IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Worries across time and age in the German Socio-Economic Panel study' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, In press, corrected proof, Available online 13 February 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10832

What Women Want (Their Men to Do): Housework and Satisfaction in Australian Households

Gigi Foster, Leslie S. Stratton

published in: Feminist Economics, 2019, 25 (3), 23-47.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10662

Costly Posturing: Ceremonies and Early Child Development in China

Xi Chen, Xiaobo Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10625

Let the Girls Learn! It is not Only about Math… It's about Gender Social Norms

Natalia Nollenberger, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Economics of Education Review, February 2018, vol. 62: 230-253

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10521

Dimensions of Quality of Life in Germany: Measured by Plain Text Responses in a Representative Survey (SOEP)

Gert G. Wagner, Martin Bruemmer, Axel Glemser, Julia Rohrer, Jürgen Schupp

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10419

Does Information Change Attitudes Towards Immigrants? Representative Evidence from Survey Experiments

Alexis Grigorieff, Christopher Roth, Diego Ubfal

published in: Demography, 2020, 57, 1111-1143

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10315

Sex-Differences in Language and Socio-Emotional Skills: Evidence from Large Scale Studies of Very Young Children

Rosangela Bando, Florencia López Bóo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10186

Residential Choices of Young Americans

Eleonora Patacchini, Tiziano Arduini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10134

Social Norms and Teenage Smoking: The Dark Side of Gender Equality

Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

revised version published as 'Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Social Norms and Teenage Smoking' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 222, 122-132

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10070

Young Adults Living with Their Parents and the Influence of Peers

Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Ezgi Kaya

published in: The Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (3), 689-713

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9947

Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy

S. Nageeb Ali, Roland Benabou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9901

Cooperation, Punishment and Organized Crime: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Southern Italy

Annamaria Nese, Niall O'Higgins, Patrizia Sbriglia, Maurizio Scudiero

published in: European Economic Review, Volume 107, August 2018, pp. 86–98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9896

Perceptions and Practices of Replication by Social and Behavioral Scientists: Making Replications a Mandatory Element of Curricula Would Be Useful

Benedikt Fecher, Mathis Fräßdorf, Gert G. Wagner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9874

Social Capital, Entrepreneurship and Living Standards: Differences between Immigrants and the Native Born

Matthew Roskruge, Jacques Poot, Laura King

published in: H Westlund and JP Larsson (eds.), Handbook of Social Capital and Regional Development, Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9760

Social Contacts, Dutch Language Proficiency and Immigrant Economic Performance in the Netherlands: A Longitudinal Study

Barry R. Chiswick, Zhiling Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9497

The Deterrent Effect of Voting Against Minarets: Identity Utility and Foreigners' Location Choice

Michaela Slotwinski, Alois Stutzer

revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32 (3), 1043–1095

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9493

Social Networks and the Labour Market Mismatch

Eleni Kalfa, Matloob Piracha

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31(3), 877-914

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9443

Compliance Behavior in Networks: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Francesco Drago, Friederike Mengel, Christian Traxler

revised version forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9433

Speaking in Numbers: The Effect of Reading Performance on Math Performance among Immigrants

Ingo E. Isphording, Marc Piopiunik, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 139: 52-56

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9341

The Role of Social Networks in Cultural Assimilation

Thierry Verdier, Yves Zenou

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2017, 97, 15-39.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9308

Network Effects, Ethnic Capital and Immigrants' Earnings Assimilation: Evidence from a Spatial, Hausman-Taylor Estimation

Sholeh A. Maani, Xingang Wang, Alan Rogers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9282

Relative Income and Life Satisfaction of Turkish Immigrants: The Impact of a Collectivistic Culture

Devrim Dumludag, Ozge Gokdemir, Maarten C.M. Vendrik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9244

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis: Religion and Female Employment over Time

Justina A.V. Fischer, Francesco Pastore

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9166

Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties: European versus American Cities

Pierre M. Picard, Yves Zenou

published as 'Urban spatial structure, employment and social ties' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 104, 77-93.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9119

Peers' Composition Effects in the Short and in the Long Run: College Major, College Performance and Income

