IZA Discussion Papers

Published as: Smith, Jeffrey and Arthur Sweetman, 2016. “Estimating the Causal Effect of Policies and Programs” Canadian Journal of Economics 49 (3): 871–905.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9915

Head Start and the Distribution of Long Term Education and Labor Market Outcomes

Monique de Haan, Edwin Leuven

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9604

Identification and Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Manipulated Running Variable

Francois Gerard, Miikka Rokkanen, Christoph Rothe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9381

An Alternative Estimator for Industrial Gender Wage Gaps: A Normalized Regression Approach

Myeong-Su Yun, Eric S. Lin

published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2015, 20(4), 569-587

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9182

Whose Preferences Are Revealed in Hours of Work?

John Pencavel

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (1), 9–24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9001

A Simple Identification Strategy for Gary Becker's Time Allocation Model

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Frederic Vermeulen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8970

Impact of Hospital Delivery on Child Mortality: An Analysis of Adolescent Mothers in Bangladesh

Sarmistha Pal

published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2015, 143, 194 - 203

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8896

Some Challenges in the Empirics of the Effects of Networks

Vincent Boucher, Bernard Fortin

forthcoming in: Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Networks, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8450

Policy Discontinuity and Duration Outcomes

Gerard J. van den Berg, Antoine Bozio, Monica Costa Dias

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8405

Counting Rotten Apples: Student Achievement and Score Manipulation in Italian Elementary Schools

Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai, Daniela Vuri

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 200 (2), 344-362

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8178

Entropy Methods for Identifying Hedonic Models

Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon, Marc Henry

published in: Mathematics and Financial Economics, 2014, 8 (4), 405-416, (special issue in celebration of Ivar Ekeland's 70th birthday.)

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. 7628

Causal Analysis after Haavelmo

James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto

revised version published in: Econometric Theory, 2015, 31(1), 115-151

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7554

Hedonic Estimation under Very General Conditions Using Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs

Chris Rohlfs, Ryan Sullivan, Thomas J. Kniesner

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2016, 57, 54-62

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7120

Economic Science and Political Influence

Gilles Saint-Paul

Journal of the European Economic Association, 11, 5, 1004-1031

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6996

Job Loss Fears and (Extremist) Party Identification: First Evidence from Panel Data

Ingo Geishecker, Thomas Siedler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6650

Estimating the Latent Effect of Unemployment Benefits on Unemployment Duration

Simon M.S. Lo, Gesine Stephan, Ralf Wilke

fundamentally revised version published as 'Competing Risks Copula Models for Unemployment Duration: An Application to a German Hartz Reform' in Journal of Econometric Methods, 2017, 6, 1-20

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6571

Sharing Rule Identification for General Collective Consumption Models

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Arthur Lewbel, Frederic Vermeulen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6301

Training and Retirement

Nicolai Kristensen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6089

Lagged Duration Dependence in Mixed Proportional Hazard Models

Matteo Picchio

published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 115 (1), 108-110

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6076

Partial Distributional Policy Effects

Christoph Rothe

published in: Econometrica, 2012, 80 (5), 2269-2301

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5957

Learning about a Class of Belief-Dependent Preferences without Information on Beliefs

Charles Bellemare, Alexander Sebald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5950

Integrating Personality Psychology into Economics

James J. Heckman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5638

On Identification of Bayesian DSGE Models

Gary Koop, M. Hashem Pesaran, Ron P. Smith

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5625

Inference with Imperfect Randomization: The Case of the Perry Preschool Program

James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto, Azeem M. Shaikh, Adam Yavitz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5605

Identification Problems in Personality Psychology

Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn, James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries

published in: Personality and Individual Differences, 2011, 51 (3), 315-320

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5539

Whose Children Gain from Starting School Later? Evidence from Hungary

Szilvia Hámori, János Köllő

published in: Educational Research and Evaluation, 2012, 18 (5), 459-488

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5325

Hidden Action, Identification, and Organization Design

Wendelin Schnedler

improved version is available here

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5143

Sorting on Skills and Preferences: Tinbergen Meets Sattinger

Arnaud Dupuy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5125

Experimental Approaches in Migration Studies

David McKenzie, Dean Yang

published in: Carlos Vargas-Silva (ed.), Handbook of Research Methods in Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012, 249-269

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5066

Partial Identification of Willingness-to-Pay Using Shape Restrictions with an Application to the Value of a Statistical Life

Aaron Sojourner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4986

Concave-Monotone Treatment Response and Monotone Treatment Selection: With an Application to the Returns to Schooling

