IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Quality and Accountability of ChatGPT in Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Simulated Patient Study' in: Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2024, 26, e56121

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17160

The Impacts of Climate Change and Air Pollution on Children's Education Outcomes: Evidence from Vietnam

Hai-Anh H Dang, Minh N.N. Do, Cuong Viet Nguyen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17159

Biological Age and Predicting Future Health Care Utilisation

Apostolos Davillas, Andrew M. Jones

revised version forthcoming in: Journal of Health Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17147

Place of Birth and Cognitive Function among Older Americans: Findings from the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol

Zhuoer Lin, Xi Chen

published in: Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 2024, 79 (9), gbae126,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17131

Birth Order Effects on Education: Insights from Low- And Middle-Income Countries

Silvia Mendolia, Olena Stavrunova, Marian Vidal-Fernandez

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17130

Impacts of Integrating Early Childhood with Health Services: Experimental Evidence from the Cresça Com Seu Filho Home Visiting Program

Florencia López Bóo, Maria de la Paz Ferro, Pedro Carneiro

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17091

Starting School and ADHD: When Is It Time to Fly the Nest?

Catia Nicodemo, Cheti Nicoletti, Joaquim Vidiella-Martin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17089

The Intergenerational Health Effects of Child Marriage Bans

Dung D. Le, Teresa Molina, Yoko Ibuka, Rei Goto

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17069

Health Shocks, Social Insurance, and Firms

Aniko Biro, István Boza, Attila Gyetvai, Daniel Prinz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17050

The Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Health and Hospitalization over the Life Cycle

Markus Gehrsitz, Morgan C. Williams, Jr.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17028

Experimental Impacts of a Virtual Parenting Program with Mothers and Fathers

Lara Lebedinski, Pedro Carneiro, Tamara Arnold Urzua, Julie Perng, Ana Maria Munoz Boudet, Katia Herrera Sosa

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17024

Live Longer and Healthier: Impact of Pension Income for Low-Income Retirees

Chiara Malavasi, Han Ye

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17023

Heterogeneity in the Persistence of Health: Evidence from a Monthly Micro Panel

Stephen Hoskins, David W. Johnston, Johannes S. Kunz, Michael A. Shields, Kevin E. Staub

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17010

The Modification of Social Space as a Tool for Lowering Social Stress

Oded Stark

published in: Economics & Human Biology. 2024, 53, 101349

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16942

Time of Change: Health Effects of Motherhood

Fabian T. Dehos, Marie Paul, Wiebke Schäfer, Karolin Süß

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16810

Do Medical Treatments Work for Work? Evidence from Breast Cancer Patients

N. Meltem Daysal, William N. Evans, Mikkel Hasse Pedersen, Mircea Trandafir

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16799

Unveiling Shadows: The Impact of Unemployment on Child Maltreatment

Dan Brown, Elisabetta De Cao

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. 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. 16634

Subjective Gender-Based Patterns in ADHD Diagnosis

Marco Bertoni, Blas A. Marin-Lopez, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

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. 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. 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. 16505

Do Wind Turbines Have Adverse Health Impacts?

Christian Krekel, Johannes Rode, Alexander Roth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16485

Artificial Intelligence and Workers' Well-Being

Osea Giuntella, Johannes König, Luca Stella

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. 16459

The Parenthood Penalty in Mental Health: Evidence from Austria and Denmark

Alexander Ahammer, Ulrich Glogowsky, Martin Halla, Timo Hener

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16392

Group Meetings and Boosters to Sustain Early Impacts on Child Development: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Italo Lopez Garcia, Jill E. Luoto, Frances E. Aboud, Lia C.H. Fernald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16387

The Effect of Universal Free School Meals on Child BMI

Will Davis, Daniel Kreisman, Tareena Musaddiq

published in. Education Finance & Policy, 2024, 19 (3), 461 - 491

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16312

Accident-Induced Absence from Work and Wage Ladders

Aniko Biro, Márta Bisztray, João G. da Fonseca, Tímea Laura Molnár

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16264

Covid-19 and Income Inequality in OECD Countries: A Methodological Comment

Oded Stark

published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 24, 1235–1237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16241

Feelings in Travel Episodes and Extreme Temperatures

Ignacio Belloc, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16115

Child Health, Parental Well-Being, and the Social Safety Net

Achyuta Adhvaryu, N. Meltem Daysal, Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson, Teresa Molina, Herdis Steingrimsdottir

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16100

Disability and Labor Market Performance

Matthias Collischon, Karolin Hiesinger, Laura Pohlan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16049

On the Road to Equity: Examining Income-Related Inequalities in Ownership of Safer Vehicles

Vincenzo Carrieri, Apostolos Davillas, Victor Hugo de Oliveira

published as 'On the road to equity: examining income-related inequalities in ownership of safer cars' in: Oxford Open Economics, 2024, 3, odae002

