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425 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12173
Human Capital Investment under Exit Options: Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment
Satish Chand, Michael A. Clemens
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 163, 103112
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12168
All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Wages and Education for US Immigrants
Simone Bertoli, Steven Stillman
published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, Article 101749
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12118
Selection and Educational Attainment: Why Some Children Are Left Behind? Evidence from a Middle-Income Country
Luciana Méndez-Errico, Xavier Ramos
published in: Education Economics, 2022, 30 (6), 624-643
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12095
Measuring the Spatial Misallocation of Labor: The Returns to India-Gulf Guest Work in a Natural Experiment
Michael A. Clemens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12094
The Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind: Estimation in Presence of Intra-Household Selection of Migrants
Elie Murard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12044
Decomposing Real Wage Changes in the United States
Iván Fernández-Val, Aico van Vuuren, Francis Vella
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12040
Modified Causal Forests for Estimating Heterogeneous Causal Effects
Michael Lechner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12039
Machine Learning Estimation of Heterogeneous Causal Effects: Empirical Monte Carlo Evidence
Michael C. Knaus, Michael Lechner, Anthony Strittmatter
published in: Econometrics Journal, 2021, 24 (1), 134-161
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12011
The Impact of Dual Apprenticeship Programs on Early Labour Market Outcomes: A Dynamic Approach
Brecht Neyt, Dieter Verhaest, Stijn Baert
revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 78, 102022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11988
The Effect of a Ban on Gender-Based Pricing on Risk Selection in the German Health Insurance Market
Shan Huang, Martin Salm
revised version published in: Health Economics, 2020, 29, 3-17
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11917
The Causal Effect of Trust
Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, David B. Huffman, Nick Netzer
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. 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
Long-Term Relatedness between Countries and International Migrant Selection
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
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