IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17775

Connectivity and Rural Development: Examining India’s Rural Road Construction Scheme

Santosh Kumar, Monica Shandal, Ariel Zucker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17715

Rural Employment Evolutions

Elena Faieta, Zhexin Feng, Michel Serafinelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17542

Flooding the Brains: Natural Disasters, Student Outcomes, and the Urban-Rural Gap in Human Capital

Juan S. Muñoz-Morales

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17464

Resource Windfalls, Public Expenditures and Local Economies

Antonella Bancalari, Juan Pablo Rud

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16763

Hukou Status and Children's Education in China

Yue Sun, Liqiu Zhao, Zhong Zhao

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2025, 73(2), 979-1021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16678

Do Cities Mitigate or Exacerbate Environmental Damages to Health?

David Molitor, Corey White

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2024, 107, 103973

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16525

Telementoring and Homeschooling during School Closures: A Randomized Experiment in Rural Bangladesh

Hashibul Hassan, Asadul Islam, Abu Siddique, Liang Choon Wang

published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (622), 2418–2438

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16396

The Effects of Climate Change in the Poorest Countries: Evidence from the Permanent Shrinking of Lake Chad

Remi Jedwab, Federico Haslop, Roman David Zarate, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16392

Group Meetings and Boosters to Sustain Early Impacts on Child Development: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Italo Lopez Garcia, Jill E. Luoto, Frances E. Aboud, Lia C.H. Fernald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15915

Returns to School Spending in Rural America: Evidence from Wisconsin's Sparsity Aid Program

Riley Acton, Cody Orr, Salem Rogers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15667

The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers: Evidence from a Randomized Lottery

Michael A. Clemens, Ethan Gatewood Lewis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15253

A Study of the Chinese Gender Gap in Financial Literacy

Alison Preston, Lili Qiu, Robert E. Wright

published as 'Understanding the gender gap in financial literacy: The role of culture' in: Journal of Consumer Affairs, 2024, 58 (1), 146-176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15084

Cumulative Climate Shocks and Migratory Flows: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Salvatore Di Falco, Anna B. Kis, Martina Viarengo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15059

Living in Rural Areas and Self-Employment

Ignacio Belloc, José Alberto Molina, Jorge Velilla

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14786

Improving Women's Mental Health during a Pandemic

Michael Vlassopoulos, Abu Siddique, Tabassum Rahman, Debayan Pakrashi, Asadul Islam, Firoz Ahmed

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16(2), 422-55.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14725

One Country, Two Systems: Evidence on Retirement Patterns in China

John T. Giles, Xiaoyan Lei, Gewei Wang, Yafeng Wang, Yaohui Zhao

published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2023, 22 (2), 188-210

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14427

Can Information about Jobs Improve the Effectiveness of Vocational Training? Experimental Evidence from India

Bhaskar Chakravorty, Wiji Arulampalam, Apurav Yash Bhatiya, Clement Imbert, Roland Rathelot

This version: April 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13703

Strengthening Producer Organizations to Increase Market Access of Smallholder Farmers in Uganda

Ruth Vargas Hill, Eduardo Maruyama, Markus Olapade, Markus Frölich

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13550

Occupational Dualism and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in the Rural Economy: Evidence from China and India

M. Shahe Emran, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Yajing Jiang, Yan Sun

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023, 21, 743 - 773

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13127

Sibling Spillover in Rural China: A Story of Sisters and Daughters

Cynthia Bansak, Xuan Jiang, Guanyi Yang

published as 'Sibling spillovers in rural China: A story of sisters' in: China Economic Review, 2022, 76, 101873

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12797

Hospital Closures and Short-Run Change in Ambulance Call Times

Sookti Chaudhary, Alison Davis, Kenneth Troske, SuZanne Troske

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12374

Free Education Helps Combat Child Labor? The Effect of a Free Compulsory Education Reform in Rural China

Can Tang, Liqiu Zhao, Zhong Zhao

published in:[Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33, 601–631

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11930

Son Preference and Human Capital Investment among China's Rural-Urban Migrant Households

Carl Lin, Yan Sun, Chunbing Xing

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2021, 57 (12), 2077-2094

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

updated paper forthcoming in: Education Economics, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11243

Short- and Long-Run Impacts of Rural Electrification: Evidence from the Historical Rollout of the U.S. Power Grid

Joshua Lewis, Edson Severnini

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 143, 102412

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11174

Are Urban-Rural Welfare Differences Growing in India?

