Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18100

Calorie Consumption and Wages: Evidence from India’s Labor Market

Kaushalendra Kumar, Ashish Singh, Santosh Kumar Gautam, Abhishek Singh

published in: Economic Modelling, 2025, 152, 107279

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17841

Daniel Kahneman’s Underappreciated Last Published Paper: Empirical Implications for Benefit-Cost Analysis and a Chat Session Discussion with Bots

C. Monica Capra, Thomas J. Kniesner

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2025, 71(1), 29-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17440

Compensation Peer Group Effects: Evidence from NFL Professional Football

Quinn Keefer, Thomas J. Kniesner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17149

Fused LASSO as Non-crossing Quantile Regression

Tibor Szendrei, Arnab Bhattacharjee, Mark E Schaffer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16957

Does Vocational Education Pay off in China? Evidence from City-Level Education Supply Shocks

Li Dai, Pedro S. Martins

published in: Economic Modelling, 2024, 140, 106863

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16911

On the Asymmetrical Sensitivity of the Distribution of Real Wages to Business Cycle Fluctuations

Rodrigo Barrela, Eduardo Costa, Pedro Portugal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16618

The Effects of Commuting and Working from Home Arrangements on Mental Health

Ferdi Botha, Jan Kabátek, Jordy Meekes, Roger Wilkins

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15770

Moving up the Social Ladder? Wages of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants from Developing Countries

Kevin Pineda-Hernández, François Rycx, Mélanie Volral

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2025, 23 (4), 1025-1055

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15284

Accounting for Firms in Ethnicity Wage Gaps throughout the Earnings Distribution

Van Phan, Carl Singleton, Alex Bryson, John Forth, Felix Ritchie, Lucy Stokes, Damian Whittard

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15245

Microeconomic Determinants of Domestic Tourism Expenditure in India

Mehtabul Azam

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14659

The Use of Quantile Methods in Economic History

Damian Clarke, Manuel Llorca-Jaña, Daniel Pailañir

published in: Historical Methods, 2023, 56 (2), 115-132

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14088

Over-Education and Immigrant Earnings: A Penalized Quantile Panel Regression Analysis

Sholeh A. Maani, Le Wen

published in: Applied Economics, 2021, 53 (24), 2771 - 2790

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14011

Energy Expenditure in Egypt: Empirical Evidence Based on a Quantile Regression Approach

Fateh Belaïd, Christophe Rault

published in: Environmental Modeling & Assessment, 2021, 26 (4), 511-528

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13870

Quantile Factor Models

Liang Chen, Juan J. Dolado, Jesús Gonzalo

published in: Econometrica, 2021, 89, 875-910.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13633

When the Minimum Wage Really Bites Hard: Impact on Top Earners and Skill Supply

Terry Gregory, Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 206, 104582

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13517

Overconfidence and Gender Differences in Wage Expectations

Stephanie Briel, Aderonke Osikominu, Gregor Pfeifer, Mirjam Reutter, Sascha Satlukal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13421

Inequality of Opportunity in Bodyweight among Middle-Aged and Older Chinese: A Distributional Approach

Peng Nie, Lanlin Ding, Andrew M. Jones

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13292

Ex Ante Inequality of Opportunity in Health among the Elderly in China: A Distributional Decomposition Analysis of Biomarkers

Lanlin Ding, Andrew M. Jones, Peng Nie

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68 (4), 922-950

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13101

Quantiles of the Gain Distribution of an Early Childhood Intervention

Erich Battistin, Carlos Lamarche, Enrico Rettore

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2024, 39 (6), 1045-1064

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12928

Bayesian Panel Quantile Regression for Binary Outcomes with Correlated Random Effects: An Application on Crime Recidivism in Canada

Georges Bresson, Guy Lacroix, Mohammad Arshad Rahman

published in: Empirical Economics, 2021, 60, 227 - 259

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12859

Selection into Employment and the Gender Wage Gap across the Distribution and over Time

Patricia Gallego Granados, Katharina Wrohlich

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12486

Estimating Selection Models without Instrument with Stata

Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Arnaud Maurel, Xiaoyun Qiu, Yichong Zhang

published in: Stata Journal, 2020, 20(2), 297-308

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12358

The Immigrant-Native Wage Gap in Germany Revisited

Kai Ingwersen, Stephan L. Thomsen

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2021, 19, 825-854.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12247

Economics and Politics of the Public-Private Wage Gap (The Case of Russia)

Vladimir Gimpelson, Anna Lukiyanova, Anna Sharunina

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12237

Education and Risk Compensation in Wages: A Quantile Regression Approach

José António Cabral Vieira, Carolina Constância, João Teixeira

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2020, 27 (3), 194 - 198.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11924

