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341 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9786
Job-Search Periods for Welfare Applicants: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Jonneke Bolhaar, Nadine Ketel, Bas van der Klaauw
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11(1), 92-125
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9706
The Finite Sample Performance of Inference Methods for Propensity Score Matching and Weighting Estimators
Hugo Bodory, Lorenzo Camponovo, Martin Huber, Michael Lechner
published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2020, 38 (1), 183-200
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9642
Immigration and Prices: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Binnur Balkan, Semih Tumen
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29(3), 657-686
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9626
The Role of Sickness in the Evaluation of Job Search Assistance and Sanctions
Gerard J. van den Berg, Barbara Hofmann, Arne Uhlendorff
revised version published as 'Evaluating Vacancy Referrals and the Roles of Sanctions and Sickness Absenc' in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129, 3292-3322
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9622
Targeted Business Incentives and the Debt Behavior of Households
Wenhua Di, Daniel L. Millimet
published in: Empirical Economics, 2017, 52 (3), 1115-1142
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9604
Identification and Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Manipulated Running Variable
Francois Gerard, Miikka Rokkanen, Christoph Rothe
published as 'Bounds on treatment effects in regression discontinuity designs with a manipulated running variable' in: Quantitative Economics, 2020, 11 (3), 839-870
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9591
An Unfulfilled Promise? Higher Education Quality and Professional Underemployment in Peru
Gustavo Yamada, Pablo Lavado, Joan Jennifer Martinez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9553
Regression Discontinuity Designs Based on Population Thresholds: Pitfalls and Solutions
Andrew C. Eggers, Ronny Freier, Veronica Grembi, Tommaso Nannicini
published in: American Journal of Political Science, 2018, 62 (1), 210-229
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9511
Going Beyond LATE: Bounding Average Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training
Xuan Chen, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 63 (4), 1050-1099
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9507
New Evidence on the Effects of the Shortened School Duration in the German States: An Evaluation of Post-Secondary Education Decisions
Tobias Meyer, Stephan L. Thomsen, Heidrun Schneider
published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (4), e201-e253.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9491
New Evidence on Linear Regression and Treatment Effect Heterogeneity
Tymon Sloczynski
superseded by IZA Discussion Paper No. 11866
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9490
Difference?in?Difference Estimation by FE and OLS when there is Panel Non?Response
Michael Lechner, Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Daniel Fernández-Kranz
published in: Journal of Applied Statistics, 2016, 43 (11), 2044-2052
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9483
Job Loss, Firm?Level Heterogeneity and Mortality: Evidence from Administrative Data
Hans Bloemen, Stefan Hochguertel, Jochem Zweerink
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 59, 78-90
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9459
Contracting Out Mandatory Counselling and Training for Long-Term Unemployed: Private For-Profit or Non-Profit, or Keep It Public?
Bart Cockx, Stijn Baert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9428
Endogeneity and Non-Response Bias in Treatment Evaluation: Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects by Instruments
Hans Fricke, Markus Frölich, Martin Huber, Michael Lechner
published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2020, 35 (5), 481-504
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9348
The Impact of Syrian Refugees on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes in Turkey: Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Design
Evren Ceritoglu, H. Burcu Gurcihan Yunculer, Huzeyfe Torun, Semih Tumen
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2017, 6:5
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9271
A Detailed Decomposition Analysis of the Public-Private Sector Wage Gap in South Africa
Prudence Magejo, Miracle Benhura
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9253
Crime Victimisation and Subjective Well-Being: Panel Evidence from Australia
Stephane Mahuteau, Rong Zhu
published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25, 1448–1463
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9237
The Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care and Household Savings Behaviour
Asako Ohinata, Matteo Picchio
revised version published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2020, 72 (1), 247-268
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9138
Direct and Indirect Effects of Training Vouchers for the Unemployed
Martin Huber, Michael Lechner, Anthony Strittmatter
published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), 2018, 181 (3), 441-463 (
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9137
The Early Labour Market Effects of Generally and Vocationally Oriented Higher Education: Is There a Trade-off?
Dieter Verhaest, Stijn Baert
revised version published as 'The effects of workplace learning in higher education on employment and match quality: Is there an early-career trade-off?' in: Empirical Economics, 2018, 44, 1229 - 1270
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9132
Cognitive, Non-Cognitive Skills and Gender Wage Gaps: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data in Bangladesh
Christophe Jalil Nordman, Leopold Sarr, Smriti Sharma
published as 'Skills, Personality Traits and Gender Wage Gaps: Evidence from Bangladesh' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71(3), 687-708
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9090
Can Compulsory Dialogues Nudge Sick-Listed Workers Back to Work?
