IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8455

Testing for Selection Bias

Joonhwi Joo, Robert J. LaLonde

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8454

Employment and Earnings Effects of Awarding Training Vouchers in Germany

Annabelle Doerr, Bernd Fitzenberger, Thomas Kruppe, Marie Elina Paul, Anthony Strittmatter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8450

Policy Discontinuity and Duration Outcomes

Gerard J. van den Berg, Antoine Bozio, Monica Costa Dias

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2020, 11 (3), 871- 916

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8398

The Real Exchange Rate and Growth in Zimbabwe: Does the Currency Regime Matter?

Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Mthuli Ncube

published as 'The Real Exchange Rate and Growth in Emerging Markets: The Case of Zimbabwe' in: Review of Development Economics, 2015, 19 (3), 564 - 576

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, 30 (6), 766 - 781

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8381

Neighbourhood Turnover and Teenage Attainment

Stephen Gibbons, Olmo Silva, Felix Weinhardt

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, 15 (4), 746-783

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8337

Unobservable, but Unimportant? The Influence of Personality Traits (and Other Usually Unobserved Variables) for the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies

Marco Caliendo, Robert Mahlstedt, Oscar A. Mitnik

substantially revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 46, 14-25.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8336

The Effects of Reducing the Entitlement Period to Unemployment Insurance Benefits

Nynke De Groot, Bas van der Klaauw

published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 57, 195-208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8334

Does the Link between Unemployment and Crime Depend on the Crime Level? A Quantile Regression Approach

Horst Entorf, Philip Sieger

published in: International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2014, 8(2), 262-283

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8315

The Public Sector Wage Premium in Spain: Evidence from Longitudinal Administrative Data

Laura Hospido, Enrique Moral-Benito

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 101–122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8295

Non-Farm Enterprise Productivity and Spatial Autocorrelation in Rural Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria

Nkechi S. Owoo, Wim Naudé

published as 'Spatial proximity and firm performance: evidence from non-farm rural enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria' in: Regional Studies, 2016, 51 (5), 688–700

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8281

Structural Labor Supply Models and Wage Exogeneity

Max Löffler, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch

revised version available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 11425

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8280

Direct and Indirect Treatment Effects: Causal Chains and Mediation Analysis with Instrumental Variables

Markus Frölich, Martin Huber

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 2017, 79 (5), 1645 - 1666

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8272

Convergence to the Managerial Frontier

William F. Maloney, Mauricio Sarrias

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8256