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66 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16839
Talking Therapy: Impacts of a Nationwide Mental Health Service in England
Ekaterina Oparina, Christian Krekel, Sorawoot Srisuma
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16308
Back to Edgeworth? Estimating the Value of Time Using Hedonic Experiences
Christian Krekel, George MacKerron
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16141
Information Nudges, Subsidies, and Crowding Out of Attention: Field Evidence from Energy Efficiency Investments
Matthias Rodemeier, Andreas Löschel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15939
Willingness to Pay for Carbon Mitigation: Field Evidence from the Market for Carbon Offsets
Matthias Rodemeier
This version: March 2024.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15771
Promoting Equity through Equitable Risk Tradeoffs
Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi
published in: Journal of Benefit Cost Analysis, 2023, 14 (1), 8-34
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15743
The Social Tax: Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply
Eliana Carranza, Aletheia Donald, Florian Grosset, Supreet Kaur
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15573
Three Criteria for Evaluating Social Programs
Jorge Luis García, James J. Heckman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15472
The Benefits and Costs of U.S. Employer COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates
Maddalena Ferranna, Lisa A. Robinson, Daniel Cadarette, Michael R. Eber, David E. Bloom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15247
The Impact of Opportunity Zones on Commercial Investment and Economic Activity
Kevin Corinth, Naomi E. Feldman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15188
On Criteria for Evaluating Social Programs
Jorge Luis García, James J. Heckman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15178
Universal Credit: Welfare Reform and Mental Health
Mike Brewer, Thang Dang, Emma Tominey
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14612
The Economic Costs of Child Maltreatment in UK
Gabriella Conti, Elena Pizzo, Stephen Morris, Mariya Melnychuk
published in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (12), 3087 - 3105
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14469
Pension Incentives and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Introduction of Universal Old-Age Assistance in the UK
Matthias Giesecke, Philipp Jaeger
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 203, 104516
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14437
An Optimal Split of School Classes
Oded Stark
published in: Economic Analysis and Policy, 2021, 69, 668-675
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14431
Happy to Help: The Welfare Effects of a Nationwide Micro-Volunteering Programme
Paul Dolan, Christian Krekel, Ganga Shreedhar, Helen Lee, Claire Marshall, Allison Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14050
Turning Relative Deprivation into a Performance Incentive Device
Oded Stark, Grzegorz Kosiorowski
published in: Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 2021, 45 (1), 22-36
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13844
Static and Dynamic Inefficiencies in an Optimizing Model of Epidemics
Pietro Garibaldi, Espen R. Moen, Christopher A. Pissarides
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13758
Discontinuous System of Allowances: The Response of Prosocial Health-Care Professionals
Helena Hernandez-Pizarro, Catia Nicodemo, Guillem López Casasnovas
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 190, 104248
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13724
The Effect of Community Size on Electoral Preferences: Evidence From Post-WWII Southern Germany
Luciana C. Fiorini, Michael Jetter, Christopher F. Parmeter, Christopher Parsons
revised version published online as 'Community Size and Electoral Preferences: Evidence From Post-Second World War Baden-Württemberg' in: British Journal of Political Science, 15 December 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13373
Allocating Subsidies for Private Investments to Maximize Jobs Impacts
David A. Robalino, Jose M. Romero, Ian Walker
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12608
Catching up Is Hard to Do: Undergraduate Prestige, Elite Graduate Programs, and the Earnings Premium
Joni Hersch
forthcoming in: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12531
Numeracy and Unemployment Duration
Thomas Dohmen, Bert van Landeghem
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12280
Behavioral Economics and the Value of a Statistical Life
Thomas J. Kniesner
published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2019, 58(2-3), 207-217
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12034
Inequality and Market Concentration, When Shareholding Is More Skewed Than Consumption
Joshua S. Gans, Andrew Leigh, Martin Schmalz, Adam Triggs
published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2019, 35 (3), 550–563
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11967
A Pigouvian Approach to Congestion in Matching Markets
Yinghua He, Thierry Magnac
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11313
Reallocation and the Role of Firm Composition Effects on Aggregate Wage Dynamics
Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Emmanuele Bobbio, Marta De Philippis, Federico Giorgi
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 8:3
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11102
Subjective Well-Being and Public Policy
Reto Odermatt, Alois Stutzer
