IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Regression-based imputation for poverty measurement in data-scarce settings' in: Jacques Silber (ed.), Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, Edward Elgar Press, 2023, chapter 13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14291

The Persistent Effect of Famine on Present-Day China: Evidence from the Billionaires

Pramod Kumar Sur, Masaru Sasaki

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13951

Risk Preference and Entrepreneurial Investment at the Top of the Wealth Distribution

Frank M. Fossen, Johannes König, Carsten Schröder

revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2024, 66, 735–761

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13836

Hukou Status, Housing Tenure Choice and Wealth Accumulation in Urban China

Yu Liao, Junfu Zhang

published in: China Economic Review, 2021, 68, 101638.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13766

Does the Wealth Tax Kill Jobs?

Marie Bjørneby, Simen Markussen, Knut Røed

revised version published as 'An Imperfect Wealth Tax and Employment in Closely Held Firms' in: Economica, 2023, 90 (358), 557-583.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13611

The Long Shadow of Slavery: The Persistence of Slave Owners in Southern Law-Making

Luna Bellani, Anselm Hager, Stephan Maurer

revised version published in: Journal of Economic History, 2022, 82 (1), 250 - 283

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13423

Wealth, Portfolios, and Unemployment Duration

Francois Fontaine, Janne Nyborg Jensen, Rune Majlund Vejlin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13417

Home Prices, Fertility, and Early-Life Health Outcomes

N. Meltem Daysal, Michael F. Lovenheim, Nikolaj Siersbæk, David N. Wasser

revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 198, 104366

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13184

Does Early Access to Pension Wealth Improve Health?

Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh

revised version published as 'Trade-induced skill polarization' in: Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58 (4), 1783-1794

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13082

Accounting for Wealth Concentration in the US

Barıș Kaymak, David Leung, Markus Poschke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13058

Life Satisfaction, Subjective Wealth, and Adaptation to Vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017

Hai-Anh H Dang, Kseniya Abanokova, Michael Lokshin

published in: Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, 2023, 247 (4), 125-153.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13048

Pensions and Fertility: Micro-Economic Evidence

Alexander M. Danzer, Lennard Zyska

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (2), 126-165

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12999

The Wealth of Parents: Trends over Time in Assortative Mating Based on Parental Wealth

Sander Wagner, Diederik Boertien, Mette Gørtz

published in: Demography, 2020, 57 (5), 1809 - 1831

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12802

Endogenous Hours and the Wealth of Entrepreneurs

Felix Wellschmied, Emircan Yurdagul

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2021, 39, 79-99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12756

Relative Deprivation as a Cause of Risky Behaviors

Oded Stark

published in: Journal of Gambling Studies, 2021, 37, 817–835

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12744

The Effect of Increasing the Early Retirement Age on Savings Behavior Before Retirement

Stefan Etgeton, Björn Fischer, Han Ye

published as 'The Effect of Increasing Retirement Age on Households' Savings and Consumption Expenditure' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 221, 104845

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12656

Making Use of Home Equity: The Potential of Housing Wealth to Enhance Retirement Security

Jorge Miguel Bravo, Mercedes Ayuso, Robert Holzmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12655

Life Cycle Saving and Dissaving Revisited across Three-Tiered Income Groups: Starting Hypotheses, Refinement through Literature Review, and Ideas for Empirical Testing

Robert Holzmann, Mercedes Ayuso, Estefanía Alaminos, Jorge Miguel Bravo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12655

Life Cycle Saving and Dissaving Revisited across Three-Tiered Income Groups: Starting Hypotheses, Refinement through Literature Review, and Ideas for Empirical Testing

Robert Holzmann, Mercedes Ayuso, Estefanía Alaminos, Jorge Miguel Bravo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12655

Life Cycle Saving and Dissaving Revisited across Three-Tiered Income Groups: Starting Hypotheses, Refinement through Literature Review, and Ideas for Empirical Testing

Robert Holzmann, Mercedes Ayuso, Estefanía Alaminos, Jorge Miguel Bravo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12637

