IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9054

What Factors Affect Doctors' Hours Decisions: Comparing Structural Discrete Choice and Reduced-Form Approaches

Guyonne Kalb, Daniel Kühnle, Anthony Scott, Terence Chai Cheng, Sung-Hee Jeon

published as 'What factors affect physicians' labour supply: Comparing structural discrete choice and reduced-form approaches' in: Health Economics, 2017, 27 (2), e101 - e119

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9053

Prenatal Stress and Low Birth Weight: Evidence from the Super Bowl

Brian Duncan, Hani Mansour, Daniel I. Rees

published as 'It's Just a Game: The Super Bowl and Low Birth Weight' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (4) 946-978

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9052

Prepregnancy Obesity and Birth Outcomes

Susan L. Averett, Erin K. Fletcher

published in: Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2016, 20(3), 655-664.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9051

Peer Effects on Obesity in a Sample of European Children

Wencke Gwozdz, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Lucia A. Reisch, Karin Bammann, Gabriele Eiben, Yiannis Kourides, Eva Kovács, Fabio Lauria, Kenn Konstabel, Alba M. Santaliestra-Pasias, Krishna Vyncke, Iris Pigeot

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 18, 139–152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9050

Obesity and Economic Performance of Young Workers in Italy

Giovanni S. F. Bruno, Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Orietta Dessy

published as 'Obesity and the economic performance of young people in Italy' in: G. Coppola and N. O'Higgins (eds): Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, Education and Health in Europe, Routledge, 2016, Chapter 8

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9049

Overeducation: A Disease of the School-to-Work Transition System

Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Francesco Pastore

published in: G. Coppola and N. O'Higgins (eds): Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, Education and Health in Europe, Routledge, 2016, 36-56

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9048

Schooling, Nation Building, and Industrialization: A Gellnerian Approach

Esther Hauk, Javier Ortega

revised version published in: Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2021, 33 (1), 140-166

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9047

Flexibility at a Cost: Should Governments Stimulate Tertiary Education for Adults?

Anders Stenberg, Olle Westerlund

published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2016, 7, 69–86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9046

Nature or Nurture in Higher Education? Inter-generational Implications of the Vietnam-Era Lottery

Louis N. Christofides, Michael Hoy, Joniada Milla, Thanasis Stengos

published as 'Vietnam Era Fathers: The Intergenerational Transmission of Tertiary Education' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68 (3), 593-616

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9045

Academic Performance and Type of Early Childhood Care

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Marianne Simonsen

published in Economics of Education Review, 2016, 53, 217-229

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9044

Do Schools Discriminate Against Homosexual Parents? Evidence from an Internet Field Experiment

Luis Diaz-Serrano, Enric Meix-Llop

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 53, 133-142.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9043

Does Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally? The Moderating Roles of Age, Gender and Industry

François Rycx, Yves Saks, Ilan Tojerow

published as 'Does Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally ? The Moderating Role of Age and Gender' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 7 (1), 1-37

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9042

Political Socialization in Flux? Linking Family Non-Intactness during Childhood to Adult Civic Engagement

Timo Hener, Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2016, 179 (3), 633–656

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9041

Combining 'Real Effort' with Induced Effort Costs: The Ball-Catching Task

Simon Gächter, Lingbo Huang, Martin Sefton

revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2016, 19, 687–712

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9040

Learning about Job Search: A Field Experiment with Job Seekers in Germany

Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, Simon Jäger, Florian Zimmermann

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 164, 33-49