IZA Discussion Papers

Nick Huntington-Klein, Andreu Arenas, Emily A. Beam, Marco Bertoni, Jeffrey R. Bloem, Pralhad Burli, Naibin Chen, Paul Greico, Godwin Ekpe, Todd Pugatch, Martin Saavedra, Yaniv Stopnitzky

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2021, 59 (3), 944 - 960 https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12992

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13222

The Insights and Illusions of Consumption Measurements

Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai, Nandini Krishnan

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023,161, 102991

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13196

Modelling Errors in Survey and Administrative Data on Employment Earnings: Sensitivity to the Fraction Assumed to Have Error-Free Earnings

Stephen P. Jenkins, Fernando Rios-Avila

published in: Economics Letters, 2020, 192, 109253

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12757

Income Growth and its Distribution from Eisenhower to Obama: The Growing Importance of In-Kind Transfers (1959-2016)

James Elwell, Kevin Corinth, Richard V. Burkhauser

published in D. Furchtgott-Roth (ed.), United States Trends in Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Well-Being; OUP, Oxford, 2020, 90-124.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12575

Missing Data in Imputed Highest Grade Completed in the 2015 -2018 NBER CPS Extracts

Joni Hersch, Fernando Mendoza Lopez, Jennifer Bennett Shinall

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12266

Combining Administrative and Survey Data to Improve Income Measurement

Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag

in Administrative Records for Survey Methodology (p.297-322), ed. A. Y. Chun, M. Larson, J. Reiter and G. Durrant, Wiley: NY. 2021.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12151

An Empirical Total Survey Error Decomposition Using Data Combination

Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2021, 224 (2), 286-305

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12038

Misreporting of Government Transfers: How Important Are Survey Design and Geography?

Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag

Southern Economic Journal, 2019, 86 (1), 230-253

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12014

Perspectives on Poverty in Europe

Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2020, 6 (1), 129-155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11958

The Elasticity of Taxable Income: A Meta-Regression Analysis

Carina Neisser

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. 11798

A Method to Estimate Mean Lying Rates and Their Full Distribution

Ellen Garbarino, Robert Slonim, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2018, 4 (2), 136-150.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11776

Errors in Survey Reporting and Imputation and Their Effects on Estimates of Food Stamp Program Participation

Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag, Robert M. Goerge

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (5), 1605-1644.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11503

A Cautionary Note on the Reliability of the Online Survey Data: The Case of Wage Indicator

Magdalena Smyk, Joanna Tyrowicz, Lucas van der Velde

forthcoming in: Sociological Methods and Research, doi.org/10.1177/0049124118782538

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11412

Estimating the Associations between SNAP and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participation

Charles Courtemanche, Augustine Denteh, Rusty Tchernis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11192

Mechanics of Replacing Benefit Systems with a Basic Income: Comparative Results from a Microsimulation Approach

James Browne, Herwig Immervoll

published in a special issue of the Journal of Economic Inequality, honouring the work of Sir Anthony “Tony” Atkinson. DOI 10.1007/s10888-017-9366-6. Also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11092

Microdata for Social Sciences and Policy Evaluation as a Public Good

Ugo Trivellato

forthcoming in: Crato N. and P. Paruolo (Eds), Data-driven Policy Impact Evaluation: How Microdata is Transforming Policy Design, Springer, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11052

Comparing Retrospective and Panel Data Collection Methods to Assess Labor Market Dynamics

Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft, Shaimaa Yassin

published in: Journal of Youth Studies, 2020, 24 (2),186-212

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10943

Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data to Better Measure Income: Implications for Poverty, Program Effectiveness and Holes in the Safety Net

Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (2), 176-204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10868

Survey Under-Coverage of Top Incomes and Estimation of Inequality: What Is the Role of the UK's SPI Adjustment?

