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Pour some sugar in me: Faster, better decisions with glucose

Many factors influence the quality of decision making: importance, relevance, and even time of day can affect the degree to […]

Savings and political turmoil: The case of the Tiananmen Square protests

Cutting-edge macroeconomic research suggests that political uncertainty heavily influences private consumption. However, evidence on the individual level how households cope […]

How can host governments best engage with diaspora groups? IZA and RAND Europe analyze EU and US diasporas

Policymakers increasingly see possibilities in interacting with diaspora communities to improve relationships with their countries of origin and as a […]

Interview with the authors of the Labor Economics textbook

Authored by IZA Program Director Pierre Cahuc with Stéphane Carcillo and André Zylberberg, Labor Economics has long become the graduate-level […]

How health status affects individual time use

Economics is the science on scarce resources. And what is more scarce than time in modern societies? A recent literature […]

Tradable quotas as a new way to deal with refugee inflows

How to handle the inflow of refugees to the European Union is one of the current hot topics in the […]

Terrorist attacks also affect future generations

Terrorist attacks have detrimental effects not only on those directly affected as victims. The negative consequences also extend to future […]

Active Labor Market Policy reduced crime in Denmark

The fact that it has been difficult to document a consistent positive effect of the often huge public spending on […]

Girls benefit most from attending an elite school

Parents have strong preferences for sending their children to the best schools available. There seems to be a general perception […]

Should you come out in the workplace and would your employer care?

According to a report by Nick Drydakis published by IZA World of Labor today, half of gay and lesbian employees […]

More women in leadership positions don’t make firms more successful

Many European countries are contemplating (or have already introduced) mandatory quotas for the share of women on the executive level […]

American women respond to immigration inflows by having more children

The hot debate about President Obama’s immigration reform shows that many Americans still view immigrants as taking jobs away from […]

Exposure to Ramadan in utero affects labor market outcomes

Nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual’s labor market productivity later in life. This is […]

Expensive development program did not improve living conditions in Northern Ireland

The signing of the Belfast Agreement on Good Friday 1998 is widely seen as the final act in the long […]

Learning from the older brother? Sibling spillover effects in school achievement

How much a younger sibling’s school achievement is affected by his/her older sibling’s achievement at school is an important question […]

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