IZA Discussion Papers

published in:G. Meramveliotakis and M. Manioudis (eds). Sustainable Economic Development Perspectives from Political Economy and Economics Pluralism, London: Routledge, 2025, 237-264.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17217

Striking the Right Balance: Why Standard Balance Tests Over-Reject the Null, and How to Fix It

Jason Kerwin, Nada Rostom, Olivier Sterck

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17208

Worker Power, Immigrant Sorting, and Firm Dynamics

Mikko Silliman, Alexander Willén

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17163

Empowerment or Indoctrination? Female Training Programs under Dictatorship

Felipe González, Mounu Prem, Cristine von Dessauer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16823

Global Labor Market Power

Francesco Amodio, Emanuele Brancati, Peter Brummund, Nicolás de Roux, Michele Di Maio

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16809

A General Measure of Bargaining Power for Non-cooperative Games

Joseph-Simon Goerlach, Nicolas Motz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16786

Inequality and Market Concentration: New Evidence from Australia

Lachlan Hotchin, Andrew Leigh

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2024, 70 (4), 1216-1225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16727

Corporate Globalization and Worker Representation

Uwe Jirjahn

published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16697

How Do Firms Respond to Unions?

Samuel Dodini, Anna Stansbury, Alexander Willén

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16608

The Effects of the Dobbs Decision on Fertility

Daniel Dench, Mayra Pineda-Torres, Caitlin Knowles Myers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16529

Labor Market Power and Development

Tristany Armangué-Jubert, Nezih Guner, Alessandro Ruggieri

forthcoming in: American Economic Review: Insights

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16421

Rainfall Variability and Labor Allocation in Uzbekistan: The Role of Women's Empowerment

Vladimir Otrachshenko, Olga Popova, Nargiza Alimukhamedova

published in: Post-Soviet Affairs, 2024, 40 (2), 119–138

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16409

The Gender Pay Gap: Micro Sources and Macro Consequences

Iacopo Morchio, Christian Moser

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16401

Comments on the 2023 Draft Merger Guidelines: A Labor Market Perspective

David Berger, Thomas Hasenzagl, Kyle Herkenhoff, Simon Mongey, Eric A. Posner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16348

Intergenerational Power Shift and the Rise of Non-arranged Marriages among Refugees

Andrew Foster, Merve Betül Gökçe, Murat Güray Kirdar

published as 'Intergenerational Power Shift and the Rise of Nonarranged Marriages Among Refugees' in: Demography, 2024, 61 (5), 1427 - 1454

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16330

The Effect of Franchise No-Poaching Restrictions on Worker Earnings

Brian Callaci, Matthew Gibson, Sergio Pinto, Marshall Steinbaum, Matt Walsh

published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 25 November 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16163

Sendemails: An Automated Email Package with Multiple Applications

Luca Fumarco, S. Michael Gaddis, Francesco Sarracino, I. Snoddy

revised version published in:Stata Journal, 2024, 24 (1), 130-160

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16157

How Does the Beauty of Wives Affect Post-Marriage Family Outcomes? Helen's Face in Chinese Households

Junsen Zhang, Shulan Fei, Yanbing Wen

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 212, 122-137

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16069

The Women Empowering Effect of Higher Education

Ahmed Elsayed, Alina Shirshikova

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 163, 103101

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16030

Thriving in the Rain: Natural Shocks, Time Allocation, and Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh

Sveva Vitellozzi, Gianna Claudia Giannelli

published in: World Development, 2024, 181, 106684

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16007

Political Connections, Business Groups and Innovation

Simon Commander, Saul Estrin, Thamashi De Silva

published in: Comperative Economic Studies, 2024, 66, 639–660

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15583

Intra-Household Bargaining in Ivory Coast: Experimental Evidence from Rural Areas

Ralitza Dimova, Edouard Pokou Abou, Arnab K. Basu, Romane Viennet

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15578

Parental Risk Preferences, Maternal Bargaining Power, and the Educational Progressions of Children: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence from Rural Côte D'Ivoire

Arnab K. Basu, Ralitza Dimova, Monnet Benoit Patrick Gbakou, Romane Viennet

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2023, 102, 101957

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15514

Employer Power and Employment in Developing Countries

Nancy H. Chau, Ravi Kanbur, Vidhya Soundararajan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15478

