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13,131 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13136
The COVID-19 Conundrum in the Developing World: Protecting Lives or Protecting Jobs?
David A. Robalino
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13135
Revisiting a Remedy against the Chain of Unkindness
Wendelin Schnedler, Nina Lucia Stephan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13134
Access to The Emergency Contraceptive Pill Improves Women's Health: Evidence from Chile
Damian Clarke, Viviana Salinas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13133
The Spillover Effects of Pollution: How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom
Ludovica Gazze, Claudia Persico, Sandra Spirovska
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13132
Mandated Sick Pay: Coverage, Utilization, and Welfare Effects
J. Catherine Maclean, Stefan Pichler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13131
Moving from a Poor Economy to a Rich One: The Contradictory Roles of Technology and Job Tasks
Eran Yashiv
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13130
Exposure to Transit Migration, Public Attitudes and Entrepreneurship
Nicolas Ajzenman, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Sergei Guriev
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13129
The Effect of Labor Market Conditions at Entry on Workers' Long-Term Skills
Jaime Arellano-Bover
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13128
A Strictly Economic Explanation of Gender Norms: The Lasting Legacy of the Plough
Alessandro Cigno
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13127
Sibling Spillover in Rural China: A Story of Sisters and Daughters
Cynthia Bansak, Xuan Jiang, Guanyi Yang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13126
Gendered Language
Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13125
Female Political Representation and Substantive Effects on Policies: A Literature Review
Zohal Hessami, Mariana Lopes da Fonseca
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13124
Inequality in Socio-Emotional Skills: A Cross-Cohort Comparison
Orazio Attanasio, Richard Blundell, Gabriella Conti, Giacomo Mason
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13123
Macroeconomic Conditions When Young Shape Job Preferences for Life
Maria Cotofan, Lea Cassar, Robert Dur, Stephan Meier
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13122
Human Capital as Engine of Growth the Role of Knowledge Transfers in Promoting Balanced Growth within and across Countries
Isaac Ehrlich, Yun Pei
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13121
Teacher Preferences, Working Conditions, and Compensation Structure
Andrew C. Johnston
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13120
The Economic Outcomes of an Ethnic Minority: The Role of Barriers
Nitsa Kaliner Kasir, Eran Yashiv
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13119
Effects of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage for Individuals in Same-Sex Couples
Christopher S. Carpenter, Gilbert Gonzales, Tara McKay, Dario Sansone
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13118
Understanding the Mechanisms Linking College Education with Longevity
Kai Hong, Peter A. Savelyev, Kegon T.K. Tan
forthcoming in: Journal of Human Capital
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13117
Unemployment-Insurance Taxes and Labor Demand: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Administrative Data
Andrew C. Johnston
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13116
Is Precarious Employment Bad for Worker Health? The Case of Zero Hours Contracts in the UK
Egidio Farina, Colin P. Green, Duncan McVicar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13115
Demographic Determinants of Testing Incidence and COVID-19 Infections in New York City Neighborhoods
George J. Borjas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13114
Intergenerational Ties and Case Fatality Rates: A Cross-Country Analysis
Christian Bayer, Moritz Kuhn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13113
The Case for Releasing the Young from Lockdown: A Briefing Paper for Policymakers
Andrew J. Oswald, Nattavudh Powdthavee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13112
What Makes Work Meaningful and Why Economists Should Care about It
Milena Nikolova, Femke Cnossen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13111
Does Domestic Violence Jeopardize the Learning Environment of Peers within the School? Peer Effects of Exposure to Domestic Violence in Urban Peru
Italo A. Gutierrez, Oswaldo Molina
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13110
Artificial Intelligence against COVID-19: An Early Review
Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13109
The Impact of One Parent Family Payment Reforms on the Labour Market Outcomes of Lone Parents
Paul Redmond, Seamus McGuinness, Claire Keane
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13108
The Response to Dynamic Incentives in Insurance Contracts with a Deductible: Evidence from a Differences-in-Regression-Discontinuities Design
Tobias J. Klein, Martin Salm, Suraj Upadhyay
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13107
Income Taxation and Dual Job Labour Supply
Chung Choe, Ronald L. Oaxaca, Francesco Renna
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13106
