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14,137 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14142
Motivational Goal Bracketing with Non-rational Goals
Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14141
Employment Structures in China from 1990 to 2015: Demographic and Technological Change
Peng Ge, Wenkai Sun, Zhong Zhao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14140
Peers' Race in Adolescence and Voting Behavior
Maria Polipciuc, Frank Cörvers, Raymond Montizaan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14139
"Study Hard and Make Progress Every Day": Updates on Returns to Education in China
Jie Chen, Francesco Pastore
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14138
Recruiting Intensity, Hires, and Vacancies: Evidence from Firm-Level Data
Eliza Forsythe, Russell Weinstein
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14137
Cognitive Load and Occupational Injuries
Eric Bonsang, Eve Caroli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14136
The Importance of Peer Quality for Completion of Higher Education
Maria Knoth Humlum, Mette Thorsager
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14135
The Making and Unmaking of Opportunity: Educational Mobility in 20th Century-Denmark
Kristian B. Karlson, Rasmus Landerso
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14134
Setting a Good Example? Examining Sibling Spillovers in Educational Achievement Using a Regression Discontinuity Design
Krzysztof Karbownik, Umut Özek
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14133
Bride Kidnapping and Labour Supply Behaviour of Married Kyrgyz Women
Reza Arabsheibani, Alma Kudebayeva, Altay Mussurov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14132
Gender Gaps in Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills: Roles of SES and Gender Attitudes
Justine Hervé, Subha Mani, Jere R. Behrman, Arindam Nandi, Anjana Sankhil Lamkang, Ramanan Laxminarayan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14131
Passthrough of Firm Performance to Income and Employment Stability
Jonas Maibom, Rune Majlund Vejlin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14130
Republic of Beliefs: An Experimental Investigation
Utteeyo Dasgupta, Fatos Radoniqi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14129
High School Dropout and the Intergenerational Transmission of Crime
Davide Dragone, Giuseppe Migali, Eugenio Zucchelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14128
The Gender Pay Gap Revisited with Big Data: Do Methodological Choices Matter?
Anthony Strittmatter, Conny Wunsch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14127
Educational, Labor-Market and Intergenerational Consequences of Poor Childhood Health
Krzysztof Karbownik, Anthony Wray
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14126
The Intergenerational Transmission of Mental and Physical Health in the United Kingdom
Panka Bencsik, Timothy J. Halliday, Bhashkar Mazumder
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14125
Non-linear Incentives, Worker Productivity, and Firm Profits: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Richard B. Freeman, Wei Huang, Teng Li
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14124
Wages, Minimum Wages, and Price Pass-through: The Case of McDonald's Restaurants
Orley Ashenfelter, Štepán Jurajda
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14123
Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Labour Market Outcomes
Matloob Piracha, Massimiliano Tani, Zhiming Cheng, Ben Zhe Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14122
Understanding the Mechanisms of Parental Divorce Effects on Child's Higher Education
Yen-Chien Chen, Elliott Fan, Jin-Tan Liu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14121
Political Economy of Labour Market Institutions in a Globalised Era
Sumon K. Bhaumik, Richard Frensch, Stephan Huber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14120
Persecution and Escape: Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany
Sascha O. Becker, Volker Lindenthal, Sharun Mukand, Fabian Waldinger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14119
Weather, Psychological Wellbeing and Mobility during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ashley Burdett, Apostolos Davillas, Ben Etheridge
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14118
Personality and Public Sector Employment
Terhi Maczulskij, Jutta Viinikainen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14117
Life Satisfaction, Pro-Activity, and Employment
Alpaslan Akay, Gökhan Karabulut, Levent Yilmaz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14116
COVID-19 Severity: A New Approach to Quantifying Global Cases and Deaths
Daniel L. Millimet, Christopher F. Parmeter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14115
Kinks as Goals: Accelerating Commissions and the Performance of Sales Teams
Peter J. Kuhn, Lizi Yu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14114
Fiscal Policy and Households' Inflation Expectations: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial
Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Michael Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14113
COVID-19 and College Academic Performance: A Longitudinal Analysis
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14112
Wage Inequality and Labor Rights Violations
Ioana E. Marinescu, Yue Qiu, Aaron Sojourner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14111
Altruism or Money? Reducing Teacher Sorting Using Behavioral Strategies in Peru
Nicolas Ajzenman, Eleonora Bertoni, Gregory Elacqua, Luana Marotta, Carolina Méndez Vargas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14110
The Gender Wage Gap Among University Vice Chancellors in the UK
Ray Bachan, Alex Bryson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14109
Should the Federal Government Fund Short-Term Postsecondary Certificate Programs?
