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207 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15907
Synthetic Difference-in-Differences Estimation
Damian Clarke, Daniel Pailañir, Susan Athey, Guido W. Imbens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15814
Early Child Care and Labor Supply of Lower-SES Mothers: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Henning Hermes, Marina Krauß, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter, Simon Wiederhold
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15803
Revisiting the Connection between State Medicaid Expansions and Adult Mortality
Charles Courtemanche, Jordan Jones, Antonios M. Koumpias, Daniela Zapata
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15454
Revitalising the Silk Road: Evidence from Railway Infrastructure Investments in Northwest China
Lamont Bo Yu, Trang My Tran, Wang-Sheng Lee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15449
The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Firm Decisions
Saten Kumar, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Olivier Coibion
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15405
How Parenting Courses Affect Families’ Time-Use? Evidence from an RCT Experiment in Italy
Daniela Del Boca, Chiara D. Pronzato, Lucia Schiavon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15367
Study More Tomorrow
Todd Pugatch, Elizabeth Schroeder, Nicholas Wilson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15306
Locus of Control, Self-Control, and Health Outcomes
Ferdi Botha, Sarah C. Dahmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15306
Locus of Control, Self-Control, and Health Outcomes
Ferdi Botha, Sarah C. Dahmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15283
Minimum Wages and the Rise in Solo Self-Employment
Angelika Ganserer, Terry Gregory, Ulrich Zierahn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15238
Is the Price Right? The Role of Morals, Ideology, and Tradeoff Thinking in Explaining Reactions to Price Surges
Julio Elias, Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15175
The Determinants of Population Self-Control
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15175
The Determinants of Population Self-Control
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15064
Can Interactive Online Training Make High School Students More Entrepreneurial? Experimental Evidence from Rwanda
Jeanne Lafortune, Todd Pugatch, José Tessada, Diego Ubfal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14987
Self-Control and Unhealthy Body Weight: The Role of Impulsivity and Restraint
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14976
The Stability of Self-Control in a Population Representative Study
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Nancy Kong, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14976
The Stability of Self-Control in a Population Representative Study
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Nancy Kong, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14920
The Predictive Power of Self-Control for Life Outcomes
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 197, 725-744
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14913
Effect of Health Insurance in India: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Anup Malani, Phoebe Holtzman, Kosuke Imai, Cynthia Kinnan, Morgen Miller, Shailender Swaminathan, Alessandra Voena, Bartosz Woda, Gabriella Conti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14892
Short-Term Impacts of Targeted Cash Grants and Business Development Services: Experimental Evidence from Entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso
Michael Grimm, Sidiki Soubeiga, Michael Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14751
Re-Exploring the Early Relationship between Teenage Cigarette and E-Cigarette Use Using Price and Tax Changes
Michael Pesko, Casey Warman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14735
Does Education Really Cause Domestic Violence? Revisiting the Turkish Data
Pelin Akyol, Murat G. Kirdar
published as 'Compulsory Schooling Reform and Intimate Partner Violence in Turkey' in: European Economic Review, 2022, 150, 104313.
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
forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2022
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
published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 61, 101734
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 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
revised version forthcoming as 'Present Bias for Monetary and Dietary Rewards' in: Experimental Economics, 2022
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
revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2022, 63, 2785 - 2815
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, 2021, 115, 105021
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
updated version published as 'The Predictive Power of Self-Control for Life Outcomes' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 197, 725-744
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 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
forthcoming in: Journal of Urban Economics
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
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57(4), 1311-1349
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
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (4), 648-663
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
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