IZA Discussion Papers

Crick Lund, Kate Orkin, Marc J. Witte, John Walker, Thandi Davies, Johannes Haushofer, Sarah Murray, Judy Bass, Laura Murray, Wietse Tol, Vikram Patel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17022

Medical Cannabis Availability and Mental Health: Evidence from New York's Medical Cannabis Program

Coleman Drake, Dylan Nagy, David Slusky, Matthew Eisenberg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16971

COVID-19 Lockdown, Home Environment, Lifestyles, and Mental Health among Preschoolers in China

Yuting Zhang, Jin Zhao, Zhangsheng Yu, Guanghai Wang, Jun Zhang, Fan Jiang, Saishuang Wu, Yue Zhang, Donglan Zhang, Xi Chen

published in: Children and Youth Services Review, 2024, 161, 107654

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16961

Forced Displacement, Mental Health, and Child Development: Evidence from the Rohingya Refugees

Asadul Islam, Tanvir Ahmed Mozumder, Tabassum Rahman, Tanvir Shatil, Abu Siddique

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16942

Time of Change: Health Effects of Motherhood

Fabian T. Dehos, Marie Paul, Wiebke Schäfer, Karolin Süß

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16875

Longer Working Hours and Maternal Mental Health: A Comparison of Single vs. Partnered Mothers

Julija Simpson, John Wildman, Clare Bambra, Heather Brown

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16839

Talking Therapy: Impacts of a Nationwide Mental Health Service in England

Ekaterina Oparina, Christian Krekel, Sorawoot Srisuma

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16799

Unveiling Shadows: The Impact of Unemployment on Child Maltreatment

Dan Brown, Elisabetta De Cao

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16737

The Importance of Existing Social Protection Programs for Mental Health in Pandemic Times

Teresa Molina, Yoon Y. Cho

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16634

Subjective Gender-Based Patterns in ADHD Diagnosis

Marco Bertoni, Blas A. Marin-Lopez, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16627

Resilience-Thinking Training for College Students: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Alan Secor, Rafael De Balanzó Joue

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16618

The Effects of Commuting and Working from Home Arrangements on Mental Health

Ferdi Botha, Jan Kabátek, Jordy Meekes, Roger Wilkins

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16519

Forced Labor and Health-Related Outcomes. The Case of Beggar Children

Nick Drydakis

published in: Child Abuse and Neglect, 2023, 146,:106490

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16485

Artificial Intelligence and Workers' Well-Being

Osea Giuntella, Johannes König, Luca Stella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16459

The Parenthood Penalty in Mental Health: Evidence from Austria and Denmark

Alexander Ahammer, Ulrich Glogowsky, Martin Halla, Timo Hener

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16388

Gender Identity, Race, and Ethnicity-Based Discrimination in Access to Mental Health Care: Evidence from an Audit Correspondence Field Experiment

Luca Fumarco, Benjamin Harrell, Patrick Button, David J. Schwegman, E Dils

revised version published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 10 (2), 182–214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16385

The Inheritance of Historical Trauma: Intergenerational Effects of Early-Life Exposure to Famine on Mental Health

Zihan Zhang, Jun Hyung Kim

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16309

Mental Health in European Economics Departments

Elisa Macchi, Clara Sievert, Valentin Bolotnyy, Paul Barreira

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16309

Mental Health in European Economics Departments

Elisa Macchi, Clara Sievert, Valentin Bolotnyy, Paul Barreira

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16288

The Oral Contraceptive Pill and Adolescents' Mental Health

Ana Costa-Ramón, N. Meltem Daysal, Ana Rodríguez-González

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16280

(Breaking) Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health

Aline Bütikofer, Rita Ginja, Krzysztof Karbownik, Fanny Landaud

published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 6 October 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16237

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

Clemente Pignatti, Zachary Parolin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16162

The Impact of COVID-19 on Access to Mental Healthcare Services

Benjamin Harrell, Luca Fumarco, Patrick Button, David J. Schwegman, Kyla Denwood

published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2023, 113, 420 - 422

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16115

Child Health, Parental Well-Being, and the Social Safety Net

Achyuta Adhvaryu, N. Meltem Daysal, Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson, Teresa Molina, Herdis Steingrimsdottir

