IZA Discussion Papers

Jennifer Fei, Jessica Sadye Wolff, Michael Hotard, Hannah Ingham, Saurabh Khanna, Duncan Lawrence, Beza Tesfaye, Jeremy Weinstein, Vasil Yasenov, Jens Hainmueller

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15228

A Comparative Perspective on Long-Term Care Systems

Rainer Kotschy, David E. Bloom

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15175

The Determinants of Population Self-Control

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

updated version published as 'Surveillance and self-control' in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (660), 1666–1682

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15162

The Occupations of Free Women and Substitution with Enslaved Workers in the Antebellum United States

Barry R. Chiswick, RaeAnn Halenda Robinson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14515

Foundations of Utilitarianism under Risk and Variable Population

Dean Spears, Stéphane Zuber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14389

Population Aging and Migration

Panu Poutvaara

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14222

A Soul's View of the Optimal Population Problem

David de la Croix, Matthias Doepke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14187

Uneven Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Post-lockdown Human Mobility Across Chinese Cities

Yanyan Liu, Shuang Ma, Ren Mu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13949

Elderly's Mobility to and from Work in the US: Metropolitan Status and Population Size

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13939

How Effective are Matching Schemes in Enticing Low-income Earners to Save More for Retirement? Evidence from a National Scheme

Marc K. Chan, Cain Polidano, Ha Vu, Roger Wilkins, Andrew Carter, Hang To

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13736

Borderline Disorder: (De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa

Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Ömer Özak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13538

Divergence in Labour Force Growth: Should Wages and Prices Grow Faster in Germany?

Thomas Beissinger, Joël Hellier, Martyna Marczak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13530

Positive Health Externalities of Mandating Paid Sick Leave

Stefan Pichler, Katherine Wen, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2021, 40 (3), 715-743

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13509

Reconciling Occupational Mobility in the Current Population Survey

Christian vom Lehn, Cache Ellsworth, Zachary Kroff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13472

Measuring Employer-to-Employer Reallocation

Shigeru Fujita, Giuseppe Moscarini, Fabien Postel-Vinay

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13350

The CPS Citizenship Question and Survey Refusals: Causal and Semi-Causal Evidence Featuring a Two-Stage Regression Discontinuity Design

Robert Bernhardt, Phanindra V. Wunnava

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13262

Were Urban Cowboys Enough to Control COVID-19? Local Shelter-In-Place Orders and Coronavirus Case Growth

Dhaval M. Dave, Andrew I. Friedson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Joseph J. Sabia, Samuel Safford

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13057

Comparing Distributions of Ordinal Data

Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: The Stata Journal, 2020, 20 (3), 505–531

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12760

The Wife's Protector: A Quantitative Theory Linking Contraceptive Technology with the Decline in Marriage

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Karen A. Kopecky

published in: A. Bison; F. Giovanni (eds.), Handbook of Historical Economics, Academic Press, 2021.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12668

Why Variable-Population Social Orderings Cannot Escape the Repugnant Conclusion: Proofs and Implications

Dean Spears, Mark Budolfson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12668

Why Variable-Population Social Orderings Cannot Escape the Repugnant Conclusion: Proofs and Implications

Dean Spears, Mark Budolfson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12640

Climate Change, Migration and Voice: An Explanation for the Immobility Paradox

Michel Beine, Ilan Noy, Christopher Parsons

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12575

Missing Data in Imputed Highest Grade Completed in the 2015 -2018 NBER CPS Extracts

Joni Hersch, Fernando Mendoza Lopez, Jennifer Bennett Shinall

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12561

Institutional Responses to Aging Populations and Economic Growth: A Panel Data Approach

Patrick M. Emerson, Shawn D. Knabb, Anca-Ioana Sirbu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12537

The Asymmetry of Population Ethics: Experimental Social Choice and Dual-Process Moral Reasoning

Dean Spears

published in: Economics and Philosophy, 2020, 36 (3), 435-454

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12442

Samuelson's Contributions to Population Theory and Overlapping Generations in Economics

