IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11409

Using a Kinked Policy Rule to Estimate the Effect of Experience Rating on Disability Inflow

Tomi Kyyrä, Tuuli Paukkeri

published as "Does Experience Rating Reduce Sickness and Disability Claims? Evidence from Policy Kinks" in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 61, 178-192

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11381

The Impacts of Paid Family Leave Benefits: Regression Kink Evidence from California Administrative Data

Sarah Bana, Kelly Bedard, Maya Rossin-Slater

published in: Journal of Policy Analysis & Management, 2020, 39 (4), 888-929

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11352

Health Workers' Behavior, Patient Reporting and Reputational Concerns: Lab-in-the-Field Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Isaac M. Mbiti, Danila Serra

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11350

Do School Principals Respond to Increased Public Scrutiny? New Survey Evidence from Australia

Michael Coelli, Gigi Foster, Andrew Leigh

published in: Economic Record, 2018, 94 (S1), 73-101

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11334

Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance

Gordon B. Dahl, Anne C. Gielen

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (2), 116-150

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11326

Cognitive Skills and the Development of Strategic Sophistication

Eduardo Fe, David Gill

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11289

Empowerment and the Dark Side of Delegation

Matthias Kräkel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11275

Insurance, Redistribution, and the Inequality of Lifetime Income

Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Victoria L. Prowse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11186

The Dynamics of Disability and Benefit Receipt in Britain

Melanie K. Jones, Duncan McVicar

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (3), 936–957,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11186

The Dynamics of Disability and Benefit Receipt in Britain

Melanie K. Jones, Duncan McVicar

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (3), 936–957,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11186

The Dynamics of Disability and Benefit Receipt in Britain

Melanie K. Jones, Duncan McVicar

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (3), 936–957,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11186

The Dynamics of Disability and Benefit Receipt in Britain

Melanie K. Jones, Duncan McVicar

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (3), 936–957,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11160

Poverty's Deconstruction: Beyond the Visible

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: R. Lensink, S. Sjogren, C. Wihlborg (eds): Paths for Sustainable Economic Development, Gothenburg, 2017, 81 - 96

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11117

Long-Run Consequences of Health Insurance Promotion: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ghana

Patrick Opoku Asuming, Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Armand Sim

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11024

The Persistent Effects of Short-Term Peer Groups in Higher Education

Petra Thiemann

revised version published in: Management Science, 2022, 68( 2), 1131-1148

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. 10922

Micro Foundations of Earnings Differences

Tirthatanmoy Das, Solomon Polachek

published in: Palgrave Handbook of Economic Performance Analysis, 2019, 9-76

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10871

Exit, Voice or Loyalty? An Investigation into Mandated Portability of Front-Loaded Private Health Plans

Juan Pablo Atal, Hanming Fang, Martin Karlsson, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2019, 86 (3), 697-727

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10867

Assessing the Impact of a Minimum Income Scheme in the Basque Country

Sara de la Rica, Lucía Gorjón

published as 'Assessing the impact of a minimum income scheme: the Basque Country case' in: SERIEs, 2019, 10, 251 - 280

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10864

Less Alimony after Divorce: Spouses' Behavioral Response to the 2008 Alimony Reform in Germany

Julia Bredtmann, Christina Vonnahme

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2019, 17 (4), 1191-1223

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10858

The Political Cost of Being Soft on Crime: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Francesco Drago, Roberto Galbiati, Francesco Sobbrio

revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 3305 - 3336

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10825

I (Don't) Like You! But Who Cares? Gender Differences in Same Sex and Mixed Sex Teams

Leonie Gerhards, Michael Kosfeld

published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (627), 716 - 739

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10817

Active Ingredients: Exploring the Key Factors Affecting the Rising Cost of Developing New Drugs

Sarah J. Fossett, Phanindra V. Wunnava

published in: International Journal o Health Sciences, 2019, 7 (3), 1 - 18

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10791

Selection on Ability and the Early Career Growth in the Gender Wage Gap

Eduardo Fraga, Gustavo Gonzaga, Rodrigo R. Soares

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10783

How Do Peers Impact Learning? An Experimental Investigation of Peer-To-Peer Teaching and Ability Tracking

Erik O. Kimbrough, Andrew McGee, Hitoshi Shigeoka

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (1), 304-339.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10747

The Distribution of Returns to Education for People with Disabilities

Daniel J. Henderson, Andrew Houtenville, Le Wang

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2017, 38, 261-282

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10741

Modeling Enrollment in and Completion of Vocational Education: The Role of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills by Program Type

Leslie S. Stratton, Nabanita Datta Gupta, David Reimer, Anders Holm

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2018, 18(4), 1-17.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10711

Attrition in Randomized Control Trials: Using Tracking Information to Correct Bias

Teresa Molina Millán, Karen Macours

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10700

The Reliability of Students' Earnings Expectations

Luis Diaz-Serrano, William Nilsson

published in: Labor Economics, 2022, 76, 202182

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10681

Closing Routes to Retirement: How Do People Respond?

