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434 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13029
Value of Publicly Available, Textual and Non-textuThe al Information for Startup Performance Prediction
Ulrich Kaiser, Johan Moritz Kuhn
published in: Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2020, 14, e00179
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12996
Class Size Effects in Higher Education: Differences across STEM and Non-STEM Fields
Elif Kara, Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos
substantially revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 82, 102104
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12862
Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: First Evidence from Longitudinal Data
Simon Amez, Suncica Vujic, Lieven De Marez, Stijn Baert
revised version published in: New Media & Society, 2023, 25(3), 584-608.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12723
Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: A Literature Review
Simon Amez, Stijn Baert
revised version published in: International Journal of Educational Research, 2020, 103, 10161
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12684
Does Increased Teacher Accountability Decrease Leniency in Grading?
Patrick A. Puhani, Philip Yang
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 171, 333 - 341
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12670
Works Councils and Performance Appraisals
Christian Grund, Dirk Sliwka, Krystina Titz
published in: Journal of Participation & Employee Ownership, 2020, 3, 29-50
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12670
Works Councils and Performance Appraisals
Christian Grund, Dirk Sliwka, Krystina Titz
published in: Journal of Participation & Employee Ownership, 2020, 3, 29-50
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12657
Are Women Doing It For Themselves? Gender Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap
Nikolaos Theodoropoulos, John Forth, Alex Bryson
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 84 (6), 1329-1355
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12627
Hunger and Performance in the Classroom
Farzana Afridi, Bidisha Barooah, Rohini Somanathan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12596
The Consequences of Short-Time Compensation: Evidence from Japan
Takao Kato, Naomi Kodama
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12592
Deregulating Teacher Labor Markets
Simon Burgess, Ellen Greaves, Richard J. Murphy
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 88, 102253
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12586
Performance Pay and Productivity in Health Care: Evidence from Community Health Centers
Brian C. Cadena, Austin C. Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12580
What Does Leadership Look like in Schools and Does It Matter for School Performance?
Lucy Stokes, Alex Bryson, David Wilkinson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12527
The Impact of High-Performance Work Systems on Employees: A Sectoral Comparison
Michael White, Alex Bryson
published in: Labour, 2024, 38 (1), 102-121
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12517
High Performance Work Systems and Public Sector Workplace Performance in Britain
Michael White, Alex Bryson
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2021,73 (3), 1057-1076
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12517
High Performance Work Systems and Public Sector Workplace Performance in Britain
Michael White, Alex Bryson
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2021,73 (3), 1057-1076
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12491
Students are Almost as Effective as Professors in University Teaching
Jan Feld, Nicolás Salamanca, Ulf Zölitz
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 73, Article 101912
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12446
Talking about Performance or Paying for it? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka, Timo Vogelsang
published as 'Talking About Performance or Paying for It? A Field Experiment on Performance Reviews and Incentives' in: Management Science, 2023, 69 (4), 2198-2216
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12446
Talking about Performance or Paying for it? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka, Timo Vogelsang
published as 'Talking About Performance or Paying for It? A Field Experiment on Performance Reviews and Incentives' in: Management Science, 2023, 69 (4), 2198-2216
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12445
Who Gains from Active Learning in Higher Education?
Giulio Bosio, Federica Origo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12437
Rank Incentives and Social Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Isabella Dobrescu, Marco Faravelli, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Alberto Motta
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12437
Rank Incentives and Social Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Isabella Dobrescu, Marco Faravelli, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Alberto Motta
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12357
The Gender Composition of Corporate Boards and Firm Performance: Evidence from Russia
Tatiana Garanina, Alexander Muravyev
revised version published in: Emerging Markets Review, 2021, 48, 100772
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12264
Responding to Regulation: The Effects of Changes in Mandatory Retirement Laws on Firm-Provided Incentives
Anders Frederiksen, Colleen Flaherty Manchester
published as 'Personnel Practices and Regulation: How Firm-Provided Incentives Respond to Changes in Mandatory Retirement Law' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (4), 1011-1042
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12216
Trust and Workplace Performance
John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira
revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (4), 874-903.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12215
Self-Confidence and Reactions to Subjective Performance Evaluations
Charles Bellemare, Alexander Sebald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12156
Born in the Family: Preferences for Boys and the Gender Gap in Math
Gaia Dossi, David N. Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Paola Sapienza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11976
Early Career Research Production in Economics: Does Mentoring Matter?
