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The IZA Discussion Paper Series (ISSN: 2365-9793) disseminates high-quality research by IZA network members to the scientific community and the interested public worldwide before they are later published in academic journals. Comprising over 14,000 papers, IZA's publication flagship is the most influential working paper series in labor economics. 

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97 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15157
Tracking When Ranking Matters
Fanny Landaud, Eric Maurin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14828
Dissecting Inequality-Averse Preferences
Marcelo Bergolo, Gabriel Burdin, Santiago Burone, Mauricio De Rosa, Matias Giaccobasso, Martin Leites
revised version accepted in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13714
A Note on the Importance of Normalizations in Dynamic Latent Factor Models of Skill Formation
Emilia Del Bono, Josh Kinsler, Ronni Pavan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13713
Skill Formation and the Trouble with Child Non-Cognitive Skill Measures
Emilia Del Bono, Josh Kinsler, Ronni Pavan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13653
Measuring Gender Attitudes Using List Experiments
Niaz Asadullah, Elisabetta De Cao, Fathema Zhura Khatoon, Zahra Siddique
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34: 367-400
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13639
Optimal Model Selection in RDD and Related Settings Using Placebo Zones
Nathan Kettlewell, Peter Siminski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13524
Implementing the Panel Event Study
Damian Clarke, Kathya Tapia Schythe
published in: Stata Journal, 2021, 21 (4), 853 - 884. [Please refer to revised and corrected version here]
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. 12728
The Economics of Mass Shootings
Abel Brodeur, Hasin Yousaf
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12584
Inference with Arbitrary Clustering
Fabrizio Colella, Rafael Lalive, Seyhun Orcan Sakalli, Mathias Thoenig
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12493
Publication Bias and Editorial Statement on Negative Findings
Cristina Blanco-Perez, Abel Brodeur
published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (623), 1226-1247
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12458
Practical Significance, Meta-Analysis and the Credibility of Economics
T. D. Stanley, Chris Doucouliagos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12205
Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design
Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, Yusuke Narita, Parag A. Pathak
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11878
The Twin Instrument: Fertility and Human Capital Investment
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Damian Clarke
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 3090-3139
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11796
Methods Matter: P-Hacking and Causal Inference in Economics
Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, Anthony Heyes
published as 'Methods Matter: P-Hacking and Publication Bias in Causal Analysis in Economics' in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110 (11), 3634-3660
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11742
Twin Birth and Maternal Condition
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Damian Clarke
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101(5), 853-864
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11411
Measuring Costly Effort Using the Slider Task
David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse
published in: ​Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2019, 21, 1-9
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11138
Including Covariates in the Regression Discontinuity Design
Markus Frölich, Martin Huber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10927
Immigration Policy and Remittance Behaviour
Matloob Piracha, Massimiliano Tani, Guy Tchuente
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10533
The Economics of Replication
Frank Mueller-Langer, Benedikt Fecher, Dietmar Harhoff, Gert G. Wagner
published in: Research Policy, 2019, 48 (1), 62-83
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10432
The Effect of One Laptop per Child on Teachers' Pedagogical Practices and Students' Use of Time at Home
Gustavo Yamada, Pablo Lavado, Guadalupe Montenegro
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10431
The Effect of Fe y Alegria on School Achievement: Exploiting a School Lottery Selection as a Natural Experiment
Pablo Lavado, Santiago Cueto, Gustavo Yamada, Micaela Wensjoe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10405
The Twin Instrument
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Damian Clarke
very substantially revised and published as 'Twin Birth and Maternal Condition' in: Review of Economics & Statistics, published online November 02, 2018 - and revised and resubmitted as 'The Twin Instrument: Fertility and Human Capital Investment' in: Journal of the European Economic Association
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9990
Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Discrete Running Variable
Michal Kolesár, Christoph Rothe
published in: American Economic Review, 2018, 108 (8), 2277 - 2304
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9989
The Value of Knowing the Propensity Score for Estimating Average Treatment Effects
Christoph Rothe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9707
Something from Nothing: Estimating Consumption Rates Using Propensity Scores, with Application to Emissions Reduction Policies
Nicholas Bardsley, Milena Büchs, Sylke V. Schnepf
revised version published in: PLOS ONE, 2017, 12(10), e0185538.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9526
Terrorism and Employment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks
Abel Brodeur
published as 'The Effect of Terrorism on Employment and Consumer Sentiment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (4), 246-82
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9511
Going Beyond LATE: Bounding Average Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training
Xuan Chen, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 63 (4), 1050-1099
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9265
Nonparametric Kernel Estimation of the Impact of Tax Policy on the Demand for Private Health Insurance in Australia
Xiaodong Gong, Jiti Gao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9182
Whose Preferences Are Revealed in Hours of Work?
