IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Beyond the “Comforts” of work from home: Child health and the female wage penalty' in: European Economic Review, 2023, 157, 104527 (without R. Sauer)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13627

The Effect of Hosting 3.4 Million Refugees on the Health System in Turkey and Infant, Child, and Elderly Mortality among Natives

Aysun Hızıroğlu Aygün, Murat Güray Kirdar, Berna Tuncay

published as 'The Effect of Hosting 3.4 Million Refugees on Native Population Mortality' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 80, 102534

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13593

Correcting for Misclassied Binary Regressors Using Instrumental Variables

Steven J. Haider, Melvin Stephens Jr.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13531

Early Child Development and Parents' Labor Supply

Lukáš Lafférs, Bernhard Schmidpeter

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021, 36 (2), 190-208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13147

The Effects of Local Market Concentration and International Competition on Firm Productivity: Evidence from Mexico

Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Luis-Felipe López-Calva, Oscar Barriga Cabanillas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13116

Is Precarious Employment Bad for Worker Health? The Case of Zero Hours Contracts in the UK

Egidio Farina, Colin P. Green, Duncan McVicar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13055

The Impact of BMI on Mental Health: Further Evidence from Genetic Markers

Vikesh Amin, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2020, 38, 100895

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13030

Educational and Skills Mismatches among Immigrants: The Impact of Host Language Proficiency

Santiago Budría, Carlos Martínez de Ibarreta

published as 'Education and skill mismatches among immigrants: The impact of host language proficiency' in: Economics of Education Review 2021, 84, 102145.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12812

The Effect of College Education on Health and Mortality: Evidence from Canada

Guy Lacroix, Francois Laliberté-Auger, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Daniel Parent

published in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (S1), 105 - 118

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12584

Inference with Arbitrary Clustering

Fabrizio Colella, Rafael Lalive, Seyhun Orcan Sakalli, Mathias Thoenig

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12563

Assortative Mating on Education: A Genetic Assessment

Nicola Barban, Elisabetta De Cao, Sonia Oreffice, Climent Quintana-Domeque

revised version published as 'The effect of education on spousal education: A genetic approach' in: Labour Economics, 2021, Volume 71, 102023. Open access: [Link to the published version]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12261

New Evidence on Long-Term Effects of Start-Up Subsidies: Matching Estimates and Their Robustness

Marco Caliendo, Stefan Tübbicke

published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59 (4), 1605-1631

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12205

Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, Yusuke Narita, Parag A. Pathak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12196

Do Constraints on Women Worsen Child Deprivations? Framework, Measurement, and Evidence from India

Alberto Posso, Stephen C. Smith, Lucia Ferrone

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12192

The Causal Effects of Education on Adult Health, Mortality and Income: Evidence from Mendelian Randomization and the Raising of the School Leaving Age

Neil Davies, Matt Dickson, George Davey Smith, Frank Windmeijer, Gerard J. van den Berg

revised version published online in: International Journal of Epidemiology, 18 July 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12057

Risk Aversion and Entrepreneurship: New Evidence Exploiting Exposure to Massive Earthquakes in Italy

Guido de Blasio, Maria De Paola, Samuele Poy, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57, 295-322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12050

The Impact of Mass Migration of Syrians on the Turkish Labor Market

Ege Aksu, Refik Erzan, Murat Güray Kirdar

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 76, 102183

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11980

Does Education Affect Attitudes Towards Immigration? Evidence from Germany

Shushanik Margaryan, Annemarie Paul, Thomas Siedler

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (2), 446 - 479

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11779

Naturalization and Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany

Regina T. Riphahn, Salwan Saif

published in: Labour, 2019, 33 (1), 48 - 76

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11576

Child Care, Parental Labor Supply and Tax Revenue

Martin Eckhoff Andresen, Tarjei Havnes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11199

Grandmothers' Labor Supply

Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Bernhard Schmidpeter, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11134

Severe Air Pollution and School Absences: Longitudinal Data on Expatriates in North China

Haoming Liu, Alberto Salvo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10891

