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93 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17899
The Genetic Lottery Goes to School: Better Schools Compensate for the Effects of Students’ Genetic Differences
Rosa Cheesman, Nicolai T. Borgen, Astrid Marie Jorde Sandsor, Paul Hufe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17897
Gene x Environment Interactions: Polygenic Scores and the Impact of an Early Childhood Intervention in Colombia
Orazio Attanasio, Gabriella Conti, Pamela Jervis, Costas Meghir, Aysu Okbay
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17818
Political Socialization and Social Networks
Stanley Feldman, Mikael Hjerm, William Nilsson, Steven Stillman, José Gabriel Romero Ciavatto
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17234
Working from Home and Performance Pay: Individual or Collective Payment Schemes?
Uwe Jirjahn, Cinzia Rienzo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16982
Informal Social Interactions, Academic Achievement and Behavior: Evidence from Peers on the School Bus
Matthew A. Lenard, Mikko Silliman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16757
Basic Income Advocates, Sober Up.
Ive Marx
published in: Sarah Marchal and Ive Marx (eds.), Zero Poverty Society: Ensuring a Decent Income for All, Oxford University Press, 2024, 207–227
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16175
Temperature and Joint Time Use
Sam Cosaert, Adrián Nieto, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15952
Not That Basic: How Level, Design and Context Matter for the Redistributive Outcomes of Universal Basic Income
Elise Aerts, Ive Marx, Gerlinde Verbist
published online in: Journal of Social Policy, 7 December 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15462
When Reality Bites: Local Deaths and Vaccine Take-up
Corrado Giulietti, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou
published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 156, 104463
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15038
Key Links in Network Interactions: Assessing Route-Specific Travel Restrictions in China during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Xi Chen, Yun Qiu, Wei Shi, Pei Yu
published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 73, 101800
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14476
The Economic Incentives of Cultural Transmission: Spatial Evidence from Naming Patterns across France
Yann Algan, Clément Malgouyres, Thierry Mayer, Mathias Thoenig
published in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (642), 437 - 470
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14167
Selection and Endogenous Treatment Models with Social Interactions: An Application to the Impact of Exercise on Self-Esteem
Zhongjian Lin, Francis Vella
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14069
Gender Match and the Gender Gap in Venture Capital Financing: Evidence from Shark Tank
Michael Jetter, Kieran Stockley
published as 'Gender match and negotiation: evidence from angel investment on Shark Tank' in: Empirical Economics, 2023, 64, 1947 - 1977
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13661
Anger and Strategic Behavior: A Level-k Analysis
Alessandro Castagnetti, Eugenio Proto
published as 'Anger impairs strategic behavior: A Beauty-Contest based analysis' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 213, 128-141
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13441
Family Disadvantage, Gender and the Returns to Genetic Human Capital
Victor Ronda, Esben Agerbo, Dorthe Bleses, Preben Bo Mortensen, Anders Børglum, David M. Hougaard, Ole Mors, Merete Nordentoft, Thomas Werge, Michael Rosholm
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2022, 124 (2), 550-578
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. 12709
Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from U.S. Mass Migration
Bryan Andrew Stuart, Evan J. Taylor
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (3), 134 - 175
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12564
Trade and Capital Flows: Substitutes or Complements? An Empirical Investigation
Ansgar H. Belke, Clemens Domnick
published in: Review of International Economics, 2021, 29 (3), 573 - 589
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12452
Mental Health, Schooling Attainment and Polygenic Scores: Are There Significant Gene-Environment Associations?
