IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9658

Are Men Given Priority for Top Jobs? Investigating the Glass Ceiling in the Italian Academia

Maria De Paola, Michela Ponzo, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2018, Vol. 12, No. 3: 475-503.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9570

Predicting the Irish "Gay Marriage" Referendum

Nikos Askitas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9569

Calling the Greek Referendum on the Nose with Google Trends

Nikos Askitas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9553

Regression Discontinuity Designs Based on Population Thresholds: Pitfalls and Solutions

Andrew C. Eggers, Ronny Freier, Veronica Grembi, Tommaso Nannicini

published in: American Journal of Political Science, 2018, 62 (1), 210-229

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9526

Terrorism and Employment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks

Abel Brodeur

published as 'The Effect of Terrorism on Employment and Consumer Sentiment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (4), 246-82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9522

Religious Riots and Electoral Politics in India

Sriya Iyer, Anand Shrivastava

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9491

New Evidence on Linear Regression and Treatment Effect Heterogeneity

Tymon Sloczynski

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. 9336

An Experimental Study of Voting with Costly Delay

Maksymilian Kwiek, Helia Marreiros, Michael Vlassopoulos

published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 140, 23-26.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9335

Earmarking and the Political Support of Fat Taxes

Helmuth Cremer, Catarina Goulão, Kerstin Roeder

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 50, 258-267.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9162

Voter Reaction to Government Incompetence and Corruption Related to the 1999 Earthquakes in Turkey

Ali T. Akarca, Aysit Tansel

published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2016, 43 (2), 309 - 335.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9161

May There Be Victory: Government Election Performance and the World's Largest Public-Works Program

Laura V Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9159

A Model of Dynamic Conflict in Ethnocracies

Dripto Bakshi, Indraneel Dasgupta

published in: Defence and Peace Economics, 2018, 29 (2), 147-170

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9028

Clean Money in a Dirty System: Relationship Networks and Land Rezoning in Queensland

Cameron K. Murray, Paul Frijters

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2016, 93(C), 99-114

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9024

Fiscal Decentralization, Rural Industrialization, and Undocumented Labor Mobility in Rural China (1982-87)

Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9010

Give and You Shall Receive: The Emergence of Welfare-Reducing Reciprocity

Cameron K. Murray, Paul Frijters, Melissa Vorster

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8879

The Role of Lawyer-Legislators in Shaping the Law: Evidence from Voting Behavior on Tort Reforms

Ulrich Matter, Alois Stutzer

published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2015, 58 (2), 357-384

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8859

Gender Differences in Attitudes Towards Competition: Evidence from the Italian Scientific Qualification

Maria De Paola, Michela Ponzo, Vincenzo Scoppa

published as 'Gender differences in the propensity to apply for promotion: evidence from the Italian Scientific Qualification' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (5), 986 - 1009.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8808

Long Lasting Differences in Civic Capital: Evidence from a Unique Immigration Event in Italy

Emanuele Bracco, Maria De Paola, Colin P. Green

published in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8798

Local Political Budget Cycles in a Federation: Evidence from West German Cities

Marina Furdas, Katerina Homolkova, Krisztina Kis-Katos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8691

Candidate Ballot Information and Election Outcomes: The Czech Case

Štepán Jurajda, Daniel Münich

published in: PostSoviet Affairs, 2015, 31 (5), 448-469

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8654

From Riches to Rags, and Back? Institutional Change, Financial Development and Economic Growth in Argentina since the 1890s

Nauro F. Campos, Menelaos G. Karanasos, Bin Tan

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52(2), 206 - 223

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8510

The Productivity Consequences of Political Turnover: Firm-Level Evidence from Ukraine's Orange Revolution

John S. Earle, Scott Gehlbach

published in: American Journal of Political Science, 2015, 59(3), 708-723

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8452

Do Criminal Representatives Hinder or Improve Constituency Outcomes? Evidence from India

Nishith Prakash, Marc Rockmore, Yogesh Uppal

published as 'Do criminally accused politicians affect economic outcomes? Evidence from India' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 141, 102370

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8409

Immigration, Cultural Distance and Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants: Evidence from Swiss Voting Results

Beatrice Brunner, Andreas Kuhn

revised version published in: Kyklos, 2018, 71(1), 28-58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8248

Public Opinion on Immigration: Has the Recession Changed Minds?

