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IZA Discussion Paper No. 18733

Formal Labor Market Dynamics and Development

Anne Brockmeyer, Francois Gerard, Gabriel Ulyssea, Linda Wu, Marcelo Bergolo, Rodrigo Ceni, Benard Kirui, Andrea Lopez-Luzuriaga, Leonardo Morales, Andrea Otero-Cortés, Nadine Riedel, Matías Tapia, Tanisa Tawichsri, Verena Wiedemann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18182

Economic Development in the 21st Century

Carmel U. Chiswick

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17747

Religion and Economic Development: Past, Present, and Future

Sascha O. Becker, Amma Panin, Steven Pfaff, Jared Rubin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17459

Shine a (Night)Light: Decentralization and Economic Development in Burkina Faso

Olivier B. Bargain, Rose Camille Vincent, Emilie Caldeira

published in: World Development, 2025, 187, 106851

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17281

Aggregate Implications of Barriers to Female Entrepreneurship

Gaurav Chiplunkar, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17059

The Effect of Postsecondary Educational Institutions on Local Economies: A Bird's-Eye View

Patrick Lehnert, Madison Dell, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Eric Bettinger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16951

Impact of Temporary Migration on Long-Run Economic Development: The Legacy of the Sent-down Youth Program

Tue Gorgens, Xin Meng, Guochang Zhao

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16408

Is Productive Entrepreneurship Getting Scarcer? A Reflection on the Contemporary Relevance of Baumol's Typology

Maria Minniti, Wim Naudé, Erik Stam

published in: W. Naudé and B. Power (eds.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, Elgar, 2024, 18 - 44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16377

Population Aging and Economic Growth: From Demographic Dividend to Demographic Drag?

Rainer Kotschy, David E. Bloom

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16136

Women's Transitions in the Labour Market as a Result of Childbearing: The Challenges of Formal Sector Employment in Indonesia

Lisa A. Cameron, Diana Contreras Suarez, Yi-Ping Tseng

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16052

Social Inclusion and Levels of Urbanisation: Does It Matter Where You Live?

Adele Whelan, Anne Devlin, Seamus McGuinness

revised version published as 'Barriers to social inclusion and levels of urbanisation: Does it matter where you live?' in: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2024, 17 (1), 59 - 74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15800

Highway to Hell? Interstate Highway System and Crime

Francesca Calamunci, Jakub Lonsky

updated version published as 'The Road to Crime: An Unintended Consequence of the Interstate Highway System' in: Economic Journal, 2025, 135 (667), 748–772

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15637

Economic Development and the Organisation of Labour: Evidence from the Jobs of the World Project

Oriana Bandiera, Ahmed Elsayed, Anton Heil, Andrea Smurra

published in: the Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (6), 2226 - 2270

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15598

The Political U: New Evidence on Democracy and Income

Nauro F. Campos, Fabrizio Coricelli, Marco Frigerio

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15463

Reversing Fortunes of German Regions, 1926–2019: Boon and Bane of Early Industrialization?

Paul Berbée, Sebastian Till Braun, Richard Franke

published online in: Journal of Economic Growth, 10 October 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15265

Mother Africa's Exceptionalism? Income and Fertility Redux

Mark Gradstein, Phoebe W. Ishak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15084

Cumulative Climate Shocks and Migratory Flows: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Salvatore Di Falco, Anna B. Kis, Martina Viarengo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14781

Closing the Gender Profit Gap?

Catia Batista, Sandra Sequeira, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: Management Science, 2022, 68 (12), 8515 - 9218,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14759

Preferences, Financial Literacy, and Economic Development

Maddalena Davoli, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14727

The Impact of Body Mass Index on Growth, Schooling, Productivity, and Savings: A Cross-Country Study

Aysit Tansel, Ceyhan Öztürk, Erkan Erdil

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14450

From Stocks to Flows – Evidence for the Climate-Migration-Nexus

Michael Berlemann, Erik Haustein, Max F. Steinhardt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13665

Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing: Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land

Charlotte Bartels, Simon Jäger, Natalie Obergruber

published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (664), 3137–3172

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13612

Migration from Developing Countries: Selection, Income Elasticity, and Simpson's Paradox

Michael A. Clemens, Mariapia Mendola

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 171, 103359

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13422

Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations

Girum Abebe, Margaret McMillan, Michel Serafinelli

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 158, 102926

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13384

The Global Distribution of Routine and Non-Routine Work

Piotr Lewandowski, Albert Park, Simone Schotte

published as 'The global divergence in the de-routinisation of jobs' in: Gradín C., Lewandowski P., Schotte S., Sen K. (eds.), Tasks, Skills, and Institutions - The Changing Nature of Work and Inequality, Oxford University Press, 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13371

Religion in Economic History: A Survey

Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, Ludger Woessmann

published in: A. Bisin, G. Federico (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Economics, London: Academic Press, 2021, 585-639

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12964

Spurring Economic Growth through Human Development: Research Results and Guidance for Policymakers

David E. Bloom, Alexander Khoury, Vadim Kufenko, Klaus Prettner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12631

