IZA Discussion Papers

substantially revised version published as 'Gender Norms in High School: Impacts on Risky Behaviors from Adolescence to Adulthood' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 196, 429-456

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11630

Childhood Health Shocks, Comparative Advantage, and Long-Term Outcomes: Evidence from the Last Danish Polio Epidemic

Miriam Gensowski, Torben Heien Nielsen, Nete Munk Nielsen, Maya Rossin-Slater, Miriam Wüst

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 66, 27 - 36

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11566

The Effect of Religiosity on Adolescent Risky Behaviors

Silvia Mendolia, Alfredo R. Paloyo, Ian Walker

published in as 'Intrinsic Religiosity, Personality Traits, and Adolescent Risky Behaviors' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2019, 19 (3), 1-16

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11565

Measuring Physicians' Response to Incentives: Evidence on Hours Worked and Multitasking

Bruce S. Shearer, Nibene Habib Somé, Bernard Fortin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11469

The Effects of DACA on Health Insurance, Access to Care, and Health Outcomes

Osea Giuntella, Jakub Lonsky

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 72, 102320

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11452

Maternal Stress during Pregnancy and Early Childhood Development

Matias Berthelon, Diana Kruger, Rafael Sánchez

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2021, 43, 101047

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11431

The Transmission of Mental Health within Households: Does One Partner's Mental Health Influence the Other Partner's Life Satisfaction?

Silvia Mendolia, Paul McNamee, Oleg Yerokhin

published as 'The transmission of partner mental health to individual life satisfaction: Estimates from a longitudinal household survey' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 68 (4), 494-516

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11336

Parental Beliefs about Returns to Child Health Investments

Pietro Biroli, Teodora Boneva, Akash Raja, Christopher Rauh

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 231 (1), 33 - 57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11183

Commuting and Sickness Absence

Laszlo Goerke, Olga Lorenz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11101

Dynamics in Physical Functioning Limitations

Neha Agarwal, Hans-Peter Kohler, Subha Mani

published as 'Path Dependence in Disability' in: Journal of African Economies, 2022, 31 (4), 329 - 354

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11038

Dual Practice by Health Workers: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10917

Taking the CON out of Pennsylvania: Did Hip and Knee Replacement Patients Benefit?

Susan L. Averett, Sabrina Terrizzi, Yang Wang

published as 'Taking the CON out of Pennsylvania: Did hip/knee replacement patients benefit? A retrospective analysis' in: Health Policy and Technology, 2019, 8 (4), 349 - 355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10810

Economic Conditions at Birth and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Adulthood: Evidence from New Cohorts

Rob Alessie, Viola Angelini, Gerard J. van den Berg, Jochen O. Mierau, Laura Viluma

published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 224, 77-84

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10807

War during Childhood: The Long Run Effects of Warfare on Health

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 53, 117–130.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10779

Run For Your Life? The Effect of Close Elections on the Life Expectancy of Politicians

Mark Borgschulte, Jacob Vogler

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 167, 18 - 32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10765

The 'Soda Tax' is Unlikely to Make Mexicans Lighter: New Evidence on Biases in Elasticities of Demand for Soda

Mabel Andalón, John Gibson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10651

The Impact of Parental Health on Children's Schooling and Labour Force Participation: Evidence from Vietnam

Silvia Mendolia, Thi Nguyen, Oleg Yerokhin

published as 'The impact of parental illness on children’s schooling and labour force participation: evidence from Vietnam' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2019, 17, 469 - 492

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10589

The Lasting Legacy of Seasonal Influenza: In-Utero Exposure and Labor Market Outcomes

Hannes Schwandt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10524

The Effect of Working Hours on Health

Inés Berniell, Jan Bietenbeck

revised version published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2020, 39, 100901

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10489

The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on the Labor Supply of Older Adults: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Lauren Hersch Nicholas, J. Catherine Maclean

published in: Journal of policy analysis and management, 2019, 38 (2), 455-80.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10304

Immigration and the Reallocation of Work Health Risks

Osea Giuntella, Fabrizio Mazzonna, Catia Nicodemo, Carlos Vargas-Silva

published in: Journal of Population of Economics, 2019, 32, 1009 - 1042

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10185

The Effects of Minimum Wages on the Health of Working Teenagers

Susan L. Averett, Julie K. Smith, Yang Wang

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2017, 24 (16), 1127 - 1130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10134

Social Norms and Teenage Smoking: The Dark Side of Gender Equality

Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

substantially revised version published as 'Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Social Norms and Teenage Smoking' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 222, 122-132

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10115

Can Natural Gas Save Lives? Evidence from the Deployment of a Fuel Delivery System in a Developing Country

Resul Cesur, Erdal Tekin, Aydogan Ulker

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 59, 91 - 108

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10072

The Demand for Season of Birth

Damian Clarke, Sonia Oreffice, Climent Quintana-Domeque

revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34, 707-72

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10020

The Causal Effect of Education on Health Behaviors: Evidence from Turkey

Aysit Tansel, Deniz Karaoğlan

revised version published as 'The Effect of Education on Health Behaviors and Obesity in Turkey: Instrumental Varable Estimates from a Developing Country' in: European Journal of Development Research, 2019, 31 (5),1416-1448.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10019

Mind, Behaviour and Health: A Randomised Experiment

Yonas Alem, Hannah Behrendt, Michèle Belot, Aniko Biro

published in: PLoS ONE, 2021, 16 (11), e0258172

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9907

The Effect of Weight on Labor Market Outcomes: An Application of Genetic Instrumental Variables

Petri Böckerman, John Cawley, Jutta Viinikainen, Terho Lehtimäki, Suvi Rovio, Ilkka Seppälä, Jaakko Pehkonen, Olli Raitakari

published in: Health Economics, 2019, 28 (1), 65-77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9811

