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376 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9440
Drought of Opportunities: Contemporaneous and Long-Term Impacts of Rainfall Shocks on Human Capital
Manisha Shah, Bryce Millett Steinberg
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125 (2), 527-561
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9358
Entering and Leaving Self-Employment: A Panel Data Analysis for 12 Developing Countries
Yoon Y. Cho, David A. Robalino, Jose M. Romero
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9338
A 'Healthy Immigrant Effect' or a 'Sick Immigrant Effect'? Selection and Policies Matter
Amelie F. Constant, Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman, Tzahi Neuman
published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 19 (1), 103-121.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9283
Short-term Migration and Intergenerational Persistence of Industry in Rural India
Tushar Kanti Nandi, Saibal Kar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9273
Gender and Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Africa: New Evidence from Swaziland
Zuzana Brixiova, Thierry Kangoye
published in: Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2016, 5, 1- 8
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9207
Building Trust in Rural Producer Organizations in Senegal: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Tanguy Bernard, Markus Frölich, Andreas Landmann, Pia Naima Unte, Angelino Viceisza, Fleur Wouterse
published in: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2021, 50 (3), 465 - 484
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9177
Christianity and Infant Health in India
Nidhiya Menon, Kathleen McQueeney
published as 'Christianity and girl child health in India' in: World Development, 2020, 136, 105109
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. 9131
"A Flop or a Success?" An Evaluation of the Welfare Impacts of the 6-3-3-4 Education System in Nigeria
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9067
Kingpin Approaches to Fighting Crime and Community Violence: Evidence from Mexico's Drug War
Jason M. Lindo, María Padilla-Romo
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 253-268
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8998
Market Distortions and Political Rent: The Case of Fertilizer Price Divergence in Africa
Abebe Shimeles, Daniel Zerfu Gurara, Dawit Birhanu Tessema
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8929
Income Convergence and the Flow out of Poverty in India, 1994-2005
Paola Andrea Barrientos Quiroga, Niels-Hugo Blunch, Nabanita Datta Gupta
published in: Indian Economic Journal, 2018, 66 (1-2), 1-24
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8876
The Role of Education and Family Background in Marriage, Childbearing and Labor Market Participation in Senegal
Francesca Marchetta, David E. Sahn
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, 64 (2). 369-403
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8755
What Methods May Be Used in Impact Evaluations of Humanitarian Assistance?
Jyotsna Puri, Anastasia Aladysheva, Vegard Iversen, Yashodhan Ghorpade, Tilman Brück
published as: 'Can Rigorous Impact Evaluations Improve Humanitarian Assistance?' in: Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2017, 9 (4), 519 - 542.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8754
Micro and Macro Determinants of Health: Older Immigrants in Europe
Amelie F. Constant, Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman, Tzahi Neuman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8751
Growth and Poverty in Africa: Shifting Fortunes and New Perspectives
Abebe Shimeles
part of this paper published as 'Poverty: Shifting Fortunes and New Perspectives' in: The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 1, Oxford University Press, 2015
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8689
Expropriation with Hukou Change: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
Mehtap Akgüç, Xingfei Liu, Massimiliano Tani
published in: China Economic Review, 2020, 60, 101391
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8630
Village Political Economy, Land Tenure Insecurity, and the Rural to Urban Migration Decision: Evidence from China
John T. Giles, Ren Mu
published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2017, 100 (2), 521-544
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8621
Teacher Pay and Student Performance: Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance
Todd Pugatch, Elizabeth Schroeder
published in: Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2018, 10(2): 249-276.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8543
Learning the Hard Way: The Effect of Violent Conflict on Student Academic Achievement
Tilman Brück, Michele Di Maio, Sami H. Miaari
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17 (5), 1502 - 1037
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8525
Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited
Esther Gehrke, Michael Grimm
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2018, 66 (4): 673 - 707.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8518
Testing the Importance of Search Frictions, Matching, and Reservation Prestige Through Randomized Experiments in Jordan
Matthew Groh, David McKenzie, Nour Shammout, Tara Vishwanath
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:7
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8483
Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women
Rachel Heath, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 115, 1-15
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8476
Private Education Market, Information on Test Scores and Tuition Practices
Sergio Firpo, Vladimir Ponczek, Vítor Augusto Possebom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8464
Sometimes, Winners Lose: Economic Disparity and Indigenization in Kazakhstan
Ira N. Gang, Achim Schmillen
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45(3), 605 621
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8452
Do Criminal Representatives Hinder or Improve Constituency Outcomes? Evidence from India
Nishith Prakash, Marc Rockmore, Yogesh Uppal
