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12,164 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12166
Health Aid, Governance and Infant Mortality
Chris Doucouliagos, Jack Hennessy, Debdulal Mallick
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12165
In Search of China's Income-Health Gradient: A Biomarker-Based Analysis
Peng Nie, Qing Li, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12164
Glyphosate Use in Agriculture and Birth Outcomes of Surrounding Populations
Mateus Dias, Rudi Rocha, Rodrigo R. Soares
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12163
Improving Access and Quality in Early Childhood Development Programs: Experimental Evidence from the Gambia
Moussa P. Blimpo, Pedro Carneiro, Pamela Jervis, Todd Pugatch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12162
Does Child Labor Lead to Vulnerable Employment in Adulthood? Evidence for Tanzania
Sara Burrone, Gianna Claudia Giannelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12161
Did the Arab Spring Reduce MENA Countries' Growth?
Mahmoud Arayssi, Ali Fakih, Nathir Haimoun
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12160
English Skills, Labour Market Status and Earnings of Turkish Women
Antonio Di Paolo, Aysit Tansel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12159
Local Norms Describing the Role of the State and the Private Provision of Training
Andreas Kuhn, Jürg Schweri, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12158
When Paywall Goes AWOL: The Demand for Open Access Education Research
Seth Gershenson, Morgan S. Polikoff, Rui Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12157
The Long-Term Effect of Age at School Entry on Competencies in Adulthood
Katja Görlitz, Merlin Penny, Marcus Tamm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12156
Born in the Family: Preferences for Boys and the Gender Gap in Math
Gaia Dossi, David N. Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Paola Sapienza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12155
Have You Read This? An Empirical Comparison of the British REF Peer Review and the Italian VQR Bibliometric Algorithm
Daniele Checchi, Alberto Ciolfi, Gianni De Fraja, Irene Mazzotta, Stefano Verzillo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12154
Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance
David S. Lee, Pauline Leung, Christopher J. O'Leary, Zhuan Pei, Simon Quach
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12153
Measuring Belief-Dependent Preferences without Information about Beliefs
Charles Bellemare, Alexander Sebald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12152
Have Econometric Analyses of Happiness Data Been Futile? A Simple Truth about Happiness Scales
Le-Yu Chen, Ekaterina Oparina, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Sorawoot Srisuma
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12151
An Empirical Total Survey Error Decomposition Using Data Combination
Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12150
Divorced in a Flash: The Effect of the Administrative Divorce Option on Marital Stability in the Netherlands
Jan Kabátek
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12149
Overwork in Spouse's Degree Field and the Labor Market Outcomes of Skilled Women
Terra McKinnish
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12148
Home Production of Childcare and Labour Supply Decisions in a Collective Household Model
Hélène Turon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12147
Motherhood, Migration, and Self-Employment of College Graduates
Zhengyu Cai, Heather M. Stephens, John V. Winters
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12146
Universal Childcare for the Youngest and the Maternal Labour Supply
Astrid Kunze, Xingfei Liu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12145
Parental Child Care Time, Income and Subjective Well-Being: A Multidimensional Polarization Approach for Germany
Joachim Merz, Normen Peters
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12144
Do Male Managers Increase Risk-Taking of Female Teams? Evidence from the NCAA
René Böheim, Christoph Freudenthaler, Mario Lackner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12143
Home Advantage in European International Soccer: Which Dimension of Distance Matters?
Nils van Damme, Stijn Baert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12142
Twelve Eyes See More Than Eight. Referee Bias and the Introduction of Additional Assistant Referees in Soccer
Olivier Verstraeten, Stijn Baert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12141
The past and Future of Manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe: Ready for Industry 4.0?
