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IZA Discussion Paper No. 16713
What Works and for Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments across the U.S.
Barbara Biasi, Julien Lafortune, David Schönholzer
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 18 February 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16712
A Scalable Approach to High-Impact Tutoring for Young Readers: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial
Kalena E. Cortes, Karen Kortecamp, Susanna Loeb, Carly D. Robinson
published as 'A scalable approach to high-impact tutoring for young readers' in: Learning and Instruction, 2025, 95, 102021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16709
The Role of Friends in the Opioid Epidemic
Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Karen A. Kopecky
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16708
Firms and Worker Health
Alexander Ahammer, Analisa Packham, Jonathan Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16707
COVID-19 Vaccine and Risk-Taking
Shanike J. Smart, Solomon Polachek
published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2024, 68, 25–49
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16701
Field of Study and Mental Health in Adulthood
Anders Stenberg, Simona Tudor
published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 07 November 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16698
The Gendered Impact of In-State Tuition Policies on Undocumented Immigrants' College Enrollment, Graduation, and Employment
Susan L. Averett, Cynthia Bansak, Grace Condon, Eva Dziadula
published in: Journal on Migration and Human Security, 2024, 13 (1), 64-86
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16694
When Randomization Is Not Feasible: The Case of Parenting Skills Programs
Daniela Del Boca, Chiara D. Pronzato, Lucia Schiavon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16690
Learning from Mistakes: The Implications of Course Repetition for Student Subsequent Success
Kelly Chen, Xuan Jiang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16689
Female Classmates, Disruption, and STEM Outcomes in Disadvantaged Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment
Sofoklis Goulas, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Yi Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16687
Automatability of Occupations, Workers' Labor-Market Expectations, and Willingness to Train
Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Wedel, Katharina Werner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16680
Healthcare Workers and Life Satisfaction during the Pandemic
Chiara Costi, Andrew E. Clark, Anthony Lepinteur, Conchita D'Ambrosio
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16678
Do Cities Mitigate or Exacerbate Environmental Damages to Health?
David Molitor, Corey White
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2024, 107, 103973
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16677
Health Inequalities among People Experiencing Food Insecurity. An Intersectional Approach
Nick Drydakis
published in: Sociology of Health and Illness, 2024, 46 (5), 867-886
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16676
School Starting Age and Infant Health
Cristina Borra, Libertad González, David Patiño
published in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (6), 153-1191
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16675
Dealing With Imperfect Randomization: Inference for the Highscope Perry Preschool Program
James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto, Azeem M. Shaikh
published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2024, 243 (1-2), 105683
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16668
Estimating Returns to Schooling and Experience: A History of Thought
Barry R. Chiswick
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16667
Civil Rights Protests and Election Outcomes: Exploring the Effects of the Poor People's Campaign
D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Krzysztof Karbownik, Daniel I. Rees, Camila Steffens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16666
Measuring Income Inequality in Social Networks
Oded Stark, Jakub Bielawski, Fryderyk Falniowski
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2024, 22 (2), 333–356
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16665
Accessing the Safety Net: How Medicaid Affects Health and Recidivism
Analisa Packham, David Slusky
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16660
Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Benefit Receipt: Evidence from Germany
Jennifer Feichtmayer, Regina T. Riphahn
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2024, 70 (4), 1226-1251
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16659
Technological Change and Returns to Training
Roman Klauser, Marcus Tamm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16656
Robots, Meaning, and Self-Determination
Milena Nikolova, Femke Cnossen, Boris Nikolaev
published in: Research Policy, 2024, 53 (5), 104987
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16655
Occupational Hazard? An Analysis of Birth Outcomes among Physician Mothers
Anupam B. Jena, David Slusky, Lilly Springer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16654
High Achieving First-Generation University Students
