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142 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17768
Gender-Targeted Transfers and Women’s Consumption: A Structural Regression Discontinuity Approach
Olivier B. Bargain, Maira Colacce
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17706
Gifts that Bind
Viola Angelini, Joan Costa-Font, Berkay Ozcan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17661
Government Support in Times of Crisis: Transfers and the Road to Socialism
Felipe González, Mounu Prem
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17551
Means-Tested Transfers in the US: Facts and Parametric Estimates
Nezih Guner, Christopher Rauh, Gustavo Ventura
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17506
Altruistic Giving and Risk Taking in Human Affairs
Oded Stark, Lukasz Balbus
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17464
Resource Windfalls, Public Expenditures and Local Economies
Antonella Bancalari, Juan Pablo Rud
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17411
The Different Sources of Intergenerational Income Mobility in High and Low Income Families
Anders Hjorth-Trolle, Rasmus Landersø
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17041
Employment and Labor Supply Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansion: Theory and Evidence
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Michael R. Strain
published in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2024, 710 (1), 141-156
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16874
Declining Earnings Inequality, Rising Income Inequality: What Explains Discordant Inequality Trends in the United States?
Lukas Lehner, Zachary Parolin, Nathan Wilmers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16842
How China's "Later, Longer, Fewer" Campaign Extends Life Expectancy: A Study of Intergenerational Support for Elderly Parents
Cynthia Bansak, Eva Dziadula, Sophie Xuefei Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16795
Fiscal Incidence on the Island: Grenada's Fiscal System and Its Incidence
Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza, Guillermo Gómez Aliaga, Chevanne Britton, Fernando Rios-Avila, Wilson Jimenez Pozo, Silvia Granados Ibarra, Ran Li
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16737
The Importance of Existing Social Protection Programs for Mental Health in Pandemic Times
Teresa Molina, Yoon Y. Cho
published online in: World Bank Economic Review, 21 February 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16573
Can Altruism Lead to a Willingness to Take Risks?
Oded Stark
published in: Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 2024, 48 (2), 272-278
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16564
Sliding into Safety Net Participation: A Unified Analysis across Multiple Programs
Derek Wu, Jonathan Zhang
published online in: National Tax Journal, 24 January 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16211
Stimulus through Insurance: The Marginal Propensity to Repay Debt
Gizem Koşar, Davide Melcangi, Laura Pilossoph, David Wiczer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16115
Child Health, Parental Well-Being, and the Social Safety Net
Achyuta Adhvaryu, N. Meltem Daysal, Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson, Teresa Molina, Herdis Steingrimsdottir
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15743
The Social Tax: Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply
Eliana Carranza, Aletheia Donald, Florian Grosset, Supreet Kaur
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15662
Earnings Losses and the Role of the Welfare State during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Sweden
Adrian Adermon, Lisa Laun, Patrik Lind, Martin Olsson, Jan Sauermann, Anna Sjögren
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2024, 70 (4), 981 - 1010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15658
How to Best Fight Poverty: The Uneven Ex-post Effects of Conditional and Unconditional Cash Transfers on Labor Earnings
Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll, Roberto Quaranta
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15401
Why Should We Integrate Income and Employment Support? A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation
Antonia Asenjo, Veronica Escudero, Hannah Liepmann
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2024, 60 (1), 1-20.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14803
The Market for CEOs: Building Legacy and Feeling Empowered Matter
Arnaud Dupuy, John Kennes, Ran Sun Lyng
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14693
Child Health and Parental Responses to an Unconditional Cash Transfer at Birth
Alexandra de Gendre, John Lynch, Aurélie Meunier, Rhiannon Pilkington, Stefanie Schurer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14667
Conditional Cash Transfers and Labor Market Conditions
Teresa Molina, Joaquim Vidiella-Martin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14513
Keeping Refugee Children in School and Out of Work: Evidence from the World's Largest Humanitarian Cash Transfer Program
Aysun Hızıroğlu Aygün, Murat Güray Kirdar, Murat Koyuncu, Quentin Stoeffler
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 168, 103266.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14369
The Dynamic Response of Municipal Budgets to Revenue Shocks
Ines Helm, Jan Stuhler
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 2024, 16 (4), 484–527
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14326
Encouragement and Distortionary Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers
Gharad Bryan, Shyamal Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Melanie Morten, Joeri Smits
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14068
Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration from a Gendered Lens: Comment
Oded Stark
published in: Demography, 2021, 58 (1), 379 - 381
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13955
The Impacts of a Multifaceted Pre-natal Intervention on Human Capital Accumulation in Early Life
Pedro Carneiro, Lucy Kraftman, Giacomo Mason, Lucie Moore, Imran Rasul, Molly Scott
published in: American Economic Review, 2021, 111 (8), 2506–4259)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13874
The Effects of Incentivizing Early Prenatal Care on Infant Health
Kamila Cygan-Rehm, Krzysztof Karbownik
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 83, 102612
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13822
The Effect of Course Shutouts on Community College Students: Evidence from Waitlist Cutoffs
Silvia Robles, Max Gross, Robert W. Fairlie
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 199, 104409
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13767
Transfer Payment Systems and Financial Distress: Insights from Health Insurance Premium Subsidies
Christian P. R. Schmid, Nicolas Schreiner, Alois Stutzer
revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (5), 1829-1858
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13767
Transfer Payment Systems and Financial Distress: Insights from Health Insurance Premium Subsidies
Christian P. R. Schmid, Nicolas Schreiner, Alois Stutzer
revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (5), 1829-1858
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13567
Can Stimulus Checks Boost an Economy under COVID-19? Evidence from South Korea
Moon Jung Kim, Soohyung Lee
published in: International Economic Journal, 2021, 35 (1), 1 - 12
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13247
Can Social Protection Reduce Environmental Damages?