Limits to Wage Growth: Understanding the Wage Divergence between Immigrants and Natives

Apoorva Jain, Klara Sabirianova Peter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10821

Unordered Monotonicity

James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto

revised version available as NBER Working Paper No. 23497

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10646

Bounds with Imperfect Instruments: Leveraging the Implicit Assumption of Intransitivity in Correlations

Nathan Wiseman, Todd A. Sorensen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10582

The Impact of Traineeships on the Employment of the Mentally Ill: The Role of Partial Compliance

Alberto Martini, Enrico Rettore, Gianpaolo Barbetta

published as 'When Non-Compliance Carries the Day: Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Employment Program for the Severely Mentally Ill' in: Evaluation Review, 2022, 46 (5), 555–577

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10507

Do Vocational High School Graduates Have Better Employment Outcomes than General High School Graduates?

Huzeyfe Torun, Semih Tumen

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2019, 40(8), 1364-1388

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10429

Research Design Meets Market Design: Using Centralized Assignment for Impact Evaluation

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, Yusuke Narita, Parag A. Pathak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10402

Missing Data, Imputation, and Endogeneity

Ian K. McDonough, Daniel L. Millimet

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 199 (2), 141-155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10201

Effects of the Bologna Reform on Educational Outcomes: Micro Evidence from Germany

Sabrina Hahm, Jochen Kluve

revised version published as 'Better with Bologna? Tertiary education reform and student outcomes' in: Education Economics, 2019, 27 (4), 425 - 559

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10056

From Late to MTE: Alternative Methods for the Evaluation of Policy Interventions

Thomas Cornelissen, Christian Dustmann, Anna Raute, Uta Schönberg

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41, 47-60.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9984

Gendered Entrepreneurship Networks

Simen Markussen, Knut Røed

revised version published as 'The Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship - The Role of Peer Effects' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 134, 356-373

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9795

Heterogeneous Effects of High School Peers on Educational Outcomes

Silvia Mendolia, Alfredo R. Paloyo, Ian Walker

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (3), 613 - 634

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9772

Cost-Sharing and Use of Health Services in Italy: Evidence from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design

Michela Ponzo, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Economic Modelling, 2021, 103, 105599.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9511

Going Beyond LATE: Bounding Average Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training

Xuan Chen, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 63 (4), 1050-1099

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9362

The Impact of Early Childbearing on Schooling and Cognitive Skills among Young Women in Madagascar

Catalina Herrera-Almanza, David E. Sahn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9346

Simple Tests for Selection Bias: Learning More from Instrumental Variables

Dan A. Black, Joonhwi Joo, Robert J. LaLonde, Jeffrey A. Smith, Evan J. Taylor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9090

Can Compulsory Dialogues Nudge Sick-Listed Workers Back to Work?

Simen Markussen, Knut Røed, Ragnhild Camilla Schreiner

published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (610), 1276-1303

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8985

Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, Peter Hull, Parag A. Pathak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8916

Severe Air Pollution and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Industrial Towns in China

Jiaxiu He, Haoming Liu, Alberto Salvo

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. 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. 8617

The Long-Run Effects of Attending an Elite School: Evidence from the UK

Damon Clark, Emilia Del Bono

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8593

The Impact of the German Autobahn Net on Regional Labor Market Performance: A Study Using Historical Instrument Variables

Joachim Möller, Marcus Zierer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8299

Does Job Insecurity Deteriorate Health? A Causal Approach for Europe

Eve Caroli, Mathilde Godard

revised version published in: Health Economics, 25(2), 131-147, 2016.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8102

Candidates' Quality and Electoral Participation: Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections

Marco Alberto De Benedetto, Maria De Paola

published as 'Candidates' Education and Turnout: Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections' in: German Economic Review, 2017, 18 (1), 22 - 50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8048

Instrumental Variables: An Econometrician's Perspective

Guido W. Imbens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7988

When Banana Import Restrictions Lead to Exports: A Tale of Cyclones and Quarantine Policies

