IZA Discussion Papers

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. 11862

Mostly Harmless Simulations? On the Internal Validity of Empirical Monte Carlo Studies

Arun Advani, Toru Kitagawa, Tymon Sloczynski

published as 'Mostly Harmless Simulations? Using Monte Carlo Studies for Estimator Selection' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34(6), 893–910

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11816

Climatic Roots of Loss Aversion

Oded Galor, Viacheslav Savitskiy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11751

Adverse Selection in Low-Income Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from a RCT in Pakistan

Torben Fischer, Markus Frölich, Andreas Landmann

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, 15 (3), 313–340

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11675

Working Hours and Top Management Appointments: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Anders Frederiksen, Takao Kato, Nina Smith

revised version published online as 'Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11488

Tim Krieger, Laura Renner, Jens Ruhose

published in: Journal of International Economics, 2018, 113, 35-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11449

Survey Item-Response Behavior as an Imperfect Proxy for Unobserved Ability: Theory and Application

Sonja C. de New, Stefanie Schurer

published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2023, 41 (1), 197-212

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11405

Upward and Downward Bias When Measuring Inequality of Opportunity

Paolo Brunori, Vito Peragine, Laura Serlenga

published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2019, 52 (4), 635 - 661

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11365

The Impact of Self-Selection on Performance

Lukas Kiessling, Jonas Radbruch, Sebastian Schaube

substantially revised version published as ' Self-Selection of Peers and Performance' in Management Science, 2022, 68 (11), 7793 - 8514

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11346

International Import Competition and the Decision to Migrate: Evidence from Mexico

Kaveh Majlesi, Gaia Narciso

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 132, 75-87

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. 11335

Experienced and Inherited Disadvantage: A Longitudinal Study of Early Adulthood Neighbourhood Careers of Siblings

David Manley, Maarten van Ham, Lina Hedman

published as 'Inherited and Spatial Disadvantages: A Longitudinal Study of Early Adult Neighborhood Careers of Siblings' in: Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2020, 110 (6), 1670-1689

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11294

Nonseparable Sample Selection Models with Censored Selection Rules: An Application to Wage Decompositions

Iván Fernández-Val, Aico van Vuuren, Francis Vella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11292

Religion and Abortion: The Role of Politician Identity

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras, Lakshmi Iyer

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 53, 102746

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11282

Women and Migration

Francisca M. Antman

published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys, and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, 731-747

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11239

Women's Inheritance Rights Reform and the Preference for Sons in India

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Rachel Brulé, Sanchari Roy

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 146 (C), 102275

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11231

Changes across Cohorts in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences

Jared Ashworth, V. Joseph Hotz, Arnaud Maurel, Tyler Ransom

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (4), 931 - 964

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11173

Do Emigrants Self-Select along Cultural Traits? Evidence from the MENA Countries

Frédéric Docquier, Aysit Tansel, Riccardo Turati

published in: International Migration Review, 2020, 54 (2), 388-422.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11117

Long-Run Consequences of Health Insurance Promotion: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ghana

Patrick Opoku Asuming, Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Armand Sim

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11095

Serving the Public Interest in Several Ways: Theory and Empirics

Robert Dur, Max van Lent

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 13-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11086

Employment Transitions of Women in India: A Panel Analysis

Sudipa Sarkar, Soham Sahoo, Stephan Klasen

published in: World Development, 2019, 115, 291-309

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11023

Does Student Work Really Affect Educational Outcomes? A Review of the Literature

Brecht Neyt, Eddy Omey, Dieter Verhaest, Stijn Baert

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2019, 33 (3), 896 - 921

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11003

Is There Still Son Preference in the United States?

Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, Peter Brummund, Jason B. Cook, Miriam Larson-Koester

published: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33 (3), 709-750

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10887

A Joint Hazard-Longitudinal Model of the Timing of Migration, Immigrant Quality, and Labor Market Assimilation

Apoorva Jain, Klara Sabirianova Peter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10870

Introducing Risk Adjustment and Free Health Plan Choice in Employer-Based Health Insurance: Evidence from Germany

Adam Pilny, Ansgar Wübker, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 56, 330-351

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10841

The Assimilation of Young Workers into the Labour Market in France: A Stochastic Earnings Frontier Approach

Stephen Bazen, Khalid Maman Waziri

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10837

International Emigrant Selection on Occupational Skills

Alexander Patt, Jens Ruhose, Simon Wiederhold, Miguel Flores

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19(2), 1249-1298

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10821

Unordered Monotonicity

James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto

published in: Econometrica, 2018, 86 (1), 1 - 35 [revised version available as NBER Working Paper No. 23497]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10800

Eliciting Permanent and Transitory Undeclared Work from Matched Administrative and Survey Data

Peter Elek, János Köllő

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10791

Selection on Ability and the Early Career Growth in the Gender Wage Gap

Eduardo Fraga, Gustavo Gonzaga, Rodrigo R. Soares

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10729

The Changing Nature of Gender Selection into Employment: Europe over the Great Recession

