IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published as 'Unions, Internationalization, Tasks, Firms, and Worker Characteristics: A Detailed Decomposition Analysis of Rising Wage Inequality in Germany' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019, 17, 461-498

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10711

Attrition in Randomized Control Trials: Using Tracking Information to Correct Bias

Teresa Molina Millán, Karen Macours

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10648

A Framework for Separating Individual Treatment Effects from Spillover, Interaction, and General Equilibrium Effects

Martin Huber, Andreas Steinmayr

pusblished in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2021, 39 (2), 422 - 436

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10620

Health and Body Mass Index: No Simple Relationship

Olaf Hübler

revised version published as 'Health and weight - gender-specific linkages under heterogeneity, interdependence and resilience factors' in: Economic and Human Biology, 2017, 26, 96-111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10616

Early Health and School Outcomes for Children with Lesbian Parents: Evidence from Sweden

Lina Aldén, Anders Björklund, Mats Hammarstedt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10592

Does Single Motherhood Hurt Infant Health among Young Mothers?

Albert Young-Il Kim, Jungmin Lee

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10523

Native-Migrant Differences in Trading Off Wages and Workplace Safety

Anna D’Ambrosio, Roberto Leombruni, Tiziano Razzolini

substantially revised version published as 'Trading off wage for workplace safety? Gaps between immigrants and natives in Italy' in Economia Politica, Published: 24 December 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10402

Missing Data, Imputation, and Endogeneity

Ian K. McDonough, Daniel L. Millimet

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 199 (2), 141-155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10375

Behavior Change for Early Childhood Nutrition: Effectiveness of Health Worker Training Depends on Maternal Information in a Randomized Control Trial

Prakarsh Singh, William A. Masters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10083

Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India

Prakarsh Singh, William A. Masters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10082

Worth the Wait? The Effect of Early Term Birth on Maternal and Infant Health

Kasey Buckles, Melanie Guldi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9798

Cognitive Ability and the Mortality Gradient by Education: Selection or Mediation?

Govert Bijwaard, Andrew M. Jones

published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 57, 129-175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9789

Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers

Michael A. Clemens, Claudio Montenegro, Lant Pritchett

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (2), 201–213.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9712

Does Medicaid Coverage for Pregnant Women Affect Prenatal Health Behaviors?

Dhaval M. Dave, Robert Kaestner, George Wehby

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9706

The Finite Sample Performance of Inference Methods for Propensity Score Matching and Weighting Estimators

Hugo Bodory, Lorenzo Camponovo, Martin Huber, Michael Lechner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9697

The Effect of Choice Options in Training Curricula on the Supply of and Demand for Apprenticeships

Anika Jansen, Andries de Grip, Ben Kriechel

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 57, 52-65

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9619

Working Time Reductions at the End of the Career: Do They Prolong the Time Spent in Employment?

Andrea Albanese, Bart Cockx, Yannick Thuy

published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 99–141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9608

The Relationship between Maternal Pre-Pregnancy BMI and Preschool Obesity

Susan L. Averett, Erin K. Fletcher

published in: Applied Demography and Public Health in the 21st Century (pp. 201-219). 2017. Springer International Publishing.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9480

Maybe Next Month? Temperature Shocks, Climate Change, and Dynamic Adjustments in Birth Rates

Alan I. Barreca, Olivier Deschenes, Melanie Guldi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9428

Endogeneity and Non-Response Bias in Treatment Evaluation: Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects by Instruments

Hans Fricke, Markus Frölich, Martin Huber, Michael Lechner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9397

Height, Weight and Well-Being for Rural, Urban and Migrant Workers in China

Wang-Sheng Lee, Zhong Zhao

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2017, 132 (1), 117-136

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9211

Violence and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Homicides in Brazil

Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner, Marco Manacorda

Published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 119: 16-33.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9175

Birth Weight in the Long-Run

Prashant Bharadwaj, Petter Lundborg, Dan-Olof Rooth

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53(1), 189-231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9174

Health and Unemployment during Macroeconomic Crises

Prashant Bharadwaj, Petter Lundborg, Dan-Olof Rooth

published as "Birth weight and vulnerability to a macroeconomic crisis": Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 66, 136-144.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9087

Peer Effects, Fast Food Consumption and Adolescent Weight Gain

Bernard Fortin, Myra Yazbeck

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 42, 125-138

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9053

Prenatal Stress and Low Birth Weight: Evidence from the Super Bowl

Brian Duncan, Hani Mansour, Daniel I. Rees

published as 'It's Just a Game: The Super Bowl and Low Birth Weight' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (4) 946-978

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9052

Prepregnancy Obesity and Birth Outcomes

Susan L. Averett, Erin K. Fletcher

published in: Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2016, 20(3), 655-664.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9050

Obesity and Economic Performance of Young Workers in Italy

Giovanni S. F. Bruno, Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Orietta Dessy

published as 'Obesity and the economic performance of young people in Italy' in: G. Coppola and N. O'Higgins (eds): Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, Education and Health in Europe, Routledge, 2016, Chapter 8

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8997

Investment Liberalisation, Technology Take-off and Export Market Entry: Does Foreign Ownership Structure Matter?

Sourafel Girma, Yundan Gong, Holger Görg, Sandra Lancheros

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116, 254-269

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8988

Permanent Wage Cost Subsidies for Older Workers: An Effective Tool for Increasing Working Time and Postponing Early Retirement?

Andrea Albanese, Bart Cockx

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 58, 145-166

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8817

Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups

Marco Caliendo, Jens Hogenacker, Steffen Künn, Frank Wießner

published in: Small Business Economics, 45(1), 2015, 165-190

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8671

Terrorism and Human Capital at Birth: Bomb Casualties and Birth Outcomes in Spain

Climent Quintana-Domeque, Pedro Ródenas-Serrano

revised version published as 'The Hidden Costs of Terrorism: The Effects on Health at Birth' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 56, 47-60.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8606

Big and Tall: Is there a Height Premium or Obesity Penalty in the Labor Market?

Wang-Sheng Lee

substantially revised version published as 'Big and Tall: Does a Height Premium Dwarf an Obesity Penalty in the Labor Market?' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2017, 27, 289-304.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8527

Attractiveness, Anthropometry or Both? Their Relationship and Role in Economic Research

Sonia Oreffice, Climent Quintana-Domeque

revised version published as 'Beauty, Body Size and Wages: Evidence from a Unique Data Set ' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 22, 24-34.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8339

A General Semiparametric Approach to Inference with Marker-Dependent Hazard Rate Models

Gerard J. van den Berg, Lena Janys, Enno Mammen, Jens P. Nielsen

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2021, 221, 43-67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8084

A General Double Robustness Result for Estimating Average Treatment Effects

Tymon Sloczynski, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

published in: Econometric Theory, 2018, 34(1), 112–133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8043

Does Grief Transfer across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes

Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes

revised version published as 'Does Grief Transfer across Generations? Bereavements during Pregnancy and Child Outcomes' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (1), 193 - 223

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7972

Treatment Evaluation with Multiple Outcome Periods under Endogeneity and Attrition

Markus Frölich, Martin Huber

published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2014, 109(508), 1697-1711

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7588

Why Does the Health of Immigrants Deteriorate? Evidence from Birth Records

Osea Giuntella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7512

The Effect of Sorority Membership on Eating Disorders and Body Mass Index

Susan L. Averett, Sabrina Terrizzi, Yang Wang

published in: Health economics, 2017, 26(7), 875-891.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7512