Andrés García-Suaza, Jesus Otero, Rainer Winkelmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11969
Is Pupil Attainment Higher in Well-Managed Schools?
Alex Bryson, Lucy Stokes, David Wilkinson
published in: Education Economics, 2023, 31 (1), 129 - 144
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11965
HPWS in the Public Sector: Are There Mutual Gains?
Michael White, Alex Bryson
published in: F. Origio and S. Tomelleri (eds.), Rethinking entrepreneurial human capital, Springer, 2018, 43-62
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11936
Biology and the Gender Gap in Educational Performance: The Role of Prenatal Testosterone in Test Scores
Anne C. Gielen, Esmée Zwiers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11921
Smog, Cognition and Real-World Decision Making
Xi Chen
published in: International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2019, 8 (2), 76 - 80
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11859
Performance Pay and Prior Learning: Evidence from a Retail Chain
Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka, Timo Vogelsang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11761
Choking under Pressure: Evidence of the Causal Effect of Audience Size on Performance
René Böheim, Dominik Grübl, Mario Lackner
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 168, 76–93
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11761
Choking under Pressure: Evidence of the Causal Effect of Audience Size on Performance
René Böheim, Dominik Grübl, Mario Lackner
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 168, 76–93
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. 11674
Paying for What Kind of Performance? Performance Pay and Multitasking in Mission-Oriented Jobs
Daniel Jones, Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos
substantially revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2023, 142, 480-507
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11662
High-Growth Entrepreneurship
J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Mee Jung Kim, Kyung Min Lee
published as 'Start-Ups, Job Creation, and Founder Characteristics' in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2019, 28 (6), 1637–1672
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11651
Public R&D Support and Firms' Performance: A Panel Data Study
Øivind Anti Nilsen, Arvid Raknerud, Diana-Cristina Iancu
published as 'Public R&D support and firm performance: A multivariate dose-response analysis' in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (7), 104067.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11581
Multitasking and Subjective Performance Evaluations: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in a Bank
Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka
published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (12), 5449-5956
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11523
Performance Pay and Enterprise Productivity: The Details Matter
Takao Kato, Antti Kauhanen
published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2018, 1 (1), 61-73
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11517
Are Rushed Privatizations Substandard? Analyzing Firm-Level Privatization under Fiscal Pressure
Jan Hagemeier, Jan Svejnar, Joanna Tyrowicz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11505
Sales Performance and Social Preferences
Andrea Essl, Frauke von Bieberstein, Michael Kosfeld, Markus Kröll
published in: Journals of Economics & Management Strategy, 2023, 32 (4), 882-905
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11456
Are Schools Different? Wellbeing and Commitment among Staff in Schools and Elsewhere
Alex Bryson, Lucy Stokes, David Wilkinson
published as 'Who is better off? Wellbeing and commitment among staff in schools and elsewhere' in: Education Economics , 2019, 27 (5), 488 - 506
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11455
Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: Correlation or Causal Relationship?
Stijn Baert, Suncica Vujic, Simon Amez, Matteo Claeskens, Thomas Daman, Arno Maeckelberghe, Eddy Omey, Lieven De Marez
revised version published in: Kyklos, 2020, 73 (1), 22 - 46.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11432
Teacher Performance Pay in the United States: Incidence and Adult Outcomes
Timothy N. Bond, Kevin J. Mumford
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11375
Government Education Expenditures, Pre-Primary Education and School Performance: A Cross-Country Analysis
Daniela Del Boca, Chiara Monfardini, Sarah Grace See
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11373
Do Private Schools Manage Better?
Alex Bryson, Francis Green
published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2018, 243, R17-R26
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11372
Assessing the Variance in Pupil Attainment: How Important Is the School Attended?
David Wilkinson, Alex Bryson, Lucy Stokes
published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2018, 243, R4-R16
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11350
Do School Principals Respond to Increased Public Scrutiny? New Survey Evidence from Australia
Michael Coelli, Gigi Foster, Andrew Leigh
published in: Economic Record, 2018, 94 (S1), 73-101
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11348
Can HRM Improve Schools' Performance?
