IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'The impact of co-national networks on asylum seekers' employment: Quasi-experimental evidence from Germany.' in: PLOS One, 2020, 15 (8), e0236996

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12860

Refugees and Foreign Direct Investment: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from U.S. Resettlements

Anna Maria Mayda, Christopher Parsons, Han Pham, Pierre-Louis Vézina

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12848

Peer Networks and Entrepreneurship: A Pan-African RCT

Fernando Vega-Redondo, Paolo Pin, Diego Ubfal, Cristiana Benedetti-Fasil, Charles Brummitt, Gaia Rubera, Dirk Hovy, Tommaso Fornaciari

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12813

Improving Access to Savings through Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence from African Smallholder Farmers

Catia Batista, Pedro C. Vicente

forthcoming in: World Development, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12761

Former Communist Party Membership and Present-Day Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe

Artjoms Ivlevs, Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova

published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57(4), 1783-1800, [Link]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12709

Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from U.S. Mass Migration

Bryan Stuart, Evan J. Taylor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12534

Crime and Networks: 10 Policy Lessons

Matthew J. Lindquist, Yves Zenou

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2019.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12534

Crime and Networks: 10 Policy Lessons

Matthew J. Lindquist, Yves Zenou

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2019.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12347

An Experimental Study on the Effects of Communication, Credibility, and Clustering in Network Games

Gary Charness, Francesco Feri, Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez, Matthias Sutter

Revised version forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics (accepted August 2021)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12323

Social Connections and the Sorting of Workers to Firms

Marcus Eliason, Lena Hensvik, Francis Kramarz, Oskar Nordström Skans

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12287

Hiring through Referrals in a Labor Market with Adverse Selection

Aurelie Dariel, Arno Riedl, Simon Siegenthaler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12270

Learning through Coworker Referrals

Albrecht Glitz, Rune Majlund Vejlin

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2021, 42, 37-71

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12198

Networks, Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurial Performance in Africa: Evidence from Eswatini

Zuzana Brixiova, Thierry Kangoye

published in: A. Bullough, D. Hechavarria, C. Brush and L. Edelman (eds.), Programs, Policies, & Practices: Fostering High-Growth Women’s Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12097

Who Goes on Disability When Times Are Tough? The Role of Social Costs of Take-Up Among Immigrants

Delia Furtado, Kerry L. Papps, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos

published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 143, 103983

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11942

Leveraging Patients' Social Networks to Overcome Tuberculosis Underdetection: A Field Experiment in India

Jessica Goldberg, Mario Macis, Pradeep Chintagunta

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11916

Superstar Economists: Coauthorship Networks and Research Output

Chih-Sheng Hsieh, Michael D. König, Xiaodong Liu, Christian Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11888

The Role of Institutions and Immigrant Networks in Firms' Offshoring Decisions

Simone Moriconi, Giovanni Peri, Dario Pozzoli

revised version published as 'The role of institutions and immigrant networks in firms' offshoring decisions' in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2020, 53 (4), 1745 - 1792

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11855

Broadband Internet and Social Capital

Andrea Geraci, Mattia Nardotto, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Fabio Sabatini

revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 206, 104578 [Online]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11777

Migration, Political Institutions, and Social Networks

Catia Batista, Julia Seither, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: World Development, 2019, 117, 328-343

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11578

Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills, Hiring Channels, and Wages in Bangladesh

Anne Hilger, Christophe Jalil Nordman, Leopold Sarr

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11535

Tax Evasion on a Social Network

Duccio Gamannossi degl’Innocenti, Matthew D. Rablen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11521

Using Social Connections and Financial Incentives to Solve Coordination Failure: A Quasi-Field Experiment in India's Manufacturing Sector

Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Sherry Xin Li, Swati Sharma

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 144, 102445

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11498

Political Connections and Firms: Network Dimensions

Maurizio Bussolo, Simon Commander, Stavros Poupakis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11436

Conformism, Social Norms and the Dynamics of Assimilation

Gonzalo Olcina, Fabrizio Panebianco, Yves Zenou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11413

