New Discussion Papers from the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Happiness in Europe: Cross-Country Differences in the Determinants of Subjective Well-Being
Peder J. Pedersen, Torben Dall Schmidt
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Does Self-Employment Increase the Economic Well-Being of Low-Skilled Workers?
Magnus Lofstrom
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Lab Experiments Are a Major Source of Knowledge in the Social Sciences
(definitive version published in: Science, 2009, 326 (5952), 535-538)
Armin Falk, James J. Heckman
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A Simple GMM Estimator for the Semi-Parametric Mixed Proportional Hazard Model
Govert Bijwaard, Geert Ridder
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The Ratio Bias Phenomenon: Fact or Artifact?
Mathieu Lefèbvre, Ferdinand M. Vieider, Marie Claire Villeval
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The Unknown Immigration: Incentives and Family Composition in Intercountry Adoptions to the United States
Fernando A. Lozano, Sherrie Kossoudji
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Dynamic Female Labor Supply
Zvi Eckstein, Osnat Lifshitz
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Adolescent Motherhood and Secondary Schooling in Chile
Diana Kruger, Matias Berthelon, Rodrigo Navia
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Delaying the Bell: The Effects of Longer School Days on Adolescent Motherhood in Chile
Diana Kruger, Matias Berthelon
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The Economic Diversity of Immigration Across the United States
Rachel Friedberg, David A. Jaeger
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The Trade-off between Fertility and Education: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition
Sascha O. Becker, Francesco Cinnirella, Ludger Woessmann
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Inflation and Welfare in Long-Run Equilibrium with Firm Dynamics
Alexandre Janiak, Paulo Santos Monteiro
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How Much Should We Trust Linear Instrumental Variables Estimators? An Application to Family Size and Children’s Education
Magne Mogstad, Matthew Wiswall
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Life Expectancy and the Environment
Fabio Mariani, Agustín Pérez-Barahona, Natacha Raffin
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