Massimo Anelli, Giovanni Peri

published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (618), 553-602

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9110

Saving Face and Group Identity

Tor Eriksson, Lei Mao, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2017, 20 (3), 622-647

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8956

Neighborhood Effects in Education

Carlo L. Del Bello, Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8896

Some Challenges in the Empirics of the Effects of Networks

Vincent Boucher, Bernard Fortin

forthcoming in: Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Networks, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8824

Good Girl, Bad Boy: Corrupt Behavior in Professional Tennis

Michael Jetter, Jay K. Walker

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2017, 84(1): 155-180

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8782

Cultural Diversity: A Matter of Measurement

Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot

published in: P. Nijkamp, J. Poot and J. Bakens (eds.), The Economics of Cultural Diversity, Edward Elgar, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8753

Incentives to Identify: Racial Identity in the Age of Affirmative Action

Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan

shorter version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(3), 710-13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8590

Successful Scientific Replication and Extension of Levitt (2008): Child Seats Are Still No Safer than Seat Belts

Lauren E. Jones, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31(5), 920-928

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8580

Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Simon Gächter, Elke Renner

revised version published as 'Leaders as role models and 'belief managers' in social dilemmas' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 154, 321-334 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2018.08.001

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8570

A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy

Solomon Polachek, Xu Zhang, Xing Zhou

published in: Gender Convergence in the Labor Market, Research in Labor Economics, 41, 2015, 35-88.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8522

Cultural Values and Decision to Work of Immigrant Women in Italy

Vincenzo Scoppa, Manuela Stranges

published in: Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2019, 33 (1), 101-123.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8496

Love Thy Neighbor: Religion and Prosocial Behavior

Guido Heineck

revised version published in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2017, 44(7), 869 - 883

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8488

Determinants of Bilingualism among Children

Barry R. Chiswick, Marina Gindelsky

published as 'Determinants of bilingualism among children: an econometric analysis' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2016, 14 (3), 489 - 506

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8379

The Math Gender Gap: The Role of Culture

Natalia Nollenberger, Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Almudena Sevilla

substantially revised version published in: American Economic Review, May 2016, 106 (5): 257-61

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8251

How Diverse Can Spatial Measures of Cultural Diversity Be? Results from Monte Carlo Simulations of an Agent-Based Model

Daniel Arribas-Bel, Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot

published in: Environment and Planning A, 2016, 48(10), 2046-2066

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8040

Modelling Exposure to Risk of Experiencing Discrimination in the Context of Endogenous Ethnic Identification

Boyd Hunter, Monica Howlett, Nicholas Biddle

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8012

Key Players in Co-Offending Networks

Matthew J. Lindquist, Yves Zenou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7976

A Tale of Minorities: Evidence on Religious Ethics and Entrepreneurship from Swiss Census Data

Luca Nunziata, Lorenzo Rocco

substantially revised version forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Growth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7966

The Divorce Revolution and Generalized Trust: Evidence from the United States 1973-2010

Tarja Viitanen

published in: International Review of Law and Economics, 2014, 38, 25-32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7925

The Value of Connections: Evidence from the Italian-American Mafia

Giovanni Mastrobuoni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7924

Assimilation, Criminality and Ethnic Conflict

Indraneel Dasgupta, Diganta Mukherjee

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). Open access

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7704

Mothers, Friends and Gender Identity

Claudia Olivetti, Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou

published as 'Mothers, Peers ,and Gender-Role Identity' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, published: 15 December 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7691

Natural Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well-Being: The Case of Fukushima

Jan Goebel, Christian Krekel, Tim Tiefenbach, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published as 'How Natural Disasters Can Affect Environmental Concerns, Risk Aversion, and Even Politics: Evidence from Fukushima and Three European Countries' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28(4), 1137-1180

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7686

Criminal Victims, Victimized Criminals, or Both? A Deeper Look at the Victim-Offender Overlap

Horst Entorf

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7683

Effects of Religiosity on Social Behaviour: Experimental Evidence from a Representative Sample of Spaniards

Pablo Brañas-Garza, Antonio M. Espín, Shoshana Neuman

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. 7530

Terrorism and Integration of Muslim Immigrants

Ahmed Elsayed, Andries de Grip