IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18213

Immigration, Search, and Redistribution: A Conjecture

Oded Stark, Lukasz Byra

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18093

Trapped in Purgatory? The Impact of Divorce Laws on Women’s Welfare with Separation

Paula Calvo, Murat Iyigun, Jeanne Lafortune

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17958

Welfare Programs and Crime Spillovers

David Carson Jinkins, Elira Kuka, Claudio Labanca

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17934

The Inequality and Mobility of Exposure to European Soviet Communism

Joan Costa-Font, Anna Nicinska, Melcior Rossello Roig

published online in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 28 August 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17869

Welfare Conditionality in the OECD and in Latin America: A Comparative Perspective

Herwig Immervoll, Florencia Antía, Carlo Knotz, Cecilia Rossel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17853

The Impact of Austerity on Mortality and Life Expectancy

Yonatan Berman, Tora Hovland

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17841

Daniel Kahneman’s Underappreciated Last Published Paper: Empirical Implications for Benefit-Cost Analysis and a Chat Session Discussion with Bots

C. Monica Capra, Thomas J. Kniesner

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2025, 71(1), 29-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17839

Deter and Deteriorate: The Effects of Application Processing Times on Welfare Receipt and Employment

Heike Vethaak, Ernst-Jan de Bruijn, Marike Knoef, Pierre Koning

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17716

On a Transformation of the Gini Coefficient into a Well-Behaved Social Welfare Function

Oded Stark

published in: Kyklos, 2025, 78 (2), 301-304

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17650

Childhood Welfare Exposure and Economic Outcomes for Adult Daughters and Sons

Robert Paul Hartley, Carlos Lamarche, James P. Ziliak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17566

Normative Judgments Implicit in the Tax System: A Simulation Approach

Niklas Isaak, Robin Jessen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17463

Crisis Resilience of European Welfare States: The Role of Multiple Layers of Protection

Werner Eichhorst, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Mathias Dolls, Max Lay

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17378

Revisiting Dualism? The Governance of the Low Pay-Low Skill Labour Market in Four European Countries

Werner Eichhorst, Gemma Scalise

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17244

Unintended Consequences of Welfare Cuts on Children and Adolescents

Christian Dustmann, Rasmus Landersø, Lars Højsgaard Andersen

revised version published in: American Economic Journal, 2024, 16 (4), 161–185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17221

The Black-White Lifetime Earnings Gap

Ezra Karger, Anthony Wray

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17200

Population Growth and the Tragedy of the Commons: Can Trade Prevent Natural Resource and Welfare Collapse?

Maurice Schiff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17095

Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Program Interactions

Zachary Parolin, Clemente Pignatti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17057

Financial Incentives for Adoption and Kin Guardianship Improve Achievement for Foster Children

David Simon, Aaron Sojourner, Jon Pedersen, Heidi Ombisa Skallet

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17008

Modernizing Smallholder Agriculture and Achieving Food Security: An Exploration in Machinery Services and Labor Reallocation in China

Baoling Zou, Ashok K. Mishra

published in: Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2024, 46 (4), 1662-1691

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16873

An Optimal Allocation of Asylum Seekers

Oded Stark, Grzegorz Kosiorowski

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 220, 1 - 11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16820

The Gendered Nature of the Cost-of-Living Crisis in Europe

Denisa M. Sologon, Karina Doorley, Cathal O'Donoghue, Eugenio Peluso

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16660

Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Benefit Receipt: Evidence from Germany

Jennifer Feichtmayer, Regina T. Riphahn

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2024, 70 (4), 1226-1251

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16619

Modelling the Distributional Effects of the Cost-of-Living Crisis in Turkey and the South Caucasus: A Microsimulation Analysis

Zeynep Gizem Can, Cathal O'Donoghue, Denisa M. Sologon, Darius Smith, Rosaleen Griffin, Una Murray

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16564

Sliding into Safety Net Participation: A Unified Analysis across Multiple Programs

Derek Wu, Jonathan Zhang

published in: National Tax Journal, 2005, 78 (1), 45–86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16516

