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The IZA Discussion Paper Series (ISSN: 2365-9793) disseminates high-quality research by IZA network members to the scientific community and the interested public worldwide before they are later published in academic journals. Comprising over 13,000 papers, IZA's publication flagship is the most influential working paper series in labor economics. 

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199 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14263
Out of Communal Land: Clientelism through Delegation of Agricultural Tenancy Contracts
Takashi Kurosaki, Saumik Paul, Firman Witoelar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14246
The Long-Run Effects of Sports Club Vouchers for Primary School Children
Jan Marcus, Thomas Siedler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
conditionally accepted at: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14241
The COVID-19 Pandemic's Effects on Voter Turnout
Matteo Picchio, Raffaella Santolini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14195
Welfare Effects of Property Taxation
Max Loeffler, Sebastian Siegloch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13987
Minimum Legal Drinking Age and the Social Gradient in Binge Drinking
Alexander Ahammer, Stefan Bauernschuster, Martin Halla, Hannah Lachenmaier
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13932
Pension Policies, Retirement and Human Capital Depreciation in Late Adulthood
Plamen Nikolov, Alan Adelman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13926
Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing
Petri Böckerman, Liisa T. Laine, Mikko Nurminen, Tanja Saxell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13849
The Effects of Financial Aid Loss on Persistence and Graduation: A Multi-Dimensional Regression Discontinuity Approach
Todd R. Jones, Daniel Kreisman, Ross Rubenstein, Cynthia Searcy, Rachana Bhatt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13832
COVID-19 Surgical Abortion Restriction Did Not Reduce Visits to Abortion Clinics
Martin Andersen, Sylvia Bryan, David Slusky
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13749
Act Early to Prevent Infections and Save Lives: Causal Impact of Diagnostic Efficiency on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Simiao Chen, Zhangfeng Jin, David E. Bloom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13670
The Contagion Externality of a Superspreading Event: The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and COVID-19
Dhaval M. Dave, Andrew I. Friedson, Drew McNichols, Joseph J. Sabia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13597
Access to Land and Tenancy Practices on Tanah Bengkok: Evidence from Java, Indonesia
Takashi Kurosaki, Saumik Paul, Firman Witoelar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13559
Short Moves and Long Stays: Homeless Family Responses to Exogenous Shelter Assignments in New York City
Michael T. Cassidy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13558
A Closer Look: Proximity Boosts Homeless Student Performance in New York City
Michael T. Cassidy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13556
Parental Well-Being in Times of COVID-19 in Germany
Mathias Huebener, Sevrin Waights, C. Katharina Spiess, Nico A. Siegel, Gert G. Wagner
forthcoming in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, Special Issue on Covid-19
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13530
Positive Health Externalities of Mandating Paid Sick Leave
Stefan Pichler, Katherine Wen, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
forthcoming in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13390
Does Emigration Drain Entrepreneurs?