Alex Bryson, Lucy Stokes, David Wilkinson
published in: Labour, 2020, 34 (4), 427 - 440
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11347
Student Feedback, Parent-Teacher Communication, and Academic Performance: Experimental Evidence from Rural China
W. Stanley Siebert, Xiangdong Wei, Ho Lun Wong, Xiang Zhou
updated paper forthcoming in: Education Economics, 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11344
A Comparative Analysis of the Labour Market Performance of University-Educated Immigrants in Australia, Canada, and the United States: Does Policy Matter?
Andrew Clarke, Ana Ferrer, Mikal Skuterud
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (S2), S443–S490
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11233
Do Different Types of Assets Have Differential Effects on Child Education? Evidence from Tanzania
Kashi Kafle, Dean Jolliffe, Alex Winter-Nelson
published in: World Development, 2018, 109, 14 - 28
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11201
Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Risk-Taking among Children, Teenagers, and College Students: Evidence from Jeopardy!
Michael Jetter, Jay K. Walker
published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2020, 20 (2), 20190179.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11112
Mutual Gains? Is There a Role for Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace?
Alex Bryson
published in: Bosio, G., Minola, T., Origio, F., and Tomelleri, S. (eds), Rethinking Entrepreneurial Human Capital, Springer, 2018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10995
The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden
Sarah Cattan, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson
updated version published as 'The Long-term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden' in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (650), 888-903
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10923
Does It Matter How and How Much Politicians Are Paid?
Duha T. Altindag, S. Elif Filiz, Erdal Tekin
published in: Economica, 2020, 87 (348), 1105 - 1132
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10878
Take a Chance on ABBA
Danny Cohen-Zada, Alex Krumer, Offer Moshe Shapir
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10788
Women in the Workplace and Management Practices: Theory and Evidence
Takao Kato, Naomi Kodama
published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, New York: OUP, 2018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10788
Women in the Workplace and Management Practices: Theory and Evidence
Takao Kato, Naomi Kodama
published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, New York: OUP, 2018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10737
HRM and Small-Firm Employee Motivation: Before and after the Recession
Alex Bryson, Michael White
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72, 3: 749-773
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10725
Supervisors and Performance Management Systems
Anders Frederiksen, Lisa B. Kahn, Fabian Lange
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (6), 2123-2187
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10643
Performance Pay and Applicant Screening
Uwe Jirjahn, Jens Mohrenweiser
revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 57(3), 540-575
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10628
Smog in Our Brains: Gender Differences in the Impact of Exposure to Air Pollution on Cognitive Performance
Xi Chen, Xiaobo Zhang, Xin Zhang
published as 'The impact of exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance' in: PNAS, 2018, 115 (37), 9193 - 9197.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10622
The Intergenerational Transmission of Math Culture
Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Chiara Rapallini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10600
Time To Go? Head Coach Quits and Dismissals in Professional Football
Babatunde Buraimo, Alex Bryson, Rob Simmons
published in: De Economist, 2021, 169, 81 - 105
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10600
Time To Go? Head Coach Quits and Dismissals in Professional Football
Babatunde Buraimo, Alex Bryson, Rob Simmons
published in: De Economist, 2021, 169, 81 - 105
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10587
Choking under Pressure and Gender: Evidence from Professional Tennis
Danny Cohen-Zada, Alex Krumer, Mosi Rosenboim, Offer Moshe Shapir
Published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 61, 176-190
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10546
The Effectiveness of Incentive Schemes in the Presence of Implicit Effort Costs
Sebastian J. Goerg, Sebastian Kube, Jonas Radbruch
substantially revised version published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (9), 3949-4450.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10532
Practical Procedures to Deal with Common Support Problems in Matching Estimation
Michael Lechner, Anthony Strittmatter
published in: Econometric Reviews, 2019, 38 (2), 193-207
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10436
Boards of Directors in Russian Publicly Traded Companies in 1998-2014: Structure, Dynamics and Performance Effects
Alexander Muravyev
published in: Economic Systems, 2017, 41(1), 5-25
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10432
The Effect of One Laptop per Child on Teachers' Pedagogical Practices and Students' Use of Time at Home
Gustavo Yamada, Pablo Lavado, Guadalupe Montenegro
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10431
The Effect of Fe y Alegria on School Achievement: Exploiting a School Lottery Selection as a Natural Experiment
Pablo Lavado, Santiago Cueto, Gustavo Yamada, Micaela Wensjoe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10431
The Effect of Fe y Alegria on School Achievement: Exploiting a School Lottery Selection as a Natural Experiment
Pablo Lavado, Santiago Cueto, Gustavo Yamada, Micaela Wensjoe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10393
Dynamic Incentive Effects of Team Formation: Experimental Evidence
