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553 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5144
Micro-Level Determinants of Lecture Attendance and Additional Study-Hours
Martin Ryan, Liam Delaney, Colm P. Harmon
published as "The Role of Noncognitive Traits in Undergraduate Study Behaviours" in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 32, 181-195
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5114
Bringing Financial Literacy and Education to Low and Middle Income Countries: The Need to Review, Adjust, and Extend Current Wisdom
Robert Holzmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5108
Intergenerational Transfer of Human Capital under Post-War Distress: The Displaced and the Roma in the Former Yugoslavia
Martin Kahanec, Mutlu Yuksel
published in: Gil Epstein and Ira Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 415-443
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5037
Predictability of Asset Returns and the Efficient Market Hypothesis
M. Hashem Pesaran
published in: Aman Ullah and David E. Giles (eds.), Handbook of Empirical Economics and Finance, Taylor & Francis. 2010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5027
Optimal Incentive Contracts under Moral Hazard When the Agent Is Free to Leave
Florian Englmaier, Gerd Muehlheusser, Andreas Roider
revised version published as 'Optimal Incentive Contracts for Knowledge Workers' in: European Economic Review, 2014, 67, 82-106
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5023
Uniform and Nonuniform Staggering of Wage Contracts
Leif Danziger
published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (6), 1038-1049
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4973
Looking Beyond the Bridge: How Temporary Agency Employment Affects Labor Market Outcomes
Elke J. Jahn, Michael Rosholm
published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 65 (1) 108-125
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4969
School Responsiveness to Quality Rankings: An Empirical Analysis of Secondary Education in the Netherlands
Pierre Koning, Karen van der Wiel
revised version published in: De Economist, 2012, 160 (4), 339-355
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4897
Disability in the Welfare State: An Unemployment Problem in Disguise?
Bernt Bratsberg, Elisabeth Fevang, Knut Røed
revised version published as 'Job Loss and Disability Insurance' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 137–150
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4884
Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias: Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?
Erik Snowberg, Justin Wolfers
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2010, 118 (4), 723-746
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4859
Are Attitudes Towards Economic Risk Heritable? Analyses Using the Australian Twin Study of Gambling
Anh T. Le, Paul W. Miller, Wendy S. Slutske, Nicholas G. Martin
published in: Twin Research and Human Genetics, 2010, 13 (4), 330-339
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4775
No Country for Fat Men? Obesity, Earnings, Skills, and Health among 450,000 Swedish Men
Petter Lundborg, Paul Nystedt, Dan-Olof Rooth
published as 'Body Size, Skills, and Income: Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings' in: Demography, 2014, 51, 1573-1596
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4775
No Country for Fat Men? Obesity, Earnings, Skills, and Health among 450,000 Swedish Men
Petter Lundborg, Paul Nystedt, Dan-Olof Rooth
published as 'Body Size, Skills, and Income: Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings' in: Demography, 2014, 51, 1573-1596
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4766
Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management
Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (9-10), 654-660
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4758
Mortgage Finance in Central and Eastern Europe: Opportunity or Burden?
Thorsten Beck, Katie Kibuuka, Erwin R. Tiongson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4756
Stability of Time Preferences
Stephan Meier, Charles Sprenger
revised version published as 'Temporal Stability of Time Preferences' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(2), 273-286
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4721
Changes in Job Stability: Evidence from Lifetime Job Histories
Miikka Rokkanen, Roope Uusitalo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4688
Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment
Catia Batista, Pedro C. Vicente
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2011, 25 (1), 77-104
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4670
Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach
Marco Caliendo, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Arne Uhlendorff
published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (4), 604-627
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4647
The Impact of Distributional Preferences on (Experimental) Markets for Expert Services
Rudolf Kerschbamer, Matthias Sutter, Uwe Dulleck
published with new title "How social preferences shape incentives in (experimental) markets for credence goods" in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 393-416.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4603
Non-unitary Models of Household Behavior: A Survey of the Literature
Pierre-André Chiappori, Olivier Donni
published in: Alberto Molina (ed.), Household Economic Behaviors, Berlin: Springer, 2011, 1 - 40.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4568
Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms
Andrea Weber, Christine Zulehner
published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (2), 358-361
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4566
How Consistent Are Class Size Effects?
Spyros Konstantopoulos
published in: Evaluation Review, 2011, 35 (1), 71 - 92
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4548
From Angela's Ashes to the Celtic Tiger: Early Life Conditions and Adult Health in Ireland
Liam Delaney, Mark E. McGovern, James P. Smith
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (1), 1-10
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4526
Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?
Andrea Weber, Christine Zulehner
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12(2), 492-521
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4446
Assortative Mating and Divorce: Evidence from Austrian Register Data
Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2013, 176(4), 907–929
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4430
Disability and Skill Mismatch
Melanie K. Jones, Peter J. Sloane
published in: Economic Record, 2010, 88 (s1), 101 - 114
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4422
ORU Analyses of Immigrant Earnings in Australia, with International Comparisons
Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller
published as "The Effects of Educational-Occupational Mismatch on Immigrant Earnings in Australia, with International Comparisons" in: International Migration Review, 2010, 44(4), 869-898
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4415
Does Local Business Ownership Insulate Cities from Economic Shocks?
Jed Kolko, David Neumark
published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 67(1), 103-15
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4388
Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S.
Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur van Soest
published in: David A. Wise (ed.), Explorations in the Economics of Aging, University of Chicago Press, pp. 269-316, 2011
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4367
International Differences in Longevity and Health and Their Economic Consequences
Pierre-Carl Michaud, Dana P. Goldman, Darius N. Lakdawalla, Yuhui Zheng, Adam H. Gailey
published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2011, 73 (2), 254-63
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4366
Understanding the Economic Consequences of Shifting Trends in Population Health
Pierre-Carl Michaud, Dana P. Goldman, Darius N. Lakdawalla, Yuhui Zheng, Adam H. Gailey
published as 'The Fiscal Effects of Trends in Public Health' in: National Tax Journal, 2010, 63 (2), 307-324,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4363
Sweatshop Equilibrium
Nancy H. Chau
revised version published as 'On Sweatshop Jobs and Decent Work' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 121, 120 134
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4328
Severity of Work Disability and Work
Umut Oguzoglu
published in: Economic Record, 2011, 87 (278), 370 - 383
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4305
IQ and Family Background: Are Associations Strong or Weak?
Anders Björklund, Karin Hederos Eriksson, Markus Jäntti
published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 2
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4288
Linking Individuals and Societies
Guillermina Jasso
published in: Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 2010, 34 (1), 1-51
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4218
Parental Education and Wages: Evidence from China
Yuanyuan Chen, Shuaizhang Feng
published in: Frontiers of Economics in China, 2011, 6 (4), 568-591
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4211
Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework
Robin Douhan, Mirjam C. van Praag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4170
Biased Probability Judgment: Evidence of Incidence and Relationship to Economic Outcomes from a Representative Sample
Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Felix Marklein, Uwe Sunde
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 72 (3), 903-915
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4128
Gender Interactions within Hierarchies: Evidence from the Political Arena
Stefano Gagliarducci, M. Daniele Paserman
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79 (3), 1021-1052
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4117
A Parametric Analysis of Prospect Theory's Functionals for the General Population
Adam S. Booij, Bernard M. S. van Praag, Gijs van de Kuilen
published in: Theory and Decision, 2010, 68, 115–148
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4061
International Terrorism, Political Instability and the Escalation Effect
Nauro F. Campos, Martin Gassebner
published in: Economics & Politics, 2013, 25 (1), 27-47
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4030
The Economics of Credence Goods: On the Role of Liability, Verifiability, Reputation and Competition
Uwe Dulleck, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Matthias Sutter
revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 526-555
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4030
The Economics of Credence Goods: On the Role of Liability, Verifiability, Reputation and Competition
Uwe Dulleck, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Matthias Sutter
revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 526-555
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4001
The Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development
Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 320 - 364
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3993
Workplace Disability Diversity and Job-Related Well-Being in Britain: A WERS2004 Based Analysis
Getinet Astatike Haile
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3850
A New Model of Wage Determination and Wage Inequality
Guillermina Jasso
published in: Rationality and Society, 2009, 21 (1), 113-168
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3798
Exports and Profitability: First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms
Helmut Fryges, Joachim Wagner
published in: World Economy, 2010, 33 (3), 399-423
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3752
Two to Tangle: Financial Development, Political Instability and Economic Growth in Argentina (1896–2000)
Nauro F. Campos, Menelaos G. Karanasos, Bin Tan
published in: Journal of Banking and Finance, 2012, 36 (1), 290 - 304
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3748
The Measurement of Racial Discrimination in Pay between Job Categories: Theory and Test
Örn B. Bodvarsson, John G. Sessions
