

Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10032

Immigrant Educators and Students' Academic Achievement

Kelvin Seah

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51C, 152-169

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10025

Laws, Costs, Norms, and Learning: Improving Working Conditions in Developing Countries

Drusilla Brown, Rajeev Dehejia, Raymond Robertson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10024

How to Help Poor Informal Workers to Save a Bit: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya

Merve Akbas, Dan Ariely, David A. Robalino, Michael Weber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9982

Group (Re-)formation in Public Good Games: The Tale of the Bad Apple

Christian Grund, Christine Harbring, Kirsten Thommes

published in: Journal of Ecconomic Behavior & Organization 145 (2018), 306-319.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9937

The Productivity Impact of R&D Investment: A Comparison between the EU and the US

Davide Castellani, Mariacristina Piva, Torben Schubert, Marco Vivarelli

published as 'R&D and Productivity in the US and the EU: Sectoral Specificities and Differences in the Crisis', Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2019, 138, 279-291.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9913

Temporary Agency Work and the Great Recession

Daniel Baumgarten, Michael Kvasnicka

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 136, 29-44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9912

Entrepreneurs and Freelancers: Are They Time and Income Multidimensional Poor? The German Case

Joachim Merz, Tim Rathjen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9912

Entrepreneurs and Freelancers: Are They Time and Income Multidimensional Poor? The German Case

Joachim Merz, Tim Rathjen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9901

Cooperation, Punishment and Organized Crime: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Southern Italy

Annamaria Nese, Niall O'Higgins, Patrizia Sbriglia, Maurizio Scudiero

published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 107, 86–98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9901

Cooperation, Punishment and Organized Crime: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Southern Italy

Annamaria Nese, Niall O'Higgins, Patrizia Sbriglia, Maurizio Scudiero

published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 107, 86–98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9899

Superstition, Conspicuous Spending, and Housing Markets: Evidence from Singapore

Sumit Agarwal, Jia He, Haoming Liu, I. P. L. Png, Tien Foo Sing, Wei-Kang Wong

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9883

Mining in Arctic and Non-Arctic Regions: A Socioeconomic Assessment

Anders Frederiksen, Maja Due Kadenic

published as: 'Mining the North: Local Impacts' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 63, 101790

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9856

Subjective Belief Distributions and the Characterization of Economic Literacy

Amalia Di Girolamo, Glenn Harrison, Morten Lau, J. Todd Swarthout

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9802

Families in Macroeconomics

Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9802

Families in Macroeconomics

Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9758

Technology-Skill Complementarity in the Early Phase of Industrialization

Raphaël Franck, Oded Galor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9724

Integrated Macroeconomic Production Function for Open Economies: A New Schumpeterian Solow Model for Globalization

Paul J. J. Welfens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9713

The Economics of Healthy Ageing in China

Almas Heshmati

published as 'The Social and Economics of Healthy Ageing in China' in: World Health Design, 2016, 64-70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9686

Parenting Style as an Investment in Human Development

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Nicolás Salamanca, Anna Zhu

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32, 1315 - 1352

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9676

Paradox Lost?

Richard A. Easterlin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9672

Islamism and Gender Relations in the Muslim World as Reflected in Recent World Values Survey Data

Arno Tausch, Almas Heshmati

published in: Society and Economy, 2016, 38 (4), 427–453

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9672

Islamism and Gender Relations in the Muslim World as Reflected in Recent World Values Survey Data

Arno Tausch, Almas Heshmati

published in: Society and Economy, 2016, 38 (4), 427–453

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9603

Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: Increasing Separation between Poor and Rich

Sako Musterd, Szymon Marcińczak, Maarten van Ham, Tiit Tammaru

published in: Urban Geography, 2017, 38 (7), 1062-1083

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9599

Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth

Isaac Ehrlich, Jinyoung Kim

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2015, 9 (4), 518 - 563

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9581

Capital Shares and Income inequality: Evidence from the Long Run

Erik Bengtsson, Daniel Waldenström

published in: Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78 (3), 712-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9579

The Individual Perception of Wage Inequality: A Measurement Framework and Some Empirical Evidence

