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IZA Discussion Paper No. 16314

Is Self-Employment for Migrants? Evidence from Italy

Marianna Brunetti, Anzelika Zaiceva

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16100

Disability and Labor Market Performance

Matthias Collischon, Karolin Hiesinger, Laura Pohlan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15885

Criminal Charges, Risk Assessment, and Violent Recidivism in Cases of Domestic Abuse

Dan A. Black, Jeffrey Grogger, Tom Kirchmaier, Koen Sanders

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15434

Displaced or Depressed? The Effect of Working in Automatable Jobs on Mental Health

Sylvie Blasco, Julie Rochut, Benedicte Rouland

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15379

A Note on Evaluating Formal Education for Adults

Anders Stenberg

published as 'Does Formal Education for Adults Yield Long-Term Multiplier Effects or Human Capital Depreciation?' in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 90, 102306

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15005

The Impact Evaluation of Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (New School) Program on Students' Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills

Hai-Anh Dang, Paul Glewwe, Jongwook Lee, Khoa Vu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15003

Getting Stuck in the Status Quo Ante: Evidence from the Egyptian Economy

Ömer Tuğsal Doruk, Francesco Pastore

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14015

Empirical Monte Carlo Evidence on Estimation of Timing-of-Events Models

Stefano Lombardi, Gerard J. van den Berg, Johan Vikström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13934

Gender Wage Gap - A Matching Analysis for Three MENA Countries: Egypt, Jordan and Turkey

Ömer Tuğsal Doruk, Francesco Pastore

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13893

Propensity Score Weighting with Mismeasured Covariates: An Application to Two Financial Literacy Interventions

Hao Dong, Daniel L. Millimet

published in: Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2020, 13, 290

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13708

Access to Finance among Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Job Creation in Africa

Zuzana Brixiova, Thierry Kangoye, Urbain Thierry Yogo

published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2020, 55, 177 - 189

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13486

Assessing the Role of Women in Tourism Related Sectors in the Caribbean

Francesco Pastore, Allan Webster, Kevin Hope

published in: International Journal of Tourism Research, 2021, 23 (3), 378-400

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13283

Interpreting OLS Estimands When Treatment Effects Are Heterogeneous: Smaller Groups Get Larger Weights

Tymon Sloczynski

forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022

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 Dang

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12888

Employment vs. Homestay and the Happiness of Women in the South Caucasus

Karine Torosyan, Norberto Pignatti

published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23, 4027-4071

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12755

Do Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed Affect Participants' Well-Being? A Rigorous Look at (Un-)Intended Consequences of Labor Market Policies

Marco Caliendo, Stefan Tübbicke

published in: Evaluation Review, 2022, 46 (5), 517-554

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12654

Depression in the House: The Effects of Household Air Pollution from Solid Fuel Use in China

Yan Liu, Xi Chen, Zhijun Yan

forthcoming in: Science of the Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134706

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12572

Learning Management through Matching: A Field Experiment Using Mechanism Design

Girum Abebe, Marcel Fafchamps, Michael Koelle, Simon Quinn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12526

Does the Estimation of the Propensity Score by Machine Learning Improve Matching Estimation? The Case of Germany's Programmes for Long Term Unemployed

Daniel Goller, Michael Lechner, Andreas Moczall, Joachim Wolff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12205

Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, Yusuke Narita, Parag A. Pathak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12033

International Mobility of Students in Italy and the UK: Does It Pay off and for Whom?

Sylke V. Schnepf, Beatrice d'Hombres

revised version published in: Higher Education 2021, 82, 1173-1194.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11866

A General Weighted Average Representation of the Ordinary and Two-Stage Least Squares Estimands

Tymon Sloczynski

superseded by IZA Discussion Paper No. 13283

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11701

Has the Economic Crisis Worsened the Work-Related Stress and Mental Health of Temporary Workers in Spain?

Xavier Bartoll, Joan Gil, Raul Ramos

published in: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2019, 92 (7), 1047-1059.

