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published online as 'Restricting temporary foreign labour: evidence on wage effects from Canada’s 2014 policy reform' in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 24 October 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18107

The Impact of the Chainsaw-Liberation on the Rental Housing Market in Buenos Aires

Martin Elfert, Stephan L. Thomsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18086

Adolescent Core Self-Evaluation and Adult Interpersonal Trust: Evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study

Anna Adamecz, Hubert János Kiss

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18040

‘Sorting’ Out Gender Discrimination and Disadvantage: Evidence from Student Evaluations of Teaching

Sara Ayllón, Lars Lefgren, Richard Patterson, Olga B. Stoddard, Nicolas Urdaneta

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17978

Hacking Anti-Immigration Attitudes and Stereotypes: A Field Experiment in Italian High Schools

Sara Giunti, Andrea Guariso, Mariapia Mendola, Irene Solmone

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17877

Gender Differences in Performance Evaluations

Katja Görlitz, Tim Sels

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17877

Gender Differences in Performance Evaluations

Katja Görlitz, Tim Sels

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17854

Building Without Income Mixing: Public Housing Quotas in France

Guillaume Chapelle, Laurent Gobillon, Benjamin Vignolles

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17632

Gender Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching: Do Debiasing Campaigns Work?

Sara Ayllón, Camila Zamora

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17575

A 22 Percent Increase in the German Minimum Wage: Nothing Crazy!

Mario Bossler, Lars Chittka, Thorsten Schank

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17512

Inequity Aversion in Subjective Evaluations: Evidence from Referees' Decisions in Soccer

Leo Morabito, Vincenzo Scoppa

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17414

Infrastructure's Imprint: Metro Proximity and Property Development Dynamics in São Paulo, Brazil

Daniel Grimaldi, Oscar A. Mitnik, Beatrice Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17399

Are Alternative Work Arrangements a Substitute for Standard Employment? Evidence from Worker-Level Data

Bernardo Fanfani, Filippo Passerini

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 46(8), 1438-1459, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17337

Multipliers from a Major Public Sector Relocation: The BBC Moves to Salford

Max Nathan, Henry Overman, Capucine Riom, Maria Sanchez-Vidal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17267

Evaluating Yourself and Your Peers

Mingye Ma, Gerhard Riener, Youzong Xu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17240

Gendered Language in Academic Evaluations: Evidence from the Italian University System

Matilde Casamonti, Natalia Zinovyeva

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16839

Talking Therapy: Impacts of a Nationwide Mental Health Service in England

Christian Krekel, Sorawoot Srisuma

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16777

Let's Roll Back! The Challenging Task of Regulating Temporary Contracts

Davide Fiaschi, Cristina Tealdi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16705

The Role of Trainee Selection in the Effectiveness of Vocational Training: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Nepal

Shyamal Chowdhury, Syed Hasan, Uttam Sharma

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16694

When Randomization Is Not Feasible: The Case of Parenting Skills Programs

Daniela Del Boca, Chiara D. Pronzato, Lucia Schiavon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16694

When Randomization Is Not Feasible: The Case of Parenting Skills Programs

Daniela Del Boca, Chiara D. Pronzato, Lucia Schiavon

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. 16675

Dealing With Imperfect Randomization: Inference for the Highscope Perry Preschool Program

James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto, Azeem M. Shaikh

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2024, 243 (1-2), 105683

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16495

Structural Empirical Analysis of Vacancy Referrals with Imperfect Monitoring and the Strategic Use of Sickness Absence

Gerard J. van den Berg, Hanno Foerster, Arne Uhlendorff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16370

The Dynastic Benefits of Early Childhood Education: Participant Benefits and Family Spillovers

Frederik H. Bennhoff, Jorge Luis García, Duncan Ermini Leaf

published in: Human Capital, 2024, 18 (1), 44-73.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16123

Incentivizing Team Leaders: A Firm-Level Experiment on Subjective Performance Evaluation of Leadership Skills

