IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2948

A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country Migrants

David McKenzie

published as 'A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country International Migrants' in: Population and Development Review, 2008, 34 (1), 115 - 135

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2935

Social Attitudes and Economic Development: An Epidemiological Approach

Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc

published as 'Inherited Trust and Growth' in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (5), 2060 - 2092

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2934

Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008, 123 (4), 1329-1372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2922

The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State

Graziella Bertocchi

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (4), 535-553

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2921

An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition to a Continuum of Comparison Groups

Hugo R. Nopo

published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (2), 292-296

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2920

Women on the Move: The Neglected Gender Dimension of the Brain Drain

Jean-Christophe Dumont, John P. Martin, Gilles Spielvogel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2914

Spending to Save? State Health Expenditure and Infant Mortality in India

Sonia R. Bhalotra

published in: Health Economics, 2007, 16 (9), 911-928

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2913

Trade, Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector

Eric Verhoogen

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008, 123 (2), 489-530

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2905

Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility: A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition

Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde

see IZA DP 7199 for a substantially revised and extended version

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2901

Why Is Child Labor Illegal?

Sylvain Dessy, John Knowles

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2008, 52 (7), 1275 - 1311

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2889

Should Market Liberalization Precede Democracy? Causal Relations between Political Preferences and Development

Pauline Grosjean, Claudia Senik

published as "Democracy, Market Liberalization and Political Preferences" in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93(1), 365-381

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2878

Birth Spacing, Fertility Selection and Child Survival: Analysis Using a Correlated Hazard Model

Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (3), 690-705

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2869

Child Labor and Schooling Response to Changes in Coca Production in Rural Peru

Ana C. Dammert

revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2008, 86 (1), 164-180

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2858

Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Quest for Growth

Santanu Chatterjee, Paola Giuliano, Ilker Kaya

published as 'Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Composition of Government Spending' in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2012, 12 (1), Article 26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2852

Elite Dominance and Under-Investment in Mass Education: Disparity in the Social Development of the Indian States, 1960-92

Sarmistha Pal, Sugata Ghosh

published as 'Poverty, Elite Heterogeneity and the Allocation of Public Spending: Panel Evidence from the Indian States' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2012, 58 (1), 51-78

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2844

Teacher Shortages, Teacher Contracts and their Impact on Education in Africa

Jean Bourdon, Markus Frölich, Katharina Michaelowa

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2010, 73, 93-116

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2843

Electoral Accountability and Corruption in Local Governments: Evidence from Audit Reports

Claudio Ferraz, Frederico S. Finan

published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (4), 1274-1311

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2842

Formal and Informal Risk Sharing in LDCs: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Pierre Dubois, Bruno Jullien, Thierry Magnac

published in: Econometrica, 2008, 76(4), 679-726