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part of the paper published as 'Preexisting social ties among Auschwitz prisoners support Holocaust survival' in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2023, 120 (29), e2221654120

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15119

Forced Displacement in History: Some Recent Research

Sascha O. Becker

published in: Australian Economic History Review, 2022, 62 (1), 2-25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14956

How Does the Position in Business Group Hierarchies Affect Workers' Wages?

Hartmut Egger, Elke J. Jahn, Stefan Kornitzky

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 194 (2), 244-263

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14881

Home Alone: Widows' Well-Being and Time

Maja Adena, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Michal Myck, Monika Oczkowska

revised version published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2023, 24, 813 - 838

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14839

Formalized Employee Search and Labor Demand

Lukas Hensel, Tsegay Tekleselassie, Marc J. Witte

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14802

Education Transmission and Network Formation

Vincent Boucher, Carlo L. Del Bello, Fabrizio Panebianco, Thierry Verdier, Yves Zenou

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (1), 129 - 173

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14712

Double-Edged Sword: Persistent Effects of Communism on Life Satisfaction

Vladimir Otrachshenko, Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova

revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36(3), 1139–1185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14677

Migrant Networks and Destination Choice: Evidence from Moves across Turkish Provinces

Abdurrahman B. Aydemir, Erkan Duman

published in: Empirical Economics, 2026, 70:27, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-025-02861-7

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14615

Coworker Networks and the Role of Occupations in Job Finding

Attila Gyetvai, Maria Zhu

forthcoming in: Labour Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14554

The Political Economy of Kazakhstan: A Case of Good Economics, Bad Politics?

Simon Commander, Ruta Prieskienyte

published in: Russian Journal of Economics, 2022, 8 (2), 122 - 158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14412

Tracking the Herd with a Shotgun — Why Do Peers Influence College Major Selection?

Michael Insler, Ahmed S. Rahman, Katherine Smith

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14307

Sooner Rather Than Later: Social Networks and Technology Adoption

Shyamal Chowdhury, Varun Satish, Munshi Sulaiman, Yi Sun

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 203, 466-482

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14288

Do High Schools Choose Financial Education Policies Based on Their Neighbors?

Allison Oldham Luedtke, Carly Urban

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14120

Persecution and Escape: Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany

Sascha O. Becker, Volker Lindenthal, Sharun Mukand, Fabian Waldinger

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (3), 1–43

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14092

Learning about Farming: Innovation and Social Networks in a Resettled Community in Brazil

Margherita Comola, Carla Inguaggiato, Mariapia Mendola

revised version published as 'Social Networks and Economic Transformation: Evidence from a Resettled Village in Brazil' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 221, 17-34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14019

Beyond the Origin Dummy: Heterogeneity of Ethnicity and Human Capital Accumulation

Agnieszka Postepska

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14005

Friendship Networks and Political Opinions: A Natural Experiment among Future French Politicians

Yann Algan, Nicolò Dalvit, Quoc-Anh Do, Alexis Le Chapelain, Yves Zenou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13953

Consequences of a Massive Refugee Influx on Firm Performance and Market Structure

Yusuf Emre Akgündüz, Yusuf Kenan Bağır, Seyit Mümin Cilasun, Murat Güray Kirdar

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 162, 103081.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13952

Network Sorting and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Chaotic Dispersal of the Viet Kieu

Christopher Parsons, Tyler Reysenbach, Jackline Wahba

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13940

China's Great Boom as a Historical Process

Loren Brandt, Thomas G. Rawski

published in: In: Ma, D, and von Glahn, R. (eds.), The Cambridge Economic History of China, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 775-828

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13857

Searching with Friends

Stefano Caria, Simon Franklin, Marc J. Witte

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (4), 887–922

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13850

Comrades in the Family? Soviet Communism and Informal Family Insurance

Joan Costa-Font, Anna Nicinska

published in: Kyklos, 2023, 76 (4), 526-612

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13711

The Ties That Bind Us: Social Networks and Productivity in the Factory

Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Swati Sharma

published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2024, 228, 470 - 485

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13642

Delineating Functional Labour Market Areas with Estimable Classification Stabilities

Benjamin Davies, David C. Maré

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13527

Ageing, Health, Loneliness and Wellbeing

Massimiliano Tani, Zhiming Cheng, Matloob Piracha, Ben Zhe Wang

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2020, 26, 1-17

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13413

Social Capital, Networks, and Economic Wellbeing

Judith K. Hellerstein, David Neumark

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13150

The Determinants of Trust: Evidence from Rural South India

Anne Hilger, Christophe Jalil Nordman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13103

Political Networks across the Globe

Simon Commander, Stavros Poupakis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13071

Key Players in Economic Development

Ashani Amarasinghe, Roland Hodler, Paul A. Raschky, Yves Zenou

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 223, 40-56

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12975

Education-Occupation Mismatch and Social Networks for Hispanics in the US: Role of Citizenship

Kusum Mundra, Fernando Rios-Avila

published in: Education Economics, 2024, 32 (2), 185 - 209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12903

Ethnic Networks and the Employment of Asylum Seekers: Evidence from Germany

Felix Stips, Krisztina Kis-Katos

published as 'The impact of co-national networks on asylum seekers' employment: Quasi-experimental evidence from Germany.' in: PLOS One, 2020, 15 (8), e0236996

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12860

Refugees and Foreign Direct Investment: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from U.S. Resettlements

