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555 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14041
Europe's Migration Experience and its Effects on Economic Inequality
Martin Guzi, Martin Kahanec, Magdalena M. Ulceluse
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13955
The Impacts of a Multifaceted Pre-natal Intervention on Human Capital Accumulation in Early Life
Pedro Carneiro, Lucy Kraftman, Giacomo Mason, Lucie Moore, Imran Rasul, Molly Scott
forthcoming in: American Economic Review
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13932
Pension Policies, Retirement and Human Capital Depreciation in Late Adulthood
Plamen Nikolov, Alan Adelman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13889
Empowering Migrants: Impacts of a Migrant's Amnesty on Crime Reports
Ana Maria Ibanez, Sandra V. Rozo, Dany Bahar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13842
Who Does Not like Migrants? Individual Demographics and Attitudes Towards Migration
Sandra V. Rozo, Maria J. Urbina
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13804
Human Capital Development: New Evidence on the Production of Socio-Emotional Skills
Mark Mitchell, Marta Favara, Catherine Porter, Alan Sanchez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13793
Search Costs and the Determinants of Job Search
Emily A. Beam
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13777
The Effect of Antimalarial Campaigns on Child Mortality and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa
Joshua Wilde, Bénédicte Apouey, Joseph Coleman, Gabriel Picone
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13743
Give Me Your Tired and Your Poor: Impact of a Large-Scale Amnesty Program for Undocumented Refugees
Dany Bahar, Ana Maria Ibanez, Sandra V. Rozo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13740
The Role of Unemployment and Job Change When Estimating the Returns to Migration
Julian Emmler, Bernd Fitzenberger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13719
Saving Neonatal Lives for a Quarter
Christine Valente, Hans Henrik Sievertsen, Mahesh C. Puri
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13696
Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools
Clare Leaver, Owen Ozier, Pieter Serneels, Andrew Zeitlin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13638
The Schooling and Labor Market Effects of Eliminating University Tuition in Ecuador
Teresa Molina, Ivan Rivadeneyra
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13634
Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda
Moussa P. Blimpo, Todd Pugatch
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 149, 102583
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13627
The Effect of Hosting 3.4 Million Refugees on the Health System in Turkey and Infant, Child, and Elderly Mortality among Natives
Aysun Aygün, Murat G. Kirdar, Berna Tuncay
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13614
The Emigration Life Cycle: How Development Shapes Emigration from Poor Countries
Michael A. Clemens
submitted
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13612
Migration from Developing Countries: Selection, Income Elasticity, and Simpson's Paradox
Michael A. Clemens, Mariapia Mendola
submitted
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13549
Lives and Livelihoods: Estimates of the Global Mortality and Poverty Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Benoit Decerf, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Olivier Sterck
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13515
Social Identity, Behavior, and Personality: Evidence from India
Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13502
Shoring up Economic Refugees: Venezuelan Migrants in the Ecuadorian Labor Market
Sergio Olivieri, Francesc Ortega, Ana Rivadeneira, Eliana Carranza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13501
The Labor Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador
Sergio Olivieri, Francesc Ortega, Ana Rivadeneira, Eliana Carranza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13481
Distributional Effects of Emission Pricing in a Carbon-Intensive Economy: The Case of Poland
Marek Antosiewicz, J. Rodrigo Fuentes, Piotr Lewandowski, Jan Witajewski-Baltvilks
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13479
Air Pollution Quotas and the Dynamics of Internal Skilled Migration in Chinese Cities
Bo Yu, Wang-Sheng Lee, Shuddhasattwa Rafiq
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13478
Can Subsidized Employment Tackle Long-Term Unemployment? Experimental Evidence from North Macedonia
Alex Armand, Pedro Carneiro, Federico Tagliati, Yiming Xia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13435
Changes in the Forsaken Schooling and Migration Relationship in Tajikistan
Ilhom Abdulloev
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13325
Why Didn't the College Premium Rise Everywhere? Employment Protection and On-the-Job Investment in Skills
Matthias Doepke, Ruben Gaetani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13298
Minimum Wage Compliance and Household Welfare: An Analysis of over 1500 Minimum Wages
Kashif Mansoor, Donal O'Neill
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13297
