IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2883

Behavioural Economics and Drinking Behaviour: Preliminary Results from an Irish College Study

Liam Delaney, Colm P. Harmon, Patrick G. Wall

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46 (1), 29-36

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2882

Age-Dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education: Simulation Based Evidence

Friedhelm Pfeiffer, Karsten Reuss

published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (4), 631-646

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2881

Social and Economic Determinants of Turkish Voter Choice in the 1995 Parliamentary Election

Ali T. Akarca, Aysit Tansel

published in: Electoral Studies, 2007, 26: 633-647

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2880

Fundamental Determinants of School Efficiency and Equity: German States as a Microcosm for OECD Countries

Ludger Woessmann

published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik , 2010, 230 (2), 234-270

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2879

Discretionary Latitude and Relational Contracting

Steven Y. Wu, Brian E. Roe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2878

Birth Spacing, Fertility Selection and Child Survival: Analysis Using a Correlated Hazard Model

Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (3), 690-705

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2877

Unemployment Insurance in Welfare States: Soft Constraints and Mild Sanctions

Knut Røed, Lars Westlie

published as 'Unemployment Insurance in Welfare States: The Impacts of Soft Duration Constraints' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (3), 518-554

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2876

Intergenerational Mobility and Schooling Decisions in Germany and Italy: The Impact of Secondary School Tracks

Daniele Checchi, Luca Flabbi

published in: Rivista di Politica Economica ,2013, 3, 7 - 57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2875

The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience of Human Capability Formation

James J. Heckman

published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007, 104 (33), 13250-13255

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2874

Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints and Start-up Costs

Raquel Fonseca, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Thepthida Sopraseuth

published in: Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, 2007, 28 (4), 637-674

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2873

Skilled Migration: The Perspective of Developing Countries

Frédéric Docquier, Hillel Rapoport

published in: J. Baghwati and G. Hanson (eds.), Skilled Immigration Today: Prospects, Problems and Policies, Oxford University Press, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2872

When Minority Labor Migrants Meet the Welfare State

Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (3), 633-676

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2871

Optimal Immigration Policy: Permanent, Guest-Worker, or Mode IV?

Maurice Schiff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2870

Do You Receive a Lighter Prison Sentence Because You Are a Woman? An Economic Analysis of Federal Criminal Sentencing Guidelines

Supriya Sarnikar, Todd A. Sorensen, Ronald L. Oaxaca

research from this working paper published separately as 'Race and Gender Differences under Federal Sentencing Guidelines' in: American Economic Review , 2012, 102 (3), 256–260 and as 'Do you receive a lighter prison sentence because you are a woman or a white? An economic analysis of the federal criminal sentencing guidelines' in: BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2014, 14 (1), 1-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2869

Child Labor and Schooling Response to Changes in Coca Production in Rural Peru

Ana C. Dammert

revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2008, 86 (1), 164-180

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2868

How Did the Elimination of the Earnings Test above the Normal Retirement Age Affect Retirement Expectations?

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Arthur van Soest

published in: Fiscal Studies, 2008, 29 (2), 197-231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2867

Dynamics of Work Limitation and Work in Australia

Umut Oguzoglu

revised version published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (6), 656-669