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834 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8133
Gender Differences in Shirking: Monitoring or Social Preferences? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Per Johansson, Arizo Karimi, Peter Nilsson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8118
The Early History of Program Evaluation and the U.S. Department of Labor
Orley Ashenfelter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8087
Five Crossroads on the Way to Basic Income: An Italian Tour
Ugo Colombino
revised version published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2015, 1 (3), 353-389
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. 8081
Production Risk, Energy Use Efficiency and Productivity of Korean Industries
Nabaz T. Khayyat, Almas Heshmati
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8049
Matching Methods in Practice: Three Examples
Guido W. Imbens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8047
From Micro Data to Causality: Forty Years of Empirical Labor Economics
Bas van der Klaauw
published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 88-97
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8024
The Quantity and Quality of Children: A Semi-Parametric Bayesian IV Approach
Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter, Martin Halla, Alexandra Posekany, Gerald J. Pruckner, Thomas Schober
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8003
Can the UAE Avoid the Oil Curse by Economic Diversification?
Ilham Haouas, Almas Heshmati
forthcoming in: International Research Journal of Finance and Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8002
On the Relationship between Public and Private Investment in the Euro Area
Christian Dreger, Hans-Eggert Reimers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7988
When Banana Import Restrictions Lead to Exports: A Tale of Cyclones and Quarantine Policies
Chia Chiun Ko, Paul Frijters
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7977
The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Germany: State Dependence Before and After the 'Hartz Reforms'
Sebastian Königs
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2014, 39, 107-150
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7972
Treatment Evaluation with Multiple Outcome Periods under Endogeneity and Attrition
Markus Frölich, Martin Huber
published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2014, 109(508), 1697-1711
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7931
Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise: Evidence from Canadian Panel Data
Michael Lechner, Nazmi Sari
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7926
Retirement Patterns of Couples in Europe
Laura Hospido, Gema Zamarro
published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 3:12, 2014
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7925
The Value of Connections: Evidence from the Italian-American Mafia
Giovanni Mastrobuoni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7915
A Balancing Act at Times of Austerity: Matching the Supply and Demand for Skills in the Greek Labour Market
Konstantinos Pouliakas
Revised version published in: Pouliakas, K. and Psifidou, I. 2015, 'Greece: Vocational education and training in economic change', Education in the European Union Pre-2003 Member States: Bloomsbury Publishing
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7898
The Short- and Long-Term Effects of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from a School Choice Reform in Sweden
Verena Wondratschek, Karin Edmark, Markus Frölich
published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 111/112, 71-102
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7894
The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior
Tim Friehe, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
forthcoming in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 2017.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7892
The Impacts of Vocational Rehabilitation
Simen Markussen, Knut Røed
published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 31, 1-13.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7874
Mostly Harmless Simulations? On the Internal Validity of Empirical Monte Carlo Studies
Arun Advani, Tymon Sloczynski
substantially revised version forthcoming as "Mostly Harmless Simulations? Using Monte Carlo Studies for Estimator Selection" in: Journal of Applied Econometrics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7873
Making Work Pay for the Indebted: The Effect of Debt Services on the Exit Rates of Unemployed Individuals
Pierre Koning
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7841
The Causal Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes in the UK
Alfonso Miranda, Yu Zhu
forthcoming in: Applied Economics Letters (DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2020.1753873) as "The Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants’ Wage in the UK: Correcting for measurement error, endogenous treatment, and sample selection bias".
