IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Beyond the “Comforts” of work from home: Child health and the female wage penalty' in: European Economic Review, 2023, 157, 104527 (without R. Sauer)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13627

The Effect of Hosting 3.4 Million Refugees on the Health System in Turkey and Infant, Child, and Elderly Mortality among Natives

Aysun Hızıroğlu Aygün, Murat Güray Kirdar, Berna Tuncay

published as 'The Effect of Hosting 3.4 Million Refugees on Native Population Mortality' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 80, 102534

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13613

Two-Stage Least Squares Random Forests with an Application to Angrist and Evans (1998)

Martin Biewen, Philipp Kugler

shorter version published in: Economics Letters, 2021, 204, 109893

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13593

Correcting for Misclassied Binary Regressors Using Instrumental Variables

Steven J. Haider, Melvin Stephens Jr.

published online in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 21 Oct 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13531

Early Child Development and Parents' Labor Supply

Lukáš Lafférs, Bernhard Schmidpeter

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021, 36 (2), 190-208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13153

Does Retirement Affect Voluntary Work Provision? Evidence from England, Ireland and the U.S.

Peter Eibich, Angelo Lorenti, Irene Mosca

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 76, 102185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13147

The Effects of Local Market Concentration and International Competition on Firm Productivity: Evidence from Mexico

Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Luis-Felipe López-Calva, Oscar Barriga Cabanillas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13116

Is Precarious Employment Bad for Worker Health? The Case of Zero Hours Contracts in the UK

Egidio Farina, Colin P. Green, Duncan McVicar

published as 'Zero hours contracts and self-reported (mental) health in the UK' in: BJIR, 2024, 62 (1), 50-71

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13068

Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment: Causal Evidence from Austria

Dominik Grübl, Mario Lackner, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13055

The Impact of BMI on Mental Health: Further Evidence from Genetic Markers

Vikesh Amin, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2020, 38, 100895

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13030

Educational and Skills Mismatches among Immigrants: The Impact of Host Language Proficiency

Santiago Budría, Carlos Martínez de Ibarreta

published as 'Education and skill mismatches among immigrants: The impact of host language proficiency' in: Economics of Education Review 2021, 84, 102145.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12984

Does Emigration Affect Pro-Environmental Behaviour Back Home? A Long-Term, Local-Level Perspective

Artjoms Ivlevs

published in: Kyklos, 2021, 74(1): 48-76

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12812

The Effect of College Education on Health and Mortality: Evidence from Canada

Guy Lacroix, Francois Laliberté-Auger, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Daniel Parent

published in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (S1), 105 - 118

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12584

Inference with Arbitrary Clustering

Fabrizio Colella, Rafael Lalive, Seyhun Orcan Sakalli, Mathias Thoenig

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12563

Assortative Mating on Education: A Genetic Assessment

Nicola Barban, Elisabetta De Cao, Sonia Oreffice, Climent Quintana-Domeque

revised version published as 'The effect of education on spousal education: A genetic approach' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 71, 102023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12478

Do Internships Pay Off? The Effects of Student Internships on Earnings

Shushanik Margaryan, Nils Saniter, Mathias Schumann, Thomas Siedler

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57(4), 1242-1275

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12261

New Evidence on Long-Term Effects of Start-Up Subsidies: Matching Estimates and Their Robustness

Marco Caliendo, Stefan Tübbicke

published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59 (4), 1605-1631

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12205

Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, Yusuke Narita, Parag A. Pathak

published in: Econometrica, 2022, 90 (1), 117–151

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12196

Do Constraints on Women Worsen Child Deprivations? Framework, Measurement, and Evidence from India

Alberto Posso, Stephen C. Smith, Lucia Ferrone

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12192

The Causal Effects of Education on Adult Health, Mortality and Income: Evidence from Mendelian Randomization and the Raising of the School Leaving Age

Neil Davies, Matt Dickson, George Davey Smith, Frank Windmeijer, Gerard J. van den Berg

revised version published in: International Journal of Epidemiology, 2023, 52 (6), 1878–1886,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12157

The Long-Term Effect of Age at School Entry on Competencies in Adulthood

Katja Görlitz, Merlin Penny, Marcus Tamm

revised version published as 'The long-term effect of age at school entry on cognitive competencies in adulthood' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 194, 91 - 104

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. 12057

Risk Aversion and Entrepreneurship: New Evidence Exploiting Exposure to Massive Earthquakes in Italy

Guido de Blasio, Maria De Paola, Samuele Poy, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57, 295-322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12050