Nikki Shure, Larissa Zierow
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16653
Revisiting the OxyContin Reformulation: The Role of Licit Substitutes
Francis W. Graham, Sonja C. de New, Suzanne Nielsen, Dennis Petrie
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16650
COVID-19, School Closures and (Cyber)Bullying in Germany
Helen Rahlff, Ulf Rinne, Hendrik Sonnabend
published in: Education Economics, 2025, 33 (6), 852-865
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16641
Female Headship and Poverty in the Arab Region: Analysis of Trends and Dynamics Based on a New Typology
Shireen AlAzzawi, Hai-Anh H Dang, Vladimir Hlasny, Kseniya Abanokova, Jere R. Behrman
published as 'Female Headship and Poverty in the Arab Region: Analysis of Trends and Dynamics Based on a New Taxonomy' in: Social Indicators Research, 2025, 180 (2), 1067–1202
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16639
Can Effective Policy Implementation Alter Political Selection? Evidence from Female Legislators in India
S Anukriti, Rossella Calvi, Abhishek Chakravarty
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16636
Two Pandemic Years Greatly Reduced Young People's Life Satisfaction: Evidence from a Comparison with Pre-COVID-19 Panel Data
Martin Neugebauer, Alexander Patzina, Hans Dietrich, Malte Sandner
published in: European Sociological Review, 2024, 40 (5), 872 - 886
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16635
Gender Differences in Teacher Judgement of Comparative Advantage
Judith M. Delaney, Paul J. Devereux
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16634
Subjective Gender-Based Patterns in ADHD Diagnosis
Marco Bertoni, Blas A. Marin-Lopez, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16632
HBCU Enrollment and Longer-Term Outcomes
Ashley Edwards, Justin Ortagus, Jonathan Smith, Andria Smythe
forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16629
Health Inequality and Health Insurance Coverage: The United States and China Compared
Joan Costa-Font, Frank A. Cowell, Xuezhu Shi
published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2024, 52, 101346
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16628
Gender Gaps in Financial Literacy: A Multi-Arm RCT to Break the Response Bias in Surveys
Laura Hospido, Nagore Iriberri, Margarita Machelett
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16627
Resilience-Thinking Training for College Students: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Alan Secor, Rafael De Balanzó Joue
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16622
Life-Cycle Effects of Comprehensive Sex Education
Volha Lazuka, Annika Elwert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16619
Modelling the Distributional Effects of the Cost-of-Living Crisis in Turkey and the South Caucasus: A Microsimulation Analysis
Zeynep Gizem Can, Cathal O'Donoghue, Denisa M. Sologon, Darius Smith, Rosaleen Griffin, Una Murray
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16618
The Effects of Commuting and Working from Home Arrangements on Mental Health
Ferdi Botha, Jan Kabátek, Jordy Meekes, Roger Wilkins
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16616
Foreign Nurses and Hospital Quality: Evidence from Brexit
Henrique Castro-Pires, Marco Mello, Giuseppe Moscelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16615
The "Demise of the Caregiving Daughter"? Gender Employment Gaps and the Use of Formal and Informal Care in Europe
Eric Bonsang, Joan Costa-Font
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16610
Just Another Cog in the Machine? A Worker-Level View of Robotization and Tasks
Milena Nikolova, Anthony Lepinteur, Femke Cnossen
published in: Economica, 2025, 92, 1101-1148
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16608
The Effects of the Dobbs Decision on Fertility
Daniel Dench, Mayra Pineda-Torres, Caitlin Knowles Myers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16607
Reaching for Gold! The Impact of a Positive Reputation Shock on Career Choice
Daniel Goller, Stefan C. Wolter
published in: European Economic Review, 2025, 175, 105017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16599
Stigma and Take-up of Labor Market Assistance: Evidence from Two Field Experiments
Adam Osman, Jamin D. Speer
published in: Economica, 2024, 91 (361), 123-141
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. 16592
School Closures, Mortality, and Human Capital: Evidence from the Universe of Closures during the 1918 Pandemic in Sweden
Christian M. Dahl, Casper W. Hansen, Peter S. Jensen, Martin Karlsson, Daniel Kühnle
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16591
The (Un)Importance of School Assignment
Nadine Ketel, Hessel Oosterbeek, Sandor Sovago, Bas van der Klaauw
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16588
The Impact of Right-to-Work Laws on Long Hours and Work Schedules
Rania Gihleb, Osea Giuntella, Jian Qi Tan
published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2024, 43 (3), 696-713
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16587
Redistribution, Horizontal Inequity, and Reranking: Direct Taxation in the UK, 1977–2020
Nicolas Herault, Stephen P. Jenkins
published in: Journal of Income Distribution, 2023, 32 (3-4)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16584
Gender Differences in High School Choices: Do Math and Language Skills Play a Role?
