IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5413

Smart and Dangerous: How Cognitive Skills Drive the Intergenerational Transmission of Retaliation

Ruby Henry

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5412

Social Support Substitution and the Earnings Rebound: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform

Lex Borghans, Anne C. Gielen, Erzo F.P. Luttmer

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6 (4), 34-70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5411

Can State Language Policies Distort Students' Demand for Higher Education?

Alexander Muravyev, Oleksandr Talavera

revised version published as "Can state language policies distort students' demand for education?" in Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44(2), 383–399

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5402

Protestantism and Education: Reading (the Bible) and Other Skills

Timo Boppart, Josef Falkinger, Volker Grossmann

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2014, 52 (2), 874-895

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5401

How Much Do Educational Outcomes Matter in OECD Countries?

Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economic Policy, 2011, 26 (67), 427-491

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5390

Emotional Prosperity and the Stiglitz Commission

Andrew J. Oswald

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2010, 48 (4), 651-669

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5388

Fair and Efficient Taxation under Partial Control: Theory and Evidence

Erwin Ooghe, Andreas Peichl

revised version published as 'Fair and Efficient Taxation under Partial Control' in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (589), 2024 - 2051

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5386

Job Mobility in Europe, Japan and the U.S.

Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn

published as 'Job Mobility in Europe, Japan and the United States' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2012, 50 (3), 436-456

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5382

Local Electoral Incentives and Decentralized Program Performance

Alain de Janvry, Frederico S. Finan, Elisabeth Sadoulet

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (3), 672 - 685

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5381

Where Have All the Young Girls Gone? Identification of Sex Selection in India

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Tom Cochrane

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5375

Equality of Opportunity and Redistribution in Europe

Lina Dunnzlaff, Dirk Neumann, Judith Niehues, Andreas Peichl

revised version published in: Inequality of Opportunity: Theory and Measurement (Research on Economic Inequality, 19), Bingley, 2011, 99-129

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5372

Endogenous Treatment Effects for Count Data Models with Sample Selection or Endogenous Participation

Massimiliano Bratti, Alfonso Miranda

revised version published in: Health Economics, 2011, 20 (9), 1090-1109

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5371

Intergenerational Persistence in Health in Developing Countries: The Penalty of Gender Inequality?

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Samantha Rawlings

Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 286-299

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5369

Why Children of College Graduates Outperform their Schoolmates: A Study of Cousins and Adoptees

Torbjørn Haegeland, Lars Kirkeboen, Oddbjørn Raaum, Kjell G. Salvanes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5367

The Production of PhDs in the United States and Canada

Barry R. Chiswick, Nicholas Larsen, Paul Pieper

published as 'The Awarding of PhDs in the United States and Canada: War, the Draft, and Other Economic Determinants' in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (28), 2939 - 2958

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5366

Overweight and Poor? On the Relationship between Income and the Body Mass Index

Dean Jolliffe

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2011, 9 (3), 342-355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5363

Poverty and Survival

Sonia R. Bhalotra

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2012, 48 (2), 145-167

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5355

No Claim, No Pain: Measuring the Non-Take-up of Social Assistance Using Register Data

Olivier B. Bargain, Herwig Immervoll, Heikki Viitamäki

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2012, 10 (3), 375-395