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

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. 16320

Environmental Policy and Gender Health Gap

Liwen Guo, Zhiming Cheng, Massimiliano Tani, Sarah Cook

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. 16093

Early Childhood Conditions and Adolescent Mental Health

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

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. 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. 15727

Doubly Robust Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects Using Inverse Probability Weighted Regression Adjustment

Tymon Sloczynski, Derya Uysal, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15580

Effect or Treatment Heterogeneity? Policy Evaluation with Aggregated and Disaggregated Treatments

Phillip Heiler, Michael C. Knaus

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15457

Does It Matter Who Cares for You? The Effect of Substituting Informal with Formal Personal Care on the Care Recipients' Health

Bruce Hollingsworth, Asako Ohinata, Matteo Picchio, Ian Walker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15427

Identifying Program Benefits When Participation Is Misreported

Denni Tommasi, Lina Zhang

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2024, 39 (6), 1123-1148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15414

Mean Convergence, Combinatorics, and Grade-Point Averages

Glen R. Waddell, Robert McDonough

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15403

Sick and Depressed? The Causal Impact of a Diabetes Diagnosis on Depression

Alessio Gaggero, Joan Gil, Dolores Jiménez-Rubio, Eugenio Zucchelli

published in: Health Economics Review, 2023, 13, Article 38 (2023)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15353

Job Location Decisions and the Effect of Children on the Employment Gender Gap

Andrea Albanese, Adrian Nieto Castro, Konstantinos Tatsiramos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15324

The Short- And Longer-Term Effects of a Child Labor Ban

Caio Piza, André Portela Souza, Patrick M. Emerson, Vivian Amorim

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2024, 38 (2), 351–370

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15321

What Can We Learn from Student Performance Measures? Identifying Treatment in the Presence of Curves and Letter Grades

Glen R. Waddell, Jenni Putz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15290

Optimal Travel Restrictions in Epidemics

Wei Shi, Yun Qiu, Pei Yu, Xi Chen

also available in: Spatial Data Lab, 2020, Webinars on Modeling COVID-19 Pandemic? Resources, Methodology and Applications, Harvard Dataverse, V4

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15241

Abadie's Kappa and Weighting Estimators of the Local Average Treatment Effect

Tymon Sloczynski, Derya Uysal, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2024, 43 (1), 164–177

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15230

Partially Linear Models under Data Combination

Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Christophe Gaillac, Arnaud Maurel

published online in: Review of Economic Studies, 29 March 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15140

Are Retirees More Satisfied? Anticipation and Adaptation Effects: A Causal Panel Analysis of German Statutory Insured and Civil Service Pensioners

Joachim Merz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15060

Spatial Wage Curves for Formal and Informal Workers in Turkey

Badi H. Baltagi, Yusuf Soner Baskaya

published in Journal of Spatial Econometrics, 2022, 3, Article 3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15046

The Marginal Labor Supply Disincentives of Welfare: Evidence from Administrative Barriers to Participation

Robert A. Moffitt, Matthew V. Zahn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15038

Key Links in Network Interactions: Assessing Route-Specific Travel Restrictions in China during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Xi Chen, Yun Qiu, Wei Shi, Pei Yu

published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 73, 101800

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15011

The Intended and Unintended Effects of Promoting Labor Market Mobility

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Robert Mahlstedt

published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 November 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14910

Bringing Underprivileged Middle-School Students to the Opera: Cultural Mobility or Cultural Compliance?

Philippe Coulangeon, Denis Fougère

published in: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022, 43 (7), 1052–1075.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14908

Reforms of an Early Retirement Pathway in Germany and Their Labor Market Effects

Regina T. Riphahn, Rebecca Schrader

published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2023, 22(3), 304-330.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14852

Misappropriation of R&D Subsidies: Estimating Treatment Effects with One-Sided Noncompliance

Philipp Boeing, Bettina Peters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14806

Does Gender Matter? The Effect of High Performing Peers on Academic Performances

Francesca Modena, Enrico Rettore, Giulia Tanzi

published as 'Asymmetries in the gender effect of high-performing peers: Evidence from tertiary education' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14669

COVID-19 Spread in Germany from a Regional Perspective

Olaf Hübler

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. 14593

Mothers' Job Search after Childbirth

Lukáš Lafférs, Bernhard Schmidpeter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14553

Can a Supranational Medicines Agency Restore Trust After Vaccine Suspensions? The Case of Vaxzevria

