IZA Discussion Papers

published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, first Online: 06 November 2022 (latest version)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13665

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

Charlotte Bartels, Simon Jäger, Natalie Obergruber

published online in: Economic Journal, 21 May 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13625

Modern Infectious Diseases: Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses

David E. Bloom, Michael Kuhn, Klaus Prettner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13436

Entrepreneurial Recovery from COVID-19: Decentralization, Democratization, Demand, Distribution, and Demography

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13122

Human Capital as Engine of Growth the Role of Knowledge Transfers in Promoting Balanced Growth within and across Countries

Isaac Ehrlich, Yun Pei

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13039

Regional Convergence in Russia: Estimating a Neoclassical Growth Model

Hartmut Lehmann, Aleksey Oshchepkov, Maria Giulia Silvagni

revised version published as 'Regional Convergence in Russia: Estimating an Augmented Solow Model' in: Economic Systems, 2023, 47 (4), 101128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11994

Different Versions of the Easterlin Paradox: New Evidence for European Countries

Caspar F. Kaiser, Maarten C.M. Vendrik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11681

Flowers of Evil? Industrialization and Long Run Development

Raphaël Franck, Oded Galor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11596

Women Legislators and Economic Performance

Thushyanthan Baskaran, Sonia R. Bhalotra, Brian Min, Yogesh Uppal

revised version forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Growth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11553

Diversity and Growth

Mark Gradstein, Moshe Justman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11401

Resource Misallocation in European Firms: The Role of Constraints, Firm Characteristics and Managerial Decisions

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Debora Revoltella, Jan Svejnar, Christoph T. Weiss

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11185

Education, Income and Happiness: Panel Evidence for the UK

Felix FitzRoy, Michael A. Nolan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11159

Structural Reforms, Growth and Inequality: An Overview of Theory, Measurement and Evidence

Nauro F. Campos, Paul De Grauwe, Yuemei Ji

published in N. Campos, P. De Grauwe and Y. Ji (eds.), The Political Economy of Structural Reforms in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 1-44.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10880

The Relationship between Economic Growth and Democracy: Alternative Representations of Technological Change

Almas Heshmati, Nam-Seok Kim

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10818

Roots of Autocracy

Oded Galor, Marc Klemp

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10705

Growth in the Shadows: Effect of the Shadow Economy on U.S. Economic Growth over More Than a Century

Rajeev K. Goel, James W. Saunoris, Friedrich Schneider

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10249

Coping with Change: International Differences in the Returns to Skills

Eric A. Hanushek, Guido Schwerdt, Simon Wiederhold, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economics Letters, 2017, 153, 15-19

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9758

Technology-Skill Complementarity in the Early Phase of Industrialization

Raphaël Franck, Oded Galor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9676

Paradox Lost?

Richard A. Easterlin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9599

Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth

Isaac Ehrlich, Jinyoung Kim

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9559

Test Scores, Noncognitive Skills and Economic Growth

Pau Balart, Matthijs Oosterveen, Dinand Webbink

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9555

Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform

Eric A. Hanushek, Jens Ruhose, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2017, 11 (4), 447-486

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9158

Is Industrialization Conducive to Long-Run Prosperity?

Raphaël Franck, Oded Galor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9130

Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States

Eric A. Hanushek, Jens Ruhose, Ludger Woessmann

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2017, 9 (4), 184-224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9081

Education and Growth with Learning by Doing

Gabriele Marconi, Andries de Grip

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8914

The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-Being Data

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, George W. Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert van Landeghem, Georgios Kavetsos, Michael I. Norton

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8868

Financial Development, Environmental Quality, Trade and Economic Growth: What Causes What in MENA Countries

Anis Omri, Saida Daly, Christophe Rault, Anissa Chaibi

published in: Energy Economics, 2015, 48, 242 - 252

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8772

Institutions and Development in MENA Region: Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector

Mahmoud Arayssi, Ali Fakih

published in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2015, 42 (8), 717-732

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8751

Growth and Poverty in Africa: Shifting Fortunes and New Perspectives

Abebe Shimeles

part of this paper forthcoming in: The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8654

From Riches to Rags, and Back? Institutional Change, Financial Development and Economic Growth in Argentina since the 1890s