Anna Maria Mayda, Christopher Parsons, Han Pham, Pierre-Louis Vézina

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 156, 102818

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12848

Peer Networks and Entrepreneurship: A Pan-African RCT

Fernando Vega-Redondo, Paolo Pin, Diego Ubfal, Cristiana Benedetti-Fasil, Charles Brummitt, Gaia Rubera, Dirk Hovy, Tommaso Fornaciari

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12813

Improving Access to Savings through Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence from African Smallholder Farmers

Catia Batista, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: World Development, 2020, 129, 104905

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12761

Former Communist Party Membership and Present-Day Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe

Artjoms Ivlevs, Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova

published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57 (4), 1783-1800

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12709

Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from U.S. Mass Migration

Bryan Andrew Stuart, Evan J. Taylor

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (3), 134 - 175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12534

Crime and Networks: 10 Policy Lessons

Matthew J. Lindquist, Yves Zenou

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2019, 35 (4), 746 - 771

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12534

Crime and Networks: 10 Policy Lessons

Matthew J. Lindquist, Yves Zenou

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2019, 35 (4), 746 - 771

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12347

An Experimental Study on the Effects of Communication, Credibility, and Clustering in Network Games

Gary Charness, Francesco Feri, Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez, Matthias Sutter

revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (6), 1630 - 1543

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12323

Social Connections and the Sorting of Workers to Firms

Marcus Eliason, Lena Hensvik, Francis Kramarz, Oskar Nordström Skans

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 233 (2), 468 - 506

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12287

Hiring through Referrals in a Labor Market with Adverse Selection

Aurelie Dariel, Arno Riedl, Simon Siegenthaler

published as 'Referral hiring and wage formation in a market with adverse selection' in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, 130, 109 - 130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12270

Learning through Coworker Referrals

Albrecht Glitz, Rune Majlund Vejlin

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2021, 42, 37-71

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12198

Networks, Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurial Performance in Africa: Evidence from Eswatini

Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Thierry Kangoye

published in: A. Bullough, D. Hechavarria, C. Brush and L. Edelman (eds.), Programs, Policies, & Practices: Fostering High-Growth Women’s Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12097

Who Goes on Disability When Times Are Tough? The Role of Social Costs of Take-Up Among Immigrants

Delia Furtado, Kerry L. Papps, Nikos Theodoropoulos

published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 143, 103983

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11942

Leveraging Patients' Social Networks to Overcome Tuberculosis Underdetection: A Field Experiment in India

Jessica Goldberg, Mario Macis, Pradeep Chintagunta

published as 'Incentivized Peer Referrals for Tuberculosis Screening: Evidence from India' in: American Economic Review: Applied Economics, 2023, 15 (1), 259 - 291

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11916

Superstar Economists: Coauthorship Networks and Research Output

Chih-Sheng Hsieh, Michael D. König, Xiaodong Liu, Christian Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11888

The Role of Institutions and Immigrant Networks in Firms' Offshoring Decisions

Simone Moriconi, Giovanni Peri, Dario Pozzoli

revised version published as 'The role of institutions and immigrant networks in firms' offshoring decisions' in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2020, 53 (4), 1745 - 1792

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11855

Broadband Internet and Social Capital

Andrea Geraci, Mattia Nardotto, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Fabio Sabatini

revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 206, 104578

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11777

Migration, Political Institutions, and Social Networks

Catia Batista, Julia Seither, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: World Development, 2019, 117, 328-343

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11578

Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills, Hiring Channels, and Wages in Bangladesh

Anne Hilger, Christophe Jalil Nordman, Leopold Sarr

published as 'Which Skills Matter for What Type of Worker? Cognitive Skills, Personality Traits, Hiring Channels, and Wages in Bangladesh', in: Indian Journal of Human Development, 2022, 16 (2), 219-247.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11535

Tax Evasion on a Social Network

Duccio Gamannossi degl’Innocenti, Matthew D. Rablen

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 169, 79-91

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11521

Using Social Connections and Financial Incentives to Solve Coordination Failure: A Quasi-Field Experiment in India's Manufacturing Sector

Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Sherry Xin Li, Swati Sharma

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 144, 102445

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11498

Political Connections and Firms: Network Dimensions

Maurizio Bussolo, Simon Commander, Stavros Poupakis

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2023, 75 (1), 256–280,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11436

Conformism, Social Norms and the Dynamics of Assimilation

Gonzalo Olcina, Fabrizio Panebianco, Yves Zenou

published as 'Conformism, social pressure, and the dynamics of integration' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 2020, 279 - 304

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11413

Social Interactions and Stigmatized Behavior: "Donating" Blood Plasma in Rural China

Xi Chen, David E. Sahn, Xiaobo Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11290

Civility and Trust in Social Media

Angelo Antoci, Laura Bonelli, Fabio Paglieri, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Fabio Sabatini

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 160, 83-99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11282

Women and Migration

Francisca M. Antman

published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys, and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, 731-747

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11267

Better Together? Social Networks in Truancy and the Targeting of Treatment

Magdalena Bennett, Peter Bergman

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (1), 1-36

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11230

Gender Homophily in Referral Networks: Consequences for the Medicare Physician Earnings Gap

Dan Zeltzer

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12 (2), 169-197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11171

Linguistic Distance, Networks and Migrants' Regional Location Choice

Julia Bredtmann, Klaus Nowotny, Sebastian Otten

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, Article 101863