published as 'Do criminally accused politicians affect economic outcomes? Evidence from India' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 141, 102370
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8395
Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks
Joachim De Weerdt, Garance Genicot, Alice Mesnard
published in: JHR Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (1), 225 - 254
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8293
Girls for Sale? Child Sex Ratio and Girls Trafficking in India
Nishith Prakash, Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati
published in: Feminist Economics, 2019, 25 (4), 267 - 308
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8213
The Effects of Access to Health Insurance for Informally Employed Individuals in Peru
Noelia Bernal, Miguel A. Carpio, Tobias J. Klein
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 154, 122-136
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8107
Trusting Former Rebels: An Experimental Approach to Understanding Reintegration after Civil War
Michal Bauer, Nathan Fiala, Ian Levely
revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128, 1786-1819.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8106
Remittances and Household Expenditure Behaviour in Senegal
Teresa Randazzo, Matloob Piracha
substantially revised version published as 'Remittances and household expenditure behaviour: Evidence from Senegal' in: Economic Modelling, 2019, 79, 141-153
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8074
Health Information, Treatment, and Worker Productivity: Experimental Evidence from Malaria Testing and Treatment among Nigerian Sugarcane Cutters
Andrew Dillon, Jed Friedman, Pieter Serneels
published as 'Health Information, Treatment, and Worker Productivity' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (2), 1077 - 1115
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8059
The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed: Experimental Evidence from Turkey
Sarojini Hirshleifer, David McKenzie, Rita K. Almeida, Cristobal Ridao-Cano
published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (579), 2115 - 1246
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8046
Inputs, Gender Roles or Sharing Norms? Assessing the Gender Performance Gap Among Informal Entrepreneurs in Madagascar
Christophe Jalil Nordman, Julia Vaillant
Non-technical version published as 'Entreprenariat informel et genre à Madagascar : le rôle des normes de solidarité et des responsabilités domestiques dans les écarts de performances' in: Mondes en Développement, 2014, 42 (2), 166, 59-72
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7901
Loose Knots: Strong versus Weak Commitments to Save for Education in Uganda
Dean Karlan, Leigh L. Linden
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7885
Do Business Groups Help or Hinder Technological Progress in Emerging Markets? Evidence from India
Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ying Zhou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7770
Bride Price and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Rural Senegal
Linguère Mously Mbaye, Natascha Wagner
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (6), 891-910
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7726
Migration and Financial Constraints: Evidence from Mexico
Manuela Angelucci
revised version published in: The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(1), 224-228
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7723
Incentives for Teacher Relocation: Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance
Todd Pugatch, Elizabeth Schroeder
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 41, 120-136
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7539
Surviving the Genocide: The Impact of the Rwandan Genocide on Child Mortality
Federico Ciani, Gianna Claudia Giannelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7516
Giving and Sorting among Friends: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment
Christine Binzel, Dietmar Fehr
published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 121(2), 214-217
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7458
Reexamining the Conditional Effect of Foreign Direct Investment
Randolph Luca Bruno, Nauro F. Campos
published in: Multinational Business Review, 2018, 26 (2), 126-144
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7439
Win Some Lose Some? Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco
Manuela Angelucci, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman
substantially revised version published as "Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco" in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2015, 7 (1), 151-182
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7436
Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries
Francesco Quatraro, Marco Vivarelli
published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2015, 30, 277–305
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7406
Transfer Behaviour in Migrant Sending Communities
Tanika Chakraborty, Bakhrom Mirkasimov, Susan Steiner
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43(3), 690–705
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7402
A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms
Gustavo Henrique de Andrade, Miriam Bruhn, David McKenzie
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2016, 30 (1), 24-54
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7386
Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?
Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Narayan Das, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7364
Dynamics and Drivers of Consumption and Multidimensional Poverty: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
Tilman Brück, Sindu Workneh Kebede
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7337
Can Microinsurance Help Prevent Child Labor? An Impact Evaluation from Pakistan
Andreas Landmann, Markus Frölich
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 39, 51-59
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7333
Entrepreneurship Programs in Developing Countries: A Meta Regression Analysis
Yoon Y. Cho, Maddalena Honorati
published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 28, 110-130
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