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IZA Discussion Paper No. 17490

The Hidden Value of Adult Informal Care in Europe

Joan Costa-Font, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

published online in: Health Economics, 29 January 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17362

The Effectiveness of Teamwork for Student Academic Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Ritwik Banerjee, Niels-Hugo Blunch, Daniele Cassese, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Paolo Pin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17241

The Productivity Impact of Global Warming: Firm-Level Evidence for Europe

Nicola Gagliardi, Elena Grinza, François Rycx

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16694

When Randomization Is Not Feasible: The Case of Parenting Skills Programs

Daniela Del Boca, Chiara D. Pronzato, Lucia Schiavon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16694

When Randomization Is Not Feasible: The Case of Parenting Skills Programs

Daniela Del Boca, Chiara D. Pronzato, Lucia Schiavon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16628

Gender Gaps in Financial Literacy: A Multi-Arm RCT to Break the Response Bias in Surveys

Laura Hospido, Nagore Iriberri, Margarita Machelett

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16188

Oaxaca-Blinder Meets Kitagawa: What Is the Link?

Ronald L. Oaxaca, Eva Sierminska

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16121

A Theory of Non-Coasean Labor Markets

Andrés Blanco, Andres Drenik, Christian Moser, Emilio Zaratiegui

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15284

Accounting for Firms in Ethnicity Wage Gaps throughout the Earnings Distribution

Van Phan, Carl Singleton, Alex Bryson, John Forth, Felix Ritchie, Lucy Stokes, Damian Whittard

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15263

Automated Chat Application Surveys Using Whatsapp: Evidence from Panel Surveys and a Mode Experiment

Jennifer Fei, Jessica Sadye Wolff, Michael Hotard, Hannah Ingham, Saurabh Khanna, Duncan Lawrence, Beza Tesfaye, Jeremy Weinstein, Vasil Yasenov, Jens Hainmueller

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14995

What Leads to Measurement Errors? Evidence from Reports of Program Participation in Three Surveys

Pablo Celhay, Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2024, 238 (2), 105581

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14923

Visual Inference and Graphical Representation in Regression Discontinuity Designs

Christina Korting, Carl Lieberman, Jordan Matsudaira, Zhuan Pei, Yi Shen

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023, 138 (3), 1977–2019,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14432

Can You Teach an Old Dog New Tricks? New Evidence on the Impact of Tenure on Productivity

Nicola Gagliardi, Elena Grinza, François Rycx

published as 'Workers' Tenure and Firm Productivity: New Evidence from Matched Employer-employee Data' in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2023, 62 (1), 3-33

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13813

Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: It Is Not Who You Teach, but How You Teach

George Orlov, Douglas McKee, James Berry, Austin Boyle, Thomas J. DiCiccio, Tyler Ransom, Alex Rees-Jones, Joerg Stoye

published in: Economics Letters, 2021, 202, 109812

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13653

Measuring Gender Attitudes Using List Experiments

Niaz Asadullah, Elisabetta De Cao, Fathema Zhura Khatoon, Zahra Siddique

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34: 367-400

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13551

H. Gregg Lewis: Perhaps the Father of Modern Labor Economics

Daniel S. Hamermesh

published in: Robert A. Cord (ed.), The Palgrave Companion to Chicago Economics, Vol. II, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, 574-594,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13372

Evidence for a Two-Women Quota in University Departments across Disciplines

Lena Janys

published as 'Testing the Presence of Implicit Hiring Quotas with Application to German Universities' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (3), 627–637

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13290

A Unifying Approach to Measuring Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation

Antonio M. Bento, Noah Miller, Mehreen Mookerjee, Edson R. Severnini

published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, 121, 102843

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13044

Long-Term Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity

Maurizio Bussolo, Daniele Checchi, Vito Peragine

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023, 21, 277 - 323

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12922

Policy Evaluation Using Causal Inference Methods

Denis Fougère, Nicolas Jacquemet

published in: Nigar Hashimzade and Michael A. Thornton (eds.), Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Empirical Microeconomics, Cheltenham Glos: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12845

The Romano-Wolf Multiple Hypothesis Correction in Stata

Damian Clarke, Joseph P. Romano, Michael Wolf

published in: Stata Journal, 2020, 13 (4), 812-843

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12395

Do Measures of Risk Attitude in the Laboratory Predict Behavior under Risk in and outside of the Laboratory?

