IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Impact of spouses' access to financial services on technological and managerial gaps in rice production' in: Journal of International Development, 2024, 36 (5), 2430 - 2457

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16526

European Funds and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

José Mesquita, João Pereira dos Santos, José Tavares

published online in: Small Business Economics, 02 June 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16508

Embrace the Noise: It Is OK to Ignore Measurement Error in a Covariate, Sometimes

Hao Dong, Daniel L. Millimet

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2025, 188 (2), 608–627

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16454

More Education Does Make You Happier – Unless You Are Unemployed

Alexander Bertermann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16426

Predicting Re-Employment: Machine Learning versus Assessments by Unemployed Workers and by Their Caseworkers

Gerard J. van den Berg, Max Kunaschk, Julia Lang, Gesine Stephan, Arne Uhlendorff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16417

What If It Never Happened? Subjective Treatment Effects of a Negative Shock on Youth Labour Market Outcomes in Developing Countries

Marta Favara, Richard Freund, Marcello Perez-Alvarez

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16379

Non-monetary Interventions, Workforce Retention and Hospital Quality: Evidence from the English NHS

Giuseppe Moscelli, Melisa Sayli, Jo Blanden, Marco Mello, Henrique Castro-Pires, Chris Bojke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16372

Eggs When Young, Chicken When Old. Time Consistency and Addiction over the Life Cycle

Luca Piccoli, Silvia Tiezzi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16342

Nighttime Light Pollution and Economic Activities: A Spatio-Temporal Model with Common Factors for US Counties

Georges Bresson, Jean-Michel Etienne, Guy Lacroix

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16337

Documenting and Explaining the Dramatic Rise of the New Society Journals in Economics

John C. Ham, Julian Wright, Ziqiu Ye

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16320

Environmental Policy and Gender Health Gap

Liwen Guo, Zhiming Cheng, Massimiliano Tani, Sarah Cook

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16290

Are the Upwardly-Mobile More Left-Wing?

Andrew E. Clark, Maria Cotofan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16289

Injury Risk, Concussions, Race, and Pay in the NFL

Quinn Keefer, Thomas J. Kniesner

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2023, 67(2), 107-136

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16242

Does Internal Locus of Control Get You Out of Homelessness?

Santiago Budría, Alejandro Betancourt-Odio, Eszter Wirth

published in: Economic Letters, 2023, 230, 111249

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16202

Fixed Effects and Causal Inference

Daniel L. Millimet, Marc Bellemare

forthcoming as 'On the (Mis)Use of the Fixed Effects Estimator' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16181

Erasmus Program and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design

Marco Alberto De Benedetto, Maria De Paola, Vincenzo Scoppa, Janna Smirnova

published in: Labour Economics, 2025, 93, 102675

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16178

Will Childcare Subsidies Increase the Labour Supply of Mothers in Ireland?

Karina Doorley, Dora Tuda, Luke Duggan

published in: Fiscal Studies, 2025, 46 (2), 239-259

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16153

Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Low-Educated Unemployed Youths

Andrea Albanese, Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe

revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 235, 105137

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16143

For Better or Worse? Subjective Expectations and Cost-Benefit Trade-Offs in Health Behavior

Gabriella Conti, Pamela Giustinelli

published in: Health Economics, 2025, 34, 992 - 1012

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16112

Estimating the Laffer Tax Rate on Capital Income: Cross-Base Responses Matter!

Marie-Noëlle Lefebvre, Etienne Lehmann, Michaël Sicsic

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2025, 127 (3), 460 - 489

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16093

Early Childhood Conditions and Adolescent Mental Health

Bilge Erten, Pinar Keskin, Rodrigo Pinto, Huihua Xie, Lianming Zhu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16013

Workers' Perceptions of Earnings Growth and Employment Risk

Gizem Koşar, Wilbert van der Klaauw

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15963

ddml: Double/Debiased Machine Learning in Stata

Achim Ahrens, Christian B. Hansen, Mark E Schaffer, Thomas Wiemann

published in: Stata Journal, 2024, 24 (1), 3-45.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15935

Labour Mobility in German Establishments during the COVID-19 Crisis: Panel Data Analyses with Special Reference to Short-Time Work and Working from Home

Lisa Bellmann, Lutz Bellmann, Olaf Hübler

revised version published as 'Labour mobility, short-time work and working from home: establishments' behaviour during the COVID-19 crisis' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2024, 45(6), 1262-1278

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15933

The Decision to Emigrate in Six MENA Countries: The Role of Post-Revolutionary Stress

Ali Fakih, Malak El Baba

published in: International Migration, 2023, 61 (4), 201-220

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15932

The Employment Effects of the Disability Education Gap in Europe

Maciej Albinowski, Iga Magda, Agata Rozszczypała

published online in: Education Economics, 29 September 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15907

Synthetic Difference-in-Differences Estimation

Damian Clarke, Daniel Pailañir, Susan Athey, Guido W. Imbens

published in: Stata Journal, 2024, 24 (4), 557-598