IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Do Pre-Registration and Pre-Analysis Plans Reduce p-Hacking and Publication Bias? Evidence from 15,992 Test Statistics and Suggestions for Improvement' in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2024. 2 (3), 527–561

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15439

Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment

Bart Cockx, Koen Declercq, Muriel Dejemeppe

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 95, 102424

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15433

Unemployment and Health: A Meta-Analysis

Matteo Picchio, Michele Ubaldi

published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2024, 38 (4), 1437-1472

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15428

Political Ideology, Mood Response, and the Confirmation Bias

David L. Dickinson

published online in: Economic Inquiry, 07 October 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15423

China's Skill-Biased Imports

Hongbin Li, Lei Li, Hong Ma

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15394

Has Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation of Education in Rural India Fallen over Time? A Comparison of 1995 and 2017

Sandip Datta, Geeta G. Kingdon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15329

Work Effort in the UK: Trends and Explanations

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Almudena Sevilla

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15313

Regional Structural Change and the Effects of Job Loss

Melanie Arntz, Boris Ivanov, Laura Pohlan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15214

Media Capture by Banks

Ruben Durante, Andrea Fabiani, Luc Laeven, José-Luis Peydró

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15195

In-Group Favoritism and Peer Effects in Wrongful Acquittals: NBA Referees as Judges

Naci Mocan, Eric Osborne-Christenson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15195

In-Group Favoritism and Peer Effects in Wrongful Acquittals: NBA Referees as Judges

Naci Mocan, Eric Osborne-Christenson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15085

Is Inconsistent Reporting of Self-Assessed Health Persistent and Systematic? Evidence from the UKHLS

Apostolos Davillas, Victor Hugo de Oliveira, Andrew M. Jones

revised version published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2023, 49, 101219

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15030

Employer-to-Employer Transitions and Time Aggregation Bias

Antoine Bertheau, Rune Majlund Vejlin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15028

Selection and the Distribution of Female Hourly Wages in the U.S.

Iván Fernández-Val, Aico van Vuuren, Francis Vella, Franco Peracchi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15003

Getting Stuck in the Status Quo Ante: Evidence from the Egyptian Economy

Ömer Tuğsal Doruk, Francesco Pastore

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14963

Worker Beliefs about Outside Options

Simon Jäger, Christopher Roth, Nina Roussille, Benjamin Schoefer

published online in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 10 January 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14905

"The Better You Feel, the Harder You Fall": Health Perception Biases and Mental Health among Chinese Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Peng Nie, Lu Wang, Davide Dragone, Haiyang Lu, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 71, 101708

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14876

Biased Survival Expectations and Behaviours: Does Domain Specific Information Matter?

Joan Costa-Font, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2022, 65, 285 - 317

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14787

Online Teaching and Gender Bias

Sara Ayllón

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 89, 102280

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14701

Between-Group Inequality May Decline despite a Rising Skill Premium

Imran Aziz, Matias Cortes

published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 72, 102063

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14695

The Implications of Self-Reported Body Weight and Height for Measurement Error in BMI

Apostolos Davillas, Andrew M. Jones

revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2021, 209, 110101

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14625

Quasi-Hyperbolic Present Bias: A Meta-Analysis

Stephen L. Cheung, Agnieszka Tymula, Xueting Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14609

Sophistication about Self-Control

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14602

Retirement and Health Outcomes in a Meta-Analytical Framework

Mattia Filomena, Matteo Picchio

published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2023, 37 (4), 1120-1155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14548

Too Family Friendly? The Consequences of Parent Part-Time Working Rights

Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 197, 104407

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14387

Gender Differences in Student Evaluations of Teaching: Identification and Consequences

Edmund Cannon, Giam Pietro Cipriani

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14364

Intercept Estimation in Nonlinear Selection Models

Wiji Arulampalam, Valentina Corradi, Daniel Gutknecht

published online in: Econometric Theory, 24 April 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14335

The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap

Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, Nikolai Boboshko, Matthew Comey

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 1093–1133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14334

Is Large-Scale Rapid Cov-2 Testing a Substitute For Lockdowns? The Case of Tuebingen

Marc Diederichs, Peter G. Kremsner, Timo Mitze, Gernot Müller, Dominik Papies, Felix Schulz, Klaus Wälde

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14334

Is Large-Scale Rapid Cov-2 Testing a Substitute For Lockdowns? The Case of Tuebingen

Marc Diederichs, Peter G. Kremsner, Timo Mitze, Gernot Müller, Dominik Papies, Felix Schulz, Klaus Wälde

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14306

Equal Time for Equal Crime? Racial Bias in School Discipline

Ying Shi, Maria Zhu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14030

Parental Paternalism and Patience

Lukas Kiessling, Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Matthias Sutter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13996

Is Son Preference Disappearing from Bangladesh?

Niaz Asadullah, Nazia Mansoor, Teresa Randazzo, Zaki Wahhaj

published in: World Development, 2021, 140, 105353

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13983

Bias and Discrimination: What Do We Know?

