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322 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14195
Welfare Effects of Property Taxation
Max Loeffler, Sebastian Siegloch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14100
Prioritarianism and Equality of Opportunity
Paolo Brunori, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Vito Peragine
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14063
Does the Rise of China Lead to the Fall of European Welfare States?
Erling Barth, Henning Finseraas, Anders Kjelsrud, Karl Ove Moene
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14044
Competition Reform and Household Welfare: A Microsimulation Analysis of the Telecommunication Sector in Ethiopia
Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Abdelkrim Araar, Eduardo A. Malásquez, Rogelio Granguillhome Ochoa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13848
Diagnostic Uncertainty and Insurance Coverage in Credence Goods Markets
Loukas Balafoutas, Helena Fornwagner, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Matthias Sutter, Maryna Tverdostup
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13761
An Adverse Social Welfare Effect of Quadruply Gainful Trade
Oded Stark, Grzegorz Kosiorowski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13684
The Effect of Job Search Requirements on Welfare Receipt
Nicolas Herault, Ha Vu, Roger Wilkins
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13675
Redistribution and Insurance in Welfare States around the World
Charlotte Bartels, Dirk Neumann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13662
An Economics-Based Rationale for the Rawlsian Social Welfare Program
Oded Stark
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13662
An Economics-Based Rationale for the Rawlsian Social Welfare Program
Oded Stark
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13660
Do Europeans Care about Climate Change? An Illustration of the Importance of Data on Human Feelings
Adam Nowakowski, Andrew J. Oswald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13625
Modern Infectious Diseases: Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses
David E. Bloom, Michael Kuhn, Klaus Prettner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13600
Winners and Losers of Immigration
Davide Fiaschi, Cristina Tealdi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13580
Behavioral Welfare Economics and Risk Preferences: A Bayesian Approach
Xiaoxue Sherry Gao, Glenn Harrison, Rusty Tchernis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13559
Short Moves and Long Stays: Homeless Family Responses to Exogenous Shelter Assignments in New York City
Michael T. Cassidy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13558
A Closer Look: Proximity Boosts Homeless Student Performance in New York City
Michael T. Cassidy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13549
Lives and Livelihoods: Estimates of the Global Mortality and Poverty Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Benoit Decerf, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Olivier Sterck
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13543
Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform: Evidence from Birth Outcomes of Aboriginal Australians
Mary-Alice Doyle, Stefanie Schurer, Sven Silburn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13484
Universal Credit and Crime
Rocco D'Este, Alex Harvey
Please find the revised version here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o82ns0jzotp0c1p/UC_NOV_2020.pdf?dl=0
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13483
Welfare Improving Tax Evasion
Chiara Canta, Helmuth Cremer, Firouz Gahvari
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13215
Welfare Dynamics in India over a Quarter Century: Poverty, Vulnerability, and Mobility during 1987-2012
Hai-Anh Dang, Peter F. Lanjouw
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13176
Loss Aversion and the Welfare Ranking of Policy Interventions
Sergio Firpo, Antonio F. Galvao, Martyna Kobus, Thomas Parker, Pedro Rosa-Dias
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13132
Mandated Sick Pay: Coverage, Utilization, and Welfare Effects
J. Catherine Maclean, Stefan Pichler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13021
Machiavelli versus Concave Utility Functions: Should Bads Be Spread out or Concentrated?
