IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'The effect of the spatial distribution of state-owned enterprises on the location of private-owned enterprise births' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2024, 64 (1), 136-175.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16054

Peacefully Demobilizing Rebels: Identity, Emotional Cues, and the FARC

Juan P. Aparicio, Michael Jetter, Christopher Parsons

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15953

Do International Tourist Arrivals Change Residents' Attitudes Towards Immigration? A Longitudinal Study of 28 European Countries

Artjoms Ivlevs, Ian Smith

published in: Tourism Economics, 2024, 30 (1), 104-131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15861

American Indian Casinos and Native American Self-Identification

Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (6), 2547 - 2585

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15845

Sectoral Linkage in the Ethiopian Economy: A Social Accounting Matrix Multiplier Analysis

Selamawit G. Kebede, Almas Heshmati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15811

Daily Use of Social Media Is Associated with More Body Dissatisfaction of Teenage Girls in a Large Cross-Cultural Survey

Clotilde Napp, Thomas Breda

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15728

High Speed Internet and the Widening Gender Gap in Adolescent Mental Health: Evidence from Hospital Records

Esther Arenas-Arroyo, Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Natalia Nollenberger

This version: May 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15501

Famous after Death: The Effect of a Writer's Death on Book Sales

Michela Ponzo, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 210, 210-225.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15311

Types of Communications Technology and Civil Conflict

Tushar Bharati, Michael Jetter, Muhammad Nauman Malik

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 170, 103312

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15298

Terrorism, Media Coverage and Education: Evidence from Al-Shabaab Attacks in Kenya

Marco Alfano, Joseph-Simon Goerlach

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (2), 727–763

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15277

Television Market Size and Political Accountability in the US House of Representatives

Patrick Balles, Ulrich Matter, Alois Stutzer

revised version published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 80, 102459

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15214

Media Capture by Banks

Ruben Durante, Andrea Fabiani, Luc Laeven, José-Luis Peydró

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15202

Lost in the Net? Broadband Internet and Youth Mental Health

Dante Donati, Ruben Durante, Francesco Sobbrio, Dijana Zejcirovic

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15078

The Political Economy of Propaganda: Evidence from US Newspapers

Sebastian Ottinger, Max Posch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15031

Online Teaching, Procrastination and Students’ Achievement: Evidence from COVID-19 Induced Remote Learning

Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 94, 102378.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15024

Which Former Professional Football Players Become Successful Professional Head Coaches?

Matteo Balliauw, Marco Verheuge, Stijn Baert

revised version published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2022, 30 (12), 1692–1695

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14979

Zero-Hours Contracts in a Frictional Labor Market

Juan J. Dolado, Etienne Lalé, Hélène Turon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14816

Mobile DNA and Sleep Quality

Simon Amez, Floor Denecker, Koen Ponnet, Lieven De Marez, Stijn Baert

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14721

Television, Health, and Happiness: A Natural Experiment in West Germany

Adrian Chadi, Manuel Hoffmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14720

Mobile Broadband Internet, Poverty and Labor Outcomes in Tanzania

Kalvin Bahia, Pau Castells, Genaro Cruz, Takaaki Masaki, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Viviane Sanfelice

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2023, 37 (2), 235–256

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14610

The Productivity Puzzle in Business Services

Alexander S. Kritikos, Alexander Schiersch, Caroline Stiel

published as 'The productivity shock in business services' in: Small Business Economics, 2022, 59 (3), 1273 - 1299

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14433

Do Women Give Up Competing More Easily? Evidence from Speedcubers

Chao Fang, Ernest Zhang, Junfu Zhang

published in: Economics Letters, 2021, 205, 109943.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14151

Mobile Internet Adoption in West Africa

Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Rogelio Granguillhome Ochoa, Samantha Lach, Takaaki Masaki

published in: Technology in Society, 2022, 68, 101845

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14105

Unemployment Insurance as a Worker Indiscipline Device? Evidence from Scanner Data

Lester Lusher, Geoffrey C. Schnorr, Rebecca L.C. Taylor

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14 (2), 285 - 319

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14058

Quality and Price Setting of High-Tech Goods

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Oleksandr Talavera, Nam Vu

published in: Economic Modelling, 2021, 98, 69 - 85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14044

Competition Reform and Household Welfare: A Microsimulation Analysis of the Telecommunication Sector in Ethiopia

Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Abdelkrim Araar, Eduardo A. Malásquez, Rogelio Granguillhome Ochoa

published in: Telecommunications Policy, 2022, 46 (2), 102243

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13840

Don't Downsize This! Social Reactions to Mass Dismissals on Twitter

Andrea Bassanini, Eve Caroli, Bruno Chaves Ferreira, Antoine Rebérioux

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13834

Captivating News in Colombia

Juan P. Aparicio, Michael Jetter

published as 'Captivating news: Media attention and FARC kidnappings' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 202, 69-81

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13805

National or Local? The Demand for News in Italy during COVID-19

Stefano Castriota, Marco Delmastro, Mirco Tonin

published as 'National or local infodemic? The demand for news in Italy during COVID-19' in: International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 2023, 23, 507–536

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13658

Broadband Internet and Household Welfare in Senegal

Takaaki Masaki, Rogelio Granguillhome Ochoa, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13595

Social Pressure in the Stadiums: Do Agents Change Behavior without Crowd Support?

Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2021, 82, 102344.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13578

Experimental Effects of an Absent Crowd on Performances and Refereeing Decisions during COVID-19

Alex Bryson, Peter Dolton, J. James Reade, Dominik Schreyer, Carl Singleton

published as 'Causal effects of an absent crowd on performances and refereeing decisions during Covid-19' in: Economic Letters , 2021, 198, 109664

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13486

Assessing the Role of Women in Tourism Related Sectors in the Caribbean

Francesco Pastore, Allan Webster, Kevin Hope

published in: International Journal of Tourism Research, 2021, 23 (3), 378-400

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13219

The Welfare Effects of Mobile Broadband Internet: Evidence from Nigeria

Kalvin Bahia, Pau Castells, Genaro Cruz, Takaaki Masaki, Xavier Pedrós, Tobias Pfutze, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Hernan Winkler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12895

How Broadband Internet Affects Labor Market Matching

Manudeep Bhuller, Andreas Ravndal Kostøl, Trond Christian Vigtel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12723

Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: A Literature Review

Simon Amez, Stijn Baert

revised version published in: International Journal of Educational Research, 2020, 103, 10161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12631

Does Light Touch Cluster Policy Work? Evaluating the Tech City Programme

Max Nathan

published in: Research Policy, 2022, 51 (9), 1104138

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12547

Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data

Paul Dolan, Georgios Kavetsos, Christian Krekel, Dimitris Mavridis, Renuka Metcalfe, Claudia Senik, Stefan Szymanski, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2019, 177, 104043

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12225

Do Tax Incentives Affect Business Location and Economic Development? Evidence from State Film Incentives

Patrick Button

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 77, 315-339.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12213

Innovative Events

Max Nathan, Anna Rosso

published in: Research Policy, 2022, 51 (1), 104373

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12182

Girls' and Boys' Performance in Competitions: What We Can Learn from a Korean Quiz Show

Alison L. Booth, Jungmin Lee

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 187, 431-447.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12143

Home Advantage in European International Soccer: Which Dimension of Distance Matters?

Nils van Damme, Stijn Baert

revised version published in: Economics, 2019, 13 (1), 20190050

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12142

Twelve Eyes See More Than Eight. Referee Bias and the Introduction of Additional Assistant Referees in Soccer

Olivier Verstraeten, Stijn Baert

revised version published in: Plos One, 2020, 15 (2), e0227758

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12056

I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The Effect of Crime News Coverage on Crime Perception and Trust

Daniel Velásquez, Santiago Medina, Gustavo Yamada, Pablo Lavado, Miguel Núñez, Hugo Alatrista, Juandiego Morzan

published in: World Development, 2020, 136, 105111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12035

Firm Size and Innovation in the Service Sector

David Audretsch, Marian Hafenstein, Alexander S. Kritikos, Alexander Schiersch

published as 'Microfirms and innovation in the service sector' in: Small Business Economics, 2020, 55 (4), 997-1018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12012

Career Lotto: Labor Supply in Winner-Take-All Markets

Wayne A. Grove, Michael Jetter, Kerry L. Papps

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 183, 362-376

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11948

The Effect of Risk Assessment Scores on Judicial Behavior and Defendant Outcomes

Carly Will Sloan, George S Naufal, Heather Caspers

published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 08 May 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11945

Special Interest Groups versus Voters and the Political Economics of Attention

Patrick Balles, Ulrich Matter, Alois Stutzer

published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (662), 2290 - 2320

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11900

The Effect of Media Coverage on Mass Shootings

Michael Jetter, Jay K. Walker

final version published as 'News coverage and mass shootings in the US' in: European Economic Review, 2022, 148, 104221

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11764

Does the Internet Increase the Job Finding Rate? Evidence from a Period of Internet Expansion

Manuel Denzer, Thorsten Schank, Richard Upward

published in: Information Economics and Policy, 2020, 100900.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11740

Creative Differences? Measuring Creative Economy Employment in the US and UK Using Microdata

Tom Kemeny, Max Nathan, Dave O'Brien

published in: Regional Studies, 2020, 54 (3), 377-387

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11722

Player Dismissal and Full Time Results in the UEFA Champions League and Europa League

Arne De Meyere, Ward Vanruymbeke, Stijn Baert

revised version published in: International Journal of Sport Finance, 2020, 15 (1), 27 - 38

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11491

News Media and Crime Perceptions: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Nicola Mastrorocco, Luigi Minale

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 165, 230-255

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11455

Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: Correlation or Causal Relationship?