Timothy J. Hatton

Published as: “Immigration, Public Opinion and the Recession in Europe,” Economic Policy, 86 (2016), pp 205-246

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8228

Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and Politics: The Role of Immigration in Shaping Natives' Political Preferences

Guglielmo Barone, Alessio D'Ignazio, Guido de Blasio, Paolo Naticchioni

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 136, 1-14

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8217

Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?

Haoran He, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Are group members less inequality averse than individual decision makers?' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 138, 111-124.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8196

Local Funds and Political Competition: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India

Bhanu Gupta, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 41 (1), 14-30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8102

Candidates' Quality and Electoral Participation: Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections

Marco Alberto De Benedetto, Maria De Paola

published as 'Candidates' Education and Turnout: Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections' in: German Economic Review, 2017, 18 (1), 22 - 50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8036

Impact of Internal Migration on Political Participation in Turkey

Ali T. Akarca, Aysit Tansel

Published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4 (1).

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8017

Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country

Resul Cesur, Naci Mocan

published as 'Education, religion, and voter preference in a Muslim country' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (1), 1-44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7980

The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic

Toman Omar Mahmoud, Hillel Rapoport, Andreas Steinmayr, Christoph Trebesch

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9(3): 36-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7979

The Effect of Economic Change and Elite Framing on Economic Preferences: A Survey Experiment

Paul Marx, Gijs Schumacher

revised version published in: Journal of European Social Policy, 26 (1), 20-31.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7934

Does Money Make People Right-Wing and Inegalitarian? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners

Nattavudh Powdthavee, Andrew J. Oswald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7920

From Aliens to Citizens: The Political Incorporation of Immigrants

Pieter Bevelander, Mikael Spång

published in: Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1A, Elsevier, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7736

Politicians, Governed vs. Non-Governed Interest Groups and Rent Dissipation

Gil S. Epstein, Yosef Mealem

published in: Theory and Decision, 2014 [Online]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7612

The Impact of Incumbency on Turnout: Evidence from Italian Municipalities

Marco Alberto De Benedetto, Maria De Paola

published in Electoral Studies

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7561

Moderating Political Extremism: Single Round vs Runoff Elections under Plurality Rule

Massimo Bordignon, Tommaso Nannicini, Guido Tabellini

published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (8), 2349-70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7492

On the Escalation and De-Escalation of Conflict

Juan A. Lacomba, Francisco Lagos, Ernesto Reuben, Frans van Winden

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2014, 86, 40-57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7483

Men Vote in Mars, Women Vote in Venus: A Survey Experiment in the Field

Vincenzo Galasso, Tommaso Nannicini

updated and expanded as IZA DP 'Persuasion and Gender: Experimental Evidence from Two Political Campaigns'

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7469

Election Fraud and Post-Election Conflict: Evidence from the Philippines

Benjamin Crost, Joseph Felter, Hani Mansour, Daniel I. Rees

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7340

How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign

Chad Kendall, Tommaso Nannicini, Francesco Trebbi

published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (1), 322-353

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7169

Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit

Francesco Drago, Tommaso Nannicini, Francesco Sobbrio

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2014, 6 (3), 159-188

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7098

Cross-Border Spillover: U.S. Gun Laws and Violence in Mexico

Arindrajit Dube, Oeindrila Dube, Omar García-Ponce

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7032

Lotteries vs. All-Pay Auctions in Fair and Biased Contests

Gil S. Epstein, Yosef Mealem, Shmuel Nitzan

published in: Economics and Politics, 2013, 25(1), 48–60

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7031

The Efficacy and Efforts of Interest Groups in Post Elections Policy Formation

Gil S. Epstein, Yosef Mealem, Shmuel Nitzan

published in: Economics of Governance, 2013, 14(1), 77-105

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7023

Employer's Information and Promotion-Seeking Activities

Gil S. Epstein

published in: Economics and Business Letters, 2012, 1(4), 21-32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7012