Social Interactions and Stigmatized Behavior: "Donating" Blood Plasma in Rural China

Xi Chen, David E. Sahn, Xiaobo Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11290

Civility and Trust in Social Media

Angelo Antoci, Laura Bonelli, Fabio Paglieri, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Fabio Sabatini

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 160, 83-99 [Online]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11282

Women and Migration

Francisca M. Antman

published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys, and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, New York: Oxford University Press, p.731-747, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11267

Better Together? Social Networks in Truancy and the Targeting of Treatment

Magdalena Bennett, Peter Bergman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11230

Gender Homophily in Referral Networks: Consequences for the Medicare Physician Earnings Gap

Dan Zeltzer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11171

Linguistic Distance, Networks and Migrants' Regional Location Choice

Julia Bredtmann, Klaus Nowotny, Sebastian Otten

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, Article 101863

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10803

The Effect of Social Networks on the Economic Outcomes of a Disadvantaged Group: Evidence from Tribal Affiliations

Isabelle Sin, Steven Stillman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10588

Gender and Peer Effects in Social Networks

Julie Beugnot, Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 113, 207-224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10514

Persistent Occupational Hierarchies among Immigrant Worker Groups in the United States Labor Market

Agnieszka Postepska, Francis Vella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10483

Brothers in Arms: Spillovers from a Draft Lottery

Paul Bingley, Petter Lundborg, Stéphanie Vincent Lyk-Jensen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10481

Social Networks and Mental Health Problems: Evidence from Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China

Xin Meng, Sen Xue

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10480

Do Neighbors Help Finding a Job? Social Networks and Labor Market Outcomes After Plant Closures

Elke J. Jahn, Michael Neugart

substantially revised version in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101825,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10418

Is There a Preferential Treatment for Locals in the Labor Market? Evidence from Takeovers

Tommaso Colussi, Livio Romano

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10401

Career Choice and the Strength of Weak Ties

Semih Tumen

published in: Central Bank Review, 2017, 17(3), 91-97

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10233

Immigrant Birthcountry Networks and Unemployment Duration: Evidence around the Great Recession

Kusum Mundra, Fernando Rios-Avila

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10213

Networks and Migrants' Intended Destination

Simone Bertoli, Ilse Ruyssen

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2018, 18 (4), 705–728

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10186

Residential Choices of Young Americans

Eleonora Patacchini, Tiziano Arduini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10112

Migrant Networks and Trade: The Vietnamese Boat People as a Natural Experiment

Christopher Parsons, Pierre-Louis Vézina

forthcoming in: Economic Journal

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 (First Online: 11 August 2018)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9983

Consumption Network Effects

Giacomo De Giorgi, Anders Frederiksen, Luigi Pistaferri

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2020, 87 (1), 130-163

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9942

Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants

Deepti Goel, Kevin Lang

published in: ILR Review, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1177/0019793917729350

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9852

Labor Market Networks and Recovery from Mass Layoffs Before, During, and After the Great Recession

Judith K. Hellerstein, Mark J. Kutzbach, David Neumark

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9842

The Effect of Kinship on Intergenerational Cooperation: A Lab Experiment with Three Generations

José Alberto Molina, Alfredo Ferrer, J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Carlos Gracia-Lazaro, Yamir Moreno, Angel Sanchez

published as 'Intergenerational cooperation within the household: a Public Good game with three generations' in: Review of Economics of the Household (First Online: 07 April 2018)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9762

The Formation of Networks in the Diaspora

Gil S. Epstein, Odelia Heizler (Cohen)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9639

Temporary and Permanent Migrant Selection: Theory and Evidence of Ability-Search Cost Dynamics

Joyce J Chen, Katrina Kosec, Valerie Mueller

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9573

Informal versus Formal Search: Which Yields a Better Pay?

Semih Tumen

published in: International Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 12(3), 257-277

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9455

Firm-Size Wage Gaps along the Formal-Informal Divide: Theory and Evidence