IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1741

The Different Extent of Privatisation Proceeds in EU Countries: A Preliminary Explanation Using a Public Choice Approach

Ansgar H. Belke, Frank Baumgärtner, Friedrich Schneider, Ralph Setzer

published in: Finanzarchiv, 2007, 63 (2), 211-243

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1729

Social Security Incentives, Human Capital Investment and Mobility of Labor

Panu Poutvaara

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (7-8), 1299-1325

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1728

What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments

Marianne P. Bitler, Jonah B. Gelbach, Hilary W. Hoynes

published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (4), 988–1012.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1727

Evaluating Dominance Ranking of PSID Incomes by Various Household Attributes

Esfandiar Maasoumi, Almas Heshmati

published in: Betti and Lemmi (eds.), Advances in Income Inequality and Concentration Measures, Routledge: London, 2008

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1721

European Asylum Policy

Timothy J. Hatton

published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2005, 194 (1), 106-119

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1697

Do Social Preferences Increase Productivity? Field Experimental Evidence from Fishermen in Toyama Bay

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Erika Seki

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1695

Incentives and Prosocial Behavior

Roland Benabou, Jean Tirole

published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (5), 1652-1678

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1693

Can Democracy Educate a Society?

Hans Gersbach, Lars Siemers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1691

Competitive Work Environments and Social Preferences: Field Experimental Evidence from a Japanese Fishing Community

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Erika Seki

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2006, 5 (2), Article 2

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1680

The Economics of Workaholism: We Should Not Have Worked on This Paper

Daniel S. Hamermesh, Joel Slemrod

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2008, 8 (1), Article 3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1678

Optimum Income Taxation and Layoff Taxes

Pierre Cahuc, Andre Zylberberg

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (10-11), 2003-2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1657

Increasing Returns to Education and the Skills Under-Investment Trap

Alison L. Booth, Melvyn Coles

published as 'A Microfoundation for Increasing Returns in Human Capital Accumulation and the Under-Participation Trap' in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (7), 1661-1681

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1653

The Microeconometric Estimation of Treatment Effects - An Overview

Marco Caliendo, Reinhard Hujer

published in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv / Journal of the German Statistical Society, 2006, 90 (1), 197-212

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1646

The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation

Martijn Egas, Arno Riedl

published as 'The economics of altruistic punishment and the maintenance of cooperation' in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B -Biological Sciences, 2008, 275 (1637), 871-878

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1606

Do Government Subsidies Stimulate Training Expenditure? Microeconometric Evidence from Plant Level Data

Holger Görg, Eric Strobl

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2006, 72(4), 860-876

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1599

Brain Gain: Claims about Its Size and Impact on Welfare and Growth Are Greatly Exaggerated

Maurice Schiff

published in: Caglar Ozden and Maurice Schiff (eds.), International Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain, Palgrave MacMillan: New York, 2006

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1588

Some Practical Guidance for the Implementation of Propensity Score Matching

Marco Caliendo, Sabine Kopeinig

published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2008, 22(1), 31-72