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477 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13545
Intrahousehold Commitment and Intertemporal Labor Supply
Pierre-André Chiappori, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina, Alexandros Theloudis, Jorge Velilla
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13544
Subsidizing Domestic Services as a Tool to Fight Unemployment: Effectiveness and Hidden Costs
Elisabeth Leduc, Ilan Tojerow
published as 'Home work: Exploring the labor market effects of subsidizing domestic services' in: Labour Economics, 2024, 90, 102595
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13461
The Gender Gap in Time Allocation in Europe
José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina
published as 'The Gender Gap in Time Allocation' in: IZA World of Labor, 2022, 497
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13434
How the COVID-19 Lockdown Affected Gender Inequality in Paid and Unpaid Work in Spain
Lídia Farré, Yarine Fawaz, Libertad González, Jennifer Graves
published as 'Gender Inequality in Paid and Unpaid Work During Covid-19 Times' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68 (2), 323-347
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13363
Measuring Monetary Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region: Data Gaps and Different Options to Address Them
Aziz Atamanov, Sharad Tandon, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Mexico Alberto Vergara Bahena
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13348
Italian Families in the 21st Century: Gender Gaps in Time Use and Their Evolution
Francesca Barigozzi, Cesare Di Timoteo, Chiara Monfardini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13340
Do Immigrants Pay a Price When Marrying Natives? Lessons from the US Time Use Survey
Shoshana Grossbard, Victoria Vernon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13315
Turning Vietnam's COVID-19 Success into Economic Recovery: A Job-Focused Analysis of Individual Assessments on Their Finance and the Economy
Hai-Anh H Dang, Long T. Giang
published in: Sustainability, 2021, 13 (19), 10664
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13222
The Insights and Illusions of Consumption Measurements
Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai, Nandini Krishnan
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023,161, 102991
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. 13182
Is Rising Household Debt Affecting Retirement Decisions?
Barbara A. Butrica, Nadia S Karamcheva
published in: Olivia Mitchell and Annamaria Lusardi (eds.), Remaking Retirement: Debt in an Aging Economy, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13127
Sibling Spillover in Rural China: A Story of Sisters and Daughters
Cynthia Bansak, Xuan Jiang, Guanyi Yang
published as 'Sibling spillovers in rural China: A story of sisters' in: China Economic Review, 2022, 76, 101873
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13102
Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply
Daniela Del Boca, Chiara D. Pronzato, Giuseppe Sorrenti
published as 'Conditional cash transfer programs and household labor supply' in: European Economic Review, 2021, 136, 103755
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13023
Financial Expectations and Household Consumption: Does Middle Inflation Matter?
Sarah Brown, Mark N. Harris, Christopher Spencer, Karl Taylor
published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2024, 56 (4), 741-768.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12948
Gender, Information and the Efficiency of Household Production Decisions: An Experiment in Rural Togo
Marie Christine Apedo-Amah, Habiba Djebbari, Roberta Ziparo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12948
Gender, Information and the Efficiency of Household Production Decisions: An Experiment in Rural Togo
Marie Christine Apedo-Amah, Habiba Djebbari, Roberta Ziparo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12923
Does the Added Worker Effect Matter?
Nezih Guner, Yuliya Kulikova, Arnau Valladares-Esteban
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12923
Does the Added Worker Effect Matter?
Nezih Guner, Yuliya Kulikova, Arnau Valladares-Esteban
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12822
Estimating Poverty for Refugee Populations: Can Cross-Survey Imputation Methods Substitute for Data Scarcity?
Hai-Anh H Dang, Paolo Verme
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 653 - 679
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12743
Differences in Euro-Area Household Finances and their Relevance for Monetary-Policy Transmission
Thomas Hintermaier, Winfried Koeniger
revised version forthcoming in: Quantitative Economics, 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12665
Is Consanguinity an Impediment to Child Development Outcomes?
Cem Mete, Laurent Bossavie, John T. Giles, Harold Alderman
published in: Population Studies, June 2020, 74 (2): 139-159.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12654
Depression in the House: The Effects of Household Air Pollution from Solid Fuel Use in China
Yan Liu, Xi Chen, Zhijun Yan
published as 'Depression in the house: The effects of household air pollution from solid fuel use among the middle-aged and older population in China' in: Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 703, 134706
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12654
Depression in the House: The Effects of Household Air Pollution from Solid Fuel Use in China
Yan Liu, Xi Chen, Zhijun Yan
published as 'Depression in the house: The effects of household air pollution from solid fuel use among the middle-aged and older population in China' in: Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 703, 134706
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. 12497
Who Is a Passive Saver under Opt-In and Auto-Enrollment?
