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438 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14354
The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?
Alberto Alesina, Marco Tabellini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14327
Experiencing Booms and Busts in the Welfare State and Support for Redistribution
Kerstin F. Hansen, Alois Stutzer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14307
Sooner Rather Than Later: Social Networks and Technology Adoption
Shyamal Chowdhury, Varun Satish, Munshi Sulaiman, Yi Sun
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14260
Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment and a Structural Model
Vincent Boucher, Semih Tumen, Michael Vlassopoulos, Jackline Wahba, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14219
The Impact of Gender Role Norms on Mothers' Labor Supply
Danilo Cavapozzi, Marco Francesconi, Cheti Nicoletti
forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14198
Income Changes Do Not Influence Political Participation: Evidence from Comparative Panel Data
Sebastian Jungkunz, Paul Marx
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14159
The Consequences of Hosting Asylum Seekers for Citizens' Policy Preferences
Severin Zimmermann, Alois Stutzer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14123
Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Labour Market Outcomes
Matloob Piracha, Massimiliano Tani, Zhiming Cheng, Ben Zhe Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14076
Sweet Unbinding: Sugarcane Cultivation and the Demise of Foot-Binding
Nora Cheng, Elliott Fan, Tsong-Min Wu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14042
Technological Advance, Social Fragmentation and Welfare
Steven J. Bosworth, Dennis J. Snower
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14007
The Family Origin of the Math Gender Gap Is a White Affluent Phenomenon
Gaia Dossi, David N. Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Paola Sapienza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14005
Friendship Networks and Political Opinions: A Natural Experiment among Future French Politicians
Yann Algan, Nicolò Dalvit, Quoc-Anh Do, Alexis Le Chapelain, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14002
Community Influence as an Explanatory Factor Why Roma Children Get Little Schooling
Oded Stark, Ruxanda Berlinschi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13985
Education and Consanguineous Marriage
Pelin Akyol, Naci Mocan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13964
Interregional Contact and National Identity
Manuel Bagues, Christopher Roth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13946
Environmental Engagement, Religion and Spirituality in the Context of Secularization
Marie Briguglio, Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13906
Parents, Neighbors and Youth Crime
Carlos Díaz, Eleonora Patacchini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13897
Talking Business: New Evidence on How Language Shapes Economic Behaviour
Francesco Campo, Luca Nunziata, Lorenzo Rocco
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13850
Comrades in the Family? Soviet Communism and Informal Family Insurance
Joan Costa-Font, Anna Nicinska
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13783
Cultural Identity and Social Capital in Italy
Daniel Sgroi, Michela Redoano, Federica Liberini, Ben Lockwood, Emanuele Bracco, Francesco Porcelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13769
Can Superstition Create a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? School Outcomes of Dragon Children of China
Naci Mocan, Han Yu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13765
From Parent to Child? The Long-Lasting Effects of Social Support
Ambra Poggi, Guyonne Kalb
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13735
Expanding the Measurement of Culture with a Sample of Two Billion Humans
Nick Obradovich, Ömer Özak, Ignacio Martín, Edmond Awad, Manuel Cebrián, Rubén Cuevas, Klaus Desmet, Iyad Rahwan, Ángel Cuevas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13711
The Ties That Bind Us: Social Networks and Productivity in the Factory
Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Swati Sharma
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13688
Crowding-Out or Crowding-In? Heterogeneous Effects of Insurance on Solidarity
Andreas Landmann, Björn Vollan, Karla Henning, Markus Frölich
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13680
Peers, Gender, and Long-Term Depression
Corrado Giulietti, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13607
Gender and Culture
Paola Giuliano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13571
Who Voted for Trump? Populism and Social Capital
Paola Giuliano, Romain Wacziarg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13511
Explaining Post-Cold-War Civil Conflict among 17 Billion Models: The Importance of History and Religion
Michael Jetter, Rafat Mahmood, Christopher F. Parmeter, Andres Ramirez Hassan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13507
Caught between Cultures: Unintended Consequences of Improving Opportunity for Immigrant Girls
Gordon B. Dahl, Christina Felfe, Paul Frijters, Helmut Rainer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13453
Culture and Student Achievement: The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking
Eric A. Hanushek, Lavinia Kinne, Philipp Lergetporer, Ludger Woessmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13385
From Pink-Collar to Lab Coat: Cultural Persistence and Diffusion of Socialist Gender Norms
Naomi Friedman-Sokuler, Claudia Senik
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13371
Religion in Economic History: A Survey
Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, Ludger Woessmann
forthcoming in: Handbook of Historical Economics, ed. by Alberto Bisin and Giovanni Federico
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13349
Culture and Adult Financial Literacy: Evidence from the United States
Maddalena Davoli, Núria Rodríguez-Planas
forthcoming in: Economics of Education Review
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13346
Treatment Effects and the Measurement of Skills in a Prototypical Home Visiting Program
James J. Heckman, Bei Liu, Mai Lu, Jin Zhou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13312
Bitter Sugar: Slavery and the Black Family
Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13269
Market Competition and Discrimination
Abu Siddique, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13268
The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States
Paola Giuliano, Marco Tabellini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13241
Deliberation Enhances the Confirmation Bias: An Examination of Politics and Religion
David L. Dickinson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13205
Trust and Compliance to Public Health Policies in Times of COVID-19
Olivier Bargain, Ulugbek Aminjonov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13193
Prussia Disaggregated: The Demography of its Universe of Localities in 1871
Sascha O. Becker, Francesco Cinnirella
published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2020, 86(3): 259-290.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13192
The Role of Faith and Faith Schooling in Educational, Economic, and Faith Outcomes
Andrew McKendrick, Ian Walker
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13174
Gender Differences in Professional Career Dynamics: New Evidence from a Global Law Firm
Ina Ganguli, Ricardo Hausmann, Martina Viarengo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13126
Gendered Language
Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12987
The Cultural Origin of Saving Behavior
Joan Costa-Font, Paola Giuliano, Berkay Ozcan
published in: PLoS ONE, 2019, 13 (9), 2018 (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202290)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12921
Enhancing Employability by Responding to Work Motives: Lessons from a Field Experiment among Israeli Ultra-Religious Women
Yael Goldfarb, Shoshana Neuman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12911
Habemus Papam? Polarization and Conflict in the Papal States
Francisco J. Pino, Jordi Vidal-Robert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12900
The Cost of Being Too Patient
Paola Giuliano, Paola Sapienza
published in: American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2020, 110, 314-318
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12894
Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation
Oded Galor, Ömer Özak, Assaf Sarid
published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2020. 110: 309-13
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12854
Drivers of Cultural Participation of Immigrants: Evidence from an Italian Survey
Enrico Bertacchini, Alessandra Venturini, Roberto Zotti
published in Journal of Cultural Economics, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12752
Social Norms in Networks
Philip Ushchev, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12751
Assimilation Patterns in Cities
Yasuhiro Sato, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12730
The Volatility of Survey Measures of Culture and Its Consequences
Giulio Zanella, Marina M. Bellani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12709
Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from U.S. Mass Migration
Bryan Stuart, Evan J. Taylor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12692
Culture or Context? Revisiting the Role of Culture in Shaping Economic Outcomes
Wifag Adnan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12672
The Value of Information in Technology Adoption
Asadul Islam, Philip Ushchev, Yves Zenou, Xin Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12630
Conflicting Identities: Cosmopolitan or Anxious? Appreciating Concerns of Host Country Population Improves Attitudes Towards Immigrants
Tobias Heidland (né Stöhr), Philipp Wichardt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12618
Analyzing the Perceptions of Egyptian Youth about the Arab Spring
Ali Fakih, Pascal L. Ghazalian
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12615
Incentives to Identify: A Comment
Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan
shorter version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101(4): 742
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12536
Old Sins Cast Long Shadows: The Long-Term Impact of the Resettlement of the Sudetenland on Residential Migration
Martin Guzi, Peter Huber, Stepan Mikula
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12534
Crime and Networks: 10 Policy Lessons
Matthew J. Lindquist, Yves Zenou
published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2019.
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. 10.1016/j.jebo.2019.09.016
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12444
Personality Traits, Migration Intentions, and Cultural Distance
Didier Fouarge, Merve Nezihe Özer, Philipp K. Seegers
published in: Papers in Regional Science, 98(6), 2425-2454.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12436
Societal Inequalities Amplify Gender Gaps in Math
Thomas Breda, Elyès Jouini, Clotilde Napp
published in: Science Magazine, 2018, 359 (6381), 1219-1220
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12371
Culture, Gender, and Math: A Revisitation
Brindusa Anghel, Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano
significantly revised version forthcoming as 'Gender Equality and the Math Gender Gap' in: Economics of Education Review
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12361
Switching Queues, Cultural Conventions, and Social Welfare
Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski, Grzegorz Kosiorowski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12360
Coming Out in America: AIDS, Politics, and Cultural Change
Raquel Fernández, Sahar Parsa, Martina Viarengo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12335
Tax Audits as Scarecrows. Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
Marcelo Bergolo, Rodrigo Ceni, Guillermo Cruces, Matias Giaccobasso, Ricardo Perez-Truglia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12331
The Pure Effect of Social Preferences on Regional Location Choices: The Evolving Dynamics of Convergence to a Steady State Population Distribution
Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski, Grzegorz Kosiorowski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12326
Stalin and the Origins of Mistrust
Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova, Vladimir Otrachshenko
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12228
The Effect of Social Connectedness on Crime: Evidence from the Great Migration
Bryan Stuart, Evan J. Taylor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12225
Do Tax Incentives Affect Business Location and Economic Development? Evidence from State Film Incentives
Patrick Button
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12212
Undoing Gender with Institutions: Lessons from the German Division and Reunification
Quentin Lippmann, Alexandre Georgieff, Claudia Senik
forthcoming in: Economic Journal (https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uez057)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12160
English Skills, Labour Market Status and Earnings of Turkish Women
Antonio Di Paolo, Aysit Tansel
published in : Empirica, 2019, 46(4): 669-690.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12156
Born in the Family: Preferences for Boys and the Gender Gap in Math
Gaia Dossi, David N. Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Paola Sapienza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12130
Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe
Alberto Alesina, Elie Murard, Hillel Rapoport
published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2021, lbab002
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12066
The Effect of Superstition on Health: Evidence from the Taiwanese Ghost Month
Martin Halla, Chia-Lun Liu, Jin-Tan Liu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12016
Touch Thee Not: Group Conflict, Caste Power, and Untouchability in Rural India
Indraneel Dasgupta, Sarmistha Pal
forthcoming in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11990
Younger and Dissatisfied? Relative Age and Life-Satisfaction in Adolescence
Luca Fumarco, Stijn Baert
revised version published in: Economics & Human Biology [Online Access]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11982
Geographical Roots of the Coevolution of Cultural and Linguistic Traits
Oded Galor, Ömer Özak, Assaf Sarid
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11961
Government Transfers, Work and Wellbeing: Evidence from the Russian Old-Age Pension
Louise Grogan, Fraser Summerfield
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11954
A Theory of Conservative Revivals
Murat Iyigun, Jared Rubin, Avner Seror
forthcoming as "A Theory of Cultural Revivals" in: European Economic Review, June 2021, 135, 103-134.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11938
Does Female Breadwinning Make Partnerships Less Healthy or Less Stable?
Gigi Foster, Leslie S. Stratton
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34 (1), 63-96.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11916
Superstar Economists: Coauthorship Networks and Research Output
Chih-Sheng Hsieh, Michael D. König, Xiaodong Liu, Christian Zimmermann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11855
Broadband Internet and Social Capital
Andrea Geraci, Mattia Nardotto, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Fabio Sabatini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11818
Alternative Values-Based 'Recipes' for Life Satisfaction: German Results with an Australian Replication
Bruce Headey, Gert G. Wagner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11816
Climatic Roots of Loss Aversion
Oded Galor, Viacheslav Savitskiy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11793
Linguistic Skills and the Intergenerational Transmission of Language
Ramon Caminal, Lorenzo Cappellari, Antonio Di Paolo
forthcoming in: Labour Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11694
Independent Thinking and Hard Working, or Caring and Well Behaved? Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Gender Identity Norms
Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anastasia Terskaya
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11684
The Golden Middle Class Neighborhood: Trends in Residential Segregation and Consequences for Offspring Outcomes
Simen Markussen, Knut Røed
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11665
Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning
Roland Benabou, Armin Falk, Jean Tirole
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11633
The Evolution of Catholic-Protestant Labour Market Inequality in Northern Ireland, 1983-2014
Neil Rowland, Duncan McVicar, Ian Shuttleworth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11592
Using Ethical Dilemmas to Predict Antisocial Choices with Real Payoff Consequences: An Experimental Study
David L. Dickinson, David Masclet
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 166, 195-215. (10.1016/j.jebo.2019.08.023)
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. 11553
Diversity and Growth
Mark Gradstein, Moshe Justman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11547
A Double Machine Learning Approach to Estimate the Effects of Musical Practice on Student's Skills
Michael C. Knaus
published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2021, 184(1), 282-300
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11532
Math, Girls and Socialism
Quentin Lippmann, Claudia Senik
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (3), 874-888.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11528
Ancestral Characteristics of Modern Populations
Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn
published in: Economic History of Developing Regions, 2018, 33 (1): 1-17
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11524
Language Assimilation and Performance in Achievement Tests among Immigrant Children: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Sankar Mukhopadhyay
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 75, 101970
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11488
Long-Term Relatedness between Countries and International Migrant Selection
Tim Krieger, Laura Renner, Jens Ruhose
published in: Journal of International Economics, 2018, 113, 35-54
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