published as 'The Measurement of Pay Discrimination Between Job Assignments' in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (3), 297-309
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3702
Relative Performance Pay, Bonuses, and Job-Promotion Tournaments
Matthias Kräkel, Anja Schöttner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3651
Like Father, Like Son? A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of IQ Scores
Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes
published in: Economics Letters, 2009, 105 (1), 138-140
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3625
Cooperativeness and Impatience in the Tragedy of the Commons
Ernst Fehr, Andreas Leibbrandt
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (9-10), 1144-1155
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3538
Long Term Earnings Inequality, Earnings Instability and Temporary Employment in Spain: 1993–2000
María Cervini-Plá, Xavier Ramos
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2011, 50 (4), 714-736
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3515
Schools, Skills, and Synapses
James J. Heckman
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46 (3), 289-324
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3399
The Health Returns to Education: What Can We Learn from Twins?
Petter Lundborg
published as 'The health returns to schooling—what can we learn from twins?' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 673-701
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3387
Sources of Earnings Instability: Estimates from an On-the-Job Search Model of the U.S. Labor Market
Luca Flabbi, Marco Leonardi
published in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (6), 832-854
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3357
Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages: Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach
John T. Addison, Mario Centeno, Pedro Portugal
published in: Economica, 2010, 77 (305), 46–59
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3289
Do Reservation Wages Really Decline? Some International Evidence on the Determinants of Reservation Wages
John T. Addison, Mario Centeno, Pedro Portugal
published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2009, 30 (1), 1 - 8
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3246
Stability and Dynamics in an Overlapping Generations Economy with Flexible Wage Negotiations
Erkki Koskela, Mikko Puhakka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3208
Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research: With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan
Almas Heshmati
published in: Tocha (ed.), Development Economics Research Trends, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3196
Hearing Loss and Disability Exit: Measurement Issues and Coping Strategies
Vibeke T. Christensen, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Martin V. Rasmussen
published in Economics & Human Biology, 2017, 24(C), 80-91
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3179
Does It Pay Firms to Register for Taxes? The Impact of Formality on Firm Profitability
David McKenzie, Yaye Seynabou Sakho
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 91(1), 15-24
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3162
Principal Accountability at Private Secondary Schools
Sherrilyn M. Billger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3132
Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure
Arghya Ghosh, Takao Kato, Hodaka Morita
revised version published as 'Incremental innovation and competitive pressure in the presence of discrete innovation' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 135, 1-14
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3126
The Catalysing Role of In-House R & D in Fostering the Complementarity of Innovative Inputs
Alessandra Catozzella, Marco Vivarelli
published in: Industry and Innovation, 2014, 21, 179-196
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3124
Immigrants, English Ability and the Digital Divide
Hiroshi Ono, Madeline Zavodny
published in: Social Forces, 2008, 86 (4), 1455-1480
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3110
Too Old to Work, Too Young to Retire?
Andrea Ichino, Guido Schwerdt, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Josef Zweimüller
published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2017, 9, 14-29
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3104
Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms
Josef Fersterer, Jörn-Steffen Pischke, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 104 (4), 733-753
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3087
Growth, Volatility and Political Instability: Non-Linear Time-Series Evidence for Argentina, 1896–2000
Nauro F. Campos, Menelaos G. Karanasos
published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (1), 135-137
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3067
How General Is Human Capital? A Task-Based Approach
Christina Gathmann, Uta Schönberg
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (1), 1 - 49
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3028
Unemployment Duration and Disability: Evidence from Portugal
Dario Sciulli, Antonio Menezes, José António Cabral Vieira
published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2012, 33 (1), 21-48
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3026
Starting Wages Respond to Employer’s Risk
Peter Berkhout, Joop Hartog
published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 61 (3), 229-260
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2923
Unscheduled School Closings and Student Performance
Dave E. Marcotte, Steven W. Hemelt
published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2008, 3 (3), 316-338
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2904
Do Small Classes Reduce the Achievement Gap between Low and High Achievers? Evidence from Project STAR
Spyros Konstantopoulos
published in: Elementary School Journal, 2008, 108 (3), 1-17
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2843
Electoral Accountability and Corruption in Local Governments: Evidence from Audit Reports
Claudio Ferraz, Frederico S. Finan
published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (4), 1274-1311
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2784
Post-Secondary Education in Canada: Can Ability Bias Explain the Earnings Gap Between College and University Graduates?
