IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17642

Public Long-Term Care Insurance and Retirement Intentions of Urban Workers: Evidence from China

Tianli Yang, Zhong Zhao

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17446

Gritty Peers

Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Yaming Cao, Ezgi Kaya

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17197

The Impact of Macroeconomic Conditions on Long-Term Care: Evidence on Prices

Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Mia Teschner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16997

Children's Residential Proximity, Spousal Presence and Dementia Risk

Zhuoer Lin, Xuecheng Yin, Becca R. Levy, Yue Yuan, Xi Chen

published as 'Association of Children's Residential Proximity and Spousal Presence with Lower Modifiable Risk Factors for Dementia among Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment' in: American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2024, 32 (10), 1187-1199

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. 16749

The Effect of Migration on Careers of Natives: Evidence from Long-Term Care

Peter Haan, Izabela Wnuk

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16596

The Long-Term Impact of Parental Migration on the Health of Young Left-behind Children

Jinkai Li, Erga Luo, Bart Cockx

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16551

Impacts of Home-Care Subsidies: Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignment

Yuval Ofek-Shanny, Avner Strulov-Shlain, Dan Zeltzer

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. 16124

Long-Run Consequences of Informal Elderly Care and Implications of Public Long-Term Care Insurance

Thorben Korfhage, Björn Fischer

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 96, 102884

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16124

Long-Run Consequences of Informal Elderly Care and Implications of Public Long-Term Care Insurance

Thorben Korfhage, Björn Fischer

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 96, 102884

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16055

Long-Term Effects of Recession on Parenthood Gender Inequality

Jinyoung Kim, Eunhye Kwak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15981

Blowin' in the Wind of an Invisible Killer: Long-Term Exposure to Ozone and Respiratory Mortality in the United States

Ziheng Liu, Xi Chen, Qinan Lu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15955

The Nature of Long-Term Unemployment: Predictability, Heterogeneity and Selection

Andreas I. Mueller, Johannes Spinnewijn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15904

Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe

Richard A. Easterlin, Kelsey J. O'Connor

published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022, 119 (37), e2210639119.

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. 15656

The Long-Term Impact of In-Utero Cigarette Taxes on Adult Prenatal Smoking

Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Michael Pesko, Serena Phillips

published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 9 (4), 605–648

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15511

Early Life Circumstances and the Health of Older Adults: A Research Note

Xi Chen

published as 'The path to healthy ageing in China: a Peking University–Lancet Commission' in :The Lancet Commission Report, 2022, 400 (10367), P1967 - 2006

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15471

Long-Term Services and Supports and Disease Management among Older Chinese Adults in Different Stages of Cognitive Impairment

Zhuoer Lin, Xi Chen

published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2022, 23, 100405.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15470

Family Bargaining and the Gender Gap in Informal Care

Chiara Canta, Helmuth Cremer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15457

Does It Matter Who Cares for You? The Effect of Substituting Informal with Formal Personal Care on the Care Recipients' Health

Bruce Hollingsworth, Asako Ohinata, Matteo Picchio, Ian Walker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15452

Do the Long-Term Unemployed Benefit from Automated Occupational Advice during Online Job Search?

Michèle Belot, Philipp Kircher, Paul Muller

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15369

Caring for Carers? The Effect of Public Subsidies on the Wellbeing of Unpaid Carers

Joan Costa-Font, Francesco D’Amico, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 9 (4), 487–522

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15339

Caregiving Subsidies and Spousal Early Retirement Intentions

Joan Costa-Font, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2023, 22 (4), 550-589

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. 14767

How Effective Are Hiring Subsidies to Reduce Long-Term Unemployment among Prime-Aged Jobseekers? Evidence from Belgium

Sam Desiere, Bart Cockx

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2022, 12(1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14753

Long-Term Care Partnership Effects on Medicaid and Private Insurance

Joan Costa-Font, Nilesh Raut

forthcoming in: Health Economics, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14753

Long-Term Care Partnership Effects on Medicaid and Private Insurance

Joan Costa-Font, Nilesh Raut

forthcoming in: Health Economics, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13923

The Easterlin Paradox

Richard A. Easterlin, Kelsey J. O'Connor

published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, first Online: 06 November 2022 (latest version)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13792

Working Less to Take Care of Parents? Labor Market Effects of Family Long-Term Care in Four Latin American Countries

Marco Stampini, María Laura Oliveri, Pablo Ibarrarán, Diana Londoño, Ho June (Sean) Rhee, Gillinda M. James

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. 13064

Early Childhood Education and Life-cycle Health

Jorge Luis García, James J. Heckman

published in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (S1), 119-141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13009

The Long-Term Effects of Labor Market Entry in a Recession: Evidence from the Asian Financial Crisis

