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185 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14698
Behavioral Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment
Henning Hermes, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter, Simon Wiederhold
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14658
Voting, Contagion and the Trade-Off between Public Health and Political Rights: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Italian 2020 Polls
Marco Mello, Giuseppe Moscelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14633
Buying Control? 'Locus of Control' and the Uptake of Supplementary Health Insurance
Eric Bonsang, Joan Costa-Font, Sonja C. de New
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14609
Sophistication about Self-Control
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14607
Psychological Effects of Poverty on Time Preferences
Vojtech Bartos, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová, Ian Levely
forthcoming in: Economic Journal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14572
Tackling the Gender Gap in Mathematics with Active Learning Methodologies
Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Dalit Contini, Dalila De Rosa, Francesca Ferrara, Daniela Piazzalunga, Ornella Robutti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14418
A Simple Nudge Increases Socioeconomic Diversity in Undergraduate Economics
Todd Pugatch, Elizabeth Schroeder
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14356
Zooming to Class?: Experimental Evidence on College Students' Online Learning during COVID-19
Michael S. Kofoed, Lucas Gebhart, Dallas Gilmore, Ryan Moschitto
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14257
Evaluating the Sunk Cost Effect
David Ronayne, Daniel Sgroi, Anthony Tuckwell
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 186, 318 - 327
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14213
The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Household Spending
Olivier Coibion, Dimitris Georgarakos, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Geoff Kenny, Michael Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14199
Information Provision, Incentives, and Attention: A Field Experiment on Facilitating and Influencing Managers' Decisions
Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka, Timo Vogelsang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14183
Is Care by Grandparents or Parents Better for Children's Non-cognitive Skills? Evidence on Locus of Control from China
Xiang Ao, Xuan Chen, Zhong Zhao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14181
Addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparing Alternative Value Frameworks
Maddalena Ferranna, J.P. Sevilla, David E. Bloom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14142
Motivational Goal Bracketing with Non-rational Goals
Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14093
Can Information Influence the Social Insurance Participation Decision of China's Rural Migrants?
John T. Giles, Xin Meng, Sen Xue, Guochang Zhao
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021,150,102645.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14054
Experimental Evidence from an Integrated Early Childhood Parenting Program in Sierra Leone
Anjali Chandra, Subha Mani, Heather Dolphin, Meredith Dyson, Yembeh Marah
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14033
The Effects of Free Secondary School Track Choice: A Disaggregated Synthetic Control Approach
Aderonke Osikominu, Gregor Pfeifer, Kristina Strohmaier
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14026
Mandatory Integration Agreements for Unemployed Job Seekers: A Randomized Controlled Field Experiment in Germany
Gerard J. van den Berg, Barbara Hofmann, Gesine Stephan, Arne Uhlendorff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14001
Does Education Really Cause Domestic Violence? Replication and Reappraisal of "For Better or For Worse? Education and the Prevalence of Domestic Violence in Turkey"
Pelin Akyol, Murat G. Kirdar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13974
Spillovers and Long-Run Effects of Messages on Tax Compliance: Experimental Evidence from Peru
Juan Francisco Castro, Daniel Velásquez, Arlette Beltrán, Gustavo Yamada
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13902
Love Thy Neighbour? Brexit and Hate Crime
Joel Carr, Joanna Clifton-Sprigg, Jonathan James, Suncica Vujic
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13823
Political Polarization and Expected Economic Outcomes
Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Michael Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13732
Nudging Demand for Academic Support Services: Experimental and Structural Evidence from Higher Education
Todd Pugatch, Nicholas Wilson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13634
Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda
Moussa P. Blimpo, Todd Pugatch
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 149, 102583
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13582
The Role of Beliefs in Long Sickness Absence: Experimental Evidence from a Psychological Intervention
Gabriel Pons Rotger, Michael Rosholm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13489
Promoting Female Interest in Economics: Limits to Nudges
Todd Pugatch, Elizabeth Schroeder
published in: American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 2021, 111, 123-127
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13406
Present Bias for Monetary and Dietary Rewards: Evidence from Chinese Teenagers
Stephen L. Cheung, Agnieszka Tymula, Xueting Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13319
Face Masks Considerably Reduce COVID-19 Cases in Germany: A Synthetic Control Method Approach
Timo Mitze, Reinhold Kosfeld, Johannes Rode, Klaus Wälde
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13314
