IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17472

Small-Scale Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Information: A Comparison of Individual Purchase Decisions with Contributions to a Club Good

Michael Grimm, Nathalie Luck, Alia Bihrajihant Raya, Udit Sawhney

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17329

The New Wave? The Role of Human Capital and STEM Skills in Technology Adoption in the UK

Mirko Draca, Max Nathan, Viet Nguyen-Tien, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Anna Rosso, Anna Valero

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17325

Is Distance from Innovation a Barrier to the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence?

Jennifer Hunt, Iain Cockburn, James Bessen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17275

Reducing the Gender Digital Divide Amongst Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Nick Drydakis

forthcoming in: G. Meramveliotakis and M. Manioudis (eds). Sustainable Economic Development Perspectives from Political Economy and Economics Pluralism, London: Routledge, 2025, 237-264.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17260

Non-compete Agreements, Tacit Knowledge and Market Imperfections

Eric Bartelsman, Sabien Dobbelaere, Alessandro Zona Mattioli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16992

The Adoption of ChatGPT

Anders Humlum, Emilie Vestergaard

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16740

De-Routinization in the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Firm-Level Evidence

Melanie Arntz, Sabrina Genz, Terry Gregory, Florian Lehmer, Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16659

Technological Change and Returns to Training

Roman Klauser, Marcus Tamm

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16381

International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker Level

Wolfgang Keller, Hale Utar

published in: Journal of International Economics, 2023, 145, 103810.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16317

The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage and Political Participation

Tianyi Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16261

When Are Employers Interested in Electronic Performance Monitoring? Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment

Luisa Wieser, Martin Abraham, Claus Schnabel, Cornelia Niessen, Mauren Wolff

slightly revised version published as "Employers’ Muted Interest in Electronic Performance Monitoring (EPM)" in: S. Pfeiffer et al. (eds.), Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelten, SpringerNature. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2024, pp. 181-202

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16114

Socioeconomic Inequality in Low-Carbon Technology Adoption

Andrew Burlinson, Apostolos Davillas, Monica Giulietti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16101

Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Catia Batista, Pedro C. Vicente

published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 May 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16076

Correcting Racial Injustice: Forensic DNA Technology and the Exoneration of the Wrongfully Convicted

Rocco d'Este, Noam Yuchtman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16043

Africa's Industrialization Prospects: A Fresh Look

Wim Naudé, Fiona Tregenna

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15997

Robots and Workers: Evidence from the Netherlands

Daron Acemoglu, Hans R.A. Koster, Ceren Ozgen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15925

Socioemotional Skills in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Maternal Psychosocial Intervention

Dilek Sevim, Victoria Baranov, Sonia R. Bhalotra, Joanna Maselko, Pietro Biroli

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (S), S365-S401

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15924

Extraterrestrial Artificial Intelligence: The Final Existential Risk?

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15863

Effects of an Online Self-Assessment Tool on Teachers' Digital Competencies

Giovanni Abbiati, Davide Azzolini, Anja Balanskat, Katja Engelhart, Daniela Piazzalunga, Enrico Rettore, Patricia Wastiau

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15838

Estimating the Effects of Expanding Ultrasound Use on Sex Selection in India

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Daniel Rosenblum

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2023, 59 (4), 516-532

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15762

Creative Disruption: Technology Innovation, Labour Demand and the Pandemic

Erling Barth, Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15731

The Empirics of Technology, Employment and Occupations: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead

Fabio Montobbio, Jacopo Staccioli, Maria Enrica Virgillito, Marco Vivarelli

published online in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 11 December 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15713

The Future Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Mythical Agents, a Singleton and the Dark Forest

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15689

Does Updating Education Curricula Accelerate Technology Adoption in the Workplace? Evidence from Dual Vocational Education and Training Curricula in Switzerland

Tobias Schultheiss, Uschi Backes-Gellner

published in: Journal of Technology Transfer, 2024, 49, 191–235

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15607

The Ossified Economy: The Case of Germany, 1870-2020

Wim Naudé, Paula Nagler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15596

Lowering Barriers to Remote Education: Experimental Impacts on Parental Responses and Learning