Gopi Shah Goda, Matthew R. Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner, Joshua Tasoff
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 173, 301-321
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12420
Parental Leave, Household Specialization and Children's Well-Being
Serena Canaan
published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 75, 102127
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12386
When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health
Petra Persson, Maya Rossin-Slater
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (4), 186–219
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12375
Sibling Differences in Educational Polygenic Scores: How Do Parents React?
Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anastasia Terskaya
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12353
Intertemporal Labor Supply and Intra-Household Commitment
Pierre-André Chiappori, José Alberto Molina, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Jorge Velilla
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12185
The Economics of Hypergamy
Ingvild Almås, Andreas Kotsadam, Espen R. Moen, Knut Røed
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (1), 260-281
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12148
Home Production of Childcare and Labour Supply Decisions in a Collective Household Model
Hélène Turon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12103
Actors in the Child Development Process
Daniela Del Boca, Christopher Flinn, Ewout Verriest, Matthew Wiswall
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12102
The Consequences of Extending Equitable Property Division Divorce Laws to Cohabitants
Abraham Chigavazira, Hayley Fisher, Tim Robinson, Anna Zhu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12070
Inequality of Opportunity in Education: Accounting for the Contributions of Sibs, Schools and Sorting across East Africa
Paul Anand, Jere R. Behrman, Hai-Anh H Dang, Sam Jones
published as 'Decomposing Learning Inequalities in East Africa: How Much Does Sorting Matter?' in: World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36 (1), 219-243
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12055
Under Pressure? Assessing the Roles of Skills and Other Personal Resources for Work-Life Strains
Niels-Hugo Blunch, David C. Ribar, Mark Western
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, 18 (3), 883-906
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11992
The Impact of Household Shocks on Domestic Violence: Evidence from Tanzania
Olukorede Abiona, Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11979
The Financial Decisions of Immigrant and Native Households: Evidence from Italy
Graziella Bertocchi, Marianna Brunetti, Anzelika Zaiceva
substantially revised version published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2023, 9, 117-174
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11937
Strategic Fertility Behaviour, Early Childhood Human Capital Investments and Gender Roles in Albania
Louise Grogan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11928
Financial Inclusion, Shocks and Poverty: Evidence from the Expansion of Mobile Money in Tanzania
Olukorede Abiona, Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020,18, 435-464
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. 11884
A Different Perspective on the Evolution of UK Income Inequality
Anthony B. Atkinson, Stephen P. Jenkins
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2020, 66 (2), 253-266
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11884
A Different Perspective on the Evolution of UK Income Inequality
Anthony B. Atkinson, Stephen P. Jenkins
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2020, 66 (2), 253-266
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11846
The Betrayed Generation? Intra-Household Transfers and Retirement Behavior in South Korea
Kyeongkuk Kim, Sang-Hyop Lee, Timothy J. Halliday
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11824
Long-Term Changes in Married Couples' Labor Supply and Taxes: Evidence from the US and Europe since the 1980s
Alexander Bick, Bettina Brüggemann, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Hannah Paule-Paludkiewicz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11784
Food for Fuel: The Effect of the US Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India
Ujjayant Chakravorty, Marie-Helene Hubert, Beyza Ural Marchand
published in: Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society, 10(3), 2019, 1153-1193
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11762
Predicting Retirement Savings Using Survey Measures of Exponential-Growth Bias and Present Bias
Gopi Shah Goda, Matthew R. Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner, Joshua Tasoff
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2019, 57 (3), 1636 - 1658
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11752
Job Displacement, Family Dynamics and Spousal Labor Supply
Martin Halla, Julia Schmieder, Andrea Weber
revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020,12 (4), 253-87
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11752
Job Displacement, Family Dynamics and Spousal Labor Supply
Martin Halla, Julia Schmieder, Andrea Weber
revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020,12 (4), 253-87
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11707
Intra-Household Wealth and Welfare Inequality in the US: Estimations from a Collective Model of Labor Supply
José Alberto Molina, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Jorge Velilla
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11706
The Value of Health Insurance: A Household Job Search Approach
Gabriella Conti, Rita Ginja, Renata Narita
forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11698
How Has the Two-Day Weekend Policy Affected Labour Supply and Household Work in China?
