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70 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15247
The Impact of Opportunity Zones on Commercial Investment and Economic Activity
Kevin Corinth, Naomi E. Feldman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15125
Luck or Rights? An Experiment on Preferences for Redistribution Following Inheritance of Opportunity
Warn N. Lekfuangfu, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Yohanes E. Riyanto
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14954
Unbundling the Relationship between Economic Shocks and Crime
Eduardo Ferraz, Rodrigo R. Soares, Juan Vargas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14925
Model-Based Recursive Partitioning to Estimate Unfair Health Inequalities in the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study
Paolo Brunori, Apostolos Davillas, Andrew M. Jones, Giovanna Scarchilli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14689
The Roots of Inequality: Estimating Inequality of Opportunity from Regression Trees and Forests
Paolo Brunori, Paul Hufe, Daniel Gerszon Mahler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14680
Lower and Upper Bound Estimates of Inequality of Opportunity for Emerging Economies
Paul Hufe, Andreas Peichl, Daniel Weishaar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14667
Conditional Cash Transfers and Labor Market Conditions
Teresa Molina, Joaquim Vidiella-Martin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14485
Equality of Opportunity and the Expansion of Higher Education in the UK
Vincenzo Carrieri, Apostolos Davillas, Andrew M. Jones
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14463
Inequality of Opportunity in Household Income, China 2002-2018
Xiuna Yang, Björn Anders Gustafsson, Terry Sicular
published in: China Economic Review, 2021, Article 101 684
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14100
Prioritarianism and Equality of Opportunity
Paolo Brunori, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Vito Peragine
forthcoming in: Matthew Adler and Ole Norheim (eds.), Prioritarianism in Practice, Cambridge: CUP, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13614
The Emigration Life Cycle: How Development Shapes Emigration from Poor Countries
Michael A. Clemens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13460
Childhood Circumstances and Health Inequality in Old Age: Comparative Evidence from China and the United States
Xi Chen, Binjian Yan, Thomas M. Gill
forthcoming in: Social Indicators Research, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13421
Inequality of Opportunity in Bodyweight among Middle-Aged and Older Chinese: A Distributional Approach
Peng Nie, Lanlin Ding, Andrew M. Jones
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13387
Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence
Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Pia Pinger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13292
Ex Ante Inequality of Opportunity in Health among the Elderly in China: A Distributional Decomposition Analysis of Biomarkers
Lanlin Ding, Andrew M. Jones, Peng Nie
forthcoming in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13044
Long-Term Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity
Maurizio Bussolo, Daniele Checchi, Vito Peragine
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12873
Health Inequality among Chinese Older Adults: The Role of Childhood Circumstances
Binjian Yan, Xi Chen, Thomas M. Gill
forthcoming in: Journal of The Economics of Ageing, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12824
Connecting Disadvantaged Communities to Work and Higher Education Opportunities: Evidence from Public Transportation Penetration to Arab Towns in Israel
Aamer Abu-Qarn, Shirlee Lichtman-Sadot
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12694
Evidence on Intergenerational Income Transmission Using Complete Dutch Population Data
Fiona Carmichael, Christian Darko, Marco G Ercolani, Ceren Ozgen, W. Stanley Siebert
published in: Economics Letters, 2020, 189, 108996
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12499
Entrepreneurship over the Business Cycle in the United States: A Decomposition
Frank M. Fossen
revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57, 1837-1855
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12070
Inequality of Opportunity in Education: Accounting for the Contributions of Sibs, Schools and Sorting across East Africa
Paul Anand, Jere R. Behrman, Hai-Anh Dang, Sam Jones
published as 'Decomposing Learning Inequalities in East Africa: How Much Does Sorting Matter?' in: World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36 (1), 219-243
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12027
Teaching, Gender and Labour Market Incentives
David Carroll, Jaai Parasnis, Massimiliano Tani
revised version published as 'Why do women become teachers while men don't?' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2021, 21 (2), 793-823
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11639
How (Not) to Make Women Work?
