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254 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17257
The Distribution of Social Capital across Individuals and its Relationship to Income
Kevin Corinth, Thomas O’Rourke, Scott Winship
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17195
Ethnic Identity and Anti-immigrant Sentiment: Evidence from Proposition 187
Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17170
The Long Run Gender Origins of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Australia's Convict History
Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Simon Chang, Russell Smyth, Trong-Anh Trinh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17138
Prison Norms and Society beyond Bars
Maxim Ananyev, Mikhail Poyker
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17137
Impact of Prison Experience on Anti-gay Sentiments: Longitudinal Analysis of Inmates and Their Families
Maxim Ananyev, Mikhail Poyker
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17113
Spillovers in Criminal Networks: Evidence from Co-offender Deaths
Matthew J. Lindquist, Eleonora Patacchini, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17012
The Relationship between Social Capital and Migrant Integration, Ethnic Diversity, and Spatial Sorting
Matthew Roskruge, Jacques Poot
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16947
On the Post-Enlightenment Evolution of Moral Universalism
Michael Jetter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16830
Peer Effects on Violence: Experimental Evidence from El Salvador
Lelys Dinarte Diaz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16739
Ethnic Identity and Educational Outcomes
Teresa Randazzo, Matloob Piracha
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. 16633
The Heritability of Economic Preferences
Nathan Kettlewell, Agnieszka Tymula, Hong Il Yoo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16622
Life-Cycle Effects of Comprehensive Sex Education
Volha Lazuka, Annika Elwert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16599
Stigma and Take-up of Labor Market Assistance: Evidence from Two Field Experiments
Adam Osman, Jamin D. Speer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16354
Towards a General Theory of Peer Effects
Vincent Boucher, Michelle Rendall, Philip Ushchev, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16282
Illicit Shadows: An Economic Analysis of Trade Gaps in Cultural Goods through the Italian Market
Elia Acciai, Michele Belloni, Marina Della Giusta, Giovanna Segre
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16193
Entitled to Property: How Breaking the Gender Barrier Improves Child Health in India
Md Shahadath Hossain, Plamen Nikolov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16097
Marriage versus Cohabitation: How Specialization and Time Use Differ by Relationship Type
Leslie S. Stratton
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15969
Does War Foster Cooperation or Parochialism? Evidence from a Natural Experiment among Turkish Conscripts
Arzu Kıbrıs, Resul Cesur
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15923
A Pure Theory of Population Distribution When Preferences Are Ordinal
Holger Stark, Grzegorz Kosiorowski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15904
Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe
Richard A. Easterlin, Kelsey J. O'Connor
published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022, 119 (37), e2210639119.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15861
American Indian Casinos and Native American Self-Identification
Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan
forthcoming in: Journal of the European Economic Association
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15584
Choosing or Inheriting the Joneses: The Origins of Reference Groups
Martin Leites, Camila Paleo, Xavier Ramos, Gonzalo Salas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15431
Stigma in Welfare Programs
Pablo Celhay, Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15381
Bring a Friend: Strengthening Women's Social Networks and Reproductive Autonomy in India
S Anukriti, Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Mahesh Karra
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15376
Spatial Interactions
Jun Sung Kim, Eleonora Patacchini, Pierre M. Picard, Yves Zenou
published in: Quantitative Economics, 2023, 14 (4), 1295-1335
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15374
Traditional Norms, Access to Divorce and Women's Empowerment
Olivier Bargain, Jordan Loper, Roberta Ziparo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15360
Occupational Status and Life Satisfaction in the UK: The Miserable Middle?