Tsunao Okumura, Emiko Usui

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2014, 5 (1), 175-194 [Online]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4944

On the Importance of Household Production in Collective Models: Evidence from U.S. Data

Olivier Donni, Eleonora Matteazzi

published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 105/106, 99-126

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4606

Inference on a Generalized Roy Model, with an Application to Schooling Decisions in France

Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Arnaud Maurel

published as 'Inference on an Extended Roy Model, with an Application to Schooling Decisions in France' in: Journal of Econometrics, 2013, 174 (2), 95–106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4603

Non-unitary Models of Household Behavior: A Survey of the Literature

Pierre-André Chiappori, Olivier Donni

published in: Alberto Molina (ed.), Household Economic Behaviors, Berlin: Springer, 2011, 1 - 40.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4565

Partially Identified Treatment Effects under Imperfect Compliance: The Case of Domestic Violence

Zahra Siddique

revised version published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2013, 108 (502), 504-513

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4449

Demand for Redistribution, Support for the Welfare State, and Party Identification in Austria

Andreas Kuhn

revised version published in: Empirica, 2010, 37(2), 215-236

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4360

In the Eye of the Beholder: Subjective Inequality Measures and the Demand for Redistribution

Andreas Kuhn

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 27(4), 625-641

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4334

Another Look at the Identification at Infinity of Sample Selection Models

Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Arnaud Maurel

published in: Econometric Theory, 2013, 29 (1), 213-224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4329

Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Nonadditive Hedonic Models

James J. Heckman, Rosa Matzkin, Lars Nesheim

published in: Econometrica, 2010, 78(5), 1569-1591

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4175

Migrants at School: Educational Inequality and Social Interaction in the UK and Germany

Horst Entorf, Eirini Tatsi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4103

Imposing Economic Constraints in Nonparametric Regression: Survey, Implementation and Extension

Daniel J. Henderson, Christopher F. Parmeter

published in: Advances in Econometrics, 2009, 25, 433-469

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4035

Forecasting Errors: Yet More Problems for Identification?

Bruno Contini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4004

Identifying Sorting: In Theory

Jan Eeckhout, Philipp Kircher

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3825

The Effect of Active Labor Market Programs on Not-Yet Treated Unemployed Individuals

Gerard J. van den Berg, Annette Bergemann, Marco Caliendo

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 606-616

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3630

The Causal Effect of Parent's Schooling on Children's Schooling: A Comparison of Estimation Methods

Helena Holmlund, Mikael Lindahl, Erik Plug

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2011, 49 (3), 615-651, revised version available here

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3478

The Treatment Effect, the Cross Difference, and the Interaction Term in Nonlinear “Difference-in-Differences” Models

Patrick A. Puhani

published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 115 (1), 85-87

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3368

Using Firm Optimization to Evaluate and Estimate Returns to Scale

Yuriy Gorodnichenko

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3298

Identification of New Keynesian Phillips Curves from a Global Perspective

Stephane Dees, M. Hashem Pesaran, L. Vanessa Smith, Ron P. Smith

published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2009, 41 (7), 1481-1502

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2965

Persistence of the School Entry Age Effect in a System of Flexible Tracking

Patrick A. Puhani, Andrea M. Weber

published under revised title in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45 (2), 407-438

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2778

Adult Outcomes for Children of Teenage Mothers

Marco Francesconi

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (1), 93-117

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2738

Heterogeneous Treatment Effects: Instrumental Variables without Monotonicity?

Tobias J. Klein

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2010, 155 (2), 99-116; more recent version available here

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2652

Identification of Peer Effects through Social Networks

Yann Bramoullé, Habiba Djebbari, Bernard Fortin

revised version published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2009, 150 (1), 41-55

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2634

On Econometric Analysis of Structural Systems with Permanent and Transitory Shocks and Exogenous Variables

Adrian Pagan, M. Hashem Pesaran

published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2008, 32 (10), 3376-3395

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2535

Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants

Laura V Zimmermann, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Amelie F. Constant

published in: International Migration Review, 2007, 41 (3), 769-781

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2434

Expanding Schooling Opportunities for 4-Year-Olds

Edwin Leuven, Mikael Lindahl, Hessel Oosterbeek, Dinand Webbink

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (3), 319-328, revised version available here

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2427

Revisiting Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap: An Identification Problem

Myeong-Su Yun

see DP9381 for extended and revised version published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2015, 20(4), 569-587

