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53 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18034
Media Stars: Statistical Significance and Research Impact
Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, Anthony Heyes, Taylor Wright
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17784
Comment on “Food Insecurity and Mental Health of Women During COVID-19: Evidence from a Developing Country” by Rahman et al.
Lenka Fiala, Anders Kjelsrud, Essi Kujansuu, Abel Brodeur
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17782
A Comment on “Improving Women’s Mental Health During a Pandemic”
Abel Brodeur, Lenka Fiala, Jack Fitzgerald, Essi Kujansuu, David Valenta, Ole Rogeberg, Gunther Bensch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17781
“Try to Balance the Baseline”: A Comment on “Parent-Teacher Meetings and Student Outcomes: Evidence from a Developing Country” by Islam (2019)
Carl Bonander, Olle Hammar, Niklas Jakobsson, Gunther Bensch, Felix Holzmeister, Abel Brodeur
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17577
Neo-Schumpeterian Growth Theory: Missing Entrepreneurs Results in Incomplete Policy Advice
Magnus Henrekson, Dan Johansson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16916
Is the Scholarly Field of Entrepreneurship at Its End?
Wim Naudé
published as 'Business and entrepreneurship is declining as scholarly field: Empirical evidence' in: PLOS ONE, 2025, 20 (5), e0323297
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16912
Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope
Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikola, Nikolai Cook
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16188
Oaxaca-Blinder Meets Kitagawa: What Is the Link?
Ronald L. Oaxaca, Eva Sierminska
published in: PLoS One, 2025, 20 (5), e0321874.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15739
Aging in Style: Does How We Write Matter?
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Lea-Rachel Kosnik
published as 'Aging in style: Seniority and sentiment in scholarly writing' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2024, 90 (4), 1136-1164
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15605
To Be or Not to Be: The Entrepreneur in Neo-Schumpeterian Growth Theory
Magnus Henrekson, Dan Johansson, Johan Karlsson
published in: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2024, 48 (1), 104–140
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15586
P-Hacking, Data Type and Data-Sharing Policy
Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, Carina Neisser
published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (659), 985-1018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15478
We Need to Talk about Mechanical Turk: What 22,989 Hypothesis Tests Tell Us about Publication Bias and p-Hacking in Online Experiments
Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, Anthony Heyes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15476
Do Pre-registration and Pre-analysis Plans Reduce P-Hacking and Publication Bias?
Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, Jonathan S. Hartley, Anthony Heyes
published as 'Do Pre-Registration and Pre-Analysis Plans Reduce p-Hacking and Publication Bias? Evidence from 15,992 Test Statistics and Suggestions for Improvement' in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2024. 2 (3), 527–561
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14659
The Use of Quantile Methods in Economic History
Damian Clarke, Manuel Llorca-Jaña, Daniel Pailañir
published in: Historical Methods, 2023, 56 (2), 115-132
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13233
The Influence of Hidden Researcher Decisions in Applied Microeconomics
Nick Huntington-Klein, Andreu Arenas, Emily A. Beam, Marco Bertoni, Jeffrey R. Bloem, Pralhad Burli, Naibin Chen, Paul Greico, Godwin Ekpe, Todd Pugatch, Martin Saavedra, Yaniv Stopnitzky
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2021, 59 (3), 944 - 960 https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12992
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13084
Shaking Things Up: On the Stability of Risk and Time Preferences
Michel Beine, Gary Charness, Arnaud Dupuy, Majlinda Joxhe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12772
Why Don't We Sleep Enough? A Field Experiment among College Students
Mallory Avery, Osea Giuntella, Peiran Jiao
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 27 September 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11796
Methods Matter: P-Hacking and Causal Inference in Economics
Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, Anthony Heyes
published as 'Methods Matter: P-Hacking and Publication Bias in Causal Analysis in Economics' in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110 (11), 3634-3660
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11293
Economic Pluralism in the Study of Wage Discrimination: A Note
Nick Drydakis
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2018, 39 (4), 631-636
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10533
The Economics of Replication
Frank Mueller-Langer, Benedikt Fecher, Dietmar Harhoff, Gert G. Wagner
published in: Research Policy, 2019, 48 (1), 62-83
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10521
Dimensions of Quality of Life in Germany: Measured by Plain Text Responses in a Representative Survey (SOEP)
Gert G. Wagner, Martin Bruemmer, Axel Glemser, Julia Rohrer, Jürgen Schupp
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10403
Replication in Labor Economics: Evidence from Data, and What It Suggests
Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 2017, 107 (5), 37–40
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10024
How to Help Poor Informal Workers to Save a Bit: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya
Merve Akbas, Dan Ariely, David A. Robalino, Michael Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9895
Research Parasites Are Beneficial for the Organism as a Whole: Competition between Researchers Creates a Symbiotic Relationship
Benedikt Fecher, Gert G. Wagner
published as 'A research symbiont' in: Science, 2016, 351(6280), 1405–1406
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9767
Lab Measures of Other-Regarding Preferences Can Predict Some Related On-the-Job Behavior: Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment
Stephen V. Burks, Daniele Nosenzo, Jon E. Anderson, Matthew Bombyk, Derek Ganzhorn, Lorenz Götte, Aldo Rustichini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9702
Cheating in the Lab Predicts Fraud in the Field: An Experiment in Public Transportations
Zhixin Dai, Fabio Galeotti, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: Management Science, 2018, 64 (3), 1081-1100.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9519
Status Concern and Relative Deprivation in China: Measures, Empirical Evidence, and Economic and Policy Implications
Xi Chen
published in: China: An International Journal, 2016, 14 (1), 151-170.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9030
Click'n'Roll: No Evidence of Illusion of Control
Antonio Filippin, Paolo Crosetto
published in: De Economist, 2016, 164(3), 281-295.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9000
The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal
Michael A. Clemens
published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2017, 31 (1), 326-342
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8118
The Early History of Program Evaluation and the U.S. Department of Labor
Orley Ashenfelter
published in: ILR Review, 2014, 63 (3S), 574 - 577
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7380
Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination
Jan Feld, Nicolás Salamanca, Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (594), 1503-1527
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7268
Star Wars: The Empirics Strike Back
Abel Brodeur, Mathias Lé, Marc Sangnier, Yanos Zylberberg
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (1), 1-32
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6911
Liberty and the Post-Utilitarian Society
Gilles Saint-Paul
published in: Economic Affairs, 2013, 33 (1), 119–126
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6724
The Timing of Earnings Sampling over the Life-Cycle and IV Identification of the Return to Schooling
Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6339
Characterizing the Instrumental Variable Identifying Assumption as Sample Selection Conditions
Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4835
The Distinction between Dictatorial and Incentive Policy Interventions and its Implication for IV Estimation
Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3809
Downloading Wisdom from Online Crowds
Albert Saiz, Uri Simonsohn
revised version published as 'Proxying for Unobservable Variables with Internet Document-Frequency' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (1), 137–165
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3625
Cooperativeness and Impatience in the Tragedy of the Commons
Ernst Fehr, Andreas Leibbrandt
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (9-10), 1144-1155
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3528
Calibration and IV Estimation of a Wage Outcome Equation in a Dynamic Environment
Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3425
Econometric Causality
James J. Heckman
published in: International Statistical Review, 2008, (76) 1, 1-27
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3040
Narrow Bracketing and Dominated Choices
Matthew Rabin, Georg Weizsäcker
published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (4), 1508-1543
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2760
Replication in Economics
Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2007, 40 (3), 715-733
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2574
Cooperation, Competition, and Risk Attitudes: An Intergenerational Field and Laboratory Experiment
Gary Charness, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (3), 956–978
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2568
Perspectives from the Happiness Literature and the Role of New Instruments for Policy Analysis
Bernard M. S. van Praag
published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2007, 53, 42-68
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2400
Incentives and the Allocation of Effort Over Time: The Joint Role of Affective and Cognitive Decision Making
Lorenz Götte, David B. Huffman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2296
Competition, Hidden Information and Efficiency: An Experiment
Antonio Cabrales, Gary Charness, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published as 'Hidden information, bargaining power, and efficiency: an experiment' in: Experimental Economics, 2011, 14, (2), 133-159.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1895
Do Emotions Improve Labor Market Outcomes?
Lorenz Götte, David B. Huffman
published in: Vohs, K.D, Baumeister, R.F; Loewenstein, G. (eds.): Do emotions help or hurt decision making? A Hedgefoxian Perspective, New York, Sage, 2007
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1890
Affect as a Source of Motivation in the Workplace: A New Model of Labor Supply, and New Field Evidence on Income Targeting and the Goal Gradient
Lorenz Götte, David B. Huffman
published in: Vohs, K.D, Baumeister, R.F; Loewenstein, G. (eds.): Do emotions help or hurt decision making? A Hedgefoxian Perspective, New York, Sage, 2007
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1430
Riches to Rags Every Month? The Fall in Consumption Expenditures Between Paydays
David B. Huffman, Matias Barenstein
revised version: "A Monthly Struggle for Self-Control? Hyperbolic Discounting, Mental Accounting, and the Fall in Consumption Between Paydays"
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1002
Do Workers Work More When Wages Are High? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Ernst Fehr, Lorenz Götte
published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (1), 298-317
IZA Discussion Paper No. 990
Generational Accounting as a Tool to Assess Fiscal Sustainability: An Overview of the Methodology
Holger Bonin, Concepció Patxot
published in: E. Berenguer (ed.), Generational Accounting in Spain, Madrid: IFS, 2005, 27-66
IZA Discussion Paper No. 927
Loss Aversion and Labor Supply
Lorenz Götte, David B. Huffman, Ernst Fehr
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2 (2-3), 216-228
IZA Discussion Paper No. 905
Rhetoric in Economic Research: The Case of Gender Wage Differentials
Doris Weichselbaumer, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
published in: Industrial Relations, 2006, 45 (3), 416–436
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