Johannes Geyer, Clara Welteke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10664

Egalitarianism under Pressure: Toward Lower Economic Mobility in the Knowledge Economy?

Simen Markussen, Knut Røed

revised version published as 'Economic Mobility under Pressure' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (4), 1844–1885,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10648

A Framework for Separating Individual Treatment Effects from Spillover, Interaction, and General Equilibrium Effects

Martin Huber, Andreas Steinmayr

pusblished in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2021, 39 (2), 422 - 436

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10629

Women's Age at First Marriage and Marital Instability in the United States: Differences by Race and Ethnicity

Evelyn L. Lehrer, Yeon Jeong Son

published in: Demographic Research, 2017, 37, 229 - 250

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10620

Health and Body Mass Index: No Simple Relationship

Olaf Hübler

revised version published as 'Health and weight - gender-specific linkages under heterogeneity, interdependence and resilience factors' in: Economic and Human Biology, 2017, 26, 96-111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10608

On Monetary and Non-Monetary Interventions to Combat Corruption

Ritwik Banerjee, Arnab Mitra

published in : Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 149, 332 - 355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10580

Are the Spanish Long-Term Unemployed Unemployable?

Samuel Bentolila, J. Ignacio Garcia Perez, Marcel Jansen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10562

Challenges in Research on Preferences and Personality Traits: Measurement, Stability, and Inference

Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 60, 1-6.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10518

Using Response Times to Measure Strategic Complexity and the Value of Thinking in Games

David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10503

Marital Instability in the United States: Trends, Driving Forces, and Implications for Children

Evelyn L. Lehrer, Yeon Jeong Son

published in: S. L. Averett, L. M. Argys, S.D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, Oxford University Press, 2017, 75–96

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10403

Replication in Labor Economics: Evidence from Data, and What It Suggests

Daniel S. Hamermesh

published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 2017, 107 (5), 37–40

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10396

Exposing Corruption: Can Electoral Competition Discipline Politicians?

Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Eilon Solan

published as 'Electoral Competition, Electoral Uncertainty and Corruption: Theory and Evidence from India' in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2024, 227, 1056640

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10369

Job Creation Schemes in Turbulent Times

Annette Bergemann, Laura Pohlan, Arne Uhlendorff

revised version published as 'The Impact of Participation in Job Creation Schemes in Turbulent Times' in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 182-201

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10348

Internal and External Validity of Experimental Risk and Time Preferences

Christian Belzil, Modibo Sidibé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10256

Dynamics in Health and Employment: Evidence from Indonesia

Subha Mani, Sophie Mitra, Usha Sambamoorthi

published in World Development, 2018, 104: 297-309.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10177

Earnings Exemptions for Unemployed Workers: The Relationship between Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Quality

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Arne Uhlendorff

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 177-193

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10167

The Heterogeneous Impacts of Business Cycles on Educational Attainment

Ernest Boffy-Ramirez

published in: Education Economics, 2017, 25 (6), 554-561

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10137

Education, Cognitive Ability and Cause-Specific Mortality: A Structural Approach

Govert Bijwaard, Mikko Myrskylä, Per Tynelius, Finn Rasmussen

published in: Population Studies, 2019, 73, 217-232

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10102

Workplace Disability: Whose Wellbeing Does It Affect?

Getinet Astatike Haile

published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2022, 43 (3), 1467–148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10100

Deconstructing Informality: A Response to Vulnerability or an Optimal Choice?

Lina Song, Simon Appleton, Zhe Liang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10063

Can Immigrants Insure against Shocks as Well as the Native-born?

Asadul Islam, Steven Stillman, Christopher Worswick

published in. Applied Economics, 2018, 50, 5302 - 5315

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10049

Vulnerability to Poverty: Tajikistan During and After the Global Financial Crisis

Ira N. Gang, Kseniia Gatskova, John Landon-Lane, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2018, 138 (3), 925 - 951

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9881

Smoking Behaviour and Early Retirement Due to Chronic Disability

Tommy Bengtsson, Anton Nilsson

published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2018, 29, 31 - 41

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9860

Clever Enough to Tell the Truth

Bradley Ruffle, Yossef Tobol

published in: Experimental Economics, 2017, 20, 130-155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9798

Cognitive Ability and the Mortality Gradient by Education: Selection or Mediation?