Pure Rank Preferences and Variation in Risk-Taking Behavior

Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski, Marcin Jakubek

published in: Economics Letters, 2019, 184, 108636

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12625

Redistribution of Individual Pension Wealth to Survivor Pensions: Evidence from a Stated Preferences Analysis

Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge, Raymond Montizaan

published in: Journal of Behavior Economics and Organization, 2020, 173, 402-421.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12562

The Diversity of Household Assets Holdings in the United States in 2007 and 2009: Measurement and Determinants

Eva Sierminska, Jacques Silber

published in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2020, 18, 599 - 634

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12518

The Likelihood of Divorce and the Riskiness of Financial Decisions

Oded Stark, Krzysztof Szczygielski

published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2019, 85 (3), 209 - 229

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12423

On Social Preferences and the Intensity of Risk Aversion

Oded Stark

published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2019, 86 (3), 807 - 826

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12423

On Social Preferences and the Intensity of Risk Aversion

Oded Stark

published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2019, 86 (3), 807 - 826

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12404

Transitioning Towards More Equality? Wealth Gender Differences and the Changing Role of Explanatory Factors over Time

Eva Sierminska, Daniela Piazzalunga, Markus M. Grabka

published online as 'Women’s Labour Market Attachment and the Gender Wealth Gap' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 17 July 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12303

Do Employee Share Owners Face Too Much Financial Risk?

Douglas L. Kruse, Joseph Blasi, Dan Weltmann, Saehee Kang, Jung Ook Kim, William Castellano

published in: ILR Review, 2022, 75 (3), 716 - 740

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12188

The Determinants of Retirement Planning within Couples in Ireland

Karina Doorley, Anne Nolan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12173

Human Capital Investment under Exit Options: Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment

Satish Chand, Michael A. Clemens

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 163, 103112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11979

The Financial Decisions of Immigrant and Native Households: Evidence from Italy

Graziella Bertocchi, Marianna Brunetti, Anzelika Zaiceva

substantially revised version published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2023, 9, 117-174

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11842

The Role of Parental Wealth and Income in Financing Children's College Attendance and Its Consequences

V. Joseph Hotz, Emily Wiemers, Joshua Rasmussen, Kate Maxwell Koegel

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (6), 1850-1880

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11840

Capital Income Risk and the Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution

Hoang Khieu, Klaus Wälde

published in: Economic Modelling , 2023, 122, 106243

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11621

Inequality in an OLG Economy with Heterogeneous Cohorts and Pension Systems

Joanna Tyrowicz, Krzysztof Makarski, Marcin Bielecki

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2018, 16 (4), 583-606

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11620

Pension Reform: Disentangling Retirement and Savings Responses

Maarten Lindeboom, Raymond Montizaan

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 192(3), 104297

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11620

Pension Reform: Disentangling Retirement and Savings Responses

Maarten Lindeboom, Raymond Montizaan

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 192(3), 104297

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11475

How Should Capital Be Taxed? Theory and Evidence from Sweden

Spencer Bastani, Daniel Waldenström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11475

How Should Capital Be Taxed? Theory and Evidence from Sweden

Spencer Bastani, Daniel Waldenström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11069

The Truly Vulnerable: Integrating Wealth into the Measurement of Poverty and Social Policy Effectiveness

Sarah Kuypers, Ive Marx

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2019, 142 (1), 131 - 147

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10925

Modeling Life-Cycle Earnings Risk with Positive and Negative Shocks

Manuel Sanchez, Felix Wellschmied

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2020, 37, 103-126

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10567

Genetic Ability, Wealth, and Financial Decision-Making

Daniel Barth, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Kevin Thom

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (4),1474-1522

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10452

The Great Recession and Life Satisfaction: The Unique Decline for Americans Approaching Retirement Age

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Amanda Cabacungan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10391

Estimation of Joint Income? Wealth Poverty: A Sensitivity Analysis

Sarah Kuypers, Ive Marx

published in Social Indicators Research, 2018, 136, 117 - 137

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10324

Entrepreneurship in the Shadows: Wealth Constraints and Government Policy

Semih Tumen

published in: Economics of Transition, 2017, 25(2), 239-270

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10311

Buffer-Stock Saving and Households' Response to Income Shocks

Giulio Fella, Serafin Frache, Winfried Koeniger

revised version published in: International Economic Review, 2020, 61, 1359-1382.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10126

Intergenerational Wealth Mobility and the Role of Inheritance: Evidence from Multiple Generations

Adrian Adermon, Mikael Lindahl, Daniel Waldenström

published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (612), F482-F513

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9902

Wealth Inequality in Sweden: What Can We Learn from Capitalized Income Tax Data?

