IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15818

How Early Nutrition and Foundational Cognitive Skills Interconnect? Evidence from Two Developing Countries

Alan Sanchez, Marta Favara, Margaret Sheridan, Jere R. Behrman

published as 'Does early nutrition predict cognitive skills during later childhood? Evidence from two developing countries' in: World Development, 2024, 176, 106480

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15816

Children of Communism: The Former Party Membership and Demand for Redistribution

Alexander Libman, Olga Popova

revised version published in: Eastern European Economics, 2023, 61 (3), 199-237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15811

Daily Use of Social Media Is Associated with More Body Dissatisfaction of Teenage Girls in a Large Cross-Cultural Survey

Clotilde Napp, Thomas Breda

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15809

Worker Satisfaction and Worker Representation: The Jury Is Still Out

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira

published as 'Job satisfaction and workplace representation in Europe' in: Manchester School, 2025, 92 (2), 123-148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15806

A Field Study of Donor Behaviour in the Iranian Kidney Market

Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Daniel Sgroi

published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 170, 104887

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15803

Revisiting the Connection between State Medicaid Expansions and Adult Mortality

Charles Courtemanche, Jordan Jones, Antonios M. Koumpias, Daniela Zapata

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2024, 91 (1), 187-212

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15802

Hispanic Americans in the Labor Market: Patterns over Time and across Generations

Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan, Stephen J. Trejo

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2023, 37 (1), 169–198

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15798

Maternal Genetic Risk for Depression and Child Human Capital

Giorgia Menta, Anthony Lepinteur, Andrew E. Clark, Simone Ghislandi, Conchita D'Ambrosio

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 87, 102718

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15796

Gender Differences in Adolescents' Socioemotional Development and Their Later Economic Consequences

Ghazala Azmat, Katja Maria Kaufmann, Yasemin Özdemir

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15795

Does Using Planning Policy to Restrict Fast Food Outlets Reduce Inequalities in Childhood Overweight and Obesity?

Huasheng Xiang, Viviana Albani, Louis Goffe, Nasima Akhter, Amelia Lake, Heather Brown

published as 'Planning policies to restrict fast food and inequalities in child weight in England: a quasi-experimental analysis' in: Obesity, 2024, 32 (12), 2345-2353

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15790

Wellbeing Rankings

David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2024, 171, 513–565

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15788

Beliefs about Maternal Labor Supply

Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin, Katja Maria Kaufmann, Christopher Rauh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15787

Capturing the Educational and Economic Impacts of School Closures in Poland

Tomasz Gajderowicz, Maciej Jakubowski, Harry Anthony Patrinos, Sylwia Wrona

published as 'Poland: Education During and After COVID-19 Pandemic and Educational Reforms' in: Crato, N., Patrinos, H.A. (eds), Improving National Education Systems After COVID-19. Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices. Springer, Cham, 2025, 121–133 (without H. A. Patrinos and S. Wrona).

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15785

Reference Dependent Aspirations and Peer Effects in Education

Marco Fongoni, Jonathan Norris, Agnese Romiti, Zhan Shi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15784

The Effect of Brazil's Family Health Program on Cognitive Skills

Pinar Mine Gunes, Magda Tsaneva

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. 15780

Does Ethnic Diversity in Schools Affect Occupational Choices?

Damiano Pregaldini, Simone Balestra, Uschi Backes-Gellner