published in: Ed Diener, Shigehiro Oishi and Louis Tay (eds.), Handbook of Well-Being. Noba Scholar Handbook Series: Subjective Well-being. Salt Lake City, UT: DEF Publishers, 2018.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10482
Household Entrepreneurship and Social Networks: Panel Data Evidence from Vietnam
Huu Chi Nguyen, Christophe Jalil Nordman
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2018, 54 (4), 594 - 618
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10118
Pay for Locally Monitored Performance? A Welfare Analysis for Teacher Attendance in Ugandan Primary Schools
Jacobus Cilliers, Ibrahim Kasirye, Clare Leaver, Pieter Serneels, Andrew Zeitlin
published in: Journal of Public Economics 2018, 167, 69-90
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9862
How Do Households Discount over Centuries? Evidence from Singapore's Private Housing Market
Eric Fesselmeyer, Haoming Liu, Alberto Salvo
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. 9143
Increasing Coverage of Antiretroviral Therapy and Male Medical Circumcision in HIV Hyperendemic Countries: A Cost-Benefit Analysis
Pascal Geldsetzer, David E. Bloom, Salal Humair, Till Bärnighausen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8491
Waiting To Give
Ashley C Craig, Ellen Garbarino, Stephanie A. Heger, Robert Slonim
published as 'Wating to Give: Stated and Revealed Preferences' in: Management Science, 2017, 63 (11), 3672 - 3690
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8145
A Review of Renewable Energy Supply and Energy Efficiency Technologies
Shahrouz Abolhosseini, Almas Heshmati, Jörn Altmann
published as 'Alternative Renewable Energy Production Technologies' in: The Development of Renewable Energy Sources and its Significance for the Environment, 2015, 31-64
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8046
Inputs, Gender Roles or Sharing Norms? Assessing the Gender Performance Gap Among Informal Entrepreneurs in Madagascar
Christophe Jalil Nordman, Julia Vaillant
Non-technical version published as 'Entreprenariat informel et genre à Madagascar : le rôle des normes de solidarité et des responsabilités domestiques dans les écarts de performances' in: Mondes en Développement, 2014, 42 (2), 166, 59-72
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7998
Rotten Spouses, Family Transfers and Public Goods
Helmuth Cremer, Kerstin Roeder
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30, 141-161
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7988
When Banana Import Restrictions Lead to Exports: A Tale of Cyclones and Quarantine Policies
Chia Chiun Ko, Paul Frijters
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7554
Hedonic Estimation under Very General Conditions Using Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs
Chris Rohlfs, Ryan Sullivan, Thomas J. Kniesner
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2016, 57, 54-62
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6994
New Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life Using Air Bag Regulations as a Quasi-Experiment
Chris Rohlfs, Ryan Sullivan, Thomas J. Kniesner
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015, 7(1), 331-354
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6942
Canonical Correlation and Assortative Matching: A Remark
Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon
published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 119/120, 375 - 383
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6866
Constrained Firms, Not Subsistence Activities: Evidence on Capital Returns and Accumulation in Peruvian Microenterprises
Kristin Göbel, Michael Grimm, Jann Lay
published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 33, 94-110
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6411
Information and Competition Entry
Mara Ewers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5868
And I Will Try to Fix You: A Study of Heterogeneity in Job Satisfaction with Implications for Flexible Employment Contracts
Aekapol Chongvilaivan, Nattavudh Powdthavee
published as 'Do Different Work Characteristics Have Different Distributional Impacts on Job Satisfaction? A Study of Slope Heterogeneity in Workers’ Well-Being' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2014, 52 (3), 426-444
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4852
Shutdown Contests in Multi-Plant Firms and Governmental Intervention
Matthias Kräkel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4478
The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation
Bruno S. Frey, Simon Luechinger, Alois Stutzer
published in: Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2010, 2, 139-160
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4341
Marriage, Cohabitation and Commitment
Murat Iyigun
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4199
A Sequential Malmquist-Luenberger Productivity Index
Donghyun Oh, Almas Heshmati
published as 'A sequential Malmquist–Luenberger productivity index: Environmentally sensitive productivity growth considering the progressive nature of technology ' in: Energy Economics, 2011, 32 (6), 1345 - 1355
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4181
The Efficient and Fair Approval of "Multiple-Cost - Single-Benefit" Projects under Unilateral Information
Nava Kahana, Yosef Mealem, Shmuel Nitzan
published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2009, 11 (6), 947 - 960
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3855
WTP vs. WTA: Christmas Presents and the Endowment Effect
Thomas K. Bauer, Christoph M. Schmidt
published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2012, 232 (1), 4 - 11
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3464
In Search of Gender Bias in Household Resource Allocation in Rural China
Lina Song
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2713
Does the Minimum Wage Cause Inefficient Rationing?
