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376 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13444
Does BMI Predict the Early Spatial Variation and Intensity of COVID-19 in Developing Countries? Evidence from India
Nidhiya Menon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13405
Here Comes the Rain Again: Productivity Shocks, Educational Investments and Child Work
Christophe Jalil Nordman, Smriti Sharma, Naveen Sunder
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2022, 70 (3), 1041 - 1063
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13400
Can Training Enhance Adoption, Knowledge and Perception of Organic Farming Practices? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Indonesia
Michael Grimm, Nathalie Luck
published as 'Experimenting with a green 'Green Revolution'. Evidence from a randomised controlled trial in Indonesia' in: Ecological Economics, 2023, 205, 107727
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13386
Trust in the Time of Corona
Tilman Brück, Neil T.N. Ferguson, Patricia Justino, Wolfgang Stojetz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13219
The Welfare Effects of Mobile Broadband Internet: Evidence from Nigeria
Kalvin Bahia, Pau Castells, Genaro Cruz, Takaaki Masaki, Xavier Pedrós, Tobias Pfutze, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Hernan Winkler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13150
The Determinants of Trust: Evidence from Rural South India
Anne Hilger, Christophe Jalil Nordman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13069
The Heterogeneous Effects of Conflict on Education: A Spatial Analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa
Kerstin Unfried, Krisztina Kis-Katos
published in: Journal of Peace Research, 2023, 60 (6), 968-984.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12848
Peer Networks and Entrepreneurship: A Pan-African RCT
Fernando Vega-Redondo, Paolo Pin, Diego Ubfal, Cristiana Benedetti-Fasil, Charles Brummitt, Gaia Rubera, Dirk Hovy, Tommaso Fornaciari
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12840
Inputs, Incentives, and Self-Selection at the Workplace
Francesco Amodio, Miguel A. Martinez-Carrasco
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12793
Direct and Indirect Effects of Subsidized Dual Apprenticeships
Bruno Crépon, Patrick Premand
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12777
Training, Human Capital, and Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurial Performance
Zuzana Brixiova, Thierry Kangoye, Mona Said
published in: Economic Modelling, 2020, 85, 367-380
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12730
The Volatility of Survey Measures of Culture and Its Consequences
Giulio Zanella, Marina M. Bellani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12719
Relative Deprivation in Tanzania
Jean-Marc Bédhat Atsebi, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12682
Household Cooking Fuel Choice in India, 2004-2012: A Panel Multinomial Analysis
Ying-Min Kuo, Mehtabul Azam
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12658
Transition from Plan to Market, Height and Well-Being
Alicia Adsera, Francesca Dalla Pozza, Sergei Guriev, Lukas Kleine-Rueschkamp, Elena Nikolova
published as 'Height and well-being during the transition from plan to market' in: Economic Policy, 2021, 36 (105), 77 - 120
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12626
Time Delay and Investment Decisions: Evidence from an Experiment in Tanzania
Plamen Nikolov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12524
Do Pension Benefits Accelerate Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Rural China
Plamen Nikolov, Alan Adelman
updated version published as DP15742 . (published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 594 - 617).
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12514
The Effects of Access to Credit on Productivity: Separating Technological Changes from Changes in Technical Efficiency
Nusrat Abedin Jimi, Plamen Nikolov, Mohammad Abdul Malek, Subal C. Kumbhakar
published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2019, 52 (1-3), 37-55
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12471
On the Malleability of Implicit Attitudes Towards Women Empowerment: Evidence from Tunisia
Eleonora Nillesen, Michael Grimm, Micheline Goedhuys, Ann-Kristin Reitmann, Aline Meysonnat
published in: World Development, 2021, 138, 105263
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12328
The Effects of Conflict on Fertility: Evidence from the Genocide in Rwanda
Kati Kraehnert, Tilman Brück, Michele Di Maio, Roberto Nistico
published in: Demography, 2019, 56 (3), 935 - 968.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12325
The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica
Diego Ubfal, Irani Arraiz, Diether Beuermann, Michael Frese, Alessandro Maffioli, Daniel Verch
published in: World Development, 2022, 152, 105787
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12240
Violence and Human Capital Investments
Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner, Livia Menezes
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (3), 787–823.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12199
Inequality and Trade Policy: Pro-Poor Bias of Contemporary Trade Restrictions
Beyza Ural Marchand
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65, 123-152.​​​​
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12198
Networks, Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurial Performance in Africa: Evidence from Eswatini
Zuzana Brixiova, Thierry Kangoye
published in: A. Bullough, D. Hechavarria, C. Brush and L. Edelman (eds.), Programs, Policies, & Practices: Fostering High-Growth Women’s Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12095
Measuring the Spatial Misallocation of Labor: The Returns to India-Gulf Guest Work in a Natural Experiment
Michael A. Clemens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12020