Dalit Contini, Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Anna Maccagnan, Silvia Mendolia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16579
You'll Never Walk Alone: Unemployment, Social Networks and Leisure Activities
Mattia Filomena, Matteo Picchio
published online in: Oxford Economic Papers, 09 May 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16570
Does Global Warming Worsen Poverty and Inequality? An Updated Review
Hai-Anh H Dang, Stephane Hallegatte, Trong-Anh Trinh
published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2024, 38 (5), 1873-1905
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16568
Estimates of Earnings Returns by Field of Study for For-Profit Schools and Community Colleges
Christopher Jepsen, Peter R. Mueser, Kenneth Troske, Kyung-Seong Jeon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16567
Intergenerational Health Mobility in Germany
Daniel Graeber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16564
Sliding into Safety Net Participation: A Unified Analysis across Multiple Programs
Derek Wu, Jonathan Zhang
published in: National Tax Journal, 2005, 78 (1), 45–86
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16562
Killer Alerts? Public Health Warnings and Heat Stroke in Japan
Lester Lusher, Tim Ruberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16559
The Return to College, Marriage, and Intergenerational Mobility
Eric D. Gould
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. 16545
Occupational Differences in the Effects of Retirement on Hospitalizations for Mental Illness among Female Workers: Evidence from Administrative Data in China
Tianyu Wang, Ruochen Sun, Jody L. Sindelar, Xi Chen
published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2024 , 53, 101367
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16544
Instrumenting the Effect of Terrorism on Education in Kenya
Marco Alfano, Joseph-Simon Goerlach
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16543
Estimating Intergenerational Health Transmission in Taiwan with Administrative Health Records
Harrison Chang, Timothy J. Halliday, Ming-Jen Lin, Bhashkar Mazumder
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 238, 105194
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16539
Educate Some to Represent Many? Education and Female Political Representation in Europe
Luna Bellani, Marisa Hidalgo-Hidalgo
revised version published as 'Bridging the Gender Gap: Women’s Education and Political Representation' in: Economics of Education Review, 2025, 104, 102605
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16534
Are Senior Entrepreneurs Happier than Who? The Role of Income and Health
Michael Fritsch, Alina Sorgner, Michael Wyrwich
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16532
COVID-19 and Mental Health: Natural Experiments of the Costs of Lockdowns
Climent Quintana-Domeque, Jingya Zeng
revised version published online in: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 27 February 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16531
COVID-19 and the European Education Performance Decline: A Focus on Primary School Children's Reading Achievement between 2016 and 2021
Sylke V. Schnepf, Silvia Granato
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16525
Telementoring and Homeschooling during School Closures: A Randomized Experiment in Rural Bangladesh
Hashibul Hassan, Asadul Islam, Abu Siddique, Liang Choon Wang
published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (622), 2418–2438
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16523
Permanent School Closures and Crime: Evidence from Scotland
Daniel Borbely, Markus Gehrsitz, Stuart McIntyre, Gennaro Rossi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16520
On the Origins of Socio-Economic Inequalities: Evidence from Twin Families
Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16519
Forced Labor and Health-Related Outcomes. The Case of Beggar Children
Nick Drydakis
published in: Child Abuse and Neglect, 2023, 146,:106490
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16516
The Effect of Reducing Welfare Access on Employment, Health, and Children's Long-Run Outcomes
Jeffrey Hicks, Gaëlle Simard-Duplain, David A. Green, William P. Warburton
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16511
The E-Word – On the Public Acceptance of Experiments
Mira Fischer, Elisabeth Grewenig, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Helen Zeidler
published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 235, 111558
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16506
School and Crime
Todd R. Jones, Ezra Karger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16505
Do Wind Turbines Have Adverse Health Impacts?