John Pencavel
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (1), 9–24
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8757
Inference on Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design
David Card, David S. Lee, Zhuan Pei, Andrea Weber
revised version published in: Econometrica, 2015, 83(6), 2453–2483
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8664
Estimating Mis-reporting in Dyadic Data: Are Transfers Mutually Beneficial?
Margherita Comola, Marcel Fafchamps
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8643
Consumer Search Costs and Preferences on the Internet
Grégory Jolivet, Hélène Turon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8548
Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models by Maximum Likelihood and the Simulated Method of Moments
Philipp Eisenhauer, James J. Heckman, Stefano Mosso
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8282
A Permutation Test and Estimation Alternatives for the Regression Kink Design
Peter Ganong, Simon Jäger
revised version forthcoming in: Journal of the American Statistical Association
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8084
A General Double Robustness Result for Estimating Average Treatment Effects
Tymon Sloczynski, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
published in: Econometric Theory, 2018, 34(1), 112–133
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7851
The Effect of Credit Guarantees on R&D Investment of SMEs in Korea
Almas Heshmati
Published in: Asian Journal of Technology Innovation, 2015, 23(3), 407-421.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7742
Inference with Difference-in-Differences Revisited
Mike Brewer, Thomas F. Crossley, Robert Joyce
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7288
Estimating Obesity Rates in the Presence of Measurement Error
Donal O'Neill, Olive Sweetman
published as 'Bounding Obesity Rates in the Presence of Self-Reporting Errors' in; Empirical Economics, 2016, 50, 857-871
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7268
Star Wars: The Empirics Strike Back
Abel Brodeur, Mathias Lé, Marc Sangnier, Yanos Zylberberg
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (1), 1-32
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7008
The Consequences of Measurement Error when Estimating the Impact of BMI on Labour Market Outcomes
Donal O'Neill, Olive Sweetman
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 2:3
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6942
Canonical Correlation and Assortative Matching: A Remark
Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon
published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2014
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6887
A Control Function Approach to Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Endogenous Regressors, with an Application to the Study of Poverty Persistence in China
John T. Giles, Irina Murtazashvili
published as 'A Control Function Approach to Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Endogenous Regressors' in: Journal of Econometric Methods, 2013, 2 (1), 69-87
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6781
A Simple Method to Visualize Results in Nonlinear Regression Models
Daniel J. Henderson, Subal C. Kumbhakar, Christopher F. Parmeter
published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (3), 578-581
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6708
Leisure Inequality in the United States: 1965-2003
Almudena Sevilla, J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Jonathan I. Gershuny
published in: Demography, 2012, 49(3), 939-964
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6583
Robust Standard Errors in Transformed Likelihood Estimation of Dynamic Panel Data Models
Kazuhiko Hayakawa, M. Hashem Pesaran
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6432
Testing Weak Cross-Sectional Dependence in Large Panels
M. Hashem Pesaran
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6397
Decomposing the Composition Effect
Christoph Rothe
published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5741
Gender Patterns in Vietnam's Child Mortality
Thong Le Pham, Peter Kooreman, Ruud H. Koning, Doede Wiersma
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (1), 303-322
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5732
Roma Women in Athenian Firms: Do They Face Wage Bias?
