IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8057

Opportunity Cost and the Incidence of a Draft Lottery

Paul Bingley, Petter Lundborg, Stéphanie Vincent Lyk-Jensen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8056

Do School Budgets Matter? The Effect of Budget Referenda on Student Performance

Kyung-Gon Lee, Solomon Polachek

published in: Education Economics 2018, 26(2), 129-144.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8055

Knowing that You Matter, Matters! The Interplay of Meaning, Monetary Incentives, and Worker Recognition

Michael Kosfeld, Susanne Neckermann, Xiaolan Yang

published as 'The Effects of Financial and Recognition Incentives across Work contexts: The Rolel of Meaning' in: Economic Inquiry, 2017, 55 (1), 237 - 247

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8054

Land Reforms, Status and Population Growth

Ulla Lehmijoki, Tapio K. Palokangas

revised version published as 'Landowning, Status and Population Growth' in: E. Moser et al. (eds.), Dynamic Optimization in Environmental Economics, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2014, 315 - 328; extended and more advanced version published as 'Land Reforms and Population Growth' in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2016, 15, 1-15 (all versions co-authored with Ulla Lehmijoki)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8053

Cities, Tasks and Skills

Suzanne Kok, Bas ter Weel

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2014, 54 (5), 856-892

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8052

UN Interventions: The Role of Geography

Juan Carlos Duque, Michael Jetter, Santiago Sosa

revised version published in: Review of International Organizations, 2015, 10(1), 67-95

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8051

Why Pay NGOs to Involve the Community?

Ronelle Burger, Indraneel Dasgupta, Trudy Owens

published in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2015, 86 (1), 7-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8050

Using Spatial Econometric Techniques to Analyze the Joint Employment Decisions of Spouses

Charlene M. Kalenkoski, Donald J. Lacombe

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2015, 36 (1), 67-77.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8049

Matching Methods in Practice: Three Examples

Guido W. Imbens

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50 (2), 373 - 419

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8048

Instrumental Variables: An Econometrician's Perspective

Guido W. Imbens

published in: Statistical Science, 2014, 29 (3), 3232 - 358

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8047

From Micro Data to Causality: Forty Years of Empirical Labor Economics

Bas van der Klaauw

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 88-97

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8046

Inputs, Gender Roles or Sharing Norms? Assessing the Gender Performance Gap Among Informal Entrepreneurs in Madagascar

Christophe Jalil Nordman, Julia Vaillant

Non-technical version published as 'Entreprenariat informel et genre à Madagascar : le rôle des normes de solidarité et des responsabilités domestiques dans les écarts de performances' in: Mondes en Développement, 2014, 42 (2), 166, 59-72

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8045

Effect of Sexual Orientation on Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Greece

Nick Drydakis

published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2015, 54(1), 162-187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8044

The Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-off: Unintended Consequences of Financial Incentives

S Anukriti

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (2), 27-57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8043

Does Grief Transfer across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes

Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes

revised version published as 'Does Grief Transfer across Generations? Bereavements during Pregnancy and Child Outcomes' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (1), 193 - 223

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8042

Why Do Some Motorbike Riders Wear a Helmet and Others Don't? Evidence from Delhi, India

Michael Grimm, Carole Treibich

published in: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2016, 88, 318-336.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8041

Can US Coordination Failure Explain Why Americans Work So Much More than Europeans?

Maurice Schiff

published in: World Economy, 2017, 40 (9), 1708-1717

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8040

Modelling Exposure to Risk of Experiencing Discrimination in the Context of Endogenous Ethnic Identification

Boyd Hunter, Monica Howlett, Nicholas Biddle

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8039