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16103

Intergenerational Scars: The Impact of Parental Unemployment on Individual Health Later in Life

Michele Ubaldi, Matteo Picchio

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16093

Early Childhood Conditions and Adolescent Mental Health

Bilge Erten, Pinar Keskin, Rodrigo Pinto, Huihua Xie, Lianming Zhu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16092

Does Extreme Temperature Exposure Take a Toll on Mental Health? Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

Yanran Chen, Ruochen Sun, Xi Chen, Xuezheng Qin

published in: Environment and Development Economics, 2023, 28 (5), 486-451

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15993

Prison, Mental Health, and Family Spillovers

Manudeep Bhuller, Laura Khoury, Katrine Vellesen Loken

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15967

Long COVID in the United States

David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson

published in: Plos One, 2023, 18 (11), e0292672

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15925

Socioemotional Skills in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Maternal Psychosocial Intervention

Dilek Sevim, Victoria Baranov, Sonia R. Bhalotra, Joanna Maselko, Pietro Biroli

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (S), S365-S401

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15913

Work Loss and Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Bernt Bratsberg, Anna Godøy, Rannveig Kaldager Hart, Oddbjørn Raaum, Bjørn-Atle Reme, Jonathan Wörn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15891

Activating the Long-Term Inactive: Labor Market and Mental Health Effects

Mareen Bastiaans, Robert Dur, Anne C. Gielen

published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 90, 102593

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15822

The Gendered Crisis: Livelihoods and Mental Well-Being in India during COVID-19

Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Sanchari Roy

published in: Feminist Economics, 2023, 29 (3), 40–74.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15783

The Impact of Paid Family Leave on Families with Health Shocks

Courtney Coile, Maya Rossin-Slater, Amanda Su

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15741

The Labour Market Returns to Sleep

Joan Costa-Font, Sarah Flèche, Ricardo Pagan

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 93, 102840

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15729

Marijuana Legalization and Mental Health

Daniel Borbely, Otto Lenhart, Jonathan Norris, Agnese Romiti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15728

High Speed Internet and the Widening Gender Gap in Adolescent Mental Health: Evidence from Hospital Records

Esther Arenas-Arroyo, Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Natalia Nollenberger

This version: May 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15723

Keep Calm and Carry On: The Short- vs. Long-Run Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on (Academic) Performance

Lea Cassar, Mira Fischer, Vanessa Valero

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15533

The Midlife Crisis

Osea Giuntella, Sally McManus, Redzo Mujcic, Andrew J. Oswald, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Ahmed Tohamy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15530

Do Early Episodes of Depression and Anxiety Make Homelessness More Likely?

Julie Moschion, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 202, 654-674

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15522

The Mental Cost of Job Loss: Assessing the Impact on Young Adults in Vietnam

Richard Freund, Marta Favara, Catherine Porter, Douglas Scott, Duc Le Thuc

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15489

Age-Based Health Insurance Coverage Policies and Mental Health

Yiran Han, Baris Yörük

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15468

Economic Recession, Parental Unemployment and Adolescents’ Health-Related Quality of Life and Mental Health Outcomes in Greece

Nick Drydakis

published in: Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 2023, 23 (2), 275-298.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15434

Displaced or Depressed? The Effect of Working in Automatable Jobs on Mental Health

Sylvie Blasco, Julie Rochut, Benedicte Rouland

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15413

M-Health Apps and Physical and Mental Health Outcomes of Sexual Minorities

Nick Drydakis

published in: Journal of Homosexuality, 2023, 70 (14), 3421-3448

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15386

How Does Job Coaching Help Disability Insurance Recipients Work While on Claim?