Marina Della Giusta, Steven J. Bosworth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13942

Worker Flows and Wage Dynamics: Estimating Wage Growth without Composition Effects

Raquel Carrasco, J. Ignacio Garcia Perez, Juan F. Jimeno

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13794

Judge Bias in Labor Courts and Firm Performance

Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo, Bérengère Patault, Flavien Moreau

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, 22 (3), 1319 - 1366

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13789

Assessing Selection Bias in Non-Experimental Estimates of the Returns to Workplace Training

Jan Sauermann, Anders Stenberg

revised version available here

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13785

How to Remove the Testing Bias in CoV-2 Statistics

Klaus Wälde

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13785

How to Remove the Testing Bias in CoV-2 Statistics

Klaus Wälde

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13745

Predictors of Social Distancing and Mask-Wearing Behavior: Panel Survey in Seven U.S. States

Plamen Nikolov, Andreas Pape, Ozlem Tonguc, Charlotte Williams

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13664

Exponential Growth Bias in the Prediction of COVID-19 Spread and Economic Expectation

Ritwik Banerjee, Priyama Majumdar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13603

Biases in Student Evaluations of Teaching: An American Case Study

Natalia Radchenko

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13578

Experimental Effects of an Absent Crowd on Performances and Refereeing Decisions during COVID-19

Alex Bryson, Peter Dolton, J. James Reade, Dominik Schreyer, Carl Singleton

published as 'Causal effects of an absent crowd on performances and refereeing decisions during Covid-19' in: Economic Letters , 2021, 198, 109664

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13560

Socially Optimal Mistakes? Debiasing COVID-19 Mortality Risk Perceptions and Prosocial Behavior

Martin Abel, Tanya Byker, Jeffrey P. Carpenter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13550

Occupational Dualism and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in the Rural Economy: Evidence from China and India

M. Shahe Emran, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Yajing Jiang, Yan Sun

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023, 21, 743 - 773

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13510

Does the Dream of Home Ownership Rest upon Biased Beliefs? A Test Based on Predicted and Realized Life Satisfaction

Reto Odermatt, Alois Stutzer

revised version published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23 (8), 3731-3763

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13475

Biased Beliefs and Entry into Scientific Careers

Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Danijela Vuletić Čugalj

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13470

Gender Stereotyping in Sports

Miriam Marcén, Marina Morales, Almudena Sevilla

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13406

Present Bias for Monetary and Dietary Rewards: Evidence from Chinese Teenagers

Stephen L. Cheung, Agnieszka Tymula, Xueting Wang

revised version forthcoming as 'Present Bias for Monetary and Dietary Rewards' in: Experimental Economics, 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13402

Less School (Costs), More (Female) Education? Lessons from Egypt Reducing Years of Compulsory Schooling

Ahmed Elsayed, Olivier Marie

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13347

First Impressions: The Case of Teacher Racial Bias

Marcos A. Rangel, Ying Shi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13308

Biased Health Perceptions and Risky Health Behaviors: Theory and Evidence

Patrick Arni, Davide Dragone, Lorenz Götte, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 76, 102425

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13267

Automation, Globalization and Vanishing Jobs: A Labor Market Sorting View

Ester Faia, Sébastien Laffitte, Maximilian Mayer, Gianmarco Ottaviano

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13257

Exponential-Growth Prediction Bias and Compliance with Safety Measures in the Times of COVID-19

Ritwik Banerjee, Joydeep Bhattacharya, Priyama Majumdar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13241

Deliberation Enhances the Confirmation Bias: An Examination of Politics and Religion

David L. Dickinson

published as 'Deliberation, mood response, and the confirmation bias in the religious belief domain' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2024, 109, 102161.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13241

Deliberation Enhances the Confirmation Bias: An Examination of Politics and Religion

David L. Dickinson

published as 'Deliberation, mood response, and the confirmation bias in the religious belief domain' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2024, 109, 102161.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13223

Does Economics Make You Sexist?

Valentina Paredes, M. Daniele Paserman, Francisco J. Pino

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13169

On the Commitment Needs of Partially Naive Agents

Pan Liu, Torben M. Andersen, Joydeep Bhattacharya

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13166

Feeling Good or Feeling Better?

Alberto Prati, Claudia Senik

published in: Psychological Science, 2022, 33 (11), 1828–1841

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12938

Media Bias and Tax Compliance: Experimental Evidence

Miloš Fišar, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Fabio Sabatini, Jiří Špalek

revised version published as 'Media negativity bias and tax compliance: experimental evidence' in: International Tax and Public Finance , 2022, 29, 1160 - 1212

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12919

The Effect of Financial Constraints on In-Group Bias: Evidence from Rice Farmers in Thailand

Suparee Boonmanunt, Stephan Meier

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 207, 96-109.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12894

Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation

Oded Galor, Ömer Özak, Assaf Sarid

published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2020. 110, 309-313

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12789

Ordinal Rank and Peer Composition: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Marco Bertoni, Roberto Nistico

published as 'Ordinal rank and the structure of ability peer effects' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 217, 104797