Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18683

Persistent Effects of Early Academic Rank on Cognitive and Noncognitive Outcomes

Eunsik Chang, María Padilla-Romo, Cecilia Peluffo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18683

Persistent Effects of Early Academic Rank on Cognitive and Noncognitive Outcomes

Eunsik Chang, María Padilla-Romo, Cecilia Peluffo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18676

Class Peers as Competitors and Educators: The Consequences of Rank-Based Academic Rewards

Mark R. Rosenzweig, Bing Xu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18596

Intragenerational Mobility in Wealth in Germany, Norway, and Britain: Descriptive Evidence

Daniel D. Schnitzlein, Philipp M. Lersch, Øyvind N. Wiborg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18471

The Short- and Long-Run Impact of Comparative Noncognitive Skills

Sofoklis Goulas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18045

A Demarcation of the Gini Coefficient

Oded Stark, Grzegorz Kosiorowski

published as 'A foray into the demarcation of the Gini coefficient' in: Economics Letters, 2025, 254, 112405

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17222

When Do Ordinal Ability Rank Effects Emerge? Evidence from the Timing of School Closures

Marco Bertoni, Saeideh Parkam

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17082

The Impact of Peer Performance and Relative Rank on Managerial Career Attainment: Evidence from College Students

Rafael Perez Ribas, Breno Sampaio, Giuseppe Trevisan

pubished in: Management Science, 2025, 71 (5), 4510–4531

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17044

Rank, Stress, and Risk: A Conjecture

Oded Stark, Julia Wlodarczyk

published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2024, 350, 116841

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17010

The Modification of Social Space as a Tool for Lowering Social Stress

Oded Stark

published in: Economics & Human Biology. 2024, 53, 101349

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16975

The Rank of Socioeconomic Status within a Class and the Incidence of School Bullying and School Absence

Atsushi Inoue, Ryuichi Tanaka

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 101, 102545

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16587

Redistribution, Horizontal Inequity, and Reranking: Direct Taxation in the UK, 1977–2020

Nicolas Herault, Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: Journal of Income Distribution, 2023, 32 (3-4)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16384

The Effect of Classroom Rank on Learning throughout Elementary School: Experimental Evidence from Ecuador

Pedro Carneiro, Yyannu Cruz Aguayo, Francesca Salvati, Norbert Schady

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2025, 43 (2), 293-663

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16337

Documenting and Explaining the Dramatic Rise of the New Society Journals in Economics

John C. Ham, Julian Wright, Ziqiu Ye

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15923

A Pure Theory of Population Distribution When Preferences Are Ordinal

Holger Stark, Grzegorz Kosiorowski

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15604

How Good Am I? Effects and Mechanisms behind Salient Ranks

Rigissa Megalokonomou, Yi Zhang

published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 170, 104870

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15585

Expansions in Paid Parental Leave and Mothers' Economic Progress

Gozde Corekcioglu, Marco Francesconi, Astrid Kunze

published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 169, 104845

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15128

Rank Effects in Education: What Do We Know So Far?

Judith M. Delaney, Paul J. Devereux

published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook fo Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14865

Equilibrium Worker-Firm Allocations and the Deadweight Losses of Taxation

Jesper Bagger, Espen R. Moen, Rune Majlund Vejlin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14819

Redistributive Effect and the Progressivity of Taxes and Benefits: Evidence for the UK, 1977-2018

Nicolas Herault, Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: Journal of Income Distribution, 2022, 31 (3 - 4), 10 - 45

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14522

Measuring Performance: Ranking State Success over Two Decades in India

Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Arka Roy Chaudhuri, Saattvic

published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2022, 83, 101550

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14320

Achievement Rank Affects Performance and Major Choices in College

Benjamin Elsner, Ingo E. Isphording, Ulf Zölitz

published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 640 (131), 3182 - 3206.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13596

Competition and Career Advancement: The Hidden Costs of Paid Leave

Julian V. Johnsen, Hyejin Ku, Kjell G. Salvanes

latest version published online as 'Competition and Career Advancement' in: Review of Economic Studies, 13 October 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13554

Last and Furious: Relative Position and School Violence

Simona Lorena Comi, Federica Origo, Laura Pagani, Marco Tonello

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13345

Monetary and Social Incentives in Multi-Tasking: The Ranking Substitution Effect

Matthias Stefan, Jürgen Huber, Michael Kirchler, Matthias Sutter, Markus Walzl

published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 56, 104458

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13313

Comparative Advantage and Gender Gap in STEM

Sofoklis Goulas, Silvia Griselda, Rigissa Megalokonomou

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (6), 1937-1980

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13232

A Methodological Rejoinder to 'Does income relate to health due to psychosocial or material factors?'

