IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17898

Understanding Distributional Impacts of Carbon Pricing – Insights from Comparative Analysis

Herwig Immervoll, Jules Linden, Cathal O'Donoghue, Denisa Maria Sologon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17561

Ideological Bias in Estimates of the Impact of Immigration

George J. Borjas, Nate Breznau

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17414

Infrastructure's Imprint: Metro Proximity and Property Development Dynamics in São Paulo, Brazil

Daniel Grimaldi, Oscar A. Mitnik, Beatrice Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17235

Intersectional Analysis of the Labour Market Impacts of COVID: The Triple-Whammy of Females, Children, and Lower Skill

Tony Fang, Morley Gunderson, Viet Hoang Ha, Hui Ming

published online as 'Intersectional analysis of the labour market impacts of COVID on women with young children and in low-skilled jobs' in: International Journal of Manpower, 19 September 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16712

A Scalable Approach to High-Impact Tutoring for Young Readers: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial

Kalena E. Cortes, Karen Kortecamp, Susanna Loeb, Carly D. Robinson

published as 'A scalable approach to high-impact tutoring for young readers' in: Learning and Instruction, 2025, 95, 102021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16705

The Role of Trainee Selection in the Effectiveness of Vocational Training: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Nepal

Shyamal Chowdhury, Syed Hasan, Uttam Sharma

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16694

When Randomization Is Not Feasible: The Case of Parenting Skills Programs

Daniela Del Boca, Chiara D. Pronzato, Lucia Schiavon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16596

The Long-Term Impact of Parental Migration on the Health of Young Left-behind Children

Jinkai Li, Erga Luo, Bart Cockx

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16527

Macroeconomic Impacts of Immigration in the Canadian Atlantic Region: An Empirical Analysis Using the Focus Model

Peter Dungan, Tony Fang, Morley Gunderson, Steve Murphy

published online in: Journal of Immigrants and Refugee Studies, 11 June 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16337

Documenting and Explaining the Dramatic Rise of the New Society Journals in Economics

John C. Ham, Julian Wright, Ziqiu Ye

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15980

Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space

Stephen Hansen, Peter John Lambert, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Raffaella Sadun, Bledi Taska

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15771

Promoting Equity through Equitable Risk Tradeoffs

Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi

published in: Journal of Benefit Cost Analysis, 2023, 14 (1), 8-34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15384

The Labor Market Impacts of Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Brazil

Mrittika Shamsuddin, Pablo A. Acosta, Rovane Battaglin Schwengber, Jedediah Fix, Nikolas Pirani

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15334

Diaspora Economics

Tony Fang, Alex Wells

published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15066

An Impact Assessment of ESF Training Courses for Unemployed in the Province of Bolzano

Francesco Pastore, Marco Pompili

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15045

Migration on the Rise, a Paradigm in Decline: The Last Half-Century of Global Mobility

Michael A. Clemens

published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022, 112, 257-261

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15005

The Impact Evaluation of Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (New School) Program on Students' Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills

Hai-Anh H Dang, Paul Glewwe, Jongwook Lee, Khoa Vu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14932

Spatial and Time Spillovers of Driving Restrictions: Causal Evidence from Lima's Pico Y Placa Policy

Edgar Salgado, Oscar A. Mitnik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14929

COVID-19 Government Responses to Labour Market Disruptions and Economic Impacts: The New Zealand Model

Sholeh A. Maani

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14642

What If Working from Home Will Stick? Distributional and Climate Impacts for Germany

Marion Bachelet, Matthias Kalkuhl, Nicolas Koch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14519

How Did the COVID-19 Crisis Affect Different Types of Workers in the Developing World?

Maurice Kugler, Mariana Viollaz, Daniel Duque, Isis Gaddis, David Newhouse, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Michael Weber

published in: World Development, 2023, 170, 106331

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14460

A Political Economy and Voicing Model of the Institutional Impact of Brain Drain, Human Capital, Inequality and Country Size

Frédéric Docquier, Maurice Schiff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14267

Development Level of Hosting Areas and the Impact of Refugees on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes

Doğu Tan Aracı, Murat Demirci, Murat Güray Kirdar

published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 145, 104132.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14148

Culture as a Hiring Criterion: Systemic Discrimination in a Procedurally Fair Hiring Process

Dominique Meurs, Patrick A. Puhani

published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 87, 102482

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14084

The Refugee Crisis and Right-Wing Populism: Evidence from the Italian Dispersal Policy

Francesco Campo, Sara Giunti, Mariapia Mendola

published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 168, 104826

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13586

The Extractive Industry's Impact on Economic Growth in SADC Countries

Simeão Nhabinde, Almas Heshmati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13516

Reacting Quickly and Protecting Jobs: The Short-Term Impacts of the COVID-19 Lockdown on the Greek Labor Market