Paul Frijters, Christian Krekel, Aydogan Ulker
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12893
Pathways of Disadvantage: Unpacking the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare
Melisa Bubonya, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
forthcoming in: Economics of Education Review
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12893
Pathways of Disadvantage: Unpacking the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare
Melisa Bubonya, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
forthcoming in: Economics of Education Review
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12836
Who Bears the Welfare Costs of Monopoly? The Case of the Credit Card Industry
Kyle Herkenhoff, Gajendran Raveendranathan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12836
Who Bears the Welfare Costs of Monopoly? The Case of the Credit Card Industry
Kyle Herkenhoff, Gajendran Raveendranathan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12835
Reciprocity and the Interaction between the Unemployed and the Caseworker
Gerard J. van den Berg, Iris Kesternich, Gerrit Müller, Bettina M. Siflinger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12803
The Social Preferences of the Native Inhabitants, and the Decision How Many Asylum Seekers to Admit
Oded Stark, Marcin Jakubek, Krzysztof Szczygielski
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. 12720
A Happy Choice: Wellbeing as the Goal of Government
Paul Frijters, Andrew E. Clark, Christian Krekel, Richard Layard
published in: Behavioural Public Policy, 2020, 4(2), 126–165
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12622
Happiness and Public Policy: A Procedural Perspective
Alois Stutzer
forthcoming in: Behavioural Public Policy, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12570
Violent Conflict Exposure in Nigeria and Economic Welfare
John Chiwuzulum Odozi, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12495
Welfare Effect and Elite Capture in Agricultural Cooperatives Intervention: Evidence from Ethiopian Villages
Dambala Gelo, Edwin Muchapondwa, Abebe Shimeles, Johane Dikgang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12361
Switching Queues, Cultural Conventions, and Social Welfare
Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski, Grzegorz Kosiorowski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12351
Efficiency Wages in Cournot-Oligopoly
Marco de Pinto, Laszlo Goerke
published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2019, Vol. 19(4)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12350
The Distribution of Well-Being among Europeans
Andrea Brandolini, Alfonso Rosolia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12272
Evaluating Welfare and Economic Effects of Raised Fertility
Krzysztof Makarski, Joanna Tyrowicz, Magda Malec
forthcoming in: Population and Development Review, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12208
Effects of Maternal Work Incentives on Adolescent Social Behaviors
Dhaval M. Dave, Hope Corman, Ariel Kalil, Ofira Schwartz-Soicher, Nancy E. Reichman
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. 12098
Is There a Tradeoff between Ethnic Diversity and Redistribution? The Case of Income Assistance in Canada
David A. Green, W. Craig Riddell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12004
Employment to Output Elasticities & Reforms towards Flexicurity: Evidence from OECD Countries
Holger Görg, Cecília Hornok, Catia Montagna, George E. Onwordi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11838
Top Incomes in Germany, 1871-2014
Charlotte Bartels
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11784
Food for Fuel: The Effect of the US Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India
Ujjayant Chakravorty, Marie-Helene Hubert, Beyza Ural Marchand
published in: Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society, 10(3), 2019, 1153-1193
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11725
Immigrant Voters, Taxation and the Size of the Welfare State
Arnaud Chevalier, Benjamin Elsner, Andreas Lichter, Nico Pestel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11707
Intra-Household Wealth and Welfare Inequality in the US: Estimations from a Collective Model of Labor Supply
José Alberto Molina, J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Jorge Velilla
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11666
Caseworker's Discretion and the Effectiveness of Welfare-to-Work Programs
Jonneke Bolhaar, Nadine Ketel, Bas van der Klaauw
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 183, 104080
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11610
The Changing Structure of Immigration to the OECD: What Welfare Effects on Member Countries?
Michal Burzynski, Frédéric Docquier, Hillel Rapoport
published in: IMF Economic Review, 2018, 66(3), 564-601
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11558
Take-up and Targeting: Experimental Evidence from SNAP
Amy Finkelstein, Matthew J. Notowidigdo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11551
Brain Drain-Induced Brain Gain and the Bhagwati Tax: Are Early and Recent Paradigms Compatible?
