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published in the Economic Journal as 'Just Ask Them Twice: Choice Probabilities and Identification of Ex ante returns and Willingness-To-Pay', DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueag018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17150

Financial Inclusion and Threshold Effects in Carbon Emissions

Nidhaleddine Ben Cheikh, Christophe Rault

revised version published in: Energy Policy, 2024, 192,114265

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17119

Making the Right Call: The Heterogeneous Effects of Individual Performance Pay on Productivity

Marco Clemens, Jan Sauermann

published in: Labour Economics, 2025, 94, 102694

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17086

Homelessness and Crime: An Examination of California

Benjamin Artz, David M. Welsch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17023

Heterogeneity in the Persistence of Health: Evidence from a Monthly Micro Panel

Stephen Hoskins, David W. Johnston, Johannes S. Kunz, Michael A. Shields, Kevin E. Staub

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16971

COVID-19 Lockdown, Home Environment, Lifestyles, and Mental Health among Preschoolers in China

Yuting Zhang, Jin Zhao, Zhangsheng Yu, Guanghai Wang, Jun Zhang, Fan Jiang, Saishuang Wu, Yue Zhang, Donglan Zhang, Xi Chen

published in: Children and Youth Services Review, 2024, 161, 107654

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16921

War, International Spillovers, and Adolescents: Evidence from Russia's Invasion of Ukraine in 2022

Thomas Siedler, Silke Anger, Bernhard Christoph, Agata Galkiewicz, Shushanik Margaryan, Frauke Peter, Malte Sandner

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 224, 181-193

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16794

Efficiency in Poverty Reduction: A State-Level Analysis for Bolivia

Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza, Alejandro Puerta-Cuartas, Javier Beverinotti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16594

Consistent Estimation of Panel Data Sample Selection Models

Badi H. Baltagi, Sergi Jimenez-Martin, José M. Labeaga, Majid al Sadoon

published online in: Econometrics and Statistic, 11 November 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16372

Eggs When Young, Chicken When Old. Time Consistency and Addiction over the Life Cycle

Luca Piccoli, Silvia Tiezzi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16342

Nighttime Light Pollution and Economic Activities: A Spatio-Temporal Model with Common Factors for US Counties

Georges Bresson, Jean-Michel Etienne, Guy Lacroix

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16337

Documenting and Explaining the Dramatic Rise of the New Society Journals in Economics

John C. Ham, Julian Wright, Ziqiu Ye

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16289

Injury Risk, Concussions, Race, and Pay in the NFL

Quinn Keefer, Thomas J. Kniesner

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2023, 67(2), 107-136

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16242

Does Internal Locus of Control Get You Out of Homelessness?

Santiago Budría, Alejandro Betancourt-Odio, Eszter Wirth

published in: Economic Letters, 2023, 230, 111249

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16202

Fixed Effects and Causal Inference

Daniel L. Millimet, Marc Bellemare

forthcoming as 'On the (Mis)Use of the Fixed Effects Estimator' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16112

Estimating the Laffer Tax Rate on Capital Income: Cross-Base Responses Matter!

Marie-Noëlle Lefebvre, Etienne Lehmann, Michaël Sicsic

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2025, 127 (3), 460 - 489

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16013

Workers' Perceptions of Earnings Growth and Employment Risk

Gizem Kosar, Wilbert van der Klaauw

published in Journal of Labor Economics, 2025, 43 (S1), S83-S121

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15935

Labour Mobility in German Establishments during the COVID-19 Crisis: Panel Data Analyses with Special Reference to Short-Time Work and Working from Home

Lisa Bellmann, Lutz Bellmann, Olaf Hübler

revised version published as 'Labour mobility, short-time work and working from home: establishments' behaviour during the COVID-19 crisis' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2024, 45(6), 1262-1278

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15907

Synthetic Difference-in-Differences Estimation

Damian Clarke, Daniel Pailañir, Susan Athey, Guido W. Imbens

published in: Stata Journal, 2024, 24 (4), 557-598

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15815

Robust Dynamic Space-Time Panel Data Models Using ?-Contamination: An Application to Crop Yields and Climate Change

Badi H. Baltagi, Georges Bresson, Anoop Chaturvedi, Guy Lacroix

published in: Empirical Economics, 2023, 64, 2475–2509

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15773

Gender Stereotypes in the Family

Cheti Nicoletti, Almudena Sevilla, Valentina Tonei

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15718

Hate in the Time of COVID-19: Racial Crimes against East Asians

Joel Carr, Jonathan James, Joanna Clifton-Sprigg, Suncica Vujic

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15708

The Identification of Time-Invariant Variables in Panel Data Model: Exploring the Role of Science in Firms’ Productivity

Sara Amoroso, Randolph Luca Bruno, Laura Magazzini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15662

Earnings Losses and the Role of the Welfare State during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Sweden

Adrian Adermon, Lisa Laun, Patrik Lind, Martin Olsson, Jan Sauermann, Anna Sjögren

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2024, 70 (4), 981 - 1010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15660

Decent Wage Floors in Europe: Does the Minimum Wage Directive Get It Right?

Henri Haapanala, Ive Marx, Zachary Parolin

published in: Journal of European Social Policy, 2023, 33 (4), 421 - 435

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15353

Job Location Decisions and the Effect of Children on the Employment Gender Gap

Andrea Albanese, Adrian Nieto Castro, Konstantinos Tatsiramos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15343

Corporate Training and Skill Gaps: Did COVID-19 Stem EU Convergence in Training Investments?

Konstantinos Pouliakas, Patricia Wruuck

also available as: European Investment Bank (EIB) Economics Working Papers 2022/07

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15234

How Economic, Political and Institutional Factors Influence the Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes? New Evidence from Selected Countries of the MENA Region

Najia Maraoui, Thouraya Hadj Amor, Islem Khefacha, Christophe Rault

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15140

Are Retirees More Satisfied? Anticipation and Adaptation Effects: A Causal Panel Analysis of German Statutory Insured and Civil Service Pensioners

Joachim Merz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14956

How Does the Position in Business Group Hierarchies Affect Workers' Wages?

Hartmut Egger, Elke J. Jahn, Stefan Kornitzky

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 194 (2), 244-263

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14946

COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake

Alexander Karaivanov, Dongwoo Kim, Shih En Lu, Hitoshi Shigeoka

published in: Nature Human Behavior, 2022, 6, 1615–1624

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14682

COVID-19 Mobility Policies Impacts: How Credible Are Difference-in-Differences Estimates?

Joakim A. Weill, Matthieu Stigler, Olivier Deschenes, Michael R. Springborn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14669

COVID-19 Spread in Germany from a Regional Perspective

Olaf Hübler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14658

Voting, Contagion and the Trade-Off between Public Health and Political Rights: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Italian 2020 Polls

Marco Mello, Giuseppe Moscelli

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 200, 1025 - 2052

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14555

How Collective Bargaining Shapes Poverty: New Evidence for Developed Countries

Kevin Pineda-Hernández, François Rycx, Mélanie Volral

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2022, 60 (4), 895-928

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14548

Too Family Friendly? The Consequences of Parent Part-Time Working Rights

Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 197, 104407

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14334

Is Large-Scale Rapid Cov-2 Testing a Substitute For Lockdowns? The Case of Tuebingen

Marc Diederichs, Peter G. Kremsner, Timo Mitze, Gernot Müller, Dominik Papies, Felix Schulz, Klaus Wälde

published as 'Is large-scale rapid CoV-2 testing a substitute for lockdowns?' in: PLoS ONE, 2022, 17 (3), e0265207.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14318

The Effects of Unemployment on Health, Hospitalizations, and Mortality - Evidence from Administrative Data

Matija Vodopivec, Suzana Laporsek, Janez Stare, Milan Vodopivec

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14316

Mental Health and Abortions among Young Women: Time-Varying Unobserved Heterogeneity, Health Behaviors, and Risky Decisions

Lena Janys, Bettina M. Siflinger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14198

Income Changes Do Not Influence Political Participation: Evidence from Comparative Panel Data

Sebastian Jungkunz, Paul Marx

published as 'Income changes do not influence political involvement in panel data from six countries' in: European Journal of Political Research, 2022, 61 (3), 829-841

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14119

Weather, Psychological Wellbeing and Mobility during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ashley Burdett, Apostolos Davillas, Ben Etheridge

revised version published as 'Weather, mental health, and mobility during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic' in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (9), 2296-2306

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14088

Over-Education and Immigrant Earnings: A Penalized Quantile Panel Regression Analysis

Sholeh A. Maani, Le Wen

published in: Applied Economics, 2021, 53 (24), 2771 - 2790

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14010

A Life-Cycle Theory Analysis of French Household Electricity Demand

Fateh Belaïd, Christophe Rault, Camille Massié

published in: Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2022, 32, 501-530

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13959

Quantifying the Externalities of Renewable Energy Plants Using Wellbeing Data: The Case of Biogas

Christian Krekel, Julia Rechlitz, Johannes Rode, Alexander Zerrahn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13828

Risk Preferences and Training Investments

Marco Caliendo, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Cosima Obst, Arne Uhlendorff

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2023, 205, 668-686

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13814

Female Labor Force Participation in Five Selected Mena Countries: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia)

Moundir Lassassi, Aysit Tansel

substantially revised version published as 'Female Labor Force Participation in Egypt and Palestine: An Age-Period- Cohort Analysis' in: Review of Development Economics, 2022, 26 (4), 1997-2020.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13803

Diagnostic Tests for Homoskedasticity in Spatial Cross-Sectional or Panel Models

Badi H. Baltagi, Alain Pirotte, Zhenlin Yang

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2021, 224 (2), 245-270.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13785

How to Remove the Testing Bias in CoV-2 Statistics

Klaus Wälde

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13725

Are Older People Aware of Their Cognitive Decline? Misperception and Financial Decision Making

