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100 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16516
The Effect of Reducing Welfare Access on Employment, Health, and Children's Long-Run Outcomes
Jeffrey Hicks, Gaëlle Simard-Duplain, David A. Green, William P. Warburton
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16266
The Effects of Cash for Clunkers on Local Air Quality
Ines Helm, Nicolas Koch, Alexander Rohlf
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15868
Who Pays for Higher Carbon Prices? Illustration for Lithuania and a Research Agenda
Herwig Immervoll, Jules Linden, Cathal O'Donoghue, Denisa Maria Sologon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15562
Climate Change Salience, Economic Insecurity, and Support for Mitigation Policies
David W. Johnston, Rachel Knott, Silvia Mendolia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15470
Family Bargaining and the Gender Gap in Informal Care
Chiara Canta, Helmuth Cremer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15276
Alcohol Price Floors and Externalities: The Case of Fatal Road Crashes
Marco Francesconi, Jonathan James
published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2022, 41 (4), 1118 - 1156
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15239
Grandfathers and Grandsons: Social Security Expansion and Child Health in China
Jinyang Yang, Xi Chen
forthcoming in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15088
Other-Regarding Preferences and Redistributive Politics
Ernst Fehr, Thomas Epper, Julien Senn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15036
Optimal Taxation with Multiple Incomes and Types
Kevin Spiritus, Etienne Lehmann, Sander Renes, Floris T. Zoutman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14810
Some Welfare Economics of Working Time
Felix FitzRoy, Jim Jin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14528
Does a Spoonful of Sugar Levy Help the Calories Go Down? An Analysis of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy
Alex Dickson, Markus Gehrsitz, Jonathan Kemp
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 May 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14475
The Social Value of a SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine: Willingness to Pay Estimates from Four Western Countries
Joan Costa-Font, Caroline Rudisill, Sayward Harrison, Luca Salmasi
published in: Health Economics, 2023, 32 (8), 1818 - 1835
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14360
The Gender Gap in Income and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Karina Doorley, Cathal O'Donoghue, Denisa Maria Sologon
published in: Social Sciences, 2022, 11 (7), 311
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14355
Time is of the Essence: Climate Adaptation Induced by Existing Institutions
Antonio M. Bento, Noah Miller, Mehreen Mookerjee, Edson R. Severnini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13954
Revisiting the Causal Effect of Education on Political Participation and Interest
Nadja Bömmel, Guido Heineck
substantially revised version published online in: Education Economics, 18 Nov 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13947
Global Mobility and the Threat of Pandemics: Evidence from Three Centuries
Michael A. Clemens, Thomas Ginn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13927
Interventions with Positive Side-Effects: COVID-19 Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and Infectious Diseases in Europe
Micha Kaiser, Steffen Otterbach, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, David E. Bloom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13925
The Effects of a Green Nudge on Municipal Solid Waste: Evidence from a Clear Bag Policy
Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Catherine Boulatoff
published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021, 106, 102404.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13655
The Price of Indoor Air Pollution: Evidence from Radon Maps and the Housing Market
Edward W. Pinchbeck, Sefi Roth, Nikodem Szumilo, Enrico Vanino
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13530
Positive Health Externalities of Mandating Paid Sick Leave
Stefan Pichler, Katherine Wen, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2021, 40 (3), 715-743
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13481
Distributional Effects of Emission Pricing in a Carbon-Intensive Economy: The Case of Poland
Marek Antosiewicz, J. Rodrigo Fuentes, Piotr Lewandowski, Jan Witajewski-Baltvilks
published in: Energy Policy, 2022, 160, 112678
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13235
Modelling the Distributional Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis
Cathal O'Donoghue, Denisa Maria Sologon, Iryna Kyzyma, John McHale
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12718
Having It All, for All: Child-Care Subsidies and Income Distribution Reconciled
Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer, Kerstin Roeder
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 176, 188--211
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12525
Measuring Social and Externality Benefits of in Influenza Vaccination
Corey White
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12403
The Gender Gap in Informal Child Care: Theory and Some Evidence from Italy
Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer, Chiara Monfardini
published in: Economia Italiana, 2019, 3, 66-98.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12390
The Measurement of Health Inequalities: Does Status Matter?
