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206 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16189
How Do Airlines Cut Fuel Usage, Reducing Their Carbon Emissions?
Jan K. Brueckner, Matthew E. Kahn, Jerry Nickelsburg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16117
Where Do STEM Graduates Stem From? The Intergenerational Transmission of Comparative Skill Advantages
Eric A. Hanushek, Babs Jacobs, Guido Schwerdt, Rolf Van der Velden, Stan Vermeulen, Simon Wiederhold
This paper is an updated version of IZA DP No. 14854 (2021).
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15919
Trade Policy Uncertainty, Offshoring, and the Environment: Evidence from US Manufacturing Establishments
Jaerim Choi, Jay Hyun, Gueyon Kim, Ziho Park
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15789
Culture and the Labor Supply of Female Immigrants
Julia Bredtmann, Sebastian Otten
forthcoming in: Economic Inquiry, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15633
The Effect of Preferential Admissions on the College Participation of Disadvantaged Students: The Role of Pre-College Choices
Michela M. Tincani, Fabian Kosse, Enrico Miglino
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15630
The Timing of Parental Job Displacement, Child Development and Family Adjustment
Pedro Carneiro, Kjell G. Salvanes, Barton Willage, Alexander Willén
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15584
Choosing or Inheriting the Joneses: The Origins of Reference Groups
Martin Leites, Camila Paleo, Xavier Ramos, Gonzalo Salas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15569
The Anti-Corruption Campaign and the Inter-Generational Transmission of Working in Bureaucracy: Evidence from China
Shuai Chen, Erqi Ge
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15557
College Admission as a Screening and Sorting Device
Mikkel Gandil, Edwin Leuven
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15550
Gender Differences in High-Stakes Performance and College Admission Policies
Andreu Arenas, Caterina Calsamiglia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15481
House Price Responses to Monetary Policy Surprises: Evidence from the U.S. Listings Data
Denis Gorea, Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Marianna Kudlyak
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15450
Estimating Intergenerational and Assortative Processes in Extended Family Data
Dolores Collado, Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín, Jan Stuhler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15450
Estimating Intergenerational and Assortative Processes in Extended Family Data
Dolores Collado, Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín, Jan Stuhler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15408
Sweden's COVID-19 Recession: How Foreign and Domestic Infections Struck against Firms and Workers
Anders Akerman, Karolina Ekholm, Torsten Persson, Oskar Nordström Skans
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15350
High School and Exam Scores: Does Their Predictive Validity for Academic Performance Vary with Programme Selectivity?
Pedro Luís Silva, Carla Sá, Ricardo Biscaia, Pedro N. Teixeira
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15290
Optimal Travel Restrictions in Epidemics
Wei Shi, Yun Qiu, Pei Yu, Xi Chen
(prepared for the webinar: Modeling COVID-19 Pandemic: Resources, Methodology and Applications)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15280
The Third Mission in the Academic Profession: Empirical Insights into Academic Identities
Vitus Püttmann, Stephan L. Thomsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15271
Specialists or All-Rounders: How Best to Select University Students?
Pedro Luís Silva
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15240
What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal about Racial Preferences
Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler, Tyler Ransom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15194
Which Households Respond to Electricity Peak Pricing amid High Levels of Electrification?
