IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Identification of dynamic latent factor models of skill formation with translog production' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2022, 37 (6), 1256 - 1265

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13713

Skill Formation and the Trouble with Child Non-Cognitive Skill Measures

Emilia Del Bono, Josh Kinsler, Ronni Pavan

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. 13509

Reconciling Occupational Mobility in the Current Population Survey

Christian vom Lehn, Cache Ellsworth, Zachary Kroff

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (4), 1005 - 1051

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13430

Bounding Program Benefits When Participation Is Misreported

Denni Tommasi, Lina Zhang

published in: Journal of Econometrics 2024, 238, (1), 105556

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13346

Treatment Effects and the Measurement of Skills in a Prototypical Home Visiting Program

James J. Heckman, Bei Liu, Mai Lu, Jin Zhou

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IZA Discussion Paper No. 13303

Are Economists' Preferences Psychologists' Personality Traits? A Structural Approach

Tomáš Jagelka

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (3), 910–970

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13296

Beyond Birthweight: The Origins of Human Capital

Gabriella Conti, Mark Hanson, Hazel Inskip, Sarah Crozier, Cyrus Cooper, Keith Godfrey

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13222

The Insights and Illusions of Consumption Measurements

Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai, Nandini Krishnan

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023,161, 102991

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13196

Modelling Errors in Survey and Administrative Data on Employment Earnings: Sensitivity to the Fraction Assumed to Have Error-Free Earnings

Stephen P. Jenkins, Fernando Rios-Avila

published in: Economics Letters, 2020, 192, 109253

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13124

Inequality in Socio-Emotional Skills: A Cross-Cohort Comparison

Orazio Attanasio, Richard Blundell, Gabriella Conti, Giacomo Mason

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 191, 104171

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. 12940

Can Women's Self-Help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India

Paul Anand, Swati Saxena, Rolando Gonzales Martinez, Hai-Anh H Dang

published in: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2020, 21(2), 137-160.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12855

Evaluating the Success of President Johnson's War on Poverty: Revisiting the Historical Record Using a Full-Income Poverty Measure

Richard V. Burkhauser, Kevin Corinth, James Elwell, Jeff Larrimore

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12576

Accounting for Skewed or One-Sided Measurement Error in the Dependent Variable

Daniel L. Millimet, Christopher F. Parmeter

published in: Political Analysis, 2022, 30, 66-88

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12535

Eliciting Utility Curvature in Time Preference

Stephen L. Cheung

published in: Experimental Economics, 2020, 23 (2), 493-525

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. 12450

Using Survey Questions to Measure Preferences: Lessons from an Experimental Validation in Kenya

Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová, Edward Miguel

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 127, 103493

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12366

A Correction for Regression Discontinuity Designs with Group-Specific Mismeasurement of the Running Variable

Otávio Bartalotti, Quentin Brummet, Steven G. Dieterle

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12366

A Correction for Regression Discontinuity Designs with Group-Specific Mismeasurement of the Running Variable

Otávio Bartalotti, Quentin Brummet, Steven G. Dieterle

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. 12151

An Empirical Total Survey Error Decomposition Using Data Combination

Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2021, 224 (2), 286-305

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. 11776

Errors in Survey Reporting and Imputation and Their Effects on Estimates of Food Stamp Program Participation

Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag, Robert M. Goerge

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (5), 1605-1644.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11710

Trouble in the Tails? What We Know about Earnings Nonresponse Thirty Years after Lillard, Smith, and Welch

Christopher R. Bollinger, Barry Hirsch, Charles M. Hokayem, James P. Ziliak

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 127 (5), 2143-2185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11601

Measuring Unfair Inequality: Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty

Paul Hufe, Ravi Kanbur, Andreas Peichl

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (6), 3345 - 3380

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11412

Estimating the Associations between SNAP and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participation

Charles Courtemanche, Augustine Denteh, Rusty Tchernis

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2019, 86 (1), 202 228

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11157

Is Inequality of Opportunity Robust to the Measurement Approach?

Xavier Ramos, Dirk Van de gaer

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2021, 67 (1), 18 - 36

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11115

Productivity and Health: Alternative Productivity Estimates Using Physical Activity

Oladele Akogun, Andrew Dillon, Jed Friedman, Ashesh Prasann, Pieter Serneels

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2021, 35 (3), 652 - 680

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11052

Comparing Retrospective and Panel Data Collection Methods to Assess Labor Market Dynamics

Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft, Shaimaa Yassin

published in: Journal of Youth Studies, 2020, 24 (2),186-212

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10943

Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data to Better Measure Income: Implications for Poverty, Program Effectiveness and Holes in the Safety Net

Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (2), 176-204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10940

Equality of Opportunity for Well-Being

Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Xavier Ramos

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65 (S1), S228-S255

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10801

Regression Discontinuity Design with Continuous Measurement Error in the Running Variable

Laurent Davezies, Thomas Le Barbanchon

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 200 (2), 260 - 281

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10700

The Reliability of Students' Earnings Expectations

Luis Diaz-Serrano, William Nilsson

published in: Labor Economics, 2022, 76, 202182

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. 10605

The Labor Market Effects of a Refugee Wave: Synthetic Control Method Meets the Mariel Boatlift

Giovanni Peri, Vasil Yasenov

published online n: Jorunal of Human Resources, 30 Janurary 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10562

Challenges in Research on Preferences and Personality Traits: Measurement, Stability, and Inference

Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 60, 1-6.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10404

Labor Supply Elasticities: Overcoming Nonclassical Measurement Error Using More Accurate Hours Data

Garry F. Barrett, Daniel S. Hamermesh

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (1), 255 - 265

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10391

Estimation of Joint Income? Wealth Poverty: A Sensitivity Analysis

Sarah Kuypers, Ive Marx

published in Social Indicators Research, 2018, 136, 117 - 137

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10320

The Devil is in the Tails: Regression Discontinuity Design with Measurement Error in the Assignment Variable

Zhuan Pei, Yi Shen

published in: Regression Discontinuity Designs (Advances in Econometrics, 38), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, 2017, 455-502

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10266

Correcting for Misreporting of Government Benefits

Nikolas Mittag

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019, 11(2), 142-164

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10088

Happiness and Development

Milena Nikolova

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10049

Vulnerability to Poverty: Tajikistan During and After the Global Financial Crisis

Ira N. Gang, Kseniia Gatskova, John Landon-Lane, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2018, 138 (3), 925 - 951

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10049

Vulnerability to Poverty: Tajikistan During and After the Global Financial Crisis

Ira N. Gang, Kseniia Gatskova, John Landon-Lane, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2018, 138 (3), 925 - 951

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9820

Estimating the Size of the Shadow Economy: Methods, Problems and Open Questions

Friedrich Schneider, Andreas Buehn

published as 'Shadow Economy: Estimation Methods, Problems, Results and Open questions' in: Open Economics, 2018, 1, 1-29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9674

The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences

Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

revised version published in: Management Science, 2023, 69 (4), 1935–195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9582

Measurement of Inequality of Opportunity Based on Counterfactuals

Dirk Van de gaer, Xavier Ramos

published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2020, 55, 595–627

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9523

The Capability Threshold: Re-examining the Definition of the Middle Class in an Unequal Developing Country

Ronelle Burger, Camren McAravey, Servaas van der Berg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9448

Understanding Peer Effects: On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects

Jan Feld, Ulf Zölitz

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35(2) 387-428

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9442

A Global Count of the Extreme Poor in 2012: Data Issues, Methodology and Initial Results

Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Shaohua Chen, Andrew Dabalen, Yuri Dikhanov, Nada Hamadeh, Dean Jolliffe, Ambar Narayan, Espen Beer Prydz, Ana Revenga, Prem Sangraula, Umar Serajuddin, Nobuo Yoshida

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2016, 14 (2), 141-172

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9402

Person Equivalent Headcount Measures of Poverty

Tony Castleman, James Foster, Stephen C. Smith

published in: Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy, edited by Kaushik Basu and Joseph Stiglitz, Palgrave MacMillan, 2016, Ch. 3, pp 101-127

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9139

Multidimensional Affluence in Income and Wealth in the Eurozone: A Cross-Country Comparison Using the HFCS

Sine Kontbay-Busun, Andreas Peichl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9122

The Information Value of Central School Exams

Guido Schwerdt, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 56, 65-79

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9009

Overconfident People Are More Exposed to "Black Swan" Events: A Case Study of Avalanche Risk

Nicolao Bonini, Stefania Pighin, Enrico Rettore, Lucia Savadori, Federico Schena, Sara Tonini, Paolo Tosi

published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 57 (4), 1443 - 1467

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8929

Income Convergence and the Flow out of Poverty in India, 1994-2005

Paola Andrea Barrientos Quiroga, Niels-Hugo Blunch, Nabanita Datta Gupta

published in: Indian Economic Journal, 2018, 66 (1-2), 1-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8782

Cultural Diversity: A Matter of Measurement

Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot

published in: P. Nijkamp, J. Poot and J. Bakens (eds.), The Economics of Cultural Diversity, Edward Elgar, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8618

Does Employer Learning Vary by Schooling Attainment? The Answer Depends on How Career Start Dates Are Defined

Audrey Light, Andrew McGee

published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 32, 57-66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8535

Measurement Error in Subjective Expectations and the Empirical Content of Economic Models

Tilman Drerup, Benjamin Enke, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker

published as: 'The precision of subjective data and the explanatory power of economic models' in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 200 (2), 378-389

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8512

The Evolution of Rotation Group Bias: Will the Real Unemployment Rate Please Stand Up?

Alan B. Krueger, Alexandre Mas, Xiaotong Niu

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99 (2), 258 - 264

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8493

Modelling Heaped Duration Data: An Application to Neonatal Mortality

Wiji Arulampalam, Valentina Corradi, Daniel Gutknecht

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 200, (2), 363-377.

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. 8392

Socioeconomic Gradients in Children's Cognitive Skills: Are Cross-Country Comparisons Robust to Who Reports Family Background?

John Jerrim, John Micklewright

revised version published in: European Sociological Review, 2014, 30 (6), 766 - 781

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8377

Defining and Measuring Informality in the Turkish Labor Market

Elif Öznur Acar, Aysit Tansel

published in: Sosyoekonomi, 2016, 24 (28), 147-174.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8278

The Shadow Economy and Shadow Labor Force: A Survey of Recent Developments

Friedrich Schneider

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