IZA Discussion Papers

revised version publisehd as 'Risky moms, risky kids? fertility and crime after the fall of the wal' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 230, 105048

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7697

Does It Pay to Work for Free? Wage Returns and Gender Differences in the Market for Volunteers

Guido Cozzi, Noemi Mantovan, Robert M. Sauer

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79(6), 1018-1045

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7696

Internationalisation of Education and Returns in the Labour Market

Jacques Poot, Matthew Roskruge

published in: Studies in Regional Science, 2013, 43(1), 61-78

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7671

Succeeding in Innovation: Key Insights on the Role of R&D and Technological Acquisition Drawn from Company Data

Andrea Conte, Marco Vivarelli

published in: Empirical Economics, 2014, 47(4), 1317-1340

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7644

Job Satisfaction and Self-Selection into the Public or Private Sector: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Natalia Danzer

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 57(C), 46-62.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7529

The Effect of Sexual Activity on Wages

Nick Drydakis

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36 (2), 192-215

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7526

Neighbourhood Selection of Non-Western Ethnic Minorities: Testing the Own-Group Preference Hypothesis Using a Conditional Logit Model

Sanne Boschman, Maarten van Ham

published as 'Neighbourhood Selection of Non-Western Ethnic Minorities: Testing the Own-Group Effects Hypothesis Using a Conditional Logit Model' in: Environment and Planning A, 2015, 47(5), 1155-1174

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7518

Bridging the Gap in Pension Participation: How Much Can Universal Tax-Deferred Pension Coverage Hope to Achieve?

Nadia S Karamcheva, Geoffrey Sanzenbacher

published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2014, 13 (4), 439-459

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7504

Perception of Workplace Discrimination among Immigrants and Native Born New Zealanders

Bridget Daldy, Jacques Poot, Matthew Roskruge

published in: Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2013, 16 (1), 137-154

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7427

Earnings Growth of Mexican Immigrants: New versus Traditional Destinations

Neeraj Kaushal, Ce Shang

published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2013, 2:11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7382

The Value of Hiring through Referrals

Stephen V. Burks, Bo Cowgill, Mitchell Hoffman, Michael Housman

revised version published as 'The Value of Hiring through Employee Referrals' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2015, 130(2), 805-839

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7374

Self-Selection into Economics Experiments Is Driven by Monetary Rewards

Johannes Abeler, Daniele Nosenzo

revised version published as 'Self-Selection into Laboratory Experiments: Pro-Social Motives versus Monetary Incentives' in: Experimental Economics, 2015, 18(2), 195-214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7348

Migration from Ukraine: Brawn or Brain? New Survey Evidence

Simon Commander, Olexandr Nikolaychuk, Dmytro Vikhrov

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7321

Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking

Roland Benabou, Jean Tirole

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 124 (2), 305–370

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7295

Sample Attrition in the Canadian Survey of Labor and Income Dynamics

Brahim Boudarbat, Lee Grenon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7268

Star Wars: The Empirics Strike Back

Abel Brodeur, Mathias Lé, Marc Sangnier, Yanos Zylberberg

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (1), 1-32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7262

Pure Ethnic Gaps in Educational Attainment and School to Work Transitions: When Do They Arise?

Stijn Baert, Bart Cockx

revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 35, 276 - 294

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7258

Fifty Years of Compositional Changes in U.S. Out-Migration, 1908-1957

Costanza Biavaschi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7222

Stayers and Returners: Educational Self-Selection among U.S. Immigrants and Returning Migrants

Arturo Alberto Aguilar Esteva

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7169

Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit

Francesco Drago, Tommaso Nannicini, Francesco Sobbrio

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2014, 6 (3), 159-188

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7103

Estimating Returns to Education when the IV Sample is Selective

Le Wang

published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 74-85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7005

Selection, Heterogeneity and the Gender Wage Gap

Cecilia Machado

published as 'Unobserved selection heterogeneity and the gender wage gap' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32 (7), 1348 - 1366

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7003

A Flexible Sample Selection Model: A GTL-Copula Approach

Takuya Hasebe, Wim P. Vijverberg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6795

Recovering the Counterfactual Wage Distribution with Selective Return Migration

Costanza Biavaschi

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 38 (1), 59-80

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6784

Does It Pay for Women to Volunteer?