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Poverty and COVID-19 in Developing Countries
Olivier Bargain, Ulugbek Aminjonov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13215
Welfare Dynamics in India over a Quarter Century: Poverty, Vulnerability, and Mobility during 1987-2012
Hai-Anh Dang, Peter F. Lanjouw
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13207
Prosocial Behavior in the Time of COVID-19: The Effect of Private and Public Role Models
Martin Abel, Willa Brown
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13188
When Goal-Setting Forges Ahead but Stops Short
Asadul Islam, Sungoh Kwon, Eema Masood, Nishith Prakash, Shwetlena Sabarwal, Deepak Saraswat
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13131
Moving from a Poor Economy to a Rich One: The Contradictory Roles of Technology and Job Tasks
Eran Yashiv
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13130
Exposure to Transit Migration, Public Attitudes and Entrepreneurship
Nicolas Ajzenman, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Sergei Guriev
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13122
Human Capital as Engine of Growth the Role of Knowledge Transfers in Promoting Balanced Growth within and across Countries
Isaac Ehrlich, Yun Pei
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13097
Do Compulsory Schooling Laws Always Work? A Study of Youth Crime in Brazilian Municipalities
Marislei Nishijima, Sarmistha Pal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13081
Do Public Program Benefits Crowd Out Private Transfers in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence
Plamen Nikolov, Matthew Bonci
published in: World Development, 2020, 134 (104967).
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13080
Isolating the "Tech" from EdTech: Experimental Evidence on Computer Assisted Learning in China
Robert W. Fairlie, Prashant Loyalka, Scott Rozelle, Yue Ma
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13043
The Important Role of Equivalence Scales: Household Size, Composition, and Poverty Dynamics in Russia
Kseniya Abanokova, Hai-Anh Dang, Michael Lokshin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13041
Short and Long-Run Labor Market Effects of Developing Country Exports: Evidence from Bangladesh
Raymond Robertson, Deeksha Kokas, Diego Cardozo Medeiros, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12988
Childhood Determinants of Internal Youth Migration in Senegal
Catalina Herrera, David E. Sahn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12982
Dynamic Incentives in Retirement Earnings-Replacement Benefits
Andres Dean, Sebastian Fleitas, Mariana Zerpa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12964
Spurring Economic Growth through Human Development: Research Results and Guidance for Policymakers
David E. Bloom, Alexander Khoury, Vadim Kufenko, Klaus Prettner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12910
On the Precarious Link between the Gini Coefficient and the Incentive to Migrate
Oded Stark, Lukasz Byra, Grzegorz Kosiorowski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12822
Estimating Poverty for Refugee Populations: Can Cross-Survey Imputation Methods Substitute for Data Scarcity?
Hai-Anh Dang, Paolo Verme
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12804
Rising Intergenerational Income Persistence in China
Yi Fan, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang
forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12800
Refugees' and Irregular Migrants' Self-Selection into Europe: Who Migrates Where?
Cevat Giray Aksoy, Panu Poutvaara
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12709
Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from U.S. Mass Migration
Bryan Stuart, Evan J. Taylor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12700
Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Abilities of Immigrants: New Perspectives on Migrant Quality from a Selective Immigration Country
Maryam Naghsh Nejad, Stefanie Schurer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12640
Climate Change, Migration and Voice: An Explanation for the Immobility Paradox
Michel Beine, Ilan Noy, Christopher Parsons
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12624
Self-Employment and Migration
Samuele Giambra, David McKenzie
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12590
Experimental Long-Term Effects of Early-Childhood and School-Age Exposure to a Conditional Cash Transfer Program
Teresa Molina Millán, Karen Macours, John Maluccio, Luis Tejerina
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12554
Displacement, Diversity, and Mobility: Career Impacts of Japanese American Internment
Jaime Arellano-Bover
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12539
How Do Parents Respond to Regulation of Sugary Drinks in Child Care? Evidence from California
Jiafei Hu, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Haishan Yuan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12538
Those Who Can't Sort, Steal: Caste, Occupational Mobility, and Rent-Seeking in Rural India
Nicholas Lawson, Dean Spears
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12533
Migration, Innovation, and Growth: An African Story?