Thomas Gall, Xiaocheng Hu, Michael Vlassopoulos
published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 28(4), 687-712, 2019.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10370
Management Practices and Productivity in Germany
Sandra Broszeit, Ursula Fritsch, Holger Görg, Marie-Christine Laible
published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (4), e663-e688
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10288
Locus of Control and Performance Appraisal
John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn, Cornelia Chadi
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 142, 205-225
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10288
Locus of Control and Performance Appraisal
John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn, Cornelia Chadi
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 142, 205-225
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10283
Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments
Damon Clark, David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse, Mark Rush
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (4), 648-663
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10283
Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments
Damon Clark, David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse, Mark Rush
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (4), 648-663
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10283
Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments
Damon Clark, David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse, Mark Rush
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (4), 648-663
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10118
Pay for Locally Monitored Performance? A Welfare Analysis for Teacher Attendance in Ugandan Primary Schools
Jacobus Cilliers, Ibrahim Kasirye, Clare Leaver, Pieter Serneels, Andrew Zeitlin
published in: Journal of Public Economics 2018, 167, 69-90
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10084
Performance Pay and Malnutrition
Prakarsh Singh, Sandip Mitra
published as 'Incentives, Information and Malnutrition: Evidence from an experiment in India' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 93, 24-46.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10083
Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India
Prakarsh Singh, William A. Masters
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 55, 219 - 231
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10075
Cognitive Performance and Labor Market Outcomes
Dajun Lin, Randall Lutter, Christopher J. Ruhm
published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 121 - 135
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10041
Competitive Strategy, Performance Appraisal and Firm Results
Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez, Sara Martinez-de-Morentin
published as: 'Business Strategy, Performance Appraisal and Firm Performance' in: Personnel Review, 2021, 50 (2), 515-534.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10041
Competitive Strategy, Performance Appraisal and Firm Results
Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez, Sara Martinez-de-Morentin
published as: 'Business Strategy, Performance Appraisal and Firm Performance' in: Personnel Review, 2021, 50 (2), 515-534.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10012
Gender Performance Gaps: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Role of Gender Differences in Sleep Cycles
Lester Lusher, Vasil Yasenov
published in: Economic Inquiry; 2018, 56 (1), 252 - 262
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9919
Entrepreneurial Choices of Initial Human Capital Endowments and New Venture Success
Vera Rocha, Mirjam C. van Praag, Timothy B. Folta, Anabela Carneiro
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9890
Regulation and Firm Value: Curious Case of Transparency and Disclosure Laws in Russia
Suman Banerjee, Ronald Masulis, Sarmistha Pal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9877
Family Ownership, Workplace Closure and the Recession
Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen, Trygve Gulbrandsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9853
What You Don't Know... Can't Hurt You? A Field Experiment on Relative Performance Feedback in Higher Education
Ghazala Azmat, Manuel Bagues, Antonio Cabrales, Nagore Iriberri
published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (8), 3714-3736
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9853
What You Don't Know... Can't Hurt You? A Field Experiment on Relative Performance Feedback in Higher Education
Ghazala Azmat, Manuel Bagues, Antonio Cabrales, Nagore Iriberri
published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (8), 3714-3736
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9845
Psychological Momentum and Gender
Danny Cohen-Zada, Alex Krumer, Ze'ev Shtudiner
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 135, 66-81
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9800
The Educational Consequences of Language Proficiency for Young Children
Yuxin Yao, Asako Ohinata, Jan C. van Ours
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 54, 1-15
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9760
Social Contacts, Dutch Language Proficiency and Immigrant Economic Performance in the Netherlands: A Longitudinal Study
Barry R. Chiswick, Zhiling Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9690
When Does HRM 'Work' in Small British Enterprises?
Michael White, Alex Bryson
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72 (3), 749-773
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9612
Women Do Not Play Their Aces: The Consequences of Shying Away
Jörg Claussen, Eszter Czibor, Mirjam C. van Praag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9565
Psychological Incentives, Financial Incentives, and Risk Attitudes in Tournaments: An Artefactual Field Experiment
Bram Cadsby, Jim Engle-Warnick, Tony Fang, Fei Song
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, 72, 64-79
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