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16028

Overexertion of Effort under Working Time Autonomy and Feedback Provision

Thomas Dohmen, Elena Shvartsman

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 212, 255-1266

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16005

Family Affair? Long-Term Economic and Mental Effects of Spousal Cancer

Petri Böckerman, Mika Kortelainen, Henri Salokangas, Maria Vaalavuo

forthcoming in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16004

Trends in Gender and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Physical Disability and Social Support among U.S. Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment Living Alone, 2000–2018

Shanquan Chen, Huanyu Zhang, Benjamin R. Underwood, Dan Wang, Xi Chen, Rudolf N. Cardinal

published in: Innovation in Aging, 2023, 7 (4), igad028

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16003

Sejong's Effects on People's Health: Consequences of a Long Commute

Seulgi Lim, Soohyung Lee

published in: Asian Economic Papers, 2023, 22 (2), 1-27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15998

The Health-Consumption Effects of Increasing Retirement Age Late in the Game

Eve Caroli, Catherine Pollak, Muriel Roger

published in: Economie et Statistique/Economics and Statistics, 2023, 538, 49-67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15994

Hit Where It Hurts: Healthcare Access and Intimate Partner Violence

Cristina Bellés Obrero, Caoimhe T. Rice, Judit Vall Castello

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15993

Prison, Mental Health, and Family Spillovers

Manudeep Bhuller, Laura Khoury, Katrine Vellesen Loken

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15938

Intergenerational Persistence of Health: Evidence from India

Santosh Kumar, Bernard Nahlen

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

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. 15735

Job Insecurity and Health: Evidence from Older European Workers

Eduard Suari-Andreu, Tim Schwartz, Max van Lent, Marike Knoef

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15734

Social Restrictions and Well-Being: Disentangling the Mechanisms

Francesca Foliano, Valentina Tonei, Almudena Sevilla

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15729

Marijuana Legalization and Mental Health

Daniel Borbely, Otto Lenhart, Jonathan Norris, Agnese Romiti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15728

High Speed Internet and the Widening Gender Gap in Adolescent Mental Health: Evidence from Hospital Records

Esther Arenas-Arroyo, Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Natalia Nollenberger

This version: May 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15653

Gender, Loneliness and Happiness during COVID-19

Anthony Lepinteur, Andrew E. Clark, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Alan Piper, Carsten Schröder, Conchita D'Ambrosio

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2022, 101, 101952

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15645

Lost Mind, Lost Job? Unequal Effects of Corporate Downsizings on Employees

Petri Böckerman, Mika Haapanen, Edvard Johansson

published in: German Journal of Human Resource Management, 2024, 38 (4), 413—429

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15629

Social Isolation, Health Dynamics, and Mortality: Evidence across 21 European Countries

Yarine Fawaz, Pedro Mira

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 2483–2518

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15577

The Effect of Removing Early Retirement on Mortality

Cristina Bellés Obrero, Sergi Jimenez-Martin, Han Ye

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15572

Active Commuting and the Health of Workers

Lucía Echeverría, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina

published in: Journal of Transport & Health, 2023, 31, 101626

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15508

Childhood Vaccinations and Demographic Transition: Long-Term Evidence from India

Arindam Nandi, Amit Summan, D. Thoai Ngô, David E. Bloom

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15479

Energy Poverty and Health Care Expenditures: Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies

Peng Nie, Qiaoge Li

published as 'Does energy poverty increase health care expenditures in China?' in: Applied Economics, 2024, 13 (5), 4209-4235s, 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15468

Economic Recession, Parental Unemployment and Adolescents’ Health-Related Quality of Life and Mental Health Outcomes in Greece

Nick Drydakis

published in: Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 2023, 23 (2), 275-298.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15464

Prenatal Exposure to PM2.5 and Infant Birth Outcomes: Evidence from a Population-Wide Database

Babak Jahanshahi, Brian Johnston, Duncan McVicar, Mark E. McGovern, Dermot O’Reilly, Neil Rowland, Stavros Vlachos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15434

Displaced or Depressed? The Effect of Working in Automatable Jobs on Mental Health

Sylvie Blasco, Julie Rochut, Benedicte Rouland

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15433

Unemployment and Health: A Meta-Analysis

Matteo Picchio, Michele Ubaldi

published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2024, 38 (4), 1437-1472

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15403

Sick and Depressed? The Causal Impact of a Diabetes Diagnosis on Depression

Alessio Gaggero, Joan Gil, Dolores Jiménez-Rubio, Eugenio Zucchelli

published in: Health Economics Review, 2023, 13, Article 38 (2023)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15380

A Model of Errors in BMI Based on Self-Reported and Measured Anthropometrics with Evidence from Brazilian Data

Apostolos Davillas, Victor Hugo de Oliveira, Andrew M. Jones

revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2024, 67, 2371–2410

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15371

Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Abilities at Older Ages: Causal Evidence from Nonparametric Bounds

Vikesh Amin, Jere R. Behrman, Jason M. Fletcher, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Hans-Peter Kohler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15349

Disclosing the 'Big C': What Does Cancer Survivorship Signal to Employers?

