IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11456

Are Schools Different? Wellbeing and Commitment among Staff in Schools and Elsewhere

Alex Bryson, Lucy Stokes, David Wilkinson

published as 'Who is better off? Wellbeing and commitment among staff in schools and elsewhere'in: Education Economics, Published online 29 May 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09645292.2019.1623178

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11455

Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: Correlation or Causal Relationship?

Stijn Baert, Suncica Vujic, Simon Amez, Matteo Claeskens, Thomas Daman, Arno Maeckelberghe, Eddy Omey, Lieven De Marez

revised version published in: Kyklos, 2020, 73 (1), 22 - 46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11432

Teacher Performance Pay in the United States: Incidence and Adult Outcomes

Timothy N. Bond, Kevin J. Mumford

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11375

Government Education Expenditures, Pre-Primary Education and School Performance: A Cross-Country Analysis

Daniela Del Boca, Chiara Monfardini, Sarah Grace See

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11373

Do Private Schools Manage Better?

Alex Bryson, Francis Green

published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2018, 243, R17-R26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11372

Assessing the Variance in Pupil Attainment: How Important Is the School Attended?

David Wilkinson, Alex Bryson, Lucy Stokes

published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2018, 243, R4-R16

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11350

Do School Principals Respond to Increased Public Scrutiny? New Survey Evidence from Australia

Michael Coelli, Gigi Foster, Andrew Leigh

published in: Economic Record, 2018, 94 (S1), 73-101

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11348

Can HRM Improve Schools' Performance?

Alex Bryson, Lucy Stokes, David Wilkinson

published in: Labour, 2020, 34 (4), 427 - 440

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11347

Student Feedback, Parent-Teacher Communication, and Academic Performance: Experimental Evidence from Rural China

W. Stanley Siebert, Xiangdong Wei, Ho Lun Wong, Xiang Zhou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11344

A Comparative Analysis of the Labour Market Performance of University-Educated Immigrants in Australia, Canada, and the United States: Does Policy Matter?

Andrew Clarke, Ana Ferrer, Mikal Skuterud

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11233

Do Different Types of Assets Have Differential Effects on Child Education? Evidence from Tanzania

Kashi Kafle, Dean Jolliffe, Alex Winter-Nelson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11201

Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Risk-Taking among Children, Teenagers, and College Students: Evidence from Jeopardy!

Michael Jetter, Jay K. Walker

fortchoming in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11112

Mutual Gains? Is There a Role for Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace?

Alex Bryson

published in: Bosio, G., Minola, T., Origio, F., and Tomelleri, S. (eds), Rethinking Entrepreneurial Human Capital, Springer, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10995

The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden

Sarah Cattan, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10923

Does It Matter How and How Much Politicians Are Paid?

Duha T. Altindag, S. Elif Filiz, Erdal Tekin

published in: Economica, First published: 23 February 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10878

Take a Chance on ABBA

Danny Cohen-Zada, Alex Krumer, Offer Moshe Shapir

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10788

Women in the Workplace and Management Practices: Theory and Evidence

Takao Kato, Naomi Kodama

published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, New York: OUP, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10788

Women in the Workplace and Management Practices: Theory and Evidence

Takao Kato, Naomi Kodama

published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, New York: OUP, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10737

HRM and Small-Firm Employee Motivation: Before and after the Recession

Alex Bryson, Michael White

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72, 3: 749-773

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10725

Supervisors and Performance Management Systems

Anders Frederiksen, Lisa B. Kahn, Fabian Lange

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (6), 2123-2187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10643

Performance Pay and Applicant Screening

Uwe Jirjahn, Jens Mohrenweiser

revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 57(3), 540-575

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10628

Smog in Our Brains: Gender Differences in the Impact of Exposure to Air Pollution on Cognitive Performance

Xi Chen, Xiaobo Zhang, Xin Zhang

published as 'The impact of exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance' in: PNAS, 2018, 115 (37), 9193 - 9197.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10622

The Intergenerational Transmission of Math Culture

Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Chiara Rapallini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10600

Time To Go? Head Coach Quits and Dismissals in Professional Football

Babatunde Buraimo, Alex Bryson, Rob Simmons

published in: De Economist, 2021, 169, 81 - 105

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10600

Time To Go? Head Coach Quits and Dismissals in Professional Football

Babatunde Buraimo, Alex Bryson, Rob Simmons

published in: De Economist, 2021, 169, 81 - 105

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10587

Choking under Pressure and Gender: Evidence from Professional Tennis

Danny Cohen-Zada, Alex Krumer, Mosi Rosenboim, Offer Moshe Shapir

Published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 61, 176-190

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10546

The Effectiveness of Incentive Schemes in the Presence of Implicit Effort Costs

Sebastian J. Goerg, Sebastian Kube, Jonas Radbruch

substantially revised version published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (9), 3949-4450.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10532

Practical Procedures to Deal with Common Support Problems in Matching Estimation

Michael Lechner, Anthony Strittmatter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10436

Boards of Directors in Russian Publicly Traded Companies in 1998-2014: Structure, Dynamics and Performance Effects

Alexander Muravyev

published in: Economic Systems, 2017, 41(1), 5-25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10432

The Effect of One Laptop per Child on Teachers' Pedagogical Practices and Students' Use of Time at Home

Gustavo Yamada, Pablo Lavado, Guadalupe Montenegro

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10431

The Effect of Fe y Alegria on School Achievement: Exploiting a School Lottery Selection as a Natural Experiment

Pablo Lavado, Santiago Cueto, Gustavo Yamada, Micaela Wensjoe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10431

The Effect of Fe y Alegria on School Achievement: Exploiting a School Lottery Selection as a Natural Experiment

Pablo Lavado, Santiago Cueto, Gustavo Yamada, Micaela Wensjoe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10393

Dynamic Incentive Effects of Team Formation: Experimental Evidence

Thomas Gall, Xiaocheng Hu, Michael Vlassopoulos

published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 28(4), 687-712, 2019.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10370

Management Practices and Productivity in Germany

Sandra Broszeit, Ursula Fritsch, Holger Görg, Marie-Christine Laible

published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (4), e663-e688

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10288

Locus of Control and Performance Appraisal

John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn, Cornelia Chadi

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 142 (October), 205-225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10288

Locus of Control and Performance Appraisal

John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn, Cornelia Chadi

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 142 (October), 205-225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10283

Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments

Damon Clark, David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse, Mark Rush

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (4), 648-663

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10283

Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments

Damon Clark, David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse, Mark Rush

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (4), 648-663

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10283

Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments

Damon Clark, David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse, Mark Rush

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (4), 648-663

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10118

Pay for Locally Monitored Performance? A Welfare Analysis for Teacher Attendance in Ugandan Primary Schools

Jacobus Cilliers, Ibrahim Kasirye, Clare Leaver, Pieter Serneels, Andrew Zeitlin

published in: Journal of Public Economics 2018, 167, 69-90

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10084

Performance Pay and Malnutrition

Prakarsh Singh, Sandip Mitra

Published as Singh, P. and S. Mitra (2017). "Incentives, Information and Malnutrition: Evidence from an experiment in India", European Economic Review, vol 93, pages 24-46.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10083

Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India

Prakarsh Singh, William A. Masters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10075

Cognitive Performance and Labor Market Outcomes

Dajun Lin, Randall Lutter, Christopher J. Ruhm

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10041

Competitive Strategy, Performance Appraisal and Firm Results

Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez, Sara Martinez-de-Morentin

forthcoming as 'Business Strategy, Performance Appraisal and Firm Performance' in: Personnel Review, 2021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10041

Competitive Strategy, Performance Appraisal and Firm Results