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307 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12939
Vaccines at Work
Manuel Hoffmann, Roberto Mosquera, Adrian Chadi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12772
Why Don't We Sleep Enough? A Field Experiment among College Students
Mallory Avery, Osea Giuntella, Peiran Jiao
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 27 September 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12729
Proportional Representation, Political Responsiveness and Child Mortality
Christina Gathmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12728
The Economics of Mass Shootings
Abel Brodeur, Hasin Yousaf
published online as 'On the Economic Consequences of Mass Shootings' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 27 September 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12686
Disability and Multi-Dimensional Quality of Life: A Capability Approach to Health Status Assessment
Paul Anand, Laurence Roope, Anthony J. Culyer, Ron P. Smith
published in: Health Economics, 2020, 29 (7), 748 - 765
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12652
The Effect of Sentencing Reform on Crime Rates: Evidence from California's Proposition 47
Patricio Dominguez-Rivera, Magnus Lofstrom, Steven Raphael
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12635
Terrorism, Immigration and Asylum Approval
Abel Brodeur, Taylor Wright
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 168, 119-131
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12617
The Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Workplace Absenteeism of Overweight and Obese Workers
Ethan Grumstrup, Md. Mobarak Hossain, Sankar Mukhopadhyay, Olga Shapoval
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12613
The Short- and Long-Run Impacts of Secondary School Absences
Jing Liu, Monica Lee, Seth Gershenson
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 199, 104441
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12497
Who Is a Passive Saver under Opt-In and Auto-Enrollment?
Gopi Shah Goda, Matthew R. Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner, Joshua Tasoff
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 173, 301-321
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12392
Questioning the Stereotype of the "Malingering Bureaucrat": Absence from Work in the Public and Private Sector in Germany
Stephanie Prümer, Claus Schnabel
published in: Kyklos, 2019, 72 (4), 570-603
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12344
Works Councils and Organizational Gender Policies in Germany
Uwe Jirjahn, Jens Mohrenweiser
revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 59 (4), 1020-1048
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12318
Military Intervention via Drone Strikes
Rafat Mahmood, Michael Jetter
published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (650), 787-811
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12265
Population Aging, Age Discrimination, and Age Discrimination Protections at the 50th Anniversary of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
Patrick Button
published in: Czaja, S. J.; Sharit, J. and J. James (eds.), Current and Emerging Trends in Aging and Work, Springer: New York, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12253
Advanced Counter-Biasing
Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Kevin Benscheidt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12216
Trust and Workplace Performance
John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira
revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (4), 874-903.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12181
Absenteeism on Bridging Days
René Böheim, Thomas Leoni
published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2020, 27 (20), 1667–1671
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12113
Works Councils and Workplace Health Promotion in Germany
Uwe Jirjahn, Jens Mohrenweiser, Stephen C. Smith
revised version published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2022, 43 (3), 1059-1094
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12087
Estimating the Potential Effects of Adding a Citizenship Question to the 2020 Census
J. David Brown, Misty L. Heggeness, Suzanne M. Dorinski, Lawrence Warren, Moises Yi
published as 'Predicting the Effect of Adding a Citizenship Question to the 2020 Census' in: Demography, 2019, 56 1173–1194.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11989
Rationalizing Rational Expectations? Tests and Deviations
Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Christophe Gaillac, Arnaud Maurel
published in: Quantitative Economics, 2021, 12 (3), 817 - 842
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11973
Evaluation of Language Training Programs in Luxembourg Using Principal Stratification
Michela Bia, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Andrea Mercatanti
published in: Observational Studies, 2022, 8 (1), 1- 44
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11945
Special Interest Groups versus Voters and the Political Economics of Attention
Patrick Balles, Ulrich Matter, Alois Stutzer
published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (662), 2290 - 2320
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11912
Quantile Regression Estimates of the Effect of Student Absences on Academic Achievement
Seth Gershenson, Jessica Rae McBean, Long Tran
published in: M. Gottfried; E. Hutt (eds.): Addressing Absenteeism, Cambridge, MA, 2019, 67-82
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11911
Experimental Estimates of the Student Attendance Production Function
Long Tran, Seth Gershenson
published in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2021, 43 (2), 183-199.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11889
Employee Absence: An Organizational Perspective
Jacob Kjær Eskildsen, Anders Frederiksen, Ann-Kristina Løkke
published as 'Employee Absence in Public and Private Organizations' in: Applied Economics, 2021, 53 (21), 2416-2432
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11889
Employee Absence: An Organizational Perspective
Jacob Kjær Eskildsen, Anders Frederiksen, Ann-Kristina Løkke
published as 'Employee Absence in Public and Private Organizations' in: Applied Economics, 2021, 53 (21), 2416-2432
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11860
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Michael Barry, Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez, Bruce E. Kaufman, Guenther Lomas, Adrian Wilkinson
published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2019, 2 (1), 60-90
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11799
Can Online Surveys Represent the Entire Population?
