IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3770

published as 'Time for Blood: The Effect of Paid Leave Legislation on Altruistic Behavior' in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2013, 29(6), 1384-1420

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3770

Motivating Altruism: A Field Study

Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis

published as 'Time for Blood: The Effect of Paid Leave Legislation on Altruistic Behavior' in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2013, 29(6), 1384-1420

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3737

Caste Based Discrimination: Evidence and Policy

Zahra Siddique

published as 'Evidence on Caste-Based Discrimination' in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (S1), S146-S159

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3694

Preferences for Childcare Policies: Theory and Evidence

Rainald Borck, Katharina Wrohlich

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 27 (3), 436-454

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3686

The Impact of Local Public Services and Geographical Cost of Living Differences on Poverty Estimates

Rolf Aaberge, Audun Langørgen, Magne Mogstad, Marit Østensen

published as 'The Distributional Impact of Public Services When Needs Differ' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (9-10), 549 - 562

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3562

Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap in Private- and Public-Sector Employment: A Distributional Analysis

Juan D. Barón, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark

published in: Economic Record, 2010, 86 (273), 227 - 246

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3535

Intergenerational Transmission of Healthy Eating Behaviour and the Role of Household Income

Alison Goode, Kostas Mavromaras, Murray Smith

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3521

Reforming Retirement-Income Systems: Lessons from the Recent Experiences of OECD Countries

John P. Martin, Edward Whitehouse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3503

Risk Aversion and Sorting into Public Sector Employment

Christian Pfeifer

published in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (1), 85 - 99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3459

Growing out of Poverty: Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988–2002

Simon Appleton, Lina Song, Qingjie Xia

published in: World Development, 2010, 38 (5), 665-678

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3439

The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada

David A. Jaeger, Esteban F. Klor, Sami H. Miaari, M. Daniele Paserman

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (3-4), 354-368

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3437

A Caseworker Like Me: Does the Similarity between Unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner

published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120(549), 1430-1459

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3427

Public Sector Pay Gap in France: New Evidence Using Panel Data

Olivier B. Bargain, Blaise Melly

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3385

Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector

Simon Luechinger, Stephan Meier, Alois Stutzer

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45(4), 998-1045

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3373

The Impact of the Public Sector Pay Review Bodies in the UK

Peter Dolton, Gerry Makepeace

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3366

International Mobility of the Highly Skilled, Endogenous R&D, and Public Infrastructure Investment

Volker Grossmann, David Stadelmann

published as "Does International Mobility of High-Skilled Workers Aggravate Between-Country Inequality?" in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 95 (1), 88 - 94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3317

Should Egalitarians Expropriate Philanthropists?

Indraneel Dasgupta, Ravi Kanbur

published as "Does Philanthropy Reduce Inequality?" in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (1), 1-21

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3296

The Linkages between FDI and Domestic Investment: Unravelling the Developmental Impact of Foreign Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa

Leonce Ndikumana, Sher Verick

published in: Development Policy Review, 2008, 26 (6), 713-726

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3278

Matching and Challenge Gifts to Charity: Evidence from Laboratory and Natural Field Experiments

Daniel Rondeau, John A. List

published in: Experimental Economics, 2008, 11(3), 253-267