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IZA Discussion Paper No. 17977

Heterogeneity, Uncertainty and Learning: Semiparametric Identification and Estimation

Jackson Bunting, Paul Diegert, Arnaud Maurel

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

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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 in: Review of Economic Studies, 2025, 92(1), 238-267

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