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330 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18315
Separating Preferences from Endogenous Effort and Cognitive Noise in Observed Decisions
Christian Belzil, Tomáš Jagelka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18309
Identification and Estimation of Continuous-Time Job Search Models with Preference Shocks
Peter Arcidiacono, Attila Gyetvai, Arnaud Maurel, Ekaterina Jardim
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18045
A Demarcation of the Gini Coefficient
Oded Stark, Grzegorz Kosiorowski
published as 'A foray into the demarcation of the Gini coefficient' in: Economics Letters, 2025, 254, 112405
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17973
Assessing the Statistical Significance of Inequality Differences: The Problem of Heavy Tails
Nicolas Herault, Stephen P. Jenkins
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17972
The T-Statistic Approach to Inference for Inequality Indices: The Issue of Grouping Variability
Nicolas Herault, Stephen P. Jenkins
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17716
On a Transformation of the Gini Coefficient into a Well-Behaved Social Welfare Function
Oded Stark
published in: Kyklos, 2025, 78 (2), 301-304
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17534
Invitation Messages for Business Surveys: A Multi-Armed Bandit Experiment
Johannes J. Gaul, Florian Keusch, Davud Rostam-Afschar, Thomas Simon
Survey Research Methods, 2025, 19(4), 409-429.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16995
Biological, Behavioural and Spurious Selection on the Kidney Transplant Waitlist
Stephen Kastoryano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16890
There and Back Again: Women's Marginal Commuting Costs
Annette Bergemann, Stephan Brunow, Isabel Stockton
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16691
Volume, Risk, Complexity: What Makes Development Finance Projects Succeed or Fail?
Yota Eilers, Jochen Kluve, Jörg Langbein, Lennart Reiners
published online in: World Bank Economic Review, 4 February 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16535
The Fundamental Properties, Stability and Predictive Power of Distributional Preferences
Ernst Fehr, Thomas Epper, Julien Senn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16426
Predicting Re-Employment: Machine Learning versus Assessments by Unemployed Workers and by Their Caseworkers
Gerard J. van den Berg, Max Kunaschk, Julia Lang, Gesine Stephan, Arne Uhlendorff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16369
Unpacking P-Hacking and Publication Bias
Abel Brodeur, Scott E. Carrell, David N. Figlio, Lester Lusher
published in: American Economic Review, 2023, 113 (11), 2974-3002
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16368
Optimal Weights for Marital Sorting Measures
Frederik Almar, Bastian Schulz
published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 234, 11497
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16000
Artificial Intelligence and the Economics of Decision-Making
Wim Naudé
published in: W. Naudé and T. Gries and N. Dimitri (eds.), Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15629
Social Isolation, Health Dynamics, and Mortality: Evidence across 21 European Countries
Yarine Fawaz, Pedro Mira
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 2483–2518
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15590
Measuring Socially Appropriate Social Preferences
Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Andrea Robbett
published in: Games and Economic Behavior 2024, 147, 517 - 532
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15586
P-Hacking, Data Type and Data-Sharing Policy
Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, Carina Neisser
published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (659), 985-1018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15510
Urban Resilience and Social Security Uptake: New Zealand Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 Pandemic
William Cochrane, Jacques Poot, Matthew Roskruge
published in: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 2023, 29 (2), 155-184
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15478
We Need to Talk about Mechanical Turk: What 22,989 Hypothesis Tests Tell Us about Publication Bias and p-Hacking in Online Experiments
Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, Anthony Heyes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15476
Do Pre-registration and Pre-analysis Plans Reduce P-Hacking and Publication Bias?
Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, Jonathan S. Hartley, Anthony Heyes
published as 'Do Pre-Registration and Pre-Analysis Plans Reduce p-Hacking and Publication Bias? Evidence from 15,992 Test Statistics and Suggestions for Improvement' in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2024. 2 (3), 527–561
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15314
Regime and Treatment Effects in Duration Models: Decomposing Expectation and Transplant Effects on the Kidney Waitlist
Stephen Kastoryano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15151
Treatment Effect Heterogeneity
Jeffrey A. Smith
published in: Evaluation Review, 2022, 46 (5), 652 - 677
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15148
Return versus Onward Migration: Go Back or Move On?
