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1,413 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18294
All Eyes on the Nerd? The Unequal Distribution of Teachers’ Attention
Sofoklis Goulas, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Tommaso Sartori
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18293
Good-for-Nothing Entrepreneurs: Capitalism and Democratic Decline in the West
Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18289
Exposure to Inequality, Human Capital Investment, and Labor Market Outcome
Jan Bietenbeck, Matthew Collins, Petter Lundborg, Kaveh Majlesi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18286
Reconstructing Two Decades of Inequality in the Sahel Region
Gianni Betti, Federico Crescenzi, Hai-Anh H Dang, Vasco Molini, Lorenzo Mori
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18284
Intergenerational Educational Mobility Among Immigrants and Descendants in Denmark: The Role of Sample Selectivity and Data Quality
Rasmus Landersø, Kristian B. Karlson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18279
The Importance of Teachers and Socioeconomic Background for Students at Risk of Dyslexia
Nicolai Kristensen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18254
Inherited Inequality in Latin America
Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Paolo Brunori, Guido Neidhofer, Pedro Salas-Rojo, Louis Sirugue
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18254
Inherited Inequality in Latin America
Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Paolo Brunori, Guido Neidhofer, Pedro Salas-Rojo, Louis Sirugue
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18234
Minimum Wages and Informality
Ellora Derenoncourt, Francois Gerard, Lorenzo Lagos, Claire Montialoux
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18231
First-Generation Graduates in OECD Countries
Alessandro Fabbri, Michele Pellizzari
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18226
Stereotypes, Awareness, and STEM Major Choice
Maria De Paola, Patrizia Ordine, Giuseppe Rose
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18189
Public Gains, Private Strains: Public Investment and Private Schooling in Peru
Sonja Fagernäs, Diego de la Fuente Stevens, Panu Pelkonen, Juan Manuel del Pozo Segura
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18176
The Immediate and Lasting Effects of Heat Waves On Workers
Hannah Klauber, Nicolas Koch, Nico Pestel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18158
The Evolution of the Child Penalty and Gender-Related Inequality in the Netherlands, 1989–2022
Renren Gan, Egbert L. W. Jongen, Simon Rabaté, Bo Terpstra
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18154
Air Quality and Conferences’ Engagement
Ludovica Gazze, Tanu Gupta, Allen (Weiyi) Huang, Valentina Londono, Santiago Saavedra, Mattie Toma
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18146
Multigenerational Inequality
Jan Stuhler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18122
Social Risk, Fairness Types, and Redistribution
Stefania Bortolotti, Felix Kölle, Ivan Soraperra, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18096
Unfair Chances and Labor Supply
Nickolas Gagnon, Kristof Bosmans, Arno Riedl
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18092
Pipeline vs. Choice: The Global Gender Gap in STEM Applications
Isaac Ahimbisibwe, Adam Altjmed, Georgy Artemov, Andres Barrios-Fernandez, Aspasia Bizopoulou, Martti Kaila, Jin-Tan Liu, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Jose Montalban, Christopher A. Neilson, Jintao Sun, Sebastian Otero, Xiaoyang Ye
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18066
Top vs. Bottom: Experimental Evidence on Priming, Information, and Redistribution Preferences
Luna Bellani, Nona Bledow
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18065
What Do (Thousands of) Union Do? Union-Specific Pay Premia and Inequality
Ellora Derenoncourt, Francois Gerard, Lorenzo Lagos, Claire Montialoux
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18058
The Effect of Visual Openness in Meeting Rooms on Team Productivity and Communication Quality: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Shinsuke Asakawa, Akinori Shimono, Mikiko Takahashi, Shoko Yamane, Masaru Sasaki
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18051
Contractual Minimum Wages and Collective Bargaining: Italian Evidence from Forty Years of Data
Bernardo Fanfani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18048
Institutions, Development, and Parenting in Latin America
Maria Josefina Baez, Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Lucia Mangiavacchi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18043
Deservingness of the Rich, Wealth Taxation, and the Paradox of Inheritance
Sharon Baute, Luna Bellani, Katharina Hecht
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18039
The Wished-For Children: Do Mothers Carry the Burden While Fathers Reap the Joy?
