IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'The determinants of displaced workers’ wages: Sorting, matching, selection, and the Hartz reforms' in: Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 233 (2), 568-595

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12834

Social Media Extensive Use and Emotional and Behavioural Outcomes in Adolescence: Evidence from British Longitudinal Data

Paul McNamee, Silvia Mendolia, Oleg Yerokhin

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2021, 41, 100992

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12578

Working from Home and Commuting: Heterogeneity over Time, Space, and Occupations

Duco de Vos, Maarten van Ham, Evert J. Meijers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12556

Running the Risk of an Injury in the NFL: Short-Run and Career Consequences

Quinn Keefer, Thomas J. Kniesner

published as 'Performance and Pay in Professional Football' in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2022, 12 (4), 269-343.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12289

Birth Order, Fertility, and Child Height in India and Africa

Dean Spears, Diane Coffey, Jere R. Behrman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12262

Voluntary Job Separations and Traditional versus Flexible Workplace Saving Plans: Evidence from Canada

Tony Fang, Derek Messacar

published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2019, 45 (2), 239-261.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12137

The Short-Run Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment and Labor Market Participation: Evidence from an Individual-Level Panel

Ernest Boffy-Ramirez

published in: Applied Economics, 2022, 54 (35), 4043 - 4059

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11935

How Important Are Fixed Effects and Time Trends in Estimating Returns to Schooling? Evidence from a Replication of Jacobson, Lalonde and Sullivan, 2005

Susan Dynarski, Brian A. Jacob, Daniel Kreisman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11924

Public Sector Wage Gaps over the Long-Run: Evidence from Panel Administrative Data

Olivier B. Bargain, Audrey Etienne, Blaise Melly

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11722

Player Dismissal and Full Time Results in the UEFA Champions League and Europa League

Arne De Meyere, Ward Vanruymbeke, Stijn Baert

revised version published in: International Journal of Sport Finance, 2020, 15 (1), 27 - 38

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11685

Do You Speak My Language? The Effect of Sharing a Teacher's Native Language on Student Achievement

Kelvin Seah

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2021, 88(1), 245-273

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11566

The Effect of Religiosity on Adolescent Risky Behaviors

Silvia Mendolia, Alfredo R. Paloyo, Ian Walker

published in as 'Intrinsic Religiosity, Personality Traits, and Adolescent Risky Behaviors' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2019, 19 (3), 1-16

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11431

The Transmission of Mental Health within Households: Does One Partner's Mental Health Influence the Other Partner's Life Satisfaction?

Silvia Mendolia, Paul McNamee, Oleg Yerokhin

published as 'The transmission of partner mental health to individual life satisfaction: Estimates from a longitudinal household survey' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 68 (4), 494-516

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11419

The Returns to Schooling Unveiled

Ana Rute Cardoso, Paulo Guimaraes, Pedro Portugal, Hugo Reis

part 1 of this paper published online as 'What Lies Behind the Returns to Schooling: The Role of Labor Market Sorting and Worker Heterogeneity' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 22 August 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11139

Do Boys Benefit from Male Teachers in Elementary School? Evidence from Administrative Panel Data

Patrick A. Puhani

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 340-354

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10570

The Extent of Rent Sharing along the Wage Distribution

Alessia Matano, Paolo Naticchioni

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relation, 2017, 55 (4), 751-777

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10538

Origins of Adulthood Personality: The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences

Jason M. Fletcher, Stefanie Schurer

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2017, 17(2), 20150212

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10447

A Simple Method to Estimate Large Fixed Effects Models Applied to Wage Determinants and Matching

Nikolas Mittag

published as 'A Simple Method to Estimate Large Fixed Effects Models Applied to Wage Determinants' in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101766

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10293

Collective Bargaining and the Evolution of Wage Inequality in Italy

Francesco Devicienti, Bernardo Fanfani, Agata Maida

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 57 (2), 377-407

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9980

No Better Moment to Score a Goal than Just Before Half Time? A Soccer Myth Statistically Tested

Stijn Baert, Simon Amez

revised version published in: Plos One, 2018, 13 (3), e0194255

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9345

A New View on Panel Econometrics: Is Probit Feasible After All?

