IZA Discussion Papers

part of the paper published as 'Preexisting social ties among Auschwitz prisoners support Holocaust survival' in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2023, 120 (29), e2221654120

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. 14887

Dreaming of Leaving the Nest? Immigration Status and the Living Arrangements of DACAmented

Rania Gihleb, Osea Giuntella, Jakub Lonsky

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14800

The Origins of Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Earnings Expectations: Causal Evidence from a Mentoring Intervention

Teodora Boneva, Thomas Buser, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14746

Association between Parents' Nativity Status and Influenza Vaccination Rates among Children

Vasil Yasenov, Michael Hotard, Duncan Lawrence, Jens Hainmueller

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14745

Inequality in Mortality between Black and White Americans by Age, Place, and Cause, and in Comparison to Europe, 1990-2018

published in: PNAS, 2021, 118 (40), e210468411

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14648

Retirement and Voluntary Work Provision: Evidence from the Australian Age Pension Reform

Rong Zhu

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 190, 674–690

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14546

School Health Programs: Education, Health, and Welfare Dependency of Young Adults

Signe A. Abrahamsen, Rita Ginja, Julie Riise

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14534

Bye, Bye, Hotel Mama, Bye, Bye Good Grades? Living in a Student Room and Exam Results in Tertiary Education

Simon Amez, Stijn Baert

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14467

The Roots of Cooperation

Zvonimir Bašić, Parampreet C. Bindra, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Angelo Romano, Matthias Sutter, Claudia Zoller

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14449

Women at Work in the United States since 1860: An Analysis of Unreported Family Workers

Barry R. Chiswick, RaeAnn Halenda Robinson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14343

Widows' Time, Time Stress and Happiness: Adjusting to Loss

Daniel S. Hamermesh, Michal Myck, Monika Oczkowska

published as 'Widows' Time: Adjusting to Loss' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2023, 50, 369-396

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14159

The Consequences of Hosting Asylum Seekers for Citizens' Policy Preferences

Severin Zimmermann, Alois Stutzer

revised version published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 73, 102130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13997

Moms' Time - Married or Not

Daniel S. Hamermesh

published in: Jose Alberto Molina (ed.), Mothers in the Labor Market, Springer Publishers, 2022, 1-27.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13907

What Is the Role of Firm-Specific Pay Policies on the Gender Earnings Gap in Canada?

Jiang Li, Benoit Dostie, Gaëlle Simard-Duplain

published as 'Firm Pay Policies and the Gender Earnings Gap: The Mediating Role of Marital and Family Status', in: ILR Review, 2023, 76 (1), 160-188

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13715

Changes in Healthcare Utilization, Spending, and Perceived Health during COVID–19: A Longitudinal Study from Singapore

SangNam Ahn, Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh

published as 'Associations of the COVID-19 pandemic with older individuals' healthcare utilization and self-reported health status: a longitudinal analysis from Singapore' in: BMC Health Services Research, 2022, 22(1), 66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13659

The Long-Term Consequences of a Golden Nest

Viola Angelini, Marco Bertoni, Guglielmo Weber

published in: Demography, 2022, 59 (3), 857-875

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13451

Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment

Shyamal Chowdhury, Matthias Sutter, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published as 'Economic preferences across generations and family clusters: A large-scale experiment in a developing country' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (9), 2361-2410.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13387

Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence

Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Pia Pinger

conditionally accepted: Journal of Political Economy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13350

The CPS Citizenship Question and Survey Refusals: Causal and Semi-Causal Evidence Featuring a Two-Stage Regression Discontinuity Design

Robert Bernhardt, Phanindra V. Wunnava

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12971

Long-Run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap

Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, Laura M. Talpey, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2022, 17 (4), 608-640

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12874

The Wage Premium of Communist Party Membership: Evidence from China

Hongjian Wang, Plamen Nikolov, Kevin Acker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12673

A Fresh Look at the Health-Wealth Correlation: A Case Study of European Countries

Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman, Tzahi Neuman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12597

Personal Attitudes, Job Characteristics and Health

Lutz Bellmann, Olaf Hübler

published as 'Personality traits, working conditions and health: an empirical analysis based on the German Linked Personnel Panel, 2013 - 2017 ' in: Review of Managerial Science, 2022, 16, 283 - 318

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12390

The Measurement of Health Inequalities: Does Status Matter?

Joan Costa-Font, Frank A. Cowell

published online in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 30 July 2021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12390

The Measurement of Health Inequalities: Does Status Matter?

Joan Costa-Font, Frank A. Cowell

published online in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 30 July 2021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12341

Early Health, Risk Aversion and Stock Market Participation

Petri Böckerman, Andrew Conlin, Rauli Svento

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2021, 32, 100568

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12160

English Skills, Labour Market Status and Earnings of Turkish Women

Antonio Di Paolo, Aysit Tansel

published in: Empirica, 2019, 46 (4), 669-690.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12086

The Effects of Status Mobility and Group Identity on Trust

Rémi Suchon, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 163, 430-463

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12028

Substitution between Groups of Highly-Educated, Foreign-Born, H-1B Workers

Chad Sparber

published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101756

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11418

The Occupational Status of Jews in the United States on the Eve of the US Civil War

Barry R. Chiswick

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11363

Does Marital Status Affect How Firms Interpret Job Applicants' Un/Employment Histories?

Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Sili Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11337

Evaluating Intergenerational Persistence of Economic Preferences: A Large Scale Experiment with Families in Bangladesh

Shyamal Chowdhury, Matthias Sutter, Klaus F. Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11158

Socio-Economic Status and Inequalities in Children's IQ and Economic Preferences

Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Pia Pinger, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (9), 2504 -2545

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11099

The Relationship between Status and Happiness: Evidence from the Caste System in Rural India

Bert van Landeghem, Anneleen Vandeplas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10983

Does Reminding of Behavioural Biases Increase Returns from Financial Trading? A Field Experiment

Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia, Fabio Piluso

published in:International Journal of Economics and Finance, 2020, 12 (2),1-22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10921

Status Inequality, Moral Disengagement and Violence

Armin Falk

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10820

Social Comparisons in Oligopsony

Laszlo Goerke, Michael Neugart

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 141, 196-209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10778

Learning to Participate in Politics: Evidence from Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Dozie Okoye, Mutlu Yuksel

revised version published as 'Social Unrest in Impressionable Years and the Formation of Political Attitudes: Evidence from Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany' in Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58 (1), 184-208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10714

Maternal Socio-Economic Status and the Well-Being of the Next Generation(s)

Kasey Buckles

forthcoming in: Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10662

Costly Posturing: Ceremonies and Early Child Development in China

Xi Chen, Xiaobo Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10653

The Bilateral Relationship between Depressive Symptoms and Employment Status

Melisa Bubonya, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, David C. Ribar

published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2019, 35, 96-106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10639

Legal Status and Deprivation in India's Urban Slums: An Analysis of Two Decades of National Sample Survey Data

Laura B. Nolan, David E. Bloom, Ramnath Subbaraman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10416

Excess Mortality, Institutionalization and Homelessness Among Status Indians in Canada

Randall K. Q. Akee, Donn. L. Feir

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10350

Rain, Emotions and Voting for the Status Quo

Armando N. Meier, Lukas D. Schmid, Alois Stutzer

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 119, 434-451

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10038

Social Comparisons of Wage Increases and Job Satisfaction

Christian Grund, Maike Rubin

published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49, 1345-1350

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10029

Illegal Migration and Consumption Behavior of Immigrant Households

Christian Dustmann, Francesco Fasani, Biagio Speciale

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, 15 (3), 654 - 691

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9728

Intergenerational Persistence of Health in the U.S.: Do Immigrants Get Healthier as They Assimilate?

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Adriana Kugler

revised version published as 'Intergenerational Persistence of Health: Do Immigrants Get Healthier as They Remain in the U.S. for More Generations?' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 23, 136-148.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9714

Smoking Peer Effects among Adolescents: Are Popular Teens More Influential?

