IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8751

Growth and Poverty in Africa: Shifting Fortunes and New Perspectives

Abebe Shimeles

part of this paper published as 'Poverty: Shifting Fortunes and New Perspectives' in: The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 1, Oxford University Press, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8749

Neighborhood Decline and the Economic Crisis

Merle Zwiers, Gideon Bolt, Maarten van Ham, Ronald van Kempen

published in: Urban Geography, 2016, 37 (5), 665 - 584

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8728

Sex Ratios, Polygyny, and the Value of Women in Marriage: A Beckerian Approach

Shoshana Grossbard

published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81(1), 13-25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8704

Strategic Incomplete Contracts: Theory and Experiments

Nisvan Erkal, Steven Y. Wu, Brian E. Roe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8697

Benefits of Education at the Intensive Margin: Childhood Academic Performance and Adult Outcomes among American Immigrants

Deniz Gevrek, Z. Eylem Gevrek, Cahit Guven

published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2015, 41 (3), 298 – 328. (ABDC ranking: B)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8689

Expropriation with Hukou Change: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Mehtap Akgüç, Xingfei Liu, Massimiliano Tani

published in: China Economic Review, 2020, 60, 101391

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8678

Locus of Control and the Labor Market

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:3,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8654

From Riches to Rags, and Back? Institutional Change, Financial Development and Economic Growth in Argentina since the 1890s

Nauro F. Campos, Menelaos G. Karanasos, Bin Tan

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52(2), 206 - 223

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8628

Country of Origin and Immigrant Earnings, 1960-2000: A Human Capital Investment Perspective

Harriet Duleep, Xingfei Liu, Mark Regets

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8612

Fixed-Term Employment and Fertility: Evidence from German Micro Data

Wolfgang Auer, Natalia Danzer

revised version published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2016, 62 (4), 595-623

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8593

The Impact of the German Autobahn Net on Regional Labor Market Performance: A Study Using Historical Instrument Variables

Joachim Möller, Marcus Zierer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8570

A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy

Solomon Polachek, Xu Zhang, Xing Zhou

published in: Gender Convergence in the Labor Market, Research in Labor Economics, 41, 2015, 35-88.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8552

Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India

Pushkar Maitra, Subha Mani

published in: Labour Economics 2017, 45, 116-130.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8534

The Effect of Communication Channels on Promise-Making and Promise-Keeping

Julian Conrads, Tommaso G. Reggiani

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, 2017, 12 (3), 595-611

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8503

Equalization of Opportunity: Definitions, Implementable Conditions and Application to Early-Childhood Policy Evaluation

Francesco Andreoli, Tarjei Havnes, Arnaud Lefranc

published as 'Robust Inequality of Opportunity Comparisons: Theory and Application to Early Childhood Policy Evaluation' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101, (2), 355 - 369

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8470

Behavioral Economics of Education

Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger, Helena Skyt Nielsen

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 3-17.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8467

Do Wages Continue Increasing at Older Ages? Evidence on the Wage Cushion in the Netherlands

Anja Deelen, Rob Euwals

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8433

The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation

Oded Galor, Marc Klemp

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8427

The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference