IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Young women in cities:published as 'Young women in cities: Urbanization and gender-biased migration' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 172, 103378

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16269

Come Out and Play: Public Space Recovery, Social Capital, and Citizen Security

Matías Braun, Francisco Gallego, Rodrigo R. Soares

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16127

The Worth of Cities in Germany

Katja Gehr, Michael P. Pflüger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16052

Social Inclusion and Levels of Urbanisation: Does It Matter Where You Live?

Adele Whelan, Anne Devlin, Seamus McGuinness

revised version published as 'Barriers to social inclusion and levels of urbanisation: Does it matter where you live?' in: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2024, 17 (1), 59 - 74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15721

The Puzzle of Educated Unemployment in West Africa

Esther Mirjam Girsberger, Romuald Meango

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. 15510

Urban Resilience and Social Security Uptake: New Zealand Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 Pandemic

William Cochrane, Jacques Poot, Matthew Roskruge

published in: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 2023, 29 (2), 155-184

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15295

Safeguarding Consumers through Minimum Quality Standards: Milk Inspections and Urban Mortality, 1880-1910

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Michael McKelligott, Daniel I. Rees

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. 15211

Integration of Technological and Social Components in a Smart Urban Development Model: A Case Study of China

Almas Heshmati, Somayeh Koohborfardhaghighi, Christopher R. Summers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15168

Housing Conditions and Health in Urban China

Lanlin Ding, Peng Nie, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

published in: Cities, 2024, 152, 105248.

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. 15025

Is There a Diminishing Value of Urban Amenities as a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Aico van Vuuren

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. 14392

Urban Economics in a Historical Perspective: Recovering Data with Machine Learning

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Laurent Gobillon, Yanos Zylberberg

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 94, 103711

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14157

When Distance Drives Destination, Towns Can Stimulate Development

Joachim De Weerdt, Luc Christiaensen, Ravi Kanbur

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13760

The Crisis and Job Guarantees in Urban India

Swati Dhingra, Stephen Machin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13468

Employment Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic across Metropolitan Status and Size

Seung Jin Cho, Jun Yeong Lee, John V. Winters

published in: Growth and Change, 2021, 52 (4), 1958-1996

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13388

Black Lives Matter Protests, Social Distancing, and COVID-19

Dhaval M. Dave, Andrew I. Friedson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Joseph J. Sabia, Samuel Safford

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13262

Were Urban Cowboys Enough to Control COVID-19? Local Shelter-In-Place Orders and Coronavirus Case Growth

Dhaval M. Dave, Andrew I. Friedson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Joseph J. Sabia, Samuel Safford

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2022, 127, 103294

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12806

Urban Wage Premia, Cost of Living, and Collective Bargaining

Marianna Belloc, Paolo Naticchioni, Claudia Vittori

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2023, 23 (1), 25–50.

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. 12765

Endogenous Local Labour Markets, Regional Aggregation and Agglomeration Economies

Jordy Meekes, Wolter Hassink

published in: Regional Studies, 2023, 57 (1), 13 - 25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12623

Climate Change, Inequality, and Human Migration

Michal Burzynski, Christoph Deuster, Frédéric Docquier, Jaime de Melo

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (3), 1145 - 1197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12422

Growing into Relative Income Poverty: Urban China 1988 to 2013

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ding Sai

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2020, 147 (1), 73 - 94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12020

Connecting to Economic Opportunity? The Role of Public Transport in Promoting Women's Employment in Lima

Daniel Martinez, Oscar A. Mitnik, Edgar Salgado, Lynn Scholl, Patricia Yanez-Pagans

revised version published in: Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2020, 3, 1-23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11951

Walled Cities and Urban Density in China

Rui Du, Junfu Zhang

published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2019, 98, 1517-1539.

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. 11812

Urban Transport Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges and Lessons Learned

Patricia Yanez-Pagans, Daniel Martinez, Oscar A. Mitnik, Lynn Scholl, Antonia Vazquez

revised version published in: Latin American Economic Review, 2019, 28, 5 (2019)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11804

Geography of Skills and Global Inequality

Michal Burzynski, Christoph Deuster, Frédéric Docquier

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 142, 102333

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. 11195

Cities and Entrepreneurs over Time: Like a Horse and Carriage?