Juan David Robalino

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9572

Unemployment Risk and Over-Indebtedness: A Micro-Econometric Perspective

Philip Du Caju, François Rycx, Ilan Tojerow

published as: European Central Bank Working Papers, 2016, No. 1908

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9519

Status Concern and Relative Deprivation in China: Measures, Empirical Evidence, and Economic and Policy Implications

Xi Chen

published in: China: An International Journal, 2016, 14 (1), 151-170.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9338

A "Healthy Immigrant Effect" or a "Sick Immigrant Effect"? Selection and Policies Matter

Amelie F. Constant, Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman, Tzahi Neuman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9286

First-Place Loving and Last-Place Loathing: How Rank in the Distribution of Performance Affects Effort Provision

David Gill, Zdenka Kissová, Jaesun Lee, Victoria L. Prowse

published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (2), 494 - 507

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8977

How Does Socio-Economic Status Shape a Child's Personality?

Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8754

Micro and Macro Determinants of Health: Older Immigrants in Europe

Amelie F. Constant, Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman, Tzahi Neuman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8744

The Impact of Temporary Protected Status on Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes

Pia M. Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny

published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2015, 105, 576-580

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8591

Commercial Plasma Donation and Individual Health in Impoverished Rural China

Xi Chen

published in: Health Economics Review, 2014, 4, Article 30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8529

Health Risk Factors among the Older European Populations: Personal and Country Effects

Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman, Tzahi Neuman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8392

Socioeconomic Gradients in Children's Cognitive Skills: Are Cross-Country Comparisons Robust to Who Reports Family Background?

John Jerrim, John Micklewright

revised version published in: European Sociological Review, 2014, doi: 10.1093/esr/jcu072

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8307

Old Money, the Nouveaux Riches and Brunhilde's Marriage Strategy

Anne-Kathrin Bronsert, Amihai Glazer, Kai A. Konrad

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8054

Land Reforms, Status and Population Growth

Ulla Lehmijoki, Tapio K. Palokangas

revised version published as 'Landowning, Status and Population Growth' in: E. Moser et al. (eds.), Dynamic Optimization in Environmental Economics, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2014, 315 - 328; extended and more advanced version published as 'Land Reforms and Population Growth' in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2016, 15, 1-15 (all versions co-authored with Ulla Lehmijoki)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8010

How Much Does Social Status Matter to Health? Evidence from China's Academician Election

Gordon G. Liu, Ohyun Kwon, Xindong Xue, Belton M. Fleisher

published as 'How Much Does Social Status Matter to Longevity?-Evidence from China's Academician Election' in: Health Economics, 2017, 26, 292-304.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7581

Labour Force Participation of Mature Age Men in Australia: The Role of Spousal Participation

Kostas Mavromaras, Rong Zhu

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2015, 67, 310–333

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7468

Determinants of Immigrant Homeownership: Examining their Changing Role during the Great Recession and Beyond

Kusum Mundra, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

published in: International Migration Review, 2018, 52(3), 648-694

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7370

Showing Off to the New Neighbors? Income, Socioeconomic Status and Consumption Patterns of Internal Migrants

Alexander M. Danzer, Barbara Dietz, Kseniia Gatskova, Achim Schmillen

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42(1), 230-245

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7256

Where the Streets Have a Name: Income Comparisons in the US

Abel Brodeur, Sarah Flèche

published as 'Neighbors' Income, Public Goods and Well-Being' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65(2), 217-238

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7097

Monetary Reference Points of Managers: An Empirical Investigation of Status Quo Preferences and Social Comparisons

Christian Grund, Johannes Martin

revised version published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 64, 70-84

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7016

Internal Migration and Life Satisfaction: Well-Being Effects of Moving as a Young Adult

Maggie Switek

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6925

Profit Sharing and Relative Consumption

Laszlo Goerke

published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 167-169

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6852

The Impact of Divorce on Return-Migration of Family Migrants

Govert Bijwaard, Stijn van Doeselaar

revised version published as 'The Impact of Changes in the Marital Status on Return-Migration of Family Migrants' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27(4), 961-997

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6676

Immigrant Homeownership and Immigration Status: Evidence from Spain

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Kusum Mundra

published in: Review of International Economics, Special Issue: Migration and Culture, 2013, 21(2), 204-218.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6675

Extra Status and Extra Stress: Are Promotions Good for Us?

David W. Johnston, Wang-Sheng Lee

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (1), 32-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6653

Does It Pay to Be a Cadre? Estimating the Returns to Being a Local Official in Rural China

Jian Zhang, John T. Giles, Scott Rozelle

Journal of Comparative Economics, 2012, 40 (3), 337-356