The Long-Term Cognitive and Schooling Effects of Childhood Vaccinations in China
Hamid R. Oskorouchi, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, David E. Bloom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13105
Ancestral Norms, Legal Origins, and Female Empowerment
Abel Brodeur, Marie Christelle Mabeu, Roland Pongou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13104
Confidence in Public Institutions and the Run up to the October 2019 Uprising in Lebanon
Ali Fakih, Paul Makdissi, Walid Marrouch, Rami V. Tabri, Myra Yazbeck
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13103
Political Networks across the Globe
Simon Commander, Stavros Poupakis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13102
Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply
Daniela Del Boca, Chiara D. Pronzato, Giuseppe Sorrenti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13101
Quantiles of the Gain Distribution of an Early Childhood Intervention
Erich Battistin, Carlos Lamarche, Enrico Rettore
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13100
Cream Skimming by Health Care Providers and Inequality in Health Care Access: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Anna Werbeck, Ansgar Wübker, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13099
Using Machine Learning to Predict Nosocomial Infections and Medical Accidents in a NICU
Marc Beltempo, Georges Bresson, Guy Lacroix
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13098
Office Visits Preventing Emergency Room Visits: Evidence from the Flint Water Switch
Shooshan Danagoulian, Daniel Grossman, David Slusky
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13097
Do Compulsory Schooling Laws Always Work? A Study of Youth Crime in Brazilian Municipalities
Marislei Nishijima, Sarmistha Pal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13096
Estimating the Value of Higher Education Financial Aid: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Christian Belzil, Arnaud Maurel, Modibo Sidibé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13095
Pioneering a New Approach to Improving Working Conditions in Developing Countries: Better Factories Cambodia
Raymond Robertson
forthcoming in: HANDBOOK ON GLOBALISATION AND LABOUR STANDARDS
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13094
Projecting the Spread of COVID-19 for Germany
Jean Roch Donsimoni, René Glawion, Bodo Plachter, Klaus Wälde
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13093
Culture and Gender Allocation of Tasks: Source Country Characteristics and the Division of Non-market Work among US Immigrants
Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, Matthew Comey, Amanda Eng, Pamela Meyerhofer, Alexander Willén
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13092
Compliance with COVID-19 Social-Distancing Measures in Italy: The Role of Expectations and Duration
Guglielmo Briscese, Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis, Mirco Tonin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13091
Macroeconomic Conditions and Health in Britain: Aggregation, Dynamics and Local Area Heterogeneity
Katharina Janke, Kevin Lee, Carol Propper, Kalvinder Shields, Michael A. Shields
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13090
Terrorism, Political Opinions, and Election Outcomes: Evidence from Europe
Giovanni Peri, Daniel I. Rees, Brock Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13089
Immigration History, Entry Jobs, and the Labor Market Integration of Immigrants
Laura Ansala, Olof Aslund, Matti Sarvimäki
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13088
Chain Restaurant Calorie Posting Laws, Obesity, and Consumer Welfare
Charles Courtemanche, David E. Frisvold, David Jimenez-Gomez, Mariétou H. Ouayogodé, Michael Price
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13087
The Causal Impact of Socio-Emotional Skills Training on Educational Success
Giuseppe Sorrenti, Ulf Zölitz, Denis Ribeaud, Manuel Eisner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13086
Jumping the Queue: Nepotism and Public-Sector Pay
Andri Chassamboulli, Pedro Maia Gomes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13085
Game of Prejudice: Experiments at the Extensive and Intensive Margin
Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Joseph Vecci, Tomáš Želinský
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13084
Shaking Things Up: On the Stability of Risk and Time Preferences
Michel Beine, Gary Charness, Arnaud Dupuy, Majlinda Joxhe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13083
Rational Inattention and Migration Decisions
Simone Bertoli, Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Lucas Guichard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13082
Accounting for Wealth Concentration in the US
Barıș Kaymak, David Leung, Markus Poschke
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13081
Do Public Program Benefits Crowd Out Private Transfers in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence
Plamen Nikolov, Matthew Bonci
accepted/forthcoming
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13080
Isolating the "Tech" from EdTech: Experimental Evidence on Computer Assisted Learning in China
Robert W. Fairlie, Prashant Loyalka, Scott Rozelle, Yue Ma
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13079
Mothers Working during Preschool Years and Child Skills. Does Income Compensate?
