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53 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14037
Between the Dockyard and the Deep Blue Sea: Retention and Personnel Economics in the Royal Navy
Darrell J. Glaser, Ahmed S. Rahman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13371
Religion in Economic History: A Survey
Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, Ludger Woessmann
forthcoming in: Handbook of Historical Economics, ed. by Alberto Bisin and Giovanni Federico
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13199
What Determines the Capital Share over the Long Run of History?
Erik Bengtsson, Enrico Rubolino, Daniel Waldenström
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12760
The Wife's Protector: A Quantitative Theory Linking Contraceptive Technology with the Decline in Marriage
Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Karen A. Kopecky
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12649
Extreme Weather and Long-term Health: Evidence from Two Millennia of Chinese Elites
Wang-Sheng Lee, Ben G. Li
published as 'Extreme Weather and Mortality: Evidence from Two Millennia of Chinese Elites' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 76:102401.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12326
Stalin and the Origins of Mistrust
Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova, Vladimir Otrachshenko
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11905
Is Quick Formal Access to the Labor Market Enough? Refugees' Labor Market Integration in Belgium
Dries Lens, Ive Marx, Suncica Vujic
revised version published as 'Double Jeopardy: How Refugees Fare in One European Labor Market' in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2019, 10 (1) [online]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11748
A Database on the Passage and Enactment of Recent State Minimum Wage Increases
Jeffrey Clemens, Duncan Hobbs, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11647
What Accounts for the US Ascendancy to Economic Superpower by the Early 20th Century: The Morrill Act – Human Capital Hypothesis
Isaac Ehrlich, Adam Cook, Yong Yin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11418
The Occupational Status of Jews in the United States on the Eve of the US Civil War
Barry R. Chiswick
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11238
Birth and Employment Transitions of Women in Turkey: Conflicting or Compatible Roles?
Ayse Abbasoglu Ozgoren, Banu Ergöçmen, Aysit Tansel
published as "Birth and Employment Transitions of Women in Turkey: The Emergence of Role Incompatibility' in: Demographic Research, 2018, 39(46), 1241-1290
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11136
Economic Consequences of Political Persecution
Radim Bohacek, Michal Myck
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11116
Forced Migration and Mortality
Thomas K. Bauer, Matthias Giesecke, Laura Janisch
published as 'The Impact of Forced Migration on Mortality: Evidence from German Pension Insurance Records' in: Demography, 2019, 56(1), 25-47
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10667
Trends and Gradients in Top Tax Elasticities: Cross-Country Evidence, 1900–2014
Enrico Rubolino, Daniel Waldenström
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9581
Capital Shares and Income inequality: Evidence from the Long Run
Erik Bengtsson, Daniel Waldenström
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. 8776
Past Dominations, Current Institutions and the Italian Regional Economic Performance
Adriana Di Liberto, Marco Sideri
published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2015, 38, 12-41
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8374
The Role of Historical Resource Constraints in Modern Gender Inequality: A Cross-Country Analysis
Gautam Hazarika, Chandan Kumar Jha, Sudipta Sarangi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8349
Transitions in a West African Labour Market: The Role of Family Networks
Christophe Jalil Nordman, Laure Pasquier-Doumer
published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2015, 54, 74-85
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8271
Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
William F. Maloney, Felipe Caicedo Valencia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8157
Long-Run Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth
Jesper Roine, Daniel Waldenström
published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2, 2015, 469-592
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8016
Education Promoted Secularization
Sascha O. Becker, Markus Nagler, Ludger Woessmann
published as ''Education and Religious Participation: City-Level Evidence from Germany's Secularization Period 1890-1930' in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2017, 22 (3), 273-311
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7866
Two Centuries of International Migration
Joseph Ferrie, Timothy J. Hatton
published in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller (eds.): Handbook on the Economics of International Migration, 1A
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7151
Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties
Sascha O. Becker, Ludger Woessmann
published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 539-544
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6829
iPEHD: The ifo Prussian Economic History Database
Sascha O. Becker, Francesco Cinnirella, Erik Hornung, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Historical Methods, 2014, 47(2), 57-66
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6213
Economic History or History of Economics? A Review Essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
Orley Ashenfelter
published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2012, 50 (1), 96 - 102
