IZA Discussion Papers

published in: Ed Diener, Shigehiro Oishi and Louis Tay (eds.), Handbook of Well-Being. Noba Scholar Handbook Series: Subjective Well-being. Salt Lake City, UT: DEF Publishers, 2018.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11097

Nudging Generosity: Choice Architecture and Cognitive Factors in Charitable Giving

Jonathan F. Schulz, Petra Thiemann, Christian Thöni

revised version published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 74, 139-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11093

Efficiency Consequences of Affirmative Action in Politics: Evidence from India

Sabyasachi Das, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Rajas Saroy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11092

Microdata for Social Sciences and Policy Evaluation as a Public Good

Ugo Trivellato

forthcoming in: Crato N. and P. Paruolo (Eds), Data-driven Policy Impact Evaluation: How Microdata is Transforming Policy Design, Springer, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11055

The Post-Reform Effectiveness of the New German Start-Up Subsidy for the Unemployed

Lutz Bellmann, Marco Caliendo, Stefan Tübbicke

published in: LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2018, 32(3), 293-319

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10961

Heterogeneous Employment Effects of Job Search Programmes: A Machine Learning Approach

Michael C. Knaus, Michael Lechner, Anthony Strittmatter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10956

Do Beliefs about Peers Matter for Donation Matching? Experiments in the Field and Laboratory

Laura Katherine Gee, Michael J. Schreck

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10856

Governance and Public Service Delivery in India

Farzana Afridi

published as: International Growth Centre Synthesis Paper, 2017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10823

The Impact of Sleep Restriction on Contributions and Punishment: First Evidence

Jeremy Clark, David L. Dickinson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10781

Spillover Effects of Institutions on Cooperative Behavior, Preferences and Beliefs

Florian Engl, Arno Riedl, Roberto A. Weber

A revised version (January 2018) can be downloaded at http://www.arnoriedl.com/htm/papers.htm

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10780

Effect of Political Decentralization and Female Leadership on Institutional Births and Child Mortality in Rural Bihar, India

Santosh Kumar, Nishith Prakash

published in: Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 185, July 2017, 171-178

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10736

The Sequencing of Gift Exchange: A Field Trial

Jeffrey P. Carpenter

forthcoming in: the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10735

Healer or Gatekeeper? Physicians' Role Conflict When Symptoms Are Non-Verifiable

Benedicte Carlsen, Karine Nyborg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10618

Urban Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Developing Countries

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Grant Miller, Alfonso Miranda, Atheendar Venkataramani

R&R: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10501

Women's Economic Capacity and Children's Human Capital Accumulation

Jacobus de Hoop, Patrick Premand, Furio C. Rosati, Renos Vakis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10500

Maternity and Family Leave Policy

Maya Rossin-Slater

published in: S.L. Averett, L.M. Margys, S.D. Hoffman (eds.): Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, Oxford, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10499

Anger Management: Aggression and Punishment in the Provision of Public Goods

Laura Katherine Gee, Xinxin Lyu, Heather Urry

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10441

End-of-Year Spending and the Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed

Bernd Fitzenberger, Marina Furdas, Christoph Sajons

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10339

Infant Health, Cognitive Performance and Earnings: Evidence from Inception of the Welfare State in Sweden

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson, Nina Schwarz

Revised version here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=152OSJ0bp5naqwfKTxVnNnUB29UUr8Qfs

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10282

Longer School Schedules and Early Reading Skills: Effects from a Full-Day School Reform in Chile

Matias Berthelon, Diana Kruger, Veronica Vienne

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10231

Trade Shocks and the Provision of Local Public Goods

Leo Feler, Mine Zeynep Senses

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10175

The Tragedy of Corruption

Yefeng Chen, Shuguang Jiang, Marie Claire Villeval

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10142

How Do Users Value a Network Expansion? Evidence from the Public Transit System in Singapore

Eric Fesselmeyer, Haoming Liu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9998

Choosing a Partner for Social Exchange: Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness

Sebastian Fehrler, Wojtek Przepiorka

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 129, 157-171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9977

Symposium on Child Development and Parental Investment: Introduction

Marco Francesconi, James J. Heckman

published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126(596), F1-F27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9947

Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy

S. Nageeb Ali, Roland Benabou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9862

How Do Households Discount over Centuries? Evidence from Singapore's Private Housing Market

Eric Fesselmeyer, Haoming Liu, Alberto Salvo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9732

The Prodigal Son: Does the Younger Brother Always Care for His Parents in Old Age?

Mizuki Komura, Hikaru Ogawa

published in: Applied Economics, 2017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9628

Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Martin Weißenberger

published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 86, 87-108

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9623

Electoral Incentives and the Allocation of Public Funds

Frederico S. Finan, Maurizio Mazzocco

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

revised version available upon request

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9384

Equality Concerns and the Limits of Self-Governance in Heterogeneous Populations

Lata Gangadharan, Nikos Nikiforakis, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Equality concerns and the limits of self-governance in heterogeneous populations' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 100, 143-156

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9365

Are Public or Private Providers of Employment Services More Effective? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Kai Rehwald, Michael Rosholm, Michael Svarer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9337

The Political Economy of State and Local Investment in Pre-K Programs

Matthew E. Kahn, Kyle Barron

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9318

Charitable Behaviour and the Big Five Personality Traits: Evidence from UK Panel Data

Sarah Brown, Karl Taylor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9290

Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services: A Field Experiment in the US

Corrado Giulietti, Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos

published as 'Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services: A Field Experiment in the United States' in: Journal of the European Economic Association. 2019, 17 (1), 165 - 204, [online]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9264

A Note on Possible Estimation Bias When Studying Persons with Work Disability in Active Labour Market Programs

Christer Gerdes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9241

Conditional Cooperation and Betrayal Aversion

Robin Cubitt, Simon Gächter, Simone Quercia

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 111, 53 - 69 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.06.013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9212

The Effects of Longer School Days on Mothers' Labor Force Participation

Matias Berthelon, Diana Kruger, Melanie Oyarzún

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9088

Does Daylight Saving Time Really Make Us Sick?

