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215 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18147
Covariate Balancing and the Equivalence of Weighting and Doubly Robust Estimators of Average Treatment Effects
Tymon Sloczynski, Derya Uysal, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18091
Bivariate Distribution Regression; Theory, Estimation and an Application to Intergenerational Mobility
Victor Chernozhukov, Iván Fernández-Val, Jonas Meier, Aico van Vuuren, Francis Vella
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17887
How Organized Is the Informal Sector? The Role of Business Associations in Microenterprises in West Africa
Clement Joubert, Kathleen Beegle
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17841
Daniel Kahneman’s Underappreciated Last Published Paper: Empirical Implications for Benefit-Cost Analysis and a Chat Session Discussion with Bots
C. Monica Capra, Thomas J. Kniesner
published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2025, 71(1), 29-51
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17764
China’s Import Competition, Innovation and the Role of Unions
Alessia Matano, Paolo Naticchioni
published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2025, 73, 423-433
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17672
Long-Term and Lasting Impacts of Personal Initiative Training on Entrepreneurial Success
Francisco Campos, Michael Frese, Leonardo Iacovone, Hillary C. Johnson, David McKenzie, Mona Mensmann
forthcoming in: American Economic Review: Insights
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17615
Unions and Employers' Associations in Germany: A Survey of Their Membership, Density and Bargaining Coverage
Claus Schnabel
published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2025, 59, 7(2025)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17610
Estimation of Linear Models from Coarsened Observations: A Method of Moments Approach
Bernard M. S. van Praag, J. Peter Hop, William H. Greene
published online in: Psychometrika, 10 March 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17515
Patterns in State Funding of Public Higher Education: Demography, Ideology, Educational Attainment, and Trends
Gerhard Glomm, Manu Raghav
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17506
Altruistic Giving and Risk Taking in Human Affairs
Oded Stark, Lukasz Balbus
published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2025, 64, 373–392
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17338
Distance to Degrees: How College Proximity Shapes Students' Enrollment Choices and Attainment across Race-Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status
Riley Acton, Kalena E. Cortes, Lois Miller, Camila Morales
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17157
Constructing BEA Highways and Streets Net Wealth Stocks with Detailed Types of Investment and Engineering-Based Estimates of Depreciation
Barbara M. Fraumeni, Robert Kornfeld
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17156
How Should We Measure Infrastructure? The Case of Highways and Streets
Robert Kornfeld, Barbara M. Fraumeni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17056
Understanding the Educational Attainment Polygenic Index and Its Interactions with SES in Determining Health in Young Adulthood
Atticus Bolyard, Peter A. Savelyev
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17054
Teacher Value-Added and the Test Score Gender Gap
Andrés García-Echalar, Sebastián Poblete, Tomas Rau
published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 89, 102588
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16689
Female Classmates, Disruption, and STEM Outcomes in Disadvantaged Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment
Sofoklis Goulas, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Yi Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16509
Unemployment Insurance with Response Heterogeneity
Conny Wunsch, Véra Zabrodina
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16337
Documenting and Explaining the Dramatic Rise of the New Society Journals in Economics
John C. Ham, Julian Wright, Ziqiu Ye
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16254
Unpacking Name-Based Race Discrimination
Martin Abel, Rulof Burger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16142
Donations and Unpaid Activities
Olaf Hübler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16121
A Theory of Non-Coasean Labor Markets
Andrés Blanco, Andres Drenik, Christian Moser, Emilio Zaratiegui
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15733
Female Neighbors, Test Scores, and Careers
Sofoklis Goulas, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Yi Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15709
Geographic Variation in Inpatient Care Utilization, Outcomes and Costs for Dementia Patients in China
Zhuoer Lin, Fang Ba, Heather Allore, Gordon G. Liu, Xi Chen
published in: China CDC Weekly, 2022, 4 (45), 997-1001
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15688
Different Degrees of Skill Obsolescence across Hard and Soft Skills and the Role of Lifelong Learning for Labor Market Outcomes
Tobias Schultheiss, Uschi Backes-Gellner
published in: Industrial Relations, 2023, 62 (3), 257 - 287
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15604
How Good Am I? Effects and Mechanisms behind Salient Ranks
Rigissa Megalokonomou, Yi Zhang
published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 170, 104870
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15559
Does Population Sorting through Internal Migration Increase Healthcare Costs and Needs in Peripheral Regions?