We Need to Talk about Mechanical Turk: What 22,989 Hypothesis Tests Tell Us about Publication Bias and p-Hacking in Online Experiments

Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, Anthony Heyes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15477

Labor Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development

Francesco Amodio, Pamela Medina, Monica Morlacco

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15293

Monopsony Makes Firms Not Only Small but Also Unproductive: Why East Germany Has Not Converged

Rüdiger Bachmann, Christian Bayer, Heiko Stüber, Felix Wellschmied

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15076

Wheels of Change: Transforming Girls' Lives with Bicycles

Nathan Fiala, Ana Garcia-Hernandez, Kritika Narula, Nishith Prakash

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14897

Gender Discrimination

Kailing Shen

published online in: Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, Cham, 28 January 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14872

Monopsony in the Labor Market: New Empirical Results and New Public Policies

Orley Ashenfelter, David Card, Henry S Farber, Michael R. Ransom

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (S), S1-S10

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14861

Increasing Women's Empowerment: Implications for Family Welfare

Kate Ambler, Kelly M. Jones, Michael O’Sullivan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14843

Employer Market Power in Silicon Valley

Matthew Gibson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14760

Measuring Youth Empowerment: An Illustration Using the Example of Tunisia

Micheline Goedhuys, Michael Grimm, Aline Meysonnat, Eleonora Nillesen, Ann-Kristin Reitmann

published as 'Measuring youth empowerment: An application to Tunisia' in: Journal of International Development, 2024, 36 (4), 1945-1964

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14523

Using Bank Savings Product Design for Empowering Women and Agricultural Development

Jose C. Galdo

updated version published online in: World Bank Economic Review, 29 May 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14494

Impacts of the Clean Air Act on the Power Sector from 1938-1994: Anticipation and Adaptation

Karen Clay, Akshaya Jha, Joshua Lewis, Edson Severnini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14390

Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants

Francesco Amodio, Nicolás de Roux

published as 'Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 949–977

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14221

Using Machine Learning and Qualitative Interviews to Design a Five-Question Women's Agency Index

Seema Jayachandran, Monica Biradavolu, Jan Cooper

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14185

Lessons from Denmark about Inequality and Social Mobility

James J. Heckman, Rasmus Landersø

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14112

Wage Inequality and Labor Rights Violations

Ioana E. Marinescu, Yue Qiu, Aaron Sojourner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14023

Ethnic Divisions and the Onset of Civil Wars in Syria

Salah Abosedra, Ali Fakih, Nathir Haimoun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13985

Education and Consanguineous Marriage

Pelin Akyol, Naci Mocan

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2023, 17 (1), 114 - 171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13957

Globalization and Female Empowerment: Evidence from Myanmar

Teresa Molina, Mari Tanaka

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2023, 71 (2), 519-565

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13885

Consequences of War: Japan's Demographic Transition and the Marriage Market

Kota Ogasawara, Mizuki Komura

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35 (3), 1037-1069

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13687

The Weight of Patriarchy? Gender Obesity Gaps in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Joan Costa-Font, Mario Gyori

published in: Social Science and Medicine, 220, 266, 113353

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13557

Rising Concentration and Wage Inequality

Matias Cortes, Jeanne Tschopp

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2024, 126 (2), 320-354

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13552

Does Immigration Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Homes?

Delia Furtado, Francesc Ortega

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13155

Labour Market Institutions, Technology and Rent Sharing

Kyoji Fukao, Cristiano Perugini, Fabrizio Pompei

published as 'Labour market regimes, technology and rent-sharing in Japan' in: Economic Modelling, 2022, 112, 105856

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13105

Ancestral Norms, Legal Origins, and Female Empowerment

Abel Brodeur, Marie Christelle Mabeu, Roland Pongou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12998

Recoupling Economic and Social Prosperity

Katharina Lima de Miranda, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Global Perspectives, 2020, 1 (1), 11867

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12940

Can Women's Self-Help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India

Paul Anand, Swati Saxena, Rolando Gonzales Martinez, Hai-Anh H Dang

published in: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2020, 21(2), 137-160.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12847