Juan J. Dolado, Cecilia García-Peñalosa, Linas Tarasonis

published in: Economic Policy, 2020, 104, 637-676.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10699

The Relative Labour Market Performance of Former International Students: Evidence from the Canadian National Graduates Survey

Zong Jia Chen, Mikal Skuterud

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10694

Incorporating Neighbourhood Choice in a Model of Neighbourhood Effects on Income

Maarten van Ham, Sanne Boschman, Matt Vogel

published in: Demography, 2018, 55, 1069 - 1090

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. 10644

The Selection and Causal Effects of Work Incentives on Labor Productivity: Evidence from a Two-Stage Randomized Controlled Trial in Malawi

Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Seonghoon Kim, Thomas T. Kim

published as ' The Role of Career and Wage Incentives in Labor Productivity: Evidence from a Two-Stage Field Experiment in Malawi ' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (5), 839-851

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10582

The Impact of Traineeships on the Employment of the Mentally Ill: The Role of Partial Compliance

Alberto Martini, Enrico Rettore, Gianpaolo Barbetta

published as 'When Non-Compliance Carries the Day: Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Employment Program for the Severely Mentally Ill' in: Evaluation Review, 2022, 46 (5), 555–577

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10474

The Macrogenoeconomics of Comparative Development

Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor

published in: Journal of Economic Literature 2018, 56 (3), 1119–1155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10454

Working Hours, Promotion and the Gender Gap in the Workplace

Takao Kato, Hiromasa Ogawa, Hideo Owan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10410

Trust the Police? Self-Selection of Motivated Agents into the German Police Force

Guido Friebel, Michael Kosfeld, Gerd Thielmann

published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2019, 11 (4), 59-78

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10271

On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: New Evidence on Abortion, Fertility, and Parental Investments

S Anukriti, Sonia R. Bhalotra, Hiu Tam

published as 'On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: Fertility, Parental Investments and Mortality' in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (651), 1 - 36

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10258

Who Runs? Honesty and Self-Selection into Politics

Sebastian Fehrler, Urs Fischbacher, Maik T. Schneider

published as 'Honesty and Self-Selection into Cheap Talk' in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130, 2468-2496

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10180

Family Migration and Relative Earnings Potentials

Mette Foged

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 87-100

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10157

Wage Decompositions Using Panel Data Sample Selection Correction

Ronald L. Oaxaca, Chung Choe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9880

Happy People Have Children: Choice and Self-Selection into Parenthood

Sophie Cetre, Andrew E. Clark, Claudia Senik

published in: European Journal of Population, 2016, 32, 445-473

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9696

The Effect of Supplemental Instruction on Academic Performance: An Encouragement Design Experiment

Alfredo R. Paloyo, Sally Rogan, Peter Siminski

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 55, 57-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9651

Social Insurance with Competitive Insurance Markets and Risk Misperception

Helmuth Cremer, Kerstin Roeder

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 138-147.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9619

Working Time Reductions at the End of the Career: Do They Prolong the Time Spent in Employment?

Andrea Albanese, Bart Cockx, Yannick Thuy

published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 99–141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9594

Connections in Scientific Committees and Applicants' Self-Selection: Evidence from a Natural Randomized Experiment

Manuel Bagues, Mauro Sylos-Labini, Natalia Zinovyeva

published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 58, 81-97

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9567

Differential and Distributional Effects of Energy Efficiency Surveys: Evidence from Electricity Consumption

Thomas J. Kniesner, Galib Rustamov

published in: Journal of Benefit Cost Analysis, 2018, 9(3), 375-406

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9538

Can Selective Immigration Policies Reduce Migrants' Quality?

Simone Bertoli, Vianney Dequiedt, Yves Zenou

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 119, 100-109

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9434

Self‐Selection of Emigrants: Theory and Evidence on Stochastic Dominance in Observable and Unobservable Characteristics

George J. Borjas, Ilpo Kauppinen, Panu Poutvaara

published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129, 143–171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9415

Are Sociocultural Factors Important for Studying a Science University Major?

Volker Grossmann, Aderonke Osikominu, Marius Osterfeld

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2020, 72 (2), 374-369

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9367

Worker Mobility in a Search Model with Adverse Selection

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Leo Kaas

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2015, 160, 340 - 386.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9346

Simple Tests for Selection Bias: Learning More from Instrumental Variables

Dan A. Black, Joonhwi Joo, Robert J. LaLonde, Jeffrey A. Smith, Evan J. Taylor

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9331

Women Have to Enter the Leadership Race to Win: Using Random Selection to Increase the Supply of Women into Senior Positions

Amanda H. Goodall, Margit Osterloh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9291

Efficiency and Labor Market Dynamics in a Model of Labor Selection

Sanjay K. Chugh, Christian Merkl

published in: International Economic Review, 2016, 57 (4), 1371–1404.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9264

A Note on Possible Estimation Bias When Studying Persons with Work Disability in Active Labour Market Programs

Christer Gerdes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9261

Is Privatization Working in Ukraine? New Estimates from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Data, 1989-2013