Jacob Lundberg, Daniel Waldenström

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2018, 64 (3), 517 - 541

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9902

Wealth Inequality in Sweden: What Can We Learn from Capitalized Income Tax Data?

Jacob Lundberg, Daniel Waldenström

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2018, 64 (3), 517 - 541

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9839

Inheritance and Wealth Inequality: Evidence from Population Registers

Mikael Elinder, Oscar Erixson, Daniel Waldenström

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 165, 17 - 30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9822

Labour Supply after Inheritances and the Role of Expectations

Karina Doorley, Nico Pestel

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 82(4), 843-863

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9745

The Effect of Housing Wealth on Labor Force Participation: Evidence from China

Shihe Fu, Yu Liao, Junfu Zhang

published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2016, 33, 59-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9581

Capital Shares and Income inequality: Evidence from the Long Run

Erik Bengtsson, Daniel Waldenström

published in: Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78 (3), 712-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9472

Labor Supply Effects of Winning a Lottery

Matteo Picchio, Sigrid Suetens, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (611), 1700-1729

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9408

Wealth-Income Ratios in a Small, Late-Industrializing, Welfare-State Economy: Sweden, 1810–2014

Daniel Waldenström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9408

Wealth-Income Ratios in a Small, Late-Industrializing, Welfare-State Economy: Sweden, 1810–2014

Daniel Waldenström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9408

Wealth-Income Ratios in a Small, Late-Industrializing, Welfare-State Economy: Sweden, 1810–2014

Daniel Waldenström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9237

The Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care and Household Savings Behaviour

Asako Ohinata, Matteo Picchio

revised version published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2020, 72 (1), 247-268

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9190

Modelling the Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth

Markus Jäntti, Eva Sierminska, Philippe Van Kerm

published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2015, 23, 301-327

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9139

Multidimensional Affluence in Income and Wealth in the Eurozone: A Cross-Country Comparison Using the HFCS

Sine Kontbay-Busun, Andreas Peichl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8306

Cross-National Differences in Wealth Portfolios at the Intensive Margin: Is There a Role for Policy?

Karina Doorley, Eva Sierminska

published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2014, 22, 43-85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8298

Wealth Shocks and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Stock Market Fluctuations

Hannes Schwandt

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (4), 349-77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8157

Long-Run Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth

Jesper Roine, Daniel Waldenström

published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2, 2015, 469-592

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7927

The Effect of Wealth and Earned Income on the Decision to Retire: A Dynamic Probit Examination of Retirement

Keith A. Bender, Kostas Mavromaras, Ioannis Theodossiou, Zhang Wei

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7837

Locus of Control and Savings

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sonja C. de New, Mathias Sinning

published in: Journal of Banking and Finance, 2016, 73, 113-130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7832

The Wealth, Health and Wellbeing of Ireland's Older People Before and During the Economic Crisis

Alan Barrett, Vincent O'Sullivan

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2014, 21 (10), 675-678

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7777

Distributional Effects of Macroeconomic Policy Choices in Emerging Market Economies

Eswar Prasad

published in: IMF Economic Review, 2014, 62 (3), 409-429

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7734

To Own or Not to Own? Household Portfolios, Demographics and Institutions in a Cross-National Perspective

Eva Sierminska, Karina Doorley

published in: Journal of Income Distribution, 2018, 25 (1), 1-43

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7733

Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty

Sutirtha Bagchi, Jan Svejnar

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43 (3), 505-530

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7637

Wealth Distribution within Couples

Markus M. Grabka, Jan Marcus, Eva Sierminska

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2015, 13(3), 459-486

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7637

Wealth Distribution within Couples

Markus M. Grabka, Jan Marcus, Eva Sierminska

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2015, 13(3), 459-486

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