Philippe Sterkens, Adelina Sharipova, Stijn Baert

published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 24, 671–688

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15305

Housing Unaffordability and Adolescent Subjective Well-Being in China

Peng Nie, Qiaoge Li, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

published online in: Applied Economics, 21 August 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15291

Beyond Barker: Infant Mortality at Birth and Ischaemic Heart Disease in Older Age

Samuel Baker, Pietro Biroli, Hans van Kippersluis, Stephanie von Hinke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15220

Physicians and the Production of Health: Returns to Health Care during the Mortality Transition

Helge Liebert, Beatrice Mäder

published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 22 August 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15211

Integration of Technological and Social Components in a Smart Urban Development Model: A Case Study of China

Almas Heshmati, Somayeh Koohborfardhaghighi, Christopher R. Summers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15208

Domestic Violence and Income: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit

Resul Cesur, Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Jennifer Louise Roff, David Simon

forthcoming in: Journal of Law and Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15200

Epidemic Exposure, Financial Technology, and the Digital Divide

Orkun Saka, Barry Eichengreen, Cevat Giray Aksoy

revised version published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2022, 54 (7), 1913 - 1940

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15182

People versus Machines: The Impact of Being in an Automatable Job on Australian Worker's Mental Health and Life Satisfaction

Grace Lordan, Eliza-Jane Stringer

published in: Economics & Human Biology 2022, 46, 101144

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15181

The Impact of Mental Health Support for the Chronically Ill on Hospital Utilisation: Evidence from the UK

Jonathan Gruber, Grace Lordan, Stephen Pilling, Carol Propper, Rob Saunders

published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2022, 294, 114675

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15178

Universal Credit: Welfare Reform and Mental Health

Mike Brewer, Thang Dang, Emma Tominey

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 98, 102940

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15168

Housing Conditions and Health in Urban China

Lanlin Ding, Peng Nie, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

published in: Cities, 2024, 152, 105248.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15166

The Shadow of the Neolithic Revolution on Life Expectancy: A Double-Edged Sword

Raphaël Franck, Oded Galor, Omer Moav, Ömer Özak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15155

Maternal Displacements during Pregnancy and the Health of Newborns

Stefano Cellini, Livia Menezes, Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15109

Sibling Spillovers and the Choice to Get Vaccinated: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Maria Knoth Humlum, Marius Opstrup Morthorst, Peter Rønø Thingholm

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 94, 102843

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15087

Air Quality and Suicide

Claudia L. Persico, Dave E. Marcotte

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15085

Is Inconsistent Reporting of Self-Assessed Health Persistent and Systematic? Evidence from the UKHLS

Apostolos Davillas, Victor Hugo de Oliveira, Andrew M. Jones

revised version published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2023, 49, 101219

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15062

The Long-Term Effects of In-Utero Exposure to Rubella

Irene Mosca, Anne Nolan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14980

Neo-Humanism and COVID-19: Opportunities for a Socially and Environmentally Sustainable World

Francesco Sarracino, Kelsey J. O'Connor

published in: Applied Research in Quality of Life Studies, 2023, 18, 9 - 41

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14930

Administrative Border Effects in COVID-19 Related Mortality

Paolo Berta, Massimiliano Bratti, Carlo V. Fiorio, Enrico Pisoni, Stefano Verzillo

revised version published oline in: Journal of The Royal Statistical Society, Series A ( Statistics in Society), 11 September 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14903

A Year of Pandemic: Levels, Changes and Validity of Well-Being Data from Twitter. Evidence from Ten Countries

Francesco Sarracino, Talita Greyling, Kelsey J. O'Connor, Chiara Peroni, Stephanié Rossouw

published in: PLos ONE, 2023, 18(2), e0275028.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14899

Managing Dual Practice of Health Workers: Evidence from Indonesia

Paula Gonzalez, Gabriel V. Montes-Rojas, Sarmistha Pal

forthcoming as 'Impact of Private Practice of Public Health Workers on Public Health Provision: Evidence from A Natural Experiment' in: Social Science and Medicine

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14893

The Effects of an Increase in the Retirement Age on Health – Evidence from Administrative Data

Mara Barschkett, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid

published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2022, 23, 100403

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14868

The Health Effects of Universal Early Childhood Interventions: Evidence from Sure Start

Sarah Cattan, Gabriella Conti, Christine Farquharson, Rita Ginja, Maud Pecher

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14816

Mobile DNA and Sleep Quality

Simon Amez, Floor Denecker, Koen Ponnet, Lieven De Marez, Stijn Baert

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14789

Severe Prenatal Shocks and Adolescent Health: Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter