IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published as `The Individual (Mis-)Perception of Wage Inequality: Measurement, Correlates and Implications' in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 2039-2069

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9564

Are Competitors Forward Looking in Strategic Interactions? Evidence from the Field

Mario Lackner, Rudi Stracke, Uwe Sunde, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation, 2020, 179, 544-565

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9432

Technology and Education: Computers, Software, and the Internet

George Bulman, Robert W. Fairlie

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9407

Ex Post Inequality of Opportunity Comparisons

Marc Fleurbaey, Vito Peragine, Xavier Ramos

published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2017, 49, 577–603

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9384

Equality Concerns and the Limits of Self-Governance in Heterogeneous Populations

Lata Gangadharan, Nikos Nikiforakis, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Equality concerns and the limits of self-governance in heterogeneous populations' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 100, 143-156

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9348

The Impact of Syrian Refugees on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes in Turkey: Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Design

Evren Ceritoglu, H. Burcu Gurcihan Yunculer, Huzeyfe Torun, Semih Tumen

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2017, 6:5

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9336

An Experimental Study of Voting with Costly Delay

Maksymilian Kwiek, Helia Marreiros, Michael Vlassopoulos

published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 140, 23-26.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9269

Hard to Forget: The Long-Lasting Impact of War on Mental Health

Massimiliano Bratti, Mariapia Mendola, Alfonso Miranda

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9262

Intangible Investment and Technical Efficiency: The Case of Software-Intensive Manufacturing Firms in Turkey

Derya Findik, Aysit Tansel

published in: P.E. Thomas, M. Srihari and S. Kaur (eds.): Handbook of Research on Cultural and Economic Impacts of the Information Society, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 2015, Ch. 8

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9262

Intangible Investment and Technical Efficiency: The Case of Software-Intensive Manufacturing Firms in Turkey

Derya Findik, Aysit Tansel

published in: P.E. Thomas, M. Srihari and S. Kaur (eds.): Handbook of Research on Cultural and Economic Impacts of the Information Society, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 2015, Ch. 8

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9260

Reducing Risks in Wartime Through Capital-Labor Substitution: Evidence from World War II

Chris Rohlfs, Ryan Sullivan, Thomas J. Kniesner

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2016, 52 (2), 163-190.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9160

Guns and Butter? Fighting Violence with the Promise of Development

Gaurav Khanna, Laura V Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9138

Direct and Indirect Effects of Training Vouchers for the Unemployed

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner, Anthony Strittmatter

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), 2018, 181 (3), 441-463 (

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9104

Green Cities? Urbanization, Trade and the Environment

Rainald Borck, Michael P. Pflüger

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2019, 59:4, 743-766

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8994

Equality of Opportunity: Theory and Evidence

Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Vito Peragine

published in: Matthew Adler and Marc Fleurbaey (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy, Oxford: OUP, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8880

Wish You Were Here? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Education on Attitude toward Immigrants

Beatrice d'Hombres, Luca Nunziata

revised version publishd in: European Economic Review, 2016, 90, 201 - 224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8859

Gender Differences in Attitudes Towards Competition: Evidence from the Italian Scientific Qualification

Maria De Paola, Michela Ponzo, Vincenzo Scoppa

published as 'Gender differences in the propensity to apply for promotion: evidence from the Italian Scientific Qualification' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (5), 986 - 1009.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8852

Long-Term Health Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service: A Quasi-Experiment Using Australian Conscription Lotteries

David W. Johnston, Michael A. Shields, Peter Siminski

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 45, 12-26.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8828

Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship

Daniel S. Hamermesh

published in: M. Szenberg and L. Ramrattan (eds.): Collaborative Research in Economis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 65 - 93

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8765

Experts' Awards and Economic Success: Evidence from an Italian Literary Prize

Michela Ponzo, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Journal of Cultural Economics, 2015, 39, 341-367

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8743

Migration and the Demographic Shift

Anzelika Zaiceva, Klaus F. Zimmermann

substantially revised version published in: Piggott, J. and A. Woodland (Eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Elsevier, North Holland, 2016, Vol. 1A, Ch. 3, 119-177.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8707

