IZA Discussion Papers

substantially revised version published as "Do employers have more monopsony power in slack labor markets?" in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2018, 71(3), 676-704

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7770

Bride Price and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Rural Senegal

Linguère Mously Mbaye, Natascha Wagner

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (6). Open access

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7742

Inference with Difference-in-Differences Revisited

Mike Brewer, Thomas F. Crossley, Robert Joyce

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7585

Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India

Karthik Muralidharan, Nishith Prakash

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9 (3), 321- 350

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7280

Mincer Equation, Power Law of Learning, and Efficient Education Policy

Wolfram F. Richter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7241

Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France

Luis Garicano, Claire Lelarge, John Van Reenen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7031

The Efficacy and Efforts of Interest Groups in Post Elections Policy Formation

Gil S. Epstein, Yosef Mealem, Shmuel Nitzan

published in: Economics of Governance, 2013, 14(1), 77-105

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7029

Use and Abuse of Authority: A Behavioral Foundation of the Employment Relation

Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, Klaus M. Schmidt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6847

It's a Boy! Women and Non-Monetary Benefits from a Son in India

Laura V Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6842

Electricity Prices, River Temperatures and Cooling Water Scarcity

Grant R. McDermott, Øivind Anti Nilsen

revised version published in: Land Economics, 2014 90 (1), 131-148.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6648

Is It Money or Brains? The Determinants of Intra-Family Decision Power

Graziella Bertocchi, Marianna Brunetti, Costanza Torricelli

revised version published as 'Who Holds the Purse Strings within the Household? The Determinants of Intra-family Decision Making' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, 101, 65-86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6637

Survey of Models on Demand, Customer Base-Line and Demand Response and Their Relationships in the Power Market

Almas Heshmati

published in: Journal of Economics Surveys, 2014, 28(5), 862-888.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6590

Moral Hypocrisy, Power and Social Preferences

Aldo Rustichini, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 107, 10-24.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6347

Empowering Women through Education and Influence: An Evaluation of the Indian Mahila Samakhya Program

Eeshani Kandpal, Kathy Baylis, Mary P. Arends-Kuenning

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6165

Bargaining Over Labor: Do Patients Have Any Power?

Joshua S. Gans, Andrew Leigh

published in: Economic Record, 2012, 88 (281), 182 - 194

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6115

The German Manufacturing Sector is a Granular Economy

Joachim Wagner

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2012, 19 (17), 1663-1665

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6090

A Critique and Reframing of Personality in Labour Market Theory: Locus of Control and Labour Market Outcomes

Eileen Trzcinski, Elke Holst

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6048

Foreign Direct Investment, Black Economic Empowerment and Labour Productivity in South Africa

Anagaw Derseh Mebratie, Arjun S. Bedi

published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2013, 22 (1), 94-115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6029

Intrahousehold Distribution and Child Poverty: Theory and Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire

Olivier Bargain, Olivier Donni, Prudence Magejo

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 107, 262-276

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5989

Cross-Assignment Discrimination in Pay: A Test Case of Major League Baseball

Örn B. Bodvarsson, John G. Sessions

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 28. 84-95

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5896

How Policy Changes Affect Shareholder Wealth: The Case of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster

André Betzer, Markus Doumet, Ulf Rinne

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2013, 20 (8), 799-803 [Details & Download]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5896

How Policy Changes Affect Shareholder Wealth: The Case of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster

André Betzer, Markus Doumet, Ulf Rinne

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2013, 20 (8), 799-803 [Details & Download]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5875

Let's Take Bargaining Models Seriously: The Decline in Union Power in Germany, 1992-2009

Boris Hirsch, Claus Schnabel

substantially revised version published as 'What Can We Learn from Bargaining Models about Union Power? The Decline in Union Power in Germany, 1992-2009' in: Manchester School, 2014, 82 (3), 347-362

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5845

Contractual Dualism, Market Power and Informality

Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Ravi Kanbur

revised version forthcoming in: Economic Journal [Online First]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5637

Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?

Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5518

Collective Bargaining under Non-Binding Contracts

Sabien Dobbelaere, Roland Iwan Luttens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5438

Mother's Autonomy and Child Welfare: A New Measure and Some New Evidence

Tanika Chakraborty, Prabal K. De

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5043

Employer Preferences and Social Policy: Business and the Development of Job Security Regulations in Germany since World War I

Patrick Emmenegger, Paul Marx

revised version published as 'Business and the Development of Job Security Regulations: The Case of Germany' in: Socio-Economic Review, 2011, 9 (4), 729-756

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4791

Increasing Income Inequality: Productivity, Bargaining and Skill-Upgrading

Anders Frederiksen, Odile Poulsen

published as 'Income Inequality: The Consequences of Skill-Upgrading - When Firms Have Hierarchical Organizational Structures' in Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (2), 1224-1239

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4525

Testing the Correlated Random Coefficient Model

James J. Heckman, Daniel Schmierer, Sergio Urzua

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2010, 158 (2), 177-203

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4307

The Effect of Power Outages and Cheap Talk on Willingness to Pay to Reduce Outages

Fredrik Carlsson, Peter Martinsson, Alpaslan Akay

revised version published in: Energy Economics, 2011, 33 (5), 790 - 798

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4288

Linking Individuals and Societies

Guillermina Jasso

published in: Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 2010, 34 (1), 1-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4096

Integration, Labor Market Regulation, Lobbying, and Technological Change

Tapio K. Palokangas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4091

Economic Growth with Political Lobbying and Wage Bargaining

Tapio K. Palokangas

revised version published in: IFAC Papers on Control Applications of Optimization 7 (2010)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3850

A New Model of Wage Determination and Wage Inequality

Guillermina Jasso

published in: Rationality and Society, 2009, 21 (1), 113-168

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3773

Institutions, Social Norms, and Bargaining Power: An Analysis of Individual Leisure Time in Couple Households

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Leslie S. Stratton

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (3), 325-343

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3753

Incorporating Cost in Power Analysis for Three-Level Cluster Randomized Designs

Spyros Konstantopoulos

published in: Evaluation Review, 2009, 33 (4), 335-357

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3752

Two to Tangle: Financial Development, Political Instability and Economic Growth in Argentina (1896–2000)

Nauro F. Campos, Menelaos G. Karanasos, Bin Tan

published in: Journal of Banking and Finance, 2012, 36 (1), 290 - 304

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3685

Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment

Paul Grout, Wendelin Schnedler

improved version is available here

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3464

In Search of Gender Bias in Household Resource Allocation in Rural China

Lina Song

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3460

Shall We Kill or Enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar Model

Guillermina Jasso

published in: Advances in Group Processes, 2008, 25, 327-343

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3451

Efficient Tax Policy Ranks Education Higher Than Saving

Wolfram F. Richter

revised version based on DP 2328 and DP 3451 published as "Taxing education in Ramsey's tradition" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (11-12), 1254-1260

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3320

Empowerment Zones, Neighborhood Change and Owner Occupied Housing

Douglas J. Krupka, Douglas S. Noonan

revision published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2009, 39(4), 386-396

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3243

A New Unified Theory of Sociobehavioral Forces

Guillermina Jasso

published in: European Sociological Review, 2008, 24 (4), 411-434

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3087

Growth, Volatility and Political Instability: Non-Linear Time-Series Evidence for Argentina, 1896–2000

Nauro F. Campos, Menelaos G. Karanasos

published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (1), 135-137

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2887

Purchasing Power Parity for Developing and Developed Countries: What Can We Learn from Non-Stationary Panel Data Models?

Imed Drine, Christophe Rault

published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2008, 22 (4), 752-773

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2817

The Terms and Relations of Comparison, Referential, and Relative Processes

Guillermina Jasso

published in: Andreas Diekmann, Klaus Eichner, Peter Schmidt, and Thomas Voss (eds.), Rational Choice: Theoretische Analyse und Empirische Resultate. Festschrift für Karl-Dieter Opp. Wiesbaden, Germany: VS Verlag, 2008

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2749

Two Types of Inequality: Inequality Between Persons and Inequality Between Subgroups

Guillermina Jasso, Samuel Kotz

published in: Sociological Methods and Research, 2008, 37 (1), 31-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2641

Theoretical Unification in Justice and Beyond

Guillermina Jasso

published in: Social Justice Research, 2007, 20(3), 336-371

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2412

The Power of the Test in Three-Level Designs

Spyros Konstantopoulos

published in: Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2008, 1(1), 1-23

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