Stijn Baert, Suncica Vujic, Simon Amez, Matteo Claeskens, Thomas Daman, Arno Maeckelberghe, Eddy Omey, Lieven De Marez

revised version published in: Kyklos, 2020, 73 (1), 22 - 46.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11396

Family-Centered Measures of Access to Early Care and Education

Elizabeth E. Davis, Won Fy Lee, Aaron Sojourner

published in: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2019, 47, 472 - 486

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11367

Incentives Can Reduce Bias in Online Reviews

Ioana E. Marinescu, Nadav Klein, Andrew Chamberlain, Morgan Smart

published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2021, 27 (2), 393–407.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11319

Measuring Customer Discrimination: Evidence from the Professional Cricket League in India

Pramod Kumar Sur, Masaru Sasaki

publication in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2020, 21(4), 420-448

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11244

War of the Waves: Radio and Resistance during World War II

Stefano Gagliarducci, Massimiliano Gaetano Onorato, Francesco Sobbrio, Guido Tabellini

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12 (4), 1–38

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11074

What Drives Spatial Clusters of Entrepreneurship in China? Evidence from Economic Census Data

Liang Zheng, Zhong Zhao

published in: China Economic Review, 2017, 46, 228-248

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10977

Performance and Risk Taking under Threat of Elimination

Nathan R. Adams, Glen R. Waddell

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 156, 41 - 54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10708

Terrorism and the Media: The Effect of US Television Coverage on Al-Qaeda Attacks

Michael Jetter

published as 'The inadvertent consequences of al-Qaeda news coverage' in: European Economic Review, 2019, 119, 391-410

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10384

Performance in Mixed-Sex and Single-Sex Tournaments: What We Can Learn from Speedboat Races in Japan

Alison L. Booth, Eiji Yamamura

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100 (4), 581 - 593

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10318

Does Reality TV Induce Real Effects? A Response to Jaeger, Joyce, and Kaestner (2016)

Melissa S. Kearney, Phillip B. Levine

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10317

Does Reality TV Induce Real Effects? On the Questionable Association Between 16 and Pregnant and Teenage Childbearing

David A. Jaeger, Theodore J. Joyce, Robert Kaestner

substantially revised version published as 'A Cautionary Tale of Evaluating Identifying Assumptions: Did Reality TV Really Cause a Decline in Teenage Childbearing?' in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2020, 38 (2), 317 - 326

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10152

Marketmaking Middlemen

Pieter A. Gautier, Bo Hu, Makoto Watanabe

published in: RAND Journal of Economics, 2023, 54 (1), 83 - 103

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10087

Happy Hosts? International Tourist Arrivals and Residents' Subjective Well-being in Europe

Artjoms Ivlevs

published in: Journal of Travel Research, 2017, 56 (5), 599-612

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10011

Gender Differences in Risk-Taking: Evidence from Professional Basketball

René Böheim, Christoph Freudenthaler, Mario Lackner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9991

Internet and Voting in the Web 2.0 Era: Evidence from a Local Broadband Policy

Samuele Poy, Simone Schüller

revised version published in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (1), 103861

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9980

No Better Moment to Score a Goal than Just Before Half Time? A Soccer Myth Statistically Tested

Stijn Baert, Simon Amez

revised version published in: Plos One, 2018, 13 (3), e0194255

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9845

Psychological Momentum and Gender

Danny Cohen-Zada, Alex Krumer, Ze'ev Shtudiner

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 135, 66-81

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9645

Television, Cognitive Ability, and High School Completion

Øystein Hernaes, Simen Markussen, Knut Røed

revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (2), 371-400

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9584

Do They Find You on Facebook? Facebook Profile Picture and Hiring Chances

Stijn Baert

revised version published as 'Facebook profile picture appearance affects recruiterd first hiring decisions' in: New Media & Society, 2018, 20 (3), 1220 - 1239

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9501

Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market

Alan Benson, Aaron Sojourner, Akhmed Umyarov

published in: Management Science, 2020, 66 (5), 1802-1825

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9315

Gender Differences in Reaction to Psychological Pressure: Evidence from Tennis Players

Maria De Paola, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 2017, 26 (3), 444-456

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8987

Mozart or Pelé? The Effects of Teenagers' Participation in Music and Sports

Charlotte Cabane, Adrian Hille, Michael Lechner

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41, 90-103