IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9804

The Impact of Television Programmes on Teenage Career Aspirations The 'MasterChef Effect'

Giorgio Di Pietro

revised version published as 'Do media play a role in promoting vocational education and training? The case of MasterChef' in: Policy Studies, 2018, 39 (1), 37-53

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9785

Time Aggregation and State Dependence in Welfare Receipt

Manudeep Bhuller, Christian Brinch, Sebastian Königs

published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (604), 1833-1873.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9742

Assessing the Effects of Disability Insurance Experience Rating: The Case of the Netherlands

Nynke De Groot, Pierre Koning

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41, 304-317

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9716

Determining Minimum Wages in China: Do Economic Factors Dominate?

Christian Dreger, Reinhold Kosfeld, Yanqun Zhang

published in: Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies, 2019, 31 (1-2), 44 - 59

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9571

Are Unemployment Rates in OECD Countries Stationary? Evidence from Univariate and Panel Unit Root Tests

Naceur Khraief, Muhammad Shahbaz, Almas Heshmati, Muhammad Azam

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9551

State Dependence in Welfare Benefits in a Non-Welfare Context

Sinem H. Ayhan, Selin Pelek

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2020, 66 (3), 711-735

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9550

The Impact of Family Friendly Policies in Spain and their Use throughout the Business Cycle

Sara de la Rica, Lucía Gorjón

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9447

Gender and Corruption: A Reassessment

Julia Debski, Michael Jetter

revised version published as 'Gender and corruption: The neglected role of culture' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 55, 526 - 537

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9428

Endogeneity and Non-Response Bias in Treatment Evaluation: Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects by Instruments

Hans Fricke, Markus Frölich, Martin Huber, Michael Lechner

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2020, 35 (5), 481-504

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9356

Intergenerational Correlations of Extreme Right-Wing Party Preferences and Attitudes toward Immigration

Alexandra Avdeenko, Thomas Siedler

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119 (3), 768-800

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9345

A New View on Panel Econometrics: Is Probit Feasible After All?

Bernard M. S. van Praag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9344

Earnings and Consumption Dynamics: A Nonlinear Panel Data Framework

Manuel Arellano, Richard Blundell, Stephane Bonhomme

published in: Econometrica, 2017, 85 (3), 693 - 734

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9332

Natural Disasters and University Enrolment: Evidence from L'Aquila Earthquake

Augusto Cerqua, Giorgio Di Pietro

revised version published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49 (14), 1440-1457

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9326

Economic Activity and the Spread of Viral Diseases: Evidence from High Frequency Data

Jérôme Adda

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2016, 131 (2), 891 - 941

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9286

First-Place Loving and Last-Place Loathing: How Rank in the Distribution of Performance Affects Effort Provision

David Gill, Zdenka Kissová, Jaesun Lee, Victoria L. Prowse

published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (2), 494 - 507

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9181

Employers Opting Out of Public Disability Insurance: Selection or Incentive Effects?

Wolter Hassink, Pierre Koning, Wim Zwinkels

published as 'Do Firms with Low Disability Risks Opt Out from Public to Private Insurance?' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2018, 18 (1), 20170022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9125

Micro-Evidence on Product and Labor Market Regime Differences between Chile and France

Sabien Dobbelaere, Rodolfo Lauterbach, Jacques Mairesse

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (2), 229 - 252

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9124

Comparing Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Three Different Approaches

Sabien Dobbelaere, Jacques Mairesse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9042

Political Socialization in Flux? Linking Family Non-Intactness during Childhood to Adult Civic Engagement

Timo Hener, Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2016, 179 (3), 633–656

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9025

The Local Economic Impact of Wind Power Deployment

Nils G. May, Øivind Anti Nilsen

published in: FinanzArchiv / Public Finance Analysis, 2019, 75 (1), 56-92.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8819

A Note on Unemployment Persistence and Quantile Parameter Heterogeneity

Corrado Andini, Monica Andini

extended version published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2018, 22 (5), 1298-1320

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8786

Are Recipients of Social Assistance 'Benefit Dependent'? Concepts, Measurement and Results for Selected Countries

Herwig Immervoll, Stephen P. Jenkins, Sebastian Königs

published in parts in: International Journal of Social Welfare, 2018, 27 (2), 146-156

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8760

Survey Design and the Determinants of Subjective Wellbeing: An Experimental Analysis

Angus J. Holford, Stephen Pudney

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8759

How Do Drug Prices Respond to a Change from External to Internal Reference Pricing? Evidence from a Danish Regulatory Reform

Ulrich Kaiser, Susan J. Méndez

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8742

The Effect of Unemployment on Self-Reported Health and Mental Health in Greece from 2008 to 2013: A Longitudinal Study Before and During the Financial Crisis

Nick Drydakis

published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2015, 128, 43-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8711

Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes

Junjian Yi, James J. Heckman, Junsen Zhang, Gabriella Conti

published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 124 (588), F347–F371

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8701

Fixed Exchange-Rate Policy and Real Wage Growth: Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Corrado Andini

revised version published in: International Economics, 2023, 175 (C), 158-170

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8681

Immigration and Economic Growth in the OECD Countries, 1986-2006

Ekrame Boubtane, Jean-Christophe Dumont, Christophe Rault

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, 2016, 68 (2), 340 - 360

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8661

Robust Linear Static Panel Data Models Using ε-Contamination

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

Published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2018, 202(1), 108-123

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8467

Do Wages Continue Increasing at Older Ages? Evidence on the Wage Cushion in the Netherlands

Anja Deelen, Rob Euwals

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8315

The Public Sector Wage Premium in Spain: Evidence from Longitudinal Administrative Data

Laura Hospido, Enrique Moral-Benito

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 101–122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8143

Persistence Bias and Schooling Returns

Corrado Andini

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2024, 51 (2), 319-337

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. 8081

Production Risk, Energy Use Efficiency and Productivity of Korean Industries

Nabaz T. Khayyat, Almas Heshmati

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. 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. 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. 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. 7657

The Origins of Early Childhood Anthropometric Persistence

Daniel L. Millimet, Rusty Tchernis

published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 56, 2185-2224

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. 7574

Channels of Labour Supply Responses of Lone Parents to Changed Work Incentives

Xiaodong Gong, Robert Breunig

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

substantially revised version published as 'Too Family Friendly? The Consequences of Parents' Right to Request Part-Time Work' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 197, 104407

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

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 as 'Experience Matters: The Role of Academic Scientist Mobility for Industrial Innovation' in: Strategic Management Journal, 2018, 39 (7), 1935-1958

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7453

Anthropometric Mobility During Childhood

Daniel L. Millimet, Rusty Tchernis

published as 'Persistence in Body Mass Index in a Recent Cohort of US Children' in: Economics an Human Biology, 2015, 17, 157-176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7451

Getting Stuck in the Blues: Persistence of Mental Health Problems in Australia

John Roy, Stefanie Schurer

published in: Health Economics, 2013, 22(9), 1139-1157.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7379

Gender Differences in Sickness Absence and the Gender Division of Family Responsibilities

Nikolay Angelov, Per Johansson, Erica Lindahl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7359