Govert Bijwaard, Jackline Wahba
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2023, 69 (3), 640-667
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14923
Visual Inference and Graphical Representation in Regression Discontinuity Designs
Christina Korting, Carl Lieberman, Jordan Matsudaira, Zhuan Pei, Yi Shen
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023, 138 (3), 1977–2019,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14818
Bike-Sharing: Network Efficiency and Demand Profiles
José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Carlos Gracia-Lazaro, José Alberto Molina
published as 'Increasing the use of public bicycles: efficiency and demand' in: Economic Analysis and Policy, 2022, 76, 745-754
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14761
A Social-Psychological Reconstruction of Amartya Sen's Measures of Inequality and Social Welfare
Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski
published in: Kyklos, 2021, 74 (4), 552 - 566
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14760
Measuring Youth Empowerment: An Illustration Using the Example of Tunisia
Micheline Goedhuys, Michael Grimm, Aline Meysonnat, Eleonora Nillesen, Ann-Kristin Reitmann
published as 'Measuring youth empowerment: An application to Tunisia' in: Journal of International Development, 2024, 36 (4), 1945-1964
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14522
Measuring Performance: Ranking State Success over Two Decades in India
Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Arka Roy Chaudhuri, Saattvic
published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2022, 83, 101550
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14507
Educational Differences in Mortality and Hospitalisation for Cardiovascular Diseases for Males
Govert Bijwaard
published as 'Educational differences in mortality and hospitalisation for cardiovascular diseases 'in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 81, 102565
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14392
Urban Economics in a Historical Perspective: Recovering Data with Machine Learning
Pierre-Philippe Combes, Laurent Gobillon, Yanos Zylberberg
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 94, 103711
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14363
Tax Progressivity and Self-Employment Dynamics
Wiji Arulampalam, Andrea Papini
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (2), 377 - 391
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14317
Structural Models for Policy-Making: Coping with Parametric Uncertainty
Philipp Eisenhauer, Janos Gabler, Lena Janys
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14259
The Effect of Sport in Online Dating: Evidence from Causal Machine Learning
Daniel Boller, Michael Lechner, Gabriel Okasa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14092
Learning about Farming: Innovation and Social Networks in a Resettled Community in Brazil
Margherita Comola, Carla Inguaggiato, Mariapia Mendola
revised version published as 'Social Networks and Economic Transformation: Evidence from a Resettled Village in Brazil' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 221, 17-34
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14038
Unemployment Duration and the Take-up of Unemployment Insurance
Sylvie Blasco, Francois Fontaine
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14033
The Effects of Free Secondary School Track Choice: A Disaggregated Synthetic Control Approach
Aderonke Osikominu, Gregor Pfeifer, Kristina Strohmaier
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14015
Empirical Monte Carlo Evidence on Estimation of Timing-of-Events Models
Stefano Lombardi, Gerard J. van den Berg, Johan Vikström
published in: Econometric Reviews, 2027, 44 (1), 90 - 118
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13357
Econometric Models of Fertility
Alfonso Miranda, Pravin K. Trivedi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13118
Understanding the Mechanisms Linking College Education with Longevity
Kai Hong, Peter A. Savelyev, Kegon T.K. Tan
published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2020, 14 (3), 371 - 400
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12734
Reevaluating Distributional Consequences of the Transition to Market Economy in Poland: New Results from Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data
Michał Brzeziński, Michal Myck, Mateusz Najsztub
revised version published as 'Sharing the gains of transition: evaluating changes in income inequality and redistribution in Poland using combined survey and tax return data' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 73, 102121
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. 12487
The Effectiveness of Interventions to Reduce Informality in Low- and Middle Income Countries
Jonas Jessen, Jochen Kluve
revised version published in: World Development, 2021, 138, 105256
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12458
Practical Significance, Meta-Analysis and the Credibility of Economics
T. D. Stanley, Chris Doucouliagos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12363
Intergenerational and Intragenerational Externalities of the Perry Preschool Project
James J. Heckman, Ganesh Karapakula
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12362
The Perry Preschoolers at Late Midlife: A Study in Design-Specific Inference
James J. Heckman, Ganesh Karapakula
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12171
Timed to Say Goodbye: Does Unemployment Benefit Eligibility Affect Worker Layoffs?
Andrea Albanese, Corinna Ghirelli, Matteo Picchio
published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101846
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12138
Not Everyone Is Engaged: An Innovative Approach to Measure Engagement Levels on the Labor Market
Carole Chartouni, Robert Holzmann, Gustavo N. Paez
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2020 10:10.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11884
A Different Perspective on the Evolution of UK Income Inequality
Anthony B. Atkinson, Stephen P. Jenkins
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2020, 66 (2), 253-266
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11864
Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects on Duration Outcomes under Censoring, Selection, and Noncompliance
German Blanco, Xuan Chen, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2020, 38 (4), 901 - 920
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