Wim Naudé, Aleksander Surdej, Martin Cameron
forthcoming in: Industry 4.0 and Engineering for the Future
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12140
A Field Experiment on Labor Market Speeddates for Unemployed Workers
Bas van der Klaauw, Lennart Ziegler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12139
Labor Market Frictions and Moving Costs of the Employed and Unemployed
Tyler Ransom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12138
Not Everyone Is Engaged: An Innovative Approach to Measure Engagement Levels on the Labor Market
Carole Chartouni, Robert Holzmann, Gustavo N. Paez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12137
The Short-Run Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment and Labor Market Participation: Evidence from an Individual-Level Panel
Ernest Boffy-Ramirez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12136
Adjustment Costs and Incentives to Work: Evidence from a Disability Insurance Program
Arezou Zaresani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12135
A Nutshell Model of Labor Demand with Permanent and Short-Term Contracts
Bruno Contini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12134
B for Brexit: A Survey of the Economics Academic Literature
Nauro F Campos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12133
Stalled Racial Progress and Japanese Trade in the 1970s and 1980s
Mary Kate Batistich, Timothy N. Bond
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12132
Outsourcing Recruitment as a Solution to Prevent Discrimination: A Correspondence Study
Clémence Berson, Morgane Laouénan, Emmanuel Valat
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12131
Employment Discrimination against Indigenous Peoples in the United States: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Patrick Button, Brigham Walker
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12130
Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe
Alberto Alesina, Elie Murard, Hillel Rapoport
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12129
Improving Estimation of Labor Market Disequilibrium Using Shortage Indicators, with an Application to the Market for Anesthesiologists
Matthew Baird, Lindsay Daugherty, Krishna B. Kumar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12128
Optimal Social Insurance and Rising Labor Market Risk
Tom Krebs, Martin Scheffel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12127
Marginal Jobs and Job Surplus: A Test of the Efficiency of Separations
Simon Jäger, Benjamin Schoefer, Josef Zweimüller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12126
Dual Labour Markets Revisited
Samuel Bentolila, Juan J. Dolado, Juan F. Jimeno
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12125
How Prevalent Is Downward Rigidity in Nominal Wages? International Evidence from Payroll Records and Pay Slips
Michael Elsby, Gary Solon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12124
How Prevalent Is Downward Rigidity in Nominal Wages? Evidence from Payroll Records in Washington State
Ekaterina Jardim, Gary Solon, Jacob Vigdor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12123
Long-Term Responses to Large Minimum Wage Shocks: Sub-Minimum and Super-Minimum Workers in Slovenia
Suzana Laporsek, Peter F. Orazem, Matija Vodopivec, Milan Vodopivec
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12122
Can Electronic Monitoring Reduce Reoffending?
Jenny Williams, Don Weatherburn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12121
What Aspects of Formality Do Workers Value? Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Bangladesh
Minhaj Mahmud, Italo A. Gutierrez, Krishna B. Kumar, Shanthi Nataraj
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12120
Unethical Behavior and Group Identity in Contests
Julien Benistant, Marie Claire Villeval
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12118
Selection and Educational Attainment: Why Some Children Are Left Behind? Evidence from a Middle-Income Country
Luciana Méndez-Errico, Xavier Ramos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12117
Tropical Storms and Mortality under Climate Change
Todd Pugatch
published in: World Development, 2019, 117, 172-182
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12116
Mortality in Midlife for Subgroups in Germany
Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid, Julia Schmieder
forthcoming in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12115
Something in the Pipe: Flint Water Crisis and Health at Birth
Rui Wang, Xi Chen, Xun Li
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12114
De Facto or De Jure? Ethnic Differences in Quit Responses to Legal Protections of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
Jenny Williams, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Rosanna Smart
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12113
Works Councils and Workplace Health Promotion in Germany
Uwe Jirjahn, Jens Mohrenweiser, Stephen C. Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12112
The Long-Term Economic Effects of Polio: Evidence from the Introduction of the Polio Vaccine to Sweden in 1957
Luis Serratos-Sotelo, Tommy Bengtsson, Anton Nilsson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12111
Does Universalization of Healthwork? Evidence from Health Systems Restructuring and Expansion in Brazil
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Rudi Rocha, Rodrigo R. Soares
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12110
Measuring the Quality of the Home Environment of Young Children in Uruguay: Socioeconomic Gradients in the Home Inventory
Florencia López Bóo, Mayaris Cubides Mateus, Rita Sorio, Giorgina Garibotto, Christian Berón
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12109
Cash, Conditions and Child Development: Experimental Evidence from a Cash Transfer in Honduras
Florencia López Bóo, John Creamer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12108
The Economics of Parenting
Matthias Doepke, Giuseppe Sorrenti, Fabrizio Zilibotti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12107
Wealth Gradients in Early Childhood Cognitive Development in Five Latin American Countries
Norbert Schady, Jere R. Behrman, Maria Caridad Araujo, Rodrigo Azuero, Raquel Bernal, David Bravo, Florencia López Bóo, Karen Macours, Daniela Marshall, Christina Paxson, Renos Vakis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12106
Delivering Parenting Interventions through Health Services in the Caribbean
Susan P. Walker, Christine Powell, Susan M. Chang, Helen Baker-Henningham, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Marcos Vera-Hernandez, Florencia López Bóo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12105
Intergenerational Transmission of Health at Birth from Mothers and Fathers
Osea Giuntella, Giulia La Mattina, Climent Quintana-Domeque
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12104
Parental Ethnic Identity and Child Development
