IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15985

Do Classical Studies Open Your Mind?

Giorgio Brunello, Piero Esposito, Lorenzo Rocco, Sergio Scicchitano

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

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 53 (2025)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15976

The Employment Effects of Generous and Unconditional Cash Support

Timo Verlaat, Federico Todeschini, Xavier Ramos

published as 'The employment effects of a means-tested guaranteed income policy' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2025, 248, 105420

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15975

Women in Political Power and School Closure during COVID Times

Natalia Danzer, Sebastian Garcia-Torres, Max F. Steinhardt, Luca Stella

published in: Economic Policy, 2024, 39 (120), 765–810

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15972

Temperature and Low-Stakes Cognitive Performance

Xin Zhang, Xi Chen, Xiaobo Zhang

published in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2024, 11 (1), 75–96

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15968

Not So Sweet: Impacts of a Soda Tax on Producers

Judite Goncalves, Roxanne Merenda, João Pereira dos Santos

published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2024, 31, 1388–1412

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. 15965

Home Bias in Top Economics Journals

Dirk Bethmann, Felix Bransch, Michael Kvasnicka, Abdolkarim Sadrieh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15964

Does the Closeness of Peers Matter? An Investigation Using Online Training Platform Data and Survey Data

Xin Gu, Haizheng Li

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15961

Health System Trust and Compliance with COVID-19 Restrictions

Joan Costa-Font, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

published ' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2023, 49, 101235

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15952

Not That Basic: How Level, Design and Context Matter for the Redistributive Outcomes of Universal Basic Income

Elise Aerts, Ive Marx, Gerlinde Verbist

published in: Journal of Social Policy, 2025, 54 (2), 351-373

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15951

Foreign Physicians: Discriminatory Patient Preferences and Doctor Availability

Brigham Walker, Janna Wisniewski, Sarah Tinkler, Miron Stano, Rajiv Sharma

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 228, 106813

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15947

Air Pollution and Respiratory Infectious Diseases

Sandro Provenzano, Sefi Roth, Lutz Sager

published in: Environmental and Resource Economics, 2024, 87, 1127–1139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15945

Intergenerational and Sibling Spillovers in High School Majors

Gordon B. Dahl, Dan-Olof Rooth, Anders Stenberg

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (3), 133–173

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15944

The Impact of Computer-Assisted Instruction on Student Performance: Evidence from the Dual-Teacher Program

Haizheng Li, Zhiqiang Liu, Fanzheng Yang, Li Yu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15940

Long-Term Effects of Rainfall Shocks on Foundational Cognitive Skills: Evidence from Peru

Nicolas Pazos, Marta Favara, Alan Sanchez, Douglas Scott, Jere R. Behrman

published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2024, 54, 101407

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15938

Intergenerational Persistence of Health: Evidence from India

Santosh Kumar Gautam, Bernard Nahlen

published in: Economics Letters, 2023, 224, ^p111023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15937

The Transformation of Public Policy Analysis in Times of Crisis – A Microsimulation-Nowcasting Method Using Big Data

Cathal O'Donoghue, Denisa M. Sologon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15934

Cognitive Misperception and Chronic Disease Awareness: Evidence from Blood Biomarker Data

Zhuoer Lin, Mingqi Fu, Xi Chen

published as 'Self-perceived memory is negatively associated with chronic disease awareness: Evidence from blood biomarker data' in: SSM - Population Health, 2023, 22, 101361

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15932

The Employment Effects of the Disability Education Gap in Europe

Maciej Albinowski, Iga Magda, Agata Rozszczypała

published online in: Education Economics, 29 September 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15931

Birth Order Effects in the Developed and Developing World: Evidence from International Test Scores

Dana C. Andersen, Pinar Mine Gunes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15929

Trust and Social Preferences in Times of Acute Health Crisis

Fortuna Casoria, Fabio Galeotti, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 154, 5-50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15927

Parental Unemployment and Adolescents' Academic Performance

Nick Drydakis

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2023, 44 (7), 1362-1381.

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. 15923

A Pure Theory of Population Distribution When Preferences Are Ordinal

Holger Stark, Grzegorz Kosiorowski

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15922

Understanding the Distributional Impacts of Increases in Fuel Prices on Poverty and Inequality in Paraguay

Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza, Lyliana Gayoso de Ervin, Juan José Galeano, Juan Pablo Baquero

published in: Revista Latinoamericana de Desarrollo Económico, 2023, 21 (39), 77 - 108

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15920

Delivering Remote Learning Using a Low-Tech Solution: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Bangladesh

Liang Choon Wang, Michael Vlassopoulos, Asadul Islam, Hashibul Hassan

published in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2024, 2 (3), 562–601

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15916

Rapid Economic Growth but Rising Poverty Segregation: Will Vietnam Meet the SDGs for Equitable Development?

Hai-Anh H Dang, Shatakshee Dhongde, Minh N.N. Do, Cuong Viet Nguyen, Obert Pimhidzai

published in: Review of Development Economics, 2025, 29 (4), 2063-2075

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15915

Returns to School Spending in Rural America: Evidence from Wisconsin's Sparsity Aid Program

Riley Acton, Cody Orr, Salem Rogers

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

published in: BMC Public Health, 2023, 23, 1447

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15912

Marital Sorting and Inequality: How Educational Categorization Matters

Frederik Almar, Benjamin Friedrich, Ana Reynoso, Bastian Schulz, Rune Majlund Vejlin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15906

Discipline Reform, School Culture, and Student Achievement

Ashley C Craig, David Martin

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. 15900

The True Cost of War

Erhan Artuc, Nicolas Gomez-Parra, Harun Onder

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15899

Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy Using Local Ambassadors: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Indonesia