Oded Stark, Marcin Jakubek

published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2020, 259, 112829

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12846

The Effect of High School Rank in English and Math on College Major Choice

Judith M. Delaney, Paul J. Devereux

published as 'High School Rank in Math and English and the Gender Gap in STEM' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 69, 101969

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12789

Ordinal Rank and Peer Composition: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Marco Bertoni, Roberto Nistico

published as 'Ordinal rank and the structure of ability peer effects' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 217, 104797

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12701

Foundations of the Rank-Dependent Probability Weighting Function

Matthew D. Rablen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12637

Pure Rank Preferences and Variation in Risk-Taking Behavior

Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski, Marcin Jakubek

published in: Economics Letters, 2019, 184, 108636

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12637

Pure Rank Preferences and Variation in Risk-Taking Behavior

Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski, Marcin Jakubek

published in: Economics Letters, 2019, 184, 108636

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12437

Rank Incentives and Social Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Isabella Dobrescu, Marco Faravelli, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Alberto Motta

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12423

On Social Preferences and the Intensity of Risk Aversion

Oded Stark

published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2019, 86 (3), 807 - 826

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12172

Can Public Rankings Improve School Performance? Evidence from a Nationwide Reform in Tanzania

Jacobus Cilliers, Isaac M. Mbiti, Andrew Zeitlin

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (3), 655-685

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12155

Have You Read This? An Empirical Comparison of the British REF Peer Review and the Italian VQR Bibliometric Algorithm

Daniele Checchi, Alberto Ciolfi, Gianni De Fraja, Irene Mazzotta, Stefano Verzillo

published in Economica, 2021, 88 (352), 1107-1129

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11975

Are Professors Worth It? The Value-added and Costs of Tutorial Instructors

Jan Feld, Nicolás Salamanca, Ulf Zölitz

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (3), 836-863

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11808

Class Rank and Long-Run Outcomes

Jeffrey T. Denning, Richard J. Murphy, Felix Weinhardt

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics 2023, 105 (6), 1426–1441.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11285

Does Labor Market Tightness Affect Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring?

Magnus Carlsson, Luca Fumarco, Dan-Olof Rooth

revised version published as 'Ethnic discrimination in hiring, labour market tightness and the business cycle - Evidence from field experiments.' in: Applied Economics, 2018, 50(24), 2652-2663

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11198

Rising Stars

Erich Battistin, Marco Ovidi

published in: Economica, 2022, 89, 356, 830-848

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10752

Impact of Lower Rated Journals on Economists' Judgments of Publication Lists: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Nattavudh Powdthavee, Yohanes E. Riyanto, Jack L. Knetsch

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2018, 66, 33-44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10449

Estimating Matching Affinity Matrix under Low-Rank Constraints

Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon, Yifei Sun

published in: Information and Inference: A Journal of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, 2019, 8(4), 677–689..

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9854

The Adverse Consequences of Tournaments: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 151, 1-18

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9853

What You Don't Know... Can't Hurt You? A Field Experiment on Relative Performance Feedback in Higher Education

Ghazala Azmat, Manuel Bagues, Antonio Cabrales, Nagore Iriberri

published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (8), 3714-3736

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9826

The Effect of University Attended on Graduates' Labour Market Prospects: A Field Study of Great Britain

Nick Drydakis

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 192 - 208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9593

Citations in Economics: Measurement, Uses and Impacts

Daniel S. Hamermesh

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2018, 56, 111 - 156

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9478

Rank, Sex, Drugs, and Crime

Benjamin Elsner, Ingo E. Isphording

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53(2), 356-381

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9286

First-Place Loving and Last-Place Loathing: How Rank in the Distribution of Performance Affects Effort Provision

David Gill, Zdenka Kissová, Jaesun Lee, Victoria L. Prowse

published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (2), 494 - 507

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9286

First-Place Loving and Last-Place Loathing: How Rank in the Distribution of Performance Affects Effort Provision

David Gill, Zdenka Kissová, Jaesun Lee, Victoria L. Prowse

published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (2), 494 - 507

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9121

A Big Fish in a Small Pond: Ability Rank and Human Capital Investment

Benjamin Elsner, Ingo E. Isphording

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35(3), 787-828