Cloé Garnache, Øystein Hernaes, Anders Gravir Imenes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15139
Do Second Chances Pay Off? Evidence from a Natural Experiment with Low-Achieving Students
Aspasia Bizopoulou, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Stefania Simion
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15038
Key Links in Network Interactions: Assessing Route-Specific Travel Restrictions in China during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Xi Chen, Yun Qiu, Wei Shi, Pei Yu
published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 73, 101800
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15034
The (Un)Importance of Inheritance
Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Fanny Landaud, Kjell G. Salvanes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14993
Parental Separation and the Formation of Economic Preferences
Sarah C. Dahmann, Nathan Kettlewell, Jack Lam
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14937
Family Social Norms and Child Labor
Shirit Katav Herz, Gil S. Epstein
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14920
The Predictive Power of Self-Control for Life Outcomes
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 197, 725-744
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14854
The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Skills: An Investigation of the Causal Impact of Families on Student Outcomes
Eric A. Hanushek, Babs Jacobs, Guido Schwerdt, Rolf Van der Velden, Stan Vermeulen, Simon Wiederhold
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14836
Mission of the Company, Prosocial Attitudes and Job Preferences: A Discrete Choice Experiment
Arjan Non, Ingrid M.T. Rohde, Andries de Grip, Thomas Dohmen
published in: Labour Economics, 74, 2022, 102087
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14802
Education Transmission and Network Formation
Vincent Boucher, Carlo L. Del Bello, Fabrizio Panebianco, Thierry Verdier, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14539
Economics of Minority Groups: Labour Market Returns and Transmission of Indigenous Languages
Diego de la Fuente Stevens, Panu Pelkonen
published in: World Development, 2023, 162, 106096
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14476
The Economic Incentives of Cultural Transmission: Spatial Evidence from Naming Patterns across France
Yann Algan, Clément Malgouyres, Thierry Mayer, Mathias Thoenig
published in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (642), 437 - 470
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14376
Killing Prescriptions Softly: Low Emission Zones and Child Health from Birth to School
Hannah Klauber, Felix Holub, Nicolas Koch, Nico Pestel, Nolan Ritter, Alexander Rohlf
revised version forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14300
Parental Assortative Mating and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 77, 102047
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14201
The Effect of Absolute versus Relative Temperature on Health and the Role of Social Care
Giuliano Masiero, Fabrizio Mazzonna, Michael Santarossa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14129
High School Dropout and the Intergenerational Transmission of Crime
Davide Dragone, Giuseppe Migali, Eugenio Zucchelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14125
Non-linear Incentives, Worker Productivity, and Firm Profits: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Richard B. Freeman, Wei Huang, Teng Li
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14122
Understanding the Mechanisms of Parental Divorce Effects on Child's Higher Education
Yen-Chien Chen, Elliott Fan, Jin-Tan Liu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14030
Parental Paternalism and Patience
Lukas Kiessling, Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14007
The Family Origin of the Math Gender Gap Is a White Affluent Phenomenon
Gaia Dossi, David N. Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Paola Sapienza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13988
Uniform Admissions, Unequal Access: Did the Top 10% Plan Increase Access to Selective Flagship Institutions?
Kalena E. Cortes, Daniel Klasik
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 87, 102199
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13765
From Parent to Child? The Long-Lasting Effects of Social Support
Ambra Poggi, Guyonne Kalb
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13533
The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Attitudes: Evidence from Immigrant Mothers-In-Law
Julia Bredtmann, Lisa Sofie Höckel, Sebastian Otten
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 179, 101-115
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13493
Work-Related and Personal Predictors of COVID-19 Transmission
Paul Anand, Heidi Allen, Robert Ferrer, Natalie Gold, Rolando Gonzales Martinez, Evan Kontopantelis, Melanie Krause, Francis Vergunst
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13479
Air Pollution Quotas and the Dynamics of Internal Skilled Migration in Chinese Cities
Bo Yu, Wang-Sheng Lee, Shuddhasattwa Rafiq
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13451
Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment
Shyamal Chowdhury, Matthias Sutter, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published as 'Economic preferences across generations and family clusters: A large-scale experiment in a developing country' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (9), 2361-2410.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13428
Timing Matters: Shifting Economic Activity and Intra-Day Variation in Ambient Ozone Concentrations
David Adler, Edson R. Severnini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13395
The Intergenerational Transmission of Opioid Dependence: Evidence from Administrative Data
Alexander Ahammer, Martin Halla
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13378
Inequality in Personality over the Life Cycle
Miriam Gensowski, Mette Gørtz, Stefanie Schurer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13376
Dynamics of Social Mobility during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada
Mutlu Yuksel, Yigit Aydede, Francisko Begolli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13362
Gender Gap in Intergenerational Educational Persistence: Can Compulsory Schooling Reduce It?