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. 11503

A Cautionary Note on the Reliability of the Online Survey Data: The Case of Wage Indicator

Magdalena Smyk, Joanna Tyrowicz, Lucas van der Velde

forthcoming in: Sociological Methods and Research, doi.org/10.1177/0049124118782538

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11186

The Dynamics of Disability and Benefit Receipt in Britain

Melanie K. Jones, Duncan McVicar

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (3), 936–957,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11163

Generation Internship: The Impact of Internships on Early Labour Market Performance

Annette Cerulli-Harms

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10867

Assessing the Impact of a Minimum Income Scheme in the Basque Country

Sara de la Rica, Lucía Gorjón

published as 'Assessing the impact of a minimum income scheme: the Basque Country case' in: SERIEs, 2019, 10, 251 - 280

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10766

The Effects of Youth Labor Market Reforms: Evidence from Italian Apprenticeships

Andrea Albanese, Lorenzo Cappellari, Marco Leonardi

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2021, 73 (1), 98 - 121

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10673

Is the Gender Pay Gap in the US Just the Result of Gender Segregation at Work?

Katie Meara, Francesco Pastore, Allan Webster

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. 10523

Native-Migrant Differences in Trading Off Wages and Workplace Safety

Anna D’Ambrosio, Roberto Leombruni, Tiziano Razzolini

substantially revised version published as 'Trading off wage for workplace safety? Gaps between immigrants and natives in Italy' in Economia Politica, 2022, 39, 903–960

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9989

The Value of Knowing the Propensity Score for Estimating Average Treatment Effects

Christoph Rothe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9926

How Forced Displacements Caused by a Violent Conflict Affect Wages in Colombia

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina, Edgar Silva Quintero

published as 'On the relationship between violent conflict and wages in Colombia' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (4), 473-489

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9801

The Impact of Paid Parental Leave on Labour Supply and Employment Outcomes

Barbara Broadway, Guyonne Kalb, Duncan McVicar, Bill Martin

published in: Feminist Economics, 2020, 26( 3), 30-65.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9707

Something from Nothing: Estimating Consumption Rates Using Propensity Scores, with Application to Emissions Reduction Policies

Nicholas Bardsley, Milena Buechs, Sylke V. Schnepf

revised version published in: PLOS ONE, 2017, 12(10), e0185538.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9694

Fully Integrating Upper-Secondary Vocational and Academic Courses: A Flexible New Way?

Cain Polidano, Domenico Tabasso

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 55, 117-131.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9640

Remittances and Expenditure Patterns of the Left Behinds in Rural China

Sylvie Démurger, Xiaoqian Wang

published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37, 177-190

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9491

New Evidence on Linear Regression and Treatment Effect Heterogeneity

Tymon Sloczynski

superseded by IZA Discussion Paper No. 11866

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9057

Winners and Losers among Skilled Migrants: The Case of Post-Accession Polish Migrants to the UK

Pawel Kaczmarczyk, Joanna Tyrowicz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9007

Wage Returns to Mid-Career Investments in Job Training through Employer-Supported Course Enrollment: Evidence for Canada

Wen Ci, Jose C. Galdo, Marcel Voia, Christopher Worswick

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy. 2015, 4:9

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8997

Investment Liberalisation, Technology Take-off and Export Market Entry: Does Foreign Ownership Structure Matter?

Sourafel Girma, Yundan Gong, Holger Görg, Sandra Lancheros

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116, 254-269

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8794

Commuting Time and Household Responsibilities: Evidence Using Propensity Score Matching

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2016, 56 (2), 332 - 359

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8758

Robust Confidence Intervals for Average Treatment Effects under Limited Overlap

Christoph Rothe

published in: Econometrica; 2017, 85 (2), 645 - 660

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8756

The Finite Sample Performance of Semi- and Nonparametric Estimators for Treatment Effects and Policy Evaluation

Markus Frölich, Martin Huber, Manuel Wiesenfarth

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. 8363

Does Higher Education Quality Matter in the UK?