Joanna Tyrowicz, Lucas van der Velde, Karolina Goraus-Tanska
published in: Social Science Research, 2018, 75, 154-167
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. 11405
Upward and Downward Bias When Measuring Inequality of Opportunity
Paolo Brunori, Vito Peragine, Laura Serlenga
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11336
Parental Beliefs about Returns to Child Health Investments
Pietro Biroli, Teodora Boneva, Akash Raja, Christopher Rauh
published in: Journal of Econometrics, Available online 4 September 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11258
Opportunity versus Necessity Entrepreneurship: Two Components of Business Creation
Robert W. Fairlie, Frank M. Fossen
revised version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2020, 48, 253-289.
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. 11038
Dual Practice by Health Workers: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia
Paula Gonzalez, Gabriel V. Montes-Rojas, Sarmistha Pal
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. 10645
Equality of Opportunity, Moral Hazard and the Timing of Luck
Arnaud Lefranc, Alain Trannoy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10636
Structural Transformation and Income Distribution: Kuznets and Beyond
Ravi Kanbur
forthcoming in: Oxford University Press Handbook on Structural Tansformation
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10558
The Implicit Costs of Motherhood over the Lifecycle: Cross-Cohort Evidence from Administrative Longitudinal Data
Christian Neumeier, Todd A. Sorensen, Douglas A. Webber
Published as "The Implicit Costs of Motherhood over the Lifecycle: Cross‐Cohort Evidence from Administrative Longitudinal Data" Southern Economic Journal 84 (3), 716-733
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10546
The Effectiveness of Incentive Schemes in the Presence of Implicit Effort Costs
Sebastian J. Goerg, Sebastian Kube, Jonas Radbruch
substantially revised version published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (9), 3949-4450.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9929
Inequality from Generation to Generation: The United States in Comparison
Miles Corak
published in: Robert Rycroft (editor). The Economics of Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination in the 21st Century. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9917
Does Family Background Affect Earnings through Education? A Generalised Approach to Mediation Analysis
Silvia Mendolia, Peter Siminski
published in Economics of Education Review 59 (2017), 1-12
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9605
Lower Bounds and the Linearity Assumption in Parametric Estimations of Inequality of Opportunity
Paul Hufe, Andreas Peichl
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9407
Ex Post Inequality of Opportunity Comparisons
Marc Fleurbaey, Vito Peragine, Xavier Ramos
published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2017, 49, 577–603. DOI: 10.1007/s00355-017-1090-4
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9005
Inequality of Opportunities of Educational Achievement in Turkey over Time
Aysit Tansel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8994
Equality of Opportunity: Theory and Evidence
Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Vito Peragine
published in: Matthew Adler and Marc Fleurbaey (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy, Oxford: OUP, 2016
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8994
Equality of Opportunity: Theory and Evidence
Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Vito Peragine
published in: Matthew Adler and Marc Fleurbaey (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy, Oxford: OUP, 2016
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8833
A Centralized Approach to Modelling Collective Household Decisions: Some Preliminary Results
Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino, Federico Perali
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8503
Equalization of Opportunity: Definitions, Implementable Conditions and Application to Early-Childhood Policy Evaluation
Francesco Andreoli, Tarjei Havnes, Arnaud Lefranc
forthcoming in Review of Economics and Statistics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8243
Inequality of Opportunity and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis
Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Christoph Lakner, Maria Ana Lugo, Berk Özler
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2018, 64 (4), 800-827
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7818
Opportunity-Sensitive Poverty Measurement
Paolo Brunori, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Maria Ana Lugo, Vito Peragine
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7155
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Inequality and Economic Mobility: Some International Comparisons
Paolo Brunori, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Vito Peragine
published in: Eva Paus (ed.), Getting Development Right, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7136
U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads
Harriet Duleep
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6819
The Returns to Education for Opportunity Entrepreneurs, Necessity Entrepreneurs, and Paid Employees
Frank M. Fossen, Tobias J. M. Büttner
revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 37, 66-84
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6677
How Immigration May Affect U.S. Native Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Building Blocks and Preliminary Results
Harriet Duleep, David A. Jaeger, Mark Regets
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6672
Empirical Approaches to Inequality of Opportunity: Principles, Measures, and Evidence
Xavier Ramos, Dirk Van de gaer
substantially revised version published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 30(5), 855-883
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6166
It's the Opportunity Cost, Stupid! How Self-Employment Responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew
Peter Berkhout, Joop Hartog, Mirjam C. van Praag
published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 40 (2), 249-268
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6161
The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity
Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Jérémie Gignoux
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2014, 28(2), 210-246
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5854
Time to Vote?