Elisabeth Grewenig, Philipp Lergetporer, Lisa Simon, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann
published as 'Can Internet Surveys Represent the Entire Population? A Practitioners’ Analysis' in: European Journal of Political Economy 2023, 78, 102382
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11762
Predicting Retirement Savings Using Survey Measures of Exponential-Growth Bias and Present Bias
Gopi Shah Goda, Matthew R. Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner, Joshua Tasoff
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2019, 57 (3), 1636 - 1658
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11700
Commuting Time and Sick-Day Absence of US Workers
José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina, Jorge Velilla
published in: Empirica, 2022, 49, 691 - 719
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11596
Women Legislators and Economic Performance
Thushyanthan Baskaran, Sonia R. Bhalotra, Brian Min, Yogesh Uppal
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2024, 29, 151–214
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11590
Maternal Mortality and Women's Political Participation
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Damian Clarke, Joseph Gomes, Atheendar Venkataramani
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (5), 2172–2208
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11543
The Impact of Sickness Absenteeism on Productivity: New Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data
Elena Grinza, François Rycx
published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2020, 59 (1), 150-194
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11539
Domain-Specific Risk and Public Policy
Ohto Kanninen, Petri Böckerman, Ilpo Suoniemi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11510
Live Longer, Work Longer: The Changing Nature of the Labour Market for Older Workers in OECD Countries
John P. Martin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11506
What Do Workers Want? The Shortfall in Employee Participation at the European Workplace
John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira
revised version published as 'What Do Workers Want? The Representation Gap at the EU Establishment as Perceived by Their Workplace Representatives' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2020, 49, 1-39
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11471
Graded Return-To-Work as a Stepping Stone to Full Work Resumption
Lieke Kools, Pierre Koning
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 65, 189-209
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11222
Does Sick Pay Affect Workplace Absence?
Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2019, (47), 227-252
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11202
Ordering History Through the Timeline
Eugenio Garibaldi, Pietro Garibaldi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11183
Commuting and Sickness Absence
Laszlo Goerke, Olga Lorenz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11183
Commuting and Sickness Absence
Laszlo Goerke, Olga Lorenz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11134
Severe Air Pollution and School Absences: Longitudinal Data on Expatriates in North China
Haoming Liu, Alberto Salvo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11066
Nonunion Employee Representation: Theory and the German Experience with Mandated Works Councils
Uwe Jirjahn, Stephen C. Smith
published in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2018, 89 (1), 201-234
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10995
The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden
Sarah Cattan, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson
updated version published as 'The Long-term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden' in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (650), 888-903
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10991
Activation against Absenteeism: Evidence from a Sickness Insurance Reform in Norway
Øystein Hernaes
revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 62, 60-68
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10899
Workplace Employee Representation and Industrial Relations Performance: New Evidence from the 2013 European Company Survey
John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira
published in: Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik (Journal of Economics and Statistics), 2019, 239 (1), 111-154
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10814
Father Absence and the Educational Gender Gap
Shelly Lundberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10796
Optimizing Criminal Behavior and the Disutility of Prison
Giovanni Mastrobuoni, David A. Rivers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10575
Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Trust: Evidence from Cross-Country Data
John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 159, 109-133.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10544
Mandatory Minimums and the Sentencing of Federal Drug Crimes
David J. Bjerk
published in: the Journal of Legal Studies, 2017, 46 (1), 93-128
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10544
Mandatory Minimums and the Sentencing of Federal Drug Crimes
David J. Bjerk
published in: the Journal of Legal Studies, 2017, 46 (1), 93-128
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10437
Employee Representation and Flexible Working Time
Gabriel Burdin, Virginie Pérotin
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101755
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10391
Estimation of Joint Income? Wealth Poverty: A Sensitivity Analysis
Sarah Kuypers, Ive Marx
published in Social Indicators Research, 2018, 136, 117 - 137
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10335
Sick Pay Reforms and Health Status in a Unionised Labour Market
Laszlo Goerke
published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 64(2), 115-142
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10283
Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments
Damon Clark, David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse, Mark Rush
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (4), 648-663
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10237
Mandatory Minimum Policy Reform and the Sentencing of Crack Cocaine Defendants: An Analysis of the Fair Sentencing Act
David J. Bjerk
published in: Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 2017, 14 (2), 370-396
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10237
Mandatory Minimum Policy Reform and the Sentencing of Crack Cocaine Defendants: An Analysis of the Fair Sentencing Act
David J. Bjerk
published in: Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 2017, 14 (2), 370-396
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10153
How Do Labor Representatives Affect Incentive Orientation of Executive Compensation?