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2007, 7(1), Article 49
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2646
Public Goods, Transferable Utility and Divorce Laws
Pierre-André Chiappori, Murat Iyigun, Yoram Weiss
published as 'The Becker-Coase Theorem Reconsidered' in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81 (2), 157-77
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2605
Dann waren's nur noch vier… Wie viele (und welche) Maßnahmen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik brauchen wir noch? Eine Bilanz nach der Evaluation der Hartz-Reformen
Werner Eichhorst, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published as ,And Then There Were Four… How Many (and Which) Measures of Active Labor Market Policy Do We Still Need?' English version; in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2007, 53 (3), 243-272
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2454
Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market
Pierre-André Chiappori, Murat Iyigun, Yoram Weiss
published in American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (5), 1689-1713
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2159
Economic Surplus and Derived Demand
Ekkehart Schlicht
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2069
Wirksamkeit der Förderung der beruflichen Weiterbildung vor und nach den Hartz-Reformen
Holger Bonin, Hilmar Schneider
published in: Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter, 2006, 53 (2), 155-165
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1752
Building the Family Nest: Pre-Marital Investments, Marriage Markets and Spousal Allocations
Murat Iyigun, Randall P. Walsh
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2007, 74 (2), 507-532
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1744
Bargaining and Specialization in Marriage
Murat Iyigun
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1599
Brain Gain: Claims about Its Size and Impact on Welfare and Growth Are Greatly Exaggerated
Maurice Schiff
published in: Caglar Ozden and Maurice Schiff (eds.), International Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain, Palgrave MacMillan: New York, 2006
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1278
Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox
Alois Stutzer, Bruno S. Frey
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2007, 110 (2), 339 - 366
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1096
Using Happiness Surveys to Value Intangibles: The Case of Airport Noise
Bernard M. S. van Praag, Barbara E. Baarsma
published in: Economic Journal, 2005, 115 (500), 224-246
IZA Discussion Paper No. 968
Efficiency in a Matching Model with Heterogeneous Agents: Too Many Good or Bad Jobs?
Maite Blázquez Cuesta, Marcel Jansen
revised version published as "Search, mismatch and unemployment" in: European Economic Review, 2008, 52 (3), 498-526
IZA Discussion Paper No. 678
Fostering Within-Family Human Capital Investment: An Intragenerational Insurance Perspective of Social Security
Martin Barbie, Marcus Hagedorn, Ashok Kaul
IZA Discussion Paper No. 412
Government Debt as Insurance against Macroeconomic Risk
Martin Barbie, Marcus Hagedorn, Ashok Kaul
IZA Discussion Paper No. 209
Dynamic Efficiency and Pareto Optimality in a Stochastic OLG Model with Production and Social Security
Martin Barbie, Marcus Hagedorn, Ashok Kaul
IZA Discussion Paper No. 199
Rational Migration Policy Should Tolerate Non-Zero Illegal Migration Flows: Lessons from Modelling the Market for Illegal Migration
Horst Entorf
published in: International Migration, 40 (1), 2002, 27-43
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