Gordon Betcherman, Nicholas Giannakopoulos, Ioannis Laliotis, Ioanna Pantelaiou, Mauro Testaverde, Giannis Tzimas

published as 'The short-term impact of the 2020 pandemic lockdown on employment in Greece' in: Empirical Economics, 2023, 65, 1273 - 1307

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13431

A Theory of Social Impact Bonds

Daniel L. Tortorice, David E. Bloom, Paige Kirby, John Regan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13431

A Theory of Social Impact Bonds

Daniel L. Tortorice, David E. Bloom, Paige Kirby, John Regan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13290

A Unifying Approach to Measuring Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation

Antonio M. Bento, Noah Miller, Mehreen Mookerjee, Edson Severnini

published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, 121, 102843

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13235

Modelling the Distributional Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis

Cathal O'Donoghue, Denisa Maria Sologon, Iryna Kyzyma, John McHale

published in: Fiscal Studies, 2020, 41 (2), 321 - 336

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13171

Echo Effects of Early-Life Health Shocks: The Intergenerational Consequences of Prenatal Malnutrition during the Great Leap Forward Famine in China

Jinhu Li, Nidhiya Menon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12762

Money for Something: Braided Funding and the Structure and Output of Research Groups

Russell J. Funk, Britta Glennon, Julia Lane, Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Matthew B. Ross

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12748

Combined and Distributional Effects of EPL Reduction and Hiring Incentives: An Assessment Using Non-Linear DiD

Chiara Ardito, Fabio Berton, Lia Pacelli

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023, 21, 925–954

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12487

The Effectiveness of Interventions to Reduce Informality in Low- and Middle Income Countries

Jonas Jessen, Jochen Kluve

revised version published in: World Development, 2021, 138, 105256

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12109

Cash, Conditions and Child Development: Experimental Evidence from a Cash Transfer in Honduras

Florencia López Bóo, John Creamer

published in: Economia, LACEA, 2019, 19 (2), 169 - 196

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12049

Labor Market Impacts of States Issuing of Driving Licenses to Undocumented Immigrants

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo, Almudena Sevilla

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 63,101805

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12020

Connecting to Economic Opportunity? The Role of Public Transport in Promoting Women's Employment in Lima

Daniel Martinez, Oscar A. Mitnik, Edgar Salgado, Lynn Scholl, Patricia Yanez-Pagans

revised version published in: Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2020, 3, 1-23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12019

A Rapid Road to Employment? The Impacts of a Bus Rapid Transit System in Lima

Lynn Scholl, Daniel Martinez, Oscar A. Mitnik, Daniel Oviedo, Patricia Yanez-Pagans

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. 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. 11812

Urban Transport Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges and Lessons Learned

Patricia Yanez-Pagans, Daniel Martinez, Oscar A. Mitnik, Lynn Scholl, Antonia Vazquez

revised version published in: Latin American Economic Review, 2019, 28, 5 (2019)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11479

Organisational Accreditation and Worker Upskilling in Britain

Getinet Astatike Haile

published as 'Organisational accreditation, workforce training and perceptions of performance' in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2021, 52 (4), 291-314

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11310

The Relationship between Union Membership and Net Fiscal Impact

Aaron Sojourner, José Pacas

published in: Industrial Relations, 2019, 58 (1), 86-107

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11265

The Impact of High School Financial Education on Financial Knowledge and Choices: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Spain

Olympia Bover, Laura Hospido, Ernesto Villanueva

published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 08 January 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11092

Microdata for Social Sciences and Policy Evaluation as a Public Good

Ugo Trivellato

published in: Crato N. and P. Paruolo (eds,), Data-driven Policy Impact Evaluation: How Microdata is Transforming Policy Design, Springer, 2019, 27- 45

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11049

Education, Governance, and Trade- and Distance-Related Technology Diffusion: Accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP Gap, and the TFP Impact of South America's Greater Distance to the North

Maurice Schiff, Yanling Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11039

Active Labour Market Programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from a Meta Analysis

Veronica Escudero, Jochen Kluve, Elva López Mourelo, Clemente Pignatti

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (12), 2644 - 2661

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10619

Scaling Up Sanitation: Evidence from an RCT in Indonesia

Lisa A. Cameron, Manisha Shah

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 138, 1-16

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10381

The Economic Impact of East?West Migration on the European Union

Martin Kahanec, Mariola Pytlikova

published in: Empirica, 2017, 44 (3), 407-434.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10297

Privatisation in Developing Countries: What Are the Lessons of Recent Experience?