Merve Demirel-Derebasoglu, Cagla Okten
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13343
Family Background and the Responses to Higher SAT Scores
Georg Graetz, Björn Öckert, Oskar Nordström Skans
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13299
How Gender and Prior Disadvantage Predict Performance in College
Judith Delaney, Paul J. Devereux
published in: Economic and Social Review, 2020, 51(2), Summer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13293
Lockdown Strategies, Mobility Patterns and COVID-19
Nikos Askitas, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Bertrand Verheyden
published in: Nature Journal: Scientific Reports , 2021, 11, 1972, (appeared also in CEPR's: Covid Economics: Vetted and Real Time Papers, 2020, 23)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13251
Choosing Differently? College Application Behavior and the Persistence of Educational Advantage
Judith Delaney, Paul J. Devereux
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 77, 101998
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13172
Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler, Tyler Ransom
forthcoming in: European Economic Review, 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13172
Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler, Tyler Ransom
forthcoming in: European Economic Review, 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13165
Impacts of Social and Economic Factors on the Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China
Yun Qiu, Xi Chen, Wei Shi
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33, 1127 - 1172
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13068
Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment: Causal Evidence from Austria
Dominik Grübl, Mario Lackner, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13053
Gender Differences in Preferences for Meaning at Work
Vanessa Burbano, Nicolas Padilla, Stephan Meier
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12986
The Impact of Air Pollution on Attributable Risks and Economic Costs of Hospitalization for Mental Disorders
Ziting Wu, Xi Chen, Guoxing Li, Lin Tian, Zhan Wang, Xiuqin Xiong, Chuan Yang, Zijun Zhou, Xiaochuan Pan
forthcoming in: Science of the Total Environment, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12933
Short- vs Long-Term Intergenerational Correlations of Employment and Self-Employment in Europe
J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina, Jorge Velilla
published as 'Intergenerational correlation of self-employment in Western Europe' in: Economic Modelling, 2022, 108, 105741
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12879
Does the Marginal Hospitalization Save Lives? The Case of Respiratory Admissions for the Elderly
Janet Currie, David Slusky
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12861
The Strength of Gender Norms and Gender-Stereotypical Occupational Aspirations among Adolescents
Andreas Kuhn, Stefan C. Wolter
revised version published in: Kyklos, 2023, 76 (1), 101-124
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12803
The Social Preferences of the Native Inhabitants, and the Decision How Many Asylum Seekers to Admit
Oded Stark, Marcin Jakubek, Krzysztof Szczygielski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12743
Differences in Euro-Area Household Finances and their Relevance for Monetary-Policy Transmission
Thomas Hintermaier, Winfried Koeniger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12710
Parenting Values Moderate the Intergenerational Transmission of Time Preferences
Anne Ardila Brenøe, Thomas Epper
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12688
Scientifico! like Dad: On the Intergenerational Transmission of STEM Education in Italy
Diana Chise, Margherita Fort, Chiara Monfardini
revised version published as 'On the Intergenerational Transmission of STEM Education among Graduate Students' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2021, 21 (1), 115 - 145
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12634
Divergent: The Time Path of Legacy and Athlete Admissions at Harvard
Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler, Tyler Ransom
forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12634
Divergent: The Time Path of Legacy and Athlete Admissions at Harvard
Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler, Tyler Ransom
forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12633
Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard
Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler, Tyler Ransom
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (1), 133-156
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12633
Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard
Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler, Tyler Ransom
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (1), 133-156
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12595
The Intergenerational Correlation of Employment: Is There a Role for Work Culture?