Socio-Spatial Transformations, Suburbanisation, and Voting Behaviour in the Vilnius Urban Region

Rūta Ubarevičienė, Donatas Burneika, Maarten van Ham

published as: 'Ethno-political Effects of Suburbanization in the Vilnius Urban Region. An Analysis of Voting Behaviour' in: Journal of Baltic Studies [Online First]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6870

Conditional Cash Transfers, Political Participation, and Voting Behavior

Javier E. Baez, Adriana Camacho, Emily Conover, Roman Andres Zarate

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6754

Constitutions and Economic Development: Evidence from the American Indian Nations

Randall K. Q. Akee, Miriam Jorgensen, Uwe Sunde

revised version forthcoming in: Journal of Comparative Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6620

Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice

Thomas Markussen, Ernesto Reuben, Jean-Robert Tyran

published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (574), F163-F195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6545

E-Lections: Voting Behavior and the Internet

Oliver Falck, Robert Gold, Stephan Heblich

published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (7), 2238-2265

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6539

Schooling and Voter Turnout: Is there an American Exception?

Arnaud Chevalier, Orla Doyle

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6522

On the Reversibility of Structural Reforms

Nauro F. Campos, Roman Horváth

published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (1), 217 - 219

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6473

A Theory of Political Entrenchment

Gilles Saint-Paul, Davide Ticchi, Andrea Vindigni

Economic Journal, 126, 1238-1263

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6156

How Partisan is the Press? Multiple Measures of Media Slant

Joshua S. Gans, Andrew Leigh

published online in: Economic Record, [Early View]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5909

Income Inequality, Mobility, and the Welfare State: A Political Economy Model

Luca Bossi, Gulcin Gumus

revised version published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2013, [View]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5782

Symmetric and Asymmetric Committees

Ruth Ben-Yashar, Leif Danziger

published in: Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2011, 47 (5), 440-447

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5698

Tying Your Enemy’s Hands in Close Races: The Politics of Federal Transfers in Brazil

Fernanda Brollo, Tommaso Nannicini

published in: American Political Science Review, 2012, 106 (4), 742-761

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5640

How Prediction Markets Can Save Event Studies

Erik Snowberg, Justin Wolfers, Eric Zitzewitz

Published in: Leighton Vaughn Williams (ed), Prediction Markets, Routledge, 2011.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5570

Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle

Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers

published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (3), 281-287

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5520

The Politicians' Wage Gap: Insights from German Members of Parliament

Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel, Sebastian Siegloch

revised version published in: Public Choice, 2013, 156(3-4), 653-676

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5513

The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward It

Niclas Berggren, Henrik Jordahl, Panu Poutvaara

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 79–86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5332

Tacit Lobbying Agreements: An Experimental Study

Jens Großer, Ernesto Reuben, Agnieszka Tymula

published in: American Journal of Political Science, 2013, 57 (3), 582-597

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5286

Fiscal Decentralization and Development: How Crucial is Local Politics?

Sarmistha Pal, Jaideep Roy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5033

Rational Choice and Voter Turnout: Evidence from Union Representation Elections

Henry S Farber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4994

Public Employment and Political Pressure: The Case of French Hospitals

Andrew E. Clark, Carine Milcent

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 1103-1112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4939

Building Political Collusion: Evidence from Procurement Auctions

Decio Coviello, Stefano Gagliarducci

published as "Tenure in Office and Public Procurement" in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017, 9 (3), 59-105

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4808

Do Output Contractions Trigger Democratic Change?