Maurice Schiff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11514
The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Nathan Kettlewell, Stefanie Schurer, Sven Silburn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11483
Beneficial Brain Drain and Non-Migrants' Welfare
Maurice Schiff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11450
Understanding the Mechanisms through Which Adverse Childhood Experiences Affect Lifetime Economic Outcomes
Stefanie Schurer, Kristian Trajkovski
published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, Article 101743
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11441
On Welfare Effects of Increasing Retirement Age
Krzysztof Makarski, Joanna Tyrowicz
forthcoming in: Journal of Policy Modelling, doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2018.11.002
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11387
Time Is on My Side: Relational Contracts and Aggregate Welfare
Bohdan Kukharskyy, Michael P. Pflüger
forthcoming in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11386
The Optimal Graduated Minimum Wage and Social Welfare
Eliav Danziger, Leif Danziger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11340
Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform for Young Adults: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach
Øystein Hernaes
revised version forthcoming in: Labour Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11186
The Dynamics of Disability and Benefit Receipt in Britain
Melanie K. Jones, Duncan McVicar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11174
Are Urban-Rural Welfare Differences Growing in India?
Mehtabul Azam
substantially revised version published as 'Accounting for growing urban-rural welfare gaps in India' in: World Development 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11147
The Case for NIT+FT in Europe: An Empirical Optimal Taxation Exercise
Nizamul Islam, Ugo Colombino
revised version published in: Economic Modelling, 2018, 75, 38-69.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11133
Adverse Welfare Shocks and Pro-Environmental Behaviour: Evidence from the Global Economic Crisis
Artjoms Ivlevs
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65(2), 293-311
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11102
Subjective Well-Being and Public Policy
Reto Odermatt, Alois Stutzer
published in: Ed Diener, Shigehiro Oishi and Louis Tay (eds.), Handbook of Well-Being. Noba Scholar Handbook Series: Subjective Well-being. Salt Lake City, UT: DEF Publishers, 2018.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10942
Welfare Reform and the Intergenerational Transmission of Dependence
Robert Paul Hartley, Carlos Lamarche, James P. Ziliak
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10942
Welfare Reform and the Intergenerational Transmission of Dependence
Robert Paul Hartley, Carlos Lamarche, James P. Ziliak
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10905
Behavioral Responses and Welfare Reform: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Robert Paul Hartley, Carlos Lamarche
published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 54, 135-151
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10820
Social Comparisons in Oligopsony
Laszlo Goerke, Michael Neugart
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 141, 196-209
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10805
Less Welfare or Fewer Foreigners? Immigrant Inflows and Public Opinion towards Redistribution and Migration Policy
Elie Murard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10654
Learning about the Enforcement of Conditional Welfare Programs: Evidence from Brazil
Fernanda Brollo, Katja Maria Kaufmann, Eliana La Ferrara
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10632
Welfare: Savings not Taxation
Roger Douglas, Robert MacCulloch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10305
Consumption and Leisure: The Welfare Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind
Elie Murard
published as 'On the Joint Consumption and Labour Supply Effects of Migration on those Left Behind' in: Journal of Development Studies, published online 11 Feb 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10299
Offshoring, Endogenous Skill Decision, and Labor Market Outcomes
Pablo Agnese, Jana Hromcová
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10275
The Gain from the Drain: Skill-biased Migration and Global Welfare
Costanza Biavaschi, Michal Burzynski, Benjamin Elsner, Joël Machado
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 142, 102317; Substantially revised version here
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10219
Single Mothers and Their Children: Evaluating a Work-Encouraging Welfare Reform
Katrine Vellesen Loken, Kjell Erik Lommerud, Katrine Holm Reiso
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10197
The Anatomy of Behavioral Responses to Social Assistance When Informal Employment Is High
Marcelo Bergolo, Guillermo Cruces
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10054
Work versus School? The Effect of Work on Educational Expenditures for Children in Mexico
Elizabeth Kaletski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10014
Impacts from Delaying Access to Retirement Benefits on Welfare Receipt and Expenditure: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Umut Oguzoglu, Cain Polidano, Ha Vu
published in: The Economic Record, vol. 96, No. 312, March, 2020, 65–86
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9939
When Can Experimental Evidence Mislead? A Re-Assessment of Canada's Self Sufficiency Project
Chris Riddell, W. Craig Riddell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9912
Entrepreneurs and Freelancers: Are They Time and Income Multidimensional Poor? The German Case
Joachim Merz, Tim Rathjen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9786
Job-Search Periods for Welfare Applicants: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Jonneke Bolhaar, Nadine Ketel, Bas van der Klaauw
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11(1), 92-125
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9785
Time Aggregation and State Dependence in Welfare Receipt
Manudeep Bhuller, Christian Brinch, Sebastian Königs
published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (604), 1833-1873.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9780
Effects of Welfare Reform on Women's Voting Participation
Dhaval M. Dave, Hope Corman, Nancy E. Reichman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9775
How Bad Is Involuntary Part-time Work?