Did the Wisconsin Supreme Court Restart a COVID-19 Epidemic? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Dhaval M. Dave, Andrew I. Friedson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Drew McNichols, Joseph J. Sabia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13273
Drinking Is Different! Examining the Role of Locus of Control for Alcohol Consumption
Marco Caliendo, Juliane Hennecke
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13160
Did California's Shelter-In-Place Order Work? Early Coronavirus-Related Public Health Effects
Andrew I. Friedson, Drew McNichols, Joseph J. Sabia, Dhaval M. Dave
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12979
Forward Guidance and Household Expectations
Olivier Coibion, Dimitris Georgarakos, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Michael Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12937
The Effects of Home Visiting on Mother-Child Interactions: Evidence from a Randomised Trial Using Dynamic Micro-Level Data
Gabriella Conti, Stavros Poupakis, Malte Sandner, Sören Kliem
Published in: Child Abuse and Neglect, online 08 March 2021.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12882
Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation Revisited
James J. Heckman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12784
Greater US Gun Ownership, Lethality and Murder Rates: Analysis and Policy Proposals
Maurice Schiff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12631
Does Light Touch Cluster Policy Work? Evaluating the Tech City Programme
Max Nathan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12599
Locus of Control and Marital Satisfaction: Couple Perspectives Using Australian Data
Wang-Sheng Lee, Terra McKinnish
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, 74, Article 102205.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12523
Active Choice Framing and Intergenerational Education Benefits: Evidence from the Field
Benjamin L. Castleman, Francis X. Murphy, Richard Patterson, William L. Skimmyhorn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12498
How Does Consumption Respond to News about Inflation? Field Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial
Olivier Coibion, Dimitris Georgarakos, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Maarten van Rooij
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12488
Self-Control: Determinants, Life Outcomes and Intergenerational Implications
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12483
The Impact of Paid Family Leave on the Timing of Infant Vaccinations
Agnitra Roy Choudhury, Solomon Polachek
published in: Vaccine, 2021, 39 (21), 2886-2893
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12476
Can Agricultural Extension and Input Support Be Discontinued? Evidence from a Randomized Phaseout in Uganda
Ram Fishman, Stephen C. Smith, Vida Bobic, Munshi Sulaiman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12437
Rank Incentives and Social Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Isabella Dobrescu, Marco Faravelli, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Alberto Motta
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12362
The Perry Preschoolers at Late Midlife: A Study in Design-Specific Inference
James J. Heckman, Ganesh Karapakula
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12163
Improving Access and Quality in Early Childhood Development Programs: Experimental Evidence from the Gambia
Moussa P. Blimpo, Pedro Carneiro, Pamela Jervis, Todd Pugatch
forthcoming in Economic Development and Cultural Change
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12008
Unions, Two-Tier Bargaining and Physical Capital Investment: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence from Italy
Gabriele Cardullo, Maurizio Conti, Giovanni Sulis
revised version forthcoming as 'A Model of Unions, Two-Tier Bargaining and Capital Investment' in: Labour Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11995
Pareto-Improving Structural Reforms
Gilles Saint-Paul
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11963
Informing Employees in Small and Medium Sized Firms about Training: Results of a Randomized Field Experiment
Gerard J. van den Berg, Christine Dauth, Pia Homrighausen, Gesine Stephan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11898
Child Access Prevention Laws and Juvenile Firearm-Related Homicides
D. Mark Anderson, Joseph J. Sabia, Erdal Tekin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11863
Distributional Impact Analysis: Toolkit and Illustrations of Impacts beyond the Average Treatment Effect
Guadalupe Bedoya, Luca Bittarello, Jonathan Davis, Nikolas Mittag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11859
Performance Pay and Prior Learning: Evidence from a Retail Chain
Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka, Timo Vogelsang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11625
Testing a Social Innovation in Financial Aid for Low-Income Students: Experimental Evidence from Italy
Davide Azzolini, Alberto Martini, Enrico Rettore, Barbara Romano, Antonio Schizzerotto, Loris Vergolini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11623
Stand Against Bullying: An Experimental School Intervention
Italo A. Gutierrez, Oswaldo Molina, Hugo R. Nopo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11537
Locus of Control and Consistent Investment Choices
Pia Pinger, Sebastian Schäfer, Heiner Schumacher
published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 75, 66-75
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11451
Exploring the Role of Fathers in Non-Cognitive Skill Development over the Lifecourse
Rosemary Elkins, Stefanie Schurer
forthcoming as 'Exploring the role of parental engagement in non-cognitive skill development over the lifecourse' in: Journal of Population Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11392
The Pot Rush: Is Legalized Marijuana a Positive Local Amenity?
