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147 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17752
Digital Roots or Digital Routes? Broadband Expansion and the Rural-Urban Migration in China
Shuang Ma, Ren Mu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17718
Objective Calls Under the Spotlight: Referee Consistency and Behaviour on Football's Biggest Stage
David Butler, Robert Butler, Carl Singleton
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17594
Menu Adjustment in Response to the Minimum Wage: A Return to the New Jersey-Pennsylvania Border
Kerry L. Papps, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17525
The Rise of Social Media and the Fall in Mental Wellbeing among Young Australians
Andrew Leigh, Stephen Robson
published in: Australian Economic Review, 2025, 58 (1), 33-38
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17512
Inequity Aversion in Subjective Evaluations: Evidence from Referees' Decisions in Soccer
Leo Morabito, Vincenzo Scoppa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17452
Persuading Voters with Partisan TV News: A Natural Experiment Using Spatial Reception Data
Nicolas Herault, Trevor Kollmann, Russell Thomson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17434
Gender Differences in Preferences for Flexible Work Hours: Experimental Evidence from an Online Freelancing Platform
Rakesh Banerjee, Tushar Bharati, Adnan Fakir, Yiwei Qian, Naveen Sunder
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17282
He Said, She Said: Who Gets Believed When Spreading (Mis)Information
Nuzaina Khan, David Rand, Olga Shurchkov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17191
Looks and Gaming: Who and Why?
Andy Chung, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Carl Singleton, Zhengxin Wang, Junsen Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17098
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman! Using Mass Media to Fight Intolerance
Alex Armand, Paul Atwell, Joseph Gomes, Giuseppe Musillo, Yannik Schenk
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16963
Can Awareness Reduce (and Reverse) Identity-Driven Bias in Judgement? Evidence from International Cricket
Subhasish M Chowdhury, Sarah Jewell, Carl Singleton
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 226, 106697.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16703
The Behavioral, Economic, and Political Impact of the Internet and Social Media: Empirical Challenges and Approaches
Fabio Sabatini
revised version published online in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 21 May 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16681
Media Coverage of Immigration and the Polarization of Attitudes
Sarah Schneider-Strawczynski, Jérôme Valette
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2025, 17 (1), 337–368
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16345
Effects of E-commerce on Local Labor Markets
Anahid Bauer, Sofía Fernández Guerrico
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16317
The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage and Political Participation
Tianyi Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16301
The Profit Motive in the Classroom - Friend or Foe?
Niklas Elert, Magnus Henrekson
published online in: Journal of School Choice, 25 May 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16283
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers
David B. Huffman, Collin Raymond, Julia Shvets
published in: American Economic Review, 2022, 112 (10), 3141–3175
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16259
The Births of New Private-Owned Enterprises in an Environment of State-Owned Enterprises
Zhong Zhao, Liang Zheng
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
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