Emily A. Beam, Priya Mukherjee, Laia Navarro-Sola

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15526

COVID-19 and Entrepreneurship Entry and Exit: Opportunity Amidst Adversity

Vladimir Otrachshenko, Olga Popova, Milena Nikolova, Elena Tyurina

published in: Technology in Society, 2022, 71, 102093

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15491

Information and Communication Technology, Hierarchy, and Job Design

Elisa Gerten, Michael Beckmann, Matthias Kräkel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15311

Types of Communications Technology and Civil Conflict

Tushar Bharati, Michael Jetter, Muhammad Nauman Malik

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 170

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15209

What COVID-19 May Leave Behind: Technology-Related Job Postings in Canada

Alejandra Bellatin, Gabriela Galassi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15160

Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War

Hale Utar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15015

Automation and Related Technologies: A Mapping of the New Knowledge Base

Enrico Santarelli, Jacopo Staccioli, Marco Vivarelli

published in: Journal of Technology Transfer, 2023, 48, 779-813

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14879

Labour-Saving Automation and Occupational Exposure: A Text-Similarity Measure

Fabio Montobbio, Jacopo Staccioli, Maria Enrica Virgillito, Marco Vivarelli

published as 'Labour-saving automation: a direct measure of occupational exposure' in: World Economy, 2024, 47, 332–361

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14623

Local Shocks and Internal Migration: The Disparate Effects of Robots and Chinese Imports in the US

Marius Faber, Andrés Sarto, Marco Tabellini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14341

The Race of Man and Machine: Implications of Technology When Abilities and Demand Constraints Matter

Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé

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. 14154

The Rise and Fall of German Innovation

Wim Naudé, Paula Nagler

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. 13926

Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing

Petri Böckerman, Liisa Laine, Mikko Nurminen, Tanja Saxell

published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 7 December 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13877

Gender Economics: An Assessment

Almudena Sevilla

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2020, 36 (4), 725–742,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13712

Gendering Technological Change: Evidence from Agricultural Mechanization

Farzana Afridi, Monisankar Bishnu, Kanika Mahajan

published as 'Gender and Mechanization: Evidence from Indian Agriculture' in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2023, 105 (1), 52 - 75

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13606

Artificial Intelligence, Income Distribution and Economic Growth

Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13590

Contract Structure, Time Preference, and Technology Adoption

Shyamal Chowdhury, Joeri Smits, Qigang Sun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13422

Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations

Girum Abebe, Margaret McMillan, Michel Serafinelli

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 158, 102926

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13400

Can Training Enhance Adoption, Knowledge and Perception of Organic Farming Practices? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Indonesia

Michael Grimm, Nathalie Luck

published as 'Experimenting with a green 'Green Revolution'. Evidence from a randomised controlled trial in Indonesia' in: Ecological Economics, 2023, 205, 107727

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13285

Management Practices, Worker Commitment, and Workplace Representation

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13142

Labor Demand in the Past, Present, and Future

Georg Graetz

published in: Journal of Public Economics Plus, 2021, 2, 00007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13110

Artificial Intelligence against COVID-19: An Early Review

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12994

Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations

Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Hillel Rapoport

published in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (9), 103947

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12967

Robots and the Origin of Their Labour-Saving Impact

Fabio Montobbio, Jacopo Staccioli, Maria Enrica Virgillito, Marco Vivarelli

published in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022, 174, 21122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12939

Vaccines at Work

Manuel Hoffmann, Roberto Mosquera, Adrian Chadi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12934

Adopting Mobile Money: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Africa

Catia Batista, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2020, 110, 594 - 598

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12760

The Wife's Protector: A Quantitative Theory Linking Contraceptive Technology with the Decline in Marriage

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Karen A. Kopecky

published in: A. Bison; F. Giovanni (eds.), Handbook of Historical Economics, Academic Press, 2021.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12716

People versus Machines in the UK: Minimum Wages, Labor Reallocation and Automatable Jobs

Grace Lordan

published in: PLoS, 2019, 14 (12), e0224789

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12678

Three Varieties of Africa’s Industrial Future

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12672

The Value of Information in Technology Adoption

Asadul Islam, Philip Ushchev, Yves Zenou, Xin Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12631

