IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13756

Work Disability after Motherhood and How Paternity Leave Can Help

Sébastien Fontenay, Ilan Tojerow

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13639

Optimal Model Selection in RDD and Related Settings Using Placebo Zones

Nathan Kettlewell, Peter Siminski

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13589

Can Childcare Benefits Increase Maternal Employment? Evidence from Childcare Benefits Policy in Japan

Shinsuke Asakawa, Masaru Sasaki

published as 'Can child benefit reductions increase maternal employment? Evidence from Japan' in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2022, 66, 101231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13537

The Impact of Social Security on Pension Claiming and Retirement: Active vs. Passive Decisions

Rafael Lalive, Arvind Magesan, Stefan Staubli

revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (3), 115-50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13480

Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Improve Global Air Quality? New Cross-National Evidence on Its Unintended Consequences

Hai-Anh H Dang, Trong-Anh Trinh

published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021, 105, 102401.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13350

The CPS Citizenship Question and Survey Refusals: Causal and Semi-Causal Evidence Featuring a Two-Stage Regression Discontinuity Design

Robert Bernhardt, Phanindra V. Wunnava

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13343

Family Background and the Responses to Higher SAT Scores

Georg Graetz, Björn Öckert, Oskar Nordström Skans

published online in: Journal of Human Resources, June 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13275

Do Generous Parental Leave Policies Help Top Female Earners?

Gozde Corekcioglu, Marco Francesconi, Astrid Kunze

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2020, 36(4), 882-902

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13210

The Causal Effect of Education on Climate Literacy and Pro-Environmental Behaviours: Evidence from a Nationwide Natural Experiment

Nattavudh Powdthavee

published as 'Education and pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours: a nonparametric regression discontinuity analysis of a major schooling reform in England and Wales' in: Ecological Economics, 2021, 181, 106931.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13184

Does Early Access to Pension Wealth Improve Health?

Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh

revised version published as 'Trade-induced skill polarization' in: Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58 (4), 1783-1794

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12942

Do Cash Windfalls Affect Wages? Evidence from R&D Grants to Small Firms

Sabrina T. Howell, J. David Brown

published in: Review of Financial Studies, 2023, 36 (5), 1889 - 1929

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12801

Wild Bootstrap for Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Designs: Obtaining Robust Bias-Corrected Confidence Intervals

Yang He, Otávio Bartalotti

published in: Econometrics Journal, 2020, 23 (2), 211–231