Mehtabul Azam

substantially revised version published as 'Accounting for growing urban-rural welfare gaps in India' in: World Development, 2019, 122, 410-432

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11058

Informal Search, Bad Search? The Effects of Job Search Method on Wages among Rural Migrants in Urban China

Yuanyuan Chen, Le Wang, Min Zhang

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (3), 837-876

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11029

Where Are Migrants from? Inter- vs. Intra-Provincial Rural-Urban Migration in China

Yaqin Su, Petros Tesfazion, Zhong Zhao

published in: China Economic Review, 2018, 47, 142-155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11022

The Role of China's Household Registration System in the Urban-Rural Income Differential

Ernest Boffy-Ramirez, Soojae Moon

published in: China Economic Journal, 2018, 11 (2), 108-125

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10637

Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction: Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda

Luc Christiaensen, Ravi Kanbur

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10636

Structural Transformation and Income Distribution: Kuznets and Beyond

Ravi Kanbur

published in: C.Monga, J. Yifu Lin (eds.), The Oxford Handbook on Structural Tansformation, Oxford University Press, 2019, 96 - 108

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10566

Cognitive Skills, Noncognitive Skills, and School-to-Work Transitions in Rural China

Paul Glewwe, Qiuqiong Huang, Albert Park

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 134, 141-164

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10424

Glass Ceiling Effect in Urban China: Wage Inequality of Rural-Urban Migrants during 2002-2007

Zhaopeng (Frank) Qu, Zhong Zhao

published in: China Economic Review, 2017, 42, 118-144

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10016

Old-Age Pension and Extended Families: How is Adult Children's Internal Migration Affected?

Xi Chen

published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2016, 34(4), 646–659

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9994

Is Partisan Alignment Electorally Rewarding? Evidence from Village Council Elections in India

Subhasish Dey, Kunal Sen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9974

Decomposition Analysis of Earnings Inequality in Rural India: 2004-2012

Shantanu Khanna, Deepti Goel, René Morissette

published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2016, 5 (18)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9482

Old-Age Pension and Intergenerational Living Arrangements

Xi Chen

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15 (2), 455-476

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9360

Labor Supply Responses to New Rural Social Pension Insurance in China: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Zeyuan Chen, Tommy Bengtsson, Jonas Helgertz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9350

The Impact of Rural-Urban Migration on the Health of the Left-behind Parents

Xiang Ao, Dawei Jiang, Zhong Zhao

published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37, 126-139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9283

Short-term Migration and Intergenerational Persistence of Industry in Rural India

Tushar Kanti Nandi, Saibal Kar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9213

Left Behind, At Risk, and Vulnerable Elders in Rural China: What the RUMIC Data Reveal about the Extent, Causes, and Consequences of Being Left Behind

Rachel Connelly, Margaret Maurer-Fazio

published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37, 140 - 153

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9207

Building Trust in Rural Producer Organizations in Senegal: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Tanguy Bernard, Markus Frölich, Andreas Landmann, Pia Naima Unte, Angelino Viceisza, Fleur Wouterse

published in: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2021, 50 (3), 465 - 484

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9160

Guns and Butter? Fighting Violence with the Promise of Development

Gaurav Khanna, Laura V Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9024

Fiscal Decentralization, Rural Industrialization, and Undocumented Labor Mobility in Rural China (1982-87)

Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen

published in: Regional Studies, 2016, 50 (9), 1469-1482

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8928

Electrification and Educational Outcomes in Rural Peru

Rosamaría Dasso, Fernando Fernandez, Hugo R. Nopo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8843

Who Is Coming to the Artefactual Field Experiment? Participation Bias among Chinese Rural Migrants

Paul Frijters, Tao Sherry Kong, Elaine M. Liu

published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2015, 114 (C), 62-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8621

Teacher Pay and Student Performance: Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance

Todd Pugatch, Elizabeth Schroeder

published in: Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2018, 10(2): 249-276.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8564

Young Entrepreneurs in Rural Africa: Prevalence, Determinants, Productivity

Paula Nagler, Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8524

Labor Productivity in Rural African Enterprises: Empirical Evidence from the LSMS-ISA

Paula Nagler, Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8295

Non-Farm Enterprise Productivity and Spatial Autocorrelation in Rural Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria

Nkechi S. Owoo, Wim Naudé

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