IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published as 'Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: More Employment and more Inequality?' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2017, 63 (3), 524-563

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7786

Old-Age Government Transfers and the Crowding Out of Private Gifts: The 70 and Above Program for the Rural Elderly in Mexico

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Laura Juarez

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2015, 81 (3), 782–802

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7783

Health Status, Disability and Retirement Incentives in Belgium

Alain Jousten, Mathieu Lefèbvre, Sergio Perelman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7772

Aid to Jobless Workers in Florida in the Face of the Great Recession: The Interaction of Unemployment Insurance and the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program

Colleen M. Heflin, Peter R. Mueser

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7761

Deployments, Combat Exposure, and Crime

D. Mark Anderson, Daniel I. Rees

published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2015, 58 (1), 235-267

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7760

Prospect Theory and Tax Evasion: A Reconsideration of the Yitzhaki Puzzle

Amedeo Piolatto, Matthew D. Rablen

published in: Theory and Decision, 2017, 82 (4), 543-565

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7744

Macroeconomic Determinants of Retirement Timing

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jae Song, Dmitriy Stolyarov

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7737

Changes in Income Distributions and the Role of Tax-Benefit Policy During the Great Recession: An International Perspective

Olivier Bargain, Tim Callan, Karina Doorley, Claire Keane

published in: Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38 (4), 559-585

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7735

People, Places and Public Policy: Some Simple Welfare Economics of Local Economic Development Programs

Patrick Kline, Enrico Moretti

published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2014, 6, 629-662 (

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7707

What Is the Case for Paid Maternity Leave?

Gordon B. Dahl, Katrine Vellesen Loken, Magne Mogstad, Kari Vea Salvanes

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 98(4), 655-670

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7698

Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities: A Survey

Olivier Bargain, Andreas Peichl

published as 'Own-wage labor supply elasticities: variation across time and estimation methods' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 5, 10 (2016)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7697

Does It Pay to Work for Free? Wage Returns and Gender Differences in the Market for Volunteers

Guido Cozzi, Noemi Mantovan, Robert M. Sauer

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79(6), 1018-1045

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7682

What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being

Richard Layard, Andrew E. Clark, Francesca Cornaglia, Nattavudh Powdthavee, James Vernoit

published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (580), F720- F738

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7646

Tax Me If You Can! Optimal Nonlinear Income Tax between Competing Governments

Etienne Lehmann, Laurent Simula, Alain Trannoy

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014, 129 (4), 1995-2030