Robert M. Sauer

published in: International Economic Review, 2015, 56(2), 537-564

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6744

Aircraft Noise, Health, and Residential Sorting: Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments

Stefan Boes, Stephan Nüesch, Steven Stillman

published in: Health Economics, 2013, 22 (9), 1037 - 1051

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6678

Who Marries Differently-Aged Spouses? Earnings, Ability and Appearance

Hani Mansour, Terra McKinnish

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96(3), 577-580

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6664

The Selection of Migrants and Returnees in Romania: Evidence and Long-Run Implications

J. William Ambrosini, Karin Mayr, Giovanni Peri, Dragos Radu

published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2015, 34 (4), 753 - 793

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6626

Private Tutoring and the Question of Equitable Opportunities in Turkey

Aysit Tansel

substantially revised version published as 'Private Tutoring and Equitable Opportunities in Turkey: Challenges and Policy Implications' in: Mark Bray and André E. Mazawi (eds.), Private Tutoring Across the Mediterranean - Power Dynamics and Implications for Learning and Equity, Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, 2013, Chapter 11, 177-186

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6558

The Gender Pay Gap in the Australian Private Sector: Is Selection Relevant across the Wage Distribution?

Yekaterina Chzhen, Karen A. Mumford, Catia Nicodemo

published in: Economic Record, 2013, 89 (286), 367–381

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6502

The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities: Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon, Diego Puga, Sébastien Roux

published in: Econometrica, 2012, 80 (6), 2543-2594

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6478

Repeated Selection with Heterogenous Individuals and Relative Age Effects

Herbert Dawid, Gerd Muehlheusser

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116, 387–406

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6433

Skill Based Immigrant Selection and Labor Market Outcomes by Visa Category

Abdurrahman B. Aydemir

published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 23, 432-452

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6411

Information and Competition Entry

Mara Ewers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6369

The Evaluation of Immigration Policies

Ulf Rinne

published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 28, 530-551

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6327

Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits

Oded Galor, Stelios Michalopoulos

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2012, 147(2), 759-780

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6066

Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth

Mette Ejrnæs, Astrid Kunze

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2013, 115 (3), 856-877

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6055

Adverse Selection and Incentives in an Early Retirement Program

Kenneth T. Whelan, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Kevin F. Hallock, Ronald L. Seeber

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, Vol. 36, 159-190

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6044

Work-Related Health in Europe: Are Older Workers More at Risk?

Melanie K. Jones, Paul L. Latreille, Peter J. Sloane, Anita Staneva

published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2013, 88, 18-29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6037

When the Early Bird Catches the Worm: The Impact of Training in Retail

Christiane Hinerasky, René Fahr

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6031

Inference for Shared-Frailty Survival Models with Left-Truncated Data

Gerard J. van den Berg, Bettina Drepper

published in: Econometric Reviews, 35(6), 2016, 1075-1098

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6008

Semiparametric Selection Models with Binary Outcomes

Roger Klein, Chan Shen, Francis Vella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5999

Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?

Peter J. Kuhn, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Are Women More Attracted to Co-operation Than Men?' in: Economic Journal, 2014, 125, 115-140.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5936

Wage Dispersion and Labor Turnover with Adverse Selection

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Leo Kaas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5904

Migration and Stratification

Guillermina Jasso

published in: Social Science Research, 2011, 40 (5), 1292 - 1336

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5892

Role Selection and Team Performance

David J. Cooper, Matthias Sutter

published in: International Economic Review, 2018, 59(3), 1547-1569.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5805

Self-Employment of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China

Corrado Giulietti, Guangjie Ning, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (1), 96-117.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5786

International Migration, Imperfect Information, and Brain Drain

Vianney Dequiedt, Yves Zenou

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 102, 62-78.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5755

Incentives vs. Selection in Promotion Tournaments: Can a Designer Kill Two Birds with One Stone?

Wolfgang Höchtl, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Rudi Stracke, Uwe Sunde

revised version published in: Managerial and Decision Economics, 2015, 36(5), 275–285

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5631

The Impact of Active Labour Market Policy on Post-Unemployment Outcomes: Evidence from a Social Experiment in Denmark

Sylvie Blasco, Michael Rosholm

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5562

Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls' Well-Being: Evidence from India

Luojia Hu, Analia Schlosser

published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (587), 1227 - 1261

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5547

Are We Wasting Our Children's Time by Giving Them More Homework?