Nauro F. Campos, Menelaos G. Karanasos, Bin Tan

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52(2), 206 - 223

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8433

The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation

Oded Galor, Marc Klemp

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. 8397

Financial Development and Economic Growth: Evidence from Ten New EU Members

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Christophe Rault, Robert Sova, Anamaria Sova

published in: International Journal of Finance and Economics, 2015, 20 (1), 48–60

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8274

Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth

Carol Corrado, Jonathan Haskel, Cecilia Jona-Lasinio

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8243

Inequality of Opportunity and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis

Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Christoph Lakner, Maria Ana Lugo, Berk Özler

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2018, 64 (4), 800-827

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8162

Economic Growth and Political Integration: Estimating the Benefits from Membership in the European Union Using the Synthetic Counterfactuals Method

Nauro F. Campos, Fabrizio Coricelli, Luigi Moretti

published as 'Institutional integration and economic growth in Europe' in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2019, 103, 88-104

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8001

Euroskepticism in the Crisis: More Mood than Economy

Jo Ritzen, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Caroline Wehner

completely revised version published as 'Euroskepticism, Income Inequality and Financial Expectations' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2015, 16 (2), 539-576

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7989

The Effect of Renewable Energy Development on Carbon Emission Reduction: An Empirical Analysis for the EU-15 Countries

Shahrouz Abolhosseini, Almas Heshmati, Jörn Altmann

published as 'Impact of Renewable Energy Development on Carbon Dioxide Emission Reduction' in: The Development of Renewable Energy Sources and its Significance for the Environment, 2015, pp. 119-146

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7826

Volatility and Growth: Governments are Key

Michael Jetter

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 36, 71-88

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7798

Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China

Belton M. Fleisher, William H. McGuire, Adam Nicholas Smith, Mi Zhou

published as 'Knowledge capital, innovation, and growth in China' in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2015, 39, 31-42.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7765

Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World

Catia Batista, Jacques Potin

published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 122 (2), 276–284

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7733

Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty

Sutirtha Bagchi, Jan Svejnar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7459

Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth

Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti

published in: Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol. 2, 1-48, December 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7458

Reexamining the Conditional Effect of Foreign Direct Investment

Randolph Luca Bruno, Nauro F. Campos

published in: Multinational Business Review, 2018, 26 (2), 126-144

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7391

Disease and Development Revisited

David E. Bloom, David Canning, Günther Fink

pubished in: Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 122 (6), 1355-1366

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7354

International Education and Economic Growth

Jan Bergerhoff, Lex Borghans, Philipp K. Seegers, Tom van Veen

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7341

Cross Sections Are History

Richard A. Easterlin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7234

Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy

Richard A. Easterlin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7196

China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010

Richard A. Easterlin, Robson Morgan, Maggie Switek, Fei Wang

published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, 109 (25), 9775-9780

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7141

Aid, Growth, and Jobs

Gary S. Fields

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7105

The New Stylized Facts about Income and Subjective Well-Being

Daniel W. Sacks, Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers

published in: Emotion, 2012, 12(6), 1181-1187 (lead article)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6934

Are We There Yet? Time for Checks and Balances on New Institutionalism

Murat Iyigun

published in: Annual Proceedings of the Wealth & Well-Being of Nations, 2013, 5, 73-84

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6926

The Role of Sectoral Growth Patterns in Labor Market Development

Francisco Javier Arias-Vazquez, Jean Nahrae Lee, David Newhouse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6761

The Great Happiness Moderation

Andrew E. Clark, Sarah Flèche, Claudia Senik

published in: Andrew Clark and Claudia Senik (Eds.), Happiness and Economic Growth: Lessons from Developing Countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, 22-139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6737

The Impact of Armed Conflict on Economic Performance: Evidence from Rwanda

Pieter Serneels, Marijke Verpoorten

published in: Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2015, 59 (4), 555-592

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6550

Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China

James J. Heckman, Junjian Yi

published in: S. Fan, R. Kanbur, S. Wei, and X. Zhang (eds)., The Oxford Companion to the Economics of China on Human Capital, Oxford: OUP, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6527

Declining Fertility and Economic Well-Being: Do Education and Health Ride to the Rescue?