Eleanor J. Choi, Jaewoo Choi, Hyelim Son

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 67, 101926

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12933

Short- vs Long-Term Intergenerational Correlations of Employment and Self-Employment in Europe

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina, Jorge Velilla

published as 'Intergenerational correlation of self-employment in Western Europe' in: Economic Modelling, 2022, 108, 105741

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12908

Socioeconomic Decline and Death: Midlife Impacts of Graduating in a Recession

Hannes Schwandt, Till von Wachter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12894

Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation

Oded Galor, Ömer Özak, Assaf Sarid

published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2020. 110, 309-313

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12757

Income Growth and its Distribution from Eisenhower to Obama: The Growing Importance of In-Kind Transfers (1959-2016)

James Elwell, Kevin Corinth, Richard V. Burkhauser

published in D. Furchtgott-Roth (ed.), United States Trends in Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Well-Being; OUP, Oxford, 2020, 90-124.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12383

Impact of Increased Long-Term Care Insurance Payments on Employment and Wages in Formal Long-Term Care

Ayako Kondo

published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2019, 53, 101034

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12264

Responding to Regulation: The Effects of Changes in Mandatory Retirement Laws on Firm-Provided Incentives

Anders Frederiksen, Colleen Flaherty Manchester

published as 'Personnel Practices and Regulation: How Firm-Provided Incentives Respond to Changes in Mandatory Retirement Law' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (4), 1011-1042

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12170

Labor Market Dynamics in Urban China and the Role of the State Sector

Shuaizhang Feng, Naijia Guo

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021, 49 (4), 918-932

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11982

Geographical Roots of the Coevolution of Cultural and Linguistic Traits

Oded Galor, Ömer Özak, Assaf Sarid

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11926

Unlucky Cohorts: Estimating the Long-term Effects of Entering the Labor Market in a Recession in Large Cross-sectional Data Sets

Hannes Schwandt, Till von Wachter

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (S1), S161–S198

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11774

Thinking of Incentivizing Care? The Effect of Demand Subsidies on Informal Caregiving and Intergenerational Transfers

Joan Costa-Font, Sergi Jimenez-Martin, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

revised version published as 'Do Public Caregiving Subsidies and Supports affect the Provision of Care and Transfers?' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 84,102639

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11630

Childhood Health Shocks, Comparative Advantage, and Long-Term Outcomes: Evidence from the Last Danish Polio Epidemic

Miriam Gensowski, Torben Heien Nielsen, Nete Munk Nielsen, Maya Rossin-Slater, Miriam Wüst

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 66, 27 - 36

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11488

Tim Krieger, Laura Renner, Jens Ruhose

published in: Journal of International Economics, 2018, 113, 35-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11471

Graded Return-To-Work as a Stepping Stone to Full Work Resumption

Lieke Kools, Pierre Koning

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 65, 189-209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11342

Shocked by Therapy? Unemployment in the First Years of the Socio-Economic Transition in Poland and its Long-Term Consequences

Michal Myck, Monika Oczkowska

published in: Economics of Transition, 2018, 26 (4), 695-724

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11234

Long-Term Effects of Childhood Nutrition: Evidence from a School Lunch Reform

Jesper Alex-Petersen, Petter Lundborg, Dan-Olof Rooth

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (2), 876-908

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11167

New Approaches to the Study of Long-Term Non-Employment Duration in Italy, Germany and Spain

Bruno Contini, J. Ignacio Garcia Perez, Toralf Pusch, Roberto Quaranta

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11035

Long-Term Care in Latin America and the Caribbean? Theory and Policy Considerations

Martín Caruso Bloeck, Sebastian Galiani, Pablo Ibarrarán

published in: Economica, 2019, 20 (1), 1 - 32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11035

Long-Term Care in Latin America and the Caribbean? Theory and Policy Considerations

Martín Caruso Bloeck, Sebastian Galiani, Pablo Ibarrarán

published in: Economica, 2019, 20 (1), 1 - 32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10995

The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden

Sarah Cattan, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson

updated version published as 'The Long-term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden' in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (650), 888-903

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10988

Labour Supply and Informal Care Supply: The Impacts of Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care

Bruce Hollingsworth, Asako Ohinata, Matteo Picchio, Ian Walker

revised version published as 'The Impacts of Free Universal Elderly Care on the Supply of Informal Care and Labour Supply' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 84 (4), 933 - 960

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10811

Quantifying the Life-Cycle Benefits of a Prototypical Early Childhood Program

Jorge Luis García, James J. Heckman, Duncan Ermini Leaf, Maria José Prados

revised version available as NBER Working Paper No. 23479

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10580

Are the Spanish Long-Term Unemployed Unemployable?