Vincenzo Caponi, Miana Plesca
revised version published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2009, 42 (3), 1100-1131
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2774
Human Capital Spillovers and Economic Performance in the Workplace in 2004: Some British Evidence
Renuka Metcalfe, Peter J. Sloane
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2735
Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?
Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde
revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (3), 1238–1260
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2724
The Reliability of Subjective Well-Being Measures
Alan B. Krueger, David A. Schkade
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (8-9), 1833-1845
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2662
Principals as Agents? Investigating Accountability in the Compensation and Performance of School Principals
Sherrilyn M. Billger
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 61(1), 90-107
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2649
Integrating Severely Disabled Individuals into the Labour Market: The Austrian Case
Brigitte Humer, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich, Josef Zweimüller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2527
Earnings Instability and Tenure
Lorenzo Cappellari, Marco Leonardi
revised version published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (2), 202 - 234
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2384
Wage Determination in the U.S. Airline Industry: Union Power under Product Market Constraints
Barry Hirsch
published in: D. Lee (ed.), Advances in Airline Economics, Vol. 2: The Economics of Airline Institutions, Operations and Marketing, Elsevier 2007
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2370
The Return to Schooling in Structural Dynamic Models: A Survey
Christian Belzil
published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (5), 1059-1105
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2299
Unemployment Dynamics among Migrants and Natives
Arne Uhlendorff, Klaus F. Zimmermann
substantially revised version published in: Economica, 2014, 81, 348-367
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2280
Unemployment Insurance in Europe: Unemployment Duration and Subsequent Employment Stability
Konstantinos Tatsiramos
revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(6), 1225-1260
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2208
Does Happiness Adapt? A Longitudinal Study of Disability with Implications for Economists and Judges
Andrew J. Oswald, Nattavudh Powdthavee
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (5-6), 1061-1077
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2196
Testing Dependence among Serially Correlated Multi-Category Variables
M. Hashem Pesaran, Allan Timmermann
published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2009, 104 (485), 325-337
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2147
Gender Differences in Job Separation Rates and Employment Stability: New Evidence from Employer-Employee Data
Anders Frederiksen
published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(5), 915-937
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2128
Learning from a Piece of Pie: The Empirical Content of Nash Bargaining
Pierre-André Chiappori, Olivier Donni
published as 'Learning from a Piece of Pie in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79 (1), 162 - 196 (with Ivana Komunjer)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2128
Learning from a Piece of Pie: The Empirical Content of Nash Bargaining
Pierre-André Chiappori, Olivier Donni
published as 'Learning from a Piece of Pie in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79 (1), 162 - 196 (with Ivana Komunjer)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2096
Disability and Work: The Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances
Maarten Lindeboom, Ana Llena-Nozal, Bas van der Klaauw
revised version published as 'Health Shocks, Disability and Work' in: Labour Economics, 2016, 43, 186-200
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2057
Dynamics of Work Disability and Pain
Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur van Soest
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27(2), 496-509
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2001
Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences and Gender
Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk
published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 556-590
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1981
Screening Disability Insurance Applications
Philip de Jong, Maarten Lindeboom, Bas van der Klaauw
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9(1), 106-129
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1945
The Substitutability of Labor of Selected Ethnic Groups in the US Labor Market
Martin Kahanec
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1927
A Human Capital Model of the Effects of Abilities and Family Background on Optimal Schooling Levels
Tracy L. Regan, Galen Burghardt, Ronald L. Oaxaca
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2007, 45 (4), 721-738
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1913
Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability
Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin, John Van Reenen
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, 3 (1), 121-159
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1901
Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries
Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (510), C63-C76
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