Public Sector Wage Gaps over the Long-Run: Evidence from Panel Administrative Data

Olivier B. Bargain, Audrey Etienne, Blaise Melly

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11912

Quantile Regression Estimates of the Effect of Student Absences on Academic Achievement

Seth Gershenson, Jessica Rae McBean, Long Tran

published in: M. Gottfried; E. Hutt (eds.): Addressing Absenteeism, Cambridge, MA, 2019, 67-82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11895

Public versus Private Sector Wage Gap in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data

Aysit Tansel, Halil Ibrahim Keskin, Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir

substantially revised version published as 'Public-Private Sector Wage Gap by Gender in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data, 1998-2018' in: World Development, 2020, 135, 105060

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11438

Hollowing Out the Middle? Remittances and Income Inequality in Nigeria

James T. Bang, Aniruddha Mitra, Phanindra V. Wunnava

published in: Migration and Development, 2022, 11 (3), 543 - 559

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11325

Overeducation Wage Penalty among Ph.D. Holders: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Analysis on Italian Data

Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta, Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera, Francesco Pastore

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2023, 44 (6), 1096-1117

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11174

Are Urban-Rural Welfare Differences Growing in India?

Mehtabul Azam

substantially revised version published as 'Accounting for growing urban-rural welfare gaps in India' in: World Development, 2019, 122, 410-432

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10905

Behavioral Responses and Welfare Reform: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Robert Paul Hartley, Carlos Lamarche

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 54, 135-151

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10718

Skill Premium, Labor Supply and Changes in the Structure of Wages in Latin America

Manuel Fernandez Sierra, Julián Messina

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 135, 555-573

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10670

The Structure of the Wage Gap for Temporary Workers: Evidence from Australian Panel Data

Inga Laß, Mark Wooden

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 57(3), 453-478.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10570

The Extent of Rent Sharing along the Wage Distribution

Alessia Matano, Paolo Naticchioni

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relation, 2017, 55 (4), 751-777

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10570

The Extent of Rent Sharing along the Wage Distribution

Alessia Matano, Paolo Naticchioni

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relation, 2017, 55 (4), 751-777

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10491

Determinants of Obesity in Turkey: A Quantile Regression Analysis from a Developing Country

Deniz Karaoğlan, Aysit Tansel

published in: Bogazici University Journal, 2019, 32 (2), 174-184.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10158

Does Temporary Interruption in Postsecondary Education Induce a Wage Penalty? Evidence from Canada

Bernard Fortin, Safa Ragued

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 58, 108 - 122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10064

Returns to Schooling among Immigrants in Spain: A Quantile Regression Approach

Santiago Budría, Pablo Swedberg, Marlene Fonseca

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10053

The Gender Gap in Mathematics Achievement: Evidence from Italian Data

Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Silvia Mendolia, Dalit Contini

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 58, 32-42.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10015

The Intimate Link between Income Levels and Life Expectancy: Global Evidence from 213 Years

Michael Jetter, Sabine Laudage, David Stadelmann

published in: Social Science Quarterly, 2019, 100 (4), 1387 - 1403

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9344

Earnings and Consumption Dynamics: A Nonlinear Panel Data Framework

Manuel Arellano, Richard Blundell, Stephane Bonhomme

published in: Econometrica, 2017, 85 (3), 693 - 734

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9318

Charitable Behaviour and the Big Five Personality Traits: Evidence from UK Panel Data

Sarah Brown, Karl Taylor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9305

What Differences a Day Can Make: Quantile Regression Estimates of the Distribution of Daily Learning Gains

Michael S. Hayes, Seth Gershenson

published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 141, 48-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9253

Crime Victimisation and Subjective Well-Being: Panel Evidence from Australia

Stephane Mahuteau, Rong Zhu

published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25, 1448–1463

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8819

A Note on Unemployment Persistence and Quantile Parameter Heterogeneity

Corrado Andini, Monica Andini

extended version published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2018, 22 (5), 1298-1320

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8505

Selective Schooling Systems Increase Inequality

Simon Burgess, Matt Dickson, Lindsey Macmillan

revised version published as 'Do selective schooling systems increase inequality? ' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2020, 72 (1), 1 - 24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8334

Does the Link between Unemployment and Crime Depend on the Crime Level? A Quantile Regression Approach

Horst Entorf, Philip Sieger

published in: International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2014, 8(2), 262-283

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8315

The Public Sector Wage Premium in Spain: Evidence from Longitudinal Administrative Data

Laura Hospido, Enrique Moral-Benito

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 101–122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8272

Convergence to the Managerial Frontier

William F. Maloney, Mauricio Sarrias