Asadul Islam, Gita Kusnadi, Jahen Rezki, Armand Sim, Giovanni van Empel, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou

published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 163, 104683

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15897

Who Gets Vaccinated? Cognitive and Non-cognitive Predictors of Individual Behavior in Pandemics

Mark A. Andor, Thomas K. Bauer, Jana Eßer, Christoph M. Schmidt, Lukas Tomberg

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2025, 87 (3), 562-585

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15895

Month-of-Birth Effects on Skills and Skill Formation

Shintaro Yamaguchi, Hirotake Ito, Makiko Nakamuro

published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 84, 102392

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15893

Unions as Insurance: Employer–Worker Risk Sharing and Workers' Outcomes during COVID-19

Nils Braakmann, Boris Hirsch

published in: Industrial Relations, 2024, 63 (2), 152-171

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. 15890

What Drives Paternity Leave: Financial Incentives or Flexibility?

Lennart Ziegler, Omar Bamieh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15889

Economic Foundations of Contraceptive Transitions: Theories and a Review of the Evidence

Mahesh Karra, Joshua Wilde

published in: Population and Development Review, 2024, 50 (S2), 539-569

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15887

Unintended Effects of the Flexible Grading Policy

Mehlika Ozsoy, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15884

Overseas GPs and Prescription Behaviour in England

Catia Nicodemo, Cristina E. Orso, Cristina Tealdi

published as 'Overseas general practitioners (GPs) and prescription behaviour in England' in: Health Policy, 2024, 140, 104967

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15882

The Impact of the

Stefania Basiglio, Daniela Del Boca, Chiara D. Pronzato

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2024, 70 (3), 271 - 283

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15878

Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter

Nicolas Ajzenman, Bruno Ferman, Pedro C. Sant’Anna

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15877

Reminder Design and Childhood Vaccination Coverage

Jonas Cuzulan Hirani, Miriam Wüst

published in: Journal of Health Economics. 2024, 93, 102832

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15876

The Effects of Schooling on Cognitive Skills: Evidence from Education Expansions

Lorenzo Cappellari, Daniele Checchi, Marco Ovidi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15874

Taking It to the Limit: Effects of Increased Student Loan Availability on Attainment, Earnings, and Financial Well-Being

Sandra E. Black, Jeffrey T. Denning, Lisa J. Dettling, Sarena Goodman, Lesley J. Turner

published in: American Economic Review, 2024, 113 (12), 3357–3400

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15873

Poverty Imputation in Contexts without Consumption Data: A Revisit with Further Refinements

Hai-Anh H Dang, Talip Kilic, Kseniya Abanokova, Calogero Carletto

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2025, 71 (1), e12714

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15870

Time Savings When Working from Home

Cevat Giray Aksoy, José María Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Mathias Dolls, Pablo Zarate

published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2023, 113, 597–603

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15863

Effects of an Online Self-Assessment Tool on Teachers' Digital Competencies

Giovanni Abbiati, Davide Azzolini, Anja Balanskat, Katja Engelhart, Daniela Piazzalunga, Enrico Rettore, Patricia Wastiau

published online as 'Exploring the Potential of Self-Assessment for Teachers’ Development of ICT Competencies and Beliefs' in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 24 January 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15860

Do Role Models Matter in Large Classes? New Evidence on Gender Match Effects in Higher Education

Stephan Ernst Maurer, Guido Schwerdt, Simon Wiederhold

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15859

Schools as Safety Nets: Break-Downs and Recovery in Reporting of Violence against Children

Damian Clarke, Pilar Larroulet, Daniel Pailañir, Daniela Quintana

pubished online in: Journal of Human Resources, 07 March 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15858

School-Based Healthcare and Absenteeism: Evidence from Telemedicine

Sarah Komisarow, Steven W. Hemelt

published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2024, 19(2), 252-282

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15857

Women's Education and Fertility in China

Zheyuan Zhang, Zhong Zhao

published in: China Economic Review, 2023, 78, 101936

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15855

Knocking It Down and Mixing It Up: The Impact of Public Housing Regenerations

Hector Blanco, Lorenzo Neri

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15852

Health Effects of Fuel Transitions in India: Evidence from Panel Data

Mehtabul Azam

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15843

Mandatory Seatbelt Laws and Traffic Fatalities: A Reassessment

D. Mark Anderson, Yang Liang, Joseph J. Sabia

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2024, 39 (3), 513-521

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15839

The Morbidity Costs of Air Pollution through the Lens of Health Spending in China

Xin Zhang, Xun Zhang, Yuehua Liu, Xintong Zhao, Xi Chen

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 1269–1292

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15837

Evolution of Inequality in Nigeria: A Tale of Falling Inequality, Rising Poverty and Regional Heterogeneity

John Chiwuzulum Odozi, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

published in: Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2023, 6 (4), 297-309.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15835

In Need of a Roof: Pandemic and Housing Vulnerability

Kusum Mundra, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

published in: Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2024, 7, 27 - 44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15834

Market Facilitation Program Payments, Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Coverage and Off-Farm Employment

Ashok K. Mishra, Alexis H. Villacis, Cristina D. M. Miller

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15832

Depression, Pharmacotherapy, and the Demand for a Novel Health Product

Manuela Angelucci, Daniel M Bennett

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15828

Do Fathers Have Son Preference in the United States? Evidence from Paternal Subjective Well-Being

Younghwan Song, Jia Gao

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 21, 1083-1117

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15827

Measuring Poverty Dynamics with Synthetic Panels Based on Repeated Cross-Sections

Hai-Anh H Dang, Peter F. Lanjouw

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 85 (3), 599-622.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15824

Skills, Parental Sorting, and Child Inequality

Martin Nybom, Erik Plug, Bas van der Klaauw, Lennart Ziegler

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