Joan Costa-Font, Frank A. Cowell
published online in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 30 July 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12221
NDC: The Generic Old-Age Pension Scheme
Marek Góra, Edward Palmer
forthcoming as a chapter in: "Progress and Challenges of Nonfinancial Defined Pension"
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12154
Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance
David S. Lee, Pauline Leung, Christopher J. O'Leary, Zhuan Pei, Simon Quach
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (S2), S455-S506.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12017
Learning from the
Olivier Bargain, Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo, Prudence Magejo, Miracle Benhura
published as 'Income Distribution and the Potential of Redistributive Systems in Africa: A Decomposition Approach ' in: Journal of African Economies, 2022, 31 (4), 293 - 328
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11847
Growing Together: Assessing Equity and Efficiency in an Early-Life Health Program in Chile
Damian Clarke, Gustavo Cortés Méndez, Diego Vergara Sepúlveda
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33 (3), 883-956
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11797
Quasi-Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics: Opportunities and Challenges
Olivier Deschenes, Kyle C. Meng
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11782
Economic Integration and State Capacity: Evidence from the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union
Laszlo Bruszt, Nauro F. Campos
forthcoming in: Journal of Institutional Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11492
Crime is in the Air: The Contemporaneous Relationship between Air Pollution and Crime
Malvina Bondy, Sefi Roth, Lutz Sager
published in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2020, 7 (3), 555-585.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11275
Insurance, Redistribution, and the Inequality of Lifetime Income
Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Victoria L. Prowse
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10989
The Accident Externality from Trucking
Lucija Muehlenbachs, Stefan Staubli, Ziyan Chu
revised version published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2021, 88, 10363
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10978
Should the Rich Be Taxed More? The Fiscal Inequality Coefficient
John Hatgioannides, Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala
published in: Journal of Economic Issues, 2019, 53 (3), 881-889.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10884
The Value of Redistribution: Natural Resources and the Formation of Human Capital under Weak Institutions
Jorge M. Aguero, Carlos Felipe Balcázar, Stanislao Maldonado, Hugo R. Nopo
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 148, 102581
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10862
Caregivers in the Family: Daughters, Sons and Social Norms
Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer, Kerstin Roeder
published in: European Economic Review, 130, 2020, 103589.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10502
Women's Career Choices, Social Norms and Child Care Policies
Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer, Kerstin Roeder
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 168, 162–173
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10142
How Do Users Value a Network Expansion? Evidence from the Public Transit System in Singapore
Eric Fesselmeyer, Haoming Liu
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018, 71, 45 - 61
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9932
Energy Prices, Pass-Through, and Incidence in U.S. Manufacturing
Sharat Ganapati, Joseph S. Shapiro, Reed Walker
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. 9655
Consumption Smoothing in the Demand for Health Care
Nicolai Kristensen, Henrik Lindegaard Andersen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9611
A Review of the Circular Economy and its Implementation
Almas Heshmati
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9171
Designing Efficient College and Tax Policies
Sebastian Findeisen, Dominik Sachs
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9123
Redistribution and Insurance with Simple Tax Instruments
Sebastian Findeisen, Dominik Sachs
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 58-78
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8907
Behavioral Responses to Taxation: Cigarette Taxes and Food Stamp Take-Up
Kyle Rozema, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
published as 'Taxing Consumption and the Take-Up of Public Assistance: The Case of Cigarette Taxes and Food Stamps' in: Journal of Law & Economics, 2017, 60 (1), 1-27.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8897
Modelling the Impact of Direct and Indirect Taxes Using Complementary Datasets
Michael Savage, Tim Callan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8789
Why is Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing Declining? The Roles of Trade, Regulation, Productivity, and Preferences
Joseph S. Shapiro, Reed Walker
published in: American Economic Review, 2018, 108 (12), 3814–3854
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8598
An Unemployment Insurance Scheme for the Euro Area? A Comparison of Different Alternatives using Micro Data
Mathias Dolls, Clemens Fuest, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl
revised version published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2018, 25, 273 - 309
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8182
The Main Support Mechanisms to Finance Renewable Energy Development
Shahrouz Abolhosseini, Almas Heshmati
published as 'Financing Renewable Energy Development' in: The Development of Renewable Energy Sources and its Significance for the Environment, 2015, 85-106
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8179
Payment for Ecosystem Services from Forests
Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Hendrik Wolff
published in: Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2014, 6, 361-380
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. 8109
Crime and Self-Control Revisited: Disentangling the Effect of Self-Control on Risk and Social Preferences
Tim Friehe, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
published in: International Review of Law and Economics, 2017, 49, 23–32.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8078
An Empirical Survey of the Ramifications of a Green Economy
Almas Heshmati
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7989
The Effect of Renewable Energy Development on Carbon Emission Reduction: An Empirical Analysis for the EU-15 Countries
Shahrouz Abolhosseini, Almas Heshmati, Jörn Altmann
published as 'Impact of Renewable Energy Development on Carbon Dioxide Emission Reduction' in: The Development of Renewable Energy Sources and its Significance for the Environment, 2015, pp. 119-146
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7888
Employment Dynamics and Redistributive Policies under Workers' Social Norms
Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira, Teresa Lloyd-Braga, Leonor Modesto
published as 'The destabilizing effects of the social norm to work under a social security system' in: Mathematical Social Sciences, 2015, 76, 64-72
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7804
Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: Efficient, but Regressive?
