IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5625

Inference with Imperfect Randomization: The Case of the Perry Preschool Program

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5599

Ökonometrie vs. Projektdesign: Lehren aus der Evaluation eines Modellprojekts zur Umsetzung des Workfare-Konzepts

Hilmar Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published as 'Econometrics vs. Project Design: Lessons from the Evaluation of a Workfare Project' in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2013, 233 (1), 65-85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5491

The Impact of the UK New Deal for Lone Parents on Benefit Receipt

Peter Dolton, Jeffrey A. Smith

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5485

The Threat Effect of Participation in Active Labor Market Programs on Job Search Behavior of Migrants in Germany

Annette Bergemann, Marco Caliendo, Gerard J. van den Berg, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 777-795

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5485

The Threat Effect of Participation in Active Labor Market Programs on Job Search Behavior of Migrants in Germany

Annette Bergemann, Marco Caliendo, Gerard J. van den Berg, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 777-795

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5442

Job Search Requirements for Older Unemployed: Transitions to Employment, Early Retirement and Disability Benefits

Hans Bloemen, Stefan Hochguertel, Marloes Lammers

published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 58, 31-57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5424

Dynamic Evaluation of Job Search Assistance

Stephen Kastoryano, Bas van der Klaauw

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2022, 37 (2), 227-241

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5424

Dynamic Evaluation of Job Search Assistance

Stephen Kastoryano, Bas van der Klaauw

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2022, 37 (2), 227-241

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5400

The IZA Evaluation Dataset: Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making

Marco Caliendo, Armin Falk, Lutz C. Kaiser, Hilmar Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff, Gerard J. van den Berg, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 731-752

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5382

Local Electoral Incentives and Decentralized Program Performance

Alain de Janvry, Frederico S. Finan, Elisabeth Sadoulet

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (3), 672 - 685

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5379

Determinanten des Suchverhaltens von Arbeitslosen: Ausgewählte Erkenntnisse basierend auf dem IZA Evaluationsdatensatz

Marco Caliendo, Arne Uhlendorff

published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2011, 44 (1-2), 119-125

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5337

The Threat of Monitoring Job Search: A Discontinuity Design

Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe

revised version published in :Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (5), 729-737

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5335

Who Pays for It? The Heterogeneous Wage Effects of Employment Protection Legislation

Marco Leonardi, Giovanni Pica

published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123, 1236-1278.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5316

Federal Nutrition Programs and Childhood Obesity: Inside the Black Box

Manan Roy, Daniel L. Millimet, Rusty Tchernis

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2012, 10 (1), 1-38

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5270

Organization and Information in the Fight against Crime: An Evaluation of the Integration of Police Forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Rodrigo R. Soares, Igor Viveiros

published in: Economía: Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, 2017, 17 (2), 29-63

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5269

The Heterogeneous Effects of Training Incidence and Duration on Labor Market Transitions

Bernd Fitzenberger, Aderonke Osikominu, Marie Elina Paul

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5266

Can Targeted, Non-Cognitive Skills Programs Improve Achievement? Evidence from EPIS

Pedro S. Martins

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5265

Analyzing the Anticipation of Treatments Using Data on Notification Dates

Bruno Crépon, Marc Ferracci, Grégory Jolivet, Gerard J. van den Berg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5217

Macroeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies in Austria

Wolfgang Dauth, Reinhard Hujer, Katja Wolf

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5208

Spatial Decentralization and Program Evaluation: Theory and an Example from Indonesia

Mark M. Pitt, Nidhiya Menon

published as 'Spatial Decentralization and Programme Evaluation: Theory and an Example' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 81 (3), 511 - 539

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5114

Bringing Financial Literacy and Education to Low and Middle Income Countries: The Need to Review, Adjust, and Extend Current Wisdom

Robert Holzmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5082

Assessing the Impact of Incomes Policy: The Italian Experience

Francesco Pastore

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2010, 31 (7), 793-817

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5078

Wages, Employment and Tenure of Temporarily Subsidized Workers: Does the Industry Matter?