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7812
The Polish Wage Curve: Micro Panel Data Analysis Based on the Polish Labor Force Survey
Badi H. Baltagi, Bartlomiej Rokicki
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2014,49, 36-47.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7788
Overeducation at a Glance: Determinants and Wage Effects of the Educational Mismatch, Looking at the AlmaLaurea Data
Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Francesco Pastore
published in: Social Indicators Research, 2018, 137 (3): 999-1032.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7743
A Detailed Decomposition of Synthetic Cohort Analysis
Tavis Barr, Carl Lin
published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 127(0), 76-80
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7742
Inference with Difference-in-Differences Revisited
Mike Brewer, Thomas F. Crossley, Robert Joyce
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7741
Penalized Quantile Regression with Semiparametric Correlated Effects: Applications with Heterogeneous Preferences
Matthew Harding, Carlos Lamarche
published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32, 342-358
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7727
Left-Behind Children and Return Decisions of Rural Migrants in China
Sylvie Démurger, Hui Xu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7708
What If You Had Been Less Fortunate: The Effects of Poor Family Background on Current Labor Market Outcomes
Sungwook Cho, Almas Heshmati
Published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2015, 42(1), 20-33.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7700
A Gravity Model of Migration between ENC and EU
Raul Ramos, Jordi Surinach
published in: Tijdschrift Voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 2017, 108 (1), 21-35
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7698
Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities: A Survey
Olivier Bargain, Andreas Peichl
published as "Own-wage labor supply elasticities: variation across time and estimation methods" in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 5(10)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7697
Does It Pay to Work for Free? Wage Returns and Gender Differences in the Market for Volunteers
Guido Cozzi, Noemi Mantovan, Robert M. Sauer
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79(6), 1018-1045
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7690
Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England
Michael Lechner, Paul Downward
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7686
Criminal Victims, Victimized Criminals, or Both? A Deeper Look at the Victim-Offender Overlap
Horst Entorf
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7657
The Origins of Early Childhood Anthropometric Persistence
Daniel L. Millimet, Rusty Tchernis
forthcoming in: Empirical Economics, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7634
Mobility in an Enlarging European Union: Projections of Potential Flows from EU's Eastern Neighbors and Croatia
Michael Fertig, Martin Kahanec
published as 'Projections of Potential Flows to the Enlarging EU from Ukraine, Croatia and other Eastern Neighbors' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4:6
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7586
Peer Groups, Employment Status and Mental Well-being among Older Adults in Ireland
Eibhlin Hudson, Alan Barrett
published as 'Peer Groups, Employment Status and Depressive Symptoms among Older Adults in Ireland' in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2014, 7 (1), 43-54
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7574
Channels of Labour Supply Responses of Lone Parents to Changed Work Incentives
Xiaodong Gong, Robert Breunig
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7570
The Causal Effect of Retirement on Mortality: Evidence from Targeted Incentives to Retire Early
Hans Bloemen, Stefan Hochguertel, Jochem Zweerink
published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (12), e204-e218. DOI: 10.1002/hec.3493
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7564
Semiparametric Estimation and Inference Using Doubly Robust Moment Conditions
Christoph Rothe, Sergio Firpo
published in: Econometric Theory, 2019, 35 (5), 1048-1087
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7552
Econometric Mediation Analyses: Identifying the Sources of Treatment Effects from Experimentally Estimated Production Technologies with Unmeasured and Mismeasured Inputs
James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto
published in: Econometric Reviews, 2015, 34 (1-2), 6-31
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7533
Testing the Internal Validity of Compulsory School Reforms as Instrument for Years of Schooling
Giorgio Brunello, Margherita Fort, Guglielmo Weber, Christoph T. Weiss
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7522
Does Changing the Legal Drinking Age Influence Youth Behaviour?
Stefan Boes, Steven Stillman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7519
Fatigue and Team Performance in Soccer: Evidence from the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship
Vincenzo Scoppa
published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2015, 16 (5) 482-507
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7513
The Effect of Firms' Partial Retirement Policies on the Labour Market Outcomes of Their Employees
Martin Huber, Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch
published as 'The Effect of Firms' Phased Retirement Policies on the Labour Market Outcomes of Their Employees' in: ILR Review, 2016, 69(5), 1216-1248
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7509
Can Parents' Right to Work Part-Time Hurt Childbearing-Aged Women? A Natural Experiment with Administrative Data
Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Núria Rodríguez-Planas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7493
Regional Policy Evaluation: Interactive Fixed Effects and Synthetic Controls
Laurent Gobillon, Thierry Magnac
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 98(3), 535-551 [Online First]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7485
Structural Change in MENA Remittance Flows
George S Naufal, Ismail H. Genc
published in: Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2015, 51(6), 1175-1178
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7470
The Role of University Scientist Mobility for Industrial Innovation
Ann-Kathrine Ejsing, Ulrich Kaiser, Hans Christian Kongsted, Keld Laursen
published in: Strategic Management Journal, 2018, 39(7), 1935-1958; new title "Experience Matters: The Role of Academic Scientist Mobility for Industrial Innovation"
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