IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7999

A Validation Study of Transgenerational Effects of Childhood Conditions on the Third Generation Offspring's Economic and Health Outcomes Potentially Driven by Epigenetic Imprinting

Gerard J. van den Berg, Pia Pinger

revised version published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 23, 103-120

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7989

The Effect of Renewable Energy Development on Carbon Emission Reduction: An Empirical Analysis for the EU-15 Countries

Shahrouz Abolhosseini, Almas Heshmati, Jörn Altmann

published as 'Impact of Renewable Energy Development on Carbon Dioxide Emission Reduction' in: The Development of Renewable Energy Sources and its Significance for the Environment, 2015, pp. 119-146

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7985

The Slump and Immigration Policy in Europe

Timothy J. Hatton

published in: P. Bevelander and B. Petersson (eds.), Crisis and Migration: Implications of the Eurozone crisis for perceptions, politics, and policies of migration, Nordic Academic Press 2014, Lund, Sweden, Chapter 2, 25-47

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7980

The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic

Toman Omar Mahmoud, Hillel Rapoport, Andreas Steinmayr, Christoph Trebesch

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9(3): 36-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7977

The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Germany: State Dependence Before and After the 'Hartz Reforms'

Sebastian Königs

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2014, 39, 107-150

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7947

Obesity and the Labor Market: A Fresh Look at the Weight Penalty

Marco Caliendo, Markus Gehrsitz

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 23, 209-225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7939

Does Longer Compulsory Education Equalize Schooling by Gender and Rural/Urban Residence?

Murat Güray Kirdar, Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur, Ismet Koc

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2016, 30 (3), 549-579.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7929

Economic Status, Air Quality, and Child Health: Evidence from Inversion Episodes

Jenny Jans, Per Johansson, Peter Nilsson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7924

Assimilation, Criminality and Ethnic Conflict

Indraneel Dasgupta, Diganta Mukherjee

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7919

Immigration: What about the Children and Grandchildren?

Arthur Sweetman, Jan C. van Ours

published in: B.R. Chiswick and P.W. Miller (eds). Handbook of the Economics of International Migration, Vol. 1b, Amsterdam: Elsevier/North-Holland, 1141-1193

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7910

Does Greater Inequality Lead to More Household Borrowing? New Evidence from Household Data

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Marianna Kudlyak, John Mondragon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7905

Timing of College Enrollment and Family Formation Decisions

Maria Knoth Humlum, Jannie H. G. Kristoffersen, Rune Majlund Vejlin

published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 48: 215-230

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7897

The Long-Term Effects of Early Track Choice

Christian Dustmann, Patrick A. Puhani, Uta Schönberg

published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (603), 1348–1380

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7896

Selfish Altruism, Fierce Cooperation and the Emergence of Cooperative Equilibria from Passing and Shooting

Nikos Askitas

published as 'Selfish altruism, fierce cooperation and the predator' in: Journal of Biological Dynamics, 2018, 12 (1), 471 - 485

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7878

Minimum Wages, Unemployment and Informality: Evidence from Panel Data on Russian Regions

Alexander Muravyev, Aleksey Oshchepkov

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7875

The Short-Term Population Health Effects of Weather and Pollution: Implications of Climate Change

Nicolas R. Ziebarth, Maike Schmitt, Martin Karlsson

revised version published as: Karlsson, M.; Zierbarth, N.R., 'Population health effects and health-related costs of extreme temperatures: Comprehensive evidence from Germany' in:Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018, 91, 93-117

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7844

Re-defining Informal Employment and Measuring its Determinants: Evidence from Russia

Hartmut Lehmann, Anzelika Zaiceva

published in: Journal of International Development, 2015, 27 (4), 464 - 488

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7832

The Wealth, Health and Wellbeing of Ireland's Older People Before and During the Economic Crisis

Alan Barrett, Vincent O'Sullivan

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2014, 21 (10), 675-678

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7807

When Credit Dries Up: Job Losses in the Great Recession

Samuel Bentolila, Marcel Jansen, Gabriel Jiménez, Sonia Ruano

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7801