Lawrence Jin, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

revised version [Available Here]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9061

Illegal Immigration and Fiscal Competition

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Santiago M. Pinto

revised version published as 'Unauthorized Immigration and Fiscal Competition' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 92, 283-305

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9044

Do Schools Discriminate Against Homosexual Parents? Evidence from an Internet Field Experiment

Luis Diaz-Serrano, Enric Meix-Llop

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 53, 133-142.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8992

Does Performance Information Affect Job Seekers in Selecting Private Providers in Voucher-Based ALMP Programs?

Christer Gerdes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8969

Infant Health and Longevity: Evidence from a Historical Trial in Sweden

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson

Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, 15 (1), 1101 - 1157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8955

Mind the Gap: Crowd-Funding and the Role of Seed Money

Joseph Deutsch, Gil S. Epstein, Alon Nir

published in: Managerial and Decision Economics, 2017, 38 (1), 53 - 75

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8952

Incentives and the Design of Charitable Fundraisers: Lessons from a Field Experiment

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Peter Hans Matthews

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8908

Do You Have to Win It to Fix It? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners and Their Health Care Demand

Terence Chai Cheng, Joan Costa-Font, Nattavudh Powdthavee

published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 4 (1), 26-50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8800

The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Private Law Enforcement: Evidence from University Police

Paul Heaton, Priscillia E Hunt, John MacDonald, Jessica Saunders

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8783

Voluntary Public Unemployment Insurance

Donald O. Parsons, Torben Tranæs, Helene Bie Lilleør

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8580

Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Simon Gächter, Elke Renner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8533

Institution Formation and Cooperation with Heterogeneous Agents

Sebastian Kube, Sebastian Schaube, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Elina Khachatryan

published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 78, 248-268.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8532

Voluntary Contributions to the Establishment and Operation of Public Goods: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Yuval Arbel, Ronen Bar-El, Mordechai E. Schwarz, Yossef Tobol

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8504

Growth and Inequality in Public Good Games

Simon Gächter, Friederike Mengel, Elias Tsakas, Alexander Vostroknutov

revised version published in Journal of Public Economics 150, June 2017, 1-13, doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2017.03.002

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. 8415

The Effect of Access to Information and Communication Technology on Household Labor Income: Evidence from One Laptop Per Child in Uruguay

Joaquin Marandino, Phanindra V. Wunnava

published in: Economies, 2017, 5, 35; doi:10.3390/economies5030035

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8382

Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity

Coen Teulings, Ioulia V. Ossokina, Henri L.F. de Groot

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8375

Market Design for Trading Commoditized Renewable Energy

Almas Heshmati, Shahrouz Abolhosseini

published in: The Development of Renewable Energy Sources and its Significance for the Environment, 2015, pp. 107-118

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8373

"Phantom of the Opera" or "Sex and the City"? Historical Amenities as Sources of Exogenous Variation

Thomas K. Bauer, Philipp Breidenbach, Christoph M. Schmidt

published in: Labour Economics 37 2015, 93-98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8369

Progressive Taxation in a Tournament Economy

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Peter Hans Matthews, Benjamin Tabb

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8310

Using Cognitive Dissonance to Manipulate Social Preferences

Robert J. Oxoby, Alexander Smith

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8287

The Effect of Conflict History on Cooperation Within and Between Groups: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Gonne Beekman, Stephen L. Cheung, Ian Levely

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 63, 168-183

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8270

In 'Trusts' We Trust: Socially Motivated Private Schools in Nepal

Sarmistha Pal, Bibhas Saha

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8218

Norm Enforcement in Social Dilemmas: An Experiment with Police Commissioners

David L. Dickinson, David Masclet, Marie Claire Villeval

Revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 126, 74-85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8179

Payment for Ecosystem Services from Forests

Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Hendrik Wolff

published in: Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2014, 6, 361-380

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8146

Does Electrification Spur the Fertility Transition? Evidence from Indonesia

Michael Grimm, Robert Sparrow, Luca Tasciotti

published in: Demography, 2015, 52 (5), 1773-1796, [Open Access]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8095

Social Audits and MGNREGA Delivery: Lessons from Andhra Pradesh

Farzana Afridi, Vegard Iversen

published in: India Policy Forum, 2013-14, 10, 297-331

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8071

Roadblocks on the Road to Grandma's House: Fertility Consequences of Delayed Retirement

Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai, Mario Padula

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8023

Unanticipated Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program

Tirthatanmoy Das, Solomon Polachek

published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2015, 33 (4), 619-635.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7971

The IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey: A Scientific Use File

Patrick Arni, Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Klaus F. Zimmermann

revised version published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3(6), 1-20 [Open Access]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7932

Ambiguity on Audits and Cooperation in a Public Goods Game

Zhixin Dai, Robin M. Hogarth, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 74, 146-162

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7707

What Is the Case for Paid Maternity Leave?

Gordon B. Dahl, Katrine Vellesen Loken, Magne Mogstad, Kari Vea Salvanes

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 98(4), 655-670

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7697

Does It Pay to Work for Free? Wage Returns and Gender Differences in the Market for Volunteers

Guido Cozzi, Noemi Mantovan, Robert M. Sauer

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79(6), 1018-1045

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7585

Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India

Karthik Muralidharan, Nishith Prakash

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9 (3), 321- 350

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