Diego Zambiasi, Steven Stillman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11347
Student Feedback, Parent-Teacher Communication, and Academic Performance: Experimental Evidence from Rural China
W. Stanley Siebert, Xiangdong Wei, Ho Lun Wong, Xiang Zhou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11294
Nonseparable Sample Selection Models with Censored Selection Rules: An Application to Wage Decompositions
Iván Fernández-Val, Aico van Vuuren, Francis Vella
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11205
A New Year, a New You? Heterogeneity and Self-Control in Food Purchases
Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Rachel Griffith, Martin O’Connell, Kate Smith, Frederic Vermeulen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11204
Financial Shocks and the Erosion of Interpersonal Trust: Evidence from Longitudinal Data
Michael Jetter, Ingebjørg Kristoffersen
forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11187
Maternal Depression, Women's Empowerment, and Parental Investment: Evidence from a Large Randomized Control Trial
Victoria Baranov, Sonia R. Bhalotra, Pietro Biroli, Joanna Maselko
published in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110 (3), 824-859
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10955
Motivational Goal Bracketing: An Experiment
Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger
published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2020, 185, 104949
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10895
Going after the Addiction, Not the Addicted: The Impact of Drug Decriminalization in Portugal
Sónia Félix, Pedro Portugal, Ana Tavares
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10773
Harsh Times: Do Stressors Lead to Labor Market Losses?
Terhi Maczulskij, Petri Böckerman
published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 20 (3), 357-373
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10711
Attrition in Randomized Control Trials: Using Tracking Information to Correct Bias
Teresa Molina Millán, Karen Macours
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10605
The Labor Market Effects of a Refugee Wave: Synthetic Control Method Meets the Mariel Boatlift
Giovanni Peri, Vasil Yasenov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10576
Ceding Control: An Experimental Analysis of Participatory Management
Philip Mellizo, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Peter Hans Matthews
forthcoming in: the Journal of the Economic Science Association
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10486
Does Job Support Make Workers Happy?
Petri Böckerman, Alex Bryson, Antti Kauhanen, Mari Kangasniemi
published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 67 (1), 31-52
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10406
Locus of Control and Investment in Training
Marco Caliendo, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Helke Seitz, Arne Uhlendorff
forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10288
Locus of Control and Performance Appraisal
John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn, Cornelia Chadi
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 142 (October), 205-225
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10283
Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments
Damon Clark, David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse, Mark Rush
forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10236
The Decision to Carry: The Effect of Crime on Concealed-Carry Applications
Briggs Depew, Isaac D. Swensen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10210
If Life Throws You Lemons, Try To Make Lemonade: Does Locus of Control Help People Cope with Unexpected Shocks?
