IZA Discussion Papers

forthcoming as 'Imposing Policy on Reluctant Actors: The Hospital Desegregation Campaign and Black Postneonatal Mortality in the Deep South' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13811

Who Married, (to) Whom, and Where? Trends in Marriage in the United States, 1850-1940

Claudia Olivetti, M. Daniele Paserman, Laura Salisbury, E. Anna Weber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13469

Sunlight and Protection Against Influenza

David Slusky, Richard J. Zeckhauser

published in: Economics & Human Biology. 2021, 40, 100942

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13467

COVID-19, Race, and Redlining

Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico

published in: Covid Economics, 2020, 38, 129-195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13268

The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States

Paola Giuliano, Marco Tabellini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13243

Does Electricity Drive Structural Transformation? Evidence from the United States

Paul Gaggl, Rowena Gray, Ioana E. Marinescu, Miguel Morin

published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 68, 101944

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13200

The Value of Health Insurance during a Crisis: Effects of Medicaid Implementation on Pandemic Influenza Mortality

Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis, Edson Severnini, Xiao Wang

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (5), 1393 - 1402

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13175

Wage Differentials, Bargaining Protocols, and Trade Unionism in Mid-Twentieth Century American Labor Markets

John H. Pencavel

published in: ILR Review, 2022, 75 (1), 139 - 167.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12973

The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912-1968

Price Fishback, Andrew Seltzer

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2021, 35 (1), 73 - 96

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12709

Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from U.S. Mass Migration

Bryan Andrew Stuart, Evan J. Taylor

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (3), 134 - 175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12689

The Labor Market Effects of Mexican Repatriations: Longitudinal Evidence from the 1930s

Jongkwan Lee, Giovanni Peri, Vasil Yasenov

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 205, 104558

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12554

Displacement, Diversity, and Mobility: Career Impacts of Japanese American Internment

Jaime Arellano-Bover

published in: Journal of Economic History, 2022, 82 (1), 126-174

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12356

The Marriage Age U-Shape

Pavel Jelnov

published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2023, 89 (2), 211-252

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12228

The Effect of Social Connectedness on Crime: Evidence from the Great Migration

Bryan Andrew Stuart, Evan J. Taylor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12177

What Explains Cross-City Variation in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? Evidence from 438 U.S. Cities

Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis, Edson Severnini

published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2019, 36, 42-50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12133

Stalled Racial Progress and Japanese Trade in the 1970s and 1980s

Mary Kate Batistich, Timothy N. Bond

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2023, 90 (6), 2792–2821,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12024

Great Depression and the Rise of Female Employment: A New Hypothesis

Andriana Bellou, Emanuela Cardia

published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2021, 80, 101383

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11467

Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage, and Fertility

Michela Carlana, Marco Tabellini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11243

Short- and Long-Run Impacts of Rural Electrification: Evidence from the Historical Rollout of the U.S. Power Grid

Joshua Lewis, Edson Severnini

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 143, 102412

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11214

The Effects of Immigration Quotas on Wages, the Great Black Migration, and Industrial Development

Bin Xie

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2025, 53 (1), 25-55

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10351

Rainfall Risk and Fertility: Evidence from Farm Settlements during the American Demographic Transition

Michael Grimm

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2021, 21, 593-618.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10148

Women's Enfranchisement and Children's Education: The Long-Run Impact of the U.S. Suffrage Movement

Esra Kose, Elira Kuka, Na'ama Shenhav

published as 'Women's Suffrage and Children's Education' in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13 (3), 374 - 405

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9902

Wealth Inequality in Sweden: What Can We Learn from Capitalized Income Tax Data?

Jacob Lundberg, Daniel Waldenström

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2018, 64 (3), 517 - 541

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9884

Canary in a Coal Mine: Infant Mortality, Property Values, and Tradeoffs Associated with Mid-20th Century Air Pollution

Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis, Edson Severnini

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (3), 698 - 711

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9792

Please Call Me John: Name Choice and the Assimilation of Immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930

Pedro Carneiro, Sokbae Lee, Hugo Reis

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 62, 101778

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9671

Why Wait? A Century of Education, Marriage Timing and Gender Roles

Murat Iyigun, Jeanne Lafortune

published as 'Putting the Husband Through: Role of Credit Constraints in Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (1), 245–289

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9399

Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality: Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic

Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis, Edson Severnini

published in: Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78 (4), 1179-1209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9060

Does It Matter Where You Came From? Ancestry Composition and Economic Performance of U.S. Counties, 1850-2010

Scott L. Fulford, Ivan Petkov, Fabio Schiantarelli

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