IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18251

Uncovering the Biological Toll of Neighborhood Disorder Trajectories: New Evidence Using Machine Learning Methods and Biomarkers in Older Adults

Jiao Yu, Thomas K.M. Cudjoe, Walter S. Mathis, Xi Chen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18147

Covariate Balancing and the Equivalence of Weighting and Doubly Robust Estimators of Average Treatment Effects

Tymon Sloczynski, Derya Uysal, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

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. 17805

Quantifying the Internal Validity of Weighted Estimands

Alexandre Poirier, Tymon Sloczynski

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17291

Revisiting Sample Bias in the UK's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, with Implications for Estimates of Low Pay and the Bite of the National Living Wage

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

published online as 'The Representativeness of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings and its Implications for UK Wage Policy' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 25 August 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16775

Intergenerational Persistence of Education, Smoking and Birth Weight: Evidence from Three Generations

Chiara Costi, Giuseppe Migali, Eugenio Zucchelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16655

Occupational Hazard? An Analysis of Birth Outcomes among Physician Mothers

Anupam B. Jena, David Slusky, Lilly Springer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16463

Ocean Salinity, Early-Life Health, and Adaptation

Amanda Guimbeau, Xinde James Ji, Zi Long, Nidhiya Menon

published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2024,125, 102954

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16463

Ocean Salinity, Early-Life Health, and Adaptation

Amanda Guimbeau, Xinde James Ji, Zi Long, Nidhiya Menon

published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2024,125, 102954

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16119

Weight, Attractiveness, and Gender When Hiring: A Field Experiment in Spain

Catarina Goulão, Juan A. Lacomba, Francisco Miguel Lagos, Dan-Olof Rooth

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 218, 132-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15885

Criminal Charges, Risk Assessment, and Violent Recidivism in Cases of Domestic Abuse

Dan A. Black, Jeffrey Grogger, Tom Kirchmaier, Koen Sanders

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15819

Child Growth and Refugee Status: Evidence from Syrian Migrants in Turkey

Murat Demirci, Andrew Foster, Murat Güray Kirdar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15795

Does Using Planning Policy to Restrict Fast Food Outlets Reduce Inequalities in Childhood Overweight and Obesity?

Huasheng Xiang, Viviana Albani, Louis Goffe, Nasima Akhter, Amelia Lake, Heather Brown

published as 'Planning policies to restrict fast food and inequalities in child weight in England: a quasi-experimental analysis' in: Obesity, 2024, 32 (12), 2345-2353

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15490

The Effect of Health Insurance on Child Nutritional Outcomes. Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design in Peru

Noelia Bernal, Joan Costa-Font, Patricia Ritter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15464

Prenatal Exposure to PM2.5 and Infant Birth Outcomes: Evidence from a Population-Wide Database

Babak Jahanshahi, Brian Johnston, Duncan McVicar, Mark E. McGovern, Dermot O’Reilly, Neil Rowland, Stavros Vlachos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15427

Identifying Program Benefits When Participation Is Misreported

Denni Tommasi, Lina Zhang

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2024, 39 (6), 1123-1148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15241

Abadie's Kappa and Weighting Estimators of the Local Average Treatment Effect