Steven Stillman, Malathi Velamuri
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10191
Lost in Transition: The Influence of Locus of Control on Delaying Educational Decisions
Katharina Jaik, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10186
Residential Choices of Young Americans
Eleonora Patacchini, Tiziano Arduini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9908
Optimal Data Collection for Randomized Control Trials
Pedro Carneiro, Sokbae Lee, Daniel Wilhelm
forthcoming in: Econometrics Journal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9906
Persuasion and Gender: Experimental Evidence from Two Political Campaigns
Vincenzo Galasso, Tommaso Nannicini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9867
Labor Market Effects of US Sick Pay Mandates
Stefan Pichler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55(2): 611-659
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9830
Child Access Prevention Laws, Youth Gun Carrying, and School Shootings
D. Mark Anderson, Joseph J. Sabia
published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2018, 61 (3), 489-524
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9771
Does Activating Sick-Listed Workers Work? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Kai Rehwald, Michael Rosholm, Benedicte Rouland
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9686
Parenting Style as an Investment in Human Development
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Nicolás Salamanca, Anna Zhu
published in: Journal of Population Economics, First Online: 17 May 2018 (https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00148-018-0703-2)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9684
Does Financial Deregulation Boost Top Incomes? Evidence from the Big Bang
Julia Tanndal, Daniel Waldenström
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9647
Is Shale Development Drilling Holes in the Human Capital Pipeline?
Dan S. Rickman, Hongbo Wang, John V. Winters
published in: Energy Economics, 2017, 62, 283-290
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9613
Does Self-Control Depletion Affect Risk Attitudes?
Holger Gerhardt, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Jana Willrodt
published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 100, 463-487.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9600
Job Search, Locus of Control, and Internal Migration
Marco Caliendo, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Juliane Hennecke, Arne Uhlendorff
substantially revised version published as 'Locus of Control and Internal Migration' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 79, 1-19.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9334
Individual Poverty Paths and the Stability of Control-Perception
Hendrik Thiel, Stephan L. Thomsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9332
Natural Disasters and University Enrolment: Evidence from L'Aquila Earthquake
Augusto Cerqua, Giorgio Di Pietro
revised version published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49 (14), 1440-1457
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9316
Team Incentives and Performance: Evidence from a Retail Chain
Guido Friebel, Matthias Heinz, Miriam Krüger, Nick Zubanov
published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107(8), 2168-2203
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9251
Third-Party vs. Second-Party Control: Disentangling the Role of Autonomy and Reciprocity
Gabriel Burdin, Simon Halliday, Fabio Landini
revised version published as 'The hidden benefits of abstaining from control' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 147, 1-12.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9144
Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking: Updated Estimates Using YRBS Data
Benjamin Hansen, Joseph J. Sabia, Daniel I. Rees
published as 'Have Cigarette Taxes Lost their Bite? New Estimates of the Relationship between Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking' in: the American Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 3(1), 60-75
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9136
Experimental Evidence on the Long-Term Impacts of a Youth Training Program
Pablo Ibarrarán, Jochen Kluve, Laura Ripani, David Rosas Shady
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72 (1), 85-222
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9084
A Real-Effort Experiment on Gift Exchange with Temptation
Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger
revised version published as 'Gift Exchange, Control, and Cyberloafing: A Real-Effort Experiment" in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 131,409 - 426
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9030
Click'n'Roll: No Evidence of Illusion of Control
Antonio Filippin, Paolo Crosetto
published in: De Economist, 2016, 164(3), 281-295.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8960
Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal
Pedro Carneiro, Oswald Koussihouèdé, Nathalie Lahire, Costas Meghir, Corina Mommaerts
published as ' School Grants and Education Quality: Experimental Evidence from Senegal' in: Economica, first published January 24, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8944
Pooling Multiple Case Studies Using Synthetic Controls: An Application to Minimum Wage Policies
Arindrajit Dube, Ben Zipperer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8763
Reducing Binge Drinking? The Effect of a Ban on Late-Night Off-Premise Alcohol Sales on Alcohol-Related Hospital Stays in Germany
Jan Marcus, Thomas Siedler
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 123, 55-77
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8740
Do NEETs Need Grit?
Silvia Mendolia, Ian Walker
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:19
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8720
The Mechanisms of Alcohol Control
Christopher S. Carpenter, Carlos Dobkin, Casey Warman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8678
Locus of Control and the Labor Market
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 4:3, 19 February 2015, doi:10.1186/s40172-014-0017-x.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8594
A First Step up the Energy Ladder? Low Cost Solar Kits and Household's Welfare in Rural Rwanda
Michael Grimm, Anicet Munyehirwe, Jörg Peters, Maximiliane Sievert
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2017, 31 (3): 631–649.
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