Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18420

Can a Deductible Kill? The Effect of Patient Cost-Sharing on Health

Padmaja Ayyagari, Martin Salm, Eric Sargent

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18322

Reintegrating Older Long-Term Unemployed Workers: The Impact of Temporary Job Guarantees

Alexander Ahammer, Martin Halla, Pia Heckl, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18188

Caring Connections in Italy: The Role of Immigrant Caregivers in Improving the Welfare of Elders and Reducing Public Health Costs

Lisa Capretti, Joanna Kopinska, Rama Dasi Mariani, Furio C. Rosati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18149

Public Payment Mandates and Provider Supply

Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Yu-Ting Huang, Olanrewaju Yusuff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17661

Government Support in Times of Crisis: Transfers and the Road to Socialism

Felipe González, Mounu Prem

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17223

Loneliness during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Five European Countries

Anthony Lepinteur, Alessio Rebechi, Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Nicholas Rohde, Claus Vögele

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2024, 55, 101427

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17190

The Impact of Children's Access to Public Health Insurance on Their Cognitive Development and Behavior

Marie C. Hull, Ji Yan

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 98, 102935

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16978

The Design of Insurance Contracts for Home versus Nursing Home Long-Term Care

Claire Borsenberger, Helmuth Cremer, Denis Joram, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur, Estelle Malavolti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16708

Firms and Worker Health

Alexander Ahammer, Analisa Packham, Jonathan Smith

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16680

Healthcare Workers and Life Satisfaction during the Pandemic

Chiara Costi, Andrew E. Clark, Anthony Lepinteur, Conchita D'Ambrosio

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16350

An Ounce of Prevention for a Pound of Cure: Efficiency of Community-Based Healthcare

Antonella Bancalari, Pedro Bernal, Pablo Celhay, Sebastian Martinez, Maria Deni Sánchez

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16291

The Political Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Weimar Germany

Stefan Bauernschuster, Matthias Blum, Erik Hornung, Christoph Koenig

published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2025, 96, 101648.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16237

The Effects of an Unconditional Cash Transfer on Mental Health in the United States

Clemente Pignatti, Zachary Parolin

published in: Healthl Economics, 2024, 33 (10), 2253-2287

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16165

Patient versus Provider Incentives in Long-Term Care

Martin B. Hackmann, Vincent Pohl, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (3), 178–218

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16003

Sejong's Effects on People's Health: Consequences of a Long Commute

Seulgi Lim, Soohyung Lee

published in: Asian Economic Papers, 2023, 22 (2), 1-27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15968

Not So Sweet: Impacts of a Soda Tax on Producers

Judite Goncalves, Roxanne Merenda, João Pereira dos Santos

published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2024, 31, 1388–1412

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15671

Regression Discontinuity Evidence on the Effectiveness of the Minimum Legal E-cigarette Purchasing Age

Jeff DeSimone, Daniel Grossman, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 9 (3), 461 – 485

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15593

Estimating Inter-Generational Returns to Medical Care: New Evidence from At-Risk Newborns

Damian Clarke, Nicolás Lillo Bustos, Kathya Tapia Schythe

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2026, 256, 105597

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15559

Does Population Sorting through Internal Migration Increase Healthcare Costs and Needs in Peripheral Regions?

Shobhit Kulshreshtha, Martin Salm, Ansgar Wübker

revised version published as "Health drain: the effect of internal migration on regional disparities in healthcare costs" in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38 [66]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15494

The Effect of Universal Health Care on the Out-Of-Pocket Health Expenditures: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Muhammad Asali, Valida Pantsulaia

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15462

When Reality Bites: Local Deaths and Vaccine Take-up

Corrado Giulietti, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou

published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 156, 104463

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15228

A Comparative Perspective on Long-Term Care Systems

Rainer Kotschy, David E. Bloom

published in: International Social Security Review, 2022, 75 (3-4), 47-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14916

Digital Access to Healthcare Services and Healthcare Utilization: A Quasi-Experiment

Armenak Antinyan, Stefania Bellio, Marco Bertoni, Luca Corazzini, Elena Narne

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14886

Testing for Ethnic Discrimination in Outpatient Health Care: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Germany

Martin Halla, Christopher Kah, Rupert Sausgruber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14658

Voting, Contagion and the Trade-Off between Public Health and Political Rights: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Italian 2020 Polls

Marco Mello, Giuseppe Moscelli

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 200, 1025 - 2052

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14528

Does a Spoonful of Sugar Levy Help the Calories Go Down? An Analysis of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy

Alex Dickson, Markus Gehrsitz, Jonathan Kemp

published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 May 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14521

Looking for a Star: Evaluating the Effect of the Cohesion Policy on Regional Well-Being

Giuseppe Albanese, Vincenzo Carrieri, Maria Maddalena Speziali

published online as 'Beyond GDP: assessing the impact of the 2007–13 EU Cohesion Policy' in: Regional Studies, 03 Jun 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14411

Calamities, Common Interests, Shared Identity: What Shapes Altruism and Reciprocity?