Christian Krekel, Johannes Rode, Alexander Roth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16504
Transmissible Diseases, Vaccination and Inequality
Carmen Camacho, Chrysovalantis Vasilakis
published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2024, 26 (6), e70002
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16503
The Long Shadow of the Past: Early-Life Disease Environment and Later-Life Mortality
Hamid Noghanibehambari, Jason M. Fletcher
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16498
Starting the School Year on the Right Foot. Effects of a Summer Learning Program Targeting Vulnerable Students in Italy
Davide Azzolini, Martina Bazzoli, Sergiu Burlacu, Enrico Rettore
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16494
Religion and Growth
Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2024, 62 (3), 1094–1142
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16492
Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality: Maternal Endowments, Investments, and Birth Outcomes
Sadegh S. M. Eshaghnia, James J. Heckman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16489
Unintended Consequences of Youth Entrepreneurship Programs: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda
Moussa Blimpo, Todd Pugatch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16485
Artificial Intelligence and Workers' Well-Being
Osea Giuntella, Johannes König, Luca Stella
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16482
The Effects of Maria Migrants on the Financial Health of the Residents of Central Florida
Breno Braga, Diana Elliott
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16480
Temperature and the Timing of Work
Sam Cosaert, Adrian Nieto Castro, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16479
The Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Adults' Subjective Wellbeing
David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson
published as 'The adult consequences on wellbeing of abuse and neglect in childhood ' in: International Journal of Wellbeing, 2024, 14 (3), 3513, 1-28
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16474
Can Vocational Education Improve Schooling and Labour Outcomes? Evidence from a Large Expansion
João R. Ferreira, Pedro S. Martins
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16466
Educational Assortative Mating and Harsh Parenting in Sub-Saharan Africa
Luca Maria Pesando, Elisabetta De Cao, Giulia La Mattina, Alberto Ciancio
published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2024, 351, 116954
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16463
Ocean Salinity, Early-Life Health, and Adaptation
Amanda Guimbeau, Xinde James Ji, Zi Long, Nidhiya Menon
published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2024,125, 102954
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16459
The Parenthood Penalty in Mental Health: Evidence from Austria and Denmark
Alexander Ahammer, Ulrich Glogowsky, Martin Halla, Timo Hener
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16458
Can Patience Account For Subnational Differences in Student Achievement? Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests
Eric A. Hanushek, Lavinia Kinne, Pietro Sancassani, Ludger Woessmann
published online as 'Patience and Subnational Differences in Human Capital: Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests' in: Economic Journal, 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16457
Mindfulness Training, Cognitive Performance and Stress Reduction
Gary Charness, Yves Le Bihan, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 217, 207-226.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16454
More Education Does Make You Happier – Unless You Are Unemployed
Alexander Bertermann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16453
Spillovers in Fields of Study: Siblings, Cousins, and Neighbors
Stanislav Avdeev, Nadine Ketel, Hessel Oosterbeek, Bas van der Klaauw
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 238, 105193.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16452
Government Shutdown and SNAP Disbursements: Effects on Household Expenditures
Mindy Marks, Silvia Prina, Roy Gernhardt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16448
The Impact of Hospital Closures on Medical Debt in Collections: Analysis Using Consumer Credit Bureau Data
Jennifer Andre, Fredric Blavin, Breno Braga, Anuj Gangopadhyaya
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16447
Childhood Health Shocks and the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality
Tine Louise Mundbjerg Eriksen, Amanda Gaulke, Jannet Svensson, Niels Skipper, Peter Rønø Thingholm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16446
Persistent Marijuana Use: Evidence from the NLSY
Jörgen Hansen, Golnaz Davalloo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16444
The G.I. Bill and Underemployment
Ciprian Domnisoru
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16442
High-Quality Early-Childhood Education at Scale: Evidence from a Multisite Randomized Trial
William Dougan, Jorge Luis García, Illia Polovnikov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16435
Educational Reforms and Their Positive Externalities on the Labor Market
Fabio Elsenberger, Michael Jan Kendzia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16434
Gains from Variety: Refugee-Host Interactions in Uganda
Rama Dasi Mariani, Furio C. Rosati, Pasquale Scaramozzino, Marco D'Errico
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