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63 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16354
Towards a General Theory of Peer Effects
Vincent Boucher, Michelle Rendall, Philip Ushchev, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16275
Policy Diffusion through Elections
Hitoshi Shigeoka, Yasutora Watanabe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16181
Erasmus Program and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design
Marco Alberto De Benedetto, Maria De Paola, Vincenzo Scoppa, Janna Smirnova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16108
The Long-Term Causal Effects of Winning an ERC Grant
Corinna Ghirelli, Enkelejda Havari, Elena Claudia Meroni, Stefano Verzillo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16060
Provider Responses to the Expansion of Public Subsidies in Healthcare: The Case of Oral Chemotherapy Treatment in Australia
Maryam Naghsh Nejad, Serena Yu, Philip Haywood
published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2023, 330, 116041
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15557
College Admission as a Screening and Sorting Device
Mikkel Høst Gandil, Edwin Leuven
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15066
An Impact Assessment of ESF Training Courses for Unemployed in the Province of Bolzano
Francesco Pastore, Marco Pompili
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15011
The Intended and Unintended Effects of Promoting Labor Market Mobility
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Robert Mahlstedt
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 November 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14957
Do Economic Incentives Promote Physical Activity? Evidence from the London Congestion Charge
Ryota Nakamura, Andrea Albanese, Emma Coombes, Marc Suhrcke
published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 2024, 187 (2), 305–320
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14651
Study Abroad Programmes and Students' Academic Performance: Evidence from Erasmus Applications
Silvia Granato, Enkelejda Havari, Gianluca Mazzarella, Sylke V. Schnepf
published as 'Study abroad programmes and student outcomes: Evidence from Erasmus' in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 99, 102510
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14359
Parents under Stress: Evaluating Emergency Childcare Policies during the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Germany
Simone Schüller, Hannah S. Steinberg
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102217
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14358
Literacy and Information
Achmad Tohari, Christopher Parsons, Anu Rammohan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14228
The Impact of Mass Antigen Testing for COVID-19 on the Prevalence of the Disease
Martin Kahanec, Lukáš Lafférs, Bernhard Schmidpeter
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34, 1105 - 1140
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13943
The Health-Wealth Trade-off during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Communication Matters
Vincenzo Carrieri, Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia
published in: PLoS ONE, 2021,16 (9), e0256103.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13662
An Economics-Based Rationale for the Rawlsian Social Welfare Program
Oded Stark
published in: Rodríguez, J.G. and Bishop, J.A. (eds), Inequality, Redistribution and Mobility, Bingley, 2020, 179-186
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13543
Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform: Evidence from Birth Outcomes of Aboriginal Australians
Mary-Alice Doyle, Stefanie Schurer, Sven Silburn
updated version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 84, 102618
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13497
License to Fire? Unemployment Insurance and the Moral Cost of Layoffs
Daniel Keum, Stephan Meier
published as 'License to Layoff? Unemployment Insurance and the Moral Cost of Layoffs' in: Organization Science, 2023, 35 (3), 994-1014
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. 13310
Social Capital and the Spread of COVID-19: Insights from European Countries
Alina Kristin Bartscher, Sebastian Seitz, Sebastian Siegloch, Michaela Slotwinski, Nils Wehrhöfer
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 80, 102531
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12848
Peer Networks and Entrepreneurship: A Pan-African RCT
Fernando Vega-Redondo, Paolo Pin, Diego Ubfal, Cristiana Benedetti-Fasil, Charles Brummitt, Gaia Rubera, Dirk Hovy, Tommaso Fornaciari
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12754
Does the Implementation of the Schengen Agreement Boost Cross-Border Commuting? Evidence from Switzerland
Angela Parenti, Cristina Tealdi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12531
Numeracy and Unemployment Duration
Thomas Dohmen, Bert van Landeghem
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12483
The Impact of Paid Family Leave on the Timing of Infant Vaccinations
Agnitra Roy Choudhury, Solomon Polachek
published in: Vaccine, 2021, 39 (21), 2886-2893
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12337
Passive Choices and Cognitive Spillovers
Steffen Altmann, Andreas Grunewald, Jonas Radbruch
published as 'Interventions and Cognitive Spillovers' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (5), 2293-2328
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12074
Assessing the Impact of Off- and On-The-Job Training on Employment Outcomes: A Counterfactual Evaluation of the PIPOL Program
Francesco Pastore, Marco Pompili
published in: Evaluation Review, 2020, 44 (2-3), 145-184
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12018
Bright Investments: Measuring the Impact of Transport Infrastructure Using Luminosity Data in Haiti