Does Light Touch Cluster Policy Work? Evaluating the Tech City Programme

Max Nathan

published in: Research Policy, 2022, 51 (9), 1104138

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12612

Testing the Employment Impact of Automation, Robots and AI: A Survey and Some Methodological Issues

Laura Barbieri, Chiara Mussida, Mariacristina Piva, Marco Vivarelli

published in: Zimmermann, K. (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, section: Technological Changes and the Labor Market, Springer, Cham, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12578

Working from Home and Commuting: Heterogeneity over Time, Space, and Occupations

Duco de Vos, Maarten van Ham, Evert J. Meijers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12542

Determinants of Productivity Gap in the European Union: A Multilevel Perspective

Randolph Luca Bruno, Elodie Douarin, Julia Korosteleva, Slavo Radosevic

published as 'The Two Disjointed Faces of R&D and the Productivity Gap in Europe' in: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2022, 60 (3), 580 - 603

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12476

Can Agricultural Extension and Input Support Be Discontinued? Evidence from a Randomized Phaseout in Uganda

Ram Fishman, Stephen C. Smith, Vida Bobic, Munshi Sulaiman

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (6), 1273–1288.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12433

Skill Complementarity in Production Technology: New Empirical Evidence and Implications

Andrey Stoyanov, Nick Zubanov

published in: German Economic Review, 2022, 23 (2), 233-274

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12382

Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations

Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Hillel Rapoport

published in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (9), 103947

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12293

Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor

Daron Acemoglu, Pascual Restrepo

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2019, 33 (2), 3 - 30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12292

The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand

Daron Acemoglu, Pascual Restrepo

published in: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2020, 13 (1), 25 - 35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12275

Digital Waste? Unintended Consequences of Health Information Technology

Petri Böckerman, Mika Kortelainen, Liisa Laine, Mikko Nurminen, Tanja Saxell

published online as 'Information Technology, Improved Access, and Use of Prescription Drugs' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 30 April 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12218

The Race against the Robots and the Fallacy of the Giant Cheesecake: Immediate and Imagined Impacts of Artificial Intelligence

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12141

The Past and Future of Manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe: Ready for Industry 4.0?

Wim Naudé, Aleksander Surdej, Martin Cameron

published as 'Ready for Industry 4.0? The Case of Central and Eastern Europe' in: Mohammad Dastbaz, Peter Cochrane (eds.), Industry 4.0 and Engineering for the Future, Springer International, 2019, 153-175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12005

Artificial Intelligence, Jobs, Inequality and Productivity: Does Aggregate Demand Matter?

Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11941

Brilliant Technologies and Brave Entrepreneurs: A New Narrative for African Manufacturing

Wim Naudé

published in: Journal of International Affairs, 2019, 72 (1), 143 - 158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11937

Strategic Fertility Behaviour, Early Childhood Human Capital Investments and Gender Roles in Albania

Louise Grogan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11845

Information Provision and Streamlined Medical Service: Evidence from a Mobile Appointment App

Changcheng Song, Nan Yang, Junjian Yi, Ye Yuan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11829

Determinants of Automation Risk in the EU Labour Market: A Skills-Needs Approach

Konstantinos Pouliakas

published as 'Risks posed by automation to the European Labour Market ' in: Hogarth, T. (ed) Economy, employment and skills: European, regional and global perspectives in an age of uncertainty, Rome, 2018, 45 - 74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11801

Basic Information and Communication Technology Skills among Canadian Immigrants and Non-Immigrants

N. T. Khuong Truong, Arthur Sweetman

published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2018, 44 (S1), S91 - S112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11737

The Race for an Artificial General Intelligence: Implications for Public Policy

Wim Naudé, Nicola Dimitri

published in: AI & Society, 2020, 35, 367–379

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11555

Do Digital Information Technologies Help Unemployed Job Seekers Find a Job? Evidence from the Broadband Internet Expansion in Germany

Nicole Gürtzgen, André Nolte, Laura Pohlan, Gerard J. van den Berg

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 132, 103657

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11194

Technological Innovation and Inclusive Growth in Germany

Wim Naudé, Paula Nagler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11151

The Impact of Digital Technologies on Worker Tasks: Do Labor Policies Matter?