Katharina Dyballa, Kornelius Kraft
published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2020, 66 (1), 60 - 90
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10101
Long-term Consequences of Workplace Bullying on Sickness Absence
Tine Louise Mundbjerg Eriksen, Annie Hogh, Åse Marie Hansen
published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 43, 129 - 150
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10019
Mind, Behaviour and Health: A Randomised Experiment
Yonas Alem, Hannah Behrendt, Michèle Belot, Aniko Biro
published in: PLoS ONE, 2021, 16 (11), e0258172
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9978
Should Value-Added Models Control for Student Absences?
Seth Gershenson
published in: Teachers College Record, 2016, ID No. 21629.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9963
Explaining Cross-National Variation in Workplace Employee Representation
John Forth, Alex Bryson, Anitha George
published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 23 (4), 415-433
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9879
Mental Health and Productivity at Work: Does What You Do Matter?
Melisa Bubonya, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Mark Wooden
published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 46, 150-165
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9879
Mental Health and Productivity at Work: Does What You Do Matter?
Melisa Bubonya, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Mark Wooden
published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 46, 150-165
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9840
Wellbeing Evidence for the Assessment of Progress
Paul Anand, Laurence Roope, Andreas Peichl
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9825
The Market for Paid Sick Leave
Simen Markussen, Knut Røed
revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 55, 244-261
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9709
Profiling the US Sick Leave Landscape
Philip Susser, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
short version published in: Health Services Research, 2016, 51 (6), 2305-2317
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9692
The Effectiveness of Medical and Vocational Interventions for Reducing Sick Leave of Self-Employed Workers
Stijn Baert, Bas van der Klaauw, Gijsbert van Lomwel
revised version published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (3), e139 - e152
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9653
How Soon Is Now? Evidence of Present Bias from Convex Time Budget Experiments
Uttara Balakrishnan, Johannes Haushofer, Pamela Jakiela
published in: Experimental Economics, 2020, 23, 294–321
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9632
Seniority Rules, Worker Mobility and Wages: Evidence from Multi-Country Linked Employer-Employee Data
Petri Böckerman, Per Skedinger, Roope Uusitalo
published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 48-62
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9558
Are Student Absences Worth the Worry in U.S. Primary Schools?