Massimo Anelli, Gaetano Basso, Giuseppe Ippedico, Giovanni Peri
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13388
Black Lives Matter Protests, Social Distancing, and COVID-19
Dhaval M. Dave, Andrew I. Friedson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Joseph J. Sabia, Samuel Safford
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13330
The Finance of Unemployment Compensation and its Consequence for the Labor Market
Audrey Guo, Andrew C. Johnston
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13322
The Interaction Between Personality and Health Policy: Empirical Evidence from the UK Smoking Bans
Cecily Josten, Grace Lordan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13314
Did the Wisconsin Supreme Court Restart a COVID-19 Epidemic? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Dhaval M. Dave, Andrew I. Friedson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Drew McNichols, Joseph J. Sabia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13262
Were Urban Cowboys Enough to Control COVID-19? Local Shelter-In-Place Orders and Coronavirus Case Growth
Dhaval M. Dave, Andrew I. Friedson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Joseph J. Sabia, Samuel Safford
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13261
The Impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. Child Care Market: Evidence from Stay-At-Home Orders
Umair Ali, Chris M. Herbst, Christos A. Makridis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13228
'More Than One Red Herring'? Heterogeneous Effects of Ageing on Healthcare Utilisation
Joan Costa-Font, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
forthcoming in: Health Economics, Available online 17 July 2020, doi.org/10.1002/hec.4035
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13221
Age, Death Risk, and the Design of an Exit Strategy: A Guide for Policymakers and for Citizens Who Want to Stay Alive
Andrew J. Oswald, Nattavudh Powdthavee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13190
When Do Shelter-In-Place Orders Fight COVID-19 Best? Policy Heterogeneity across States and Adoption Time
Dhaval M. Dave, Andrew I. Friedson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Joseph J. Sabia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13160
Did California's Shelter-In-Place Order Work? Early Coronavirus-Related Public Health Effects
Andrew I. Friedson, Drew McNichols, Joseph J. Sabia, Dhaval M. Dave
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13148
Distributional Effects of Intergovernmental Transfers in Mexico
Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Kiyomi Cadena, Laura Moreno Herrera
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13146
Determinants of Teacher Value-Added in Public Primary Schools: Evidence from Administrative Panel Data
Ryuichi Tanaka, Shun-ichiro Bessho, Akira Kawamura, Haruko Noguchi, Koichi Ushijima
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13145
Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration
Cevat Giray Aksoy, Semih Tumen
revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 149
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13134
Access to The Emergency Contraceptive Pill Improves Women's Health: Evidence from Chile
Damian Clarke, Viviana Salinas
R&R Demography
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13119
Effects of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage for Individuals in Same-Sex Couples
Christopher S. Carpenter, Gilbert Gonzales, Tara McKay, Dario Sansone
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13117
Unemployment-Insurance Taxes and Labor Demand: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Administrative Data
Andrew C. Johnston
forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13098
Office Visits Preventing Emergency Room Visits: Evidence from the Flint Water Switch
Shooshan Danagoulian, Daniel Grossman, David Slusky
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13038
Do-It-Yourself Medicine? The Impact of Light Cannabis Liberalization on Prescription Drugs
Vincenzo Carrieri, Leonardo Madio, Francesco Principe
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 74, 102371
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13027
Persuasive Agenda-Setting: Rodrigo Duterte's Inauguration Speech and Drugs in the Philippines
Michael Jetter, Teresa Molina
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12978
Personal Belief Exemptions for School-Entry Vaccinations, Vaccination Rates, and Academic Achievement
Nicole L. Hair, Anja Gruber, Carly Urban
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12915
Cigarette Taxes and Smoking among Sexual Minority Adults
Christopher S. Carpenter, Dario Sansone
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12909
Demography and Provisions for Retirement: The Pension Composition, a Behavioral Approach
Bernard M. S. van Praag, J. Peter Hop
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12863
Speed Limit Enforcement and Road Safety
Stefan Bauernschuster, Ramona Rekers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12775
Decomposing Employment Trends of Disabled Workers
Pierre Koning, Heike Vethaak
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12698
Does a Day Lost Equal Dollars Saved? The Effects of Four-Day School Weeks on School District Expenditures
Paul N. Thompson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12696
Passports for Sale: The Political Economy of Conflict and Cooperation in a Meta-Club
Kai A. Konrad, Ray Rees
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12662
The Quasi-Market of Employment Services in Italy
Francesco Pastore
published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2020, 42 (6), 1248-1269.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12601
Delayed Graduation and University Dropout: A Review of Theoretical Approaches
Carmen Aina, Eliana Baici, Giorgia Casalone, Francesco Pastore
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12552
Did the ACA Medicaid Expansion Save Lives?
