IZA Discussion Papers

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. 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. 14852

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

Philipp Boeing, Bettina Peters

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. 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. 14254

A General Methodology to Measure Labour Market Dynamics

Davide Fiaschi, Cristina Tealdi

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. 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. 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. 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. 11973

Evaluation of Language Training Programs in Luxembourg Using Principal Stratification

Michela Bia, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Andrea Mercatanti

published in: Observational Studies, 2022, 8 (1), 1- 44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11873

Fathers' Parental Leave-Taking, Childcare Involvement and Mothers' Labor Market Participation

Marcus Tamm

revised version published as 'Fathers' parental leave-taking, childcare involvement and labor market participation' in: Labour Economics, 2019, 59, 184 - 197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11870

Vocational Training for Unemployed Youth in Latvia: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Massimiliano Bratti, Corinna Ghirelli, Enkelejda Havari, Giulia Santangelo

revised version published as 'Vocational training for unemployed youth in Latvia' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 677 - 717

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11863

Distributional Impact Analysis: Toolkit and Illustrations of Impacts beyond the Average Treatment Effect

Guadalupe Bedoya, Luca Bittarello, Jonathan Davis, Nikolas Mittag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11577

The Signal of Applying for a Job under a Vacancy Referral Scheme

Eva Van Belle, Ralf Caers, Marijke De Couck, Valentina Di Stasio, Stijn Baert

revised version published in: Industrial Relations, 2019, 58 (2), 251 - 274

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11514

The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Nathan Kettlewell, Stefanie Schurer, Sven Silburn

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (6), 2072-2110

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11300

Shortening the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Germany

Inna Petrunyk, Christian Pfeifer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11102

Subjective Well-Being and Public Policy

Reto Odermatt, Alois Stutzer

published in: Ed Diener, Shigehiro Oishi and Louis Tay (eds.), Handbook of Well-Being. Noba Scholar Handbook Series: Subjective Well-being. Salt Lake City, UT: DEF Publishers, 2018.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10840

Pension Rules and Labour Market Mobility

Marloes Lammers, Hans Bloemen, Stefan Hochguertel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10712

Fathers, Parental Leave and Gender Norms

Ulrike Unterhofer, Katharina Wrohlich

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10531

Comparing Econometric Methods to Empirically Evaluate Job-Search Assistance

Paul Muller, Bas van der Klaauw, Arjan Heyma

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2020, 35 (5), 526-547

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10476

Competition and Hospital Quality: Evidence from a French Natural Experiment

Laurent Gobillon, Carine Milcent

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10434

Unawareness and Selective Disclosure: The Effect of School Quality Information on Property Prices

John de New, Syed Hasan, Nikhil Jha, Mathias Sinning

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 145, 449-464

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

published in: Econometrica, 2017, 85 (5), 1373-1432

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10322

Couples' Retirement under Individual Pension Design: A Regression Discontinuity Study for France

Elena G. F. Stancanelli

published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 49, 14-26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10221

Waiting Longer Before Claiming, and Activating Youth: No Point?

Bart Cockx, Eva Van Belle

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2019, 40 (4), 658-687

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10149

Career Breaks after Childbirth: The Impact of Family Leave Reforms in the Czech Republic

Alena Bicakova, Klara Kaliskova

revised version published as '(Un)intended effects of parental leave policies: Evidence from the Czech Republic' in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101747

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10055

Estimating More Precise Treatment Effects in Natural and Actual Experiments

Harriet Duleep, Xingfei Liu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9862

How Do Households Discount over Centuries? Evidence from Singapore's Private Housing Market

Eric Fesselmeyer, Haoming Liu, Alberto Salvo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9550

The Impact of Family Friendly Policies in Spain and their Use throughout the Business Cycle

Sara de la Rica, Lucía Gorjón

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9310

Employee Health and Employer Incentives

Patrick Hullegie, Pierre Koning