Bernard M. S. van Praag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9221

Sources of the Union Wage Gap: Results from High-Dimensional Fixed Effects Regression Models

John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal, Hugo Vilares

revised version published as 'Union Membership Density and Wages: The Role of Worker, Firm, and Job-Title Heterogeneity' in: Journal of Econometrics. 2023, 233 (2), 612-632.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9220

Decomposing the Wage Losses of Displaced Workers: The Role of the Reallocation of Workers into Firms and Job Titles

Pedro Raposo, Pedro Portugal, Anabela Carneiro

published as 'The Sources of the Wage Losses of Displaced workers: The Role of the Reallocation of Workers into Firms, Matches, and Job Titles' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (3), 786 - 820

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9042

Political Socialization in Flux? Linking Family Non-Intactness during Childhood to Adult Civic Engagement

Timo Hener, Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2016, 179 (3), 633–656

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8970

Impact of Hospital Delivery on Child Mortality: An Analysis of Adolescent Mothers in Bangladesh

Sarmistha Pal

published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2015, 143, 194 - 203

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8927

Household Migration and Child Educational Attainment: The Case of Uganda

Lucia Ferrone, Gianna Claudia Giannelli

published as 'Internal migration, children’s schooling and gender gaps in education' in. Applied Economics, 2023, 55 (16), 1807-1829

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8670

Welfare Reform and Children's Health

Badi H. Baltagi, Yin-Fang Yen

published in: Health Economics, 2016, 26 (3), 277 - 291

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8560

The Contribution of Managers to Organizational Success: Evidence from German Soccer

Sandra Hentschel, Gerd Muehlheusser, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2018, 19(6), 786-819

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8530

Household Finances and Well-Being: An Empirical Analysis of Comparison Effects

Sarah Brown, Daniel Gray

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2016, 53, 17–36

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8468

The Brazilian Wage Curve: New Evidence from the National Household Survey

Badi H. Baltagi, Bartlomiej Rokicki, Kênia Barreiro de Souza

published in: Empirical Economics, 2017, 53 (1), 267–286.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8125

Labour Demand Research: Towards a Better Match between Better Theory and Better Data

John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal, José Varejão

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 4-11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7812

The Polish Wage Curve: Micro Panel Data Analysis Based on the Polish Labor Force Survey

Badi H. Baltagi, Bartlomiej Rokicki

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2014,49, 36-47.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7811

What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution

Alessia Matano, Paolo Naticchioni

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2016, 56 (2), 191 - 209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7651

Evaluating the Role of Individual Specific Heterogeneity in the Relationship Between Subjective Health Assessments and Income

Iván Fernández-Val, Yevgeniya Savchenko, Francis Vella

published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2017, 25, 85-98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7510

Neighbourhood Effects on Migrant Youth's Educational Commitments: An Enquiry into Personality Differences

Jaap Nieuwenhuis, Pieter Hooimeijer, Maarten van Ham, Wim Meeus

published in: Urban Studies, 2017, 54 (10), 2285-2304

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7359

Dynamic Panel Data Models with Irregular Spacing: With Applications to Early Childhood Development

Daniel L. Millimet, Ian K. McDonough

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32 (4), 725-743

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7276

The Sources of Wage Variation: A Three-Way High-Dimensional Fixed Effects Regression Model

Sónia Torres, Pedro Portugal, John T. Addison, Paulo Guimaraes

revised version published as 'The Sources of Wage Variation and the Direction of Assortative Matching: A Three-Way High Dimensional Fixed-Effects Regression Model" in: Labour Economics, 2018, 54, 47-60.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7109

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex Discrimination

Ana Rute Cardoso, Paulo Guimaraes, Pedro Portugal

published as 'What drives the gender wage gap? A look at the role of firm and job-title heterogeneity' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (2), 506-524

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7054

An Exponential Class of Dynamic Binary Choice Panel Data Models with Fixed Effects

Majid M. Al-Sadoon, Tong Li, M. Hashem Pesaran

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6744

Aircraft Noise, Health, and Residential Sorting: Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments

Stefan Boes, Stephan Nüesch, Steven Stillman

published in: Health Economics, 2013, 22 (9), 1037 - 1051

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6662

High Wage Workers Match with High Wage Firms: Clear Evidence of the Effects of Limited Mobility Bias

Martyn J. Andrews, Leonard Gill, Thorsten Schank, Richard Upward

published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (3), 824-827

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6508

Is Recipiency of Disability Pension Hereditary?

Espen Bratberg, Øivind Anti Nilsen, Kjell Vaage

revised version published as 'Assessing the Intergenerational Correlation in Disability Pension Recipiency' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2015, 67(2), 205-226

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6391

The Effects of Personality Traits on Adult Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Siblings

Jason M. Fletcher

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 89, 122–135

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6242

The Impact of Parents' Years since Migration on Children's Academic Achievement

Helena Skyt Nielsen, Beatrice Schindler Rangvid

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:6

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6038

On Intergenerational Transmission of Reading Habits in Italy: Is a Good Example the Best Sermon?

Anna Laura Mancini, Chiara Monfardini, Silvia Pasqua

published as 'Is a Good Example the Best Sermon? Children's Imitation of Parental Reading' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15 (3), 965 - 993

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5946

Mothers Do Matter: New Evidence on the Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling Using Swedish Twin Data

Vikesh Amin, Petter Lundborg, Dan-Olof Rooth

published as 'The intergenerational transmission of schooling: Are mothers really less important than fathers?' in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 47, 100–117

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5803

Does Early Life Health Predict Schooling Within Twin Pairs?

