IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Measuring national mood with music: using machine learning to construct a measure of national valence from audio data' in: Behavior Research Methods, 2022, 54, 3085–3092

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14120

Persecution and Escape: Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany

Sascha O. Becker, Volker Lindenthal, Sharun Mukand, Fabian Waldinger

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (3), 1–43

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13940

China's Great Boom as a Historical Process

Loren Brandt, Thomas G. Rawski

published in: In: Ma, D, and von Glahn, R. (eds.), The Cambridge Economic History of China, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 775-828

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. 13795

Expressway to Power: Infrastructure Projects and Political Support

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Dozie Okoye, Belgi Turan

revised version published as 'Expressway to Votes: Infrastructure Projects and Voter Persuasion' in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (657), 48-94.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13724

The Effect of Community Size on Electoral Preferences: Evidence From Post-WWII Southern Germany

Luciana C. Fiorini, Michael Jetter, Christopher F. Parmeter, Christopher Parsons

revised version published as 'Community Size and Electoral Preferences: Evidence From Post-Second World War Baden-Württemberg' in: British Journal of Political Science, 2024, 54 (3), 573 - 594

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13706

Close Encounters of the European Kind: Economic Integration, Sectoral Heterogeneity and Structural Reforms

Nauro F. Campos, Vera Z. Eichenauer, Jan-Egbert Sturm

published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 129, 103511

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13476

Enfranchisement, Political Participation and Political Competition: Evidence from Colonial India

Guilhem Cassan, Lakshmi Iyer, Rinchan Ali Mirza

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13171

Echo Effects of Early-Life Health Shocks: The Intergenerational Consequences of Prenatal Malnutrition during the Great Leap Forward Famine in China

Jinhu Li, Nidhiya Menon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13103

Political Networks across the Globe

Simon Commander, Stavros Poupakis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13032

The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism

Sascha O. Becker, Lukas Mergele, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2020, 34 (2), 143-171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13027

Persuasive Agenda-Setting: Rodrigo Duterte's Inauguration Speech and Drugs in the Philippines

Michael Jetter, Teresa Molina

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 156 ,102843

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. 12911

Habemus Papam? Polarization and Conflict in the Papal States

Francisco J. Pino, Jordi Vidal-Robert

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12835

Reciprocity and the Interaction between the Unemployed and the Caseworker

Gerard J. van den Berg, Iris Kesternich, Gerrit Müller, Bettina M. Siflinger

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 227, 106706

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12536

Old Sins Cast Long Shadows: The Long-Term Impact of the Resettlement of the Sudetenland on Residential Migration

Martin Guzi, Peter Huber, Stepan Mikula

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 126, 12536

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12328

The Effects of Conflict on Fertility: Evidence from the Genocide in Rwanda

Kati Kraehnert, Tilman Brück, Michele Di Maio, Roberto Nistico

published in: Demography, 2019, 56 (3), 935 - 968.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12031

On the Origin and Composition of the German East-West Population Gap

Christoph Eder, Martin Halla

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11991

The Intergenerational Behavioural Consequences of a Socio-Political Upheaval

Alison L. Booth, Xin Meng, Elliott Fan, Dandan Zhang

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 200, 931-958.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11954

A Theory of Conservative Revivals

Murat Iyigun, Jared Rubin, Avner Seror

published as 'A Theory of Cultural Revivals' in: European Economic Review, 2021, 135, 103-134.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11613

Mass Refugee Inflow and Long-Run Prosperity: Lessons from the Greek Population Resettlement

Elie Murard, Seyhun Orcan Sakalli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11487

Diversity and Conflict

Cemal Eren Arbatli, Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor, Marc Klemp

published in: Econometrica, 2020, 88 (2), 727-797

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11255

The Impact of Public Employment: Evidence from Bonn

Sascha O. Becker, Stephan Heblich, Daniel M. Sturm

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 122, article 103291

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. 10936

Child Discipline in Times of Conflict

Michael Malcolm, Vidya Diwakar, George S Naufal

published in: Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2020, 64 (6), 1070–1094

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10819

Security, Trade, and Political Violence

Francesco Amodio, Leonardo Baccini, Michele Di Maio

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (1), 1-37

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10816

Industrial Espionage and Productivity

Albrecht Glitz, Erik Meyersson

published in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110 (4), 1055-1103

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10778

Learning to Participate in Politics: Evidence from Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Dozie Okoye, Mutlu Yuksel

revised version published as 'Social Unrest in Impressionable Years and the Formation of Political Attitudes: Evidence from Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany' in Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58 (1), 184-208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10703

The Ideological Roots of Institutional Change

Murat Iyigun, Jared Rubin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10667

Trends and Gradients in Top Tax Elasticities: Cross-Country Evidence, 1900–2014

Enrico Rubolino, Daniel Waldenström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10226