Thomas Gall, Xiaocheng Hu, Michael Vlassopoulos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16108

The Long-Term Causal Effects of Winning an ERC Grant

Corinna Ghirelli, Enkelejda Havari, Elena Claudia Meroni, Stefano Verzillo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16042

Monetary Rewards, Hierarchy Level and Working Hours as Drivers of Employees' Self-Evaluations

Christian Grund, Alexandra Soboll

published in: Review of Managerial Science, 2025, 19, 729–756

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15976

The Employment Effects of Generous and Unconditional Cash Support

Timo Verlaat, Federico Todeschini, Xavier Ramos

published as 'The employment effects of a means-tested guaranteed income policy' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2025, 248, 105420

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15633

The Effect of Preferential Admissions on the College Participation of Disadvantaged Students: The Role of Pre-College Choices

Michela M. Tincani, Fabian Kosse, Enrico Miglino

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15505

Much Ado about Nothing? School Curriculum Reforms and Students' Educational Trajectories

Maurizio Strazzeri, Chantal Oggenfuss, Stefan C. Wolter

published as 'Early exposure to foreign language training and students’ educational trajectories' in: Economics of Education Review, 2025, 108, 102684 (with Enzo Brox)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15496

Social Preferences and Rating Biases in Subjective Performance Evaluations

David Kusterer, Dirk Sliwka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15427

Identifying Program Benefits When Participation Is Misreported

Denni Tommasi, Lina Zhang

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2024, 39 (6), 1123-1148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15414

Mean Convergence, Combinatorics, and Grade-Point Averages

Glen R. Waddell, Robert McDonough

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15358

Heterogeneous Returns to Active Labour Market Programs for Indigenous Populations

Donn. L. Feir, Kelly Foley, Maggie E. C. Jones

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15321

What Can We Learn from Student Performance Measures? Identifying Treatment in the Presence of Curves and Letter Grades

Glen R. Waddell, Jenni Putz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15198

The "Robot Economy" and Optimal Tax-Transfer Reforms

Ugo Colombino, Nizamul Islam

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15176

Sometimes It Works! The Effect of a Reform of the Short Vocational Track on School-to-Work Transition

Simona Lorena Comi, Mara Grasseni, Federica Origo

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2022, 43 (7),1601 -1619

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15151

Treatment Effect Heterogeneity

Jeffrey A. Smith

published in: Evaluation Review, 2022, 46 (5), 652 - 677

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15117

Compensating Differentials for Occupational Health and Safety Risks: Implications of Recent Evidence

Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2023, 50, 83-116

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15104

Fostering Soft Skills in Active Labor Market Programs: Evidence from a Large-Scale RCT

Analia Schlosser, Yannay Shanan

forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15066

An Impact Assessment of ESF Training Courses for Unemployed in the Province of Bolzano

Francesco Pastore, Marco Pompili

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15005

The Impact Evaluation of Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (New School) Program on Students' Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills

Hai-Anh H Dang, Paul Glewwe, Jongwook Lee, Khoa Vu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14922

The Effect of Age Diversity in Groups on Peer Evaluations and Individual Performance

Katja Görlitz, Tim Sels

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14922

The Effect of Age Diversity in Groups on Peer Evaluations and Individual Performance

Katja Görlitz, Tim Sels

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14852

Misappropriation of R&D Subsidies: Estimating Treatment Effects with One-Sided Noncompliance

Philipp Boeing, Bettina Peters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14787

Online Teaching and Gender Bias

Sara Ayllón

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 89, 102280

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14697

The Role of the Workplace in Ethnic Wage Differentials

John Forth, Nikos Theodoropoulos, Alex Bryson

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023, 61 (2), 259-290

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14525

The Dynastic Benefits of Early Childhood Education

Jorge Luis García, Frederik H. Bennhoff, Duncan Ermini Leaf, James J. Heckman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14513

