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IZA Discussion Paper No. 17072
Schooling Mobility across Three Generations in Six Latin American Countries
Pablo Celhay, Sebastian Gallegos
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 23 (2025)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16741
The Effects of Immigration in a Developing Country: Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration
David Escamilla-Guerrero, Andrea Papadia, Ariell Zimran
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16417
What If It Never Happened? Subjective Treatment Effects of a Negative Shock on Youth Labour Market Outcomes in Developing Countries
Marta Favara, Richard Freund, Marcello Perez-Alvarez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16193
Entitled to Property: How Breaking the Gender Barrier Improves Child Health in India
Md Shahadath Hossain, Plamen Nikolov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15926
When You Can't Afford to Wait for a Job: The Role of Time Discounting for Own-Account Workers in Developing Countries
Thiago Scarelli, David N. Margolis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15742
Do Pension Benefits Accelerate Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Rural China
Plamen Nikolov, Md Shahadath Hossain
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 594 - 617
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15514
Employer Power and Employment in Developing Countries
Nancy H. Chau, Ravi Kanbur, Vidhya Soundararajan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15432
Reaping the Rewards Later: How Education Improves Old-Age Cognition in South Africa
Plamen Nikolov, Steve Yeh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15340
Minimum Wages in Developing Countries
Tony Fang, Viet Hoang Ha
published in: Klaus F. Zimmermannn (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14944
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Labor Markets in Developing Countries: A New Method with an Illustration for Lao PDR and Viet Nam
Francesco Carbonero, Jeremy Davies, Ekkehard Ernst, Frank M. Fossen, Daniel Samaan, Alina Sorgner
revised version published in: Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2023, 33, 707-736
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14858
Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries
Eric Verhoogen
published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2023, 61 (4), 1410–1464
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14498
Entitled to Property: Inheritance Laws, Female Bargaining Power, and Child Health in India
Md Shahadath Hossain, Plamen Nikolov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13932
Pension Policies, Retirement and Human Capital Depreciation in Late Adulthood
Plamen Nikolov, Alan Adelman
updated version of this paper published as DP15742
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13194
The Importance of Cognitive Domains and the Returns to Schooling in South Africa: Evidence from Two Labor Surveys
Plamen Nikolov, Nusrat Abedin Jimi
published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101849.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13136
The COVID-19 Conundrum in the Developing World: Protecting Lives or Protecting Jobs?
David A. Robalino
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13081
Do Public Program Benefits Crowd Out Private Transfers in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence
Plamen Nikolov, Matthew Bonci
published in: World Development, 2020, 134, 104967
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12985
Teacher Labor Markets in Developing Countries
Lee Crawfurd, Todd Pugatch
published in: Brian P. McCall (ed.), Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Education, Routledge, 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12538
Those Who Can't Sort, Steal: Caste, Occupational Mobility, and Rent-Seeking in Rural India
Nicholas Lawson, Dean Spears
published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2021, 87 (1), 107–140.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12532
Do Private Household Transfers to the Elderly Respond to Public Pension Benefits? Evidence from Rural China
Plamen Nikolov, Alan Adelman
published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2019, 14, 100204
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12524
Do Pension Benefits Accelerate Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Rural China
Plamen Nikolov, Alan Adelman
updated version published as DP15742 . (published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 594 - 617).
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12172
Can Public Rankings Improve School Performance? Evidence from a Nationwide Reform in Tanzania
Jacobus Cilliers, Isaac M. Mbiti, Andrew Zeitlin
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (3), 655-685
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12162
Does Child Labor Lead to Vulnerable Employment in Adulthood? Evidence for Tanzania
Sara Burrone, Gianna Claudia Giannelli
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56 (12), 2235-2250
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12117
Tropical Storms and Mortality under Climate Change
Todd Pugatch
published in: World Development, 2019, 117, 172-182
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10556
Marriage Markets in Developing Countries
S Anukriti, Shatanjaya Dasgupta
published in: S.L. Averett, L.M. Argys, S.D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, Oxford University Press, 2018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10294
Looking Back on the Lessons of "Higher Education and Developing Countries: Peril and Promise": Perspectives on China and India
David E. Bloom, Philip G. Altbach, Henry Rosovsky
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9456
Pathways from School to Work in the Developing World
Marco Manacorda, Furio C. Rosati, Marco Ranzani, Giuseppe Dachille
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8167
A Survey of the Economics of Fair Trade
Ana C. Dammert, Sarah Mohan
published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2015, 29(5), 855-868
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8051
Why Pay NGOs to Involve the Community?