Nick Drydakis
published in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2012, 35 (12), 2054-2074
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4993
Quantile Treatment Effects in the Regression Discontinuity Design: Process Results and Gini Coefficient
Markus Frölich, Blaise Melly
revised version published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 168 (2), 382-395
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4987
Inequality in Vietnamese Urban-Rural Living Standards, 1993-2006
Huong Thu Le, Alison L. Booth
revised version published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2014, 60 (4), 862–886
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4958
Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits
Andrey Launov, Klaus Wälde
revised version published in: International Economic Review, 2013, 54 (4), 1159-1198
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4700
Treatment Evaluation in the Case of Interactions within Markets
Marc Ferracci, Grégory Jolivet, Gerard J. van den Berg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4451
Evaluating Nonexperimental Estimators for Multiple Treatments: Evidence from Experimental Data
Carlos A. Flores, Oscar A. Mitnik
revised version published as 'Comparing Treatments across Labor Markets: An Assessment of Nonexperimental Multiple-Treatment Strategies' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95(5), 1691-1707
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4237
Identification and Estimation of Causal Mechanisms and Net Effects of a Treatment under Unconfoundedness
Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4073
A Martingale Representation for Matching Estimators
Alberto Abadie, Guido W. Imbens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3994
Part-Time Work, Gender and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from a Developing Country
Florencia López Bóo, Lucia Madrigal, Carmen Pagés
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2010, 46 (9), 1543-1571
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3966
Non-Parametric Inference for the Effect of a Treatment on Survival Times with Application in the Health and Social Sciences
Xavier de Luna, Per Johansson
published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 2010, 140 (7), 2122-2137
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3961
On the Sensitivity of Return to Schooling Estimates to Estimation Methods, Model Specification, and Influential Outliers If Identification Is Weak
David A. Jaeger, Juliane Parys
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3908
Inconsistencies in Reported Employment Characteristics among Employed Stayers
Francesca Bassi, Alessandra Padoan, Ugo Trivellato
published in: Statistica, 2012, 72 (1), 103-109
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3807
Adding Rungs to the Exporting Ladder: Plant-Level Exporting Dynamics and Total Factor Productivity Growth
Alexandru Voicu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3671
Identification of Treatment Effects on the Treated with One-Sided Non-Compliance
Markus Frölich, Blaise Melly
published in: Econometric Reviews, 2013, 32 (3), 384-414
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3638
Quantile Treatment Effects in the Regression Discontinuity Design
Markus Frölich, Blaise Melly
revised version published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 168 (2), 382-395
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3582
Work-Life Balance Practices and the Gender Gap in Job Satisfaction in the UK: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Niaz Asadullah, Rosa M. Fernández
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3427
Public Sector Pay Gap in France: New Evidence Using Panel Data
Olivier Bargain, Blaise Melly
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3347
Impact of Reforms on Plant-Level Productivity and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector
Sumon K. Bhaumik, Subal C. Kumbhakar
published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 21(2): 219-232, 2010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3288
Unconditional Quantile Treatment Effects under Endogeneity
Markus Frölich, Blaise Melly
revised version published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2013, 31(3), 346-357
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3207
The NAFTA Tide: Lifting the Larger and Better Boats
Angel Calderón-Madrid, Alexandru Voicu
revised version published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2011, 20 (4), 467 - 505
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3095
Bandwidth Selection and the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Unbalanced Data
Jose C. Galdo, Jeffrey A. Smith, Dan A. Black
published in: Annales d'Economie et Statistique, 2008, 91-92, 189-216
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3039
Simplified Implementation of the Heckman Estimator of the Dynamic Probit Model and a Comparison with Alternative Estimators
Wiji Arulampalam, Mark Stewart
completely revised published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 71 (5), 659-681
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3024
Regression Discontinuity Design with Covariates
Markus Frölich
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2729
The Returns to Pencil Use Revisited
Alexandra Spitz-Oener
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008, 61 (4), 502-517
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2712
A Note on Allen-Uzawa Partial Elasticities of Substitution: The Case of the Translog Cost Function
Atanas Christev, Allen Featherstone
revised version published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2009, 16 (11), 1165 - 1169
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2687
Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach
Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos
published in: Kyklos, 2008, 61(2), 189-214
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2609
New Insights on Unemployment Duration and Post Unemployment Earnings in Germany: Censored Box-Cox Quantile Regression at Work
Bernd Fitzenberger, Ralf Wilke
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (6), 794 - 826
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2591
The Part-Time Wage Penalty in European Countries: How Large Is It for Men?