Ronald D. Lee

forthcoming in: a Palgrave volume on Paul Samuelson, Paul Samuelson Master of Modern Economics, edited by Robert Cord

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12442

Samuelson's Contributions to Population Theory and Overlapping Generations in Economics

Ronald D. Lee

forthcoming in: a Palgrave volume on Paul Samuelson, Paul Samuelson Master of Modern Economics, edited by Robert Cord

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12368

Who Is in Favor of Immigration

Gil S. Epstein, Shirit Katav-Herz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12265

Population Aging, Age Discrimination, and Age Discrimination Protections at the 50th Anniversary of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act

Patrick Button

published in: Czaja, S. J.; Sharit, J. and J. James (eds.), Current and Emerging Trends in Aging and Work, Springer: New York, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12130

Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Alberto Alesina, Elie Murard, Hillel Rapoport

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2021, lbab002

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11940

Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence

David E. Bloom, David Canning, Rainer Kotschy, Klaus Prettner, Johannes Schünemann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11830

Pension Strategies of Workers in a Country Getting Old before Getting Rich

Sonia Buchholtz, Jan Gaska, Marek Góra

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11554

The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Modern Times

Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Ömer Özak

published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2020, Vol. 25(3), 297-340

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11510

Live Longer, Work Longer: The Changing Nature of the Labour Market for Older Workers in OECD Countries

John P. Martin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11487

Diversity and Conflict

Cemal Eren Arbatli, Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor, Marc Klemp

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11077

Local Labor Markets and the Persistence of Population Shocks

Sebastian Till Braun, Anica Kramer, Michael Kvasnicka

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2021, 21 (2), 231–260

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. 10690

More Pensioners, Less Income Inequality? The Impact of Changing Age Composition on Inequality in Big Cities and Elsewhere

Omoniyi Alimi, David C. Maré, Jacques Poot

published in: U. Blien, K. Kourtit, P. Nijkamp & R. Stough (eds.), Modelling Aging and Migration Effects on Spatial Labor Markets, Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10571

Nonprofit Wages: Theory and Evidence

Barry Hirsch, David A. Macpherson, Anne E. Preston

published in: Bruce Seaman and Dennis Young (eds.), Handbook of Research on Nonprofit Economics and Management, 2nd ed., Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2018, pp. 146-179

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10465

Fertility, Mortality and Environmental Policy

Ulla Lehmijoki, Tapio K. Palokangas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10329

The Gravity Model of Migration: The Successful Comeback of an Ageing Superstar in Regional Science

Jacques Poot, Omoniyi Alimi, Michael P. Cameron, David C. Maré

published in: Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research, 2016, 36, 63-86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10245

Rotation Group Bias in Measures of Multiple Job Holding

Barry Hirsch, John V. Winters

published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 147, 160-163.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10216

Trajectories of Neighborhood Change: Spatial Patterns of Increasing Ethnic Diversity

Merle Zwiers, Maarten van Ham, David Manley

published in: Population, Space and Place, 2018, 24 (2), e2094

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10164

Demography of Global Aging

David E. Bloom, Elizabeth Mitgang, Benjamin Osher

published in: Jean-Pierre Michel (ed.), Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine, Oxford University Press, 2017, 3 - 10

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10163

The Global Demography of Aging: Facts, Explanations, Future

David E. Bloom, Dara Lee Luca

published in: J. Poot, M. Roskruge (eds.), Population Change and Impacts in Asia and the Pacific, Springer, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10162

Population Aging in India: Facts, Issues, and Options

Arunika Agarwal, Alyssa Lubet, Elizabeth Mitgang, Sanjay Mohanty, David E. Bloom

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10160

Population Decline in Lithuania: Who Lives in Declining Regions and Who Leaves?