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6130
Long Shadows of History: Persecution in Central Europe and Its Labor Market Consequences
Michal Myck, Radim Bohacek
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5856
Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development: In and Out of Africa
Graziella Bertocchi
revised version published in: Olivier de la Grandville (ed.), Economic Growth and Development, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 11, Bingley, 2011, 25 - 41
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5773
Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide
Sascha O. Becker, Ludger Woessmann
published as 'Social Cohesion, Religious Beliefs, and the Effect of Protestantism on Suicide 'in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100(3), 377-391
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5068
How Economics Helped Shape American Judaism
Carmel U. Chiswick
published in: Aaron Levine (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 646-662
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4900
The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey
Timothy J. Hatton
published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2010, 24 (5), 941–969
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4817
Growth, History, or Institutions? What Explains State Fragility in Sub-Saharan Africa
Graziella Bertocchi, Andrea Guerzoni
revised version published in: Journal of Peace Research, 2012, 49 (6), 769-783
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4676
A Note on Informality in the Labor Market
Melanie Khamis
published in: Journal of International Development, 2012, 24 (7), 894-908
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4556
Catch Me If You Can: Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution
Sascha O. Becker, Erik Hornung, Ludger Woessmann
published as 'Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution' in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2011, 3 (3), 92-126
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4374
How Do Adolescents Spell Time Use?
Charlene M. Kalenkoski, David C. Ribar, Leslie S. Stratton
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2011, 33, 1-44
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4068
The Rise and Fall of the "Normalarbeitsverhältnis" in Germany
Toni Pierenkemper
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4007
Are Short-Lived Jobs Stepping Stones to Long-Lasting Jobs?
Bart Cockx, Matteo Picchio
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (5), 646 - 675 [Online Access]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3964
American Education in the Age of Mass Migrations 1870-1930
Fabrice Murtin, Martina Viarengo
published in: Cliometrica, 2010, 4(2), 113-139
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2886
Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
Sascha O. Becker, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, 124(2), 531-596
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2499
The Age of Mass Migration: Economic and Institutional Determinants
Graziella Bertocchi, Chiara Strozzi
revised version published as "International Migration and the Role of Institutions" in: Public Choice, 2008, 137(1), 81-102
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2458
Econometrics: A Bird's Eye View
John F. Geweke, Joel L. Horowitz, M. Hashem Pesaran
published in: Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, Palgrave MacMillan: 2008, 609-642
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2146
A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labor-Scarce Economies?
Timothy J. Hatton, Jeffrey G. Williamson
published in T.J. Hatton. K. H. O'Rourke and A. M. Taylor (eds.), The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson, Cambridge Mass: MIT Press, 2007
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2096
Disability and Work: The Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances
Maarten Lindeboom, Ana Llena-Nozal, Bas van der Klaauw
revised version published as 'Health Shocks, Disability and Work' in: Labour Economics, 2016, 43, 186-200
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1303
Survey Non-Response and Unemployment Duration
Gerard J. van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom, Peter Dolton
published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 2006, 169 (3), 585-604
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1224
Jewish Occupational Selection: Education, Restrictions, or Minorities?
Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein
published in: Journal of Economic History, 2005, 65 (4), 922-948
IZA Discussion Paper No. 804
Dynamic Econometric Program Evaluation
Jaap H. Abbring
IZA Discussion Paper No. 672
Self-Selection, Earnings, and Out-Migration: A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants to Germany
Amelie F. Constant, Douglas S. Massey
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 16 (4), 2003, 631-653
IZA Discussion Paper No. 670
From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History
Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2007, 5 (5), 885-926,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 559
International Migration and the Integration of Labor Markets
Barry R. Chiswick, Timothy J. Hatton
published in: M. Bordo, A. Taylor, J. Williamson (eds), Globalization in Historical Perspective, NBER Conference Report, 2003, 65-119
IZA Discussion Paper No. 483
In-Group Cooperation in a Hostile Environment: An Economic Perspective on Some Aspects of Jewish Life in (Pre-Modern) Diaspora
Hillel Rapoport, Avi Weiss
published in: C. Chiswick, T. Lecker and N. Kahana (eds.): Jewish Society and Culture: An Economic Perspective, Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2007, 103-28.
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