Wim Naudé

revised version published as 'Urbanisation and Entrepreneurship in Development: Like a Horse and Carriage? 'in: Dastbaz,M., Naudé, W. and Manoochehri, J. (eds.), Smart Futures, Challenges of Urbanisation, and Social Sustainability, Springer, 2018, 29 - 47

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. 11036

Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods: Long Run Evidence from Tanzania

Guy Michaels, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, Ferdinand Rauch, Tanner Regan, Neeraj Baruah, Amanda Dahlstrand

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. 10980

Inequalities and Segregation across the Long-Term Economic Cycle: An Analysis of South and North European Cities

Tiit Tammaru, Szymon Marcińczak, Raivo Aunap, Maarten van Ham

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10873

The Value of a Healthy Home: Lead Paint Remediation and Housing Values

Stephen B. Billings, Kevin T. Schnepel

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 153, 69 - 81

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10748

Crisis and Reorganization in Urban Dynamics: The Barcelona Case Study

Rafael de Balanzó, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Ecology & Society, 2017, 23 (4), Article 6

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10748

Crisis and Reorganization in Urban Dynamics: The Barcelona Case Study

Rafael de Balanzó, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Ecology & Society, 2017, 23 (4), Article 6

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10748

Crisis and Reorganization in Urban Dynamics: The Barcelona Case Study

Rafael de Balanzó, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Ecology & Society, 2017, 23 (4), Article 6

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10748

Crisis and Reorganization in Urban Dynamics: The Barcelona Case Study

Rafael de Balanzó, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Ecology & Society, 2017, 23 (4), Article 6

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10697

The Effects of Physical Restructuring on the Socioeconomic Status of Neighborhoods: Selective Migration and Upgrading

Merle Zwiers, Maarten van Ham, Reinout Kleinhans

published in: Urban Studies, 2019, 56 (8), 1647 - 1663

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10695

Structural and Exchange Components in Processes of Neighbourhood Change: A Social Mobility Approach

Tal Modai-Snir, Maarten van Ham

published in: Applied spatial analysis and policy, 2019, 12 (2), 423 - 443

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10693

The City as a Self-Help Book: The Psychology of Urban Promises

Rodrigo V. Cardoso, Evert J. Meijers, Maarten van Ham, Martijn J. Burger, Duco de Vos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10693

The City as a Self-Help Book: The Psychology of Urban Promises

Rodrigo V. Cardoso, Evert J. Meijers, Maarten van Ham, Martijn J. Burger, Duco de Vos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10690

More Pensioners, Less Income Inequality? The Impact of Changing Age Composition on Inequality in Big Cities and Elsewhere

Omoniyi Alimi, David C. Maré, Jacques Poot

published in: U. Blien, K. Kourtit, P. Nijkamp & R. Stough (eds.), Modelling Aging and Migration Effects on Spatial Labor Markets, Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10640

Forced off Farm? Labor Allocation Response to Land Requisition in Rural China

Shuang Ma, Ren Mu

published in: World Development, 2020, 132, 104980.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10637

Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction: Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda

Luc Christiaensen, Ravi Kanbur

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. 10515

Ambivalence in Place Attachment: The Lived Experiences of Residents in Declining Neighbourhoods Facing Demolition in Shenyang, China

Xin Li, Reinout Kleinhans, Maarten van Ham

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. 10273

Comparative Advantage and Agglomeration of Economic Activity

Michael P. Pflüger, Takatoshi Tabuchi

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2019, 109, 1-13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10140

Understanding the Experiences of Relocatees During Forced Relocation in Chinese Urban Restructuring

Xin Li, Maarten van Ham, Reinout Kleinhans

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10113

Migration and Urbanisation in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Jan David Bakker, Christopher Parsons, Ferdinand Rauch

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2020, 34 (2), 509 - 532

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9720

Spatial Distribution of US Employment in an Urban Wage-Efficiency Setting

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina, Jorge Velilla

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2018, 58, 141-158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9635

The Urban Wage Premium in Imperfect Labour Markets

Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn, Michael Oberfichtner

substantially revised version coauthored with Alan Manning published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57, S111-S136

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9625

The Support Paradox in Community Enterprise Experiments in The Netherlands

Reinout Kleinhans, Maarten van Ham

published in: International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2017, 31 (4), 570-589

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9602

Types of Spatial Mobility and the Ethnic Context of Destination Neighbourhoods in Estonia