Andreas Kuhn

revised version published as `The Individual (Mis-)Perception of Wage Inequality: Measurement, Correlates and Implications' in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 2039-2069

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9563

Initial Conditions Matter: Social Capital and Participatory Development

Lisa A. Cameron, Susan Olivia, Manisha Shah

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9562

Girls' Schooling Choices and Home Production: Evidence from Pakistan

Hugo Reis

published in: International Economic Review, 2020, 61 (2), 783-819

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9559

Test Scores, Noncognitive Skills and Economic Growth

Pau Balart, Matthijs Oosterveen, Dinand Webbink

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 63, 134-153

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9555

Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform

Eric A. Hanushek, Jens Ruhose, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2017, 11 (4), 447-486

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9504

The Nature and Predictive Power of Preferences: Global Evidence

Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

revised version published as 'Global Evidence on Economic Preferences' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018, 133 (4), 1645-1692

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9495

Immigrant Employment and Earnings Growth in Canada and the U.S.: Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Neeraj Kaushal, Yao Lu, Nicole Denier, Julia Shu-Huah Wang, Stephen J. Trejo

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (4), 1249-1277.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9464

Collective Labour Supply, Taxes, and Intrahousehold Allocation: An Empirical Approach

Hans Bloemen

published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2019, 37 (3), 471-481

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9416

Is Economics a Good Major for Future Lawyers? Evidence from Earnings Data

John V. Winters

published in: Journal of Economic Education, 2016, 47 (2), 187-191

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9408

Wealth-Income Ratios in a Small, Late-Industrializing, Welfare-State Economy: Sweden, 1810–2014

Daniel Waldenström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9406

The Subversive Nature of Inequality: Subjective Inequality Perceptions and Attitudes to Social Inequality

Andreas Kuhn

revised and shortened version published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 59, 331-344

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9395

Direct Evidence for Income Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being across Reference Groups

Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg

revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 137, 95-101

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9320

The New Economics of Religion

Sriya Iyer

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2016, 54 (2), 395 - 441

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9309

Want Freedom, Will Travel: Emigrant Self-Selection According to Institutional Quality

Maryam Naghsh Nejad, Andrew T. Young

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 45, 71-84

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9268

The Contribution of Female Health to Economic Development

David E. Bloom, Michael Kuhn, Klaus Prettner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9205

Can Intra-Regional Trade Act as a Global Shock Absorber in Africa?

Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Qingwei Meng, Mthuli Ncube

published in: World Economics, 2015, 16 (3), 141 - 162

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9174

Health and Unemployment during Macroeconomic Crises

Prashant Bharadwaj, Petter Lundborg, Dan-Olof Rooth

published as "Birth weight and vulnerability to a macroeconomic crisis": Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 66, 136-144.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9158

Is Industrialization Conducive to Long-Run Prosperity?

Raphaël Franck, Oded Galor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9130

Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States

Eric A. Hanushek, Jens Ruhose, Ludger Woessmann

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2017, 9 (4), 184-224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9081

Education and Growth with Learning by Doing

Gabriele Marconi, Andries de Grip

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9060

Does It Matter Where You Came From? Ancestry Composition and Economic Performance of U.S. Counties, 1850-2010

Scott L. Fulford, Ivan Petkov, Fabio Schiantarelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9025

The Local Economic Impact of Wind Power Deployment

Nils G. May, Øivind Anti Nilsen

published in: FinanzArchiv / Public Finance Analysis, 2019, 75 (1), 56-92.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9024

Fiscal Decentralization, Rural Industrialization, and Undocumented Labor Mobility in Rural China (1982-87)

Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen

published in: Regional Studies, 2016, 50 (9), 1469-1482

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9022

Changing Income Inequality and Panel Income Changes

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9004

Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and Children's Educational Outcomes

Arnaud Chevalier, Olivier Marie

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125 (2), 393-430

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9003

Does Exposure to Economics Bring New Majors to the Field? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Hans Fricke, Jeffrey Grogger, Andreas Steinmayr

published as 'Exposure to Academic Fields and College Major Choice' in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 199-213

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8977

How Does Socio-Economic Status Shape a Child's Personality?

Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8967

Economic Development, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight: Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism

Davide Dragone, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published as 'Non-Separable Time Preferences, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight: Theory and Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 51, 41-65.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8937

Evidence of Added Worker Effect from the 2008 Economic Crisis

Sinem H. Ayhan

revised version published as 'Married women's added worker effect during the 2008 economic crisis - The case of Turkey' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 16 (3), 767 - 790

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8914

The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-Being Data

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, George W. Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert van Landeghem, Georgios Kavetsos, Michael I. Norton

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100 (2), 362–375

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8901

Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes in East and West Germany

Regina T. Riphahn, Michael Zibrowius

published in: Education Economics, 2016, 24 (1), 33 - 57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8877

The Role of Constitutions on Poverty: A Cross-National Investigation

Lanse Minkler, Nishith Prakash

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45(3), 563-581

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8868

Financial Development, Environmental Quality, Trade and Economic Growth: What Causes What in MENA Countries

Anis Omri, Saida Daly, Christophe Rault, Anissa Chaibi

published in: Energy Economics, 2015, 48, 242 - 252

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8853

Behavioral Economics of Education: Progress and Possibilities

Adam M. Lavecchia, Heidi Liu, Philip Oreopoulos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8829

The Objective Measurement of World-Leading Research

Andrew J. Oswald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8829

The Objective Measurement of World-Leading Research

Andrew J. Oswald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8828

Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship

Daniel S. Hamermesh

published in: M. Szenberg and L. Ramrattan (eds.): Collaborative Research in Economis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 65 - 93

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8828

Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship

Daniel S. Hamermesh

published in: M. Szenberg and L. Ramrattan (eds.): Collaborative Research in Economis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 65 - 93

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8827

Gary Becker: Model Economic Scientist

James J. Heckman

published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (5), 74–79

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8821

Lifecycle Patterns in the Socioeconomic Gradient of Risk Preferences

Stefanie Schurer

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,119, 482-495, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8793

The Stress Cost of Children

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Mark Wooden

published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 148 - 161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8792

Gone with the Storm: Rainfall Shocks and Household Well-Being in Guatemala

Javier E. Baez, Leonardo Lucchetti, Maria Eugenia Genoni, Mateo Salazar

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (8), 1253 - 1271

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8776

Past Dominations, Current Institutions and the Italian Regional Economic Performance

Adriana Di Liberto, Marco Sideri

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2015, 38, 12-41

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8772

Institutions and Development in MENA Region: Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector

Mahmoud Arayssi, Ali Fakih

published in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2015, 42 (8), 717-732

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8765

Experts' Awards and Economic Success: Evidence from an Italian Literary Prize

Michela Ponzo, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Journal of Cultural Economics, 2015, 39, 341-367

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8761

Cooperation in Diverse Teams: The Role of Temporary Group Membership

Christian Grund, Christine Harbring, Kirsten Thommes

considerably shortened version published as 'Public Good Provision in Blended Groups of Partners and Strangers' in: Economics Letters, 2015, 134, 41-44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8752

Native-Immigrant Gaps in Educational and School-to-Work Transitions in the Second Generation: The Role of Gender and Ethnicity

Stijn Baert, Frank Heiland, Sanders Korenman

revised version published in: De Economist, 2016, 164, 159 - 186

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8751

Growth and Poverty in Africa: Shifting Fortunes and New Perspectives

Abebe Shimeles

part of this paper published as 'Poverty: Shifting Fortunes and New Perspectives' in: The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 1, Oxford University Press, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8749

Neighborhood Decline and the Economic Crisis

Merle Zwiers, Gideon Bolt, Maarten van Ham, Ronald van Kempen

published in: Urban Geography, 2016, 37 (5), 665 - 584

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8728

Sex Ratios, Polygyny, and the Value of Women in Marriage: A Beckerian Approach

Shoshana Grossbard

published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81(1), 13-25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8704

Strategic Incomplete Contracts: Theory and Experiments

Nisvan Erkal, Steven Y. Wu, Brian E. Roe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8697