Paul J. Burke, Andrew Leigh

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (4), 124-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4706

The Political Resource Curse

Fernanda Brollo, Tommaso Nannicini, Roberto Perotti, Guido Tabellini

published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (5), 1759-1796

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4658

Electoral Rules, Political Competition and Fiscal Expenditures: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities

Marcos Chamon, João M. P. de Mello, Sergio Firpo

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (1),19-38

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4549

Redistributive Politics and Market Efficiency: An Experimental Study

Jens Großer, Ernesto Reuben

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 101, 39-52

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4429

The Political Economy of Conscription

Panu Poutvaara, Andreas Wagener

published in: Christopher J. Coyne and Rachel L. Mathers (eds.), The Handbook on the Political Economy of War, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4400

Do Better Paid Politicians Perform Better? Disentangling Incentives from Selection

Stefano Gagliarducci, Tommaso Nannicini

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (2), 369-398

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4338

Financial Liberalization and Democracy: The Role of Reform Reversals

Nauro F. Campos, Fabrizio Coricelli

published as 'Financial liberalization and reversals: political and economic determinants' in: Economic Policy, 2012, 27 (71), 483-513

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4282

Competing on Good Politicians

Vincenzo Galasso, Tommaso Nannicini

published in: American Political Science Review, 2011, 105 (1), 79-99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4235

Pay for Politicians and Candidate Selection: An Empirical Analysis

Kaisa Kotakorpi, Panu Poutvaara

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (7-8), 877 - 885

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4061

International Terrorism, Political Instability and the Escalation Effect

Nauro F. Campos, Martin Gassebner

published in: Economics & Politics, 2013, 25 (1), 27-47

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3946

Low-Skilled Immigration and the Expansion of Private Schools

Davide Dottori, I-Ling Shen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3902

Politicians' Outside Earnings and Political Competition

Johannes Becker, Andreas Peichl, Johannes Rincke

published in: Public Choice, 2009, 140 (3-4), 379 - 394

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3779

Crime, Unemployment, and Xenophobia? An Ecological Analysis of Right-Wing Election Results in Hamburg, 1986−2005

Ralph Rotte, Martin Steininger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3764

Electoral Participation as a Measure of Social Inclusion for Natives, Immigrants and Descendants in Sweden

Pieter Bevelander, Ravi Pendakur

revised version published as 'Voting and social inclusion in Sweden' in: International Migration, 2011, 49 (4), 67 - 92

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3763

Selfish and Prospective: Theory and Evidence of Pocketbook Voting

Mikael Elinder, Henrik Jordahl, Panu Poutvaara

published as 'Promises, Policies and Pocketbook Voting' in: European Economic Review, 2015, 75, 177–194

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3752

Two to Tangle: Financial Development, Political Instability and Economic Growth in Argentina (1896–2000)

Nauro F. Campos, Menelaos G. Karanasos, Bin Tan

published in: Journal of Banking and Finance, 2012, 36 (1), 290 - 304

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3731

The Farm, the City, and the Emergence of Social Security

Elizabeth M. Caucutt, Thomas F. Cooley, Nezih Guner

published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2103, 18(1), 1-32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3694

Preferences for Childcare Policies: Theory and Evidence

Rainald Borck, Katharina Wrohlich

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 27 (3), 436-454

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3693

Lobbying, Corruption and Other Banes

Nauro F. Campos, Francesco Giovannoni

published as 'Political institutions, lobbying and corruption' in: Journal of Institutional Economics , 2017, 13 (4), 917-939

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3673

Elite Capture, Political Voice and Exclusion from Aid: An Experimental Study

Ben D'Exelle, Arno Riedl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3631

‘Living’ Wage, Class Conflict and Ethnic Strife

Indraneel Dasgupta

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 72 (2), 750-765

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3586

The Impact of Immigration on Election Outcomes in Danish Municipalities

Christer Gerdes, Eskil Wadensjö

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3509

Uncertainty and the Politics of Employment Protection

Andrea Vindigni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3466

Impact of the 1999 Earthquakes on the Outcome of the 2002 Parliamentary Election in Turkey

Ali T. Akarca, Aysit Tansel

published in: Institutions and Economic Development: Selected Papers from the ERF 14th Annual Conference, Economic Research Forum, Cairo, Egypt, 2008, 147-164

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3439

The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada

David A. Jaeger, Esteban F. Klor, Sami H. Miaari, M. Daniele Paserman

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (3-4), 354-368

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3416

Ideology

Roland Benabou

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6 (2-3), 321-352

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3411

Motivating Politicians: The Impacts of Monetary Incentives on Quality and Performance

Claudio Ferraz, Frederico S. Finan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3376