Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18446

Anticipating State Action: Risk Perceptions and Consumption under Immigration Enforcement

Alberto Ciancio, Camilo Garcia-Jimeno

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18424

Institutions and Climate Change

Nauro F. Campos, Flavia Ginefra, Angelo Martelli, Alessio Terzi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18257

Rating Government Procurement Markets

Tatyana Deryugina, Alminas Zaldokas, Anastassia Fedyk, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, James Hodson, Ilona Sologoub

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. 17527

The Political Economy of Privatization of Education: Role of Local Politicians in India

Muneer Kalliyil, Soham Sahoo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17475

Environment vs. Economic Growth: Do Environmental Preferences Translate Into Support for Green Parties?

Vladimir Otrachshenko, Olga Popova

published in: Ecological Economics, 2026, 239, 108779

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16795

Fiscal Incidence on the Island: Grenada's Fiscal System and Its Incidence

Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza, Guillermo Gómez Aliaga, Chevanne Britton, Fernando Rios-Avila, Wilson Jimenez Pozo, Silvia Granados Ibarra, Ran Li

published in: Social and Economic Studies, 2025 Vol 73

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16761

Decentralizing Development: Evidence from Government Splits

Ricardo Dahis, Christiane Szerman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16609

Strategic Bureaucratic Opacity: Evidence from Death Investigation Laws and Police Killings

Elda Celislami, Stephen Kastoryano, Giovanni Mastrobuoni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16563

The Role of Regulation and Regional Government Quality for High Growth Firms: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Sara Amoroso, Benedikt Herrmann, Alexander S. Kritikos

published in: Regional Studies, 2024, 58 (9), 1710–1727

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15820

When Do Nations Tax? The Adoption of Property Tax Codes by First Nations in Canada

Donn. L. Feir, Maggie E. C. Jones, David Scoones

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15676

Management and Performance in the Public Sector: Evidence from German Municipalities

Florian Englmaier, Gerd Muehlheusser, Andreas Roider, Niklas Wallmeier

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15278

Do Educated Leaders Affect Economic Development? Evidence from India

Chandan Jain, Shagun Kashyap, Rahul Lahoti, Soham Sahoo

published as 'The impact of educated leaders on economic development: Evidence from India' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2023, 51 (3), 1068-1093

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15032

The Politicized Pandemic: Ideological Polarization and the Behavioral Response to COVID-19

Gianluca Grimalda, Fabrice Murtin, David Pipke, Louis Putterman, Matthias Sutter

published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 156, 104472.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14753

Long-Term Care Partnership Effects on Medicaid and Private Insurance

Joan Costa-Font, Nilesh Raut

published online in: Health Economics,15 March 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14583

Government Intervention and Business Response as Determinants of Business Continuity amid COVID-19: The Case of Jordan and Morocco

Anthony Fakhoury, Ali Fakih

published in: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies, 2023, 17 (2), 196-219

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14554

The Political Economy of Kazakhstan: A Case of Good Economics, Bad Politics?

Simon Commander, Ruta Prieskienyte

published in: Russian Journal of Economics, 2022, 8 (2), 122 - 158

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 as 'Community Size and Electoral Preferences: Evidence From Post-Second World War Baden-Württemberg' in: British Journal of Political Science, 2024, 54 (3), 573 - 594

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. 13103

Political Networks across the Globe

Simon Commander, Stavros Poupakis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13032

The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism

Sascha O. Becker, Lukas Mergele, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2020, 34 (2), 143-171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13027

Persuasive Agenda-Setting: Rodrigo Duterte's Inauguration Speech and Drugs in the Philippines

Michael Jetter, Teresa Molina

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 156 ,102843

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12998

Recoupling Economic and Social Prosperity

Katharina Lima de Miranda, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Global Perspectives, 2020, 1 (1), 11867

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12732

Workplace Positive Actions, Trans People's Self-Esteem and Human Resources' Evaluations

Vasiliki Bozani, Nick Drydakis, Katerina Sidiropoulou, Benjamin Harvey, Anna Paraskevopoulou

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2020, 41 (6), 809-83

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12652

The Effect of Sentencing Reform on Crime Rates: Evidence from California's Proposition 47

