IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published as 'Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills' in: John Ermisch, Markus Jäntti, and Timothy Smeeding (eds.), From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2012, 393 - 421

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5748

Unobserved Heterogeneity in Multiple-Spell Multiple-States Duration Models

Govert Bijwaard

revised version published as 'Multistate event history analysis with frailty' in: Demographic Research, 2014, 30, 1591-1620

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5747

Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake

Stefan Bauernschuster, Oliver Falck, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 117, 73-89

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5746

Beyond Additionality: Are Innovation Subsidies Counterproductive?

Alessandra Catozzella, Marco Vivarelli

short version published as ' The possible adverse impact of innovation subsidies: some evidence from a bivariate switching model' in: Economics Bulletin, 2012, 32 (1), 648-661

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5745

Employment, Hours of Work and the Optimal Taxation of Low Income Families

Richard Blundell, Andrew Shephard

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79(2), 481-510

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5744

Do Guns Displace Books? The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment

Thomas K. Bauer, Stefan Bender, Alfredo R. Paloyo, Christoph M. Schmidt

published in: Economics Letters, 2014,124 (3), 513–515

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5743

Non Cognitive Skills and Personality Traits: Labour Market Relevance and their Development in Education & Training Systems

Giorgio Brunello, Martin Schlotter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5742

More Alike than Different: The Spanish and Irish Labour Markets Before and After the Crisis

Pablo Agnese, Pablo F. Salvador

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, December 2012, 1:9

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5741

Gender Patterns in Vietnam's Child Mortality

Thong Le Pham, Peter Kooreman, Ruud H. Koning, Doede Wiersma

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (1), 303-322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5740

Health Effects on Children's Willingness to Compete

Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, Daniel Schunk

published online in: Experimental Economics, 2012, 15(1), 58-70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5739

Flu Shots, Mammograms, and the Perception of Probabilities

Katherine Grace Carman, Peter Kooreman

published as 'Probability Perceptions and Preventive Health Care' in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2014, 49(1), 43-71

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5738

The Value of Business Networks in Emerging Economies: An Analysis of Firms' External Financing Opportunities

Oluwarotimi Owolabi, Sarmistha Pal

published as 'Does business networking boost firms' external financing opportunities? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe' in: Applied Financial Economics, 2013, 23 (5), 415-432

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5737

Economies of Scale in the Tunisian Industries

Almas Heshmati, Ilham Haouas

published in: International Journal of Economics and Finance, 2013, 5(1), 48-64.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5736

Gender Earnings Gaps in the World

Hugo R. Nopo, Nancy Daza, Johanna Ramos

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (5), 464-513

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5735

On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough

Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn

published in: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013, 128 (2), 469-530