Nico Pestel, Eric Sommer
revised version published as 'Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: More Employment and more Inequality?' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2017, 63 (3), 524-563
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7737
Changes in Income Distributions and the Role of Tax-Benefit Policy During the Great Recession: An International Perspective
Olivier Bargain, Tim Callan, Karina Doorley, Claire Keane
published in: Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38 (4), 559-585
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7190
Partisan Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1979-2007
Olivier Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Herwig Immervoll, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel, Sebastian Siegloch
revised version published as 'Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the United States, 1979–2007' in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53 (2), 1061-1085
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6981
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution
Thomas Siedler, Bettina Sonnenberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6888
Does Money Burn Fat? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Boris Augurzky, Thomas K. Bauer, Arndt R. Reichert, Christoph M. Schmidt, Harald Tauchmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6798
Migration Elasticities, Fiscal Federalism and the Ability of States to Redistribute Income
Seth H. Giertz, Mehmet S. Tosun
published in: National Tax Journal, 2012, 65, 1069-92
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6493
Taxing Home Ownership: Distributional Effects of Including Net Imputed Rent in Taxable Income
Francesco Figari, Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland, Panos Tsakloglou, Gerlinde Verbist, Francesca Zantomio
revised version published as 'Removing Homeownership Bias in Taxation: the Distributional Effects of Including Net Imputed Rent in Taxable Income' in: Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38 (4), 525 - 557
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6389
Cross-Border Health and Productivity Effects of Alcohol Policies
Per Johansson, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Jouko Kullervo Verho
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 36, 125-136
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6188
Demographic Divide and Labor Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
Mehmet S. Tosun
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6056
Education and Optimal Dynamic Taxation
Sebastian Findeisen, Dominik Sachs
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5910
Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1978-2009: A Decomposition Approach
Olivier Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Herwig Immervoll, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel, Sebastian Siegloch
substantially revised version available as IZA DP 7190
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5344
Die Messung von Armut unter Berücksichtigung regional divergierender Lebenshaltungskosten und öffentlicher Leistungen
Tilman Hillringhaus, Andreas Peichl
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5226
Back to the Future: Decomposition Analysis of Distributive Policies Using Behavioural Simulations
Olivier Bargain
published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2012, 19 (5), 708-731
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5221
Tax-Benefit Revealed Redistributive Preferences Over Time: Ireland 1987-2005
Olivier Bargain, Claire Keane
published in: Labour, 2010, 24 (s1), 141–167
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4960
Who Benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit? Incidence among Recipients, Coworkers and Firms
Andrew Leigh
published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 45
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4937
The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries over the Twentieth Century
Tony Atkinson, Andrew Leigh
published as 'The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries Over the Long Run' in: Economic Record, 2013, 89 (51), 31 - 74
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4837
Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Both Extensive and Intensive Responses
Laurence Jacquet, Etienne Lehmann, Bruno Van der Linden
published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2013, 148 (5), 1770-1805
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4832
A Simple Theory of Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Equilibrium Unemployment
Mathias Hungerbühler, Etienne Lehmann, Alexis Parmentier, Bruno Van der Linden
published in: Economie Publique/Public Economics, 2012, 22-23 (1-2), 203-218
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. 4529
Mother or Child? Intra-Household Redistribution under Gender-Asymmetric Altruism
Indraneel Dasgupta
published in: Journal of Globalization and Development, 2011, 2 (1), Article 2
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4296
The Distributional Effects of Tax-Benefit Policies under New Labour: A Shapley Decomposition
Olivier Bargain
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (6), 856–874
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4086
Estimating the Social Value of Higher Education: Willingness to Pay for Community and Technical Colleges
Glenn C. Blomquist, Paul A. Coomes, Christopher Jepsen, Brandon C. Koford, Kenneth Troske
revision published in: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2014, 5 (1), 3-42
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3954
Non-Cash Benefits and the Distribution of Economic Welfare
Tim Callan, Claire Keane
published in: Economic and Social Review, 2009, 40 (1), 49-72
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3790
Measuring Richness and Poverty: A Micro Data Application to Europe and Germany
Andreas Peichl, Thilo Schaefer, Christoph Scheicher
revised version published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2010, 56 (3), 597-619
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3520
Parents’ Incomes and Children’s Outcomes: A Quasi-Experiment
Randall K. Q. Akee, William Copeland, Gordon Keeler, Adrian Angold, Jane E. Costello
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2 (1), 86-115
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3078
Analysing the Effects of Tax-Benefit Reforms on Income Distribution: A Decomposition Approach
Olivier Bargain, Tim Callan
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2010, 8 (1), 1 -21
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2957
On the Optimality of a Minimum Wage: New Insights from Optimal Tax Theory
Mathias Hungerbühler, Etienne Lehmann
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (3-4), 464-481
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2573
Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms
Thomas Siedler
revised version published as 'Schooling and Citizenship in a Young Democracy: Evidence from Postwar Germany' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2010, 112 (2), 315-338
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2114
The Impact of Brazil's Tax-Benefit System on Inequality and Poverty
Herwig Immervoll, Horacio Levy, José Ricardo Nogueira, Cathal O'Donoghue, Rozane Bezerra de Siqueira
published in: Klasen, S. and F. Nowak-Lehmann (eds.), Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America, MIT Press, 2009
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1693
Can Democracy Educate a Society?
Hans Gersbach, Lars Siemers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1570
Minimum Wage or Negative Income Tax: Why Skilled Workers May Favor Wage Rigidities
Maya Bacache-Beauvallet, Etienne Lehmann
published as 'Minimum wage or negative income tax: why skilled workers may favor wage rigidities' in: Spanish Economic Review, 2008, 10 (1), 63-81
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1545
Union Strategy and Optimal Income Taxation
Sebastian G. Kessing, Kai A. Konrad
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2006, 90(1-2), 393-402
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1478
Education, Redistributive Taxation and Confidence
Kai A. Konrad, Amedeo Spadaro
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2006, 90(1-2), 171-188
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1369
Shifting Perspectives in Pensions
Marek Góra, Edward Palmer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1283
On the Inefficiency of Inequality
Maurice Schiff
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. 852
The Labor Market Effects of Payroll Taxes in a Middle-Income Country: Evidence from Colombia
Adriana Kugler, Maurice Kugler
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2009, 57(2), 335-358.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 639
Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Gilles Saint-Paul
published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (1), 129-144
IZA Discussion Paper No. 533
Assessing Welfare Accounts
Stefan Fölster, Robert Gidehag, Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower
published in: Torben Andersen and Per Molander (eds,): Alternatives for Welfare Policy: Coping with Internationalisation and Demographic Change, Cambridge, 2003, 255 - 275
IZA Discussion Paper No. 245
Globalization and Human Capital Formation
Fredrik W. Andersson, Kai A. Konrad
published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2003, 10(3), 211-228
IZA Discussion Paper No. 239
Human Capital Investment and Globalization in Extortionary States
Fredrik W. Andersson, Kai A. Konrad
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2003, 87 (7-8), 1539-1555
IZA Discussion Paper No. 82
Privacy, time consistent optimal labor income taxation and education policy
Kai A. Konrad
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2001, 79(3), 503-519
IZA Discussion Paper No. 41
Anatomy of Policy Complementarities
Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower
published in: Swedish Economic Policy Review, 1998, 5(2), 303-343
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