Stuart Campbell, Ana Nuevo-Chiquero, Gurleen Popli, Anita Ratcliffe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12103
Actors in the Child Development Process
Daniela Del Boca, Christopher Flinn, Ewout Verriest, Matthew Wiswall
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12102
The Consequences of Extending Equitable Property Division Divorce Laws to Cohabitants
Abraham Chigavazira, Hayley Fisher, Tim Robinson, Anna Zhu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12101
Labor Market Discrimination and the Macroeconomy
Muhammad Asali, Rusudan Gurashvili
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12100
Does Society Influence the Gender Gap in Risk Attitudes? Evidence from East and West Germany
Cornelia Chadi, Uwe Jirjahn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12099
Female Leadership and Gender Gap within Firms: Evidence from an Italian Board Reform
Agata Maida, Andrea Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12098
Is There a Tradeoff between Ethnic Diversity and Redistribution? The Case of Income Assistance in Canada
David A. Green, W. Craig Riddell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12097
Who Goes on Disability When Times Are Tough? The Role of Social Costs of Take-Up Among Immigrants
Delia Furtado, Kerry L. Papps, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12096
Monopsony Power and Guest Worker Programs
Eric M. Gibbons, Allie Greenman, Peter Norlander, Todd A. Sorensen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12095
Measuring the Spatial Misallocation of Labor: The Returns to India-Gulf Guest Work in a Natural Experiment
Michael A. Clemens
submitted
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12094
The Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind: Estimation in Presence of Intra-Household Selection of Migrants
Elie Murard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12093
Wage Flexibility in a Unionized Economy with Stable Wage Dispersion
Mikael Carlsson, Iida Häkkinen Skans, Oskar Nordström Skans
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12092
Early Labor Market Prospects and Family Formation
Mattias Engdahl, Mathilde Godard, Oskar Nordström Skans
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12091
Labor Market Search, Informality, and On-The-Job Human Capital Accumulation
Matteo Bobba, Luca Flabbi, Santiago Levy Algazi, Mauricio Tejada
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12090
The Elasticity of Taxable Labour Income in the Netherlands
Egbert L. W. Jongen, Maaike Stoel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12089
Labor-Market Concentration and Labor Compensation
Yue Qiu, Aaron J. Sojourner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12088
Schooling Forsaken: Education and Migration
Ilhom Abdulloev, Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12087
Estimating the Potential Effects of Adding a Citizenship Question to the 2020 Census
J. David Brown, Misty L. Heggeness, Suzanne M. Dorinski, Lawrence Warren, Moises Yi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12086
The Effects of Status Mobility and Group Identity on Trust
Rémi Suchon, Marie Claire Villeval
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12085
Partial Identification of Economic Mobility: With an Application to the United States
Daniel L. Millimet, Hao Li, Punarjit Roychowdhury
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12084
Lost Boys: Access to Secondary Education and Crime
Kristiina Huttunen, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo, Hanna Virtanen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12083
Effect of Enforcement Shock on Pushers' Activities: Evidence from an Asian Drug-Selling Gang
Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li, Haibo Xu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12082
Scaring or Scarring? Labour Market Effects of Criminal Victimisation
Anna Bindler, Nadine Ketel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12081
Iassopack: Model Selection and Prediction with Regularized Regression in Stata
Achim Ahrens, Christian B. Hansen, Mark E Schaffer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12080
Let the Data Speak? On the Importance of Theory-Based Instrumental Variable Estimations
Volker Grossmann, Aderonke Osikominu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12079
On Event Study Designs and Distributed-Lag Models: Equivalence, Generalization and Practical Implications
Kurt Schmidheiny, Sebastian Siegloch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12078
The Role of Body Weight for Health, Earnings and Life Satisfaction
Olaf Hübler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12077
Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality: Reply to Cutler and Miller
D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Daniel I. Rees
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12076
To Pill or Not to Pill? Access to Emergency Contraception and Contraceptive Behaviour
Ana Nuevo-Chiquero, Francisco J. Pino
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12075
Emigration and Alcohol Consumption among Migrant Household Members Staying Behind: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan
Sara Paulone, Artjoms Ivlevs
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12074
Assessing the Impact of Off- and On-The-Job Training on Employment Outcomes: A Counterfactual Evaluation of the PIPOL Program
Francesco Pastore, Marco Pompili
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12073
Ageing and Skills: The Case of Literacy Skills
Garry F. Barrett, W. Craig Riddell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12072
Preschoolers' Self-Regulation, Skill Differentials, and Early Educational Outcomes
Johanna Sophie Quis, Anika Bela, Guido Heineck
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12071
Returns to Higher Education Subjects and Tiers in China: Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies
Lili Kang, Fei Peng, Yu Zhu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12070
Inequality of Opportunity in Education: Accounting for the Contributions of Sibs, Schools and Sorting across East Africa
Paul Anand, Jere R. Behrman, Hai-Anh Dang, Sam Jones
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12069
Timing Is Everything: Evidence from College Major Decisions
Richard Patterson, Nolan G. Pope, Aaron Feudo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12068
Seeking Rent in the Informal Sector
Saibal Kar, Biswajit Mandal, Sugata Marjit, Vivekananda Mukherjee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12067
What Drives Female Labor Force Participation? Comparable Micro-Level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies
Stephan Klasen, Janneke Pieters, Manuel Santos Silva, Le Thi Ngoc Tu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12066
The Effect of Superstition on Health: Evidence from the Taiwanese Ghost Month
Martin Halla, Chia-Lun Liu, Jin-Tan Liu
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