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149 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5939
Conflict and its Impact on Educational Accumulation and Enrollment in Colombia: What We Can Learn from Recent IDPs
Kate Wharton, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5901
Health and Economic Development: Evidence from the Introduction of Public Health Care
Anthony Strittmatter, Uwe Sunde
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (4), 1549-1584
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5849
Health Impaired Employees' Job Satisfaction: New Evidence from Athens, Greece
Nick Drydakis
published in: Applied Economics Letters,2012, 19 (8), 789-793
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5749
The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills During Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Silke Anger
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. 5668
The Role of Race and Birth Place in Welfare Usage among Comparable Women: Evidence from the U.S.
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Maharouf Oyolola
published in: The Review of Black Political Economy, 2012, 39 (3), 285-297
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5664
Physical Attractiveness, Employment, and Earnings
Christian Pfeifer
published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2012, 19 (6), 505-510
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5600
"Beauty Is the Promise of Happiness"?
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Jason Abrevaya
published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 64, 351-368
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5465
Why Are Saving Rates So High in China?
Dennis T. Yang, Junsen Zhang, Shaojie Zhou
published in: Joseph Fan and Randall Morck (eds.), 2012, Capitalizing China. University of Chicago Press, 249-282
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5422
The Long-Run Effects of Mortality Decline in Developing Countries
Ulla Lehmijoki, Tapio K. Palokangas
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. 5237
Immigrant Networks and U.S. Bilateral Trade: The Role of Immigrant Income
Kusum Mundra
published in: Gil Epstein and Ira Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 357-373
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5171
Using "Shares" vs. "Log of Shares" in Fixed-Effect Estimations
Christer Gerdes
published in: Journal of Economics and Econometrics, 2011, 54 (1), 1–7
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5071
Black-White Gap in Self-Employment in the U.S.: Do Cohort and Within Race Differences Exist?
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Willie Belton
revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 41 (1), 25-39
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4775
No Country for Fat Men? Obesity, Earnings, Skills, and Health among 450,000 Swedish Men
Petter Lundborg, Paul Nystedt, Dan-Olof Rooth
published as 'Body Size, Skills, and Income: Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings' in: Demography, 2014, 51, 1573-1596
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4774
Handedness, Health and Cognitive Development: Evidence from Children in the NLSY
David W. Johnston, Michael E. R. Nicholls, Manisha Shah, Michael A. Shields
published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2013, 176 (4), 841-860
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4698
Unequal Giving: Monetary Gifts to Children Across Countries and Over Time
Julie Zissimopoulos, James P. Smith
published in: Timothy Smeeding, Robert Erikson, and Markus Jantti (eds.), Persistence, Privilege, Policy and Parenting: The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility. Russell Sage Foundation, 2011
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4398
Meet the Parents? The Causal Effect of Family Size on the Geographic Distance between Adult Children and Older Parents
Helena Holmlund, Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler
revised version published as 'Meet the Parents? Family Size and the Geographic Proximity Between Adult Children and Older Mothers in Sweden' in: Demography, 2013, 50 (3), 903-931
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4378
Grazing, Goods and Girth: Determinants and Effects
Daniel S. Hamermesh
published as "Incentives, time use and BMI: The roles of eating, grazing and goods" in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 8 (1), 2-15
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4266
The Height Premium in Earnings: The Role of Physical Capacity and Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
Petter Lundborg, Paul Nystedt, Dan-Olof Rooth
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49(1), 141-166.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4166
Global Aging and Fiscal Policy with International Labor Mobility: A Political Economy Perspective
Mehmet S. Tosun
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