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341 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7931
Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise: Evidence from Canadian Panel Data
Michael Lechner, Nazmi Sari
published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 1 - 15
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7926
Retirement Patterns of Couples in Europe
Laura Hospido, Gema Zamarro
published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 3:12, 2014
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7925
The Value of Connections: Evidence from the Italian-American Mafia
Giovanni Mastrobuoni
published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (586), F256 - F288
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7898
The Short- and Long-Term Effects of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from a School Choice Reform in Sweden
Verena Wondratschek, Karin Edmark, Markus Frölich
published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 111/112, 71-102
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7894
The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior
Tim Friehe, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
published as 'Predicting norm enforcement: the individual and joint predictive power of economic preferences, personality, and self-control' in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 2018, 45, 127 - 146
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7892
The Impacts of Vocational Rehabilitation
Simen Markussen, Knut Røed
published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 31, 1-13.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7874
Mostly Harmless Simulations? On the Internal Validity of Empirical Monte Carlo Studies
Arun Advani, Tymon Sloczynski
superseded by IZA Discussion Paper No. 11862
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7873
Making Work Pay for the Indebted: The Effect of Debt Services on the Exit Rates of Unemployed Individuals
Pierre Koning
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7841
The Causal Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes in the UK
Alfonso Miranda, Yu Zhu
published as 'The Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Wage in the UK: Correcting for measurement error, endogenous treatment, and sample selection bias' in: Applied Economics Letters, 2021, 28 (5), 349-353
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7742
Inference with Difference-in-Differences Revisited
Mike Brewer, Thomas F. Crossley, Robert Joyce
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7741
Penalized Quantile Regression with Semiparametric Correlated Effects: Applications with Heterogeneous Preferences
Matthew Harding, Carlos Lamarche
published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32, 342-358
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7708
What If You Had Been Less Fortunate: The Effects of Poor Family Background on Current Labor Market Outcomes
Sungwook Cho, Almas Heshmati
published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2015, 42 (1), 20-33.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7690
Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England
Michael Lechner, Paul Downward
published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 49 (4), 335–348.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7586
Peer Groups, Employment Status and Mental Well-being among Older Adults in Ireland
Eibhlin Hudson, Alan Barrett
published as 'Peer Groups, Employment Status and Depressive Symptoms among Older Adults in Ireland' in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2014, 7 (1), 43-54
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7564
Semiparametric Estimation and Inference Using Doubly Robust Moment Conditions
Christoph Rothe, Sergio Firpo
published in: Econometric Theory, 2019, 35 (5), 1048-1087
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7552
Econometric Mediation Analyses: Identifying the Sources of Treatment Effects from Experimentally Estimated Production Technologies with Unmeasured and Mismeasured Inputs
James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto
published in: Econometric Reviews, 2015, 34 (1-2), 6-31
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7513
The Effect of Firms' Partial Retirement Policies on the Labour Market Outcomes of Their Employees
Martin Huber, Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch
published as 'The Effect of Firms' Phased Retirement Policies on the Labour Market Outcomes of Their Employees' in: ILR Review, 2016, 69(5), 1216-1248
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7493
Regional Policy Evaluation: Interactive Fixed Effects and Synthetic Controls
Laurent Gobillon, Thierry Magnac
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 98 (3), 535-551
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7457
Partial Identification of the Long-Run Causal Effect of Food Security on Child Health
Daniel L. Millimet, Manan Roy
published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 48, 83-141
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7429
Wanna Get Away? RD Identification Away from the Cutoff
Joshua Angrist, Miikka Rokkanen
published as 'Wanna Get Away? Regression Discontinuity Estimation of Exam School Effects Away From the Cutoff' in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2015, 110 (512), 1331-1344
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7315
Population Average Gender Effects
Tymon Sloczynski
superseded by IZA Discussion Paper No. 9036
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7296
The Effect of Teach for America on the Distribution of Student Achievement in Primary School: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Heather Antecol, Ozkan Eren, Serkan Ozbeklik
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 37, 113-125
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7249
A Simple Approach to Treatment Effects on Durations When the Treatment Timing is Chosen
Myoung-jae Lee, Per Johansson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7181
Is the Persistent Gender Gap in Income and Wages Due to Unequal Family Responsibilities?
Nikolay Angelov, Per Johansson, Erica Lindahl
published as 'Parenthood and the Gender Gap in Pay' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34 (3), 545–579
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7013
Employment Policies, Hiring Practices and Firm Performance
Sylvie Blasco, Barbara Pertold-Gebicka
published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 25, 12-24
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6952
Policy Responses to Fiscal Restraints: A Difference-in-Discontinuities Design
Veronica Grembi, Tommaso Nannicini, Ugo Troiano
published as 'Do Fiscal Rules Matter?' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (3), 1-30
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6790
The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools
Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, Parag A. Pathak
published in: Econometrica, 2014, 82 (1), 137 - 196
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6748
Estimating Equilibrium Effects of Job Search Assistance
Pieter A. Gautier, Paul Muller, Bas van der Klaauw, Michael Rosholm, Michael Svarer
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (4), 1073-1125
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6565
Endogenous Exit Bias in Training Programs for Unemployed Workers
Jochen Kluve, Ulf Rinne, Arne Uhlendorff, Zhong Zhao
revised version published as 'The impact of training duration on employment outcomes: Evidence from LATE estimates' in: Economics Letters, 2013, 120 (3), 487-490
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6562
Overeducation at the Start of the Career: Stepping Stone or Trap?
Stijn Baert, Bart Cockx, Dieter Verhaest
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 25, 123-140
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6447
Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data: An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes
Daniel Pollmann, Thomas Dohmen, Franz C. Palm
published in: De Economist, 2020, 168, 519 - 540
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6428
The Gender Wage Gap by Education in Italy
Chiara Mussida, Matteo Picchio
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2014, 12 (1), 117-147
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6397
Decomposing the Composition Effect
Christoph Rothe
published as 'Decomposing the Composition Effect: The Role of Covariates in Determining Between-Group Differences in Economic Outcomes' in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2015, 33 (3), 323-337
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6369
The Evaluation of Immigration Policies
Ulf Rinne
published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 28, 530-551
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6357
Do Unemployed Workers Benefit from Enterprise Zones? The French Experience
Laurent Gobillon, Thierry Magnac, Harris Selod
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (9), 881 - 892
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6318
Exponent of Cross-sectional Dependence: Estimation and Inference
Natalia Bailey, George Kapetanios, M. Hashem Pesaran
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6315
Long Term Impacts of Compensatory Preschool on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head Start
Pedro Carneiro, Rita Ginja
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6 (4), 135-173
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6282
Exogenous Treatment and Endogenous Factors: Vanishing of Omitted Variable Bias on the Interaction Term
Olena Y. Nizalova, Irina Murtazashvili
published in Journal of Econometric Methods, 2016, 5(1), 71-78
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6210
Height and Cognitive Function among Older Europeans: Do People from "Tall" Countries Have Superior Cognitive Abilities?
Cahit Guven, Wang-Sheng Lee
revised version published as 'Height, Ageing and Cognitive Abilities across Europe' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 16, 16-29.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6197
Sectoral Shifts, Diversification and Regional Unemployment: Evidence from Local Labour Systems in Italy
Roberto Basile, Alessandro Girardi, Marianna Mantuano, Francesco Pastore
published in: Empirica, 2012, 39 (4), 525-545
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6184
Changes in Job Structure and Rising Wage Inequality in Urban China, 1995-2007
Chunbing Xing
published in: Frontiers of Economics in China, 2012, 7 (2), 305-337
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6135
Reforms, Growth and Persistence of Gender Gap: Recent Evidence from Private School Enrolment in India
Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal, Anurag Sharma
revised version forthcoming as 'Economic Reforms and Growth of Private School Enrolment in India: Is There a Cause for Concern?' in: Sonalde Desai, Pallavi Choudhuri, and Amaresh Dubey (eds.), India's Social and Economic Transformation in the 21st Century, Routledge
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6110
Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life
Gerard J. van den Berg, Pia Pinger, Johannes Schoch
published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (3), 465–506
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6085
Building in an Evaluation Component for Active Labor Market Programs: A Practitioner's Guide
David Card, Pablo Ibarrarán, Juan Miguel Villa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6065
Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training on Wages
German Blanco, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2013, 48 (3), 659-701
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6064
Do Dropouts Benefit from Training Programs? Korean Evidence Employing Methods for Continuous Treatments
Chung Choe, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Sang-Jun Lee
published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 48, 849 - 881
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6038
On Intergenerational Transmission of Reading Habits in Italy: Is a Good Example the Best Sermon?
Anna Laura Mancini, Chiara Monfardini, Silvia Pasqua
published as 'Is a Good Example the Best Sermon? Children's Imitation of Parental Reading' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15 (3), 965 - 993
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5980
Everybody Needs Good Neighbours? Evidence from Students' Outcomes in England
Stephen Gibbons, Olmo Silva, Felix Weinhardt
published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (571), 831-874
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5941
The Effect of Variable Pay Schemes on Workplace Absenteeism
Konstantinos Pouliakas, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 36, 109-157
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5932
The Trend over Time of the Gender Wage Gap in Italy
Chiara Mussida, Matteo Picchio
published in: Empirical Economics, 2014, 46 (3), 1081-1110
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