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126 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14285
Job Design, Learning & Intrinsic Motivation
Michael Gibbs
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14217
Immigrants' Economic Performance and Selective Outmigration: Diverging Predictions from Survey and Administrative Data
Charles Bellemare, Natalia Kyui, Guy Lacroix
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14172
Measurement Error in Earnings Data: Replication of Meijer, Rohwedder, and Wansbeek's Mixture Model Approach to Combining Survey and Register Data
Stephen P. Jenkins, Fernando Rios-Avila
forthcoming in: Journal of Applied Econometrics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14116
COVID-19 Severity: A New Approach to Quantifying Global Cases and Deaths
Daniel L. Millimet, Christopher F. Parmeter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13895
Measuring the Statistical Capacity of Nations
Grant J. Cameron, Hai-Anh Dang, Mustafa Dinc, James Foster, Michael Lokshin
forthcoming in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13893
Propensity Score Weighting with Mismeasured Covariates: An Application to Two Financial Literacy Interventions
Hao Dong, Daniel L. Millimet
published in: Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2020, 13, 290
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13809
Whoever You Want Me to Be: Personality and Incentives
Andrew McGee, Peter McGee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13714
A Note on the Importance of Normalizations in Dynamic Latent Factor Models of Skill Formation
Emilia Del Bono, Josh Kinsler, Ronni Pavan
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.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13509
Reconciling Occupational Mobility in the Current Population Survey
Christian vom Lehn, Cache Ellsworth, Zachary Kroff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13430
Bounding Program Benefits When Participation Is Misreported
Denni Tommasi, Lina Zhang
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13303
Are Economists' Preferences Psychologists' Personality Traits? A Structural Approach
Tomáš Jagelka
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
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, online first at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109253
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, online 30 March 2020.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13020
Bounding the Joint Distribution of Disability and Employment with Contaminated Data
Ding Liu, Daniel L. Millimet
forthcoming as 'Bounding the Joint Distribution of Disability and Employment with Misclassification' in: Health Economics
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 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
forthcoming in: Political Analysis, 2020
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
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 forthcoming in: European Economic Review
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
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
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
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
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, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12448
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11115
Productivity and Health: Alternative Productivity Estimates Using Physical Activity
Oladele Akogun, Andrew Dillon, Jed Friedman, Ashesh Prasann, Pieter Serneels
forthcoming in: World Bank Economic Review, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11052
Comparing Retrospective and Panel Data Collection Methods to Assess Labor Market Dynamics
Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft, Shaimaa Yassin
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
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. Winner of the John W. Kendrick Prize to the best article published in the RIW in 2019, awarded by the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth. Entry at the IZA Newsroom http://newsroom.iza.org/en/2017/09/22/equality-of-opportunity-for-what/
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10801
Regression Discontinuity Design with Continuous Measurement Error in the Running Variable
Laurent Davezies, Thomas Le Barbanchon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10700
The Reliability of Students' Earnings Expectations
Luis Diaz-Serrano, William Nilsson
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
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, December 2016
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
forthcoming in: Matias D. Cattaneo and Juan Carlos Escanciano (eds.): Advances in Econometrics, Vol. 38
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10266
Correcting for Misreporting of Government Benefits
Nikolas Mittag
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 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-017-1689-y
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