Daniel Borowczyk-Martins, Etienne Lalé
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, Vol. 70(1), January 2018, Pages 183-205.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9680
Paying to Avoid Recession: Using Reenlistment to Estimate the Cost of Unemployment
Mark Borgschulte, Paco Martorell
forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9644
Can Welfare Conditionality Combat High School Dropout?
Øystein Hernaes, Simen Markussen, Knut Røed
published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 48, 144-156.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9532
One-Child Policy, Marriage Distortion, and Welfare Loss
Wei Huang, Yi Zhou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9408
Wealth-Income Ratios in a Small, Late-Industrializing, Welfare-State Economy: Sweden, 1810–2014
Daniel Waldenström
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9378
Welfare Evaluation of the 1986 Tax Reform for Married Couples in the United States
Matteo Picchio, Giacomo Valletta
published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2018, 25 (3), 757–807
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9351
The Effects of Immigration on NHS Waiting Times
Osea Giuntella, Catia Nicodemo, Carlos Vargas-Silva
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 123 - 143
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9325
Are There Austerity‐Related Policy Changes in Germany?
Werner Eichhorst, Anke Hassel
published in: Sotiria Theodoropoulou (ed.), Labour market reforms in the era of pervasive austerity: a European perspective, Bristol: Policy Press, 2018.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9250
Childhood Homelessness and Adult Employment: The Role of Education, Incarceration, and Welfare Receipt
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Anna Zhu
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (3), 893-924
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9152
A Tax Benefit Model for Policy Evaluation in Luxembourg: LuxTaxBen
Nizamul Islam, Lennart Flood
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9151
The Impact of Short- and Long-Term Participation Tax Rates on Labor Supply
Charlotte Bartels, Nico Pestel
revised version published as 'Short- and Long-term Participation Tax Rates and Their Impact on Labor Supply' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2016, 23(6), 1126-1159
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9127
Welfare Rules, Incentives, and Family Structure
Robert A. Moffitt, Brian J. Phelan, Anne E. Winkler
substantially revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, Published online before print August 3, 2018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9113
Trial and Error? Reelection Concerns and Policy Experimentation during the U.S. Welfare Reform
Andreas Bernecker, Pierre C. Boyer, Christina Gathmann
revised version forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9111
Mandatory Volunteer Work as Fair Reciprocity for Unemployment and Social Benefits?
Lex Veldboer, Reinout Kleinhans, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9108
How Immigration Grease Is Affected by Economic, Institutional and Policy Contexts: Evidence from EU Labor Markets
Martin Guzi, Martin Kahanec, Lucia Mýtna Kureková
published in: Kyklos, 2018, 71(2), 213-243
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8844
The Impact of Immigrants on Public Finances: A Forecast Analysis for Denmark
Marianne Frank Hansen, Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen, Torben Tranæs
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 30 (3), 925-952
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8786
Are Recipients of Social Assistance 'Benefit Dependent'? Concepts, Measurement and Results for Selected Countries
Herwig Immervoll, Stephen P. Jenkins, Sebastian Königs
published in parts in: International Journal of Social Welfare, 2018, Vol. 27(2), 146-156
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