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2324

Identification of Peer Effects Using Group Size Variation

Laurent Davezies, Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Denis Fougère

published in: Econometrics Journal, 2009, 12 (3), 397-413

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2314

Swedish Labor Market Training and the Duration of Unemployment

Katarina Richardson, Gerard J. van den Berg

revised version published as 'Duration dependence versus unobserved heterogeneity in treatment effects: Swedish labor market training and the transition rate to employment' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 28 2013, 325-351

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2306

Identifying the Determinants of Attitudes towards Immigrants: A Structural Cross-Country Analysis

Jan Brenner, Michael Fertig

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2300

Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants

Laura V Zimmermann, Liliya Gataullina, Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 98 (3), 235-239

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2130

On the Identification of Frisch Labor Supplies

Olivier Donni

published in: Economics Letters, 2007, 95 (1), 1-6

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1827

Does the Early Bird Catch the Worm? Instrumental Variable Estimates of Educational Effects of Age of School Entry in Germany

Patrick A. Puhani, Andrea M. Weber

published in: Empirical Economics, 2007, 32 (2-3), 359-386

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1822

Normalized Equation and Decomposition Analysis: Computation and Inference

Myeong-Su Yun

revised version published in: Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 2008, 33 (1), 27-38

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1790

Dynamic Discrete Choice and Dynamic Treatment Effects

James J. Heckman, Salvador Navarro

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 136 (2), 341-396

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1684

The Curse and Blessing of Training the Unemployed in a Changing Economy: The Case of East Germany After Unification

Michael Lechner, Ruth Miquel, Conny Wunsch

published in: German Economic Review, 2007, 8 (4), 468-509

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1511

Labor Supply, Home Production and Welfare Comparisons

Olivier Donni

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 92 (7), 1720-1737

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1381

Living in Two Neighborhoods: Social Interactions in the Lab

Armin Falk, Urs Fischbacher, Simon Gächter

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (1), 563–578; doi:10.1111/j.1465-7295.2010.00332.x

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1294

A Collective Retirement Model: Identification and Estimation in the Presence of Externalities

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Frederic Vermeulen

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 159-167

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1099

A Conceptual Framework for the Evaluation of Comprehensive Labor Market Policy Reforms in Germany

Michael Fertig, Jochen Kluve

published in: Applied Economics Quarterly Supplement, 2004, 55, 83-112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1065

Identification and Estimation of Economic Models of Outmigration Using Panel Attrition

Charles Bellemare

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1042

Sequential Matching Estimation of Dynamic Causal Models

Michael Lechner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 836

A Simple Solution to the Identification Problem in Detailed Wage Decompositions

Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2005, 43 (4), 766-772

IZA Discussion Paper No. 781

A Structural Empirical Model of Firm Growth, Learning, and Survival

Jaap H. Abbring, Jeffrey R. Campbell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 768

Using Matching, Instrumental Variables and Control Functions to Estimate Economic Choice Models

James J. Heckman, Salvador Navarro

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004, 86(1), 30-57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 764

A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Patrick A. Puhani

published as 'Transatlantic Differences in Labour Markets: Changes in Wage and Non-Employment Structures in the 1980s and the 1990s' in: German Economic Review, 2008, 9 (3), 312-338

IZA Discussion Paper No. 684

The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants

Patrick A. Puhani

published as 'Relative Demand Shocks and Relative Wage Rigidities During the Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment' in: Kyklos, 2003, 56 (4),541-562

IZA Discussion Paper No. 625

Endogenous Wage and Capital Dispersion, On-the-Job Search and the Matching Technology

Fernando Galindo-Rueda

IZA Discussion Paper No. 576

Active Labor Market Policy in Germany – Is There a Successful Policy Strategy?

Michael Fertig, Christoph M. Schmidt, Hilmar Schneider

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2006, 36 (3), 399-430

IZA Discussion Paper No. 437

Evaluating Immigration Policy Potentials and Limitations

Michael Fertig

IZA Discussion Paper No. 431

The Perception of Foreigners and Jews in Germany - A Structural Analysis of a Large Opinion Survey

Michael Fertig, Christoph M. Schmidt

published as 'Attitudes towards foreigners and Jews in Germany: identifying the determinants of xenophobia in a large opinion survey ' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 99-128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 334

Wage Rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric Evidence from the 1990s

Patrick A. Puhani

IZA Discussion Paper No. 226

On the Identification of Relative Wage Rigidity Dynamics. A Proposal for a Methodology on Cross-Section Data and Empirical Evidence for Poland in Transition

Patrick A. Puhani

revised version published as 'Relative Wage and Unemployment Changes in Poland: Microeconometric Evidence' in: Economic Systems. 2002, 26 (2), 99-126

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