IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5535

The Effect of Prenatal Stress on Birth Weight: Evidence from the al-Aqsa Intifada

published as 'Armed Conflict and Birth Weight: Evidence from the al-Aqsa Intifada' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (1),190-199

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5531

Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance: Does Schooling Provide Earnings Insurance?

Jacopo Mazza, Hans van Ophem, Joop Hartog

published as 'Unobserved heterogeneity and risk in wage variance: Does more schooling reduce earnings risk?' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 323 - 338

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5530

The Development of Egalitarianism, Altruism, Spite and Parochialism in Childhood and Adolescence

Ernst Fehr, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Matthias Sutter

published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 64, 369-383

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5528

Scale Economies Can Offset the Benefits of Competition: Evidence from a School Consolidation Reform in a Universal Voucher System

Monique de Haan, Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek

published as 'School Consolidation and Student Achievement' in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2016, 32 (4), 816 - 139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5522

Nowcasting Business Cycles Using Toll Data

Nikos Askitas, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Journal of Forecasting, 2013, 32 (4), 299 - 306.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5519

Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemployment and Informality in Developing Economies

Olivier Charlot, Franck Malherbet, Cristina Terra

published as 'Informality in developing economies: regulation and fiscal policies' in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2015, 51, 1–27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5518

Collective Bargaining under Non-Binding Contracts

Sabien Dobbelaere, Roland Iwan Luttens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5513

The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward It

Niclas Berggren, Henrik Jordahl, Panu Poutvaara

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 79–86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5505

Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market

Morris M. Kleiner, Alan B. Krueger

published in: Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (S1, Part 2), S173–S202

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5503

Minu, Startu and All That: Pitfalls in Estimating the Sensitivity of a Worker's Wage to Aggregate Unemployment

Pedro S. Martins, Andy Snell, Jonathan P. Thomas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5492

The Labor Market Value to Legal Status

Fernando A. Lozano, Todd A. Sorensen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5488

Is There Selection Bias in Laboratory Experiments? The Case of Social and Risk Preferences

Blair L. Cleave, Nikos Nikiforakis, Robert Slonim

published in: Experimental Economics, 2013, 16 (3) 372-382

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5483

A Labor Market Approach to the Crisis of Health Care Professionals in Africa

Mabel Andalón, Gary S. Fields

published in: Agnes Soucat and Richard Sheffler (eds.): The Labor Market for Health Workers in Africa: A New Look at the Crisis, The World Bank, 2013, 33-48

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5480

Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 81, 421-441

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5475

Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples

Armin Falk, Stephan Meier, Christian Zehnder

revised version published as 'Do Lab Experiments Misrepresent Social Preferences? The case of self-selected student samples' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (4), 839–852

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5471

Good and Bad Institutions: Is the Debate Over? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence from the Textile Industry

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ralitza Dimova

published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2014, 38(1), 109-126

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. 5464

Works Councils, Wages, and Job Satisfaction

Christian Grund, Andreas Schmitt

published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (3), 299-310