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IZA Discussion Paper No. 5125

Experimental Approaches in Migration Studies

David McKenzie, Dean Yang

published in: Carlos Vargas-Silva (ed.), Handbook of Research Methods in Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012, 249-269

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5067

Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys

Tilman Brück, Patricia Justino, Philip Verwimp, Alexandra Avdeenko

revised version published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2015, 31 (1), 29-58.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5048

Testing the 'Brain Gain' Hypothesis: Micro Evidence from Cape Verde

Catia Batista, Aitor Lacuesta, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 97 (1), 32-45

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5028

The Long-Run Labor-Market Consequences of Civil War: Evidence from the Shining Path in Peru

Jose C. Galdo

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2013, 61 (4), 789-823

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4901

Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit: Experimental and Survey Evidence from Rural India

Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová, Jonathan Morduch

published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (2), 1118-1139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4688

Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment

Catia Batista, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2011, 25 (1), 77-104

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4659

Welfare Usage in the U.S.: Does Immigrant Birthplace and Immigration Status Matter?

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Maharouf Oyolola

revised version published as 'Do Immigrant Groups Differ in Welfare Usage? Evidence from the U.S.A' in: Atlantic Economic Journal, 2011, 39 (3), 231-247

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4552

Adolescent Motherhood and Secondary Schooling in Chile

Diana Kruger, Matias Berthelon, Rodrigo Navia

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4541

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Migration, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital

Jackline Wahba, Yves Zenou

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42 (5), 890–903

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4499

Village Economies and the Structure of Extended Family Networks

Manuela Angelucci, Giacomo De Giorgi, Marcos A. Rangel, Imran Rasul

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy . 2009, 9 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4498

Extended Family Networks in Rural Mexico: A Descriptive Analysis

Manuela Angelucci, Giacomo De Giorgi, Marcos A. Rangel, Imran Rasul

published in: Institutional Microeconomics of Development, edited by Timothy Besley and Raji Jayaraman, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4497

Family Networks and School Enrolment: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment

Manuela Angelucci, Giacomo De Giorgi, Marcos A. Rangel, Imran Rasul

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (3-4), 197-221

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4475

Oportunidades: Program Effect on Consumption, Low Participation, and Methodological Issues

Manuela Angelucci, Orazio Attanasio

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2009, 57 (3), 479-506

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4473

HIV and Fertility in Africa: First Evidence from Population Based Surveys

Chinhui Juhn, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Belgi Turan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4353

Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Samantha Rawlings

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (2), 660 - 672

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4340

Population and Health Policies

T. Paul Schultz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4295

The End of Destitution

Ian Gazeley, Andrew T. Newell

published as' The end of destitution: evidence from urban British working households, 1904-37' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2012, 64 (1), 80-102

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4241

Women, Children and Patience: Experimental Evidence from Indian Villages

Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová

revised version published in: Review of Development Economics, 2013, 17 (4), 662-675

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4225

Attitudes toward Uncertainty among the Poor: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson, Haileselassie Medhin, Stefan T. Trautmann

revised version published in: Theory and Decision, 2012, 73 (3), 453-464

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4206

Are Returns to Education on the Decline in Venezuela and Does Mission Sucre Have a Role to Play?

Naihobe Gonzales, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1348-1369

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4078

Is the Quantity-Quality Trade-off a Trade-off for All, None, or Some?

Daniel L. Millimet, Le Wang

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011, 60 (1), 155-195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4057

The Impact of Education on the Subjective Discount Rate in Ugandan Villages

Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2010, 58 (4), 643–669

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4009

The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Christine Valente, Arthur van Soest

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29 (2), 191-204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3863

Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes: Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies

Pradeep Mitra, Alexander Muravyev, Mark E Schaffer

substantially revised version published as 'Labor reallocation and firm growth: benchmarking transition countries against mature market economies' in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3:13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3766

Understanding Low Average Returns to Education in Africa: The Role of Heterogeneity across Education Levels and the Importance of Political and Economic Reforms

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

revised version published as 'Have returns to education changed in Nigeria? Uncovering the role of democratic reforms' in: Journal of African Economies, 2011, 20 (5), 737-780

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3758

Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Shwetlena Sabarwal, Katherine Terrell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3743

Are Women More Credit Constrained? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2009, 1(3), 1-32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3558

Allocation of Labour in Urban West Africa: Implication for Development Policies

Ralitza Dimova, Christophe Jalil Nordman, François Roubaud

published as 'Allocation of Labor in Urban West Africa: Insights from the Pattern of Labor Supply and Skill Premiums' in: Review of Development Economics, 2010, 14 (1), 75 - 92

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3520

Parents’ Incomes and Children’s Outcomes: A Quasi-Experiment

Randall K. Q. Akee, William Copeland, Gordon Keeler, Adrian Angold, Jane E. Costello

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2 (1), 86-115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3516

Armed Conflict and Schooling: Evidence from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide

Richard Akresh, Damien de Walque

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3468

Civil Wars beyond their Borders: The Human Capital and Health Consequences of Hosting Refugees

Javier E. Baez

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 2011, 96 (2), 391 - 408

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3453

Was the Mandal Commission Right? Living Standard Differences between Backward Classes and Other Social Groups in India

Ira N. Gang, Kunal Sen, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Economic and Political Weekly, 2011, 46(39), 43-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3391

Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level

Michael Grimm, Stephan Klasen

published as 'Migration pressure, tenure security and agricultural intensification. Evidence from Indonesia' in: Land Economics, 2015, 91 (3), 411-434.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3381

A Theory of Efficiency Wage with Multiple Unemployment Equilibria: How a Higher Minimum Wage Law Can Curb Unemployment

Kaushik Basu, Amanda J. Felkey

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2009, 61 (3), 494-516

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3347

Impact of Reforms on Plant-Level Productivity and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Subal C. Kumbhakar

published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 21(2): 219-232, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3179

Does It Pay Firms to Register for Taxes? The Impact of Formality on Firm Profitability

David McKenzie, Yaye Seynabou Sakho

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 91(1), 15-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3173

Surveying Migrant Households: A Comparison of Census-Based, Snowball, and Intercept Point Surveys

David McKenzie, Johan Mistiaen

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2009, 172 (2), 339-360

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3097

Africa’s Education Enigma? The Nigerian Story

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 91 (1), 128-139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3059

Where Are the Real Bottlenecks? Evidence from 20,000 Firms in 60 Countries about the Shadow Costs of Constraints to Firm Performance

Wendy Carlin, Mark E Schaffer, Paul Seabright

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3032

Large Panels with Common Factors and Spatial Correlations

M. Hashem Pesaran, Elisa Tosetti

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2011, 161 (2), 182-202

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3027

Is Child Labor Harmful? The Impact of Working Earlier in Life on Adult Earnings

Patrick M. Emerson, André Portela Souza

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011, 59 (2), 345 - 385

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3002

A Theory of Employment Guarantees: Contestability, Credibility and Distributional Concerns

Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Ravi Kanbur

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (3-4), 482-497

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2951

Health and Civil War in Rural Burundi

Tom Bundervoet, Philip Verwimp, Richard Akresh

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(2), 536-563

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2948

A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country Migrants

David McKenzie

published as 'A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country International Migrants' in: Population and Development Review, 2008, 34 (1), 115 - 135

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2934

Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008, 123 (4), 1329-1372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2914

Spending to Save? State Health Expenditure and Infant Mortality in India

Sonia R. Bhalotra

published in: Health Economics, 2007, 16 (9), 911-928

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2913

Trade, Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector

Eric Verhoogen

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008, 123 (2), 489-530