Mathias Huebener, Reto Odermatt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18030
From Rural Schools to City Factories: Assessing the Quality of Chinese Rural Schools
Eric A. Hanushek, Le Kang, Xueying Li, Lei Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17988
Gender Segregation in Childhood Friendships and the Gender-Equality Paradox
Manuel Bagues, Natalia Zinovyeva
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17973
Assessing the Statistical Significance of Inequality Differences: The Problem of Heavy Tails
Nicolas Herault, Stephen P. Jenkins
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17972
The T-Statistic Approach to Inference for Inequality Indices: The Issue of Grouping Variability
Nicolas Herault, Stephen P. Jenkins
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17950
Monetary Policy in Currency Unions with Unequal Countries
Lukas Boehnert, Sergio de Ferra, Kurt Mitman, Federica Romei
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17949
The Distributional Effects of Oil Shocks
Tobias Broer, John Kramer, Kurt Mitman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17934
The Inequality and Mobility of Exposure to European Soviet Communism
Joan Costa-Font, Anna Nicinska, Melcior Rossello Roig
published online in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 28 August 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17934
The Inequality and Mobility of Exposure to European Soviet Communism
Joan Costa-Font, Anna Nicinska, Melcior Rossello Roig
published online in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 28 August 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17894
The Impact of Physician-Patient Gender Match on Healthcare Quality: An Experiment in China
Yafei Si, Gang Chen, Zhongliang Zhou, Winnie Yip, Xi Chen
published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2025, 380, 118166
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17861
Distributional Consequences of Becoming Climate-Neutral
Philipp Hochmuth, Per Krusell, Kurt Mitman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17848
From Followers to Leaders: The Career Impact of High-Quality Managers
Yuyu Chen, Lukas Hensel, Xinjue Yao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17842
The Landscape of Self-Employment in India: Trends, Constraints and Policy Prescriptions
Farzana Afridi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17831
A Historical Note on the Assimilation Rates of Foreign-Born Men and Women in the U.S.
Harriet Duleep, Daniel J. Dowhan, Xingfei Liu, Mark Regets, Robert Gesumaria
forthcoming in: Research in Labor Economics.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17826
Carbon Pricing and Household Burdens in Newly Affluent Countries – an Application to Lithuania
Herwig Immervoll, Jules Linden, Cathal O'Donoghue, Denisa M. Sologon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17820
Exposure to Regulation and Income Inequality in Local Labor Markets: Evidence from the U.S. over the Past Half-Century
Andrey Stoyanov, Nick Zubanov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17814
Educational Ambition, Marital Sorting, and Inequality
Frederik Almar, Benjamin Friedrich, Ana Reynoso, Bastian Schulz, Rune Majlund Vejlin
this paper is a substantially revised version of IZA DP No. 15912, forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17798
Employer Quality and Skilled Workers’ Mobility: Evidence from English NHS Hospital Doctors
Stefano Cellini, Marco Mello, Giuseppe Moscelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17797
Immigration, Workforce Composition, and Organizational Performance: The Effect of Brexit on NHS Hospital Quality
Henrique Castro-Pires, Kai Fischer, Marco Mello, Giuseppe Moscelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17792
The Relationship Between Intergenerational Mobility and Equality of Opportunity
Adrian Adermon, Gunnar Brandén, Martin Nybom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17788
Are Elites Meritocratic and Efficiency-Seeking? Evidence from MBA Students
Marcel Preuss, Germán Reyes, Jason Somerville, Joy Wu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17774
Using Distributional Random Forests for the Analysis of the Income Distribution
Martin Biewen, Stefan Glaisner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17769
Social Gaps, Perceived Inequality and Protests
Olivier B. Bargain, Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo, David Rivera
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17767
Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Child Poverty in Consumption
Ulugbek Aminjonov, Olivier B. Bargain, Maira Colacce
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17767
Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Child Poverty in Consumption
Ulugbek Aminjonov, Olivier B. Bargain, Maira Colacce
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