IZA Discussion Papers

published online as 'Did the nationwide implementation of electronic fund management in the Indian employment guarantee scheme result in reduced expenditures? A re-examination of the evidence' in: Review of Development Economics, 03 May 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15399

COVID-19 Private Pension Withdrawals and Unemployment Tenures

Tristram Sainsbury, Robert Breunig, Timothy Watson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15377

Take-up and Labor Supply Responses to Disability Insurance Earnings Limits

Judit Krekó, Daniel Prinz, Andrea Weber

published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 89, 102583

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15310

Intergenerational Spillovers of Integration Policies: Evidence from Finland's Integration Plans

Hanna Onerva Pesola, Matti Sarvimäki

This version: August 2024, forthcoming in: the Review of Economics and Statistics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15289

De-facto Gaps in Social Protection for Standard and Non-standard Workers: An Approach for Monitoring the Accessibility and Levels of Income Support

Herwig Immervoll, Rodrigo Fernandez, Raphaela Hyee, Jongmi Lee, Daniele Pacifico

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15267

Stable Income, Stable Family

Jason M. Lindo, Krishna Regmi, Isaac D. Swensen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15250

Gender, Financial Literacy and Pension Savings

Alison Preston, Robert E. Wright

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15247

The Impact of Opportunity Zones on Commercial Investment and Economic Activity

Kevin Corinth, Naomi E. Feldman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15232

How Reliable Are Social Safety Nets? Value and Accessibility in Situations of Acute Economic Need

Herwig Immervoll, Raphaela Hyee, Rodrigo Fernandez, Jongmi Lee

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15203

Does Cutting Child Benefits Reduce Fertility in Larger Families? Evidence from the UK’s Two-Child Limit

Mary Reader, Jonathan Portes, Ruth Patrick

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15173

Why Do Temporary Workers Have Higher Disability Insurance Risks Than Permanent Workers?

Pierre Koning, Paul Muller, Roger Prudon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14995

What Leads to Measurement Errors? Evidence from Reports of Program Participation in Three Surveys

Pablo Celhay, Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2024, 238 (2), 105581

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14958

Dynamic Impacts of Lockdown on Domestic Violence: Evidence from Multiple Policy Shifts in Chile

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Emilia Brito, Damian Clarke, Pilar Larroulet, Francisco J. Pino

published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 9 February 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14444

Capital Fundamentalism and Structural Transformation

Achmad Tohari, Christopher Parsons, Anu Rammohan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14411

Calamities, Common Interests, Shared Identity: What Shapes Altruism and Reciprocity?

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Antonio Cabrales, Mathias Dolls, Ruben Durante, Lisa Windsteiger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14377

Using Machine Learning to Create an Early Warning System for Welfare Recipients

Dario Sansone, Anna Zhu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14159

The Consequences of Hosting Asylum Seekers for Citizens' Policy Preferences

Severin Zimmermann, Alois Stutzer

revised version published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 73, 102130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14093

Can Information Influence the Social Insurance Participation Decision of China's Rural Migrants?

John T. Giles, Xin Meng, Sen Xue, Guochang Zhao

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021,150,102645.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13694

Protecting Girls from Droughts with Social Safety Nets

Jagori Chatterjee, Joshua D. Merfeld

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13675

Redistribution and Insurance in Welfare States around the World

Charlotte Bartels, Dirk Neumann

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2021, 123 (4), 1116 - 1158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13662

An Economics-Based Rationale for the Rawlsian Social Welfare Program

Oded Stark

published in: Rodríguez, J.G. and Bishop, J.A. (eds), Inequality, Redistribution and Mobility, Bingley, 2020, 179-186

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13643

Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the CARES Act on Earnings and Inequality

Matias Cortes, Eliza Forsythe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13559

Short Moves and Long Stays: Homeless Family Responses to Exogenous Shelter Assignments in New York City

Michael T. Cassidy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13558

A Closer Look: Proximity Boosts Homeless Student Performance in New York City

Michael T. Cassidy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13539

Designing Disability Insurance Reforms: Tightening Eligibility Rules or Reducing Benefits?

Andreas Haller, Stefan Staubli, Josef Zweimüller

published in: Econometrica, 2024, 92 (1), 79-110.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13399

(In)Efficiency of Employment Offices: A Study on Welfare Benefits Determination – Is There a Trade-off between Time Saving Case Management and Quality of Decisions?

