IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7270

Entrepreneurship of the Left-Behind

Corrado Giulietti, Jackline Wahba, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2013, 37, 65-92

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7267

The Effects of School Libraries on Language Skills: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in India

Evan Borkum, Fang He, Leigh L. Linden

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7259

Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt

Christine Binzel, Jean-Paul Carvalho

revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (607), 2553 - 2580

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7236

The Distribution of Income in Central America

T. H. Gindling, Juan Diego Trejos

revised version published in: Salvador Marti i Puig; Diego Sanchez-Ancochea (eds.), The Handbook of Central American Governance, London: Routledge, 2014, 75-94.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7233

Unemployment Compensation and the Allocation of Labor in Developing Countries

Olivier Charlot, Franck Malherbet, Mustafa Ulus

published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2016, 18 (3), 385 - 416

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7229

Does Forced Solidarity Hamper Investment in Small and Micro Enterprises?

Michael Grimm, Renate Hartwig, Jann Lay

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45 (4): 827-846.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7226

Poverty, Inequality, and the Local Natural Resource Curse

Norman Loayza, Alfredo Mier y Teran, Jamele Rigolini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7225

Migration, Capital Formation, and House Prices

Volker Grossmann, Andreas Schäfer, Thomas M. Steger

published as 'Reversal of Migration Flows: A Fresh Look at the German Reunification' in: Journal of International Economics, 2016, 109, 1-15

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7224

Women, Medieval Commerce, and the Education Gender Gap

Graziella Bertocchi, Monica Bozzano

revised version published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44, 496-521

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7223

China's High Saving Puzzle

Guonan Ma, Dennis T. Yang

published in: Shenggen Fan, Ravi Kanbur, Shnag-Yin Wei and Xiaobo Zhang (eds): Oxford Companion to the Economics of China, 2014, 190-193

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7203

Trust of Second Generation Immigrants: Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Assimilation?

Julie Moschion, Domenico Tabasso

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3 (10)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7199

The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development

Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde

revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2015, 7 (3), 189-225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7194

The Unfairness of (Poverty) Targets

Melanie Allwine, Jamele Rigolini, Luis-Felipe López-Calva

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7189

Living on the Edge: Youth Entry, Career and Exit in Drug-Selling Gangs

Leandro Carvalho, Rodrigo R. Soares

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 121, 77-98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7187

Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence

Richard A. Easterlin

published in W. Glatzer, L. Camfield, V. Møller, and M. Rojas (eds.): Global Handbook of Quality of Life: Exploration of Well-Being of Nations and Continents, 2015, 283-299

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7183

Social Distance and Trust: Experimental Evidence from a Slum in Cairo

Christine Binzel, Dietmar Fehr

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 103, 99-106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7179

Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure

Resul Cesur, Erdal Tekin, Aydogan Ulker

pubished in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (600), 330 - 362

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7176

Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation

Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor

published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 528-533