Andrea Albanese, Francesco Fallucchi, Bertrand Verheyden

published in: PLoS ONE, 2022, 17 (11), e02777554

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14521

Looking for a Star: Evaluating the Effect of the Cohesion Policy on Regional Well-Being

Giuseppe Albanese, Vincenzo Carrieri, Maria Maddalena Speziali

published online as 'Beyond GDP: assessing the impact of the 2007–13 EU Cohesion Policy' in: Regional Studies, 03 Jun 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14487

Early-Life Famine Exposure, Hunger Recall and Later-Life Health

Zichen Deng, Maarten Lindeboom

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2022, 37 (4), 771-787

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14472

Retrospective Causal Inference via Matrix Completion, with an Evaluation of the Effect of European Integration on Cross-Border Employment

Jason Poulos, Andrea Albanese, Andrea Mercatanti, Fan Li

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14364

Intercept Estimation in Nonlinear Selection Models

Wiji Arulampalam, Valentina Corradi, Daniel Gutknecht

published online in: Econometric Theory, 24 April 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14349

When Should We (Not) Interpret Linear IV Estimands as LATE?

Tymon Sloczynski

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14335

The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap

Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, Nikolai Boboshko, Matthew Comey

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 1093–1133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14259

The Effect of Sport in Online Dating: Evidence from Causal Machine Learning

Daniel Boller, Michael Lechner, Gabriel Okasa

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. 14106

Health Information and Lifestyle Behaviours: The Impact of a Diabetes Diagnosis

Alessio Gaggero, Joan Gil, Dolores Jiménez-Rubio, Eugenio Zucchelli

published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2022, 314, 115420

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14033

The Effects of Free Secondary School Track Choice: A Disaggregated Synthetic Control Approach

Aderonke Osikominu, Gregor Pfeifer, Kristina Strohmaier

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14011

Energy Expenditure in Egypt: Empirical Evidence Based on a Quantile Regression Approach

Fateh Belaïd, Christophe Rault

published in: Environmental Modeling & Assessment, 2021, 26 (4), 511-528

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13893

Propensity Score Weighting with Mismeasured Covariates: An Application to Two Financial Literacy Interventions

Hao Dong, Daniel L. Millimet

published in: Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2020, 13, 290

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13803

Diagnostic Tests for Homoskedasticity in Spatial Cross-Sectional or Panel Models

Badi H. Baltagi, Alain Pirotte, Zhenlin Yang

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2021, 224 (2), 245-270.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13772

Long-Term Effects of Individual Placement and Support Services for Disability Benefits Recipients with Severe Mental Illnesses

Marloes De Graaf-Zijl, Marcel Spijkerman, Wim Zwinkels

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13771

An Intensive, School-Based Learning Camp Targeting Academic and Non-Cognitive Skills Evaluated in a Randomized Trial

Charlotte Hvidman, Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger, Søren Albeck Nielsen, Michael Rosholm

published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 88, 102535

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13633

When the Minimum Wage Really Bites Hard: Impact on Top Earners and Skill Supply

Terry Gregory, Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 206, 104582

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13531

Early Child Development and Parents' Labor Supply

Lukáš Lafférs, Bernhard Schmidpeter

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021, 36 (2), 190-208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13517

Overconfidence and Gender Differences in Wage Expectations

Stephanie Briel, Aderonke Osikominu, Gregor Pfeifer, Mirjam Reutter, Sascha Satlukal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13430

Bounding Program Benefits When Participation Is Misreported

Denni Tommasi, Lina Zhang

published in: Journal of Econometrics 2024, 238, (1), 105556

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13357

Econometric Models of Fertility

Alfonso Miranda, Pravin K. Trivedi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13283

Interpreting OLS Estimands When Treatment Effects Are Heterogeneous: Smaller Groups Get Larger Weights

Tymon Sloczynski

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (3), 501–509

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13281

EU Jobs at Highest Risk of COVID-19 Social Distancing: Will the Pandemic Exacerbate Labour Market Divide?