Helping in Teams

Anastasia Danilov, Christine Harbring, Bernd Irlenbusch

revised version published as 'Helping Under a Combination of Team and Tournament Incentives' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 162, 120-135.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8699

A Theory of Wage Adjustment under Loss Aversion

Steffen Ahrens, Inske Pirschel, Dennis J. Snower

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8585

Turf Wars

Helios Herrera, Ernesto Reuben, Michael M. Ting

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 152, 143-153

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8409

Immigration, Cultural Distance and Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants: Evidence from Swiss Voting Results

Beatrice Brunner, Andreas Kuhn

revised version published in: Kyklos, 2018, 71(1), 28-58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8107

Trusting Former Rebels: An Experimental Approach to Understanding Reintegration after Civil War

Michal Bauer, Nathan Fiala, Ian Levely

revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128, 1786-1819.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7952

Moving Ahead by Thinking Backwards: Cognitive Skills, Personality, and Economic Preferences in Collegiate Success

Stephen V. Burks, Connor Lewis, Paul Kivi, Amanda Wiener, Jon E. Anderson, Lorenz Götte, Colin G. DeYoung, Aldo Rustichini

revised version published as 'Cognitive Skills, Personality, and Economic Preferences in Collegiate Success' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 30–44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7799

Are Females Scared of Competing with Males? Results from a Field Experiment

Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 48, 117-128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7761

Deployments, Combat Exposure, and Crime

D. Mark Anderson, Daniel I. Rees

published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2015, 58 (1), 235-267

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7713

Individual Behavior as a Pathway between Early-Life Shocks and Adult Health: Evidence from Hunger Episodes in Post-War Germany

Iris Kesternich, Bettina M. Siflinger, James P. Smith, Joachim Winter

published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (588), F372-F393

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7445

The Price of Warm Glow

Andrew Lilley, Robert Slonim

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 114, 58-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7382

The Value of Hiring through Referrals

Stephen V. Burks, Bo Cowgill, Mitchell Hoffman, Michael Housman

revised version published as 'The Value of Hiring through Employee Referrals' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2015, 130(2), 805-839

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7317

Evidence on Individual Preferences for Longevity Risk

Gaëtan Delprat, Marie-Louise Leroux, Pierre-Carl Michaud

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7239

For Better or for Worse: The Long-Term Effects of Postwar Reconstruction on Family Formation

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Melanie Khamis, Mutlu Yuksel

published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 8(29): 2771-2784.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7237

A Structural Model of Educational Attainment in Canada

Jörgen Hansen, Xingfei Liu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7198

Note on Lilien and Modified Lilien Index

Muhammad Rashid Ansari, Chiara Mussida, Francesco Pastore

published in: Stata Journal, 2014, 14 (2), 398-406

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7173

Suppliers of Multinationals and the Forced Linkage Effect: Evidence from Firm Level Data

Olivier Godart, Holger Görg

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 94, 393-404

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6737

The Impact of Armed Conflict on Economic Performance: Evidence from Rwanda

Pieter Serneels, Marijke Verpoorten

published in: Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2015, 59 (4), 555-592

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6690

Immigration and Structural Change: Evidence from Post-War Germany

Sebastian Till Braun, Michael Kvasnicka

published in: Journal of International Economics, 2014, 93 (2), 253-269

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6636

Frictions and the Joint Behavior of Hiring and Investment

Eran Yashiv

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6509

Wage and Employment Determination in Volatile Times: Sweden 1913-1939

Bertil Holmlund

published in: Cliometrica, 2013, 7 (2), 131–159

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6296

The Effects of World War II on Economic and Health Outcomes across Europe

Iris Kesternich, Bettina M. Siflinger, James P. Smith, Joachim Winter

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96 (1), 103–118

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6251

Warrant Economics, Call-Put Policy Options and the Fallacies of Economic Theory

John Hatgioannides, Marika Karanassou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6210

Height and Cognitive Function among Older Europeans: Do People from "Tall" Countries Have Superior Cognitive Abilities?

