IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Does Formal Education for Adults Yield Long-Term Multiplier Effects or Human Capital Depreciation?' in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 90, 102306

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15070

Heterogeneous Peer Effects under Endogenous Selection: An Application to Local and Migrant Children in Elementary Schools in Shanghai

Yuanyuan Chen, Shuaizhang Feng, Chao Yang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15045

Migration on the Rise, a Paradigm in Decline: The Last Half-Century of Global Mobility

Michael A. Clemens

published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022, 112, 257-261

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15028

Selection and the Distribution of Female Hourly Wages in the U.S.

Iván Fernández-Val, Aico van Vuuren, Francis Vella, Franco Peracchi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15002

Updates on Returns to Education in India: Analysis Using PLFS 2018-19 Data

Jie Chen, Sanghamitra Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Francesco Pastore

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15000

Nicole Andelic, Julia Allan, Keith A. Bender, Daniel Powell, Ioannis Theodossiou

published as 'Performance-related Pay, Mental and Physiological Health' in: Industrial Relations, 2024, 63 (1), 3-25.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14986

Does Group-Based Incentive Pay Lead To Higher Productivity? Evidence from a Complex and Interdependent Industrial Production Process

Anders Frederiksen, Daniel Baltzer Schjødt Hansen, Colleen Flaherty Manchester

published as ' Group-based incentives and individual performance: Unpacking the effort response' in: ILR Review, 2024, 77 (2), 273-293.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14985

Adverse Selection in the Group Life Insurance Market

Timothy F. Harris, Aaron Yelowitz, Jeffery Talbert, Alison Davis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14981

The Gender Recontest Gap in Elections

Thushyanthan Baskaran, Zohal Hessami

published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 145, 104111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14717

Testing Classic Theories of Migration in the Lab

Catia Batista, David McKenzie

published in: Journal of International Economics, 2023, 145, 103826

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14633

Buying Control? 'Locus of Control' and the Uptake of Supplementary Health Insurance

Eric Bonsang, Joan Costa-Font, Sonja C. de New

published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2022, 204, 466 - 489

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14595

Incentives, Self-Selection, and Coordination of Motivated Agents for the Production of Social Goods

Kevin Bauer, Michael Kosfeld, Ferdinand von Siemens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14505

The Determinants of Study Abroad Participation: A Bivariate Probability Model with Sample Selection

Giorgio Di Pietro

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14475

The Social Value of a SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine: Willingness to Pay Estimates from Four Western Countries

Joan Costa-Font, Caroline Rudisill, Sayward Harrison, Luca Salmasi

published in: Health Economics, 2023, 32 (8), 1818 - 1835

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14428

Identifying Marginal Treatment Effects in the Presence of Sample Selection

Otávio Bartalotti, Désiré Kédagni, Vítor Augusto Possebom

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. 14364

Intercept Estimation in Nonlinear Selection Models

Wiji Arulampalam, Valentina Corradi, Daniel Gutknecht

published online in: Econometric Theory, 24 April 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14335

The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap

Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, Nikolai Boboshko, Matthew Comey

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 1093–1133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14261

Gender, Selection into Employment, and the Wage Impact of Immigration

George J. Borjas, Anthony Edo

forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2026

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14221

Using Machine Learning and Qualitative Interviews to Design a Five-Question Women's Agency Index

Seema Jayachandran, Monica Biradavolu, Jan Cooper

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14167

Selection and Endogenous Treatment Models with Social Interactions: An Application to the Impact of Exercise on Self-Esteem

Zhongjian Lin, Francis Vella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14156

Measuring Research Excellence Amongst Economics Lecturers in the UK

Richard McManus, Karen A. Mumford, Cristina Sechel

pubished in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2022, 74 (2), 386 - 404

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14139

"Study Hard and Make Progress Every Day": Updates on Returns to Education in China

Jie Chen, Francesco Pastore

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14067

Who Benefits from Corporate Social Responsibility? Reciprocity in the Presence of Social Incentives and Self-Selection

Guglielmo Briscese, Nick Feltovich, Robert Slonim

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14024

Job Placement via Private vs. Public Employment Agencies: Investigating Selection Effects and Job Match Quality in Germany

Adam Ayaita, Christian Grund, Lisa Pütz

published in: Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research, 2022, 74 (2), 137-162

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13942

Worker Flows and Wage Dynamics: Estimating Wage Growth without Composition Effects

Raquel Carrasco, J. Ignacio Garcia Perez, Juan F. Jimeno

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2024, 76 (1), 94–114

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13873

The Effect of Group Identity on Hiring Decisions with Incomplete Information

Fortuna Casoria, Ernesto Reuben, Christina Rott

published in: Management Science, 2022, 68, 6336-6345

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13789

Assessing Selection Bias in Non-Experimental Estimates of the Returns to Workplace Training

Jan Sauermann, Anders Stenberg

revised version available here

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13740

The Role of Unemployment and Job Change When Estimating the Returns to Migration

Julian Emmler, Bernd Fitzenberger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13696

Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools

Clare Leaver, Owen Ozier, Pieter Serneels, Andrew Zeitlin

published in: American Economic Review 2021, 111 (7), 2213 - 2246

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13678

Recruiting Intensity and Hiring Practices: Cross-Sectional and Time-Series Evidence

Benjamin Lochner, Christian Merkl, Heiko Stüber, Nicole Gürtzgen

published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 68, 101939

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13621

Adverse Selection in the Marriage Market: HIV Testing and Marriage in Rural Malawi

Manuela Angelucci, Daniel M Bennett

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2021, 88 (5), 2119–2148,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13612

Migration from Developing Countries: Selection, Income Elasticity, and Simpson's Paradox

Michael A. Clemens, Mariapia Mendola

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 171, 103359

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13583

Trustworthiness in the Financial Industry

Andrej Gill, Matthias Heinz, Heiner Schumacher, Matthias Sutter

revised version published as 'Social Preferences of Young Professionals and the Financial Industry' in: Management Science, 2023, 69 (7), 3905-3919.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13565

If (My) 6 Was (Your) 9: Reporting Heterogeneity in Student Evaluations of Teaching

Marco Bertoni, Enrico Rettore, Lorenzo Rocco

published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 89, 102567

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13531

Early Child Development and Parents' Labor Supply

Lukáš Lafférs, Bernhard Schmidpeter

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021, 36 (2), 190-208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13511

Explaining Post-Cold-War Civil Conflict among 17 Billion Models: The Importance of History and Religion

Michael Jetter, Rafat Mahmood, Christopher F. Parmeter, Andres Ramirez Hassan

published as 'Post-Cold War civil conflict and the role of history and religion: A stochastic search variable selection approach' in: Economic Modelling, 2022, 114, 105907

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13474

Selection and Incentives under Time Pressure: The Importance of Framing

Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia, Valeria Pupo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13300

The Effect of the Hartz Labor Market Reforms on Post-unemployment Wages, Sorting, and Matching

Simon D. Woodcock

published as 'The determinants of displaced workers’ wages: Sorting, matching, selection, and the Hartz reforms' in: Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 233 (2), 568-595

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13289

A Short History of the Gender Wage Gap in Britain

Alex Bryson, Heather Joshi, Bożena Wielgoszewska, David Wilkinson

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2020, 36 (4), 836-854

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13201

Two Field Experiments on Self-Selection, Collaboration Intensity, and Team Performance

Mira Fischer, Rainer Michael Rilke, B. Burcin Yurtoglu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13131

Moving from a Poor Economy to a Rich One: The Contradictory Roles of Technology and Job Tasks

Eran Yashiv

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13125

Female Political Representation and Substantive Effects on Policies: A Literature Review