Konstantinos Pouliakas, Jiri Branka

also available as Cedefop working paper No. 6201, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13101

Quantiles of the Gain Distribution of an Early Childhood Intervention

Erich Battistin, Carlos Lamarche, Enrico Rettore

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2024, 39 (6), 1045-1064

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13051

Double Machine Learning Based Program Evaluation under Unconfoundedness

Michael C. Knaus

published in: Econometrics Journal, 2022, 25 (3), 602-627

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12899

Time Spent Exercising and Obesity: An Application of Lewbel's Instrumental Variables Method

Charles Courtemanche, Joshua C. Pinkston, Jay Stewart

published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2021, 41, 100940

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12886

The Effect of Grants on University Drop-Out Rates: Evidence on the Italian Case

Francesca Modena, Enrico Rettore, Giulia Tanzi

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2020, 14 (3), 343 - 370

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12801

Wild Bootstrap for Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Designs: Obtaining Robust Bias-Corrected Confidence Intervals

Yang He, Otávio Bartalotti

published in: Econometrics Journal, 2020, 23 (2), 211–231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12585

Cost-Effective Public Daycare in a Low-Income Economy Benefits Children and Mothers

Andrés Hojman, Florencia López Bóo

published as 'Public childcare benefits children and mothers: Evidence from a nationwide experiment in a developing country' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 212, 104686

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12526

Does the Estimation of the Propensity Score by Machine Learning Improve Matching Estimation? The Case of Germany's Programmes for Long Term Unemployed

Daniel Goller, Michael Lechner, Andreas Moczall, Joachim Wolff

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101855

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12486

Estimating Selection Models without Instrument with Stata

Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Arnaud Maurel, Xiaoyun Qiu, Yichong Zhang

published in: Stata Journal, 2020, 20(2), 297-308

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12435

Three Revolutions of the Modern Era

Richard A. Easterlin

published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2019, 61 (4), 521–530

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12366

A Correction for Regression Discontinuity Designs with Group-Specific Mismeasurement of the Running Variable

Otávio Bartalotti, Quentin Brummet, Steven G. Dieterle

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12317

Vote Influence in Group Decision-Making: The Changing Role of Justices' Peers on the Supreme Court

Maxwell R. Mindock, Glen R. Waddell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12205

Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, Yusuke Narita, Parag A. Pathak

published in: Econometrica, 2022, 90 (1), 117–151

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12140

A Field Experiment on Labor Market Speeddates for Unemployed Workers

Bas van der Klaauw, Lennart Ziegler

published online in: Journal of Human Resources, June 2022

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. 12041

Average Gaps and Oaxaca's Blinder Decompositions: A Cautionary Tale about Regression Estimates of Racial Differences in Labor Market Outcomes

Tymon Sloczynski

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2020, 73 3), 705–729

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12040

Modified Causal Forests for Estimating Heterogeneous Causal Effects

Michael Lechner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12039

Machine Learning Estimation of Heterogeneous Causal Effects: Empirical Monte Carlo Evidence

Michael C. Knaus, Michael Lechner, Anthony Strittmatter

published in: Econometrics Journal, 2021, 24 (1), 134-161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11973

Evaluation of Language Training Programs in Luxembourg Using Principal Stratification

Michela Bia, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Andrea Mercatanti

published in: Observational Studies, 2022, 8 (1), 1- 44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11895

Public versus Private Sector Wage Gap in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data

Aysit Tansel, Halil Ibrahim Keskin, Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir

substantially revised version published as 'Public-Private Sector Wage Gap by Gender in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data, 1998-2018' in: World Development, 2020, 135, 105060

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11866

A General Weighted Average Representation of the Ordinary and Two-Stage Least Squares Estimands

Tymon Sloczynski

superseded by IZA Discussion Paper No. 13283

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11865

Term Limit Extension and Electoral Participation: Evidence from a Diff-in-Discontinuities Design at the Local Level in Italy

Marco Alberto De Benedetto, Maria De Paola

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 59, 196-211

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11864

Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects on Duration Outcomes under Censoring, Selection, and Noncompliance

German Blanco, Xuan Chen, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2020, 38 (4), 901 - 920

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11863

Distributional Impact Analysis: Toolkit and Illustrations of Impacts beyond the Average Treatment Effect

Guadalupe Bedoya, Luca Bittarello, Jonathan Davis, Nikolas Mittag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11862

Mostly Harmless Simulations? On the Internal Validity of Empirical Monte Carlo Studies

Arun Advani, Toru Kitagawa, Tymon Sloczynski

published as 'Mostly Harmless Simulations? Using Monte Carlo Studies for Estimator Selection' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34(6), 893–910

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11807

The Timing of Instruction Time: Accumulated Hours, Timing and Pupil Achievement

Paul Bingley, Eskil Heinesen, Karl Fritjof Krassel, Nicolai Kristensen

Search by:

Filter