Tony Fang, Carl Lin, Xueli Tang
published as 'Where did the time go? The effects of China's two-day weekend policy on labor supply, household work, and wage' in: China Economic Review, 2024, 83, 102107.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11695
Efficient Labor Supply for Latin Families: Is the Intra-Household Bargaining Power Relevant?
Juan Carlos Campaña, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11618
Labor Market and Distributional Effects of an Increase in the Retirement Age
Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid, Michael Peters
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11607
Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-Cognitive Characteristics in Rural China
Jessica Leight, Elaine M. Liu
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2020, 69 (1), 213–251
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11465
When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men
David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson
published in: American Economic Review: Insights, 2019, 1 (2), 161-178
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11464
Household Savings and Marriage Payments: Evidence from Dowry in India
S Anukriti, Sungoh Kwon, Nishith Prakash
published as 'Saving for dowry: Evidence from rural India' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 154, 102750
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11430
Latin American Household Budget Surveys 1913-1970 and What They Tell Us about Economic Inequality among Households
Ian Gazeley, Rose Holmes, Cecilia Lanata Briones, Andrew T. Newell, Kevin Reynolds, Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11429
The Household Budget Survey in Western Europe, 1795-1965
Ian Gazeley, Rose Holmes, Andrew T. Newell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11429
The Household Budget Survey in Western Europe, 1795-1965
Ian Gazeley, Rose Holmes, Andrew T. Newell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11428
How Do Households Adjust to Trade Liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO Accession
Mi Dai, Wei Huang, Yifan Zhang
published as 'How do households adjust to tariff liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO accession' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 150, 102628
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11384
Family Structure and the Turnout Gender Gap: Evidence from Italy
Giorgio Bellettini, Carlotta Berti Ceroni, Enrico Cantoni, Chiara Monfardini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11355
Inequality among European Working Households, 1890-1960
Ian Gazeley, Rose Holmes, Andrew T. Newell, Kevin Reynolds, Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11276
Intertemporal Labor Supply: A Household Collective Approach
José Alberto Molina, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Jorge Velilla
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11276
Intertemporal Labor Supply: A Household Collective Approach
José Alberto Molina, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Jorge Velilla
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11188
Micro-Foundations of Fragility: Concepts, Measurement and Application
Ghassan Baliki, Tilman Brück, Neil T.N. Ferguson, Sindu W. Kebede
published in: Review of Development Economics, 2022, 26, 639 - 660
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11172
Migration and Co-Residence Choices: Evidence from Mexico
Simone Bertoli, Elie Murard
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 142, Article 102330
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11150
Urban Consumption Inequality in China, 1995–2013
Qingjie Xia, Shi Li, Lina Song
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11047
The Non-Market Benefits of Education and Ability
James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, Gregory Veramendi
published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2018, 12 (2), 282 - 304
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11032
Households Debt Restructuring: The Re-default Effect of a Debt Suspension
Henri Fraisse
published in: Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, 2017, 33 (4), 686 - 717
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11009
Individual Poverty Measurement Using a Fuzzy Intrahousehold Approach
Gianni Betti, Lucia Mangiavacchi, Luca Piccoli
published as 'Women and poverty: insights from individual consumption in Albania' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, 18, 69 - 91
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10973
The Tragedy of Clientelism: Opting Children Out
Lucas Ronconi, Rodrigo Zarazaga
published in: Studies in Comparative International Development, 2019, 54 (3), 365 - 380
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10936
Child Discipline in Times of Conflict
Michael Malcolm, Vidya Diwakar, George S Naufal
published in: Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2020, 64 (6), 1070–1094
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10864
Less Alimony after Divorce: Spouses' Behavioral Response to the 2008 Alimony Reform in Germany
Julia Bredtmann, Christina Vonnahme
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2019, 17 (4), 1191-1223
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10831
Do Significant Labor Market Events Change Who Does the Chores? Paid Work, Housework and Power in Mixed-Gender Australian Households
Gigi Foster, Leslie S. Stratton
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (2), 483-519
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10775
Body-Weight and Women's Hours of Work: More Evidence That Marriage Markets Matter
Shoshana Grossbard, Sankar Mukhopadhyay
published as 'Marriage markets as explanation for why heavier people work more hours' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 6(1), 9.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10765
The 'Soda Tax' is Unlikely to Make Mexicans Lighter: New Evidence on Biases in Elasticities of Demand for Soda
Mabel Andalón, John Gibson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10603
Risk Attitudes and Household Migration Decisions