Sébastien Fontenay, Ilan Tojerow

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15260

Pandemic Depression: COVID-19 and the Mental Health of the Self-Employed

Marco Caliendo, Daniel Graeber, Alexander S. Kritikos, Johannes Seebauer

published in: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2023, 47(3), 788–830

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15202

Lost in the Net? Broadband Internet and Youth Mental Health

Dante Donati, Ruben Durante, Francesco Sobbrio, Dijana Zejcirovic

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15182

People versus Machines: The Impact of Being in an Automatable Job on Australian Worker's Mental Health and Life Satisfaction

Grace Lordan, Eliza-Jane Stringer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15178

Universal Credit: Welfare Reform and Mental Health

Mike Brewer, Thang Dang, Emma Tominey

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15150

The Effects of Medicaid Expansion on Job Loss Induced Mental Distress during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US

Sankar Mukhopadhyay

published in: SSM Population Health, 2022, 20, 101279

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15111

Societal Movement Restrictions and Adverse Mental Health Outcomes

Ho Fai Chan, Zhiming Cheng, Silvia Mendolia, Alfredo R. Paloyo, Massimiliano Tani, Damon Proulx, David Savage, Benno Torgler

published online in: Scientific Reports, 20 January 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14968

Do Changes in Employment and Hours Worked Contribute to a Decreasing in the Mental Health of Single Mothers during a Period of Welfare Reform in the UK? A Longitudinal Analysis (2009-2019)

Julija Simpson, Clare Bambra, Heather Brown

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14905

"The Better You Feel, the Harder You Fall": Health Perception Biases and Mental Health among Chinese Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Peng Nie, Lu Wang, Davide Dragone, Haiyang Lu, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 71, 101708

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14890

The Effects of Becoming a Physician on Prescription Drug Use and Mental Health Treatment

D. Mark Anderson, Ron Diris, Raymond Montizaan, Daniel I. Rees

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 91, 102774.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14790

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Socioeconomic Inequality in Psychological Distress in the UK: An Update

Xiaoying Gao, Apostolos Davillas, Andrew M. Jones

revised version published in : Health Economics, 2022, 31 (5), 912-920

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14786

Improving Women's Mental Health during a Pandemic

Michael Vlassopoulos, Abu Siddique, Tabassum Rahman, Debayan Pakrashi, Asadul Islam, Firoz Ahmed

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16(2), 422-55.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14773

Remote Working and Mental Health during the First Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic

Marco Bertoni, Danilo Cavapozzi, Giacomo Pasini, Caterina Pavese

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14766

Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate? Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey

Hai-Anh H Dang, Trong-Anh Trinh, Paolo Verme

published in: Health Economics, 2023, 32 (12), 2819-2835

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14754

Medicaid Expansion and the Mental Health of Spousal Caregivers

Joan Costa-Font, Nilesh Raut, Courtney Van Houtven

published in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2024, 22, 1047–1084

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14733

Social Rejection, Family Acceptance, Economic Recession and Physical and Mental Health of Sexual Minorities

Nick Drydakis

published in: Sexuality Research and Social Policy, Published: 12 November 2021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14704

Sex Workers' Self-Reported Physical and Mental Health in Greece: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study in 2009, 2013 and 2019

Nick Drydakis

published in: Culture Health and Sexuality, 2022, 24 (11), 1514 - 1530

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14665

Have Girls Been Left behind during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Gender Differences in Pandemic Effects on Children's Mental Wellbeing

Silvia Mendolia, Agne Suziedelyte, Anna Zhu

published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 214, 110458

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14654

Dark Half: Decentralized Bargaining and Well-Being at Work

Terhi Maczulskij, Mika Haapanen, Antti Kauhanen, Krista Riukula

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14419

The Global COVID-19 Student Survey: First Wave Results

David A. Jaeger, Jaime Arellano-Bover, Krzysztof Karbownik, Marta Martínez Matute, John M. Nunley, R. Alan Seals Jr., Miguel Almunia, Mackenzie Alston, Sascha O. Becker, Pilar Beneito, René Böheim, José E. Boscá, Jessica H. Brown, Simon Chang, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Shooshan Danagoulian, Sandra Donnally, Marissa Eckrote-Nordland, Lídia Farré, Javier Ferri, Margherita Fort, Jane Cooley Fruewirth, Rebecca Gelding, Allen C. Goodman, Melanie Guldi, Simone Häckl, Janet Hankin, Scott A. Imberman, Joanna Lahey, Joan Llull, Hani Mansour, Isaac McFarlin, Jaakko Meriläinen, Tove Mortlund, Martin Nybom, Stephen D. O'Connell, Rupert Sausgruber, Amy Schwartz, Jan Stuhler, Petra Thiemann, Roel van Veldhuizen, Marianne H. Wanamaker, Maria Zhu

published in: Covid Economics, 2021, 79, 152-217

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14388

COVID-19 and Mental Health of Individuals with Different Personalities

Eugenio Proto, Anwen Zhang

revised version published in: PNAS (Proceeding of the National Academy of Science), 2021, 118 (37), e2109282118