Richard V. Burkhauser, Nicolas Herault, Stephen P. Jenkins, Roger Wilkins

published in: Fiscal Studies, 2018, 39 (2), 213-240

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10861

Worries across Time and Age in Germany: Bringing Together Open- and Close-Ended Questions

Julia Rohrer, Martin Bruemmer, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner

published as 'Worries across time and age in the German Socio-Economic Panel study' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 181, 323-343

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10793

Safe Options Induce Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes

Paolo Crosetto, Antonio Filippin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10792

Competition and Subsequent Risk-Taking Behaviour: Heterogeneity across Gender and Outcomes

Antonio Filippin, Francesca Gioia

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 75, 84-94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10573

An Integrated Approach for Top-Corrected Ginis

Charlotte Bartels, Maria Metzing

published as 'An integrated approach for a top-corrected income distribution' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019, 17 (2), 125-143

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10521

Dimensions of Quality of Life in Germany: Measured by Plain Text Responses in a Representative Survey (SOEP)

Gert G. Wagner, Martin Bruemmer, Axel Glemser, Julia Rohrer, Jürgen Schupp

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10395

Loss Aversion and Lying Behavior: Theory, Estimation and Empirical Evidence

Ellen Garbarino, Robert Slonim, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Loss Aversion and Lying Behavior' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 158, 379-393

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10266

Correcting for Misreporting of Government Benefits

Nikolas Mittag

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019, 11(2), 142-164

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10124

Pareto Models, Top Incomes, and Recent Trends in UK Income Inequality

Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: Economica, 2017, 84, 261–289.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10019

Mind, Behaviour and Health: A Randomised Experiment

Yonas Alem, Hannah Behrendt, Michèle Belot, Aniko Biro

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9908

Optimal Data Collection for Randomized Control Trials

Pedro Carneiro, Sokbae Lee, Daniel Wilhelm

published in: Econometrics Journal, 2020, 23 (1), 1 - 31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9765

Eliciting Risk Preferences: Firefighting in the Field

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal

published as 'Internal and external validity: Comparing two simple risk elicitation tasks' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2019, 81, 39 - 46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9718

What Has Been Happening to UK Income Inequality since the Mid-1990s? Answers from Reconciled and Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data

Richard V. Burkhauser, Nicolas Herault, Stephen P. Jenkins, Roger Wilkins

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (2), 301 - 326

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9674

The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences

Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

revised version published in: Management Science, 2023, 69 (4), 1935–195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9427

Trend-Spotting in the Housing Market

Nikos Askitas

published in: Cityscape - A Journal of Policy Development and Research, 2016, 18 (3), 185-198

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9415

Are Sociocultural Factors Important for Studying a Science University Major?

Volker Grossmann, Aderonke Osikominu, Marius Osterfeld

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2020, 72 (2), 374-369

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9033

Program Evaluation and Spillover Effects

Manuela Angelucci, Vincenzo Di Maro

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9029

The Sound of Others: Surprising Evidence of Conformist Behavior

Paolo Crosetto, Antonio Filippin

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2017, 83 (4), 1038–1051

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8899

The Internet as a Data Source for Advancement in Social Sciences

Nikos Askitas, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36 (1), 2 - 12.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8843

Who Is Coming to the Artefactual Field Experiment? Participation Bias among Chinese Rural Migrants

Paul Frijters, Tao Sherry Kong, Elaine M. Liu

published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2015, 114 (C), 62-74

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. 8662

Mapping 'Information Economy' Businesses with Big Data: Findings for the UK

Max Nathan, Anna Rosso, Francois Bouet

Published in: Research Policy, 2015, 44 (9), 1714 - 1733

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8658

Individual Survival Curves Comparing Subjective and Observed Mortality Risks

Luc Bissonnette, Michael D. Hurd, Pierre-Carl Michaud

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8581

Choosing to Be Trained: Do Behavioral Traits Matter?

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Lata Gangadharan, Pushkar Maitra, Subha Mani, Samyukta Subramanian

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 110, 145-159.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8501

World Income Inequality Databases: An Assessment of WIID and SWIID

Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, 13 (4), 629 - 671

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8405

Counting Rotten Apples: Student Achievement and Score Manipulation in Italian Elementary Schools

Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai, Daniela Vuri

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 200 (2), 344-362

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8392

Socioeconomic Gradients in Children's Cognitive Skills: Are Cross-Country Comparisons Robust to Who Reports Family Background?

