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IZA Discussion Paper No. 4971

What Linear Estimators Miss: Re-Examining the Effects of Family Income on Child Outcomes

Katrine Vellesen Loken, Magne Mogstad, Matthew Wiswall

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (2), 1–35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4835

The Distinction between Dictatorial and Incentive Policy Interventions and its Implication for IV Estimation

Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4742

Ethnic Concentration and Language Fluency of Immigrants in Germany

Alexander M. Danzer, Firat Yaman

revised version published as 'Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants: Evidence from the guest-worker placement in Germany' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 131(A), 151-165

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4709

Beliefs and Actions in the Trust Game: Creating Instrumental Variables to Estimate the Causal Effect

Miguel A. Costa-Gomes, Steffen Huck, Georg Weizsäcker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4689

Instrumental Variables Estimation with Partially Missing Instruments

Magne Mogstad, Matthew Wiswall

published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 114 (2), 186-189

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4572

Public Infrastructure, Location of Private Schools and Primary School Attainment in an Emerging Economy

Sarmistha Pal

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (5), 783-794

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4562

How Much Should We Trust Linear Instrumental Variables Estimators? An Application to Family Size and Children's Education

Magne Mogstad, Matthew Wiswall

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4525

Testing the Correlated Random Coefficient Model

James J. Heckman, Daniel Schmierer, Sergio Urzua

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2010, 158 (2), 177-203

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4470

Thieves, Thugs, and Neighborhood Poverty

David J. Bjerk

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 68 (3), 231 - 246

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4332

Count Your Hours: Returns to Education in Poland

Michal Myck, Anna Nicińska, Leszek Morawski

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3980

Comparing IV with Structural Models: What Simple IV Can and Cannot Identify

James J. Heckman, Sergio Urzua

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2010, 156 (1), 27-37

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3704

Intrafamily Resource Allocations: A Dynamic Model of Birth Weight

Emilia Del Bono, John Ermisch, Marco Francesconi

revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2012, 30 (3), 657-706

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3671

Identification of Treatment Effects on the Treated with One-Sided Non-Compliance

Markus Frölich, Blaise Melly

published in: Econometric Reviews, 2013, 32 (3), 384-414

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3640

Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation

Guido W. Imbens, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2009, 47(1), 1-81

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3628

Long-Term Economic Consequences of Vietnam-Era Conscription: Schooling, Experience and Earnings

Joshua Angrist, Stacey H. Chen

published as "Schooling and the Vietnam-Era GI Bill: Evidence from the Draft Lottery" in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, 3 (2), 96-118

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3528

Calibration and IV Estimation of a Wage Outcome Equation in a Dynamic Environment

Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3432

The Impact of College Graduation on Geographic Mobility: Identifying Education Using Multiple Components of Vietnam Draft Risk

Ofer Malamud, Abigail Wozniak

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2012. 47(4), 913-950.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3412

Tobacco and Alcohol: Complements or Substitutes? A Structural Model Approach

Harald Tauchmann, Silja Göhlmann, Till Requate, Christoph M. Schmidt

published online as 'Tobacco and Alcohol: Complements or Substitutes? A Structural Model Approach to Insufficient Price Variation in Individual-Level Data' in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 45(1), 539-566

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3311

How Do Very Open Economies Absorb Large Immigration Flows? Recent Evidence from Spanish Regions

Libertad González, Francesc Ortega

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (1), 57–70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3288

Unconditional Quantile Treatment Effects under Endogeneity

Markus Frölich, Blaise Melly

revised version published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2013, 31(3), 346-357

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3263

Errors in Self-Reported Earnings: The Role of Previous Earnings Volatility

Randall K. Q. Akee

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 96 (2), 409 - 421

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3182

Selective Schools and Academic Achievement

Damon Clark

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2010, 10 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3097

Africa’s Education Enigma? The Nigerian Story

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 91 (1), 128-139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3034

Labor Supply with Social Interactions: Econometric Estimates and Their Tax Policy Implications

Andrew Grodner, Thomas J. Kniesner

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 1-23

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. 2896

Instrumental Variable Estimation of Treatment Effects for Duration Outcomes

Govert Bijwaard

published in: H. Engelhardt, H.-P. Kohler and A. Fürnkranz-Prskawetz (eds.), Causal Analysis in Population Studies: Concepts, Methods, Applications, Springer-Verlag: 2009, 111-148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2761

College Education and Wages in the U.K.: Estimating Conditional Average Structural Functions in Nonadditive Models with Binary Endogenous Variables

Tobias J. Klein

published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44(1), 135-161

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. 2573

Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms

Thomas Siedler

revised version published as 'Schooling and Citizenship in a Young Democracy: Evidence from Postwar Germany' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2010, 112 (2), 315-338

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2462

Returns to Schooling in Kazakhstan: OLS and Instrumental Variables Approach

Reza Arabsheibani, Altay Mussurov

published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15 (2), 342-364

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2411

Family and Politics: Does Parental Unemployment Cause Right-Wing Extremism?

Thomas Siedler

revised version published as 'Parental unemployment and young people's extreme right-wing party affinity: evidence from panel data' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2011, 174 (3), 737-758

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2357

Is there a Causal Effect of High School Math on Labor Market Outcomes?

Juanna Schrøter Joensen, Helena Skyt Nielsen

revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44 (1), 171-198

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2320

Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity

James J. Heckman, Sergio Urzua, Edward Vytlacil

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006, 88 (3), 389-432

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2317

Is There Rent Sharing in Developing Countries? Matched-Panel Evidence from Brazil

Pedro S. Martins, Luiz A. Esteves

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2282

The Labor Market Costs of Conflict: Closures, Foreign Workers, and Palestinian Employment and Earnings

Sami H. Miaari, Robert M. Sauer

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 129-148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2279

Smoking Habits: Like Father, Like Son, Like Mother, Like Daughter

Maria L. Loureiro, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Daniela Vuri

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (6), 717-743

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2126

A Note on Parametric and Nonparametric Regression in the Presence of Endogenous Control Variables

Markus Frölich

published in: International Statistical Review, 2008, 76 (2), 214-227

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2075

New Evidence on the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children

Joshua Angrist, Victor Lavy, Analia Schlosser

revised version published as 'Multiple Experiments for the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (4), 773 - 824

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1837

Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany

Marco Francesconi, Stephen P. Jenkins, Thomas Siedler

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (3), 1073-1103

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1656

Are Student Exchange Programs Worth It?

Dolores Messer, Stefan C. Wolter

published in: Higher Education, 2007, 54 (5), 647-663

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1507

The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment in Germany

Michael Fertig, Jochen Kluve

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1495