Patricio Dominguez-Rivera, Magnus Lofstrom, Steven Raphael

published as 'Decarceration and Crime: California’s Experience' in: Paolo Buonanno, Paolo Vanin, and Juan Vargas (eds.), A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime, Edward Elgar, 2022, 83 - 134

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12622

Happiness and Public Policy: A Procedural Perspective

Alois Stutzer

published in: Behavioural Public Policy, 2020, 4 (2), 210-225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12401

Outsourcing Public Services: Contractibility, Cost, and Quality

Fredrik W. Andersson, Henrik Jordahl, Jens Josephson

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2019, 65 (4), 349–372,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11730

Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 188, 104226

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11593

Bribery, Hold-Up and Bureaucratic Structure

John Bennett, Matthew D. Rablen

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2021, 53, 880-903

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11096

Reluctant to Reform? A Note on Risk-Loving Politicians and Bureaucrats

Tobias Thomas, Moritz Heß, Gert G. Wagner

published in: Review of Economics (Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftswissenschaften), 2017, 68 (3), 167-179

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11095

Serving the Public Interest in Several Ways: Theory and Empirics

Robert Dur, Max van Lent

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 13-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10987

What Determines Preferences for an Electoral System? Evidence from a Binding Referendum

Guillem Riambau, Steven Stillman, Geua Boe-Gibson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10856

Governance and Public Service Delivery in India

Farzana Afridi

also available as: International Growth Centre Synthesis Paper S-35407 - INC-1, 2017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10796

Optimizing Criminal Behavior and the Disutility of Prison

Giovanni Mastrobuoni, David A. Rivers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10281

Size and Development of the Shadow Economies of 157 Countries Worldwide: Updated and New Measures from 1999 to 2013

Mai Hassan, Friedrich Schneider

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10067

On the Boundaries of the Shadow Economy: An Empirical Investigation

Eran Manes, Friedrich Schneider, Anat Tchetchik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9968

Information and Preferences for Public Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Guido Schwerdt, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 167, 138-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9820

Estimating the Size of the Shadow Economy: Methods, Problems and Open Questions

Friedrich Schneider, Andreas Buehn

published as 'Shadow Economy: Estimation Methods, Problems, Results and Open questions' in: Open Economics, 2018, 1, 1-29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9641

Leader Networks and Transaction Costs: A Chinese Experiment in Interjurisdictional Contracting

Nancy H. Chau, Yu Qin, Weiwen Zhang

published as 'Leader Networks and Interjurisdictional Contracting in Land Conversion Quotas' in: Land Economics, 2024, 100 (3), 568-587

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9514

Colombian Emigration by Administrative Regions

Mariana Saenz, Joshua J. Lewer

published in: Journal of Economic Insight, 2017, 43 (2), 17-48.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9245

The Economic Costs of Mass Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany

Andreas Lichter, Max Löffler, Sebastian Siegloch

substantially revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (2), 741 - 789

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9113

Trial and Error? Reelection Concerns and Policy Experimentation during the U.S. Welfare Reform

Andreas Bernecker, Pierre C. Boyer, Christina Gathmann

revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13 (2), 26-57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8498

Happy Voters

Federica Liberini, Michela Redoano, Eugenio Proto

revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 41-57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8278

The Shadow Economy and Shadow Labor Force: A Survey of Recent Developments

Friedrich Schneider

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8094

Does Corruption Promote Emigration? An Empirical Examination

Arusha Cooray, Friedrich Schneider

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (1), 293 - 310

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7943

Human Well-being and In-Work Benefits: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Richard Dorsett, Andrew J. Oswald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7838

Incarceration and Crime: Evidence from California's Public Safety Realignment Reform

Magnus Lofstrom, Steven Raphael

published in: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2016, 664 (1), 196-220

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7826

Volatility and Growth: Governments are Key

Michael Jetter

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 36, 71-88

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7441

Democracy, Dictatorship and the Cultural Transmission of Political Values

Davide Ticchi, Thierry Verdier, Andrea Vindigni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7215

Comparing Inequality Aversion across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ

Olivier B. Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch

revised version published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 21(5), 845-873