IZA - All published DPs

Logo
No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
10757 Regina T. Riphahn
Frederik Wiynck
Fertility Effects of Child Benefits
We exploit the 1996 reform of the German child benefit program to identify the causal effect of heterogeneous child benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30, 1135 - 1184)
J13, I38, C54
10756 David Autor
David Dorn
Lawrence Katz
Christina Patterson
John Van Reenen
The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms
The fall of labor's share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical assessments of trends in ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020, 135 (2), 645-709)
E24, J31, L11
10755 Michael Babington
Sebastian J. Goerg
Carl Kitchens
Do Tournaments with Superstars Encourage or Discourage Competition?
To test and replicate the superstar effect reported by Brown (2011) we empirically study contests where a single entrant has an endogenously higher probability of winning. Unlike the previous ...
(published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2020, 21 (1), 44-63.)
C2, J3, M52, D03
10754 Simon Gächter
Lingbo Huang
Martin Sefton
Disappointment Aversion and Social Comparisons in a Real-Effort Competition
We present an experiment to investigate the source of disappointment aversion in a sequential real-effort competition. Specifically, we study the contribution of social comparison effects to the ...
(revised version published in Economic Inquiry, 2018, 56 (3), 1512-1525)
C91, D12, D81, D84
10753 Nikos Askitas
Opinion Copulas, Homophily and Multimodal Marginals
An empirically founded and widely established driving force in opinion dynamics is homophily i.e. the tendency of "birds of a feather" to "flock together". The closer our opinions are the more likely ...
(Published in: PLoS ONE, 2017, 12(8), e0183277)
C92, E03, G02
10752 Nattavudh Powdthavee
Yohanes E. Riyanto
Jack L. Knetsch
Impact of Lower Rated Journals on Economists' Judgments of Publication Lists: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
Publications in leading journals are widely known to have a positive impact on economists' judgments of the value of authors' contributions to the literature and on their professional reputations. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2018, 66, 33-44)
A14
10750 Christian Grund
Johannes Martin
The Role of Works Councils for Severance Payments
Using representative German employee data, we analyse the role of works councils for the incidence of severance payments subsequent to dismissals. While there is a positive relation with severance ...
(published in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2021, 32, 871-892.)
J53, J63, J65
10749 Belton M. Fleisher
William H. McGuire
Xiaojun Wang
Min Qiang Zhao
Wages, Innovation, and Employment in China
We investigate the role of factor-priced-induced innovation in mediating the employment impact of expanding production in China. Our empirical approach implements concepts developed in Acemoglu ...
(revised version)
O30, D22, D24, D33
10748 Rafael de Balanzó
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Crisis and Reorganization in Urban Dynamics: The Barcelona Case Study
We use the adaptive cycle theory to improve our understanding of cycles of urban change in the city of Barcelona from 1953 to present. Most specifically, we explore the vulnerabilities and windows of ...
(published in: Ecology & Society, 2017, 23 (4), Article 6)
Q01, Q57, R0
10747 Daniel J. Henderson
Andrew Houtenville
Le Wang
The Distribution of Returns to Education for People with Disabilities
This note takes a first look at the distribution of returns to education for people with disabilities, a particularly disadvantaged group whose labor market performances have not been well studied or ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2017, 38, 261-282)
C14, I12, I26, I31
 12991Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers" 
(Previous 50 papers)  (Previous 10 papers)  | (Next 10 papers)  (Next 50 papers) 
 

© IZA  Impressum  Last updated: 2025-10-24  webmaster@iza.org    |   Bookmark this page    |   Print View