Arnaud Chevalier

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2014, 40, 257-292

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8049

Matching Methods in Practice: Three Examples

Guido W. Imbens

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50 (2), 373 - 419

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8015

Do Tertiary Dropout Students Really Not Succeed in European Labour Markets?

Sylke V. Schnepf

revised version published as 'How do Tertiary Dropouts fare in the Labour Market? A Comparison between EU countries' in: Higher Education Quarterly, 2017, 1, 75-96

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7394

Program Quality and Treatment Completion for Youth Training Programs

Ana C. Dammert, Jose C. Galdo

published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 119 (3), 243-246

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7327

The Costs of Worker Displacement in Urban Labor Markets of China

Yuhao Ge, Hartmut Lehmann

puplished in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2013, 2, Article 4

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6898

Indebted and Overweight: The Link Between Weight and Household Debt

Susan L. Averett, Julie K. Smith

published as 'Financial hardship and obesity' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2014, 15, 201-212

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6222

Fighting Youth Unemployment: The Effects of Active Labor Market Policies

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Ricarda Schmidl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6084

Semiparametric Estimation with Generated Covariates

Enno Mammen, Christoph Rothe, Melanie Schienle

published in: Econometric Theory, 2016, 32 (5), 1140-1177

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6064

Do Dropouts Benefit from Training Programs? Korean Evidence Employing Methods for Continuous Treatments

Chung Choe, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Sang-Jun Lee

published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 48, 849 - 881

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5415

The Costs of Job Loss in Russia

Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev, Tiziano Razzolini, Anzelika Zaiceva

revised version published as 'The Wage and Non-wage Costs of Displacement in Boom Times: Evidence from Russia' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013, 41 (4), 1184-1201

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5268

How to Control for Many Covariates? Reliable Estimators Based on the Propensity Score

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch

published as 'The Performance of Estimators Based on the Propensity Score' in: Journal of Econometrics, 2013, 175 (1), 1-21

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5140

The Elephant in the Corner: A Cautionary Tale about Measurement Error in Treatment Effects Models

Daniel L. Millimet

published in: Advances in Econometrics: Missing-Data Methods, 2011, 27 A, 1-39

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5084

Human Capital Investments in Children: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Parent-Child Shared Time in Selected Countries

Eva Österbacka, Joachim Merz, Cathleen D. Zick

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4989

Short-Time Compensation and Establishment Exit: An Empirical Analysis with French Data

Oana Calavrezo, Richard Duhautois, Emmanuelle Walkowiak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4959

Female Labor Supply and Divorce: New Evidence from Ireland

Olivier Bargain, Libertad González, Claire Keane, Berkay Özcan

published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (8), 1675–1691

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4864

Can Training Programs or Rather Wage Subsidies Bring the Unemployed Back to Work? A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation for Germany

Renate Neubäumer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4649

The Effectiveness of Regional Active Labour Market Policies to Fight against Unemployment: An Analysis for Catalonia

Raul Ramos, Jordi Surinach, Manuel Artís

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4614

Is Informal Sector Work an Alternative to Workfare Benefits? The Case of Pre-Program Expansion and Economic Crisis

Melanie Khamis

published in: Review of Development Economics, 2012, 16 (4), 579–593

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4485

Is Posner Right? An Empirical Test of the Posner Argument for Transferring Health Spending from Old Women to Old Men

Christoph Wunder, Johannes Schwarze

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4451

Evaluating Nonexperimental Estimators for Multiple Treatments: Evidence from Experimental Data

Carlos A. Flores, Oscar A. Mitnik

revised version published as 'Comparing Treatments across Labor Markets: An Assessment of Nonexperimental Multiple-Treatment Strategies' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95(5), 1691-1707

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4304

A Note on Adapting Propensity Score Matching and Selection Models to Choice Based Samples

James J. Heckman, Petra E. Todd

published in: Econometric Journal, 2009, 12 (Supplement), S230-S234

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4090

Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare and Increase Work?

