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198 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17768
Gender-Targeted Transfers and Women’s Consumption: A Structural Regression Discontinuity Approach
Olivier B. Bargain, Maira Colacce
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17587
Phasing Out Payroll Tax Subsidies
Anna Herget, Regina T. Riphahn
forthcoming in: International Tax and Public Finance.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17527
The Political Economy of Privatization of Education: Role of Local Politicians in India
Muneer Kalliyil, Soham Sahoo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17504
Cut Off from New Competition: Threat of Entry and Quality of Primary Care
Eduard Brüll, Davud Rostam-Afschar, Oliver Schlenker
published in: Labour Economics, 2025, 92, 102669
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17088
Measuring and Correcting Monotonicity Bias: The Case of School Entrance Age Effects
Itay Attar, Danny Cohen-Zada, Todd E. Elder
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17076
Fathers Taking Leave: Evaluating the Impact of Shared Parental Leave in the UK
Joanna Clifton-Sprigg, Eleonora Fichera, Ezgi Kaya, Melanie K. Jones
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16819
Behavioural Responses to Disability Insurance Generosity in a Work-Compatibility Setting
Francesca Zantomio, Michele Belloni, Vincenzo Carrieri, Elena Farina, Irene Simonetti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16767
Heterogeneous Effects of Blood Pressure Screening
Fabrice Kämpfen, Irene Mosca
published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 242, 11845
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16756
The Long-Run Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Act On Women's Careers and Childbearing: New Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design and U.S. Tax Data
Martha J. Bailey, Tanya Byker, Elena Patel, Shanthi Ramnath
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2025, 17 (1), 401–431
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16506
School and Crime
Todd R. Jones, Ezra Karger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16336
Debt Relief for the Financially Vulnerable: Impact on Employment, Welfare Receipt, and Mental Health
Ernst-Jan de Bruijn, Heike Vethaak, Pierre Koning, Marike Knoef
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16310
Education and Later-Life Mortality: Evidence from a School Reform in Japan
Kazuya Masuda, Hitoshi Shigeoka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16248
Financial Incentives and Private Health Insurance Demand on the Extensive and Intensive Margins
Nathan Kettlewell, Yuting Zhang
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 94, 102863
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16181
Erasmus Program and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design
Marco Alberto De Benedetto, Maria De Paola, Vincenzo Scoppa, Janna Smirnova
published in: Labour Economics, 2025, 93, 102675
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16153
Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Low-Educated Unemployed Youths
Andrea Albanese, Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe
revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 235, 105137
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16108
The Long-Term Causal Effects of Winning an ERC Grant
Corinna Ghirelli, Enkelejda Havari, Elena Claudia Meroni, Stefano Verzillo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16086
Parental and Student Time Use around the Academic Year
Benjamin Cowan, Todd R. Jones, Jeffrey Swigert
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 224, 66-110
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16080
Impact of Graduating with Honors on Entry Wages of Economics Majors
Salim Atay, Gunes A. Aşık, Semih Tumen
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 86 (3), 606-640
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16039
Pension Reforms and Couples' Labour Supply Decisions
Hamed Markazi Moghadam, Patrick A. Puhani, Joanna Tyrowicz
published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 91, 102627
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15978
The Micro and Macro Effects of Changes in the Potential Benefit Duration
Jonas Jessen, Robin Jessen, Ewa Galecka-Burdziak, Marek Góra, Jochen Kluve
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15756
Does It Pay to Attend More Selective High Schools? Regression Discontinuity Evidence from China
Bin Huang, Bo Li, Ian Walker, Yu Zhu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15726
The Effects of a Disability Employment Quota When Compliance Is Cheaper than Defiance
Judit Krekó, Álmos Telegdy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15671
Regression Discontinuity Evidence on the Effectiveness of the Minimum Legal E-cigarette Purchasing Age
Jeff DeSimone, Daniel Grossman, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 9 (3), 461 – 485
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15414
Mean Convergence, Combinatorics, and Grade-Point Averages
Glen R. Waddell, Robert McDonough
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15403
Sick and Depressed? The Causal Impact of a Diabetes Diagnosis on Depression
Alessio Gaggero, Joan Gil, Dolores Jiménez-Rubio, Eugenio Zucchelli
published in: Health Economics Review, 2023, 13, Article 38 (2023)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15345
Does the Employment Effect of National Minimum Wage Vary by Non-employment Rate? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Lei Xu, Yu Zhu
published in: Manchester School, 2023, 91 (1), 18 - 36
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15318
Effect of Secondary Education on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
Jani-Petteri Ollikainen, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo, Hanna Virtanen
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 103, 102603
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15172
Making Subsidies Work: Rules vs. Discretion
Federico Cingano, Filippo Palomba, Paolo Pinotti, Enrico Rettore
forthcoming in: Econometrica
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15139