Teevrat Garg, Gordon C. McCord, Aleister Montfort
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13148
Distributional Effects of Intergovernmental Transfers in Mexico
Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Kiyomi Cadena, Laura Moreno Herrera
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13102
Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply
Daniela Del Boca, Chiara D. Pronzato, Giuseppe Sorrenti
published as 'Conditional cash transfer programs and household labor supply' in: European Economic Review, 2021, 136, 103755
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13081
Do Public Program Benefits Crowd Out Private Transfers in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence
Plamen Nikolov, Matthew Bonci
published in: World Development, 2020, 134, 104967
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12957
Efficiency Versus Equity in the Provision of In-Kind Benefits: Evidence from Cost Containment in the California WIC Program
Katherine Meckel, Maya Rossin-Slater, Lindsey Uniat
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12855
Evaluating the Success of President Johnson's War on Poverty: Revisiting the Historical Record Using a Full-Income Poverty Measure
Richard V. Burkhauser, Kevin Corinth, James Elwell, Jeff Larrimore
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12757
Income Growth and its Distribution from Eisenhower to Obama: The Growing Importance of In-Kind Transfers (1959-2016)
James Elwell, Kevin Corinth, Richard V. Burkhauser
published in D. Furchtgott-Roth (ed.), United States Trends in Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Well-Being; OUP, Oxford, 2020, 90-124.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12590
Experimental Long-Term Effects of Early-Childhood and School-Age Exposure to a Conditional Cash Transfer Program
Teresa Molina Millán, Karen Macours, John Maluccio, Luis Tejerina
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 143, 102385
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12532
Do Private Household Transfers to the Elderly Respond to Public Pension Benefits? Evidence from Rural China
Plamen Nikolov, Alan Adelman
published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2019, 14, 100204
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12442
Samuelson's Contributions to Population Theory and Overlapping Generations in Economics
Ronald D. Lee
published in: Robert A. Cord, Richard G. Anderson, William A. Barnett (eds.), Paul Samuelson Master of Modern Economics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 471-495
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12368
Who Is in Favor of Immigration
Gil S. Epstein, Shirit Katav-Herz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12230
Baby Bonuses and Early-Life Health Outcomes: Using Regression Discontinuity to Evaluate the Causal Impact of an Unconditional Cash Transfer
John Lynch, Aurélie Meunier, Rhiannon Pilkington, Stefanie Schurer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12109
Cash, Conditions and Child Development: Experimental Evidence from a Cash Transfer in Honduras
Florencia López Bóo, John Creamer
published in: Economia, LACEA, 2019, 19 (2), 169 - 196
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11995
Pareto-Improving Structural Reforms
Gilles Saint-Paul
published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2021. 194, 105262.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11846
The Betrayed Generation? Intra-Household Transfers and Retirement Behavior in South Korea
Kyeongkuk Kim, Sang-Hyop Lee, Timothy J. Halliday
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11774
Thinking of Incentivizing Care? The Effect of Demand Subsidies on Informal Caregiving and Intergenerational Transfers
Joan Costa-Font, Sergi Jimenez-Martin, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
revised version published as 'Do Public Caregiving Subsidies and Supports affect the Provision of Care and Transfers?' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 84,102639
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11774
Thinking of Incentivizing Care? The Effect of Demand Subsidies on Informal Caregiving and Intergenerational Transfers
Joan Costa-Font, Sergi Jimenez-Martin, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
revised version published as 'Do Public Caregiving Subsidies and Supports affect the Provision of Care and Transfers?' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 84,102639
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