Does Light Touch Cluster Policy Work? Evaluating the Tech City Programme

Max Nathan

published in: Research Policy, 2022, 51 (9), 1104138

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12619

Do Workers Benefit from Resource Booms in Their Home State? Evidence from the Fracking Era

John V. Winters, Zhengyu Cai, Karen Maguire, Shruti Sengupta

published as 'Causal Effects of the Fracking Boom on Long-Term Resident Workers' in: Journal of Region Science, 2021, 61 (2), 387 - 406

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12356

The Marriage Age U-Shape

Pavel Jelnov

published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2023, 89 (2), 211-252

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12259

From Ghana to America: The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development

Salvatore Lo Bello, Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta, Hernan Winkler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12225

Do Tax Incentives Affect Business Location and Economic Development? Evidence from State Film Incentives

Patrick Button

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 77, 315-339.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12224

Human Capital and the Economic Convergence Mechanism: Evidence from China

Xiaobei Zhang, Haizheng Li, Xiaojun Wang, Belton M. Fleisher

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12080

Let the Data Speak? On the Importance of Theory-Based Instrumental Variable Estimations

Volker Grossmann, Aderonke Osikominu

published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20, e831-e851

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11940

Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence

David E. Bloom, David Canning, Rainer Kotschy, Klaus Prettner, Johannes Schünemann

published in: World Development, 2024, 178, 106575

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11939

Health and Economic Growth

David E. Bloom, Michael Kuhn, Klaus Prettner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11856

Incubators, Accelerators and Regional Economic Development

Margarida Madaleno, Max Nathan, Henry Overman, Sevrin Waights

published in: Urban Studies, 2022, 59 (2) 281-300

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11647

What Accounts for the US Ascendancy to Economic Superpower by the Early 20th Century: The Morrill Act – Human Capital Hypothesis

Isaac Ehrlich, Adam Cook, Yong Yin

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2018, 12 (2), 233–281

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11613

Mass Refugee Inflow and Long-Run Prosperity: Lessons from the Greek Population Resettlement

Elie Murard, Seyhun Orcan Sakalli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11164

Intergenerational Education Mobility and the Level of Development: Evidence from Turkey

Abdurrahman B. Aydemir, Hakki Yazici

published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 116, 160-185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11036

Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods: Long Run Evidence from Tanzania

Guy Michaels, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, Ferdinand Rauch, Tanner Regan, Neeraj Baruah, Amanda Dahlstrand

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10967

Management, Supervision, and Health Care: A Field Experiment

Felipe A. Dunsch, David K. Evans, Ezinne Eze-Ajoku, Mario Macis

published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2023, 32 (3), 583-606

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10565

Money Counts, but So Does Timing: Public Investment and Adult Competencies

Alison Cathles, Jo Ritzen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10081

Research Funding and Regional Economies

Nathan Goldschlag, Stefano Bianchini, Julia Lane, Joseba SanMartin Sola, Bruce A. Weinberg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9563

Initial Conditions Matter: Social Capital and Participatory Development

Lisa A. Cameron, Susan Olivia, Manisha Shah

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9268

The Contribution of Female Health to Economic Development

David E. Bloom, Michael Kuhn, Klaus Prettner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9060

Does It Matter Where You Came From? Ancestry Composition and Economic Performance of U.S. Counties, 1850-2010

Scott L. Fulford, Ivan Petkov, Fabio Schiantarelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9025

The Local Economic Impact of Wind Power Deployment

Nils G. May, Øivind Anti Nilsen

published in: FinanzArchiv / Public Finance Analysis, 2019, 75 (1), 56-92.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9024

Fiscal Decentralization, Rural Industrialization, and Undocumented Labor Mobility in Rural China (1982-87)

Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen

published in: Regional Studies, 2016, 50 (9), 1469-1482

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. 8792

Gone with the Storm: Rainfall Shocks and Household Well-Being in Guatemala

Javier E. Baez, Leonardo Lucchetti, Maria Eugenia Genoni, Mateo Salazar

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (8), 1253 - 1271

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8776

Past Dominations, Current Institutions and the Italian Regional Economic Performance

Adriana Di Liberto, Marco Sideri

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2015, 38, 12-41

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8427

The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference

Oded Galor, Ömer Özak

published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (10), 3064-3103

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8111

Is Religion Associated with Entrepreneurial Activity?

Andrew Henley

published as 'Does Religion Influence Entrepreneurial Behaviour?' in: International Small Business Journal, 2017, 35 (5), 597 - 617

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7717

Is there a Trade-off between Employment and Productivity?

Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar

published as 'Macroeconomic and Sectoral Issues in Youth Employment Policy' in: O'Higgins, N., Ebell, M.; Junankar, P.N. (eds.), Rising to the Youth Employment Policy, Geneva, 2017, Ch.2

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7568

Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity

Alberto Alesina, Johann Harnoss, Hillel Rapoport

published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2016, 21 (2), 101-138

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7563

The Economic Impact of Non-communicable Disease in China and India: Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons

David E. Bloom, Elizabeth T. Cafiero, Mark E. McGovern, Klaus Prettner, Anderson Stanciole, Jonathan Weiss, Samuel Bakkila, Larry Rosenberg

published as 'The macroeconomic impact of non-communicable diseases in China and India: Estimates, projections, and comparisons' in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2014, 4, 100-111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7422

Income and Population Growth

Markus Brückner, Hannes Schwandt

published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 124 (589), 1653-1676

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7398

What Did the Old Poor Law Really Accomplish? A Redux

Avner Greif, Murat Iyigun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7377

Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth

Avner Greif, Murat Iyigun

published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (3), 534-538

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7183

Social Distance and Trust: Experimental Evidence from a Slum in Cairo

Christine Binzel, Dietmar Fehr

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 103, 99-106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7167

Why Did the Netherlands Develop So Early? The Legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life

I. Semih Akçomak, Dinand Webbink, Bas ter Weel

published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (593), 821-860

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7069

Income, Democracy, and Critical Junctures

Matteo Cervellati, Florian Jung, Uwe Sunde, Thomas Vischer

substantially revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (2), 707-719

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6754

Constitutions and Economic Development: Evidence from the American Indian Nations

Randall K. Q. Akee, Miriam Jorgensen, Uwe Sunde

revised version published as 'Critical junctures and economic development – Evidence from the adoption of constitutions among American Indian Nations' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43 (4), 844 - 861

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6532

Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey

Aysit Tansel, Nil Demet Güngör

published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2013, 40 (6), 794-821.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6319

Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5901

Health and Economic Development: Evidence from the Introduction of Public Health Care

Anthony Strittmatter, Uwe Sunde

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (4), 1549-1584

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4473

HIV and Fertility in Africa: First Evidence from Population Based Surveys

Chinhui Juhn, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Belgi Turan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4393

Re-Orient? MNC Penetration and Contemporary Shifts in the Global Political Economy

Arno Tausch, Almas Heshmati

published in: Sociológia - Slovak Sociological Review, 2011, 44 (3), 1-20

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4340

Population and Health Policies

T. Paul Schultz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4308

Neighborhood Dynamics and the Housing Price Effects of Spatially Targeted Economic Development Policy

Douglas J. Krupka, Douglas S. Noonan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4116

Cultures, Clashes and Peace

Erin K. Fletcher, Murat Iyigun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4057

The Impact of Education on the Subjective Discount Rate in Ugandan Villages

Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2010, 58 (4), 643–669

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3964

American Education in the Age of Mass Migrations 1870-1930

Fabrice Murtin, Martina Viarengo

published in: Cliometrica, 2010, 4(2), 113-139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3320

Empowerment Zones, Neighborhood Change and Owner Occupied Housing

Douglas J. Krupka, Douglas S. Noonan

revision published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2009, 39(4), 386-396

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3252

Establishment of Science Parks in the Federal Region of Kurdistan

Almas Heshmati

published in: Almas Heshmati, The Economy of Southern Kurdistan, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3116

Monotheism (From a Sociopolitical and Economic Perspective)

Murat Iyigun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3014

What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

Mirjam C. van Praag, Peter H. Versloot

published in: Small Business Economics, 2007, 29 (4), 351-382

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2935

Social Attitudes and Economic Development: An Epidemiological Approach

Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc

published as 'Inherited Trust and Growth' in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (5), 2060 - 2092

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2901

Why Is Child Labor Illegal?

Sylvain Dessy, John Knowles

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2008, 52 (7), 1275 - 1311

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2873

Skilled Migration: The Perspective of Developing Countries

Frédéric Docquier, Hillel Rapoport

published in: J. Baghwati and G. Hanson (eds.), Skilled Immigration Today: Prospects, Problems and Policies, Oxford University Press, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2763

Symbolic Values, Occupational Choice, and Economic Development

Giacomo Corneo, Olivier Jeanne

published in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (2), 241-255

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2569

Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications

Veneta Andonova, Luis Diaz-Serrano

published as 'Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications', Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 89, 77-83

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2452

The Babeldaob Road: The Impact of Road Construction on Rural Labor Force Outcomes in the Republic of Palau

Randall K. Q. Akee

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2440

Brain Drain and Inequality Across Nations

Frédéric Docquier

published as 'Fuite des cerveaux et inégalités entre pays' in: Revue d'Economie du Développement, 2007, 21 (2), 49-88

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2438

Checkerboards and Coase: Transactions Costs and Efficiency in Land Markets

Randall K. Q. Akee

revised version published as 'Checkerboards and Coase: The Effect of Property Institutions on Efficiency in Housing Markets' in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2009, 52 (2), 395-410

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1973

Ottoman Conquests and European Ecclesiastical Pluralism

Murat Iyigun

published as 'Luther & Suleyman' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008,123 (4), 1465-1494.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1782

High Skilled Immigration in the International Arena

Barry R. Chiswick

published in: T.R. Shastri (ed.), Emigration: Economic Implications, Icfai University Press, India, 2007, 84-95

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1756

Distribution of Natural Resources, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development: Growth Dynamics with Two Elites

Josef Falkinger, Volker Grossmann

published as 'Oligarchic Land Ownership, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 101 (1), 206-215.