Samuel Bentolila, J. Ignacio Garcia Perez, Marcel Jansen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10456

The Life-cycle Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program

Jorge Luis García, James J. Heckman, Duncan Ermini Leaf, Maria José Prados

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10147

Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance

David N. Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Umut Özek, Paola Sapienza

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019, 11 (4), 272-309

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9777

Can Fixed-Term Contracts Put Low Skilled Youth on a Better Career Path? Evidence from Spain

J. Ignacio Garcia Perez, Ioana E. Marinescu, Judit Vall Castello

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9771

Does Activating Sick-Listed Workers Work? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Kai Rehwald, Michael Rosholm, Benedicte Rouland

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9676

Paradox Lost?

Richard A. Easterlin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9651

Social Insurance with Competitive Insurance Markets and Risk Misperception

Helmuth Cremer, Kerstin Roeder

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 138-147.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9599

Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth

Isaac Ehrlich, Jinyoung Kim

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2015, 9 (4), 518 - 563

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9459

Contracting Out Mandatory Counselling and Training for Long-Term Unemployed: Private For-Profit or Non-Profit, or Keep It Public?

Bart Cockx, Stijn Baert

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9449

The Long-Term Impacts of Low-Achieving Childhood Peers: Evidence from Project STAR

Jan Bietenbeck

revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18(1), 392-426

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9237

The Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care and Household Savings Behaviour

Asako Ohinata, Matteo Picchio

revised version published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2020, 72 (1), 247-268

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9136

Experimental Evidence on the Long-Term Impacts of a Youth Training Program

Pablo Ibarrarán, Jochen Kluve, Laura Ripani, David Rosas Shady

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72 (1), 85-222

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9134

How to Fight Long-Term Unemployment: Lessons from Germany

Alexander Spermann

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4:15

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9134

How to Fight Long-Term Unemployment: Lessons from Germany

Alexander Spermann

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4:15

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8811

Coaching, Counseling, Case-Working: Do They Help the Older Unemployed Out of Benefit Receipt and Back into the Labor Market?

Bernhard Boockmann, Tobias Brändle

published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (4), e436-e468

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8700

The Causal Effect of Unemployment Duration on Wages: Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Extensions

Johannes F. Schmieder, Till von Wachter, Stefan Bender

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8642

Gift-giving and Network Structure in Rural China: Utilizing Long-term Spontaneous Gift Records

Xi Chen

PLoS ONE, 2014, 9 (8): e102104

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8264

Transfers within a Three Generations Family: When the Rotten Kids Turn into Altruistic Parents

Helmuth Cremer, Kerstin Roeder

published in: Economics Letters, 2014,124, 392-395

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7565

Long-Term Care and Lazy Rotten Kids

Helmuth Cremer, Kerstin Roeder

published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 19, 2017, 583-602

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7053

Can't Buy Mommy's Love? Universal Childcare and Children's Long-Term Cognitive Development

Christina Felfe, Natalia Nollenberger, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28 (2), 393-422

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6872

Rural Households in a Changing Climate

Javier E. Baez, Dorothy Kronick, Andrew D. Mason

published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2013, 28 (2), 267–289

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6830

Getting Back into the Labor Market: The Effects of Start-Up Subsidies for Unemployed Females

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28(4), 1005-1043

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6183

Long-term Employment and Job Security over the Last Twenty-Five Years: A Comparative Study of Japan and the U.S.

Ryo Kambayashi, Takao Kato

revised version published as 'Long-Term Employment and Job Security over the Past 25 Years: A Comparative Study of Japan and the United States' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2017, 70 (2), 359 -394

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6057

The Global Economic Crisis: Long-Term Unemployment in the OECD

Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5563

Above and Beyond the Call: Long-Term Real Earnings Effects of British Male Military Conscription in the Post-War Years

Julien Grenet, Robert A. Hart, J. Elizabeth Roberts

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 194-204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5239

Modernization of Agriculture and Long-Term Growth

Dennis T. Yang, Xiaodong Zhu

published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2013, 60 (3), 367–382

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4968

Mentoring, Educational Services, and Economic Incentives: Longer-Term Evidence on Risky Behaviors from a Randomized Trial

Núria Rodríguez-Planas

substantially revised version published as 'Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Learning Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the United States' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (4), 121 - 139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4790

Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 311-331

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4754

Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Núria Rodríguez-Planas

substantially revised version published as 'Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Learning Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the United States' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (4), 121-139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4604

Repayment versus Investment Conditions and Exclusivity in Lending Contracts

Spiros Bougheas, Indraneel Dasgupta, Oliver Morrissey

published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2011, 167 (2), 247-265.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4236

Long-Term Impact of Youth Minimum Wages: Evidence from Two Decades of Individual Longitudinal Data

Ana Rute Cardoso

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2019, 121 (4), 1337 - 1380

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4170

Biased Probability Judgment: Evidence of Incidence and Relationship to Economic Outcomes from a Representative Sample

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Felix Marklein, Uwe Sunde

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 72 (3), 903-915