Rita K. Almeida, Carlos Henrique Corseuil, Jennifer P. Poole

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11049

Education, Governance, and Trade- and Distance-Related Technology Diffusion: Accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP Gap, and the TFP Impact of South America's Greater Distance to the North

Maurice Schiff, Yanling Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10898

The Effects of Globalization and Technology on the Elasticity of Substitution

Hector Sala, Pedro Trivín

published in: Review of World Economics, 2018, 154 (3), 617-647

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10886

One-To-One Technology and Student Outcomes

Marie C. Hull, Katherine Duch

published in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2019, 41 (1), 79-97

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10880

The Relationship between Economic Growth and Democracy: Alternative Representations of Technological Change

Almas Heshmati, Nam-Seok Kim

published in: M. Tsionas (ed.), Panel Data Economics: Empirical Analysis, 2019, 885 - 929

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10843

Education, Governance, Trade and Distance: Impact on Technology Diffusion and the East Asia-Latin America Productivity Gap

Maurice Schiff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10816

Industrial Espionage and Productivity

Albrecht Glitz, Erik Meyersson

published in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110 (4), 1055-1103

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10641

How Sustainable Are Benefits from Extension for Smallholder Farmers? Evidence from a Randomized Phase-Out of the BRAC Program in Uganda

Ram Fishman, Stephen C. Smith, Vida Bobic, Munshi Sulaiman

This analysis of midline experimental results was expanded using endline data in IZA DP No. 12476,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10448

Estimation of Technical Change and TFP Growth Based on Observable Technology Shifters

Almas Heshmati, Masoomeh Rashidghalam

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10448

Estimation of Technical Change and TFP Growth Based on Observable Technology Shifters

Almas Heshmati, Masoomeh Rashidghalam

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10432

The Effect of One Laptop per Child on Teachers' Pedagogical Practices and Students' Use of Time at Home

Gustavo Yamada, Pablo Lavado, Guadalupe Montenegro

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10427

Demand for Off-Grid Solar Electricity: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda

Michael Grimm, Luciane Lenz, Jörg Peters, Maximiliane Sievert

published in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2020, 7 (3), 417-454.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10354

R&D, Embodied Technological Change and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata

Laura Barbieri, Mariacristina Piva, Marco Vivarelli

published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2019, 28, 203-218.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10228

Increasing Rural Health Clinic Utilization with SMS Updates: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Uganda

Luke Chicoine, Juan Carlos Guzman

published in: World Development, 2017, 99, 419-430.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10120

Delving into the Demand Side: Changes in Workplace Specialization and Job Polarization

Matias Cortes, Andrea Salvatori

published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 57, 64-176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10005

Capabilities and Skills

James J. Heckman, Chase O. Corbin

published in: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2016, 17 (3), 342 - 359

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9950

Search Frictions, Competing Mechanisms and Optimal Market Segmentation

Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Ronald P. Wolthoff

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2017, 169, 453-473

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9758

Technology-Skill Complementarity in the Early Phase of Industrialization

Raphaël Franck, Oded Galor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9453

Globalization, Technological Change and Labor Demand: A Firm Level Analysis for Turkey

Elena Meschi, Erol Taymaz, Marco Vivarelli

published in: Review of World Economics, 2016, 152, 655-680

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9432

Technology and Education: Computers, Software, and the Internet

George Bulman, Robert W. Fairlie

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9302

Do Boys and Girls Use Computers Differently, and Does It Contribute to Why Boys Do Worse in School than Girls?

Robert W. Fairlie

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2016, 16 (1), 59 - 96

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9222

Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan

David Atkin, Azam Chaudhry, Shamyla Chaudry, Amit K. Khandelwal, Eric Verhoogen

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017, 132 (3), 1101–1164,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9206

Agricultural Extension and Technology Adoption for Food Security: Evidence from Uganda

Yao Pan, Stephen C. Smith, Munshi Sulaiman

published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2018, 100 (4), 1012–1031

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