Shobhit Kulshreshtha, Martin Salm, Ansgar Wübker
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15496
Social Preferences and Rating Biases in Subjective Performance Evaluations
David Kusterer, Dirk Sliwka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15467
How Should We Think About Employers' Associations?
Alex Bryson, Paul Willman
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2024, 62 (2), 193-205
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15441
Challenging Encounters and Within-Physician Practice Variability
Gabriel Chodick, Yoav Goldstein, Ity Shurtz, Dan Zeltzer
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 15 March 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15383
On the Optimal Size of a Joint Savings Association
Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski, Marcin Jakubek, Grzegorz Kosiorowski
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2022, 50 (3), 804 - 814
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15383
On the Optimal Size of a Joint Savings Association
Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski, Marcin Jakubek, Grzegorz Kosiorowski
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2022, 50 (3), 804 - 814
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15370
How Representative Are Social Partners in Europe? The Role of Dissimilarity
Marta Martínez Matute, Pedro S. Martins
published in: Labour, 2022, 36, 424 - 444
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15255
Regional Consumption Responses and the Aggregate Fiscal Multiplier
Bill Dupor, Marios Karabarbounis, Marianna Kudlyak, M. Saif Mehkari
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2023, 90 (6), 2982–3021,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15178
Universal Credit: Welfare Reform and Mental Health
Mike Brewer, Thang Dang, Emma Tominey
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 98, 102940
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15096
Improving the Availability of Unrelated Stem Cell Donors: Evidence from a Major Donor Registry
Michael Haylock, Patrick Kampkötter, Mario Macis, Jürgen Sauter, Susanne Seitz, Robert Slonim, Daniel Wiesen, Alexander H. Schmidt
published online in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2024.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15082
The Long-Run Effects of College Remedial Education
Marco Alberto De Benedetto, Maria De Paola, Vincenzo Scoppa, Janna Smirnova
published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 2016, 110613.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14852
Misappropriation of R&D Subsidies: Estimating Treatment Effects with One-Sided Noncompliance
Philipp Boeing, Bettina Peters
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14799
Interview Sequences and the Formation of Subjective Assessments
Jonas Radbruch, Amelie Schiprowski
substantially revised version published online in: Review of Economic Studies, 10 April 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14783
Membership in Employers' Associations and Collective Bargaining Coverage in Germany
Uwe Jirjahn
revised version published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2023, 44 (3), 798-826
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14748
The Causal Effects of Place on Health and Longevity
Tatyana Deryugina, David Molitor
published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2021, 35 (4), 147–170
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14674
Targeted Poverty Alleviation and Children's Academic Performance in China
Huifu Nong, Qing Zhang, Hongjia Zhu, Rong Zhu
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68, 951–969
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14547
Deteriorated Sleep Quality Does Not Explain the Negative Impact of Smartphone Use on Academic Performance
Simon Amez, Suncica Vujic, Margo Abrath, Stijn Baert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14505
The Determinants of Study Abroad Participation: A Bivariate Probability Model with Sample Selection
Giorgio Di Pietro
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14459
Dispersion in Dispersion: Measuring Establishment-Level Differences In Productivity
Cindy Cunningham, Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John C. Haltiwanger, Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, Jay Stewart, Zoltan Wolf
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2023, 69 (4), 999-1032
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14350
Assessing Gender Gaps in Employment and Earnings in Africa: The Case of Eswatini
Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Susumu Imai, Thierry Kangoye, Nadege Desiree Yameogo
published in: Development Southern Africa, 2021, 38 (4), 643–663
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14232
Returns to International Migration: Evidence from a Bangladesh-Malaysia Visa Lottery
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Iffath Sharif, Maheshwor Shrestha
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, 15 (4), 353–388
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13938
On the Mechanisms of Ability Peer Effects
Alexandra de Gendre, Nicolás Salamanca
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13763
A Subscription vs. Appropriation Framework for Natural Resource Conflicts
Dripto Bakshi, Indraneel Dasgupta
published in: A. Markandya and D. Rübbelke (eds.), Climate and Development; World Scientific, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13618
The Intergenerational Effects of Requiring Unemployment Benefit Recipients to Engage in Non-Search Activities
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Anne C. Gielen
published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 91, 102644
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13559
Short Moves and Long Stays: Homeless Family Responses to Exogenous Shelter Assignments in New York City
Michael T. Cassidy
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