Cahit Guven, Wang-Sheng Lee

revised version published as 'Height, Ageing and Cognitive Abilities across Europe' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 16, 16-29.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6194

War and Stature: Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War

Richard Akresh, Sonia R. Bhalotra, Marinella Leone, Una O. Osili

published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (3), 273-277

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6148

Rubble Women: The Long-Term Effects of Postwar Reconstruction on Female Labor Market Outcomes

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Melanie Khamis, Mutlu Yuksel

substantially revised paper appeared as DP No. 10830

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6018

Statistical Analysis of Landmine Fatalities in Kurdistan

Almas Heshmati, Nabaz T. Khayyat

published as 'Analysis of Landmine Fatalities and Injuries in the Kurdistan Region' in: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 30(5), 2015, 2591-2615.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5883

There Goes the Neighborhood? People’s Attitudes and the Effects of Immigration to Australia

Mathias Sinning, Matthias Vorell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5855

The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants: Evidence for Post-War Germany

Thomas K. Bauer, Sebastian Till Braun, Michael Kvasnicka

published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (571), 998-1024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5835

Wage Rigidity, Collective Bargaining and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from French Agreement Data

Sanvi Avouyi-Dovi, Denis Fougère, Erwan Gautier

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (4), 1337-1351

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5778

Wage Rigidity and Disinflation in Emerging Countries

Julián Messina, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2014, 6 (1), 102-133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5656

Total Reward in the UK in the Public and Private Sectors

Alexander M. Danzer, Peter Dolton

published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (4), 584-594

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5643

Democratization, Violent Social Conflicts, and Growth

Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde

substantially revised version published as 'Civil Conflict, Democratization, and Growth: Violent Democratization as Critical Juncture' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2014, 116 (2), 482-505

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5614

Disease Environment and Civil Conflicts

Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde, Simona Valmori

revised version published as 'Pathogens, Weather Shocks and Civil Conflicts' in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (607), 2581 - 2616

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5572

The Impact of Education on Unemployment Incidence and Re-employment Success: Evidence from the U.S. Labour Market

W. Craig Riddell, Xueda Song

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (4), 453-463

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5461

An Experimental Investigation of Intrinsic Motivations for Giving

Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos

published in: Theory and Decision, 2014, 76(1), 47-67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5379

Determinanten des Suchverhaltens von Arbeitslosen: Ausgewählte Erkenntnisse basierend auf dem IZA Evaluationsdatensatz

Marco Caliendo, Arne Uhlendorff

published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2011, 44 (1-2), 119-125

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5367

The Production of PhDs in the United States and Canada

Barry R. Chiswick, Nicholas Larsen, Paul Pieper

published as 'The Awarding of PhDs in the United States and Canada: War, the Draft, and Other Economic Determinants' in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (28), 2939 - 2958

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5367

The Production of PhDs in the United States and Canada

Barry R. Chiswick, Nicholas Larsen, Paul Pieper

published as 'The Awarding of PhDs in the United States and Canada: War, the Draft, and Other Economic Determinants' in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (28), 2939 - 2958

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5309

Wages or Fringes? Some Evidence on Trade-offs and Sorting

Tor Eriksson, Nicolai Kristensen

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (4), 899-928

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5297

The First World War and Working-Class Food Consumption in Britain

Ian Gazeley, Andrew T. Newell

published in: European Review of Economic History, 2013, 17 (1), 71-94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5200

Respect as an Incentive

Tor Eriksson, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Respect and relational contracts' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 81 (1), 286–298

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5172

Drawn into Violence: Evidence on 'What Makes a Criminal' from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries

Jason M. Lindo, Charles Stoecker

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2014, 52 (1), 239-258

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5126

Does Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity Dampen Wage Increases?

