IZA Discussion Papers

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

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)

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