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149 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15544
Prenatal Sugar Consumption and Late-Life Human Capital and Health: Analyses Based on Postwar Rationing and Polygenic Scores
Gerard J. van den Berg, Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder, R. Adele H. Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15443
Consumption Choices and Earnings Expectations: Empirical Evidence and Structural Estimation
Christian A. Stoltenberg, Arne Uhlendorff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15391
The Subjective Inflation Expectations of Households and Firms: Measurement, Determinants, and Implications
Michael Weber, Francesco D’Acunto, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Olivier Coibion
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15222
Family Finances and Debt Overhang: Evolving Consumption Patterns of Spanish Households
Hector Sala, Pedro Trivín
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15114
The Long-Run Impacts of Adolescent Drinking: Evidence from Zero Tolerance Laws
Tatiana Abboud, Andriana Bellou, Joshua Lewis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14918
Trade-Offs? The Impact of WTO Accession on Intimate Partner Violence in Cambodia
Bilge Erten, Pinar Keskin
Forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14749
The Happy Cultural Omnivore? Exploring the Relationship between Cultural Consumption Patterns and Subjective Well-Being
Enrico Bertacchini, Valentina Bolognesi, Alessandra Venturini, Roberto Zotti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14721
Television, Health, and Happiness: A Natural Experiment in West Germany
Adrian Chadi, Manuel Hoffmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14720
Mobile Broadband Internet, Poverty and Labor Outcomes in Tanzania
Kalvin Bahia, Pau Castells, Genaro Cruz, Takaaki Masaki, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Viviane Sanfelice
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14704
Sex Workers' Self-Reported Physical and Mental Health in Greece: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study in 2009, 2013 and 2019
Nick Drydakis
published in: Culture Health and Sexuality, Published online: 10 Sep 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14688
Stable Marriage, Household Consumption and Unobserved Match Quality
Martin J. Browning, Laurens Cherchye, Thomas Demuynck, Bram De Rock, Frederic Vermeulen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14662
Consumption Response to Seoul's COVID-19 Shopping Coupons: Evidence from Consumer Data
Seokjin Woo, Sangmin Aum, Dohyung Kim, Heyjin Moon, Soohyung Lee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14631
Data Scarcity and Poverty Measurement
Hai-Anh Dang, Peter F. Lanjouw
forthcoming in: Jacques Silber (Eds.) Handbook of Research on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation. Edward Elgar Press.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14452
Transitory Income Changes and Consumption Smoothing: Evidence from Mexico
Manuela Angelucci, Carlos Chiapa, Silvia Prina, Irvin Rojas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14226
Accounting for Limited Commitment between Spouses When Estimating Labor-Supply Elasticities
Christian Bredemeier, Jan Gravert, Falko Juessen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14193
A Bigger House at the Cost of an Empty Fridge? The Effect of Households' Indebtedness on Their Consumption: Micro-Evidence Using Belgian HFCS Data
Philip Du Caju, Guillaume Périlleux, Francois Rycx, Ilan Tojerow
forthcoming as 'A Bigger House at the Cost of an Empty Stomach? The Effect of Households' Indebtedness on Their Consumption: Micro-Evidence Using Belgian HFCS Data' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14151
Mobile Internet Adoption in West Africa
Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Rogelio Granguillhome Ochoa, Samantha Lach, Takaaki Masaki
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14042
Technological Advance, Social Fragmentation and Welfare
Steven J. Bosworth, Dennis J. Snower
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13978
Impacts of COVID-19 on Household Welfare in Tunisia
Deeksha Kokas, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Abdel Rahmen El Lahga, Vibhuti Mendiratta
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13887
Job Stability, Earnings Dynamics, and Life-Cycle Savings
Moritz Kuhn, Gasper Ploj
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13847
The Impact of Employment Quotas on the Economic Lives of Disadvantaged Minorities in India
Nishith Prakash
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 180, 494-509
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13722
India's Calorie Consumption Puzzle: Insights From the Stochastic Cost Frontier Analysis of Calorie Purchases
Gautam Hazarika, Sourabh Bikas Paul
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13694
Protecting Girls from Droughts with Social Safety Nets
Jagori Chatterjee, Joshua D. Merfeld
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13658
Broadband Internet and Household Welfare in Senegal
Takaaki Masaki, Rogelio Granguillhome Ochoa, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13567
Can Stimulus Checks Boost an Economy under COVID-19? Evidence from South Korea
Moon Jung Kim, Soohyung Lee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13354
Short-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Consumption and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Singapore
Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh, Xuan Zhang
forthcoming in: Canadian Journal of Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13273
Drinking Is Different! Examining the Role of Locus of Control for Alcohol Consumption
Marco Caliendo, Juliane Hennecke
revised version forthcoming in: Empirical Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13219
The Welfare Effects of Mobile Broadband Internet: Evidence from Nigeria
Kalvin Bahia, Pau Castells, Genaro Cruz, Takaaki Masaki, Xavier Pedrós, Tobias Pfutze, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Hernan Winkler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13023
Financial Expectations and Household Consumption: Does Middle Inflation Matter?