Connecting to Economic Opportunity? The Role of Public Transport in Promoting Women's Employment in Lima
Daniel Martinez, Oscar A. Mitnik, Edgar Salgado, Lynn Scholl, Patricia Yanez-Pagans
revised version published in: Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2020, 3, 1-23
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12019
A Rapid Road to Employment? The Impacts of a Bus Rapid Transit System in Lima
Lynn Scholl, Daniel Martinez, Oscar A. Mitnik, Daniel Oviedo, Patricia Yanez-Pagans
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11962
The Labeling Effect of a Child Benefits System: Evidence from Russia 1994-2015
Louise Grogan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11937
Strategic Fertility Behaviour, Early Childhood Human Capital Investments and Gender Roles in Albania
Louise Grogan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11886
Structural Transformation and Spillovers from Industrial Areas
David Blakeslee, Ritam Chaurey, Ram Fishman, Samreen Malik
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11835
Migration, Remittances and Human Capital Investment in Kenya
Annie Laurie Hines, Nicole B. Simpson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11784
Food for Fuel: The Effect of the US Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India
Ujjayant Chakravorty, Marie-Helene Hubert, Beyza Ural Marchand
published in: Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society, 10(3), 2019, 1153-1193
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11751
Adverse Selection in Low-Income Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from a RCT in Pakistan
Torben Fischer, Markus Frölich, Andreas Landmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11750
Pathways to Formalization: Going beyond the Formality Dichotomy
Juan Jose Diaz, Juan Chacaltana, Jamele Rigolini, Claudia Ruiz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11749
Infrastructure Grants and the Performance of Microenterprises
Ritam Chaurey, Duong Trung Le
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11691
Fostering, Child Welfare, and Ethnic Cultural Values
Eliane El Badaoui, Lucia Mangiavacchi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11690
Violent Conflict and the Child Quantity-Quality Tradeoff
Apsara Karki Nepal, Martin Halla, Steven Stillman
forthcoming in: Journal of Demographic Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11668
Bribes vs. Taxes: Market Structure and Incentives
Francesco Amodio, Jieun Choi, Giacomo De Giorgi, Aminur Rahman
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics 2022, 50 (2), 435-453
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11641
Risky Choices and Solidarity: Why Experimental Design Matters
Conny Wunsch, Renate Strobl
published as 'Risky Choices and Solidarity: Disentangling Different Behavioural Channels' in Experimental Economics, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-020-09694-4.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11578
Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills, Hiring Channels, and Wages in Bangladesh
Anne Hilger, Christophe Jalil Nordman, Leopold Sarr
forthcoming as 'Which Skills Matter for What Type of Worker? Cognitive Skills, Personality Traits, Hiring Channels, and Wages in Bangladesh', in: Indian Journal of Human Development, 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11554
The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Modern Times
Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Ömer Özak
published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2020, Vol. 25(3), 297-340
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11550
Early Life Determinants of Cognitive Ability: A Comparative Study on Madagascar and Senegal
Heidi Kaila, David E. Sahn, Naveen Sunder
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11529
Family Ceremonies as a Constraint on Informal Sector Investment: The Case of Sénégal
John Bennett, Stephanie Levy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11473
Does Workfare Work Well? The Case of the Employment Generation Program for the Poorest in Bangladesh
Yoon Y. Cho, Ummul Ruthbah
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11401
Resource Misallocation in European Firms: The Role of Constraints, Firm Characteristics and Managerial Decisions
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Debora Revoltella, Jan Svejnar, Christoph T. Weiss
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11400
The Determinants of Young Firms Growth in Tunisia
Hassan Arouri, Adel Ben-Youssef, Francesco Quatraro, Marco Vivarelli
published as 'Drivers of Growth in Tunisia: Young Firms vs Incumbents' in: Small Business Economics, 2020, 54, 323–340
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11240
Empowering Women under Social Constraints: Evidence from a Field Intervention in Rural Egypt
Ahmed Elsayed, Rania Roushdy
published as 'Empowering women in conservative settings: evidence from an intervention in rural Egypt' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2022, 20, 1287–1322
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11239
Women's Inheritance Rights Reform and the Preference for Sons in India
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Rachel Brulé, Sanchari Roy
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 146 (C), 102275
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11233
Do Different Types of Assets Have Differential Effects on Child Education? Evidence from Tanzania
Kashi Kafle, Dean Jolliffe, Alex Winter-Nelson
published in: World Development, 2018, 109, 14 - 28
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11209
Returns to Education and Female Participation Nexus: Evidence from India
Sanghamitra Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Francesco Pastore
published in: Indian Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 61 (3), 515-536.
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