Cheti Nicoletti, Kjell G. Salvanes, Emma Tominey
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13078
Does Birthplace Diversity Affect Economic Complexity? Cross-Country Evidence
Dany Bahar, Hillel Rapoport, Riccardo Turati
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13077
How People React to Pension Risk
Nicolás Salamanca, Andries de Grip, Olaf Sleijpen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13076
Paying Outsourced Labor: Direct Evidence from Linked Temp Agency-Worker-Client Data
Andres Drenik, Simon Jäger, Pascuel Plotkin, Benjamin Schoefer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13075
The Ecological Impact of Place-Based Economic Policies
Teevrat Garg, Ajay Shenoy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13074
Provincial Trade, Financial Friction and Misallocation in China
Ohyun Kwon, Belton M. Fleisher, William H. McGuire, Min Qiang Zhao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13073
Economic Incentives and the Quality of Return Migrant Scholars: The Impact of China's Thousand Young Talents Program
Ning Jia, Belton M. Fleisher
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13072
Induced Innovation: Evidence from China's Secondary Industry
Belton M. Fleisher, William H. McGuire, Xiaojun Wang, Min Qiang Zhao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13071
Key Players in Economic Development
Ashani Amarasinghe, Roland Hodler, Paul A. Raschky, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13070
Was Falling Inequality in All Latin American Countries a Data-Driven Illusion? Income Distribution and Mobility Patterns in Uruguay 2009-2016
Gabriel Burdin, Mauricio De Rosa, Andrea Vigorito, Joan Vilá
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13069
The Heterogeneous Effects of Conflict on Education: A Spatial Analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa
Kerstin Unfried, Krisztina Kis-Katos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13068
Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment: Causal Evidence from Austria
Dominik Grübl, Mario Lackner, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13067
Financing Constraints and Employers' Investment in Training
Giorgio Brunello, Áron Gereben, Christoph T. Weiss, Patricia Wruuck
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13066
Vietnam's Extraordinary Performance in the PISA Assessment: A Cultural Explanation of an Education Paradox
Niaz Asadullah, Liyanage Devangi Perera, Saizi Xiao
forthcoming in: Journal of Policy Modelling
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13065
Parents' Responses to Teacher Qualifications
Simon Chang, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Nicolás Salamanca
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13064
Early Childhood Education and Life-cycle Health
Jorge Luis García, James J. Heckman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13063
Psychological Resilience to Major Socioeconomic Life Events
Fabrice Etilé, Paul Frijters, David W. Johnston, Michael A. Shields
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13062
Effects of Recent Minimum Wage Policies in California and Nationwide: Initial Results from a Pre-specified Analysis Plan
David Neumark, Maysen Yen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13061
Same-Sex Couples and the Marital Surplus: The Importance of the Legal Environment
Scott M. Delhommer, Daniel S. Hamermesh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13060
Why Do We Procrastinate? Present Bias and Optimism
Zachary Breig, Matthew Gibson, Jeffrey G. Shrader
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13059
Is Compassion a Good Career Move?: Nonprofit Earnings Differentials from Job Changes
Andrew C. Johnston, Carla Johnston
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13058
Life Satisfaction, Subjective Wealth, and Adaptation to Vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017
Hai-Anh Dang, Kseniya Abanokova, Michael Lokshin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13057
Comparing Distributions of Ordinal Data
Stephen P. Jenkins
forthcoming in: The Stata Journal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13056
Maternal Investments in Children: The Role of Expected Effort and Returns
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Adeline Delavande, Paulino Font Gilabert, Joanna Maselko
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13055
The Impact of BMI on Mental Health: Further Evidence from Genetic Markers
Vikesh Amin, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13054
Becoming Sensitive: Males' Risk and Time Preferences after the 2008 Financial Crisis
Michael Jetter, Leandro Magnusson, Sebastian Roth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13053
Gender Differences in Preferences for Meaning at Work
Vanessa Burbano, Nicolas Padilla, Stephan Meier
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13052
Ancient Origins of the Global Variation in Economic Preferences
Anke Becker, Benjamin Enke, Armin Falk
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13051
Double Machine Learning Based Program Evaluation under Unconfoundedness
Michael C. Knaus
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13050
Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Latin American Economies: An Empirical Approach
Ömer Tuğsal Doruk, Francesco Pastore, Hasan Bilgehan Yavuz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13049
The Economic Impact of Migrants from Hurricane Maria
Giovanni Peri, Derek Rury, Justin C. Wiltshire
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13048
Pensions and Fertility: Micro-Economic Evidence
Alexander M. Danzer, Lennard Zyska
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13047
Early Childhood Care and Cognitive Development
Juan Chaparro, Aaron J. Sojourner, Matthew Wiswall
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13046
Infections, Accidents and Nursing Overtime in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Bayesian Semiparametric Panel Data Logit Model
Marc Beltempo, Georges Bresson, Jean-Michel Etienne, Guy Lacroix
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13045
Article Length and Citation Outcomes
Syed Hasan, Robert Breunig
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13044
Long-Term Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity
Maurizio Bussolo, Daniele Checchi, Vito Peragine
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13043
The Important Role of Equivalence Scales: Household Size, Composition, and Poverty Dynamics in Russia
Kseniya Abanokova, Hai-Anh Dang, Michael Lokshin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13042
Public-Sector Compensation over the Life Cycle
Pedro Maia Gomes, Felix Wellschmied
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13041
Short and Long-Run Labor Market Effects of Developing Country Exports: Evidence from Bangladesh
Raymond Robertson, Deeksha Kokas, Diego Cardozo, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13040
Wage Gains from Foreign Ownership: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
János Köllő, István Boza, László Balázsi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13039
Regional Convergence in Russia: Estimating a Neoclassical Growth Model
Hartmut Lehmann, Aleksey Oshchepkov, Maria Giulia Silvagni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13038
Do-It-Yourself Medicine? The Impact of Light Cannabis Liberalization on Prescription Drugs
Vincenzo Carrieri, Leonardo Madio, Francesco Principe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13037
Employment Effects of Payroll Tax Subsidies
Matthias Collischon, Kamila Cygan-Rehm, Regina T. Riphahn
forthcoming in: Small Business Economics
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