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Antonio Cabrales, Mathias Dolls, Ruben Durante, Lisa Windsteiger

revised version forthcoming in: Journal of Comparative Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14089

The Effects of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate on Parents' Labor Market Outcomes

Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 75, 102128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14064

COVID-19 Relief Programs and Compliance with Confinement Measures

Claudio Deiana, Andrea Geraci, Gianluca Mazzarella, Fabio Sabatini

revised version published as 'Can relief measures nudge compliance in a public health crisis? Evidence from a kinked fiscal policy rule" in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 202, 407-428

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14061

Pandemic Economics and the Transformation of Health Policy

Xi Chen, Annie Fan

pubished as 'The COVID-19 pandemic and the transformation of health policy: a syndemic perspective' in: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2021, 19 (3), 239 - 255

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14035

Illicit Drugs and the Decline of the Middle Class

Volker Grossmann, Holger Strulik

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 183, 718-743

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13926

Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing

Petri Böckerman, Liisa Laine, Mikko Nurminen, Tanja Saxell

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2025, 60 (3), 1054 - 1092

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13846

Side Effects of Labor Market Policies

Marco Caliendo, Robert Mahlstedt, Gerard J. van den Berg, Johan Vikström

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2023, 125 (2), 339 - 375

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13772

Long-Term Effects of Individual Placement and Support Services for Disability Benefits Recipients with Severe Mental Illnesses

Marloes De Graaf-Zijl, Marcel Spijkerman, Wim Zwinkels

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13758

Discontinuous System of Allowances: The Response of Prosocial Health-Care Professionals

Helena Hernandez-Pizarro, Catia Nicodemo, Guillem López Casasnovas

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 190, 104248

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13632

The Forgotten Numbers: A Closer Look at COVID-19 Non-Fatal Valuations

Thomas J. Kniesner, Ryan Sullivan

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Special Issue: Valuation and Risk Perceptions of the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020, 61(2), 155-176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13627

The Effect of Hosting 3.4 Million Refugees on the Health System in Turkey and Infant, Child, and Elderly Mortality among Natives

Aysun Hı zı roğ lu Aygün, Murat Güray Kirdar, Berna Tuncay

published as 'The Effect of Hosting 3.4 Million Refugees on Native Population Mortality' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 80, 102534

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13137

Explaining Governors' Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States

Leonardo Baccini, Abel Brodeur

published in: American Politics Research, 2021, 49 (2), 215-220

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13108

The Response to Dynamic Incentives in Insurance Contracts with a Deductible: Evidence from a Differences-in-Regression-Discontinuities Design

Tobias J. Klein, Martin Salm, Suraj Upadhyay

revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 210, 104660

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13038

Do-It-Yourself Medicine? The Impact of Light Cannabis Liberalization on Prescription Drugs

Vincenzo Carrieri, Leonardo Madio, Francesco Principe

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 74, 102371

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12997

State Medicaid Expansion and the Self-Employed

Jun Yeong Lee, John V. Winters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12731

How Do Low-Income Enrollees in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces Respond to Cost-Sharing?

Kurt Lavetti, Thomas DeLeire, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

revised version published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2023, 90 (1), 155 - 183

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12729

Proportional Representation, Political Responsiveness and Child Mortality

Christina Gathmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12675

Facilitating Healthy Dietary Habits: An Experiment with a Low Income Population

Michèle Belot, Jonathan James, Jonathan Spiteri

published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 129, 103550

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12275

Digital Waste? Unintended Consequences of Health Information Technology

Petri Böckerman, Mika Kortelainen, Liisa Laine, Mikko Nurminen, Tanja Saxell

published as 'Information Technology, Improved Access, and Use of Prescription Drugs' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2025, 23 (1), 396 - 430

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12193

Promoting Breast Cancer Screening Take-Ups with Zero Cost: Evidence from an Experiment on Formatting Invitation Letters in Italy

Marco Bertoni, Luca Corazzini, Silvana Robone

published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 6 (3), 372-409.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11988

The Effect of a Ban on Gender-Based Pricing on Risk Selection in the German Health Insurance Market

Shan Huang, Martin Salm

revised version published in: Health Economics, 2020, 29, 3-17

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11892

The Effect of Health Insurance Reform: Evidence from China

Huajing He, Patrick J. Nolen

published in: China Economic Review, 2019, 53, 168 - 179

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11847

Growing Together: Assessing Equity and Efficiency in an Early-Life Health Program in Chile

Damian Clarke, Gustavo Cortés Méndez, Diego Vergara Sepúlveda

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33 (3), 883-956