IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4958

Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits

revised version published in: International Economic Review, 2013, 54 (4), 1159-1198

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4896

Evaluating Nationwide Health Interventions When Standard Before-After Doesn't Work: Malawi's ITN Distribution Program

published as 'Evaluating Nationwide Health Interventions: Malawi's Insecticide Treated Net Distribution Program' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2014, 177 (2), 523-552

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4889

Modeling Employment Dynamics with State Dependence and Unobserved Heterogeneity

Victoria L. Prowse

published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2012, 30 (2), 411-431

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4841

Identification and Estimation of Distributional Impacts of Interventions Using Changes in Inequality Measures

Sergio Firpo

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31(3), 457-486

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4835

The Distinction between Dictatorial and Incentive Policy Interventions and its Implication for IV Estimation

Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4790

Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 311-331

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4700

Treatment Evaluation in the Case of Interactions within Markets

Marc Ferracci, Grégory Jolivet, Gerard J. van den Berg

published as 'Evidence of Treatment Spillovers within Markets', 2014, 96 (5), 812 - 823

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4658

Electoral Rules, Political Competition and Fiscal Expenditures: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities

Marcos Chamon, João M. P. de Mello, Sergio Firpo

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (1),19-38

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4606

Inference on a Generalized Roy Model, with an Application to Schooling Decisions in France

Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Arnaud Maurel

published as 'Inference on an Extended Roy Model, with an Application to Schooling Decisions in France' in: Journal of Econometrics, 2013, 174 (2), 95–106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4565

Partially Identified Treatment Effects under Imperfect Compliance: The Case of Domestic Violence

Zahra Siddique

revised version published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2013, 108 (502), 504-513

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4562

How Much Should We Trust Linear Instrumental Variables Estimators? An Application to Family Size and Children's Education

Magne Mogstad, Matthew Wiswall

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4543

A Simple GMM Estimator for the Semi-Parametric Mixed Proportional Hazard Model

Govert Bijwaard, Geert Ridder

published in: Journal of Econometric Methods, 2013, 2, 1-23 [PDF]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4485

Is Posner Right? An Empirical Test of the Posner Argument for Transferring Health Spending from Old Women to Old Men

Christoph Wunder, Johannes Schwarze

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4451

Evaluating Nonexperimental Estimators for Multiple Treatments: Evidence from Experimental Data

Carlos A. Flores, Oscar A. Mitnik

revised version published as 'Comparing Treatments across Labor Markets: An Assessment of Nonexperimental Multiple-Treatment Strategies' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95(5), 1691-1707

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4417

The Effect of the Timing and Spacing of Births on the Level of Labor Market Involvement of Married Women

Kenneth Troske, Alexandru Voicu

revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 45(1), 483-521

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. 4387

How Much Can We Trust Causal Interpretations of Fixed-Effects Estimators in the Context of Criminality?

David J. Bjerk

published in: Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2009, 25 (4), 391-417

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4329

Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Nonadditive Hedonic Models

James J. Heckman, Rosa Matzkin, Lars Nesheim

published in: Econometrica, 2010, 78(5), 1569-1591

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4324

Evaluating Marginal Policy Changes and the Average Effect of Treatment for Individuals at the Margin

Pedro Carneiro, James J. Heckman, Edward Vytlacil

published in: Econometrica, 2010, 78 (1), 377-394