Mark Borgschulte, Jacob Vogler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12524
Do Pension Benefits Accelerate Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Rural China
Plamen Nikolov, Alan Adelman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12461
Understanding Access Barriers to Public Services: Lessons from a Randomized Domestic Violence Intervention
Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner, Jesse Matheson, Réka Plugor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12414
Expertise and Independence on Governing Boards: Evidence from School Districts
Ying Shi, John D. Singleton
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12275
Digital Waste? Unintended Consequences of Health Information Technology
Petri Böckerman, Mika Kortelainen, Liisa T. Laine, Mikko Nurminen, Tanja Saxell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12225
Do Tax Incentives Affect Business Location and Economic Development? Evidence from State Film Incentives
Patrick Button
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12220
Policy in the Pipeline: Identifying Regional Public Investment Priorities Using a Natural Experiment
Michal Myck, Mateusz Najsztub
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12114
De Facto or De Jure? Ethnic Differences in Quit Responses to Legal Protections of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
Jenny Williams, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Rosanna Smart
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12051
In-State College Enrollment and Later Life Location Decisions
John V. Winters
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (4), 1400-1426
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11898
Child Access Prevention Laws and Juvenile Firearm-Related Homicides
D. Mark Anderson, Joseph J. Sabia, Erdal Tekin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11890
Abortion Laws and Women's Health
Damian Clarke, Hanna Mühlrad
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 76 (C), 102413
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11865
Term Limit Extension and Electoral Participation: Evidence from a Diff-in-Discontinuities Design at the Local Level in Italy
Marco Alberto De Benedetto, Maria De Paola
published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 59, pp.196-211
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11759
Backlash in Attitudes after the Election of Extreme Political Parties
Magnus Carlsson, Gordon B. Dahl, Dan-Olof Rooth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11689
One Billion Euro Program for Early Childcare Services in Italy
Isabella Giorgetti, Matteo Picchio
forthcoming in: Metroeconomica, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11668
Bribes vs. Taxes: Market Structure and Incentives
Francesco Amodio, Jieun Choi, Giacomo De Giorgi, Aminur Rahman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11646
Strategies to Productively Reincorporate the Formerly-Incarcerated into Communities: A Review of the Literature
Jennifer Doleac
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11596
Women Legislators and Economic Performance
Thushyanthan Baskaran, Sonia R. Bhalotra, Brian Min, Yogesh Uppal
See https://sites.google.com/site/thushyanthanbaskaran/publications?authuser=0 for a substantially revised version, December 2020. under review.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11567
High on Crime? Exploring the Effects of Marijuana Dispensary Laws on Crime in California Counties
Priscillia E Hunt, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Gabriel Weinberger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11453
Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments
Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11445
An Apple a Day? Adult Food Stamp Eligibility and Health Care Utilization Among Immigrants
Chloe N. East, Andrew I. Friedson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11364
Does Decentralization of Decisions Increase the Stability of Large Groups?
Tjaša Bjedov, Simon Lapointe, Thierry Madies, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2018, 51 (4), 681-716
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11354
City Size, Pollution and Emission Policies
Michael P. Pflüger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11349
Are They Coming Back? The Mobility of University Students in Switzerland after Graduation
Chantal Oggenfuss, Stefan C. Wolter
published in: Review of Regional Research, 2019, 39(2), 189-208
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11281
The Economic Effects of Providing Legal Status to DREAMers
Francesc Ortega, Ryan Edwards, Amy Hsin
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 9:2.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11180
Can Regional Decentralisation Shift Health Care Preferences?
Joan Costa-Font, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11162
School Choice during a Period of Radical School Reform: Evidence from the Academy Programme
Marco Bertoni, Stephen Gibbons, Olmo Silva
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11148
Taxation, Social Protection, and Governance Decentralization
Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang
published as 'Taxation and social protection under governance decentralisation' in: European Journal of Political Economy, Available online 17 October 2018
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0176268017303142
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. 10888
Can Gender Quotas in Candidate Lists Empower Women? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Manuel Bagues, Pamela Campa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10884
The Value of Redistribution: Natural Resources and the Formation of Human Capital under Weak Institutions
Jorge M. Agüero, Carlos Felipe Balcázar, Stanislao Maldonado, Hugo R. Nopo
forthcoming n Journal of Development Economics, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10666
Tax Progressivity and Top Incomes: Evidence from Tax Reforms
Enrico Rubolino, Daniel Waldenström
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10665
Income Support Policies for the Working Poor
Sarah Marchal, Ive Marx, Gerlinde Verbist
Forthcoming in Lohmann, H. and I. Marx (eds) Handbook of Research on In-Work Poverty, Edward Elgar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10596
Does Universal Preschool Hit the Target? Program Access and Preschool Impacts
Elizabeth U. Cascio
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10595
Where's the Teacher? How Teacher Workplace Segregation Impedes Teacher Allocation in India
Sonja Fagernäs, Panu Pelkonen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10590
Was the First Public Health Campaign Successful? The Tuberculosis Movement and its Effect on Mortality
D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Claudio Las Heras Olivares, Daniel I. Rees
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (2), 143-175
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10396
Exposing Corruption: Can Electoral Competition Discipline Politicians?
Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Eilon Solan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10366
The Economic Contribution of Unauthorized Workers: An Industry Analysis
Ryan Edwards, Francesc Ortega
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10349
Do Politicians Change Public Attitudes?
Magnus Carlsson, Gordon B. Dahl, Dan-Olof Rooth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10296
A Snapshot on the Quality of Seven Home Visit Parenting Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean
Jane Leer, Florencia López Bóo, Ana Perez Expósito, Christine Powell
published as 'Assessing the quality of home visit parenting programs in Latin America and the Caribbean' in: Early Child Development and Care, published online: 14 Mar 2018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10287
Early Childcare, Child Cognitive Outcomes and Inequalities in the UK
Daniela Del Boca, Daniela Piazzalunga, Chiara D. Pronzato
published in: H. Blossfeld et al (eds) Child Care and inequalities in an international perspective, Elgar 2017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10231
Trade Shocks and the Provision of Local Public Goods
Leo Feler, Mine Zeynep Senses
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9841
Politics in the Family: Nepotism and the Hiring Decisions of Italian Firms
Stefano Gagliarducci, Marco Manacorda
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9830
Child Access Prevention Laws, Youth Gun Carrying, and School Shootings
D. Mark Anderson, Joseph J. Sabia
published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2018, 61 (3), 489-524
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9756
Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Costs of Daycare 0–2 for Girls
Margherita Fort, Andrea Ichino, Giulio Zanella
revised version published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128(1), 158-205
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9713
The Economics of Healthy Ageing in China
Almas Heshmati
published as 'The Social and Economics of Healthy Ageing in China' in: World Health Design, January 2016, pp. 64-70
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9711
Causal Effects of Mental Health Treatment on Education Outcomes for Youth in the Justice System
Alison Evans Cuellar, Dhaval M. Dave
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9641
Leader Networks and Transaction Costs: A Chinese Experiment in Interjurisdictional Contracting
Nancy H. Chau, Yu Qin, Weiwen Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9606
Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages?
Clemens Fuest, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch
revised version forthcoming in: American Economic Review
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9423
Bobos in Paradise: Urban Politics and the New Economy
Gilles Saint-Paul
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9413
State and Local Sales Taxes and Business Activity in the United States
Nicholas Saxon, Mehmet S. Tosun, Jingjing Yang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9303
The Cost-Effectiveness of Developmental Screenings: Evidence from a Nationwide Programme
Martin Halla, Gerald J. Pruckner, Thomas Schober
revised version published as 'The Cost-Effectiveness of Developmental Screenings: Evidence from a Nationwide Programme' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 49, 120 - 135
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9234
Immigration and School Choices in the Midst of the Great Recession
Lídia Farré, Francesc Ortega, Ryuichi Tanaka
published as 'Immigration and the public-private school choice' in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 184 - 201
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9144
Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking: Updated Estimates Using YRBS Data
Benjamin Hansen, Joseph J. Sabia, Daniel I. Rees
published as 'Have Cigarette Taxes Lost their Bite? New Estimates of the Relationship between Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking' in: the American Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 3(1), 60-75
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 forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9061
Illegal Immigration and Fiscal Competition
Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Santiago M. Pinto
revised version published as 'Unauthorized Immigration and Fiscal Competition' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 92, 283-305
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