The Effect of Reducing Welfare Access on Employment, Health, and Children's Long-Run Outcomes

Jeffrey Hicks, Gaëlle Simard-Duplain, David A. Green, William P. Warburton

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16430

Graying and Staying on the Job: The Welfare Implications of Employment Protection for Older Workers

Todd Morris, Benoit Dostie

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16336

Debt Relief for the Financially Vulnerable: Impact on Employment, Welfare Receipt, and Mental Health

Ernst-Jan de Bruijn, Heike Vethaak, Pierre Koning, Marike Knoef

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16336

Debt Relief for the Financially Vulnerable: Impact on Employment, Welfare Receipt, and Mental Health

Ernst-Jan de Bruijn, Heike Vethaak, Pierre Koning, Marike Knoef

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16294

Certification and Recertification in Welfare Programs: What Happens When Automation Goes Wrong?

Derek Wu, Bruce D. Meyer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16285

Welfare Reform and Migrant's Long-Term Labor Market Integration

Johannes S. Kunz, Anna Zhu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16209

Health and Wellbeing Spillovers of a Partner's Cancer Diagnosis

Viola Angelini, Joan Costa-Font

published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2023, 212, 422 - 437

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16130

On a Tendency in Health Economics to Dwell on Income Inequality and Underestimate Social Stress

Oded Stark

published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2023, 49, 101232

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16077

Refugee Benefit Cuts

Christian Dustmann, Rasmus Landersø, Lars Højsgaard Andersen

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (2), 406 - 441

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16066

Minimum Income Support Systems as Elements of Crisis Resilience in Europe

Werner Eichhorst, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Paul Marx, Mathias Dolls, Max Lay

updated version available as DP 17463

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15976

The Employment Effects of Generous and Unconditional Cash Support

Timo Verlaat, Federico Todeschini, Xavier Ramos

published as 'The employment effects of a means-tested guaranteed income policy' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2025, 248, 105420

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15923

A Pure Theory of Population Distribution When Preferences Are Ordinal

Holger Stark, Grzegorz Kosiorowski

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15904

Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe

Richard A. Easterlin, Kelsey J. O'Connor

published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022, 119 (37), e2210639119.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15891

Activating the Long-Term Inactive: Labor Market and Mental Health Effects

Mareen Bastiaans, Robert Dur, Anne C. Gielen

published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 90, 102593

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15867

Dynastic Measures of Intergenerational Mobility

Olivier B. Bargain, Maria C. Lo Bue, Flaviana Palmisano

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15738

Welfare and Distributional Impact of Soaring Prices in Europe

Denisa M. Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue, Jules Linden, Iryna Kyzyma, Jason Loughrey

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15670

Households in Transit: COVID-19 and the Changing Measurement of Welfare

Laura Caron, Erwin R. Tiongson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15592

The Fiscal Effect of Immigration: Reducing Bias in Influential Estimates

Michael A. Clemens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15579

Privatizing Disability Insurance

Arthur Seibold, Sebastian Seitz, Sebastian Siegloch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15466

Evaluating the Impacts of Minigrid Electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sinem H. Ayhan, Giacomo Falchetta, Jan C. Steckel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15431

Stigma in Welfare Programs

Pablo Celhay, Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15399

COVID-19 Private Pension Withdrawals and Unemployment Tenures

Tristram Sainsbury, Robert Breunig, Timothy Watson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15317

The Economic and Fiscal Effects on the United States from Reduced Numbers of Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Michael A. Clemens

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2022, 38 (3), 449-486.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15294

Hiding the Elephant: The Tragedy of COVID Policy and Its Economist Apologists

Gigi Foster, Paul Frijters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15203

Does Cutting Child Benefits Reduce Fertility in Larger Families? Evidence from the UK’s Two-Child Limit

Mary Reader, Jonathan Portes, Ruth Patrick

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15178

Universal Credit: Welfare Reform and Mental Health

Mike Brewer, Thang Dang, Emma Tominey

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 98, 102940

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