Chia Chiun Ko, Paul Frijters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7697

Does It Pay to Work for Free? Wage Returns and Gender Differences in the Market for Volunteers

Guido Cozzi, Noemi Mantovan, Robert M. Sauer

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79(6), 1018-1045

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7533

Testing the Internal Validity of Compulsory School Reforms as Instrument for Years of Schooling

Giorgio Brunello, Margherita Fort, Guglielmo Weber, Christoph T. Weiss

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7454

Education, Birth Order, and Family Size

Jesper Bagger, Javier A. Birchenall, Hani Mansour, Sergio Urzua

published in Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (633), 33-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7385

Does Bilateral Trust Affect International Movement of Goods and Labor?

Eva Spring, Volker Grossmann

published as "Does Bilateral Trust Across Countries Really Affect International Trade and Factor Mobility?" in: Empirical Economics, 2016, 50 (1), 103-136

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7065

Mothers' Labour Market Participation: Do Grandparents Make It Easier?

Bruno Arpino, Chiara D. Pronzato, Lara P. Tavares

published in: European Journal of Population, 2014, 30, 369-390

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7008

The Consequences of Measurement Error when Estimating the Impact of BMI on Labour Market Outcomes

Donal O'Neill, Olive Sweetman

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 2:3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6995

The Impact of Teenage Motherhood on the Education and Fertility of their Children: Evidence for Europe

Maria Navarro Paniagua, Ian Walker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6989

Banks Information Policies, Financial Literacy and Household Wealth

Margherita Fort, Francesco Manaresi, Serena Trucchi

revised version published in: Economic Policy, 2016, 31 (88), 743-782

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6958

Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Functioning at Older Ages?

Nicole Schneeweis, Vegard Skirbekk, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published as 'Does Education Improve Cognitive Performance Four Decades After School Completion?' in: Demography, 2014, 51 (2), 619-643

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6957

The Impact of Language Proficiency on Immigrants' Earnings in Spain

Santiago Budría, Pablo Swedberg

published in: Revista de Economía Aplicada, 2015, 23 (67), 63-91

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6802

Estimating and Testing a Quantile Regression Model with Interactive Effects

Matthew Harding, Carlos Lamarche

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2014, 178, 101-113

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6726

Returns to Education in Russia: Where There Is Risky Sexual Behaviour There Is Also an Instrument

Reza Arabsheibani, Anita Staneva

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6608

Employment Protection and Fertility: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

Ervin Prifti, Daniela Vuri

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6545

E-Lections: Voting Behavior and the Internet

Oliver Falck, Robert Gold, Stephan Heblich

published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (7), 2238-2265

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6210

Height and Cognitive Function among Older Europeans: Do People from "Tall" Countries Have Superior Cognitive Abilities?

Cahit Guven, Wang-Sheng Lee

revised version published as 'Height, Ageing and Cognitive Abilities across Europe' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 16, 16-29.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6131

Can Money Change Who We Are? Estimating the Effects of Unearned Income on Measures of Incentive-Enhancing Personality Traits

Nattavudh Powdthavee, Christopher J. Boyce, Alex M. Wood

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6015

More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe

Margherita Fort, Nicole Schneeweis, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

substantially revised version published as 'Is Education Always Reducing Fertility? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms' in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (595), 1823â€“1855

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5911

Three New Empirical Tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis When Environmental Regulation is Endogenous

Daniel L. Millimet, Jayjit Roy

published as 'Empirical Tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis When Environmental Regulation is Endogenous' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31 (4), 652-677

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5898

Parental Divorce and Generalized Trust

Tarja Viitanen

published in: Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2014, 17 (1), 35-53

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5824

Caught in the Bulimic Trap? Persistence and State Dependence of Bulimia Among Young Women

Michelle S. Goeree, John C. Ham, Daniela Iorio

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5675

Broadband Internet: An Information Superhighway to Sex Crime?

Manudeep Bhuller, Tarjei Havnes, Edwin Leuven, Magne Mogstad

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (4), 1237-1266

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5633