Keeping Refugee Children in School and Out of Work: Evidence from the World's Largest Humanitarian Cash Transfer Program

Aysun Hı zı roğ lu Aygün, Murat Güray Kirdar, Murat Koyuncu, Quentin Stoeffler

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 168, 103266.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14486

Active Labour Market Policies for the Long-Term Unemployed: New Evidence from Causal Machine Learning

Daniel Goller, Tamara Harrer, Michael Lechner, Joachim Wolff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14428

Identifying Marginal Treatment Effects in the Presence of Sample Selection

Otávio Bartalotti, Désiré Kédagni, Vítor Augusto Possebom

published in: Journal of Econometrics Volume 234, Issue 2, June 2023, Pages 565-584

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14387

Gender Differences in Student Evaluations of Teaching: Identification and Consequences

Edmund Cannon, Giam Pietro Cipriani

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14376

Killing Prescriptions Softly: Low Emission Zones and Child Health from Birth to School

Hannah Klauber, Felix Holub, Nicolas Koch, Nico Pestel, Nolan Ritter, Alexander Rohlf

revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (2), 220-248

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14359

Parents under Stress: Evaluating Emergency Childcare Policies during the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Germany

Simone Schüller, Hannah S. Steinberg

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102217

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14277

Effects of Measures of Teachers' Quality on Tertiary Education Attendance: Evaluation Tests versus Value Added

Juan Díaz, Rafael Sánchez, Gabriel Villarroel, Mauricio G. Villena

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14254

A General Methodology to Measure Labour Market Dynamics

Davide Fiaschi, Cristina Tealdi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14153

Employee Training and Firm Performance: Evidence from ESF Grant Applications

Pedro S. Martins

published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 72, 102056

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14084

The Refugee Crisis and Right-Wing Populism: Evidence from the Italian Dispersal Policy

Francesco Campo, Sara Giunti, Mariapia Mendola

published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 168, 104826

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13893

Propensity Score Weighting with Mismeasured Covariates: An Application to Two Financial Literacy Interventions

Hao Dong, Daniel L. Millimet

published in: Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2020, 13, 290

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13830

Does Test-Based Teacher Recruitment Work in the Developing World? Experimental Evidence from Ecuador

Maria Daniela Araujo, Guido Heineck, Yyannu Cruz Aguayo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13772

Long-Term Effects of Individual Placement and Support Services for Disability Benefits Recipients with Severe Mental Illnesses

Marloes De Graaf-Zijl, Marcel Spijkerman, Wim Zwinkels

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13603

Biases in Student Evaluations of Teaching: An American Case Study

Natalia Radchenko

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13584

Are Program Participants Good Evaluators?

Jeffrey A. Smith, Alexander Whalley, Nathaniel T. Wilcox

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13584

Are Program Participants Good Evaluators?

Jeffrey A. Smith, Alexander Whalley, Nathaniel T. Wilcox

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13565

If (My) 6 Was (Your) 9: Reporting Heterogeneity in Student Evaluations of Teaching

Marco Bertoni, Enrico Rettore, Lorenzo Rocco

published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 89, 102567

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13559

Short Moves and Long Stays: Homeless Family Responses to Exogenous Shelter Assignments in New York City

Michael T. Cassidy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13558

A Closer Look: Proximity Boosts Homeless Student Performance in New York City

Michael T. Cassidy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13541

Optimal Tax-Transfer Rules under Equilibrium and New Labour Demand Scenarios

Ugo Colombino, Nizamul Islam

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13430

Bounding Program Benefits When Participation Is Misreported

Denni Tommasi, Lina Zhang

published in: Journal of Econometrics 2024, 238, (1), 105556

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13324

Do Reemployment Programs for the Unemployed Work for Youth? Evidence from the Great Recession in the United States

Marios Michaelides, Peter R. Mueser, Jeffrey A. Smith

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2021, 59 (1), 162-185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13309

Combining Microsimulation and Optimization to Identify Optimal Flexible Tax-Transfer Rules