Simen Markussen, Knut Røed, Ragnhild Camilla Schreiner
published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (610), 1276-1303
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9036
Average Wage Gaps and Oaxaca–Blinder Decompositions
Tymon Sloczynski
superseded by IZA Discussion Paper No. 12041
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8988
Permanent Wage Cost Subsidies for Older Workers: An Effective Tool for Increasing Working Time and Postponing Early Retirement?
Andrea Albanese, Bart Cockx
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 58, 145-166
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8987
Mozart or Pelé? The Effects of Teenagers' Participation in Music and Sports
Charlotte Cabane, Adrian Hille, Michael Lechner
published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41, 90-103
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8956
Neighborhood Effects in Education
Carlo L. Del Bello, Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8898
GTL Regression: A Linear Model with Skewed and Thick-Tailed Disturbances
Wim P. Vijverberg, Takuya Hasebe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8848
Drug Decriminalization and the Price of Illicit Drugs
Sónia Félix, Pedro Portugal
published in: International Journal of Drug Policy, 2017, 39, 121-129
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8756
The Finite Sample Performance of Semi- and Nonparametric Estimators for Treatment Effects and Policy Evaluation
Markus Frölich, Martin Huber, Manuel Wiesenfarth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8513
Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment: Evidence for German Sons
Miriam Mäder, Steffen Müller, Regina T. Riphahn, Caroline Schwientek
published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik), 2016, 235 (4-5), 355–375
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8493
Modelling Heaped Duration Data: An Application to Neonatal Mortality
Wiji Arulampalam, Valentina Corradi, Daniel Gutknecht
published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 200, (2), 363-377.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8455
Testing for Selection Bias
Joonhwi Joo, Robert J. LaLonde
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8454
Employment and Earnings Effects of Awarding Training Vouchers in Germany
Annabelle Doerr, Bernd Fitzenberger, Thomas Kruppe, Marie Paul, Anthony Strittmatter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8392
Socioeconomic Gradients in Children's Cognitive Skills: Are Cross-Country Comparisons Robust to Who Reports Family Background?
John Jerrim, John Micklewright
revised version published in: European Sociological Review, 2014, 30 (6), 766 - 781
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8381
Neighbourhood Turnover and Teenage Attainment
Stephen Gibbons, Olmo Silva, Felix Weinhardt
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, 15 (4), 746-783
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8337
Unobservable, but Unimportant? The Influence of Personality Traits (and Other Usually Unobserved Variables) for the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies
Marco Caliendo, Robert Mahlstedt, Oscar A. Mitnik
substantially revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 46, 14-25.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8336
The Effects of Reducing the Entitlement Period to Unemployment Insurance Benefits
Nynke De Groot, Bas van der Klaauw
published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 57, 195-208
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8334
Does the Link between Unemployment and Crime Depend on the Crime Level? A Quantile Regression Approach
Horst Entorf, Philip Sieger
published in: International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2014, 8(2), 262-283
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8315
The Public Sector Wage Premium in Spain: Evidence from Longitudinal Administrative Data
Laura Hospido, Enrique Moral-Benito
published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 101–122
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8295
Non-Farm Enterprise Productivity and Spatial Autocorrelation in Rural Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria
Nkechi S. Owoo, Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8280
Direct and Indirect Treatment Effects: Causal Chains and Mediation Analysis with Instrumental Variables
Markus Frölich, Martin Huber
published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 2017, 79 (5), 1645 - 1666
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8272
Convergence to the Managerial Frontier
William F. Maloney, Mauricio Sarrias
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8256
Extremal Quantile Regressions for Selection Models and the Black-White Wage Gap
Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Arnaud Maurel, Yichong Zhang
published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2018, 203 (1), 129-142
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8245
Leaving Poverty Behind? The Effects of Generous Income Support Paired with Activation
Simen Markussen, Knut Røed
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016, 8 (1), 180–211
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. 8084
A General Double Robustness Result for Estimating Average Treatment Effects
Tymon Sloczynski, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
published in: Econometric Theory, 2018, 34(1), 112–133
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8049
Matching Methods in Practice: Three Examples
Guido W. Imbens
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50 (2), 373 - 419
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8047
From Micro Data to Causality: Forty Years of Empirical Labor Economics
Bas van der Klaauw
published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 88-97
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7972
Treatment Evaluation with Multiple Outcome Periods under Endogeneity and Attrition
Markus Frölich, Martin Huber
published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2014, 109(508), 1697-1711
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