Christian Dustmann, Francesco Fasani, Xin Meng, Luigi Minale
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023 58 (1), 112-145
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10557
Household Bargaining, Spouses' Consumption Patterns and the Design of Commodity Taxes
Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur, Kerstin Roeder
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2021, 73, 2021, 225--247.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10528
Household Portfolio Choice, Reference Dependence, and the Marriage Market
Wenchao Li, Changcheng Song, Shu Xu, Junjian Yi
published as 'High Sex Ratios and Household Portfolio Choice in China' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (2), 465-490
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10527
Cleaning in the Shadow of the Law? Bargaining, Marital Investment, and the Impact of Divorce Law on Husbands' Intra-Household Work
Jennifer Louise Roff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10504
Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Couples across Countries: A Macroeconomic Analysis
Alexander Bick, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2018, 85 (3), 1543–1576
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10482
Household Entrepreneurship and Social Networks: Panel Data Evidence from Vietnam
Huu Chi Nguyen, Christophe Jalil Nordman
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2018, 54 (4), 594 - 618
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10432
The Effect of One Laptop per Child on Teachers' Pedagogical Practices and Students' Use of Time at Home
Gustavo Yamada, Pablo Lavado, Guadalupe Montenegro
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10407
Locus of Control and Investment in Risky Assets
Nicolás Salamanca, Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge, Raymond Montizaan
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 177, 548-568
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10363
The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Long-term Consequences of Unilateral Divorce Laws on Savings of European Households
Viola Angelini, Marco Bertoni, Luca Stella, Christoph T. Weiss
published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 119, 97-113
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10362
Family Economics Writ Large
Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Guillaume Vandenbroucke
published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2017, 55, 1346-1434.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10362
Family Economics Writ Large
Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Guillaume Vandenbroucke
published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2017, 55, 1346-1434.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10361
How Does Pension Eligibility Affect Labor Supply in Couples?
Rafael Lalive, Pierpaolo Parrotta
published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 46, 177-188
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10310
Intra-Household Behavioral Responses to Cash Transfer Programs: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Marcelo Bergolo, Estefania Galvan
published in: World Development, 2018, 103, 100 - 118
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10267
Estimating Labor-Supply Elasticities with Joint Borrowing Constraints of Couples
Christian Bredemeier, Jan Gravert, Falko Juessen
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (4), 1215-1265
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10242
Marital Matching, Economies of Scale and Intrahousehold Allocations
Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Khushboo Surana, Frederic Vermeulen
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (4), 823 - 837
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10196
Remittances and Informal Work
Artjoms Ivlevs
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (7), 1172-1190
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10133
The Effect of Gender-Targeted Conditional Cash Transfers on Household Expenditures: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Alex Armand, Orazio Attanasio, Pedro Carneiro, Valerie Lechene
published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (631), 1875 - 1897
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10131
Measuring Women's Empowerment in Rwanda
Abdou Musonera, Almas Heshmati
published in: A. Heshmati (ed.), Studies on Economic Development and Growth in Selected African Countries, Springer, 2017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10110
The Long-Term Impact of International Migration on Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from a Migration Lottery and Lab-in-the-Field Experiments
John Gibson, David McKenzie, Halahingano Rohorua, Steven Stillman
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 138, 99-115
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10110
The Long-Term Impact of International Migration on Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from a Migration Lottery and Lab-in-the-Field Experiments
John Gibson, David McKenzie, Halahingano Rohorua, Steven Stillman
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 138, 99-115
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10073
How Do Pre-School and/or School-Age Children Affect Parents' Likelihood of Migration and Off-Farm Work in Rural China's Minority Regions?
Sai Ding, Xiao-Yuan Dong, Margaret Maurer-Fazio
published online in: Feminist Economics, 2018, 24 (2), 77 - 99
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10059
Commitment in the Household: Evidence from the Effect of Inheritances on the Labor Supply of Older Married Couples
David M. Blau, Ryan Goodstein
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 123 - 137
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10054
Work versus School? The Effect of Work on Educational Expenditures for Children in Mexico
Elizabeth Kaletski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10040
Do Parents Tax Their Children? Teenage Labour Supply and Financial Support
Angus J. Holford
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