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14385

Dark Passage: Mental Health Consequences of Parental Death

Petri Böckerman, Mika Haapanen, Christopher Jepsen

published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 9 (4), 584-604.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14316

Mental Health and Abortions among Young Women: Time-Varying Unobserved Heterogeneity, Health Behaviors, and Risky Decisions

Lena Janys, Bettina M. Siflinger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14281

Mental Health Costs of Lockdowns: Evidence from Age-Specific Curfews in Turkey

Onur Altindag, Bilge Erten, Pinar Keskin

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14 (2), 320–343

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14266

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Mental Health: Disentangling Crucial Channels

Bettina M. Siflinger, Michaela Paffenholz, Sebastian Seitz, Moritz Mendel, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14126

The Intergenerational Transmission of Mental and Physical Health in the United Kingdom

Panka Bencsik, Timothy J. Halliday, Bhashkar Mazumder

published in:Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 92,102805

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14119

Weather, Psychological Wellbeing and Mobility during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ashley Burdett, Apostolos Davillas, Ben Etheridge

revised version published as 'Weather, mental health, and mobility during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic' in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (9), 2296-2306

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14057

The First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Socioeconomic Inequality in Psychological Distress in the UK

Apostolos Davillas, Andrew M. Jones

revised version published in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (7), 1668 - 1683

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14049

The Causal Impact of Depression on Cognitive Functioning: Evidence from Europe

Vahé Nafilyan, Mauricio Avendano Pabon, Augustin de Coulon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14046

Teenage Mother's Health across Different Life Stages

Guyonne Kalb, Ha Vu

published in: Economic Record, 2022, 98 (321), 191-213.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14020

Family Spillover Effects of Marginal Diagnoses: The Case of ADHD

Petra Persson, Xinyao Qiu, Maya Rossin-Slater

forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13971

Do Disability Benefits Hinder Work Resumption after Recovery?

Pierre Koning, Paul Muller, Roger Prudon

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 82, 102593

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13936

Corruption and Mental Health: Evidence from Vietnam

Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal, Finn Tarp

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 185, 125-137

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13933

Mobile Applications Aiming to Facilitate Immigrants' Societal Integration and Overall Level of Integration, Health and Mental Health: Does Artificial Intelligence Enhance Outcomes?

Nick Drydakis

published in: Computers in Human Behavior, 2021, 117, 106661

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13879

How Do Mass Shootings Affect Community Wellbeing?

Aparna Soni, Erdal Tekin

published online in: Journal of Human Resources, June 2023

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. 13796

School Selectivity, Peers, and Mental Health

Aline Bütikofer, Rita Ginja, Fanny Landaud, Katrine Vellesen Loken

published as 'Higher-Achievement Schools, Peers and Mental Health' in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (655), 2580–2613

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13727

Happy Pills? Mental Health Effects of the Dramatic Increase of Antidepressant Use

Giuliano Masiero, Sandro Steinbach

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13715

Changes in Healthcare Utilization, Spending, and Perceived Health during COVID–19: A Longitudinal Study from Singapore

SangNam Ahn, Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh

published as 'Associations of the COVID-19 pandemic with older individuals' healthcare utilization and self-reported health status: a longitudinal analysis from Singapore' in: BMC Health Services Research, 2022, 22(1), 66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13616

The Economic Impacts of Direct Natural Disaster Exposure

Meliyanni Johar, David W. Johnston, Michael A. Shields, Peter Siminski, Olena Stavrunova

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 196, 26-39

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13588

Working Parents, Financial Insecurity, and Child-Care: Mental Health in the Time of COVID-19

Massimiliano Tani, Zhiming Cheng, Silvia Mendolia, Alfredo R. Paloyo, David Savage

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 19, 123 - 144 .

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13569

Lifestyle and Mental Health Disruptions during COVID-19

Osea Giuntella, Kelly Hyde, Silvia Saccardo, Sally Sadoff

published in: PNAS, 2021, 118 (9), 2016632118