Gesine Stephan

revised version published as 'Hétérogénéité sectorielle des effets d'un dispositif de subvention salariale sur les salaires et l'emploi en Allemagne' in: Travail et Emploi, 2014, 139, 61-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5054

Employer Learning, Productivity and the Earnings Distribution: Evidence from Performance Measures

Lisa B. Kahn, Fabian Lange

Published in Review of Economic Studies, 2014, 81 (4), 1575-1613.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4913

Social Ties and Subjective Performance Evaluations: An Empirical Investigation

Kathrin Breuer, Petra Nieken, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Review of Managerial Science, 2013, 7 (2), 141-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4882

Wage Effects of Non-Wage Labour Costs

María Cervini-Plá, Xavier Ramos, José I. Silva

substantially revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 72, 113-137. Winner of the 2015 Spanish Association for Labour Economics Best Paper Award.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4864

Can Training Programs or Rather Wage Subsidies Bring the Unemployed Back to Work? A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation for Germany

Renate Neubäumer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4794

Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects on Hazard Rates

Simen Gaure, Knut Røed, Gerard J. van den Berg, Tao Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4790

Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 311-331

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4781

Alternative Basic Income Mechanisms: An Evaluation Exercise with a Microeconometric Model

Ugo Colombino, Marilena Locatelli, Edlira Narazani, Cathal O'Donoghue

published in: Basic Income Studies, 2010, 5 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4725

Econometric Methods for Causal Evaluation of Education Policies and Practices: A Non-Technical Guide

Martin Schlotter, Guido Schwerdt, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Education Economics, 2011, 19 (2), 109-137

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4700

Treatment Evaluation in the Case of Interactions within Markets

Marc Ferracci, Grégory Jolivet, Gerard J. van den Berg

published as 'Evidence of Treatment Spillovers within Markets', 2014, 96 (5), 812 - 823

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4638

Quick Job Entry or Long-Term Human Capital Development? The Dynamic Effects of Alternative Training Schemes

Aderonke Osikominu

revised version published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (1), 313-342

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4569

New Estimates of Public Employment and Training Program Net Impacts: A Nonexperimental Evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Program

Carolyn J. Heinrich, Peter R. Mueser, Kenneth Troske, Kyung-Seong Jeon, Daver C. Kahvecioglu

published as "Do Public Employment and Training Programs Work?" in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2013, 2:6

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4476

Targeting Non-Cognitive Skills to Improve Cognitive Outcomes: Evidence from a Remedial Education Intervention

Helena Holmlund, Olmo Silva

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 8 (2), 126-160

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4475

Oportunidades: Program Effect on Consumption, Low Participation, and Methodological Issues

Manuela Angelucci, Orazio Attanasio

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2009, 57 (3), 479-506

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4313

Andrew J. Oswald

published in: Scientometrics, 2010, 84 (1), 99 - 113

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4239

Labour Supply Effects of a Subsidised Old-Age Part-Time Scheme in Austria

Nikolaus Graf, Helmut Hofer, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung/Journal for Labour Market Research, 2011, 44 (3), 217-229

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4227

Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program on the Re-Employment Rate of Displaced Workers

Sandra Cavaco, Denis Fougère, Julien Pouget

published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44 (1), 261-287.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4162

Sample Attrition Bias in Randomized Experiments: A Tale of Two Surveys

Luc Behaghel, Bruno Crépon, Marc Gurgand, Thomas Le Barbanchon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4119

Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Health Interventions: Evidence from Brazil's Family Health Program

Romero Rocha, Rodrigo R. Soares

published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (S1), 126-158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4090

Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare and Increase Work?

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch, Thomas Walter

published as 'Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare Dependency and Increase Employment?' in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (2), 182-204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4072

TIPping the Scales towards Greater Employment Chances? Evaluation of a Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for Newly-Arrived Immigrants Based on Random Program Assignment

Pernilla Andersson Joona, Lena Nekby

updated version published as 'Intensive Coaching of New Immigrants: An Evaluation Based on Random Program Assignment' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (2), 576-600

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4002

Active Labor Market Policy Evaluations: A Meta-Analysis

David Card, Jochen Kluve, Andrea Weber

published in: The Economic Journal, 2010, 120, F452-F477

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3910

Vouchers and Caseworkers in Public Training Programs: Evidence from the Hartz Reform in Germany

Ulf Rinne, Arne Uhlendorff, Zhong Zhao

revised version published as 'Vouchers and Caseworkers in Training Programs for the Unemployed' in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 45 (3), 1089-1127

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3899

Strike Three: Umpires' Demand for Discrimination

Christopher A. Parsons, Johan Sulaeman, Michael C. Yates, Daniel S. Hamermesh

published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (4), 1410-1435