Suffrage, Labour Markets and Coalitions in Colonial Virginia

Elena Nikolova, Milena Nikolova

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 49, 108 - 122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10095

The Long-lasting Shadow of the Allied Occupation of Austria on its Spatial Equilibrium

Christoph Eder, Martin Halla

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9941

Asymmetric Information under the Kafala Sponsorship System: Impacts on Foreign Domestic Workers' Income and Employment Status in the GCC Countries

Froilan T. Malit Jr., George S Naufal

published in: International Migration, 2016, 54(5), 76-90

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9743

Business in Genocide: Understanding and Avoiding Complicity

Nora Stel, Wim Naudé

published in: Charles H. Anderton and Jurgen Brauer (eds.), Economic Aspects of Genocides, Other Mass Atrocities, and Their Preventions, Oxford University Press, 2016, 591–612

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9725

The Causal Effects of World War II Military Service

Alex Cousley, Peter Siminski, Simon Ville

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9667

The Impact of Syrian Refugees on the Labor Market in Neighboring Countries: Empirical Evidence from Jordan

Ali Fakih, May Ibrahim

published in: Defence and Peace Economics, 2016, 27 (1), 64-86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9260

Reducing Risks in Wartime Through Capital-Labor Substitution: Evidence from World War II

Chris Rohlfs, Ryan Sullivan, Thomas J. Kniesner

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2016, 52 (2), 163-190.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9245

The Economic Costs of Mass Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany

Andreas Lichter, Max Löffler, Sebastian Siegloch

substantially revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (2), 741 - 789

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9195

Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing Using Millions of Digitized Books

Thomas Hills, Eugenio Proto, Daniel Sgroi

extended version published in: Nature Human Behavior, 2019, 3 (12), 1271–1275

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8497

Terrorism and the Media

Michael Jetter

updated version published as 'Journal of Policy Analysis and Management' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 153, 32-48

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8052

UN Interventions: The Role of Geography

Juan Carlos Duque, Michael Jetter, Santiago Sosa

revised version published in: Review of International Organizations, 2015, 10(1), 67-95

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7866

Two Centuries of International Migration

Joseph Ferrie, Timothy J. Hatton

published in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller (eds.): Handbook on the Economics of International Migration, 1A

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7780

The Return of the Prodigy Son: Do Return Migrants Make Better Leaders?

Marion Mercier

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 122, 76-91

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7615

Occupations after WWII: The Legacy of Rosie the Riveter

Andriana Bellou, Emanuela Cardia

published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2016, 62, 124-142

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7201

Regulation, Trust, and Cronyism in Middle Eastern Societies: The Simple Economics of 'Wasta'

Andy Barnett, Bruce Yandle, George S Naufal

published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2013, 44, 41-46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6741

De Jure and De Facto Determinants of Power: Evidence from Mississippi

Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico

revised version published in: Constitutional Political Economy, 2017, 28, 321-345

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6130

Long Shadows of History: Persecution in Central Europe and Its Labor Market Consequences

Michal Myck, Radim Bohacek

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6018

Statistical Analysis of Landmine Fatalities in Kurdistan

Almas Heshmati, Nabaz T. Khayyat

published as 'Analysis of Landmine Fatalities and Injuries in the Kurdistan Region' in: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 30(5), 2015, 2591-2615.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5643

Democratization, Violent Social Conflicts, and Growth

Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde

substantially revised version published as 'Civil Conflict, Democratization, and Growth: Violent Democratization as Critical Juncture' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2014, 116 (2), 482-505

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5563

Above and Beyond the Call: Long-Term Real Earnings Effects of British Male Military Conscription in the Post-War Years

Julien Grenet, Robert A. Hart, J. Elizabeth Roberts

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 194-204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5297

The First World War and Working-Class Food Consumption in Britain

Ian Gazeley, Andrew T. Newell

published in: European Review of Economic History, 2013, 17 (1), 71-94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5184

Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel: Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War

Bernard M. S. van Praag, Dmitri Romanov, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31 (6), 1008-1020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5043

Employer Preferences and Social Policy: Business and the Development of Job Security Regulations in Germany since World War I

Patrick Emmenegger, Paul Marx

revised version published as 'Business and the Development of Job Security Regulations: The Case of Germany' in: Socio-Economic Review, 2011, 9 (4), 729-756

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4808

Do Output Contractions Trigger Democratic Change?

Paul J. Burke, Andrew Leigh

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (4), 124-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4418

Persistence of Civil Wars

Daron Acemoglu, Davide Ticchi, Andrea Vindigni

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8 (2-3), 664-676

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4118

Above and Beyond the Call: Long-Term Real Earnings Effects of British Male Military Conscription during WWII and the Post-War Years

Robert A. Hart

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4116