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