Sandy Baum, Harry J. Holzer, Grace Luetmer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14108
The COVID-19 Pandemic's Evolving Impacts on the Labor Market: Who's Been Hurt and What We Should Do
Brad J. Hershbein, Harry J. Holzer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14107
Central Exams and Adult Skills: Evidence from PIAAC
Lisa Leschnig, Guido Schwerdt, Katarina Zigova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14106
Health Information and Lifestyle Behaviours: The Impact of a Diabetes Diagnosis
Alessio Gaggero, Joan Gil, Dolores Jiménez-Rubio, Eugenio Zucchelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14105
Unemployment Insurance as a Worker Indiscipline Device? Evidence from Scanner Data
Lester Lusher, Geoffrey Schnorr, Rebecca L.C. Taylor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14104
Special Ones? The Effect of Head Coaches on Football Team Performance
Alex Bryson, Babatunde Buraimo, Alex Farnell, Rob Simmons
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14103
How Does Exposure to COVID-19 Influence Health and Income Inequality Aversion?
Miqdad Asaria, Joan Costa-Font, Frank A. Cowell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14102
Are Unions Detrimental to Innovation? Theory and Evidence
Fabio Berton, Stefano Dughera, Andrea Ricci
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14101
COVID-19 and Employment in South Korea: Trends and Comparison with the 2008 Financial Crisis
Minhyuk Nam, Soohyung Lee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14100
Prioritarianism and Equality of Opportunity
Paolo Brunori, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Vito Peragine
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14099
Employment Guaranteed? Social Protection during a Pandemic
Farzana Afridi, Kanika Mahajan, Nikita Sangwan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14098
Cognitive Impairment and Prevalence of Memory-Related Diagnoses among U.S. Older Adults
Yuting Qian, Xi Chen, Diwen Tang, Amy S. Kelley, Jing Li
forthcoming in: Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14097
Can Mentoring Alleviate Family Disadvantage in Adolescence? A Field Experiment to Improve Labor-Market Prospects
Sven Resnjanskij, Jens Ruhose, Simon Wiederhold, Ludger Woessmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14096
Identifying and Producing Effective Teachers
Seth Gershenson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14095
Coronavirus and Social Distancing: Do Non-Pharmaceutical-Interventions Work (at Least) in the Short Run?
David Bardey, José Manuel Fernandes, Alexis Gravel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14094
Apart but Connected: Online Tutoring and Student Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14093
Can Information Influence the Social Insurance Participation Decision of China's Rural Migrants?
John T. Giles, Xin Meng, Sen Xue, Guochang Zhao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14092
Learning about Farming: Innovation and Social Networks in a Resettled Community in Brazil
Margherita Comola, Carla Inguaggiato, Mariapia Mendola
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14091
Eliciting Time Preferences When Income and Consumption Vary: Theory, Validation & Application to Job Search
Michèle Belot, Philipp Kircher, Paul Muller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14090
New York, Abu Dhabi, London or Stay at Home? Using a Cross-Nested Logit Model to Identify Complex Substitution Patterns in Migration
Michel Beine, Michel Bierlaire, Frédéric Docquier
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14089
The Effects of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate on Parents' Labor Market Outcomes
Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14088
Over-Education and Immigrant Earnings: A Penalized Quantile Panel Regression Analysis
Sholeh A. Maani, Le Wen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14087
Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions
Nicolas Ajzenman, Patricio Dominguez-Rivera, Raimundo Undurraga
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14086
Estimating the Effects of the Minimum Wage Using the Introduction of Indexation
Daiji Kawaguchi, Yuko Mori
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14085
Whether, When and How to Extend Unemployment Benefits: Theory and Application to COVID-19
Kurt Mitman, Stanislav Rabinovich
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14084
The Refugee Crisis and Right-Wing Populism: Evidence from the Italian Dispersal Policy
Francesco Campo, Sara Giunti, Mariapia Mendola
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14083
Breaking Gender Barriers: Experimental Evidence on Men in Pink-Collar Jobs
Alexia Delfino
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14082
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation
Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, John Van Reenen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14081
The Effect of Grandchildren on the Happiness of Grandparents: Does the Grandparent's Child's Gender Matter?