Fabrizio Mazzonna, Franco Peracchi

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (6), 1793-1830

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13616

The Economic Impacts of Direct Natural Disaster Exposure

Meliyanni Johar, David W. Johnston, Michael A. Shields, Peter Siminski, Olena Stavrunova

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 196, 26-39

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13357

Econometric Models of Fertility

Alfonso Miranda, Pravin K. Trivedi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13350

The CPS Citizenship Question and Survey Refusals: Causal and Semi-Causal Evidence Featuring a Two-Stage Regression Discontinuity Design

Robert Bernhardt, Phanindra V. Wunnava

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13322

The Interaction Between Personality and Health Policy: Empirical Evidence from the UK Smoking Bans

Cecily Josten, Grace Lordan

published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2020, 38, 100899

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13319

Face Masks Considerably Reduce COVID-19 Cases in Germany: A Synthetic Control Method Approach

Timo Mitze, Reinhold Kosfeld, Johannes Rode, Klaus Wälde

published in: PNAS, 2020, 117 (5), 32293-32301

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13300

The Effect of the Hartz Labor Market Reforms on Post-unemployment Wages, Sorting, and Matching

Simon D. Woodcock

published as 'The determinants of displaced workers’ wages: Sorting, matching, selection, and the Hartz reforms' in: Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 233 (2), 568-595

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13293

Lockdown Strategies, Mobility Patterns and COVID-19

Nikos Askitas, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Bertrand Verheyden

published in: Nature Journal: Scientific Reports , 2021, 11, 1972, (appeared also in CEPR's: Covid Economics: Vetted and Real Time Papers, 2020, 23)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13214

Robust Dynamic Panel Data Models Using e-Contamination

Badi H. Baltagi, Georges Bresson, Anoop Chaturvedi, Guy Lacroix

published in: Advances in Econometrics, 2022, 43 B3 (Essays in Honor of M. Hashem Pesaran: Panel Modeling, Micro Applications, and Econometric Methodology), 307 - 336

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13165

Impacts of Social and Economic Factors on the Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China

Yun Qiu, Xi Chen, Wei Shi

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33, 1127 - 1172

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13155

Labour Market Institutions, Technology and Rent Sharing

Kyoji Fukao, Cristiano Perugini, Fabrizio Pompei

published as 'Labour market regimes, technology and rent-sharing in Japan' in: Economic Modelling, 2022, 112, 105856

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13099

Using Machine Learning to Predict Nosocomial Infections and Medical Accidents in a NICU

Marc Beltempo, Georges Bresson, Guy Lacroix

published in: Health & Technology, 2023, 13, 75–87

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13046

Infections, Accidents and Nursing Overtime in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Bayesian Semiparametric Panel Data Logit Model

Marc Beltempo, Georges Bresson, Jean-Michel Etienne, Guy Lacroix

published as 'Infections, accidents and nursing overtime in a neonatal intensive care unit' in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 23, 627 - 643

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12906

Rational Addiction and Time Consistency: An Empirical Test

Luca Piccoli, Silvia Tiezzi

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 80, 102546

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12775

Decomposing Employment Trends of Disabled Workers

Pierre Koning, Heike Vethaak

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2021, 21 (4), 20210010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12584

Inference with Arbitrary Clustering

Fabrizio Colella, Rafael Lalive, Seyhun Orcan Sakalli, Mathias Thoenig

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12556

Running the Risk of an Injury in the NFL: Short-Run and Career Consequences

Quinn Keefer, Thomas J. Kniesner

published as 'Performance and Pay in Professional Football' in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2022, 12 (4), 269-343.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12465

Exploiting Information from Singletons in Panel Data Analysis: A GMM Approach

Randolph Luca Bruno, Laura Magazzini, Marco Stampini

published in: Economics Letters, 2020, 186, 108519

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12329

Inter-City Spillover and Intra-City Agglomeration Effects among Local Labour Markets in China

Xiaodong Gong, Jiti Gao, Xuan Liang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12079

On Event Study Designs and Distributed-Lag Models: Equivalence, Generalization and Practical Implications

Kurt Schmidheiny, Sebastian Siegloch

published as 'On event studies and distributed-lags in two-way fixed effects models: Identification, equivalence, and generalization' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2023, 38 (5), 695-713

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11895

Public versus Private Sector Wage Gap in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data

Aysit Tansel, Halil Ibrahim Keskin, Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir

substantially revised version published as 'Public-Private Sector Wage Gap by Gender in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data, 1998-2018' in: World Development, 2020, 135, 105060

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11832

Are Retirees More Satisfied? Anticipation and Adaptation Effects of Retirement on Subjective Well-Being: A Panel Analysis for Germany

Joachim Merz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11689

One Billion Euro Program for Early Childcare Services in Italy

Isabella Giorgetti, Matteo Picchio

published in: Metroeconomica, 2021, 72 (3), 469-492

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11676

The Impact of Government Spending on GDP in a Remitting Country

Almukhtar Al-Abri, Ismail H. Genc, George S Naufal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11587

A Time-Space Dynamic Panel Data Model with Spatial Moving Average Errors