Ronelle Burger, Indraneel Dasgupta, Trudy Owens
published in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2015, 86 (1), 7-31
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7780
The Return of the Prodigy Son: Do Return Migrants Make Better Leaders?
Marion Mercier
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 122, 76-91
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7141
Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Gary S. Fields
published in: African Development Review, 2015, 27 (S1), 5 -16
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6959
Welfare Programs and Labor Supply in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Latin America
María Laura Alzúa, Guillermo Cruces, Laura Ripani
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26(4), 1255-1284
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6811
Coping with Intra-Household Job Separation in South Africa's Labor Market
Zoe McLaren
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2019, 67 (4), 757–798
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6560
Do Public Health Interventions Crowd Out Private Health Investments? Malaria Control Policies in Eritrea
Pedro Carneiro, Andrea Locatelli, Tewolde Ghebremeskel, Joseph Keating
substantially revised version pubished in: Labour Economics, 2017, 45, 107 - 115
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6221
A Model of NGO Regulation with an Application to Uganda
Ronelle Burger, Indraneel Dasgupta, Trudy Owens
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2015, 64 (1), 71-111
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6185
Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA
Eric A. Hanushek, Susanne Link, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 104, 212-232
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6064
Do Dropouts Benefit from Training Programs? Korean Evidence Employing Methods for Continuous Treatments
Chung Choe, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Sang-Jun Lee
published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 48, 849 - 881
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6006
Firing Regulations and Firm Size in the Developing World: Evidence from Differential Enforcement
Rita K. Almeida, Z. Bilgen Susanli
published in: Review of Development Economics, 2012, 16 (4), 540–558
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5371
Intergenerational Persistence in Health in Developing Countries: The Penalty of Gender Inequality?
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Samantha Rawlings
Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 286-299
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5282
Early Childhood Stimulation Interventions in Developing Countries: A Comprehensive Literature Review
Helen Baker-Henningham, Florencia López Bóo
published as 'Intervenciones de estimulación infantil temprana en los países en vías de desarrollo: lo que funciona, por qué y para quién' in: Económica, 2014, 60, 120-186
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4981
The Investment in Job Training: Why Are SMEs Lagging So Much Behind?
Rita K. Almeida, Reyes Aterido
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4060
Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox
Richard A. Easterlin, Laura Angelescu McVey
published in: R.A. Easterlin, Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle, Chapter 5, Oxford University Press, 2011
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4000
Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries
Richard A. Easterlin, Onnicha Sawangfa
published in: E. Diener, J. Helliwell, and D. Kahneman (eds.), International Differences in Well-Being. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3514
Cyclical Movements in Unemployment and Informality in Developing Countries
Mariano Bosch, William F. Maloney
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2958
Globalization and Income Inequality
Elena Meschi, Marco Vivarelli
published in: World Development, 2009, 37 (2), 287-302
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2795
Skilled Migration, FDI and Human Capital Investment
Daniele Checchi, Gianfranco De Simone, Riccardo Faini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2762
Do Family Planning Programmes Help Women's Employment? The Case of Indian Mothers
Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Francesca Francavilla
published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2011, 22 (5), 412 - 426
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2317
Is There Rent Sharing in Developing Countries? Matched-Panel Evidence from Brazil
Pedro S. Martins, Luiz A. Esteves
IZA Discussion Paper No. 659
Defining Unemployment in Developing Countries: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
Eric Strobl, David Byrne
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2004, 73 (1), 465-476
IZA Discussion Paper No. 46
The Effects of Development on Migration: Theoretical Issues and New Empirical Evidence
Ralph Rotte, Michael Vogler
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2000, 13(3), 485-508
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12
Determinants of International Migration: Empirical Evidence for Migration from Developing Countries to Germany
Ralph Rotte, Michael Vogler
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