Eiji Yamamura, Giorgio Brunello
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14080
"Placebo Tests" for the Impacts of Air Pollution on Health: The Challenge of Limited Healthcare Infrastructure
Bruna Guidetti, Paula Pereda, Edson R. Severnini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14079
What Drives Innovation? Lessons from COVID-19 R&D
Ruchir Agarwal, Patrick Gaule
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14078
Targeting Intensive Job Assistance to Ex-Offenders by the Nature of Offense: Results from a Randomized Control Trial
Christopher R. Bollinger, Aaron Yelowitz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14077
Adolescence Development and the Math Gender Gap
Cristina Borra, Maria Iacovou, Almudena Sevilla
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14076
Sweet Unbinding: Sugarcane Cultivation and the Demise of Foot-Binding
Nora Cheng, Elliott Fan, Tsong-Min Wu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14075
Minding the Gap: Academic Outcomes from Pre-college Programs
Phoebe Kotlikoff, Ahmed S. Rahman, Katherine Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14074
Gender and Educational Achievement: Stylized Facts and Causal Evidence
Judith Delaney, Paul J. Devereux
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14073
Democratisation under Diversity: Theory and Evidence from Indonesian Communities
Anirban Mitra, Sarmistha Pal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14072
Informed Choices: Gender Gaps in Career Advice
Yana Gallen, Melanie Wasserman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14071
How Does Occupational Licensing Affect Entry into the Medical Field? An Examination of EMTs
Aaron Yelowitz, Samuel J. Ingram
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14070
The Influence of Dietary Patterns on Outcomes in a Bayesian Choice Task
David L. Dickinson, Caleb Garbuio
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14069
Gender Match and the Gender Gap in Venture Capital Financing: Evidence from Shark Tank
Michael Jetter, Kieran Stockley
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14068
Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration from a Gendered Lens: Comment
Oded Stark
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14067
Who Benefits from Corporate Social Responsibility? Reciprocity in the Presence of Social Incentives and Self-Selection
Guglielmo Briscese, Nick Feltovich, Robert Slonim
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14066
Female Employment and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee Inflows to Turkey
Bilge Erten, Pinar Keskin
forthcoming in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14065
The Inefficiency of Employment and the Case for Workplace Democracy
Felix FitzRoy, Michael A. Nolan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14064
COVID-19 Relief Programs and Compliance with Confinement Measures
Claudio Deiana, Andrea Geraci, Gianluca Mazzarella, Fabio Sabatini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14063
Does the Rise of China Lead to the Fall of European Welfare States?
Erling Barth, Henning Finseraas, Anders Kjelsrud, Karl Ove Moene
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14062
Household Preferences and Child Labor in Rural Ethiopia
Arnab K. Basu, Ralitza Dimova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14061
Pandemic Economics and the Transformation of Health Policy
Xi Chen, Annie Fan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14060
Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations
Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Costas Meghir, Gabriel Ulyssea
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14059
Intertemporal Altruism
Felix Chopra, Philipp Eisenhauer, Armin Falk, Thomas W Graeber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14058
Quality and Price Setting of High-Tech Goods
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Oleksandr Talavera, Nam Vu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14057
The First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Socioeconomic Inequality in Psychological Distress in the UK
Apostolos Davillas, Andrew M. Jones
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14056
School Starting Age, Maternal Age at Birth, and Child Outcomes
Peter Fredriksson, Kristiina Huttunen, Björn Öckert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14055
Women's Employment and Natural Shocks
Eugenia Canessa, Gianna Claudia Giannelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14054
Experimental Evidence from an Integrated Early Childhood Parenting Program in Sierra Leone
Anjali Chandra, Subha Mani, Heather Dolphin, Meredith Dyson, Yembeh Marah
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14053
Ethnic Capital and Class Reproduction: Comparing the Impact of Socio-Economic Status on Children's Educational Attainment across Ethno-Religious Groups in Israel
Sami H. Miaari, Nabil Khattab, Vered Kraus, Yuval P. Yonay
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14052
Heterogeneity in Migration Responses to Climate Shocks: Evidence from Madagascar
Francesca Marchetta, David E. Sahn, Luca Tiberti, Johany Dufour
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14051
Temporary International Migration, Shocks and Informal Insurance: Analysis Using Panel Data
Tanika Chakraborty, Manish Pandey
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14050
Turning Relative Deprivation into a Performance Incentive Device
Oded Stark, Grzegorz Kosiorowski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14049
The Causal Impact of Depression on Cognitive Functioning: Evidence from Europe
Vahé Nafilyan, Mauricio Avendano Pabon, Augustin de Coulon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14048
Child Care over the Business Cycle
Jessica H. Brown, Chris M. Herbst
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14047
Intra-Industry Trade, Involuntary Unemployment and Macroeconomic Stability
Antoine Le Riche, Teresa Lloyd-Braga, Leonor Modesto
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14046
Teenage Mother's Health across Different Life Stages
Guyonne Kalb, Ha Vu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14045
The Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on the Long-Term Health of Veterans: A Bounds Analysis
Xintong Wang, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14044
Competition Reform and Household Welfare: A Microsimulation Analysis of the Telecommunication Sector in Ethiopia
Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Abdelkrim Araar, Eduardo A. Malásquez, Rogelio Granguillhome Ochoa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14043
Distributional Effects of Competition: A Simulation Approach
Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Abdelkrim Araar, Eduardo A. Malásquez, Sergio Olivieri, Tara Vishwanath
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