Vikesh Amin, Jere R. Behrman, Jason M. Fletcher, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Hans-Peter Kohler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12269
The Third Theorem of Welfare Economics: Report from a Fictional Field Study
Karine Nyborg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11893
Minimum Wage Competition between Local Governments in China
Yanan Li, Ravi Kanbur, Carl Lin
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55(12), 2479-2494
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11780
Interdependent Hazards, Local Interactions, and the Return Decision of Recent Migrants
Govert Bijwaard, Christian Schluter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11553
Diversity and Growth
Mark Gradstein, Moshe Justman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11544
Environmental Bottlenecks on Children's Genetic Potential for Adult Socioeconomic Attainments: Evidence from a Health Shock
Jason M. Fletcher
published in: Population Studies: A Journal of Demography, 2019, 73 (1), 139-148
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11326
Cognitive Skills and the Development of Strategic Sophistication
Eduardo Fe, David Gill
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11141
Spillovers in Education Choice
Juanna Schrøter Joensen, Helena Skyt Nielsen
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 157, 158-183
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10936
Child Discipline in Times of Conflict
Michael Malcolm, Vidya Diwakar, George S Naufal
published in: Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2020, 64 (6), 1070–1094
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10712
Fathers, Parental Leave and Gender Norms
Ulrike Unterhofer, Katharina Wrohlich
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10674
Do Friendship Networks Improve Female Education?
Youjin Hahn, Asadul Islam, Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou
published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130, 740-764.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10648
A Framework for Separating Individual Treatment Effects from Spillover, Interaction, and General Equilibrium Effects
Martin Huber, Andreas Steinmayr
pusblished in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2021, 39 (2), 422 - 436
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10483
Brothers in Arms: Spillovers from a Draft Lottery
Paul Bingley, Petter Lundborg, Stéphanie Vincent Lyk-Jensen
published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 06 August 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10254
What is the Added Value of Preschool? Long-Term Impacts and Interactions with a Health Intervention
Maya Rossin-Slater, Miriam Wüst
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12 (3), 255-86.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10173
Peer Effects in Parental Leave Decisions
Clara Welteke, Katharina Wrohlich
published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 56 (2), 146-163.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10008
Co-authorship and Academic Productivity in Economics: Interaction Maps from the Complex Networks Approach
José Alberto Molina, Alberto Alcolea, Alfredo Ferrer, David Iñiguez, Alejandro Rivero, Gonzalo Ruiz, Alfonso Tarancón
published as 'Network analysis to measure academic performance in Economics' in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 58, 995 - 1018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9505
Social Interactions in Job Satisfaction
Semih Tumen, Tugba Zeydanli
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37(3), 426-455
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9166
Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties: European versus American Cities
Pierre M. Picard, Yves Zenou
published as 'Urban spatial structure, employment and social ties' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 104, 77-93.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9087
Peer Effects, Fast Food Consumption and Adolescent Weight Gain
Bernard Fortin, Myra Yazbeck
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 42, 125-138
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9056
On the Equilibrium and Welfare Consequences of 'Keeping up with the Joneses'
Frédéric Gavrel, Therese Rebiere
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8738
Spillovers of Prosocial Motivation: Evidence from an Intervention Study on Blood Donors
Adrian Bruhin, Lorenz Götte, Simon Haenni, Lingqing Jiang
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 70, 102244.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8714
Following the Crowd: Leisure Complementarities Beyond the Household
Simon Georges-Kot, Dominique Goux, Eric Maurin
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (4), 1061-1088
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8615
Sibling Spillover Effects in School Achievement
Cheti Nicoletti, Birgitta Rabe
published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34 (4), 482-501
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8509
Estimating Direct and Indirect Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Firm Productivity in the Presence of Interactions between Firms
Sourafel Girma, Yundan Gong, Holger Görg, Sandra Lancheros
published in: Journal of International Economics, 2015, 95 (1), 157-169
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8301
Household Finances and Social Interaction: Bayesian Analysis of Household Panel Data
Sarah Brown, Pulak Ghosh, Karl Taylor
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2016, 62 (3), 467-488
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8022
Scraping By: Income and Program Participation After the Loss of Extended Unemployment Benefits
Jesse Rothstein, Robert G. Valletta
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7914
How Urbanization Affects Employment and Social Interactions
Yasuhiro Sato, Yves Zenou
published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 75, 131-155.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7256
Where the Streets Have a Name: Income Comparisons in the US
Abel Brodeur, Sarah Flèche
published as 'Neighbors' Income, Public Goods and Well-Being' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65(2), 217-238
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6939
Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach
Alexander M. Danzer, Firat Yaman
published in: Review of International Economics, 2013, 21 (2), 311–325
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6862
Education and Freedom of Choice: Evidence from Arranged Marriages in Vietnam
M. Shahe Emran, Fenohasina Maret-Rakotondrazaka, Stephen C. Smith
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2014, 50 (4), 481-501
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6730
Additive Decompositions with Interaction Effects
Martin Biewen
revised version published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2014, 21 (9), 636-642
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6681
Peer Effects in Program Participation
Gordon B. Dahl, Katrine Vellesen Loken, Magne Mogstad
published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (7), 2049-2074
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6446
Social Insurance Networks
Simen Markussen, Knut Røed
revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50(4), 1081-1113
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6040
Neighborhood Effects and Individual Unemployment
Thomas K. Bauer, Michael Fertig, Matthias Vorell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5934
Social Interactions in the Labor Market
Andrew Grodner, Thomas J. Kniesner, John A. Bishop
published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2010, 6 (4), 265-366
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5779
Estimating Heterogeneous Take-up and Crowd-Out Responses to Marginal and Non-Marginal Medicaid Expansions
John C. Ham, Serkan Ozbeklik, Lara Shore-Sheppard
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (4), 872-905
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5648
Altruism in Society: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Involving Commuters
Redzo Mujcic, Paul Frijters
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5624
Understanding Social Interactions: Evidence from the Classroom
Giacomo De Giorgi, Michele Pellizzari
published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124(579), 917–953
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5621
Intergenerational Analysis of Social Interaction
Sarah Brown, Jolian McHardy, Karl Taylor
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 40, 43-54
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5606
Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment: Does Finance Matter?
Christophe Rault, Anne-Gaël Vaubourg
published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2012, 54 (1), 43 - 64
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5436
Business Visits and the Quest for External Knowledge
Massimiliano Tani
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2014, 40, 293-324
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5414
Indirect Effects of a Policy Altering Criminal Behaviour: Evidence from the Italian Prison Experiment
Francesco Drago, Roberto Galbiati
revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (2), 199-218
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4950
The Effects of Lottery Prizes on Winners and their Neighbors: Evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery
Peter J. Kuhn, Peter Kooreman, Adriaan R. Soetevent, Arie Kapteyn
published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (5), 2226-2247
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4886
Social Interaction and Stock Market Participation: Evidence from British Panel Data
Sarah Brown, Karl Taylor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4585
Nature, Nurture and Egalitarian Policy: What Can We Learn from Molecular Genetics?
Petter Lundborg, Anders Stenberg
published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 8 (3), 320-330
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4532
Social Interaction, Co-Worker Altruism, and Incentives
Robert Dur, Joeri Sol
published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2010, 69 (2), 293-301
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4175
Migrants at School: Educational Inequality and Social Interaction in the UK and Germany
Horst Entorf, Eirini Tatsi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4084
Do the Selfish Mimic Cooperators? Experimental Evidence from Finitely-Repeated Labor Markets
Brian E. Roe, Steven Y. Wu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3960
Sick of Your Colleagues' Absence?
Patrik Hesselius, Per Johansson, Peter Nilsson
published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2009, 7 (2–3), 1–12
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3899
Strike Three: Umpires' Demand for Discrimination
Christopher A. Parsons, Johan Sulaeman, Michael C. Yates, Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (4), 1410-1435
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3684
Distribution of Wealth and Interdependent Preferences
Andrew Grodner, Thomas J. Kniesner
published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2010, 6 (4), 265-366
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3656
Social Interactions in Demand
Andrew Grodner, Thomas J. Kniesner
published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2010, 6 (4), 265-366
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3478
The Treatment Effect, the Cross Difference, and the Interaction Term in Nonlinear “Difference-in-Differences” Models
Patrick A. Puhani
published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 115 (1), 85-87
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3437
A Caseworker Like Me: Does the Similarity between Unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?
Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner
published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120(549), 1430-1459
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3331
Ethnic Networks and Employment Outcomes
Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou
published online in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42, 938-949.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3034
Labor Supply with Social Interactions: Econometric Estimates and Their Tax Policy Implications
Andrew Grodner, Thomas J. Kniesner
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 1-23
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2984
Are All Democracies Equally Good? The Role of Interactions between Political Environment and Inequality for Rule of Law
Uwe Sunde, Matteo Cervellati, Piergiuseppe Fortunato
slightly revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 99 (3), 552-556
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2833
Be as Careful of the Books You Read as of the Company You Keep: Evidence on Peer Effects in Educational Choices
Giacomo De Giorgi, Michele Pellizzari, Silvia Redaelli
Revised version published as "Identifcation of Social Interactions through Partially Overlapping Peer Groups" in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2(2), 241-75
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2666
Smoking and Social Interaction
Panu Poutvaara, Lars Siemers
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (6), 1503–1515
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2466
Interpersonal Styles and Labor Market Outcomes
Lex Borghans, Bas ter Weel, Bruce A. Weinberg
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2008, 43 (4), 815-858
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2324
Identification of Peer Effects Using Group Size Variation
Laurent Davezies, Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Denis Fougère
published in: Econometrics Journal, 2009, 12 (3), 397-413
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2224
The Location of Immigrants at Retirement: Stay/Return or ‘Va-et-Vient’?
Augustin de Coulon, François-Charles Wolff
published as: "Location intentions of immigrants at retirement: stay/return or go "back and forth?", in: Applied Economics, 2010, 42 (26), 3319-33
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2050
Ethnic Specialization and Earnings Inequality: Why Being a Minority Hurts but Being a Big Minority Hurts More
Martin Kahanec
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1988
Geographic Proximity, Trade and International Conflict/Cooperation
John Robst, Solomon Polachek, Yuan-Ching Chang
published in: Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2007, 24 (1), 1-24
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1872
Two Faces of the ICT Revolution: Desegregation and Minority-Majority Earnings Inequality
Martin Kahanec
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1769
Competition and Well-Being
Jordi Brandts, Arno Riedl, Frans van Winden
published as "Competitive Rivalry, Social Disposition, and Subjective Well-Being: An Experiment" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (11-12), 1158-1167
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1573
"It Wasn't Me, It Was Them!" - Social Influence in Risky Behavior by Adolescents
Andrew E. Clark, Youenn Lohéac
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2007, 26 (4), 763-784
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1494
People People: Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups
Lex Borghans, Bas ter Weel, Bruce A. Weinberg
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (2), 287-334
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1381
Living in Two Neighborhoods: Social Interactions in the Lab
Armin Falk, Urs Fischbacher, Simon Gächter
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (1), 563–578
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1359
Tax Evasion and Social Interactions
Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (11-12), 2089-2112.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1198
Contract Violations, Neighborhood Effects, and Wage Arrears in Russia
John S. Earle, Klara Sabirianova Peter
revised version published as' Complementarity and Custom in Wage Contract Violation' in: Review of Economicss and Statistics, 2009, 91(4), 832 - 849
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1043
Shadow Economies around the World: What Do We Know?
Friedrich Schneider, Robert Klinglmair
published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2005, 21 (3), 598-642
IZA Discussion Paper No. 897
Relational Contracts and the Nature of Market Interactions
Martin Brown, Armin Falk, Ernst Fehr
published in: Econometrica, 2004, 72 (3), 747-780
IZA Discussion Paper No. 803
Social Interactions in Unemployment
Rafael Lalive
IZA Discussion Paper No. 196
Equilibrium Wage Arrears: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Institutional Lock-In
John S. Earle, Klara Sabirianova Peter
revised version published as' Complementarity and Custom in Wage Contract Violation' in: Review of Economicss and Statistics, 2009, 91 (4), 832 - 849
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