Katharina Dyballa, Kornelius Kraft

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13258

Integrating Social Insurance and Social Assistance Programs for the Future World of Labor

Robert Palacios, David A. Robalino

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12972

Satisfaction with Life, Happiness, and Inequality – a Pseudo-Panel Study

Søren Jensen, Peder J. Pedersen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12893

Pathways of Disadvantage: Unpacking the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare

Melisa Bubonya, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 80, 102066

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12747

The Effects of the Vietnam Hunger Eradication and Poverty Reduction Program on Schooling

Marco Bertoni, Quynh Huynh, Lorenzo Rocco

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12475

Repeated Shocks and Preferences for Redistribution

Giovanni Gualtieri, Marcella Nicolini, Fabio Sabatini

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 167: 53-71

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12372

Extreme Temperatures and Time-Use in China

Teevrat Garg, Matthew Gibson, Fanglin Sun

published as 'Extreme temperatures and time use in China' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 180, 309 - 324.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12208

Effects of Maternal Work Incentives on Adolescent Social Behaviors

Dhaval M. Dave, Hope Corman, Ariel Kalil, Ofira Schwartz-Soicher, Nancy E. Reichman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12136

Adjustment Costs and Incentives to Work: Evidence from a Disability Insurance Program

Arezou Zaresani

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 188, 104223. [online]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12017

Learning from the

Olivier Bargain, Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo, Prudence Magejo, Miracle Benhura

published as 'Income Distribution and the Potential of Redistributive Systems in Africa: A Decomposition Approach ' in: Journal of African Economies, 2022, 31 (4), 293 - 328

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11667

Financial Incentives and Earnings of Disability Insurance Recipients: Evidence from a Notch Design

Philippe Ruh, Stefan Staubli

revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019, 11(2), 269-300

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11652

The Effects of Large Universal Child Benefits on Female Labour Supply

Iga Magda, Aneta Kiełczewska, Nicola Brandt

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2020, 10-17

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11558

Take-up and Targeting: Experimental Evidence from SNAP

Amy Finkelstein, Matthew J. Notowidigdo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11482

Immigrant Responses to Social Insurance Generosity

Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101854

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11445

An Apple a Day? Adult Food Stamp Eligibility and Health Care Utilization Among Immigrants

Chloe N. East, Andrew I. Friedson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11410

Earnings Responses to Disability Benefit Cuts

Silvia Garcia Mandico, Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Anne C. Gielen, Owen O'Donnell

published as 'Earnings responses to disability insurance stringency' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 66, 101880

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11334

Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance

Gordon B. Dahl, Anne C. Gielen

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (2), 116-150

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11186

The Dynamics of Disability and Benefit Receipt in Britain

Melanie K. Jones, Duncan McVicar

published in: Oxford Economic Papers,Published: 22 November 2021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11070

Intergenerational Disadvantage: Learning about Equal Opportunity from Social Assistance Receipt

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Nicolás Salamanca, Anna Zhu

forthcoming in: Labour Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10973

The Tragedy of Clientelism: Opting Children Out

Lucas Ronconi, Rodrigo Zarazaga

published in: Studies in Comparative International Development, 2019, 54 (3), 365 - 380

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10942

Welfare Reform and the Intergenerational Transmission of Dependence

Robert Paul Hartley, Carlos Lamarche, James P. Ziliak

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (3), 523 - 565

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. 10525

Bonus Skills: Examining the Effect of an Unconditional Cash Transfer on Child Human Capital Formation

Jason Gaitz, Stefanie Schurer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10296

A Snapshot on the Quality of Seven Home Visit Parenting Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean

Jane Leer, Florencia López Bóo, Ana Perez Expósito, Christine Powell

published as 'Assessing the quality of home visit parenting programs in Latin America and the Caribbean' in: Early Child Development and Care, 2019, 189 (13), 2183 - 2196

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10243

The Effect of Changing Financial Incentives on Repartnering

Hayley Fisher, Anna Zhu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10106

Can't Work or Won't Work: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Work Search Requirements for Single Parents

Silvia Avram, Mike Brewer, Andrea Salvatori

published: in Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 63 - 85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10014

Impacts from Delaying Access to Retirement Benefits on Welfare Receipt and Expenditure: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Umut Oguzoglu, Cain Polidano, Ha Vu

published in: Economic Record, 2020, 96 (312), 65–86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9994

Is Partisan Alignment Electorally Rewarding? Evidence from Village Council Elections in India

Subhasish Dey, Kunal Sen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9939

When Can Experimental Evidence Mislead? A Re-Assessment of Canada's Self Sufficiency Project

Chris Riddell, W. Craig Riddell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9624

Making Disability Work? The Effects of Financial Incentives on Partially Disabled Workers

Pierre Koning, Jan-Maarten van Sonsbeek

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9454

Welfare Implications of India's Employment Guarantee Programme with a Wage Payment Delay