Gary Charness, Thomas Garcia, Theo Offerman, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2020, 60, 99-123

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12041

Average Gaps and Oaxaca's Blinder Decompositions: A Cautionary Tale about Regression Estimates of Racial Differences in Labor Market Outcomes

Tymon Sloczynski

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2020, 73 3), 705–729

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12013

Wage Differentials by Bargaining Regime in Spain (2002-2014): An Analysis Using Matched Employer-Employee Data

Raul Ramos, Esteban Sanromá, Hipólito Simón

published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2022, 44 (2), 375-395

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11959

International Migration and the Distribution of Income in New Zealand Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Areas

Omoniyi Alimi, David C. Maré, Jacques Poot

published in: New Zealand Economic Papers, 2022, 56 (3), 272-295

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11797

Quasi-Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics: Opportunities and Challenges

Olivier Deschenes, Kyle C. Meng

published in: Handbook of Environmental Economics, 2018, Volume 4, 285-332

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11796

Methods Matter: P-Hacking and Causal Inference in Economics

Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, Anthony Heyes

published as 'Methods Matter: P-Hacking and Publication Bias in Causal Analysis in Economics' in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110 (11), 3634-3660

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11543

The Impact of Sickness Absenteeism on Productivity: New Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data

Elena Grinza, François Rycx

published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2020, 59 (1), 150-194

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11122

Revisiting Interregional Wage Differentials: New Evidence from Spain with Matched Employer-Employee Data

Inés P. Murillo Huertas, Raul Ramos, Hipólito Simón

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2020, 60 (2), 296-347

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10918

Social Insurance and Health

Nicolas R. Ziebarth

short version published as 'Social Insurance and Health' in: Baltagi, B. H. and Moscone, F. (eds.), Health Econometrics, Emerald Publishing, 1st ed., 2018.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10918

Social Insurance and Health

Nicolas R. Ziebarth

short version published as 'Social Insurance and Health' in: Baltagi, B. H. and Moscone, F. (eds.), Health Econometrics, Emerald Publishing, 1st ed., 2018.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10432

The Effect of One Laptop per Child on Teachers' Pedagogical Practices and Students' Use of Time at Home

Gustavo Yamada, Pablo Lavado, Guadalupe Montenegro

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9864

Federal Minimum Wage Hikes Do Reduce Teenage Employment: The Time Series Effects of Minimum Wages in the US Revisited

Stephen Bazen, Velayoudom Marimoutou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9857

Procedures for Eliciting Time Preferences

David Freeman, Paola Manzini, Marco Mariotti, Luigi Mittone

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2016, 126 (Part A), 235–242

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. 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. 9765

Eliciting Risk Preferences: Firefighting in the Field

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal

published as 'Internal and external validity: Comparing two simple risk elicitation tasks' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2019, 81, 39 - 46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9463

The Impact of Part-Time Work on Firm Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from Italy

Francesco Devicienti, Elena Grinza, Davide Vannoni

published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2018, 27 (2), 321 - 347

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9438

The Use and Impact of Job Search Procedures by Migrant Workers in China

Tony Fang, Morley Gunderson, Carl Lin

published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37(0), 154-165

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9376

Secondary Childcare in the ATUS: What Does It Measure?

Jay Stewart, Mary Dorinda Allard

published in: C. Kalenkoski and G. Foster (eds.): The Economics of Multitasking, New York, 2015, 145-171