Klaus Prettner, David E. Bloom, Holger Strulik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6213

Economic History or History of Economics? A Review Essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

Orley Ashenfelter

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2012, 50 (1), 96 - 102

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6135

Reforms, Growth and Persistence of Gender Gap: Recent Evidence from Private School Enrolment in India

Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal, Anurag Sharma

revised version forthcoming as 'Economic Reforms and Growth of Private School Enrolment in India: Is There a Cause for Concern?' in: Sonalde Desai, Pallavi Choudhuri, and Amaresh Dubey (eds.), India's Social and Economic Transformation in the 21st Century, Routledge

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6024

Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Sajal Lahiri, Javed Younas

revised version published as 'Financing Growth Through Foreign Aid and Private Foreign Loans: Nonlinearities and Complementarities' in: Journal of International Money and Finance, 2015, 56, 75-96

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5969

Then and Now: Reflections on Two Australian Mining Booms

Bob Gregory

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5929

Economic Growth and Child Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh and China

Syeda Shahanara Begum, Deng Quheng, Björn Anders Gustafsson

published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2012, 23 (1), 73 - 85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5676

Immigration and Innovation in European Regions

Ceren Ozgen, Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot

published in: P. Nijkamp, J. Poot J and M. Sahin (eds.) Migration Impact Assessment: New Horizons, Edward Elgar, 2012

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5643

Democratization, Violent Social Conflicts, and Growth

Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde

substantially revised version published as 'Civil Conflict, Democratization, and Growth: Violent Democratization as Critical Juncture' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2014, 116 (2), 482-505

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5422

The Long-Run Effects of Mortality Decline in Developing Countries

Ulla Lehmijoki, Tapio K. Palokangas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5334

Whither Corruption? A Quantitative Survey of the Literature on Corruption and Growth

Nauro F. Campos, Ralitza Dimova, Ahmad Saleh

published as 'Corruption and Economic Growth: An Econometric Survey of the Evidence' in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2016, 172 (3), 521-543

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5304

An Empirical Study of the Relationships between CO2 Emissions, Economic Growth and Openness

Eunho Choi, Almas Heshmati, Yongsung Cho

published in: Korean Journal of Environmental Policy 2011, 10(4), 3-37.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5230

Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Daniel W. Sacks, Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers

published in: The World Bank (ed.). Development Challenges in a Post-Crisis World, 2012

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5151

International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China

Peng Sun, Almas Heshmati

published in: China Economic Policy Review, 2012, 1(2), 35-60.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5065

The Phantom of the Opera: Cultural Amenities, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth

Oliver Falck, Michael Fritsch, Stephan Heblich

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 755-766

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5007

Quantifying Optimal Growth Policy

Volker Grossmann, Thomas M. Steger, Timo Trimborn

published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2016, 18 (3), 451-485

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4926

Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research

Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economics Letters, 2011, 110 (2), 79-82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4808

Do Output Contractions Trigger Democratic Change?

Paul J. Burke, Andrew Leigh

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (4), 124-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4762

Does Conflict Disrupt Growth? Evidence of the Relationship between Political Instability and National Economic Performance

Solomon Polachek, Daria Sevastianova

published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2012, 21 (3), 361 - 388

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4683

International Specialization and the Return to Capital

Catia Batista, Jacques Potin

published in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Advances), 2015, 15 (2), 467-508

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4682

Are Hispanic Immigrant Families Reviving the Economies of America's Small Towns?

Dennis Coates, T. H. Gindling

published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2013, 31 (4), 649-668

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4576

Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle

Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (2), 497-512

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4575

Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation

Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2012, 17 (4), 267-321

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4522

The Effect of Migration on Income Growth and Convergence: Meta-Analytic Evidence

Ceren Ozgen, Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot

published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2010, 89 (3), 537-561

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4453

Regional Economic Growth and Human Capital: The Role of Overeducation

Raul Ramos, Jordi Surinach, Manuel Artís

published in: Regional Studies, 2012, 46 (10), 1389-1400

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4060

Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox

Richard A. Easterlin, Laura Angelescu McVey

published in: R.A. Easterlin, Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle, Chapter 5, Oxford University Press, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4000

Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries

Richard A. Easterlin, Onnicha Sawangfa

published in: E. Diener, J. Helliwell, and D. Kahneman (eds.), International Differences in Well-Being. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3774

Analysis of Pay Inequality and its Impacts on Growth and Performance in the Korean Manufacturing Industry

Yunhee Kim, Jeong-Dong Lee, Almas Heshmati

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