Oscar A. Mitnik, Raul Sanchez, Patricia Yanez-Pagans
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11625
Testing a Social Innovation in Financial Aid for Low-Income Students: Experimental Evidence from Italy
Davide Azzolini, Alberto Martini, Enrico Rettore, Barbara Romano, Antonio Schizzerotto, Loris Vergolini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11623
Stand Against Bullying: An Experimental School Intervention
Italo A. Gutierrez, Oswaldo Molina, Hugo R. Nopo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11514
The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Nathan Kettlewell, Stefanie Schurer, Sven Silburn
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (6), 2072-2110
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11454
Nudging in Education
Mette Trier Damgaard, Helena Skyt Nielsen
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 313-342
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11362
Madrasah for Girls and Private School for Boys? The Determinants of School Type Choice in Rural and Urban Indonesia
Niaz Asadullah, Maliki Maliki
published in: International Journal of Educational Development, 2018, 62, 96–111
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11169
Mobility Assistance Programmes for Unemployed Workers, Job Search Behaviour and Labour Market Outcomes
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Robert Mahlstedt
substantially revised version available as IZA DP No. 15011
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11137
Does Information Empower the Poor? Evidence from Indonesia's Social Security Card
Achmad Tohari, Christopher Parsons, Anu Rammohan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11092
Microdata for Social Sciences and Policy Evaluation as a Public Good
Ugo Trivellato
published in: Crato N. and P. Paruolo (eds,), Data-driven Policy Impact Evaluation: How Microdata is Transforming Policy Design, Springer, 2019, 27- 45
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10968
Targeting Poverty under Complementarities: Evidence from Indonesia's Unified Targeting System
Achmad Tohari, Christopher Parsons, Anu Rammohan
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 140, 127 - 144
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10895
Going after the Addiction, Not the Addicted: The Impact of Drug Decriminalization in Portugal
Sónia Félix, Pedro Portugal, Ana Tavares
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10322
Couples' Retirement under Individual Pension Design: A Regression Discontinuity Study for France
Elena G. F. Stancanelli
published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 49, 14-26
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10173
Peer Effects in Parental Leave Decisions
Clara Welteke, Katharina Wrohlich
published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 56 (2), 146-163.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10005
Capabilities and Skills
James J. Heckman, Chase O. Corbin
published in: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2016, 17 (3), 342 - 359
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9922
Community-Based Health Insurance and Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Spending in Africa: Evidence from Rwanda
Andinet Woldemichael, Daniel Zerfu Gurara, Abebe Shimeles
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9707
Something from Nothing: Estimating Consumption Rates Using Propensity Scores, with Application to Emissions Reduction Policies
Nicholas Bardsley, Milena Buechs, Sylke V. Schnepf
revised version published in: PLOS ONE, 2017, 12(10), e0185538.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9701
Bread and Bullets
George A. Akerlof, Dennis J. Snower
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 126 (Part B), 58-71
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9627
Is There a Rationale to Contact the Unemployed Right from the Start? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Bert van Landeghem, Frank Cörvers, Andries de Grip
published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 45, 158-168
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9267
Finance and Growth at the Firm Level: Evidence from SBA Loans
J. David Brown, John S. Earle
publlished in: Journal of Finance, 2017, 72 (3), 1039 - 1080
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9264
A Note on Possible Estimation Bias When Studying Persons with Work Disability in Active Labour Market Programs
Christer Gerdes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9184
Worker-level and Firm-level Effects of a Wage Subsidy Program for Highly Educated Labor: Evidence from Denmark
Ulrich Kaiser, Johan Moritz Kuhn
published in: Research Policy, 2016, 45 (9), 1939-1943
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9183
The Return to Labor Market Mobility: An Evaluation of Relocation Assistance for the Unemployed
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Robert Mahlstedt
revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 148, 136-151
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9040
Learning about Job Search: A Field Experiment with Job Seekers in Germany
Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, Simon Jäger, Florian Zimmermann
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 164, 33-49
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8848
Drug Decriminalization and the Price of Illicit Drugs
Sónia Félix, Pedro Portugal
published in: International Journal of Drug Policy, 2017, 39, 121-129
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8766
The Effects of Increasing the Standards of the High School Curriculum on School Dropout
Katja Görlitz, Christina Gravert
published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 48 (54), 5314-5328
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