Saul Estrin, Adeline Pelletier

published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2018, 33 (1), 65–102,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10263

Do Youth Employment Programs Improve Labor Market Outcomes? A Systematic Review

Jochen Kluve, Olga Susana Puerto, David A. Robalino, Jose M. Romero, Friederike Rother, Jonathan Stöterau, Felix Weidenkaff, Marc J. Witte

published as 'Do youth employment programs improve labor market outcomes? A quantitative review' in: World Development, 2019, 114, 237 - 253

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10201

Effects of the Bologna Reform on Educational Outcomes: Micro Evidence from Germany

Sabrina Hahm, Jochen Kluve

revised version published as 'Better with Bologna? Tertiary education reform and student outcomes' in: Education Economics, 2019, 27 (4), 425 - 559

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10167

The Heterogeneous Impacts of Business Cycles on Educational Attainment

Ernest Boffy-Ramirez

published in: Education Economics, 2017, 25 (6), 554-561

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9922

Community-Based Health Insurance and Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Spending in Africa: Evidence from Rwanda

Andinet Woldemichael, Daniel Zerfu Gurara, Abebe Shimeles

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9789

Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers

Michael A. Clemens, Claudio Montenegro, Lant Pritchett

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (2), 201–213.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9777

Can Fixed-Term Contracts Put Low Skilled Youth on a Better Career Path? Evidence from Spain

J. Ignacio Garcia Perez, Ioana E. Marinescu, Judit Vall Castello

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9730

The New Economic Case for Migration Restrictions: An Assessment

Michael A. Clemens, Lant Pritchett

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 138, 153-164.

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. 9099

Quality of Higher Education and the Labor Market in Developing Countries: Evidence from an Education Reform in Senegal

Dorothée Boccanfuso, Alexandre Larouche, Mircea Trandafir

published in: World Development, 2015, 74, 412-424

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9033

Program Evaluation and Spillover Effects

Manuela Angelucci, Vincenzo Di Maro

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8902

Finance for All: The Impact of Financial Literacy Training in Compulsory Secondary Education in Spain

Laura Hospido, Ernesto Villanueva, Gema Zamarro

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8779

Burden or Relief? Fiscal Impacts of Recent Ukrainian Migration to Poland

Pawel Kaczmarczyk

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8755

What Methods May Be Used in Impact Evaluations of Humanitarian Assistance?

Jyotsna Puri, Anastasia Aladysheva, Vegard Iversen, Yashodhan Ghorpade, Tilman Brück

published as: 'Can Rigorous Impact Evaluations Improve Humanitarian Assistance?' in: Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2017, 9 (4), 519 - 542.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8719

Beer, Wood, and Welfare

Michael Grimm, Jörg Peters

published in: PLoS ONE, 2015, 10 (8), e0132603

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8523

Evidence on Policies to Increase the Development Impacts of International Migration

David McKenzie, Dean Yang

published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2015, 30(2), 155-92

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8489

The Impact of a One Laptop per Child Program on Learning: Evidence from Uruguay

Gioia De Melo, Alina Machado, Alfonso Miranda

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8432

Collaborating With People Like Me: Ethnic Co-authorship within the US

Richard B. Freeman, Wei Huang

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (3), S1 / Part 2, S289-S318.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8340

Accounting for Peer Effects in Treatment Response

Rokhaya Dieye, Habiba Djebbari, Felipe Barrera-Osorio

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8193

Do Interventions Targeted at Micro-Entrepreneurs and Small and Medium-Sized Firms Create Jobs? A Systematic Review of the Evidence for Low and Middle Income Countries

Michael Grimm, Anna Luisa Paffhausen

published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 32, 67-85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7955

Brain Drain, Educational Quality and Immigration Policy: Impact on Productive Human Capital in Source and Host Countries, with Canada as a Case Study

Maurice Schiff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7954

The Effects of Shared School Technology Access on Students Digital Skills in Peru

German Bet, Julián P. Cristia, Pablo Ibarrarán

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7778

Immigration in Europe: Trends, Policies and Empirical Evidence

Sara de la Rica, Albrecht Glitz, Francesc Ortega

published in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller (eds.): Handbook on the Economics of International Migration, 1B, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7664

Costs and Benefits of Labor Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries: The Case of Poland

Maciej Duszczyk, Marek Góra, Pawel Kaczmarczyk

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7593

Multidimensional Targeting and Evaluation: A General Framework with an Application to a Poverty Program in Bangladesh

Virginia Robano, Stephen C. Smith

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7496

Cash Transfers and Child Labour

Jacobus de Hoop, Furio C. Rosati

published in: World Bank Reserach Observer, 2014, 29 (2), 202-234

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7439

Win Some Lose Some? Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco

Manuela Angelucci, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman

substantially revised version published as "Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco" in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2015, 7 (1), 151-182

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7049

The Labor Demand Was Downward Sloping: Disentangling Migrants' Inflows and Outflows, 1929-1957

Costanza Biavaschi

published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (3), 531–534

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6743

Macroeconomic Impacts of Canadian Immigration: Results from a Macro-Model

Peter Dungan, Tony Fang, Morley Gunderson

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations , 2013, 51 (1), 174-195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6671

How Are Firms Affected by the Crisis and How Do They React?

Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen, Ioana Neamtu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6617