Sarah Brown, Mark N. Harris, Christopher Spencer, Karl Taylor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12890
Tony Atkinson's New Book, Measuring Poverty around the World: Some Further Reflections
Andrea Brandolini, John Micklewright
published in: Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2019-20, XLIX, 1-12
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12743
Differences in Euro-Area Household Finances and their Relevance for Monetary-Policy Transmission
Thomas Hintermaier, Winfried Koeniger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12642
Not Just a Work Permit: EU Citizenship and the Consumption Behavior of Documented and Undocumented Immigrants
Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Ezgi Kaya
published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2020, 53, 1552-1598
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12583
Can a Deportation Policy Backfire?
Oded Stark, Lukasz Byra
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12498
How Does Consumption Respond to News about Inflation? Field Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial
Olivier Coibion, Dimitris Georgarakos, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Maarten van Rooij
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12376
An Analysis of Beverage Size Restrictions
Brian A. Bourquard, Steven Y. Wu
forthcoming in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12359
Monetary Policy Transmission to Consumer Financial Stress and Durable Consumption
Dimitris Georgarakos, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12199
Inequality and Trade Policy: Pro-Poor Bias of Contemporary Trade Restrictions
Beyza Ural Marchand
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65, 123-152.​​​​
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11950
Home Ownership and Monetary Policy Transmission
Winfried Koeniger, Marc-Antoine Ramelet
revised version published as 'On the Transmission of Monetary Policy to the Housing Market' in: European Economic Review, 2022, 145, 104107 (with Benedikt Lennartz and Marc-Antoine Ramelet)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11915
Household Collective Models: Three Decades of Theoretical Contributions and Empirical Evidence
Olivier Donni, José Alberto Molina
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11881
Personality Traits and Household Consumption Choices
Lucia Mangiavacchi, Luca Piccoli, Chiara Rapallini
published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 2021, 21 (2), 433-468
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11708
Socio-Economic Inequalities in Tobacco Consumption of the Older Adults in China: A Decomposition Method
Yafei Si, Zhongliang Zhou, Min Su, Xiao Wang, Dan Li, Dan Wang, Shuyi He, Zihan Hong, Xi Chen
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 15(7), 1466. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15071466
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11621
Inequality in an OLG Economy with Heterogeneous Cohorts and Pension Systems
Joanna Tyrowicz, Krzysztof Makarski, Marcin Bielecki
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2018, 16 (4), 583-606
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11535
Tax Evasion on a Social Network
Duccio Gamannossi degl’Innocenti, Matthew D. Rablen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11473
Does Workfare Work Well? The Case of the Employment Generation Program for the Poorest in Bangladesh
Yoon Y. Cho, Ummul Ruthbah
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11358
Demographic Uncertainty and Generational Consumption Risk with Endogenous Human Capital
Patrick M. Emerson, Shawn D. Knabb
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11357
Stock Market Returns and Consumption
Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani, Kaveh Majlesi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11237
Children, Time Allocation and Consumption Insurance
Richard Blundell, Luigi Pistaferri, Itay Saporta-Eksten
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11150
Urban Consumption Inequality in China, 1995–2013
Qingjie Xia, Shi Li, Lina Song
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10882
Consumption Inequality and the Frequency of Purchases
Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Dmitri Koustas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10731
The Impact of Social Pensions on Intergenerational Relationships: Comparative Evidence from China
Xi Chen, Karen Eggleston, Ang Sun
forthcoming in: the Journal of the Economics of Ageing
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10662
Costly Posturing: Ceremonies and Early Child Development in China
Xi Chen, Xiaobo Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10509
Regular versus Lump-Sum Payments in Union Contracts and Household Consumption
Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Roberta Zizza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10325
Energy Consumption and Health Outcomes in Africa
Adel Ben Youssef, Laurence Lannes, Christophe Rault, Agnes Soucat
published in: The Journal of Energy and Development, 2016, vol 41 (2), 175-200.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10312
Marriage and Marriage Markets
Shoshana Grossbard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10311
Buffer-Stock Saving and Households' Response to Income Shocks
Giulio Fella, Serafin Frache, Winfried Koeniger
revised version published in: International Economic Review, 2020, 61, 1359-1382.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10305
Consumption and Leisure: The Welfare Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind
Elie Murard
published as 'On the Joint Consumption and Labour Supply Effects of Migration on those Left Behind' in: Journal of Development Studies, published online 11 Feb 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10136
Money or Fun? Why Students Want to Pursue Further Education
Chris Belfield, Teodora Boneva, Christopher Rauh, Jonathan Shaw
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10063
Can Immigrants Insure against Shocks as Well as the Native-born?