Do Second Chances Pay Off? Evidence from a Natural Experiment with Low-Achieving Students
Aspasia Bizopoulou, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Stefania Simion
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105214
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15051
Multi-Cutoff RD Designs with Observations Located at Each Cutoff: Problems and Solutions
Margherita Fort, Andrea Ichino, Enrico Rettore, Giulio Zanella
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15039
The Long-Run Educational Benefits of High-Achieving Classrooms
Serena Canaan, Pierre Mouganie, Peng Zhang
published online in: JJournal of Policy Analysis and Management , 20 August 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14999
Employment Effects of Restricting Fixed-Term Contracts: Theory and Evidence
Pierre Cahuc, Pauline Carry, Franck Malherbet, Pedro S. Martins
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14923
Visual Inference and Graphical Representation in Regression Discontinuity Designs
Christina Korting, Carl Lieberman, Jordan Matsudaira, Zhuan Pei, Yi Shen
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023, 138 (3), 1977–2019,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14901
Age Penalties and Take-up of Private Health Insurance
Nathan Kettlewell, Yuting Zhang
published in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (4), 636-651
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14900
Green Infrastructure and Air Pollution: Evidence from Highways Connecting Two Megacities in China
Bo Yu, Trang Tran, Wang-Sheng Lee
published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, 122, 102884
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14893
The Effects of an Increase in the Retirement Age on Health – Evidence from Administrative Data
Mara Barschkett, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid
published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2022, 23, 100403
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14693
Child Health and Parental Responses to an Unconditional Cash Transfer at Birth
Alexandra de Gendre, John Lynch, Aurélie Meunier, Rhiannon Pilkington, Stefanie Schurer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14651
Study Abroad Programmes and Students' Academic Performance: Evidence from Erasmus Applications
Silvia Granato, Enkelejda Havari, Gianluca Mazzarella, Sylke V. Schnepf
published as 'Study abroad programmes and student outcomes: Evidence from Erasmus' in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 99, 102510
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14553
Can a Supranational Medicines Agency Restore Trust After Vaccine Suspensions? The Case of Vaxzevria
Andrea Albanese, Francesco Fallucchi, Bertrand Verheyden
published in: PLoS ONE, 2022, 17 (11), e02777554
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14513
Keeping Refugee Children in School and Out of Work: Evidence from the World's Largest Humanitarian Cash Transfer Program
Aysun Hızıroğlu Aygün, Murat Güray Kirdar, Murat Koyuncu, Quentin Stoeffler
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 168, 103266.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14480
Does Knowledge Empower? Education, Legal Awareness and Intimate Partner Violence
Bilge Erten, Pinar Keskin
published in: Feminist Economics, 2022, 28 (4), 29 - 59
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14469
Pension Incentives and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Introduction of Universal Old-Age Assistance in the UK
Matthias Giesecke, Philipp Jaeger
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 203, 104516
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14321
Labor Market Institutions and the Incidence of Payroll Taxation
Jinyoung Kim, Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 209, 104646
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14296
Downstream Effects of Voting on Turnout and Political Preferences: Long-Run Evidence from the UK
Jonas Jessen, Daniel Kühnle, Markus Wagner
revised version published as 'Long-Run Effects of Earlier Voting Eligibility on Turnout and Political Involvement' in: Journal of Politics, 2024, 86 (3), 1045–1059
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14281
Mental Health Costs of Lockdowns: Evidence from Age-Specific Curfews in Turkey
Onur Altindag, Bilge Erten, Pinar Keskin
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14 (2), 320–343
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14197
Anemia, Diet, and Cognitive Development: Impact of Health Information on Diet Quality and Child Nutrition in Rural India
Marion Krämer, Santosh Kumar, Sebastian Vollmer
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021,190 (C), 495-523
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14168
Age of Starting School, Academic Performance, and the Impact of Non-Compliance: An Experiment within an Experiment, Evidence from Australia
Tony Beatton, Michael Kidd, Anthony Niu, Francis Vella
published in: Economic Record, 2023, 99 (325), 175 - 206
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14145
Language Training and Refugees' Integration
Jacob Nielsen Arendt, Iben Bolvig, Mette Foged, Linea Hasager, Giovanni Peri
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 23 June 2023 (adults) and as 'Intergenerational spillover effects of language training for refugees' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 220, 104840 (children / intergenerational effects)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14106
Health Information and Lifestyle Behaviours: The Impact of a Diabetes Diagnosis
Alessio Gaggero, Joan Gil, Dolores Jiménez-Rubio, Eugenio Zucchelli
published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2022, 314, 115420
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14013
The Effect of Education on Geographic Mobility: Incidence, Timing, and Type of Migration
Abdurrahman B. Aydemir, Murat Güray Kirdar, Huzeyfe Torun
published as 'The effect of education on internal migration of young men and women: incidence, timing, and type of migration' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 74, 102098
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