Ozkan Eren, Daniel J. Henderson

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (5), 950-961

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5534

Long-term Effects of Famine on Life Expectancy: A Re-analysis of the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-1868

Gabriele Doblhammer, Gerard J. van den Berg, Lambert H. Lumey

published as 'A re-analysis of the long-term effects on life expectancy of the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-86', in: Population Studies, 67(3) 2013, 309-322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5497

Occupational Choice, Aggregate Productivity, and Trade

Jürgen Meckl, Benjamin Weigert

published in: Review of Development Economics, 2013, 17 (3), 549-558

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5488

Is There Selection Bias in Laboratory Experiments? The Case of Social and Risk Preferences

Blair L. Cleave, Nikos Nikiforakis, Robert Slonim

published in: Experimental Economics, 2013, 16 (3) 372-382

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5475

Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples

Armin Falk, Stephan Meier, Christian Zehnder

revised version published as 'Do Lab Experiments Misrepresent Social Preferences? The case of self-selected student samples' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (4), 839–852

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5448

Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions: Results of a Fixed Effects Model

Anne Busch, Elke Holst

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5434

Turning 18: What a Difference Application of Adult Criminal Law Makes

Horst Entorf

published as 'Expected Recidivism among Young Offenders: Comparing Specific Deterrence under Juvenile and Adult Criminal Law' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2012, 28 (4), 414-429

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5389

Self Selection Does Not Increase Other-Regarding Preferences among Adult Laboratory Subjects, but Student Subjects May Be More Self-Regarding than Adults

Jon E. Anderson, Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Karsten Maurer, Daniele Nosenzo, Ruth Potter, Kim Rocha, Aldo Rustichini

revised version published as 'Self-Selection and Variations in the Laboratory Measurement of Other-Regarding Preferences Across Subject Pools: Evidence From One College Student and Two Adult Samples' in: Experimental Economics, 2013, 16 (2), 170-189

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5381

Where Have All the Young Girls Gone? Identification of Sex Selection in India

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Tom Cochrane

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5372

Endogenous Treatment Effects for Count Data Models with Sample Selection or Endogenous Participation

Massimiliano Bratti, Alfonso Miranda

revised version published in: Health Economics, 2011, 20 (9), 1090-1109

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5302

Immigrant Over- and Under-education: The Role of Home Country Labour Market Experience

Matloob Piracha, Massimiliano Tani, Florin Vadean

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1, Article 3

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. 5210

Returns to Education in Four Transition Countries: Quantile Regression Approach

Anita Staneva, Reza Arabsheibani, Philip D. Murphy

published in: S. Mendolina, M. O'Brien, A. R. Paloya, O. Yearkhin (eds.), Critical Perspectives of Economics of Education, 2022, Chapter 9

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5207

Occupational Choice of Return Migrants in Moldova

Daniela Borodak, Matloob Piracha

published in: Eastern European Economics, 2011, 49 (4), 24-46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5193

Understanding Neighbourhood Effects: Selection Bias and Residential Mobility

Lina Bergström, Maarten van Ham

published in: Van Ham M., Manley D., Bailey N., Simpson L., Maclennan D. (eds.), [Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives] (Chapter 4), Springer Dordrecht, 2012, 79-99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5186

Splitting Tournaments

Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek, Bas van der Klaauw

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5147

Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Yama Temouri, Alexander Vogel, Joachim Wagner

published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2013, 25 (2), 146-158

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. 5125

Experimental Approaches in Migration Studies

David McKenzie, Dean Yang

published in: Carlos Vargas-Silva (ed.), Handbook of Research Methods in Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012, 249-269

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5105

Teams Make You Smarter: Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Auctions and Markets by Teams and Individuals

Boris Maciejovsky, Matthias Sutter, David V. Budescu, Patrick Bernau

revised version published as 'Teams make you smarter: How exposure to teams improves individual decisions in probability and reasoning tasks' in: Management Science, 2013, 59 (6), 1255-1270

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5104

Does Intermarriage Pay Off? A Panel Data Analysis

Olga Nottmeyer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5091

The Rise in Absenteeism: Disentangling the Impacts of Cohort, Age and Time

Erik Biorn, Simen Gaure, Simen Markussen, Knut Røed

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (4), 1585-1608

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5055

Carrot and Stick: How Reemployment Bonuses and Benefit Sanctions Affect Job Finding Rates

Bas van der Klaauw, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (2), 275–296

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5044