Asadul Islam, Steven Stillman, Christopher Worswick
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10029
Illegal Migration and Consumption Behavior of Immigrant Households
Christian Dustmann, Francesco Fasani, Biagio Speciale
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, 15 (3), 654 - 691
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9983
Consumption Network Effects
Giacomo De Giorgi, Anders Frederiksen, Luigi Pistaferri
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2020, 87 (1), 130-163
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9824
Moral-Hazard-Free First-Best Unemployment Insurance
Donald O. Parsons
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9707
Something from Nothing: Estimating Consumption Rates Using Propensity Scores, with Application to Emissions Reduction Policies
Nicholas Bardsley, Milena Büchs, Sylke V. Schnepf
revised version published in: PLOS ONE, 2017, 12(10), e0185538.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9655
Consumption Smoothing in the Demand for Health Care
Nicolai Kristensen, Henrik Lindegaard Andersen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9567
Differential and Distributional Effects of Energy Efficiency Surveys: Evidence from Electricity Consumption
Thomas J. Kniesner, Galib Rustamov
published in: Journal of Benefit Cost Analysis, 2018, 9(3), 375-406
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9482
Old-Age Pension and Intergenerational Living Arrangements
Xi Chen
Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15(2), 455-476. DOI: 10.1007/s11150-015-9304-y
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9344
Earnings and Consumption Dynamics: A Nonlinear Panel Data Framework
Manuel Arellano, Richard Blundell, Stephane Bonhomme
published in: Econometrica, 2017, 85 (3), 693 - 734
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9185
The Optimal Timing of Unemployment Benefits: Theory and Evidence from Sweden
Jonas Kolsrud, Camille Landais, Peter Nilsson, Johannes Spinnewijn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8979
Partial Insurance and Investments in Children
Pedro Carneiro, Rita Ginja
published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126, F66 -F95
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8967
Economic Development, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight: Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism
Davide Dragone, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
published as 'Non-Separable Time Preferences, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight: Theory and Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 51, 41-65.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8845
Pane e Cioccolata: The Impact of Native Attitudes on Return Migration
Augustin de Coulon, Dragos Radu, Max F. Steinhardt
published in: Review of International Economics, 2016, 24, 253-281.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8792
Gone with the Storm: Rainfall Shocks and Household Well-Being in Guatemala
Javier E. Baez, Leonardo Lucchetti, Maria Eugenia Genoni, Mateo Salazar
forthcoming in: Journal of Development Studies, 2016
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8529
Health Risk Factors among the Older European Populations: Personal and Country Effects
Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman, Tzahi Neuman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8502
Relative Concerns for Consumption at the Top: An Intertemporal Analysis for the UK
Climent Quintana-Domeque, Johannes Wohlfart
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 129, 172-194.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8389
Income Receipt and Mortality: Evidence from Swedish Public Sector Employees
Elvira Andersson, Petter Lundborg, Johan Vikström
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8323
Conspicuous Consumption in the United States and China
David Jinkins
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8307
Old Money, the Nouveaux Riches and Brunhilde's Marriage Strategy
Anne-Kathrin Bronsert, Amihai Glazer, Kai A. Konrad
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8296
Exploring the Causality Links between Energy and Employment in African Countries
Mohamed El Hedi Arouri, Adel Ben Youssef, Hatem M'henni, Christophe Rault
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8078
An Empirical Survey of the Ramifications of a Green Economy
Almas Heshmati
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8070
Household Consumption When the Marriage Is Stable
Laurens Cherchye, Thomas Demuynck, Bram De Rock, Frederic Vermeulen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7911
Minimum Wage: Does It Improve Welfare in Thailand?