The Impact of Mass Migration of Syrians on the Turkish Labor Market

Ege Aksu, Refik Erzan, Murat Güray Kirdar

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 76, 102183

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12015

Income Inequality and the Size of Government: A Causal Analysis

Martin Guzi, Martin Kahanec

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11980

Does Education Affect Attitudes Towards Immigration? Evidence from Germany

Shushanik Margaryan, Annemarie Paul, Thomas Siedler

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (2), 446-479

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11900

The Effect of Media Coverage on Mass Shootings

Michael Jetter, Jay K. Walker

final version published as 'News coverage and mass shootings in the US' in: European Economic Review, 2022, 148, 104221

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11851

Fatal Attraction? Extended Unemployment Benefits, Labor Force Exits, and Mortality

Andreas Kuhn, Stefan Staubli, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich, Josef Zweimüller

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 191, 104087

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11779

Naturalization and Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany

Regina T. Riphahn, Salwan Saif

published in: Labour, 2019, 33 (1), 48 - 76

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11638

Twins, Family Size, and Female Labor Force Participation in Iran

Mahdi Majbouri

published in: Applied Economics, 2019, 51 (4), 387-397

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11576

Child Care, Parental Labor Supply and Tax Revenue

Martin Eckhoff Andresen, Tarjei Havnes

published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101762

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11438

Hollowing Out the Middle? Remittances and Income Inequality in Nigeria

James T. Bang, Aniruddha Mitra, Phanindra V. Wunnava

published in: Migration and Development, 2022, 11 (3), 543 - 559

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11322

Fertility and the Puzzle of Female Employment in the Middle East

Mahdi Majbouri

forthcoming in: Economics of Transition, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11199

Grandmothers' Labor Supply

Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Bernhard Schmidpeter, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (2), 1645 - 1689

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11169

Mobility Assistance Programmes for Unemployed Workers, Job Search Behaviour and Labour Market Outcomes

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Robert Mahlstedt

substantially revised version available as IZA DP No. 15011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11134

Severe Air Pollution and School Absences: Longitudinal Data on Expatriates in North China

Haoming Liu, Alberto Salvo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10891

Limits to Wage Growth: Understanding the Wage Divergence between Immigrants and Natives

Apoorva Jain, Klara Sabirianova Peter

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. 10611

Estimating the Relationship between Skill and Overconfidence

Jan Feld, Jan Sauermann, Andries de Grip

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 68, 18-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10582

The Impact of Traineeships on the Employment of the Mentally Ill: The Role of Partial Compliance

Alberto Martini, Enrico Rettore, Gianpaolo Barbetta

published as 'When Non-Compliance Carries the Day: Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Employment Program for the Severely Mentally Ill' in: Evaluation Review, 2022, 46 (5), 555–577

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10507

Do Vocational High School Graduates Have Better Employment Outcomes than General High School Graduates?

Huzeyfe Torun, Semih Tumen

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2019, 40(8), 1364-1388

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10429

Research Design Meets Market Design: Using Centralized Assignment for Impact Evaluation

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, Yusuke Narita, Parag A. Pathak

published in: Econometrica, 2017, 85 (5), 1373-1432

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10402

Missing Data, Imputation, and Endogeneity

Ian K. McDonough, Daniel L. Millimet

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 199 (2), 141-155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10201

Effects of the Bologna Reform on Educational Outcomes: Micro Evidence from Germany

Sabrina Hahm, Jochen Kluve

revised version published as 'Better with Bologna? Tertiary education reform and student outcomes' in: Education Economics, 2019, 27 (4), 425 - 559

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10056

From Late to MTE: Alternative Methods for the Evaluation of Policy Interventions

Thomas Cornelissen, Christian Dustmann, Anna Raute, Uta Schönberg

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41, 47-60.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10020

The Causal Effect of Education on Health Behaviors: Evidence from Turkey

Aysit Tansel, Deniz Karaoğlan

revised version published as 'The Effect of Education on Health Behaviors and Obesity in Turkey: Instrumental Varable Estimates from a Developing Country' in: European Journal of Development Research, 2019, 31 (5),1416-1448.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9984

Gendered Entrepreneurship Networks

Simen Markussen, Knut Røed

revised version published as 'The Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship - The Role of Peer Effects' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 134, 356-373

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9927

The Family Peer Effect on Mothers' Labour Supply

Cheti Nicoletti, Kjell G. Salvanes, Emma Tominey

published in: American Economics Journal: Applied Economics; 2018, 10 (3), 206 - 234

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9795

Heterogeneous Effects of High School Peers on Educational Outcomes

Silvia Mendolia, Alfredo R. Paloyo, Ian Walker

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (3), 613 - 634

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9772

Cost-Sharing and Use of Health Services in Italy: Evidence from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design

Michela Ponzo, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Economic Modelling, 2021, 103, 105599.