Yannis Georgellis, Andrew E. Clark, Emmanuel Apergis, Catherine Robinson
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 204, 509-527
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15348
Millet, Rice, and Isolation: Origins and Persistence of the World's Most Enduring Mega-State
James Kai-sing Kung, Ömer Özak, Louis Putterman, Shuang Shi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15212
Does Social Capital Matter? A Study of Hit-and-Run in US Counties
Stefano Castriota, Sandro Rondinella, Mirco Tonin
published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2023, 329, 116011
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15179
Developmental Losses in Young Children from Pre-primary Program Closures during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Alejandra Abufhele, David Bravo, Florencia López Bóo, Pamela Soto-Ramirez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15042
Strangers and Foreigners: Trust and Attitudes toward Citizenship
Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico, Gian Luca Tedeschi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14938
Economic Production and the Spread of Supernatural Beliefs
Daniel Araújo, Bladimir Carrillo, Breno Sampaio
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14862
Ethnic Regional Networks and Immigrants' Earnings: A Spatial Autoregressive Network Approach
Xingang Wang, Sholeh A. Maani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14820
Individualism, Human Capital Formation, and Labor Market Success
Katharina Hartinger, Sven Resnjanskij, Jens Ruhose, Simon Wiederhold
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14815
Multi-Dimensional Identities of the Hispanic Population in the United States
Francisca M. Antman
published in: Advancing Anti-racist Economic Research and Policy. Economic Policy Institute Perspectives and Resources on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy. June 2022.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14802
Education Transmission and Network Formation
Vincent Boucher, Carlo L. Del Bello, Fabrizio Panebianco, Thierry Verdier, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14757
Did the "Bologna Process" Achieve Its Goals? 20 Years of Empirical Evidence on Student Enrolment, Study Success and Labour Market Outcomes
Martina Kroher, Kathrin Leuze, Stephan L. Thomsen, Johannes Trunzer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14734
The Heritability of Trust and Trustworthiness Depends on the Measure of Trust
Nathan Kettlewell, Agnieszka Tymula
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14728
The Impact of Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants on Their Integration in the Host Country
Pia Schilling, Steven Stillman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14719
The Alabaster Ceiling: The Gender Legacy of the Papal States
Elona Harka, Luca Nunziata, Lorenzo Rocco
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14677
Migrant Networks and Destination Choice: Evidence from Moves across Turkish Provinces
Abdurrahman B. Aydemir, Erkan Duman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14549
Gender Norms and Women's Decision to Work: Evidence from Japan
Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Ryuichi Tanaka
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2022, 20, 15 - 36
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14539
Economics of Minority Groups: Labour Market Returns and Transmission of Indigenous Languages
Diego de la Fuente Stevens, Panu Pelkonen
published in: World Development, 2023, 162, 106096
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14518
Fighting Climate Change: The Role of Norms, Preferences, and Moral Values
Peter Andre, Teodora Boneva, Felix Chopra, Armin Falk
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14498
Entitled to Property: Inheritance Laws, Female Bargaining Power, and Child Health in India
Md Shahadath Hossain, Plamen Nikolov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14327
Experiencing Booms and Busts in the Welfare State and Support for Redistribution
Kerstin F. Hansen, Alois Stutzer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14307
Sooner Rather Than Later: Social Networks and Technology Adoption
Shyamal Chowdhury, Varun Satish, Munshi Sulaiman, Yi Sun
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14260
Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment and a Structural Model
Vincent Boucher, Semih Tumen, Michael Vlassopoulos, Jackline Wahba, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14219
The Impact of Gender Role Norms on Mothers' Labor Supply
Danilo Cavapozzi, Marco Francesconi, Cheti Nicoletti
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 186, 113-134
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14198
Income Changes Do Not Influence Political Participation: Evidence from Comparative Panel Data
Sebastian Jungkunz, Paul Marx
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14159
The Consequences of Hosting Asylum Seekers for Citizens' Policy Preferences
Severin Zimmermann, Alois Stutzer
revised version published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 73, 102130
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14123
Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Labour Market Outcomes
Matloob Piracha, Massimiliano Tani, Zhiming Cheng, Ben Zhe Wang
revised version published as 'Social Assimilation and Immigrants' Labour Market Outcomes' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 37 - 67
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14076
Sweet Unbinding: Sugarcane Cultivation and the Demise of Foot-Binding
Nora Cheng, Elliott Fan, Tsong-Min Wu
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 157, 102876.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14005
Friendship Networks and Political Opinions: A Natural Experiment among Future French Politicians
Yann Algan, Nicolò Dalvit, Quoc-Anh Do, Alexis Le Chapelain, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14002
Community Influence as an Explanatory Factor Why Roma Children Get Little Schooling
Oded Stark, Ruxanda Berlinschi
published in: Public Choice, 2021, 189, 93–11
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13906
Parents, Neighbors and Youth Crime
Carlos Díaz, Eleonora Patacchini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13783
Cultural Identity and Social Capital in Italy
Daniel Sgroi, Michela Redoano, Federica Liberini, Ben Lockwood, Emanuele Bracco, Francesco Porcelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13765
From Parent to Child? The Long-Lasting Effects of Social Support
Ambra Poggi, Guyonne Kalb
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13711
The Ties That Bind Us: Social Networks and Productivity in the Factory
Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Swati Sharma
published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2024, 228, 470 - 485
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13688
Crowding-Out or Crowding-In? Heterogeneous Effects of Insurance on Solidarity
Andreas Landmann, Björn Vollan, Karla Henning, Markus Frölich
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13680
Peers, Gender, and Long-Term Depression
Corrado Giulietti, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou
published in: European Economic Review, 144, 104084, 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13269
Market Competition and Discrimination
Abu Siddique, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou
published in: European Economic Review, 152, 104361, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13126
Gendered Language
Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12894
Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation
Oded Galor, Ömer Özak, Assaf Sarid
published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2020. 110, 309-313
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12752
Social Norms in Networks
Philip Ushchev, Yves Zenou
published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2020, 185, 104969.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12751
Assimilation Patterns in Cities
Yasuhiro Sato, Yves Zenou
published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 129, 103563.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12709
Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from U.S. Mass Migration
Bryan Andrew Stuart, Evan J. Taylor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12672
The Value of Information in Technology Adoption
Asadul Islam, Philip Ushchev, Yves Zenou, Xin Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12618
Analyzing the Perceptions of Egyptian Youth about the Arab Spring
Ali Fakih, Pascal L. Ghazalian
published in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2021, 48 (1), 1658-1676
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12615
Incentives to Identify: A Comment
Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan
shorter version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101(4): 742
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12534
Crime and Networks: 10 Policy Lessons
Matthew J. Lindquist, Yves Zenou
published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2019, 35 (4), 746 - 771
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12361
Switching Queues, Cultural Conventions, and Social Welfare
Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski, Grzegorz Kosiorowski
published in: European Journal of Operational Research, 2019, 278 (3), 837 - 844
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12360
Coming Out in America: AIDS, Politics, and Cultural Change
Raquel Fernández, Sahar Parsa, Martina Viarengo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12335
Tax Audits as Scarecrows. Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
Marcelo Bergolo, Rodrigo Ceni, Guillermo Cruces, Matias Giaccobasso, Ricardo Perez-Truglia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12331
The Pure Effect of Social Preferences on Regional Location Choices: The Evolving Dynamics of Convergence to a Steady State Population Distribution
Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski, Grzegorz Kosiorowski
published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2019, 59 (5), 883 - 909
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12326
Stalin and the Origins of Mistrust
Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova, Vladimir Otrachshenko
revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 208, 104629
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. 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. 12130
Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe
Alberto Alesina, Elie Murard, Hillel Rapoport
published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2021, lbab002
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11990
Younger and Dissatisfied? Relative Age and Life-Satisfaction in Adolescence
Luca Fumarco, Stijn Baert
revised version published as 'Younger, Dissatisfied, and Unhealthy? Relative Age and Life-satisfaction in Adolescence' (with additional coauthor: Francesco Sarracino) in: Economics & Human Biology, 2019, 168, 313 - 337
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11982
Geographical Roots of the Coevolution of Cultural and Linguistic Traits
Oded Galor, Ömer Özak, Assaf Sarid
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11961
Government Transfers, Work and Wellbeing: Evidence from the Russian Old-Age Pension
Louise Grogan, Fraser Summerfield
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11938
Does Female Breadwinning Make Partnerships Less Healthy or Less Stable?
Gigi Foster, Leslie S. Stratton
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34 (1), 63-96.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11916
Superstar Economists: Coauthorship Networks and Research Output
Chih-Sheng Hsieh, Michael D. König, Xiaodong Liu, Christian Zimmermann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11818
Alternative Values-Based 'Recipes' for Life Satisfaction: German Results with an Australian Replication
Bruce Headey, Gert G. Wagner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11793
Linguistic Skills and the Intergenerational Transmission of Language
Ramon Caminal, Lorenzo Cappellari, Antonio Di Paolo
published as 'Language-in-education, language skills and the intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 70, 101975
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11694
Independent Thinking and Hard Working, or Caring and Well Behaved? Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Gender Identity Norms
Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anastasia Terskaya
substantially revised version published as 'Gender Norms in High School: Impacts on Risky Behaviors from Adolescence to Adulthood' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 196, 429-456
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11684
The Golden Middle Class Neighborhood: Trends in Residential Segregation and Consequences for Offspring Outcomes
Simen Markussen, Knut Røed
revised version published as 'Are Richer Neighborhoods Always Better for the Kids?' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2023, 23 (3), 629–651
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11665
Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning
Roland Benabou, Armin Falk, Jean Tirole
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11554
The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Modern Times
Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Ömer Özak
published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2020, Vol. 25(3), 297-340
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11532
Math, Girls and Socialism
Quentin Lippmann, Claudia Senik
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (3), 874-888.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11528
Ancestral Characteristics of Modern Populations
Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn
published in: Economic History of Developing Regions, 2018, 33 (1): 1-17
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11524
Language Assimilation and Performance in Achievement Tests among Immigrant Children: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Sankar Mukhopadhyay
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 75, 101970
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11487
Diversity and Conflict
Cemal Eren Arbatli, Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor, Marc Klemp
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11436
Conformism, Social Norms and the Dynamics of Assimilation
Gonzalo Olcina, Fabrizio Panebianco, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11368
Deprivation, Segregation, and Socioeconomic Class of UK Immigrants: Does English Proficiency Matter?
Yu Aoki, Lualhati Santiago
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11316
Mortgage Finance and Culture
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2018, 58 (4), 786 - 821
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11096
Reluctant to Reform? A Note on Risk-Loving Politicians and Bureaucrats
Tobias Thomas, Moritz Heß, Gert G. Wagner
published in: Review of Economics (Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftswissenschaften), 2017, 68 (3), 167-179
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10921
Status Inequality, Moral Disengagement and Violence
Armin Falk
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