Heiko Stüber, Thomas Beissinger

published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (4), 870-887

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5067

Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys

Tilman Brück, Patricia Justino, Philip Verwimp, Alexandra Avdeenko

revised version published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2015, 31 (1), 29-58.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5040

Getting More Work for Nothing? Symbolic Awards and Worker Performance

Michael Kosfeld, Susanne Neckermann

published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2011, 3 (3), 86-99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5028

The Long-Run Labor-Market Consequences of Civil War: Evidence from the Shining Path in Peru

Jose C. Galdo

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2013, 61 (4), 789-823

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4990

Violent Conflict and Inequality

Cagatay Bircan, Tilman Brück, Marc Vothknecht

published in: Oxford Development Studies, 2017, 45(2), 125-44.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4762

Does Conflict Disrupt Growth? Evidence of the Relationship between Political Instability and National Economic Performance

Solomon Polachek, Daria Sevastianova

published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2012, 21 (3), 361 - 388

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4722

Wage Inequality, Linkages and FDI

Nigel Driffield, Sourafel Girma, Michael Henry, Karl Taylor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4477

Spillovers Through Backward Linkages from Multinationals: Measurement Matters!

Salvador Barrios, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl

published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (6), 862-875

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4418

Persistence of Civil Wars

Daron Acemoglu, Davide Ticchi, Andrea Vindigni

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8 (2-3), 664-676

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4407

Children of War: The Long-Run Effects of Large-Scale Physical Destruction and Warfare on Children

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel

revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (3), 634-662

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4395

Tournament Incentives in the Field: Gender Differences in the Workplace

Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur, Joeri Sol, Willem Verbeke

revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (2) , 305-326

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4346

Real and Nominal Wage Rigidity in a Model of Equal-Treatment Contracting

Pedro S. Martins, Andy Snell, Jonathan P. Thomas

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 112(4), 841-863, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4121

The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel? Patriotism and Tax Compliance

Kai A. Konrad, Salmai Qari

published in: Economica, 2012, 79 (315), 516-53

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4006

Did British Women Achieve Long-Term Economic Benefits from Working in Essential WWII Industries?

Robert A. Hart

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3883

How Opportunity Costs Decrease the Probability of War in an Incomplete Information Game

Solomon Polachek, Jun Xiang

published in: International Organization, 2010, 64 (1), 133-144

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3771

Social Image Concerns and Pro-Social Behavior

Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2010, 76 (2), 225-237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3516

Armed Conflict and Schooling: Evidence from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide

Richard Akresh, Damien de Walque

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3397

War and Endogenous Democracy

Davide Ticchi, Andrea Vindigni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3287

The Big Carrot: High Stake Incentives Revisited

Pablo Brañas-Garza, Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman

published in: Behavioral Decision Making, 2010, 23, 288-313

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3253

The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Matthias Doepke, Moshe Hazan, Yishay D. Maoz

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2015, 82(3), 1031-1073

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3238

Reference-Dependent Preferences and Loss Aversion: A Discrete Choice Experiment in the Health-Care Sector

Einat Neuman, Shoshana Neuman

published in: Judgment and Decision Making, 2008, 3(2), 162-173

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3197

Why Develop Open Source Software? The Role of Non-Pecuniary Benefits, Monetary Rewards and Open Source Licence Type

Robert M. Sauer

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2007, 23 (4), 605-619

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2790

Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income, and Civil Conflict in Colombia

Joshua Angrist, Adriana Kugler

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (2), 191-215

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2727

Agency in Health-Care: Are Medical Care-Givers Perfect Agents?

Einat Neuman, Shoshana Neuman

published in: Applied Economic Letters, 2009, 16 (13-15), 1355-1360

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2487

How Wages Change: Micro Evidence from the International Wage Flexibility Project

William T. Dickens, Lorenz Götte, Erica L. Groshen, Steinar Holden, Julián Messina, Mark E. Schweitzer, Jarkko Turunen, Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007, 21 (2), 195-214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2487

How Wages Change: Micro Evidence from the International Wage Flexibility Project

William T. Dickens, Lorenz Götte, Erica L. Groshen, Steinar Holden, Julián Messina, Mark E. Schweitzer, Jarkko Turunen, Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007, 21 (2), 195-214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2423

Relative Rewards within Team-Based Compensation

Bernd Irlenbusch, Gabriele K. Ruchala

published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (2), 141-167

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