Ugo Colombino, Nizamul Islam

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13176

Loss Aversion and the Welfare Ranking of Policy Interventions

Sergio Firpo, Antonio F. Galvao, Martyna Kobus, Thomas Parker, Pedro Rosa-Dias

published online in: Journal of Econometrics, 21 December 2023, 104543

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13101

Quantiles of the Gain Distribution of an Early Childhood Intervention

Erich Battistin, Carlos Lamarche, Enrico Rettore

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2024, 39 (6), 1045-1064

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13064

Early Childhood Education and Life-cycle Health

Jorge Luis García, James J. Heckman

published in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (S1), 119-141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13028

The Economic Impact of Organized Crime Infiltration in the Legal Economy: Evidence from the Judicial Administration of Organized Crime Firms

Francesca Calamunci, Francesco Drago

published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2020, 6, 275 - 297

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13002

Switching from an Inclining to a Zero-Level Unemployment Benefit Profile: Good for Work Incentives?

Bart Cockx, Koen Declercq, Muriel Dejemeppe, Leda Inga, Bruno Van der Linden

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 64, 101816

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12922

Policy Evaluation Using Causal Inference Methods

Denis Fougère, Nicolas Jacquemet

published in: Nigar Hashimzade and Michael A. Thornton (eds.), Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Empirical Microeconomics, Cheltenham Glos: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12907

When Do Teachers Respond to Student Feedback? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Margaretha Buurman, Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur, Robin Zoutenbier

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101858

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12875

Priority to Unemployed Immigrants? A Causal Machine Learning Evaluation of Training in Belgium

Bart Cockx, Michael Lechner, Joost Bollens

published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 80, 102306

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12839

Understanding Program Complementarities: Estimating the Dynamic Effects of a Training Program with Multiple Alternatives

Antonio Dalla-Zuanna, Kai Liu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12748

Combined and Distributional Effects of EPL Reduction and Hiring Incentives: An Assessment Using Non-Linear DiD

Chiara Ardito, Fabio Berton, Lia Pacelli

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023, 21, 925–954

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12684

Does Increased Teacher Accountability Decrease Leniency in Grading?

Patrick A. Puhani, Philip Yang

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 171, 333 - 341

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12526

Does the Estimation of the Propensity Score by Machine Learning Improve Matching Estimation? The Case of Germany's Programmes for Long Term Unemployed

Daniel Goller, Michael Lechner, Andreas Moczall, Joachim Wolff

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101855

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12487

The Effectiveness of Interventions to Reduce Informality in Low- and Middle Income Countries

Jonas Jessen, Jochen Kluve

revised version published in: World Development, 2021, 138, 105256

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12470

Long-Run Effects of Dynamically Assigned Treatments: A New Methodology and an Evaluation of Training Effects on Earnings

Gerard J. van den Berg, Johan Vikström

published in: Econometrica, 2022, 90 (3), 1337-1354

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12470

Long-Run Effects of Dynamically Assigned Treatments: A New Methodology and an Evaluation of Training Effects on Earnings

Gerard J. van den Berg, Johan Vikström

published in: Econometrica, 2022, 90 (3), 1337-1354

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12307

Does Evaluating Teachers Make a Difference?

Simon Briole, Eric Maurin

published as 'There's always room for improvement: the persistent benefits of a large-scale teacher evaluation system' in : Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (4), 1150 - 1179

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12215

Self-Confidence and Reactions to Subjective Performance Evaluations

Charles Bellemare, Alexander Sebald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12138

Not Everyone Is Engaged: An Innovative Approach to Measure Engagement Levels on the Labor Market

Carole Chartouni, Robert Holzmann, Gustavo N. Paez

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2020 10:10.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12109

Cash, Conditions and Child Development: Experimental Evidence from a Cash Transfer in Honduras

Florencia López Bóo, John Creamer

published in: Economia, LACEA, 2019, 19 (2), 169 - 196

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12074