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IZA Discussion Paper No. 8178

Entropy Methods for Identifying Hedonic Models

Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon, Marc Henry

published in: Mathematics and Financial Economics, 2014, 8 (4), 405-416

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8158

Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials by Type of Contract: Evidence from Spain

Raul Ramos, Esteban Sanromá, Hipólito Simón

published in: Hacienda Pública Española/Review of Public Economics, 2014, 208 (1), 107-141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8082

The Power of Hydroelectric Dams: Agglomeration Spillovers

Edson Severnini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8049

Matching Methods in Practice: Three Examples

Guido W. Imbens

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50 (2), 373 - 419

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8049

Matching Methods in Practice: Three Examples

Guido W. Imbens

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50 (2), 373 - 419

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8028

Decomposition of Differences in PISA Results in Middle Income Countries

Sandra Nieto, Raul Ramos

published in: Prospects, 2015, 45(3), 325-343

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7768

After-School Care and Parents' Labor Supply

Christina Felfe, Michael Lechner, Petra Thiemann

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 62-75

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7315

Population Average Gender Effects

Tymon Sloczynski

superseded by IZA Discussion Paper No. 9036

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7154

Framing Effects in an Employee Savings Scheme: A Non-Parametric Analysis

Peter Kooreman, Bertrand Melenberg, Henriëtte M. Prast, Nathanaël Vellekoop

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7153

The Drivers of Happiness Inequality: Suggestions for Promoting Social Cohesion

Leonardo Becchetti, Riccardo Massari, Paolo Naticchioni

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2014, 66(2), 419-442

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7024

How Should Peer-Review Panels Behave?

Daniel Sgroi, Andrew J. Oswald

published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (570), 255-278

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7017

One Man's Blessing, Another Woman's Curse? Family Factors and the Gender-Earnings Gap of Doctors

Stefanie Schurer, Daniel Kühnle, Anthony Scott, Terence Chai Cheng

published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2016, 55(3), 385-414

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6724

The Timing of Earnings Sampling over the Life-Cycle and IV Identification of the Return to Schooling

Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6515

Decomposing the Rural-Urban Differential in Student Achievement in Colombia Using PISA Microdata

Raul Ramos, Juan Carlos Duque, Sandra Nieto

published in: Estudios de Economía Aplicada, 2016, 34 (2), 379-412.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6397

Decomposing the Composition Effect

Christoph Rothe

published as 'Decomposing the Composition Effect: The Role of Covariates in Determining Between-Group Differences in Economic Outcomes' in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2015, 33 (3), 323-337

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6378

The Pitfalls of Work Requirements in Welfare-to-Work Policies: Experimental Evidence on Human Capital Accumulation in the Self-Sufficiency Project

Chris Riddell, W. Craig Riddell

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 117, 39-49

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6339

Characterizing the Instrumental Variable Identifying Assumption as Sample Selection Conditions

Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5783

Coverage of Infertility Treatment and Fertility Outcomes: Do Women Catch Up?

Matilde P. Machado, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

published in: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 2015, 6 (4), 407-439.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5683

Europe Agreements and Trade Balance: Evidence form Four New EU Members

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Christophe Rault, Robert Sova, Anamaria Sova

published in: Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 2012, 21 (6), 839-863

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5328

Empirical Methods in the Economics of International Immigration

Fernando A. Lozano, Michael D. Steinberger

published in: Carlos Vargas-Silva et al. (eds.) Handbook on Research Methods on Migration, Edward Elgar, 2012

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5306

How to Think About Time-Use Data: What Inferences Can We Make About Long- and Short-Run Time Use from Time Diaries?

Harley Frazis, Jay Stewart

published in: Annales d’Economie et Statistique, 2012, 105/106, 231-246

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4986

Concave-Monotone Treatment Response and Monotone Treatment Selection: With an Application to the Returns to Schooling

Tsunao Okumura, Emiko Usui

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2014, 5 (1), 175-194

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. 4253

How Does Retirement Affect Health?

Stefanie Behncke

published as 'Does retirement trigger ill health?' in: Health Economics, 2012, 21 (3), 282 - 300

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3800

Alternative Approaches to Evaluation in Empirical Microeconomics

Richard Blundell, Monica Costa Dias

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44 (3), 565-640

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3782

On the Bilateral Trade Effects of Free Trade Agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 Countries

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Christophe Rault, Anamaria Sova, Robert Sova

published in: Review of World Economics, 2009, 145 (2), 189-206

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3645

Management Economics in a Large Retail Organization

W. Stanley Siebert, Nick Zubanov

published in: Management Science, 2011, 56(8), 1398-1414

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3517

Belief Elicitation in Experiments: Is there a Hedging Problem?

Mariana Blanco, Dirk Engelmann, Alexander K. Koch, Hans-Theo Normann

published in: Experimental Economics, 2010, 13 (4), 412-438.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3426

Evolution of Capital Structure in East Asia: Corporate Inertia or Endeavours?

Nigel Driffield, Sarmistha Pal

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2010, 173 (1), 1- 29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3149

Unemployed and Their Caseworkers: Should They Be Friends or Foes?

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner

published in: Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2010, 173 (1), 67-92

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2614

Empirical Modeling of Deprivation Contagion among Social Exclusion Dimensions (Using MCMC Methods)

Ambra Poggi, Xavier Ramos

published in: Jacques Silber (ed.), The Measurement of Individual Well-Being and Group Inequalities: Essays in Memory of Z.M. Berrebi, Routledge, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2315

Shadow Economies and Corruption All Over the World: What Do We Really Know?

Friedrich Schneider

published in: Economies: The Open-Access, Open-Assesment E-Journal, 2007, 1

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2202

Does the Quality of Training Programs Matter? Evidence from Bidding Processes Data

Alberto Chong, Jose C. Galdo

updated version published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (6), 970-986

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2142

Who Pays for Performance?

Erling Barth, Bernt Bratsberg, Torbjørn Haegeland, Oddbjørn Raaum

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2008, 20 (1), 8-29