Parantap Basu, Kunal Sen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9310

Employee Health and Employer Incentives

Patrick Hullegie, Pierre Koning

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9161

May There Be Victory: Government Election Performance and the World's Largest Public-Works Program

Laura V Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9160

Guns and Butter? Fighting Violence with the Promise of Development

Gaurav Khanna, Laura V Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9115

Did the Intergenerational Solidarity Pact Increase the Employment Rate of Older Workers in Belgium? A Macro-Econometric Evaluation

Muriel Dejemeppe, Catherine Smith, Bruno Van der Linden

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4 (17)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8893

Earnings, Disposable Income, and Consumption of Allowed and Rejected Disability Insurance Applicants

Andreas Ravndal Kostol, Magne Mogstad

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8822

The Labour Supply Effect of Education Maintenance Allowance and its Implications for Parental Altruism

Angus J. Holford

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2015, 13 (3), 531 - 568

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8788

Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants

David Autor, Nicole Maestas, Kathleen Mullen, Alexander Strand

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8402

Less Cash, Less Crime: Evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer Program

Richard Wright, Erdal Tekin, Volkan Topalli, Chandler McClellan, Timothy Dickinson, Richard Rosenfeld

published in: Journal of Law & Economics, 2017, 60 (2), 361 - 383

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8386

Health Effects of Containing Moral Hazard: Evidence from Disability Insurance Reform

Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Anne C. Gielen

published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (3), 606-621.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8324

Made in China, Sold in Norway: Local Labor Market Effects of an Import Shock

Ragnhild Balsvik, Sissel Jensen, Kjell G. Salvanes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8265

Family Welfare Cultures

Gordon B. Dahl, Andreas Ravndal Kostol, Magne Mogstad

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014, 129 (4), 1711-1752

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8196

Local Funds and Political Competition: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India

Bhanu Gupta, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 41 (1), 14-30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7772

Aid to Jobless Workers in Florida in the Face of the Great Recession: The Interaction of Unemployment Insurance and the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program

Colleen M. Heflin, Peter R. Mueser

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7737

Changes in Income Distributions and the Role of Tax-Benefit Policy During the Great Recession: An International Perspective

Olivier Bargain, Tim Callan, Karina Doorley, Claire Keane

published in: Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38 (4), 559-585

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. 7414

The Paradox of Redistribution Revisited: And That It May Rest in Peace?

Ive Marx, Lina Salanauskaite, Gerlinde Verbist

revised version published in: Social Forces, 2016, 95 (1), 1-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7369

Families, Taxes and the Welfare System

Nicole B. Simpson

published in: Esther Redmount (eds): The Economics of the Family: How the Household Affects Markets and Economic Growth, 2013, 59-92

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7210

Does the Welfare State Destroy the Family? Evidence from OECD Member Countries

Martin Halla, Mario Lackner, Johann Scharler

revised version published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (2), 292 - 323

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7190

Partisan Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1979-2007

Olivier Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Herwig Immervoll, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel, Sebastian Siegloch

revised version published as 'Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the United States, 1979–2007' in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53 (2), 1061-1085

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7150

The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States

David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson

published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (6), 2121-68

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6993

Time Limits: The Effects on Welfare Use and Other Consumption-Smoothing Mechanisms

Francesca Mazzolari, Giuseppe Ragusa

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6858

Labor Market Impacts of a Large-Scale Public Works Program: Evidence from the Indian Employment Guarantee Scheme

Laura V Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6739

In-Work Benefits for Married Couples: An Ex-Ante Evaluation of EITC and WTC Policies in Italy

Giuseppe De Luca, Claudio Rossetti, Daniela Vuri

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6704

Can Pro-Marriage Policies Work? An Analysis of Marginal Marriages

Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Demography, 2014, 51(4), 1357-1379

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6702

How Financial Incentives Induce Disability Insurance Recipients to Return to Work

Andreas Ravndal Kostol, Magne Mogstad

published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (2), 624-655

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6494

The Equality Multiplier: How Wage Setting and Welfare Spending Make Similar Countries Diverge

Erling Barth, Karl Ove Moene

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6450

Welfare Migration

Corrado Giulietti, Jackline Wahba

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 26, 489-504

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6220

Immigration and Welfare State Cash Benefits: The Danish Case

Peder J. Pedersen

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (2), 113-125

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6075

Unemployment Benefits and Immigration: Evidence from the EU

Corrado Giulietti, Martin Guzi, Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (1), 24-38

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5910

Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1978-2009: A Decomposition Approach

Olivier Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Herwig Immervoll, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel, Sebastian Siegloch

substantially revised version available as IZA DP 7190