IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Worries across time and age in the German Socio-Economic Panel study' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 181, 323-343

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! I It is not Only about Math... It’s about Gender Social Norm

Natalia Nollenberger, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 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

published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2016, 34, 69 - 81

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10134

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

Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

substantially 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

published as 'Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy' in: American Economic Review, 2020, 13 (3), 116 - 164

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, 2018, 107, 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 published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12 (2), 96 - 133

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

published in: Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Networks, 2016, 277 - 302

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

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, 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 published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2016, 21 (2), 189-224

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

published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (586), F256 - F288

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), 891-910

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7704

Mothers, Friends and Gender Identity

Claudia Olivetti, Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18(1), 266-301.

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

revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (1), 45 - 67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7476

Parental Investment and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences and Attitudes

Maria Zumbühl, Thomas Dohmen, Gerard A. Pfann

published as 'Parental Involvement and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences, Attitudes, and Personality Traits' in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (638), 2642–2670

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7464

Trust, Growth and Well-being: New Evidence and Policy Implications

Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc

published in: S.N. Durlauf and P. Aghion (eds.): Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol.2 , 2014, 49-120

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7433

A Note on Height and Surnames: The Role of Networks

Wolter Hassink, Bas van Leeuwen

published in: Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 2014, 19 (4), 579-587

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7334

"Thou Shalt Not Covet ...": Prohibitions, Temptation and Moral Values

Matteo Cervellati, Paolo Vanin

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 103, 15-28

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7279

Top?Down vs. Bottom?Up: The Long?Term Impact of Government Ideology and Personal Experience on Values

Nicolas R. Ziebarth, Gert G. Wagner

published as 'Inevitable? Doping Attitudes among Berliners in 2011: The Role of Socialist State Socialisation and Athlete Experience' in: European Journal of Public Health, 2016, 26 (3), 520-522

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7274

Social Capital and Immigrants' Labour Market Performance

Matloob Piracha, Massimiliano Tani, Matias Vaira-Lucero

published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2016, 95, S107-S126.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7259

Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt

Christine Binzel, Jean-Paul Carvalho

revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (607), 2553 - 2580

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7254

The Labor Market Behavior of Married Women with Young Children in the U.S.: Have Differences by Religion Disappeared?

Evelyn L. Lehrer, Yu Chen

published in Keister, L. and Sherkat, D. (eds.): Religion and Inequality in America - Research and Theory on Religion's Role in Stratification. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6815

Incentives and Group Identity

Paolo Masella, Stephan Meier, Philipp Zahn

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2014, 86, 12-25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6708

Leisure Inequality in the United States: 1965-2003

Almudena Sevilla, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Jonathan I. Gershuny

published in: Demography, 2012, 49(3), 939-964

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6612

The Labor/Land Ratio and India's Caste System

Harriet Duleep

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6599

From Polygyny to Serial Monogamy: A Unified Theory of Marriage Institutions

David de la Croix, Fabio Mariani

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2015, 82(2), 565-607

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6416

Social Involvement and Level of Household Income among Immigrants: New Evidence from the Israeli Experience

Yuval Arbel, Yossef Tobol, Erez Siniver

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2014, 35(6), 798-816

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6384

Is Religiosity of Immigrants a Bridge or a Buffer in the Process of Integration? A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States

Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman

revised version published as 'Bridges or Buffers? Motives behind Immigrants' Religiosity' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2013, 2:23. A different revised version published as 'Immigration-Religiosity Intersections at the Two Sides of the Atlantic: Europe and the United States' in: Constant A. and Zimmermann K. (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, 2013, Eward Elgar Publishing

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6298

Insurance versus Savings for the Poor: Why One Should Offer Either Both or None

Andreas Landmann, Björn Vollan, Markus Frölich

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6290

Laws and Norms

Roland Benabou, Jean Tirole

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6245

Sickness Absence and Local Benefit Cultures

Assar Lindbeck, Mårten Palme, Mats Persson

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (1), 49-78

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6202

Intergenerational Persistence in Income and Social Class: The Impact of Within-Group Inequality

Jo Blanden, Paul Gregg, Lindsey Macmillan

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2013, 176 (2), 541–563

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6168

Homeownership, Social Capital and Parental Voice in Schooling

Arthur Grimes, Steven Stillman, Chris Young

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6114

The Implications of Cultural Background on Labour Market Choices: The Case of Religion and Entrepreneurship

Luca Nunziata, Lorenzo Rocco

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5960

Does Culture Affect Divorce Decisions? Evidence from European Immigrants in the US

Delia Furtado, Miriam Marcén, Almudena Sevilla

published in: Demography, 2013, 50 (3), 1013-1038

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5934

Social Interactions in the Labor Market

Andrew Grodner, Thomas J. Kniesner, John A. Bishop

published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2010, 6 (4), 265-366

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5898

Parental Divorce and Generalized Trust

Tarja Viitanen

published in: Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2014, 17 (1), 35-53

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5775

Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany

Agnieszka Kanas, Barry R. Chiswick, Tanja van der Lippe, Frank van Tubergen

published in: International Migration Review, 2012, 46 (3), 680-709

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5747

Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake

Stefan Bauernschuster, Oliver Falck, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 117, 73-89

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5570

Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle

Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers

published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (3), 281-287

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5507

Spatial versus Social Mismatch: The Strength of Weak Ties

Yves Zenou

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2013, 74,113-132.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5506

Social Networks and Interactions in Cities

Robert W. Helsley, Yves Zenou

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2014, 150, 426-466

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5356

Directed Generosity and Network Formation: Network Dimension Matters

Ben D'Exelle, Arno Riedl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5185

Assimilation and Integration of Immigrants in Europe

Mariya Aleksynska, Yann Algan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4918

Tax Morale and Compliance Behavior: First Evidence on a Causal Link

Martin Halla

revised version published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2012, 12 (1), 1-27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4875

The Economic Value of Virtue

Fabio Mariani

published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2012, 17 (4), 323-356

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4843

The Link between the Intrinsic Motivation to Comply and Compliance Behavior: A Critical Appraisal of Existing Evidence

Martin Halla

published in: Friedrich Schneider (ed.), The Handbook on the Shadow Economy, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011, 375-408

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4747

Family Values and the Regulation of Labor

Alberto Alesina, Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc, Paola Giuliano

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 13 (4), 599-630

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4723

Do Peers Affect Student Achievement? Evidence from Canada Using Group Size Variation

Vincent Boucher, Yann Bramoullé, Habiba Djebbari, Bernard Fortin

revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2014, 29 (1), 91-109

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4675

Cultural Integration in Germany

Amelie F. Constant, Olga Nottmeyer, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Yann Algan, Alberto Bisin, Alan Manning and Thierry Verdier (eds.): Cultural Integration of Immigrants in Europe, Oxford: OUP, 2012, Chapter 3, 69-124

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4637

On the Origin of the Family

Marco Francesconi, Christian Ghiglino, Motty Perry

revised version published as 'An Evolutionary Theory of Monogamy' in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 166, 605-628

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4621

Social Networks

Joan de Martí, Yves Zenou

published in: Ian Jarvie and Jesus Zamora-Bonilla (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Science, London: Sage Publications, 2011.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4599

You Can't Be Happier than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce

Cahit Guven, Claudia Senik, Holger Stichnoth

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, 82 (1), 110-130