Kadi Mägi, Kadri Leetmaa, Tiit Tammaru, Maarten van Ham

published as: 'Types of spatial mobility and change in people's ethnic residential contexts' in: Demographic Research, 2016, 34, 1161-1192

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9521

Entrepreneurship and the Reallocation of African Farmers

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9425

Excess Commuting in the US: Differences between the Self-Employed and Employees

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina, Jorge Velilla

published as "The commuting behavior of workers in the United States: differences between the employed and the self-employed" in: Journal of Transport Geography, 2018, 66, 19-29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9423

Bobos in Paradise: Urban Politics and the New Economy

Gilles Saint-Paul

published in: Economics, 2018, 12 (1), 20180056

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9423

Bobos in Paradise: Urban Politics and the New Economy

Gilles Saint-Paul

published in: Economics, 2018, 12 (1), 20180056

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. 9337

The Political Economy of State and Local Investment in Pre-K Programs

Matthew E. Kahn, Kyle Barron

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9337

The Political Economy of State and Local Investment in Pre-K Programs

Matthew E. Kahn, Kyle Barron

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9059

Power-Couples and the Colocation Hypothesis Revisited

Francesco Mariotti, Karen A. Mumford, Yolanda Pena-Boquete

published in IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2017, 6 (1), 1-18

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9020

The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas

Kurt Schmidheiny, Jens Suedekum

published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 133, 10-13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9020

The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas

Kurt Schmidheiny, Jens Suedekum

published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 133, 10-13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8966

Urbanization, Natural Amenities, and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from U.S. Counties

John V. Winters, Yu Li

published in: Urban Studies, 2017, 54 (8), 1956-1973

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8923

Migration Externalities in Chinese Cities

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Sylvie Démurger, Shi Li

published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 76, 152-167

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8882

Divided Cities: Increasing Socio-Spatial Polarization within Large Cities in the Netherlands

Merle Zwiers, Reinout Kleinhans, Maarten van Ham

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8660

Ageing in a Long-term Regeneration Neighbourhood: A Disruptive Experience or Successful Ageing in Place?

Reinout Kleinhans, Lex Veldboer, Sylvia Jansen, Maarten van Ham

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8270

In 'Trusts' We Trust: Socially Motivated Private Schools in Nepal

Sarmistha Pal, Bibhas Saha

published as 'Enhancing Excellence: Socially Motivated Private Schools of Nepal' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (5), 765-785

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8068

The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China

Rachel Connelly, Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Dandan Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8026

Shrinking Regions in a Shrinking Country: The Geography of Population Decline in Lithuania 2001-2011

Rūta Ubarevičienė, Maarten van Ham, Donatas Burneika

published in: Urban Studies Research, 2106, Article 5395379 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5395379)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7939

Does Longer Compulsory Education Equalize Schooling by Gender and Rural/Urban Residence?

Murat Güray Kirdar, Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur, Ismet Koc

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2016, 30 (3), 549-579.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7914

How Urbanization Affects Employment and Social Interactions

Yasuhiro Sato, Yves Zenou

published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 75, 131-155.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7828

Inefficient Equilibrium Unemployment in a Duocentric Economy with Matching Frictions

Etienne Lehmann, Paola L. Montero Ledezma, Bruno Van der Linden

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2016, 91, 26-44.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7819

Understanding Chinese Consumption: The Impact of Hukou

Christian Dreger, Tongsan Wang, Yanqun Zhang

publlished in: Development and Change, 2015, 46 (6), 1331 -1344

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7811

What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution

Alessia Matano, Paolo Naticchioni

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2016, 56 (2), 191 - 209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7643

Party Membership and State Jobs in Urban China

Yuanyuan Ma, Patrick Paul Walsh

published in: Asian Economic Papers, 2017, 16(2), 167-184

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7577

Job Contact Networks and Wages of Rural-Urban Migrants in China

Wenjin Long, Simon Appleton, Lina Song

Published with a revised title “The Impacts of job contact network on wages of rural-urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach”, in Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2017, 15 (1) 81-101

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7562

The Preference for Larger Cities in China: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants

Chunbing Xing, Junfu Zhang

published in: China Economic Review, 2017, 43, 72-90

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7562

The Preference for Larger Cities in China: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants

Chunbing Xing, Junfu Zhang

published in: China Economic Review, 2017, 43, 72-90

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