John Gibson, Bonggeun Kim, Steven Stillman, Geua Boe-Gibson
published in: Public Choice, 2013, 156(3), 517-536
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5834
Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality: Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US
Judith Niehues, Andreas Peichl
revised version published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2014, 43 (1), 73-99
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5593
The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers in Canada and Denmark
Paul Bingley, Miles Corak, Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen
published in: John Ermisch, Markus Jantti, and Timothy Smeeding (editors). From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage. Russell Sage Foundation, 2012.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5466
Equality of Opportunity and the Distribution of Long-Run Income in Sweden
Anders Björklund, Markus Jäntti, John E. Roemer
revised version published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2012, 39, 675-696
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5433
Time-Bound Opportunity Costs of Informal Care: Consequences for Access to Professional Care, Caregiver Support, and Labour Supply Estimates
Wolter Hassink, Bernard van den Berg
published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2011, 73 (10), 1508-1516
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5375
Equality of Opportunity and Redistribution in Europe
Lina Dunnzlaff, Dirk Neumann, Judith Niehues, Andreas Peichl
revised version published in: Inequality of Opportunity: Theory and Measurement (Research on Economic Inequality, 19), Bingley, 2011, 99-129
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5146
Inequality of Educational Opportunity in India: Changes over Time and across States
Niaz Asadullah, Gaston Yalonetzky
published in: World Development, 2012, 40 (6), 1151–1163
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5046
GDP and the Value of Family Caretaking: How Much Does Europe Care?
Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Lucia Mangiavacchi, Luca Piccoli
published in: Applied Economics, 2012, https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2011.558485
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5025
Fair and Unfair Income Inequalities in Europe
Daniele Checchi, Vito Peragine, Laura Serlenga
revised version published as “Inequality of Opportunity in Europe: is there a role for institutions ?” in Inequality: Causes and Consequences - Research in Labor Economics, Volume 43/2015, pp.1-44
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4714
Measuring Long-Term Inequality of Opportunity
Rolf Aaberge, Magne Mogstad, Vito Peragine
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 193-204
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4598
Accounting for Family Background when Designing Optimal Income Taxes: A Microeconometric Simulation Analysis
Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25 (2), 741-761
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3163
Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity in Italy
Vito Peragine, Laura Serlenga
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2430
Labour Market Regulation in the EU-15: Causes and Consequences – A Survey
W. Stanley Siebert
published in: R. Vaubel and P. Bernholz (eds.), Political Competition and Economic Regulation, London: Routledge 2007
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1906
Education Policy and Equality of Opportunity
Gabriela Schütz, Heinrich W. Ursprung, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Kyklos, 2008, 61 (2), 279-308
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1874
Regional Disparities and Inequality of Opportunity: The Case of Italy
Daniele Checchi, Vito Peragine
published as 'Inequality of opportunity in Italy' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2010, 8 (4), 429-450
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1608
"Der Noth gehorchend, nicht dem eignen Trieb" – Nascent Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs in Germany: Evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM)
Joachim Wagner
published in: RWI-Mitteilungen, 2003/2004, 54/55 (3-4), 287-303
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1284
How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States
Ludger Woessmann
published in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2008, 78 (1), 45-70
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1273
Carefree? Participation and Pay Differentials for Informal Carers in Britain
Axel Heitmueller, Kirsty Inglis
published as "The earnings of informal carers: Wage differentials and opportunity costs" in: Journal of Health Economics, 2007, 26 (4), 821-841
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