Rūta Ubarevičienė, Maarten van Ham

published in: Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2017, 4 (1), 57 - 79

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10095

The Long-lasting Shadow of the Allied Occupation of Austria on its Spatial Equilibrium

Christoph Eder, Martin Halla

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10037

Does Money Relieve Depression? Evidence from Social Pension Expansions in China

Xi Chen, Tianyu Wang, Susan Busch

published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 220, 411-420.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10014

Impacts from Delaying Access to Retirement Benefits on Welfare Receipt and Expenditure: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Umut Oguzoglu, Cain Polidano, Ha Vu

published in: Economic Record, 2020, 96 (312), 65–86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9668

Discouraged Immigrants and the Missing Pop in EPOP

Peter Norlander, Todd A. Sorensen

published as '21st Century Slowdown: The Historic Nature of Recent Declines in the Growth of the Immigrant Population in the United States' in: Migration Letters, 2018, 15 (3), 410 - 422

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. 9553

Regression Discontinuity Designs Based on Population Thresholds: Pitfalls and Solutions

Andrew C. Eggers, Ronny Freier, Veronica Grembi, Tommaso Nannicini

published in: American Journal of Political Science, 2018, 62 (1), 210-229

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9338

A 'Healthy Immigrant Effect' or a 'Sick Immigrant Effect'? Selection and Policies Matter

Amelie F. Constant, Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman, Tzahi Neuman

published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 19 (1), 103-121.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9327

The Long Lasting Influenza: The Impact of Fetal Stress during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Socioeconomic Attainment and Health in Sweden 1968-2012

Tommy Bengtsson, Jonas Helgertz

published in: Demography, 2019, 56, 1389–1425

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9063

Who Is More Mobile in Response to Local Demand Shifts in China?

Dongdong Luo, Chunbing Xing

published as 'Population adjustments in response to local demand shifts in China' in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2016, 33, 101 - 114

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8966

Urbanization, Natural Amenities, and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from U.S. Counties

John V. Winters, Yu Li

published in: Urban Studies, 2017, 54 (8), 1956-1973

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8864

"Ain't No Rest for the Wicked": Population, Crime, and the 2013 Government Shutdown

Ricard Gil, Mario Macis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8781

Optimal Spatial Taxation: Are Big Cities Too Small?

Jan Eeckhout, Nezih Guner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8754

Micro and Macro Determinants of Health: Older Immigrants in Europe

Amelie F. Constant, Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman, Tzahi Neuman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8746

A Global Assessment of Human Capital Mobility: The Role of Non-OECD Destinations

Erhan Artuc, Frédéric Docquier, Caglar Ozden, Christopher Parsons

published in: World Development, 2015, 65, 6 - 26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8261

The Power of the Little Blue Pill: Innovations and Implications of Life Style Drugs in an Aging Population

Jacob LaRiviere, Hendrik Wolff

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53(1), 540-556

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8229

Teenage Pregnancies and Births in Germany: Patterns and Developments

Kamila Cygan-Rehm, Regina T. Riphahn

published in: Applied Economics, 2014, 46(28), 3503-3522

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8197

Cohort Size and Youth Employment Outcomes

David Newhouse, Claudia Wolff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8054

Land Reforms, Status and Population Growth

Ulla Lehmijoki, Tapio K. Palokangas

revised version published as 'Landowning, Status and Population Growth' in: E. Moser et al. (eds.), Dynamic Optimization in Environmental Economics, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2014, 315 - 328; extended and more advanced version published as 'Land Reforms and Population Growth' in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2016, 15, 1-15 (all versions co-authored with Ulla Lehmijoki)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8026

Shrinking Regions in a Shrinking Country: The Geography of Population Decline in Lithuania 2001-2011

Rūta Ubarevičienė, Maarten van Ham, Donatas Burneika

published in: Urban Studies Research, 2106, Article 5395379 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5395379)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7931

Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise: Evidence from Canadian Panel Data

Michael Lechner, Nazmi Sari

published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 1 - 15

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7928

Equilibrium Health Spending and Population Aging in a Model of Endogenous Growth: Will the GDP Share of Health Spending Keep Rising?

Isaac Ehrlich, Yong Yin

revised version published in: Journal of Human Capital, 7(4), 411-447