Seth Gershenson, Alison Jacknowitz, Andrew Brannegan
published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2017, 12(2): 137-165.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9554
The Impact of Teacher Demographic Representation on Student Attendance and Suspensions
Stephen B. Holt, Seth Gershenson
published in: Policy Studies Journal, 2019, 47(4), 1063-1093.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9554
The Impact of Teacher Demographic Representation on Student Attendance and Suspensions
Stephen B. Holt, Seth Gershenson
published in: Policy Studies Journal, 2019, 47(4), 1063-1093.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9400
Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water and Mental Health
Shyamal Chowdhury, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Klaus F. Zimmermann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9207
Building Trust in Rural Producer Organizations in Senegal: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Tanguy Bernard, Markus Frölich, Andreas Landmann, Pia Naima Unte, Angelino Viceisza, Fleur Wouterse
published in: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2021, 50 (3), 465 - 484
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9203
Performance Standards and Employee Effort: Evidence from Teacher Absences
Seth Gershenson
published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016, 35(3), 615-638
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9192
Seniority Wages and the Role of Firms in Retirement
Wolfgang Frimmel, Thomas Horvath, Mario Schnalzenberger, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
publshed in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 164, 19 - 32
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9175
Birth Weight in the Long-Run
Prashant Bharadwaj, Petter Lundborg, Dan-Olof Rooth
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53(1), 189-231
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9091
The Effect of Statutory Sick Pay Regulations on Workers' Health
Martin Halla, Susanne Pech, Martina Zweimüller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9091
The Effect of Statutory Sick Pay Regulations on Workers' Health
Martin Halla, Susanne Pech, Martina Zweimüller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9015
Coming to Work While Sick: An Economic Theory of Presenteeism with an Application to German Data
Boris Hirsch, Daniel S. J. Lechmann, Claus Schnabel
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (4), 1010-1031
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9015
Coming to Work While Sick: An Economic Theory of Presenteeism with an Application to German Data
Boris Hirsch, Daniel S. J. Lechmann, Claus Schnabel
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (4), 1010-1031
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8909
Worker Morale and Effort: Is the Relationship Causal?
Wolter Hassink, Roberto M. Fernandez
published in: Manchester School, 2018, 86 (6), 816-839
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8876
The Role of Education and Family Background in Marriage, Childbearing and Labor Market Participation in Senegal
Francesca Marchetta, David E. Sahn
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, 64 (2). 369-403
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8853
Behavioral Economics of Education: Progress and Possibilities
Adam M. Lavecchia, Heidi Liu, Philip Oreopoulos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8850
The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: A Method to Test for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior
Stefan Pichler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
revised version published as 'The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Noncontagious Absenteeism Behavior' in:Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 156, 14-33
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8833
A Centralized Approach to Modelling Collective Household Decisions: Some Preliminary Results
Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino, Federico Perali
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8833
A Centralized Approach to Modelling Collective Household Decisions: Some Preliminary Results
Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino, Federico Perali
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8814
The Medical Care Costs of Mood Disorders: A Coarsened Exact Matching Approach
Stefanie Schurer, Michael Alspach, Jayden MacRae, Greg L. Martin
published in: Economic Record, 2016, 92 (296), 81–93
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8555
Using Internet Data to Analyse the Labour Market: A Methodological Enquiry
Lucia Mýtna Kureková, Miroslav Beblavy, Anna-Elisabeth Thum
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8537
Employee Stock Purchase Plans: Gift or Incentive? Evidence from a Multinational Corporation
Alex Bryson, Richard B. Freeman
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 57 (1), 86-106
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8442
Concern for Relative Standing and Deception
Spyros Galanis, Michael Vlassopoulos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8422
Mandated versus Negotiated Severance Pay
Stéphane Auray, Samuel Danthine, Markus Poschke
published as 'Understanding the Determination of Severance Pay: Mandates, Bargaining, and Unions' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2020, 122 (3), 1073 - 1111
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8297
Workplace Health Promotion and Labour Market Performance of Employees
Martin Huber, Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015,43, 170-189
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8224
The Market for Mules: Risk and Compensation of Cross-Border Drug Couriers
David J. Bjerk, Caleb Mason
published in: International Review of Law and Economics, 2014, 39, 58-72.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8205
A Kink that Makes You Sick: The Incentive Effect of Sick Pay on Absence
Petri Böckerman, Ohto Kanninen, Ilpo Suoniemi
published as "A Kink that Makes You Sick: The Effect of Sick Pay on Absence" in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2018, 33 (4), 568-579
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8106
Remittances and Household Expenditure Behaviour in Senegal
Teresa Randazzo, Matloob Piracha
substantially revised version published as 'Remittances and household expenditure behaviour: Evidence from Senegal' in: Economic Modelling, 2019, 79, 141-153
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7964
Union Organizing Decisions in a Deteriorating Environment: The Composition of Representation Elections and the Decline in Turnout
Henry S Farber
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(5), 1126-1156
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7936
Family Employees and Absenteeism
Jörn Block, Laszlo Goerke, José María Millán, Concepción Román
published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 123 (1), 94-99
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7803
Looking After Number Two? Competition, Cooperation and Workplace Interaction
Tim Barmby, John G. Sessions, Alexandros Zangelidis
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 131 (Part A), 166-182
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