J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Solomiya Shpak, Volodymyr Vakhitov

published as 'Is Privatization Working in Ukraine?' in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2019, 61 (1), 1 - 35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9164

The Selection of High-Skilled Migrants

Matthias Parey, Jens Ruhose, Fabian Waldinger, Nicolai Netz

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99(5), 776-792

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9154

Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market

Spencer Bastani, Tomer Blumkin, Luca Micheletto

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 131, 41-57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9142

Physician Payment Contracts in the Presence of Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection: The Theory and its Application to Ontario

Jasmin Kantarevic, Boris Kralj

published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25 (10), 1326-40.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9049

Overeducation: A Disease of the School-to-Work Transition System

Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Francesco Pastore

published in: G. Coppola and N. O'Higgins (eds): Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, Education and Health in Europe, Routledge, 2016, 36-56

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9004

Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and Children's Educational Outcomes

Arnaud Chevalier, Olivier Marie

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125 (2), 393-430

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8902

Finance for All: The Impact of Financial Literacy Training in Compulsory Secondary Education in Spain

Laura Hospido, Ernesto Villanueva, Gema Zamarro

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8752

Native-Immigrant Gaps in Educational and School-to-Work Transitions in the Second Generation: The Role of Gender and Ethnicity

Stijn Baert, Frank Heiland, Sanders Korenman

revised version published in: De Economist, 2016, 164, 159 - 186

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8741

Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the United Kingdom's Labour Market: A Field Experiment

Nick Drydakis

published in: Human Relations, 2015, 68(11), 1769-1796

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8735

College Expansion and the Marginal Returns to Education: Evidence from Russia

Olga Belskaya, Klara Sabirianova Peter, Christian Posso

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8682

New Directions in Immigration Policy: Canada's Evolving Approach to the Selection of Economic Immigrants

Ana Ferrer, Garnett Picot, W. Craig Riddell

published in: International Migration Review, 2014, 48 (3), 846-867

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8655

How Darwinian Should an Economy Be?

Gilles Saint-Paul

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8633

Does Marriage Make You Healthier?

Nezih Guner, Yuliya Kulikova, Joan Llull

published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 162-190

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8581

Choosing to Be Trained: Do Behavioral Traits Matter?

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Lata Gangadharan, Pushkar Maitra, Subha Mani, Samyukta Subramanian

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 110, 145-159.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8477

Broken Gears: The Value Added of Higher Education on Teachers' Academic Achievement

Carlos Felipe Balcázar, Hugo R. Nopo

published in: Higher Education, 2016, 72 (3), 341–361

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8455

Testing for Selection Bias

Joonhwi Joo, Robert J. LaLonde

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8433

The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation

Oded Galor, Marc Klemp

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8344

And the Winners Are... An Axiomatic Approach to Selection from a Set

Daniele Checchi, Gianni De Fraja, Stefano Verzillo

published as 'Selections from ordered sets' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2018, 50 (4), 677-703

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8338

Bayesian Exploratory Factor Analysis

Gabriella Conti, Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter, James J. Heckman, Rémi Piatek

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2014, 183(1), 31–57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8337

Unobservable, but Unimportant? The Influence of Personality Traits (and Other Usually Unobserved Variables) for the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies

Marco Caliendo, Robert Mahlstedt, Oscar A. Mitnik

substantially revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 46, 14-25.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8286

Screening for Honesty

Bradley Ruffle, Yossef Tobol

substantially revised version available as IZA DP No. 9860

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8256

Extremal Quantile Regressions for Selection Models and the Black-White Wage Gap

Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Arnaud Maurel, Yichong Zhang

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2018, 203 (1), 129-142

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8195

Return Migration, Self-Selection and Entrepreneurship in Mozambique

Catia Batista, Tara McIndoe Calder, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79, 797–821.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8172

Surprising Selection Effects in the UK Car Insurance Market

Edmund Cannon, Giam Pietro Cipriani, Katia Bazar-Rosen

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (4), 879-897

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8159

The Lifetime Earnings Premium in the Public Sector: The View from Europe

Matt Dickson, Fabien Postel-Vinay, Hélène Turon

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 31, 141–161

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. 8048

Instrumental Variables: An Econometrician's Perspective

Guido W. Imbens

published in: Statistical Science, 2014, 29 (3), 3232 - 358

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8047

From Micro Data to Causality: Forty Years of Empirical Labor Economics

Bas van der Klaauw

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 88-97

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8025

Be Fruitful and Multiply? Moderate Fecundity and Long-Run Reproductive Success

Oded Galor, Marc Klemp

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8005

Selection and the Measured Black-White Wage Gap Among Young Women Revisited

James Albrecht, Aico van Vuuren, Susan Vroman

published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 33, 66-71

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7865

Let's Be Selective about Migrant Self-Selection

Costanza Biavaschi, Benjamin Elsner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7841

The Causal Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes in the UK

Alfonso Miranda, Yu Zhu

published as 'The Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Wage in the UK: Correcting for measurement error, endogenous treatment, and sample selection bias' in: Applied Economics Letters, 2021, 28 (5), 349-353

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