• Newsroom
  • World of Labor
  • G²LM|LIC
  • IDSC
  • Login
  • DE
  • About us
    Overview Mission and Vision Organization Initiatives and Projects Awards History
  • Team
    Overview Research Team Service Unit Associated Members Guest Researchers Alumni
  • Network
    Overview Research Fellows Research Affiliates Network Advisory Panel
  • Publications
    Overview Discussion Papers World of Labor Policy Papers Standpunkte Research Reports Research in Labor Economics Books
  • Events
    Overview Events Calendar Research Seminars Conferences and Workshops IZA Summer School

IZA Discussion Papers

  • Home
  • Publications
  • IZA Discussion Papers

The IZA Discussion Paper Series (ISSN: 2365-9793) disseminates high-quality research by IZA network members to the scientific community and the interested public worldwide before they are later published in academic journals. Comprising more than 17,000 papers, IZA's publication flagship is the most influential working paper series in labor economics.

Submission guidelines for authors

Subscribe to new paper alerts

Search by:

Please provide a valid Search.
Search tips
Wildcard

The character * can be used as a wildcard. For example: *berg

Filter

Type
Type
17 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17328
A Few Bad Apples? Criminal Charges, Political Careers, and Policy Outcomes
Diogo Britto, Gianmarco Daniele, Marco Le Moglie, Paolo Pinotti, Breno Sampaio
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17031
Do Politicians Affect Firm Outcomes? Evidence from Connections to the German Federal Parliament
André Diegmann, Laura Pohlan, Andrea Weber
find an updated version of the paper here
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17009
Young versus Old Politicians in Local Politics
Thushyanthan Baskaran, Zohal Hessami, Sebastian Schirner
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 225, 88-106
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15032
The Politicized Pandemic: Ideological Polarization and the Behavioral Response to COVID-19
Gianluca Grimalda, Fabrice Murtin, David Pipke, Louis Putterman, Matthias Sutter
published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 156, 104472.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13125
Female Political Representation and Substantive Effects on Policies: A Literature Review
Zohal Hessami, Mariana Lopes da Fonseca
published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 63, 101896
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12569
Gender Differences in Political Career Progression: Evidence from U.S. Elections
Ryan Brown, Hani Mansour, Stephen D. O'Connell, James Reeves
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11263
Closing the Gender Gap in Leadership Positions: Can Expanding the Pipeline Increase Parity?
Ryan Brown, Hani Mansour, Stephen D. O'Connell
published as 'Does local female political representation empower women to run for higher office? Evidence from state and national legislatures in India' in: World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36 (1), 198-218
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8452
Do Criminal Representatives Hinder or Improve Constituency Outcomes? Evidence from India
Nishith Prakash, Marc Rockmore, Yogesh Uppal
published as 'Do criminally accused politicians affect economic outcomes? Evidence from India' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 141, 102370
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8321
Legal Corruption, Politically Connected Corporate Governance and Firm Performance
Polona Domadenik, Janez Prašnikar, Jan Svejnar
published as 'Political Connectedness, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance' in: Journal of Business Ethnics, 2016, 139 (2), 411 - 428
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8102
Candidates' Quality and Electoral Participation: Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections
Marco Alberto De Benedetto, Maria De Paola
published as 'Candidates' Education and Turnout: Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections' in: German Economic Review, 2017, 18 (1), 22 - 50
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7500
Moonlighting Politicians: Motivation Matters!
Alessandro Fedele, Paolo Naticchioni
published in: German Economic Review, 2016, 17 (2), 127 - 156
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6837
Frontier Issues of the Political Economy of Migration
Gil S. Epstein
published in: A. Constant and K. F. Zimmermann (eds): International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar, 2013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5520
The Politicians' Wage Gap: Insights from German Members of Parliament
Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel, Sebastian Siegloch
revised version published in: Public Choice, 2013, 156(3-4), 653-676
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4235
Pay for Politicians and Candidate Selection: An Empirical Analysis
Kaisa Kotakorpi, Panu Poutvaara
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (7-8), 877 - 885
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3348
Electoral Rules and Politicians’ Behavior: A Micro Test
Stefano Gagliarducci, Tommaso Nannicini, Paolo Naticchioni
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011, 3 (3), 144-174
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3295
Outside Income and Moral Hazard: The Elusive Quest for Good Politicians
Stefano Gagliarducci, Tommaso Nannicini, Paolo Naticchioni
published as 'Moonlighting Politicians' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (9-10), 688-699
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1195
Candidate Quality
Panu Poutvaara, Tuomas Takalo
published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2007, 14 (1), 7-27
Type
Display
20 50 100
Type
Imprint
Privacy Policy
Code of Conduct
Status
© 2025 Deutsche Post STIFTUNG
We use cookies to provide you with an optimal website experience. This includes cookies that are necessary for the operation of the site as well as cookies that are only used for anonymous statistical purposes, for comfort settings or to display personalized content. You can decide for yourself which categories you want to allow. Please note that based on your settings, you may not be able to use all of the site's functions.
Cookie settings

These necessary cookies are required to activate the core functionality of the website. An opt-out from these technologies is not available.

cb-enable
Dieses Cookie speichert den Status der Cookie-Einwilligung des Benutzers für die aktuelle Domain. Expiry: 1 Year
laravel_session
Session ID um den Nutzer beim Neuladen wiederzuerkennen und seinen Login Status wiederherzustellen. Expiry 2 Hours
XSRF-TOKEN
CSRF-Schutz für Formulare. Expirey: 2 Hours

In order to further improve our offer and our website, we collect anonymous data for statistics and analyses. With the help of these cookies we can, for example, determine the number of visitors and the effect of certain pages on our website and optimize our content.

ga
Google Analytics
Imprint | Privacy Policy
DE