Gabriela Galassi, David Koll, Lukas Mayr
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12545
Low Emission Zones for Better Health: Evidence from German Hospitals
Nico Pestel, Florian Wozny
revised version published as "Health Effects of Low Emission Zones: Evidence from German Hospitals" in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 109, 2021, 102512
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12488
Self-Control: Determinants, Life Outcomes and Intergenerational Implications
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
updated version published as 'The Predictive Power of Self-Control for Life Outcomes' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 197, 725-744
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12451
Pre- and Post-Birth Components of Intergenerational Persistence in Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees
Evelina Björkegren, Mikael Lindahl, Mårten Palme, Emilia Simeonova
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (1), 112-142
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12427
The Impact of Car Pollution on Infant and Child Health: Evidence from Emissions Cheating
Diane Alexander, Hannes Schwandt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12340
Modelling the Dynamic Effects of Elective Hospital Admissions on Emergency Levels in England
Sergi Jimenez-Martin, Catia Nicodemo, Stuart Redding
published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 1933-1957
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12156
Born in the Family: Preferences for Boys and the Gender Gap in Math
Gaia Dossi, David N. Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Paola Sapienza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12105
Intergenerational Transmission of Health at Birth from Mothers and Fathers
Osea Giuntella, Giulia La Mattina, Climent Quintana-Domeque
revised version forthcoming as 'Intergenerational Transmission of Health at Birth: Fathers Matter Too!' in: Journal of Human Capital.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12084
Lost Boys: Access to Secondary Education and Crime
Kristiina Huttunen, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo, Hanna Virtanen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12065
Changes in Open Defecation in Rural North India: 2014-2018
Aashish Gupta, Nazar Khalid, Devashish Desphande, Payal Hathi, Avani Kapur, Nikhil Srivastav, Sangita Vyas, Dean Spears, Diane Coffey
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11954
A Theory of Conservative Revivals
Murat Iyigun, Jared Rubin, Avner Seror
published as 'A Theory of Cultural Revivals' in: European Economic Review, 2021, 135, 103-134.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11950
Home Ownership and Monetary Policy Transmission
Winfried Koeniger, Marc-Antoine Ramelet
revised version published as 'On the Transmission of Monetary Policy to the Housing Market' in: European Economic Review, 2022, 145, 104107 (with Benedikt Lennartz and Marc-Antoine Ramelet)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11909
Race-Blind Admissions, School Segregation, and Student Outcomes: Evidence from Race-Blind Magnet School Lotteries
Jason B. Cook
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11909
Race-Blind Admissions, School Segregation, and Student Outcomes: Evidence from Race-Blind Magnet School Lotteries
Jason B. Cook
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11793
Linguistic Skills and the Intergenerational Transmission of Language
Ramon Caminal, Lorenzo Cappellari, Antonio Di Paolo
published as 'Language-in-education, language skills and the intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 70, 101975
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11631
The Health Effects of Smoking Bans: Evidence from German Hospitalization Data
Michael Kvasnicka, Thomas Siedler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (11), 1738 - 1753
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11463
Traditional Agricultural Practices and the Sex Ratio Today
Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn
published in: PLoS ONE, January 2018, 13 (1), e0190510
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11407
What Matters for Environmental Quality in the Next-11 Countries: Economic Growth or Income Inequality?
Hemachandra Padhan, Ilham Haouas, Bhagaban Sahoo, Almas Heshmati
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11354
City Size, Pollution and Emission Policies
Michael P. Pflüger
published in: Journal of Urban Economics 2021, 126, 103391
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11337
Evaluating Intergenerational Persistence of Economic Preferences: A Large Scale Experiment with Families in Bangladesh
Shyamal Chowdhury, Matthias Sutter, Klaus F. Zimmermann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11335
Experienced and Inherited Disadvantage: A Longitudinal Study of Early Adulthood Neighbourhood Careers of Siblings
David Manley, Maarten van Ham, Lina Hedman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11218
Three Generations of Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Context
Lina Hedman, Maarten van Ham, Tiit Tammaru
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10999
Educational Attainment and Neighbourhood Outcomes: Differences between Highly-Educated Natives and Non-Western Ethnic Minorities in the Netherlands
Elise de Vuijst, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10942
Welfare Reform and the Intergenerational Transmission of Dependence
Robert Paul Hartley, Carlos Lamarche, James P. Ziliak
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (3), 523 - 565
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10931
Gender: An Historical Perspective
Paola Giuliano
published in: Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, ed. Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys, and Saul D. Hoffman, New York: Oxford University Press, 2018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10851
Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment
Agnieszka Postepska
published in Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34 (4), 606-611
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10797
Adults Behaving Badly: The Effects of Own and Peer Parents' Incarceration on Adolescent Criminal Activities
Jason M. Fletcher
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10790
Closing or Reproducing the Gender Gap? Parental Transmission, Social Norms and Education Choice
Maria Knoth Humlum, Anne Brink Nandrup, Nina Smith
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32 (2), 455–500
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10761
Correlations of Brothers' Earnings and Intergenerational Transmission
Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (2), 370 - 383
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