Linguère Mously Mbaye, Massimiliano Tani
published in M. Konté and L.M.Mbaye (eds.), Migration, Remittances and Sustainable Development in Africa, London, Routledge, 2020 (chapter 3, pp 38-61).
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12532
Do Private Household Transfers to the Elderly Respond to Public Pension Benefits? Evidence from Rural China
Plamen Nikolov, Alan Adelman
published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2019, 14 (100204).
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12489
Maternal Age and Offspring Human Capital in India
Marcello Perez-Alvarez, Marta Favara
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12447
Training, Soft Skills and Productivity: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Maria Prada, Graciana Rucci, Sergio Urzua
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12370
Sons or Daughters? The Impact of Children's Migration on the Health and Well-Being of Parents Left Behind
Jackline Wahba, Chuhong Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12311
Economic Opportunities and Gender Equity: The Migration and Education Decisions of Young Women from Rural China
Chunbing Xing, Yan Sun
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12289
Birth Order, Fertility, and Child Height in India and Africa
Dean Spears, Diane Coffey, Jere R. Behrman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12288
Neonatal Death in India: Birth Order in a Context of Maternal Undernutrition
Diane Coffey, Dean Spears
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12283
Repercussions of Negatively Selective Migration for the Behavior of Nonmigrants When Preferences Are Social
Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12196
Do Constraints on Women Worsen Child Deprivations? Framework, Measurement, and Evidence from India
Alberto Posso, Stephen C. Smith, Lucia Ferrone
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12190
Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Mee Jung Kim, Kyung Min Lee
forthcoming in: I. Ganguli, S. Kahn, M.MacGarvie (eds.), The Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in U.S. Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship,'NBER, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12173
Human Capital Investment under Exit Options: Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment
Satish Chand, Michael A. Clemens
submitted
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12172
Can Public Rankings Improve School Performance? Evidence from a Nationwide Reform in Tanzania
Jacobus Cilliers, Isaac M. Mbiti, Andrew Zeitlin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12163
Improving Access and Quality in Early Childhood Development Programs: Experimental Evidence from the Gambia
Moussa P. Blimpo, Pedro Carneiro, Pamela Jervis, Todd Pugatch
forthcoming in Economic Development and Cultural Change
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12160
English Skills, Labour Market Status and Earnings of Turkish Women
Antonio Di Paolo, Aysit Tansel
published in : Empirica, 2019, 46(4): 669-690.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12132
Outsourcing Recruitment as a Solution to Prevent Discrimination: A Correspondence Study
Clémence Berson, Morgane Laouénan, Emmanuel Valat
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12094
The Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind: Estimation in Presence of Intra-Household Selection of Migrants
Elie Murard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12088
Schooling Forsaken: Education and Migration
Ilhom Abdulloev, Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12067
What Drives Female Labor Force Participation? Comparable Micro-Level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies
Stephan Klasen, Janneke Pieters, Manuel Santos Silva, Le Thi Ngoc Tu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12065
Changes in Open Defecation in Rural North India: 2014-2018
Aashish Gupta, Nazar Khalid, Devashish Desphande, Payal Hathi, Avani Kapur, Nikhil Srivastav, Sangita Vyas, Dean Spears, Diane Coffey
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12048
Regional Migration and Wage Inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union
Esther Mirjam Girsberger, Romuald Meango, Hillel Rapoport
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2019, 48 (2), 385-404
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11984
Violence during Early Childhood and Child Development
Matias Berthelon, Dante Contreras, Diana Kruger, María Isidora Palma
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11940
Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence
David E. Bloom, David Canning, Rainer Kotschy, Klaus Prettner, Johannes Schünemann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11847