Ximena Del Carpio, Julián Messina, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65(2), 358-382
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7848
Couples' Time Together: Complementarities in Production versus Complementarities in Consumption
Hani Mansour, Terra McKinnish
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27, 1127-1144
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7819
Understanding Chinese Consumption: The Impact of Hukou
Christian Dreger, Tongsan Wang, Yanqun Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7804
Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: Efficient, but Regressive?
Nico Pestel, Eric Sommer
revised version published as 'Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: More Employment and more Inequality?' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2017, 63 (3), 524-563
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7731
Income vs. Consumption Inequality in South Korea: Evaluating Stochastic Dominance Rankings by Various Household Attributes
Almas Heshmati, Robert Rudolf
published in: Asian Economic Journal, 2014, 28(4), 413-436.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7709
Household Consumption at Retirement: A Regression Discontinuity Study on French Data
Nicolas Moreau, Elena G. F. Stancanelli
published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 117-118, 253-276
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7693
Seasonality in Smoking Behaviour: Re-evaluating the Effects of the 2005 Public Smoking Ban in Italy
Emilia Del Bono, Klaus Grünberger, Daniela Vuri
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7576
Do House Prices Affect Consumption? A Re-assessment of the Wealth Hypothesis
Annalisa Cristini, Almudena Sevilla
published in: Economica, 2014, 81, 601-625.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7522
Does Changing the Legal Drinking Age Influence Youth Behaviour?
Stefan Boes, Steven Stillman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7488
Should Unemployment Insurance Be Asset-Tested?
Sebastian Koehne, Moritz Kuhn
published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2015, 18 (3), 575-592
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7471
Relative Consumption, Working Time, and Trade Unions
Laszlo Goerke, Inga Hillesheim
published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 170-179
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7370
Showing Off to the New Neighbors? Income, Socioeconomic Status and Consumption Patterns of Internal Migrants
Alexander M. Danzer, Barbara Dietz, Kseniia Gatskova, Achim Schmillen
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42(1), 230-245
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7370
Showing Off to the New Neighbors? Income, Socioeconomic Status and Consumption Patterns of Internal Migrants
Alexander M. Danzer, Barbara Dietz, Kseniia Gatskova, Achim Schmillen
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42(1), 230-245
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7364
Dynamics and Drivers of Consumption and Multidimensional Poverty: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
Tilman Brück, Sindu Workneh Kebede
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7246
Do Parents Drink Their Children's Welfare? A Joint Analysis of Intra-Household Allocation of Time
Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Lucia Mangiavacchi, Luca Piccoli
published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2013, https://doi.org/10.1186/2193-9020-2-13
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7083
Income Inequality and Saving
Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado, Mayssun El-Attar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6993
Time Limits: The Effects on Welfare Use and Other Consumption-Smoothing Mechanisms
Francesca Mazzolari, Giuseppe Ragusa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6925
Profit Sharing and Relative Consumption
Laszlo Goerke
published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 167-169
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6901
Measuring the Shadow Economy: Endogenous Switching Regression with Unobserved Separation
Tomáš Lichard, Jan Hanousek, Randall K. Filer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6900
Consumption Inequality and Family Labor Supply
Richard Blundell, Luigi Pistaferri, Itay Saporta-Eksten
forthcoming in: American Economic Review, 2015
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6876
Can Taxes Stabilize the Economy in the Presence of Consumption Externalities?
Teresa Lloyd-Braga, Leonor Modesto
published in K. Nishimura et al. (eds.), Sunspots and Non-Linear Dynamics, Studies in Economic Theory 31, Springer 2017.
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