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch, Thomas Walter

published as 'Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare Dependency and Increase Employment?' in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (2), 182-204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3998

New Evidence on the Finite Sample Properties of Propensity Score Matching and Reweighting Estimators

Matias Busso, John DiNardo, Justin McCrary

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96 (5), 885-897

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3848

Active Labor Market Policy Effects in a Dynamic Setting

Bruno Crépon, Marc Ferracci, Grégory Jolivet, Gerard J. van den Berg

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7, (2-3), 595 - 605

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3772

Wage Subsidies for Needy Job-Seekers and Their Effect on Individual Labour Market Outcomes after the German Reforms

Sarah Bernhard, Hermann Gartner, Gesine Stephan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3767

The Relative Effectiveness of Selected Active Labour Market Programmes and the Common Support Problem

Gesine Stephan, André Pahnke

revised version published as 'The Relative Effectiveness of Selected Active Labor Market Programs: An Empiriccal Investigation for Germany' in: Manchester School, 2011, 79(6), 1262-1293

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3755

The Cost Impact of Spam Filters: Measuring the Effect of Information System Technologies in Organizations

Marco Caliendo, Michel Clement, Dominik Papies, Sabine Scheel-Kopeinig

published in: Information Systems Research, 2012, 23 (3, Part II), 1068-1080

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3696

The Effect of High School Employment on Educational Attainment: A Conditional Difference-in-Differences Approach

Franz Buscha, Arnaud Maurel, Lionel Page, Stefan Speckesser

published as 'The Effect of Employment while in High School on Educational Attainment: A Conditional Difference-in-Differences Approach' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (3), 380–396

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3632

Minimizing Bias in Selection on Observables Estimators When Unconfoundness Fails

Daniel L. Millimet, Rusty Tchernis

published as 'Estimation of Treatment Effects Without an Exclusion Restriction: with an Application to the Analysis of the School Breakfast Program' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (6), 982-1017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3606

Causal Effects of Monetary Shocks: Semiparametric Conditional Independence Tests with a Multinomial Propensity Score

Joshua Angrist, Guido M. Kuersteiner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3483

Imposed Benefit Sanctions and the Unemployment-to-Employment Transition: The German Experience

Kai-Uwe Müller, Viktor Steiner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3406

Rent-Sharing under Different Bargaining Regimes: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Michael Rusinek, François Rycx

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2013, 51 (1), 28-58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3280

The Matching Method for Treatment Evaluation with Selective Participation and Ineligibles

Monica Costa Dias, Hidehiko Ichimura, Gerard J. van den Berg

revised version published as 'Treatment Evaluation With Selective Participation and Ineligibles' in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 108(502) 2013, 441-455

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3255

Evaluating Continuous Training Programs Using the Generalized Propensity Score

Jochen Kluve, Hilmar Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff, Zhong Zhao

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2012, 175 (2), 587-617

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3051

What Works Best for Getting the Unemployed Back to Work: Employment Services or Small-Business Assistance Programmes? Evidence from Romania

Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published as 'Channels Through Which Public Employment Services and Small-Business Assistance Programs Work' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (4), 458-485

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2846

Estimating the Effects of Length of Exposure to a Training Program: The Case of Job Corps

Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Arturo Gonzalez, Todd C. Neumann

published as 'Estimating the Effects of Length of Exposure to Instruction in a Training Program: The Case of Job Corps ' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (1), 153–171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2614

Empirical Modeling of Deprivation Contagion among Social Exclusion Dimensions (Using MCMC Methods)

Ambra Poggi, Xavier Ramos

published in: Jacques Silber (ed.), The Measurement of Individual Well-Being and Group Inequalities: Essays in Memory of Z.M. Berrebi, Routledge, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2464

Evaluating Active Labor Market Programs in Romania

Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Jacob Benus

published in: Empirical Economics, 2010, 38 (1), 65-84

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2221

The Effects of Marginal Employment on Subsequent Labour Market Outcomes

René Böheim, Andrea Weber

published in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (2), 165 - 181

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1873

Sensitivity of Propensity Score Methods to the Specifications

Zhong Zhao

revised version published in: Economics Letters , 2008, 98 (3), 309-319