Growing Together: Assessing Equity and Efficiency in an Early-Life Health Program in Chile
Damian Clarke, Gustavo Cortés Méndez, Diego Vergara Sepúlveda
Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33(3): 883-956
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11834
Determinants and Dynamics of Forced Migration to Europe: Evidence from a 3-D Model of Flows and Stocks
Tilman Brück, Kai M. Dunker, Neil T.N. Ferguson, Aline Meysonnat, Eleonora Nillesen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11806
Optimal Education Policy and Human Capital Accumulation in the Context of Brain Drain
Slobodan Djajic, Frédéric Docquier, Michael S. Michael
forthcoming in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11804
Geography of Skills and Global Inequality
Michal Burzynski, Christoph Deuster, Frédéric Docquier
forthcoming in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11777
Migration, Political Institutions, and Social Networks
Catia Batista, Julia Seither, Pedro C. Vicente
published in: World Development, 2019, 117, 328-343
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11737
The Race for an Artificial General Intelligence: Implications for Public Policy
Wim Naudé, Nicola Dimitri
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11726
The Impact of the Announcement of Temporary Building Sites for Refugees on House Prices in Gothenburg
Josef Kjellander, Viktor Nilsson, Aico van Vuuren
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11717
Heat, Humidity, and Infant Mortality in the Developing World
Michael Geruso, Dean Spears
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11686
Macroeconomic Conditions and Child Schooling in Turkey
Pinar Mine Güneş, Beyza Ural Marchand
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11677
Exploitation and the Decision to Migrate: The Role of Abuse and Unfavorable Working Conditions in Filipina Domestic Workers' Desire to Return Abroad
George S Naufal, Froilan T. Malit, Jr.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11607
Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-Cognitive Characteristics in Rural China
Jessica Leight, Elaine M. Liu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11590
Maternal Mortality and Women's Political Participation
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Damian Clarke, Joseph Gomes, Atheendar Venkataramani
R&R Journal of Political Economy. Substantial revision available from the authors. Last version: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2019/06/28/19000570.full.pdf
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11573
Education Expansion, Assortative Marriage, and Income Inequality in China
Haifeng Nie, Chunbing Xing
forthcoming in: China Economic Review, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11551
Brain Drain-Induced Brain Gain and the Bhagwati Tax: Are Early and Recent Paradigms Compatible?
Maurice Schiff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11464
Household Savings and Marriage Payments: Evidence from Dowry in India
S Anukriti, Sungoh Kwon, Nishith Prakash
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11438
Hollowing Out the Middle? Remittances and Income Inequality in Nigeria
James T. Bang, Aniruddha Mitra, Phanindra V. Wunnava
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11430
Latin American Household Budget Surveys 1913-1970 and What They Tell Us about Economic Inequality among Households
Ian Gazeley, Rose Holmes, Cecilia Lanata Briones, Andrew T. Newell, Kevin Reynolds, Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11429
The Household Budget Survey in Western Europe, 1795-1965
Ian Gazeley, Rose Holmes, Andrew T. Newell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11407
What Matters for Environmental Quality in the Next-11 Countries: Economic Growth or Income Inequality?
Hemachandra Padhan, Ilham Haouas, Bhagaban Sahoo, Almas Heshmati
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11369
Reforms That Keep You at Home: The Effects of Economic Transition on Migration
Martin Guzi, Stepan Mikula
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11362
Madrasah for Girls and Private School for Boys? The Determinants of School Type Choice in Rural and Urban Indonesia
Niaz Asadullah
published in: International Journal of Educational Development, 2018, 62, 96–111
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11355
Inequality among European Working Households, 1890-1960
Ian Gazeley, Rose Holmes, Andrew T. Newell, Kevin Reynolds, Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11346
International Import Competition and the Decision to Migrate: Evidence from Mexico
Kaveh Majlesi, Gaia Narciso
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