Empowered or Impoverished: The Impact of Panic Buttons on Domestic Violence

Semih Tumen, Hakan Ulucan

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2024, 22, 1423–1459

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12814

Childcare and Maternal Employment: Evidence from Vietnam

Hai-Anh H Dang, Masako Hiraga, Cuong Viet Nguyen

published in: World Development, 2022, 159, 106022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12726

Female Workers, Male Managers: Gender, Leadership, and Risk-Taking

Ulf Rinne, Hendrik Sonnabend

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2022, 88 (3), 906 - 930

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12574

Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages

Gregor Jarosch, Jan Sebastian Nimczik, Isaac Sorkin

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2024, 91 (6), 3569 - 3607

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12512

Multiple Applications, Competing Mechanisms, and Market Power

James Albrecht, Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Susan Vroman

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2020, 190, 105121

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12471

On the Malleability of Implicit Attitudes Towards Women Empowerment: Evidence from Tunisia

Eleonora Nillesen, Michael Grimm, Micheline Goedhuys, Ann-Kristin Reitmann, Aline Meysonnat

published in: World Development, 2021, 138, 105263

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12369

What Do We Really Know about the Employment Effects of the UK's National Minimum Wage?

Mike Brewer, Thomas F. Crossley, Federico Zilio

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12354

Voting Power and Survival: The Case of a Ruling Party

Artyom Jelnov, Pavel Jelnov

pablished as "Success, Survival and Probabilistic Voting: The Case of a ruling Party" in: Journal Homo Oeconomicus, 2019, 36(3), 209-226

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12196

Do Constraints on Women Worsen Child Deprivations? Framework, Measurement, and Evidence from India

Alberto Posso, Stephen C. Smith, Lucia Ferrone

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12034

Inequality and Market Concentration, When Shareholding Is More Skewed Than Consumption

Joshua S. Gans, Andrew Leigh, Martin Schmalz, Adam Triggs

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2019, 35 (3), 550 - 563

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12016

Touch Thee Not: Group Conflict, Caste Power, and Untouchability in Rural India

Indraneel Dasgupta, Sarmistha Pal

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021, 49 (2), 442-466

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11867

Some (Maybe) Unpleasant Arithmetic in Minimum Wage Evaluations: The Role of Power, Significance and Sample Size

Ronald Bachmann, Rahel Felder, Sandra Schaffner, Marcus Tamm

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11819

Micro-Entrepreneurship and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh

Muhammad Faress Bhuiyan, Artjoms Ivlevs

published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2019, 34 (4), 625-645

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11534

Women's Political Participation and Intrahousehold Empowerment: Evidence from the Egyptian Arab Spring

Olivier B. Bargain, Delphine Boutin, Hugues Champeaux

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 141, 102379

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11519

Employer Power, Labor Saving Technical Change, and Inequality

Nancy H. Chau, Ravi Kanbur

published in: Kaushik Basu, Maitreesh Ghatak, Kenneth Kletzer, Sudipto Mundle, and Eric Verhoogen (eds.), Development, Distribution, and Markets, Oxford University Press, 2021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11309

Firm Wage Premia, Industrial Relations, and Rent Sharing in Germany

Boris Hirsch, Steffen Müller

revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2020, 73 (5), 1119-1146

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11262

Women's Empowerment, the Gender Gap in Desired Fertility, and Fertility Outcomes in Developing Countries

Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt

published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108, 358–362

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11240

Empowering Women under Social Constraints: Evidence from a Field Intervention in Rural Egypt

Ahmed Elsayed, Rania Roushdy

published as 'Empowering women in conservative settings: evidence from an intervention in rural Egypt' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2022, 20, 1287–1322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11187

Maternal Depression, Women's Empowerment, and Parental Investment: Evidence from a Large Randomized Control Trial

Victoria Baranov, Sonia R. Bhalotra, Pietro Biroli, Joanna Maselko

published in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110 (3), 824-859

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10501

Women's Economic Capacity and Children's Human Capital Accumulation

Jacobus de Hoop, Patrick Premand, Furio C. Rosati, Renos Vakis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10170

Estimating Indirect Benefits: Fracking, Coal and Air Pollution

Reid Johnsen, Jacob LaRiviere, Hendrik Wolff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10148

Women's Enfranchisement and Children's Education: The Long-Run Impact of the U.S. Suffrage Movement