IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8594

A First Step up the Energy Ladder? Low Cost Solar Kits and Household's Welfare in Rural Rwanda

Michael Grimm, Anicet Munyehirwe, Jörg Peters, Maximiliane Sievert

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2017, 31 (3): 631–649.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8593

The Impact of the German Autobahn Net on Regional Labor Market Performance: A Study Using Historical Instrument Variables

Joachim Möller, Marcus Zierer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8592

Does Development Reduce Migration?

Michael A. Clemens

published in: Robert E.B. Lucas, ed. (2014), International Handbook on Migration and Economic Development. London: Edward Elgar, Chap. 6, pp. 152–185.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8591

Commercial Plasma Donation and Individual Health in Impoverished Rural China

Xi Chen

published in: Health Economics Review, 2014, 4, Article 30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8590

Successful Scientific Replication and Extension of Levitt (2008): Child Seats Are Still No Safer than Seat Belts

Lauren E. Jones, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31(5), 920-928

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8589

Does the Choice of Well-Being Measure Matter Empirically? An Illustration with German Data

Koen Decancq, Dirk Neumann

revised version published in: M. Adler, M. Fleurbaey (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy, OUP, 2016, 553-587

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8588

A Family Affair: Job Loss and the Mental Health of Spouses and Adolescents

Melisa Bubonya, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Mark Wooden

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 6, 6 (2017)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8587

The Effect of Job Loss on Health: Evidence from Biomarkers

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Eileen Crimmins, Michael D. Hurd

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 51, 194-203

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8586

Gary Becker's Contributions in Health Economics

Rodrigo R. Soares

published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81 (1), 51-57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8585

Turf Wars

Helios Herrera, Ernesto Reuben, Michael M. Ting

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 152, 143-153

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8584

What Do Field Experiments of Discrimination in Markets Tell Us? A Meta Analysis of Studies Conducted since 2000

Judy Rich

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8583

Statistical Power of Within and Between-Subjects Designs in Economic Experiments

Charles Bellemare, Luc Bissonnette, Sabine Kröger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8582

"Making It Count": Evidence from a Field Study on Assessment Rules, Study Incentives and Student Performance

Arnaud Chevalier, Peter Dolton, Melanie Lührmann

published as ''Making it count’: incentives, student effort and performance' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2018, 181 (2), 323 - 349

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8581

Choosing to Be Trained: Do Behavioral Traits Matter?

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Lata Gangadharan, Pushkar Maitra, Subha Mani, Samyukta Subramanian

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 110, 145-159.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8580

Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Simon Gächter, Elke Renner

revised version published as 'Leaders as role models and 'belief managers' in social dilemmas' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 154, 321-334

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8579

De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum: An Experimental Investigation

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Lata Gangadharan, Pushkar Maitra, Subha Mani

published as 'Searching for Preference Stability in a State Dependent World' in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 62, 17- 32.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8578

The Perception of Lethal Risks: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Manuel Schubert, Tilman Brück

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8577

Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment

Martin Koudstaal, Randolph Sloof, Mirjam C. van Praag

published in: Management Science, 2016, 62 (10), 2897 - 2915

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8576