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The IZA Discussion Paper Series (ISSN: 2365-9793) disseminates high-quality research by IZA network members to the scientific community and the interested public worldwide before they are later published in academic journals. Comprising more than 17,000 papers, IZA's publication flagship is the most influential working paper series in labor economics.

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110 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17579
Immigrant Age at Arrival and the Intergenerational Transmission of Ethnic Identification Among Mexican Americans
Brian Duncan, Stephen J. Trejo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17031
Do Politicians Affect Firm Outcomes? Evidence from Connections to the German Federal Parliament
André Diegmann, Laura Pohlan, Andrea Weber
find an updated version of the paper here
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15879
Works Councils and Workers' Party Preferences in Germany
Uwe Jirjahn, Thi Xuan Thu Le
revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2024, 62 (4), 849 - 877
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15612
Does College Selectivity Reduce Obesity? A Partial Identification Approach
Giorgio Brunello, Dimitris Christelis, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anastasia Terskaya
published in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (10), 2306-2320
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15609
Analysis of Twins
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Damian Clarke
published in: Klaus. F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer Nature, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15371
Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Abilities at Older Ages: Causal Evidence from Nonparametric Bounds
Vikesh Amin, Jere R. Behrman, Jason M. Fletcher, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Hans-Peter Kohler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15230
Partially Linear Models under Data Combination
Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Christophe Gaillac, Arnaud Maurel
published online in: Review of Economic Studies, 29 March 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15081
Causality and Econometrics
James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14364
Intercept Estimation in Nonlinear Selection Models
Wiji Arulampalam, Valentina Corradi, Daniel Gutknecht
published online in: Econometric Theory, 24 April 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14019
Beyond the Origin Dummy: Heterogeneity of Ethnicity and Human Capital Accumulation
Agnieszka Postepska
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13382
Marginal College Wage Premiums under Selection into Employment
Matthias Westphal, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hendrik Schmitz
published in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (646), 2231 - 2272
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13020
Bounding the Joint Distribution of Disability and Employment with Contaminated Data
Ding Liu, Daniel L. Millimet
published as 'Bounding the Joint Distribution of Disability and Employment with Misclassification' in: Health Economics, 2021, 30, 1628-1647
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12505
Measuring Economic Mobility in India Using Noisy Data: A Partial Identification Approach
Hao Li, Daniel L. Millimet, Punarjit Roychowdhury
published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2023, 186 (1), 84-109
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12362
The Perry Preschoolers at Late Midlife: A Study in Design-Specific Inference
James J. Heckman, Ganesh Karapakula
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12153
Measuring Belief-Dependent Preferences without Information about Beliefs
Charles Bellemare, Alexander Sebald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12085
Partial Identification of Economic Mobility: With an Application to the United States
Daniel L. Millimet, Hao Li, Punarjit Roychowdhury
published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2020, 38, 732-753
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. 11864
Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects on Duration Outcomes under Censoring, Selection, and Noncompliance
German Blanco, Xuan Chen, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2020, 38 (4), 901 - 920
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11626
Identification of Causal Mechanisms Based on Between-Subject Double Randomization Designs
Conny Wunsch, Renate Strobl
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11461
Physical Disability and Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Charles Bellemare, Marion Goussé, Guy Lacroix, Steeve Marchand
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, 15 (4), 452–476
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11448
A Unique Bond: Twin Bereavement and Lifespan Associations of Identical and Fraternal Twins
Gerard J. van den Berg, Bettina Drepper
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11139
Do Boys Benefit from Male Teachers in Elementary School? Evidence from Administrative Panel Data
Patrick A. Puhani
published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 340-354
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10821
Unordered Monotonicity
James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto
published in: Econometrica, 2018, 86 (1), 1 - 35 [revised version available as NBER Working Paper No. 23497]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10646
Bounds with Imperfect Instruments: Leveraging the Implicit Assumption of Intransitivity in Correlations
Nathan Wiseman, Todd A. Sorensen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10534
Estimating Labor Force Joiners and Leavers Using a Heterogeneity Augmented Two-Tier Stochastic Frontier
Tirthatanmoy Das, Solomon Polachek
published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 199, 156-172.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10530
Identification and Decompositions in Probit and Logit Models
Chung Choe, Seeun Jung, Ronald L. Oaxaca
published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 1479–1492 .
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10247
On Nonparametric Identification of Treatment Effects in Duration Models
Per Johansson, Myoung-jae Lee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10108
Viewpoint: Estimating the Causal Effects of Policies and Programs
Jeffrey A. Smith, Arthur Sweetman
published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2016, 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
published in: Journal of Labor Economics 2020, 38 (3), 727–765
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9604
Identification and Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Manipulated Running Variable
Francois Gerard, Miikka Rokkanen, Christoph Rothe
published as 'Bounds on treatment effects in regression discontinuity designs with a manipulated running variable' in: Quantitative Economics, 2020, 11 (3), 839-870
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 H. 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
published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 137, 187-190
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
published in: Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Networks, 2016, 277 - 302
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8450
Policy Discontinuity and Duration Outcomes
Gerard J. van den Berg, Antoine Bozio, Monica Costa Dias
published in: Quantitative Economics, 2020, 11 (3), 871- 916
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8070
Household Consumption When the Marriage Is Stable
Laurens Cherchye, Thomas Demuynck, Bram De Rock, Frederic Vermeulen
published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107 (6), 1507 - 1534
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
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 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
published in: Econometrica, 2015, 83 (5), 2001 - 2041
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
published in: Journal of Business & Economic Studies, 2013, 31 (3), 300 - 314
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
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
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2011, 78 (3), 872–906
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
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
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
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