John Jerrim, John Micklewright

revised version published in: European Sociological Review, 2014, doi: 10.1093/esr/jcu072

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8184

A Reconsideration of Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes

Antonio Filippin, Paolo Crosetto

published in: Management Science, 2016, 62 (11), 3138â€“3160

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8085

FDI Impact on Firm Performance in Enlarged Europe: Evidence from a Meta-Regression Analysis

Randolph Luca Bruno, Maria Cipollina

published in: World Economy,, 2018, 41 (5), 1342-1377

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7971

The IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey: A Scientific Use File

Patrick Arni, Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Klaus F. Zimmermann

revised version published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3 (6), 1-20

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7860

The RUMiC Longitudinal Survey: Fostering Research on Labor Markets in China

Mehtap Akgüç, Corrado Giulietti, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3:5,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7583

Regression Analysis of Country Effects Using Multilevel Data: A Cautionary Tale

Mark L. Bryan, Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: European Sociological Review, 2016, 32 (1), 3–22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7446

Child Labor Variation by Type of Respondent: Evidence from a Large-Scale Study

Ana C. Dammert, Jose C. Galdo

published in: World Development, 2013, 51(11), 207-220

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6710

The "Bomb" Risk Elicitation Task

Paolo Crosetto, Antonio Filippin

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2013, 47(1), 31-65

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6667

Measuring Segregation When Hierarchy Matters

Robert M. Hutchens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6500

Comparing Real Wage Rates

Orley Ashenfelter

published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (2), 617 - 642

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6274

Average Wage, Qualification of the Workforce and Export Performance in German Enterprises: Evidence from KombiFiD Data

Joachim Wagner

published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2012, 45 (2), 161-170

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6030

Redistribution Policy and Inequality Reduction in OECD Countries: What Has Changed in Two Decades?

Herwig Immervoll, Linda Richardson

also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5895

Detecting Mortgage Delinquencies

Nikos Askitas, Klaus F. Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5873

The Feasibility and Importance of Adding Measures of Actual Experience to Cross-Sectional Data Collection

Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (2, Part 2), 17-58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5847

Using the Helmert-Transformation to Reduce Dimensionality in a Mixed Model: Application to a Wage Equation with Worker and Firm Heterogeneity

Øivind Anti Nilsen, Arvid Raknerud, Terje Skjerpen

revised version published as 'Estimation of a model for matched panel data with high-dimensional two-way unobserved heterogeneity' in: Empirical Economics, 2017, 53, 1657–1680

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. 5646

Parental Education, Grade Attainment and Earnings Expectations among University Students

Liam Delaney, Colm P. Harmon, Cathy Redmond

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1136-1152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5601

Health and Well-Being in the Crisis

Nikos Askitas, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36 (1), 26 - 47.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5400

The IZA Evaluation Dataset: Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making

Marco Caliendo, Armin Falk, Lutz C. Kaiser, Hilmar Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff, Gerard J. van den Berg, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 731-752

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5347

Is Earnings Nonresponse Ignorable?

Christopher R. Bollinger, Barry Hirsch

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (2), 407-416

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5306

How to Think About Time-Use Data: What Inferences Can We Make About Long- and Short-Run Time Use from Time Diaries?

Harley Frazis, Jay Stewart

published in: Annales d’Economie et Statistique, 2012, 105/106, 231-246

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5272

Nonresponse and Focal Point Answers to Subjective Probability Questions

Kristin J. Kleinjans, Arthur van Soest

published as 'Rounding, Focal Point Answers and Nonresponse to Subjective Probability Questions' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2014, 29 (4), 567 - 585

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5242

The British Household Panel Survey and its Income Data

Stephen P. Jenkins

published as: Chapter 4 , in: S.P. Jenkins: Changing Fortunes: Income Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Britain, Oxford University Press, 2011

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