IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4629

Efficient Subsidization of Human Capital Accumulation with Overlapping Generations and Endogenous Growth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4627

Minimum-Income Benefits in OECD Countries: Policy Design, Effectiveness and Challenges

Herwig Immervoll

published in: D. J. Besharov and K. A. Couch (eds.), 2012, Counting the Poor, Oxford University Press, 171-209. Also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4599

You Can't Be Happier than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce

Cahit Guven, Claudia Senik, Holger Stichnoth

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, 82 (1), 110-130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4598

Accounting for Family Background when Designing Optimal Income Taxes: A Microeconometric Simulation Analysis

Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25 (2), 741-761

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4597

Dynamic Ethnic Fractionalization and Economic Growth in the Transition Economies from 1989 to 2007

Nauro F. Campos, Ahmad Saleh, Vitaliy S. Kuzeyev

published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2011, 20 (2),129-152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4585

Nature, Nurture and Egalitarian Policy: What Can We Learn from Molecular Genetics?

Petter Lundborg, Anders Stenberg

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 8 (3), 320-330

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4584

Biofuel Subsidies: An Open-Economy Analysis

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Sumon K. Bhaumik, Howard J. Wall

published in: Economics and Politics, 2013, 25 (2), 181-199

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4577

Do Institutions Have a Greater Effect on Female Entrepreneurs?

Saul Estrin, Tomasz Mickiewicz

published as 'Institutions and female entrepreneurship' in: Small Business Economics, 2011, 37 (4), 397-415

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4576

Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle

Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (2), 497-512

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4575

Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation

Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2012, 17 (4), 267-321

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4574

The Impact of Local Decentralization on Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. Counties

George W. Hammond, Mehmet S. Tosun

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2010, 20 (10), 1-18

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4570

Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility

Roland Benabou, Jean Tirole

published in Economica, 2010, 77 (305) , 1-19.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4561

No Child Left Behind: Universal Child Care and Children’s Long-Run Outcomes

Tarjei Havnes, Magne Mogstad

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011, 3 (2), 97-129

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4553

Delaying the Bell: The Effects of Longer School Days on Adolescent Motherhood in Chile

Diana Kruger, Matias Berthelon

published as "Risky behavior among youth: Incapacitation effects of school on adolescent motherhood and crime in Chile" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (1-2), 41-53

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4549

Redistributive Politics and Market Efficiency: An Experimental Study

Jens Großer, Ernesto Reuben

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 101, 39-52

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4544

Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly and Imperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Markets under Flexible Outsourcing

Erkki Koskela

published in: Thomas J. Sargent and Jouko Vilmunen (eds.): Macroeconomics at the Service of Public Policy, Oxford University Press, 2012, 186-214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4529

Mother or Child? Intra-Household Redistribution under Gender-Asymmetric Altruism

Indraneel Dasgupta

published in: Journal of Globalization and Development, 2011, 2 (1), Article 2