Govert Bijwaard, Andrew M. Jones

published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 57, 129-175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9767

Lab Measures of Other-Regarding Preferences Can Predict Some Related On-the-Job Behavior: Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment

Stephen V. Burks, Daniele Nosenzo, Jon E. Anderson, Matthew Bombyk, Derek Ganzhorn, Lorenz Götte, Aldo Rustichini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9766

Doing Your Best When Stakes Are High? Theory and Experimental Evidence

Nicolas Houy, Jean-Philippe Nicolaï, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Always doing your best? Effort and performance in dynamic settings' in: Theory and Decision, 2020, 89 (3), 249-286

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9760

Social Contacts, Dutch Language Proficiency and Immigrant Economic Performance in the Netherlands: A Longitudinal Study

Barry R. Chiswick, Zhiling Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9742

Assessing the Effects of Disability Insurance Experience Rating: The Case of the Netherlands

Nynke De Groot, Pierre Koning

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41, 304-317

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9706

The Finite Sample Performance of Inference Methods for Propensity Score Matching and Weighting Estimators

Hugo Bodory, Lorenzo Camponovo, Martin Huber, Michael Lechner

published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2020, 38 (1), 183-200

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9624

Making Disability Work? The Effects of Financial Incentives on Partially Disabled Workers

Pierre Koning, Jan-Maarten van Sonsbeek

published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 202-215

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9619

Working Time Reductions at the End of the Career: Do They Prolong the Time Spent in Employment?

Andrea Albanese, Bart Cockx, Yannick Thuy

published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 99–141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9609

The Dynamic Effect of Disability on Work and Subjective Wellbeing in Australia

Melanie K. Jones, Kostas Mavromaras, Peter J. Sloane, Zhang Wei

published in Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (3), 635–657

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9549

Disability Benefit Generosity and Labor Force Withdrawal

Kathleen Mullen, Stefan Staubli

revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 143, 49-63

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9542

Ability Drain

Maurice Schiff

published as 'Ability drain: size, impact, and comparison with brain drain under alternative immigration policies' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30, 1337- 1354

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9523

The Capability Threshold: Re-examining the Definition of the Middle Class in an Unequal Developing Country

Ronelle Burger, Camren McAravey, Servaas van der Berg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9499

The Effect of Linguistic Proximity on the Occupational Assimilation of Immigrant Men in Canada

Alicia Adsera, Ana Ferrer

published as 'Linguistic Proximity and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrant Men in Canada' in: Labour, 2021, 35 (1), 1 - 23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9478

Rank, Sex, Drugs, and Crime

Benjamin Elsner, Ingo E. Isphording

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53(2), 356-381

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9458

Carrot and Stick? Impact of a Low-Stakes School Accountability Program on Student Achievement

Seokjin Woo, Soohyung Lee, Kyunghee Kim

published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 137 195 - 199

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9321

A European Perspective on Long‐Term Unemployment

Werner Eichhorst, Franziska Neder, Verena Tobsch, Florian Wozny

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9310

Employee Health and Employer Incentives

Patrick Hullegie, Pierre Koning

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9264

A Note on Possible Estimation Bias When Studying Persons with Work Disability in Active Labour Market Programs

Christer Gerdes

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. 9186

Protecting Working-Age People with Disabilities: Experiences of Four Industrialized Nations

Richard V. Burkhauser, Mary C. Daly, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: Journal of Labour Market Research, 2016, 49 (4), 367-386

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9186

Protecting Working-Age People with Disabilities: Experiences of Four Industrialized Nations

Richard V. Burkhauser, Mary C. Daly, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: Journal of Labour Market Research, 2016, 49 (4), 367-386

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9181

Employers Opting Out of Public Disability Insurance: Selection or Incentive Effects?

Wolter Hassink, Pierre Koning, Wim Zwinkels

published as 'Do Firms with Low Disability Risks Opt Out from Public to Private Insurance?' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2018, 18 (1), 20170022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9082

Is Ability Tracking (Really) Responsible for Educational Inequalities in Achievement? A Comparison between the Country States Bavaria and Hesse in Germany

Hartmut Esser, Ilona Relikowski

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9082

Is Ability Tracking (Really) Responsible for Educational Inequalities in Achievement? A Comparison between the Country States Bavaria and Hesse in Germany

Hartmut Esser, Ilona Relikowski

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8947

Parenthood and Risk Preferences

Katja Görlitz, Marcus Tamm

extended version published as 'Parenthood, risk attitudes and risky behavior' in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2020, 79, 102189

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8913

The Earnings and Employment Losses Before Entering the Disability System