Síle O'Dorchai, Robert Plasman, Francois Rycx
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2007, 28 (7), 571-603
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2462
Returns to Schooling in Kazakhstan: OLS and Instrumental Variables Approach
Reza Arabsheibani, Altay Mussurov
published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15 (2), 342-364
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2243
Panels with Nonstationary Multifactor Error Structures
George Kapetanios, M. Hashem Pesaran, Takashi Yamagata
published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2011, 160 (2), 326-348
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2202
Does the Quality of Training Programs Matter? Evidence from Bidding Processes Data
Alberto Chong, Jose C. Galdo
updated version published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (6), 970-986
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2187
Statistical Treatment Choice: An Application to Active Labour Market Programmes
Markus Frölich
published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2008, 103 (482), 547-558
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2126
A Note on Parametric and Nonparametric Regression in the Presence of Endogenous Control Variables
Markus Frölich
published in: International Statistical Review, 2008, 76 (2), 214-227
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1842
O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Effects of Having a Sibling on Geographic Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes
Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler
published in: Economica, 2009, 76 (303), 528 - 556
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1615
Returns to Foreign Education: Yet Another But Different Cross Country Analysis
Max Gruetter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1560
Are There Differences in the Health-Socioeconomic Status Relationship over the Life Cycle? Evidence from Germany
Keith A. Bender, Steffen Habermalz
published in: Labour, 2008, 22 (1), 107-125
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1512
The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany: A Microeconometric Evaluation
Marco Caliendo, Reinhard Hujer, Stephan L. Thomsen
published in: Millimet, D., Smith, J. and Vytlacil, E. (eds.), Advances in Econometrics, Volume 21: Estimating and Evaluating Treatment Effects in Econometrics, 2008, 383-430
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1256
Do Financial Incentives Promote the Employment of the Disabled?
Sher Verick
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1240
General Diagnostic Tests for Cross Section Dependence in Panels
M. Hashem Pesaran
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1236
Random Coefficient Panel Data Models
Cheng Hsiao, M. Hashem Pesaran
published in: L. Mátyás and P. Sevestre (eds.), The Econometrics of Panel Data, Springer 2008 (3rd ed.)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1233
Do a Few Months of Compulsory Schooling Matter? The Education and Labour Market Impact of School Leaving Rules
Emilia Del Bono, Fernando Galindo-Rueda
IZA Discussion Paper No. 967
The Effect of Disability on Labour Market Outcomes in Germany: Evidence from Matching
Michael Lechner, Rosalia Vazquez-Alvarez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 837
What You Always Wanted to Know About Censoring But Never Dared to Ask – Parameter Estimation for Censored Random Vectors
Wendelin Schnedler
published in: Econometric Reviews, 2005, 24 (2), 195-217
IZA Discussion Paper No. 750
New Evidence on the Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany - A Matching Approach with Threefold Heterogeneity
Reinhard Hujer, Marco Caliendo, Stephan L. Thomsen
published in: Research in Economics, 2004, 58(4), 257-302
IZA Discussion Paper No. 588
Nonparametric IV Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects with Covariates
Markus Frölich
published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 139 (1), 35-75
IZA Discussion Paper No. 548
What is the Value of Knowing the Propensity Score for Estimating Average Treatment Effects?
Markus Frölich
published in: Econometric Reviews, 2004, 23 (2), 167-174
IZA Discussion Paper No. 542
Programme Evaluation with Multiple Treatments
Markus Frölich
published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2004, 18 (2), 181-224
IZA Discussion Paper No. 323
Overtime Work, Dual Job Holding and Taxation
Anders Frederiksen, Ebbe K. Graversen, Nina Smith
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 25-55
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