IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5748

Unobserved Heterogeneity in Multiple-Spell Multiple-States Duration Models

Govert Bijwaard

revised version published as 'Multistate event history analysis with frailty' in: Demographic Research, 2014, 30, 1591-1620

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5712

Too Far to Go? Does Distance Determine Study Choices?

Stefan Denzler, Stefan C. Wolter

published also in German as "Der Einfluss des lokalen Hochschulangebots auf die Studienwahl" in: Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 2010, 13(4), 683-706

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5703

Does Cash for School Influence Young Women's Behavior in the Longer Term? Evidence from Pakistan

Andaleeb Alam, Javier E. Baez, Ximena V Del Carpio

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5553

Sensitivity of Matching-Based Program Evaluations to the Availability of Control Variables

Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch

published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 111-121

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5420

Negative and Positive Assimilation, Skill Transferability, and Linguistic Distance

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2012, 6 (1), 35-55

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5412

Social Support Substitution and the Earnings Rebound: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform

Lex Borghans, Anne C. Gielen, Erzo F.P. Luttmer

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6 (4), 34-70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5355

No Claim, No Pain: Measuring the Non-Take-up of Social Assistance Using Register Data

Olivier B. Bargain, Herwig Immervoll, Heikki Viitamäki

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2012, 10 (3), 375-395

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5316

Federal Nutrition Programs and Childhood Obesity: Inside the Black Box

Manan Roy, Daniel L. Millimet, Rusty Tchernis

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2012, 10 (1), 1-38

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4627

Minimum-Income Benefits in OECD Countries: Policy Design, Effectiveness and Challenges

Herwig Immervoll

published in: D. J. Besharov and K. A. Couch (eds.), 2012, Counting the Poor, Oxford University Press, 171-209. Also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4457

The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Britain

Lorenzo Cappellari, Stephen P. Jenkins

revised version published in Research in Labor Economics, Volume 39: Safety Nets and Benefit Dependence, 2014, 39 - 77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4291

Caught in the Trap? The Disincentive Effect of Social Assistance

Olivier B. Bargain, Karina Doorley

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (9-10), 1096-1110

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4199

A Sequential Malmquist-Luenberger Productivity Index

Donghyun Oh, Almas Heshmati

published as 'A sequential Malmquist–Luenberger productivity index: Environmentally sensitive productivity growth considering the progressive nature of technology ' in: Energy Economics, 2011, 32 (6), 1345 - 1355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4134

Assessing the Impact of a Wage Subsidy for Single Parents on Social Assistance in Canada

Guy Lacroix

published - as joint work with Dany Brouillette - in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2011, 44 (4), 1195–1221

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3961

On the Sensitivity of Return to Schooling Estimates to Estimation Methods, Model Specification, and Influential Outliers If Identification Is Weak

David A. Jaeger, Juliane Parys

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3905

Contingent Convergence: A Comparative Analysis of Activation Policies

Werner Eichhorst, Regina Konle-Seidl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3765

The Dynamics of Social Assistance Receipt: Measurement and Modelling Issues, with an Application to Britain