Petter Lundborg, Anton Nilsson, Dan-Olof Rooth

published as 'The health-schooling relationship: evidence from Swedish twins' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29, 1191-1215

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5787

Social Networks and Parental Behavior in the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion

Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2016, 7, 969-995.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5633

The Turkish Wage Curve: Evidence from the Household Labor Force Survey

Badi H. Baltagi, Yusuf Soner Baskaya, Timur Hulagu

published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 114 (1), 128-131.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5448

Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions: Results of a Fixed Effects Model

Anne Busch, Elke Holst

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5287

The Choice Between Fixed and Random Effects Models: Some Considerations for Educational Research

Paul Clarke, Claire Crawford, Fiona Steele, Anna Vignoles

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5143

Sorting on Skills and Preferences: Tinbergen Meets Sattinger

Arnaud Dupuy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5112

The Exporter Productivity Premium along the Productivity Distribution: First Evidence from a Quantile Regression Approach for Fixed Effects Panel Data Models

David Powell, Joachim Wagner

published in: Review of World Economics, 2014, 150 (4), 763-785

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5091

The Rise in Absenteeism: Disentangling the Impacts of Cohort, Age and Time

Erik Biorn, Simen Gaure, Simen Markussen, Knut Røed

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (4), 1585-1608

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5088

Job Changes and Individual-Job Specific Wage Dynamics

Laura Hospido

published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 33, 81-93

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4971

What Linear Estimators Miss: Re-Examining the Effects of Family Income on Child Outcomes

Katrine Vellesen Loken, Magne Mogstad, Matthew Wiswall

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (2), 1–35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4959

Female Labor Supply and Divorce: New Evidence from Ireland

Olivier B. Bargain, Libertad González, Claire Keane, Berkay Özcan

published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (8), 1675–1691

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4712

Modelling Heterogeneity and Dynamics in the Volatility of Individual Wages

Laura Hospido

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2012, 27 (3), 386-414

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4711

Is Informality Bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa

Olivier B. Bargain, Prudence Magejo

published as 'Earnings Structure, Informal Employment and Self-Employment: New Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57, S100-S122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4508

Policy Relevant Heterogeneity in the Value of Statistical Life: New Evidence from Panel Data Quantile Regressions

Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi, James P. Ziliak

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2010, 40 (1), 15-32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4286

The Informal Sector Wage Gap: New Evidence Using Quantile Estimations on Panel Data

Olivier B. Bargain, Prudence Magejo

revised version published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2015, 63 (1), 117-153

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3935

A Simple Feasible Alternative Procedure to Estimate Models with High-Dimensional Fixed Effects

Paulo Guimaraes, Pedro Portugal

published as 'A Simple Feasible Alternative Procedure to Fit Models with High-Dimensional Fixed Effects' in: Stata Journal, 2010, 10 (4), 628-649

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3858

On the Determinants of Pay of CEOs in UK Public Sector Higher Education Institutions

Ray Bachan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3487

Fixed Effects Bias in Panel Data Estimators

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Paul H. Jensen, Umut Oguzoglu, Elizabeth Webster

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3427

Public Sector Pay Gap in France: New Evidence Using Panel Data

Olivier B. Bargain, Blaise Melly

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3352

Better Protected, Better Paid: Evidence on How Employment Protection Affects Wages

Karen van der Wiel

substantially revised version published as IZA DP No. 4465

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3170

Born To Be Mild? Cohort Effects Don’t (Fully) Explain Why Well-Being Is U-Shaped in Age

Andrew E. Clark

published in: Mariano Rojas (ed.), The Economics of Happiness: How the Easterlin Paradox Transformed our Understanding of Well-being and Progress, New York: Springer, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3107

Pinning Down the Value of Statistical Life

Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi, Christopher Woock, James P. Ziliak

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (1) , 74-87

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3053

An Empirical Assessment of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market

Rute Mendes, Gerard J. van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (6), 919-929

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2981

Assessing the Importance of Male and Female Part-Time Work for the Gender Earnings Gap in Britain

Karen A. Mumford, Peter N. Smith

revised version published as "What Determines the Part-Time and Gender Earnings Gaps in Britain: Evidence from the Workplace" in: Oxford Economics Papers, 2009, 61(1), 56-75

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2915

Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Germany: The Importance of Heterogeneity and Attrition Bias

Michael Fertig, Stefanie Schurer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2690

Bias Corrections for Two-Step Fixed Effects Panel Data Estimators

Iván Fernández-Val, Francis Vella

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2011, 163 (2), 144-162

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2523

Is It the Way She Moves? New Evidence on the Gender Wage Growth Gap in the Early Careers of Men and Women in Italy

Emilia Del Bono, Daniela Vuri

published as "Job mobility and the gender wage gap in Italy" in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (1), 130-142

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2242