Energy Boom and Gloom? Local Effects of Oil and Natural Gas Drilling on Subjective Well-Being

Karen Maguire, John V. Winters

published in: Growth and Change, 2017, 48 (4), 590-610

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9772

Cost-Sharing and Use of Health Services in Italy: Evidence from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design

Michela Ponzo, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Economic Modelling, 2021, 103, 105599.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9688

Parental Influences on Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees

Mikael Lindahl, Evelina Björkegren, Mårten Palme, Emilia Simeonova

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9682

Soda Taxes and the Prices of Sodas and Other Drinks: Evidence from Mexico

Jeffrey Grogger

published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2017, 99 (2), 481-498

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9664

The Acceleration of Immigrant Unhealthy Assimilation

Osea Giuntella, Luca Stella

published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (4), 511-518

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9652

Religion and Depression in Adolescence

Jane Cooley Fruehwirth, Sriya Iyer, Anwen Zhang

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 127 (3), 1178–1209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9620

Are Japanese Men of Pensionable Age Underemployed or Overemployed?

Emiko Usui, Satoshi Shimizutani, Takashi Oshio

published in: Japanese Economic Review, 2016, 67 (2), 150 - 168

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9609

The Dynamic Effect of Disability on Work and Subjective Wellbeing in Australia

Melanie K. Jones, Kostas Mavromaras, Peter J. Sloane, Zhang Wei

published in Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (3), 635–657

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9498

Education, Health and Fertility of UK Immigrants: The Role of English Language Skills

Yu Aoki, Lualhati Santiago

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9483

Job Loss, Firm?Level Heterogeneity and Mortality: Evidence from Administrative Data

Hans Bloemen, Stefan Hochguertel, Jochem Zweerink

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 59, 78-90

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9400

Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water and Mental Health

Shyamal Chowdhury, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Klaus F. Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9397

Height, Weight and Well-Being for Rural, Urban and Migrant Workers in China

Wang-Sheng Lee, Zhong Zhao

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2017, 132 (1), 117-136

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9369

The Relationship between Health and Schooling: What's New?

Michael Grossman

published in: Nordic Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 3 (1), 7 -17

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9351

The Effects of Immigration on NHS Waiting Times

Osea Giuntella, Catia Nicodemo, Carlos Vargas-Silva

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 123 - 143

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9280

Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Is It a One-Way Street?

Petter Lundborg, Kaveh Majlesi

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 57, 206 - 220

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9235

Feeling Useless: The Effect of Unemployment on Mental Health in the Great Recession

Lídia Farré, Francesco Fasani, Hannes Mueller

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics (2018) 7(1), 1-34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9186

Protecting Working-Age People with Disabilities: Experiences of Four Industrialized Nations

Richard V. Burkhauser, Mary C. Daly, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: Journal of Labour Market Research, 2016, 49 (4), 367-386

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9176

The Effect of Income on Mortality: New Evidence for the Absence of a Causal Link

Alexander Ahammer, Thomas Horvath, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, 2017, 180 (3), 793 - 816

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9175

Birth Weight in the Long-Run

Prashant Bharadwaj, Petter Lundborg, Dan-Olof Rooth

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53(1), 189-231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9174

Health and Unemployment during Macroeconomic Crises

Prashant Bharadwaj, Petter Lundborg, Dan-Olof Rooth

published as "Birth weight and vulnerability to a macroeconomic crisis": Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 66, 136-144.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9142

Physician Payment Contracts in the Presence of Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection: The Theory and its Application to Ontario

Jasmin Kantarevic, Boris Kralj

published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25 (10), 1326-40.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9093

The Long-term Health Effects of Fetal Malnutrition: Evidence from the 1959-1961 China Great Leap Forward Famine

Seonghoon Kim, Belton M. Fleisher, Jessica Ya Sun

published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (10), 1264 - 1277

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9087

Peer Effects, Fast Food Consumption and Adolescent Weight Gain

Bernard Fortin, Myra Yazbeck

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 42, 125-138

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8911

Long Work Hours and Health in China

Peng Nie, Steffen Otterbach, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

published in: China Economic Review, 2015, 33, 212-229

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8852

Long-Term Health Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service: A Quasi-Experiment Using Australian Conscription Lotteries

David W. Johnston, Michael A. Shields, Peter Siminski

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 45, 12-26.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8740

Do NEETs Need Grit?

Silvia Mendolia, Ian Walker

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:19

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8658

Individual Survival Curves Comparing Subjective and Observed Mortality Risks

Luc Bissonnette, Michael D. Hurd, Pierre-Carl Michaud

published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (12), e285-e303

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8637

Is the BMI a Relic of the Past?

Wang-Sheng Lee

revised version published as 'Body Fatness Charts Based on BMI and Waist Circumference" in: Obesity, 2016, 24 (1), 245–249

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8633

Does Marriage Make You Healthier?

Nezih Guner, Yuliya Kulikova, Joan Llull

published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 162-190

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8544

Allergy Test: Seasonal Allergens and Performance in School

Dave E. Marcotte

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 40, 132-140.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8528

Peer Effects on Childhood and Adolescent Obesity in China

Peng Nie, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Xiaobo He

published in: China Economic Review, 2015, 35, 47-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8492

Moral Hazard and Less Invasive Medical Treatment for Coronary Artery Disease: The Case of Cigarette Smoking

Jesse Margolis, Jason Hockenberry, Michael Grossman, Shin-Yi Chou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8481

Intermarriage and the Unhealthy Assimilation of Immigrant Descendants

Osea Giuntella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8391

Maternal Working Hours and the Well-Being of Adolescent Children

Silvia Mendolia

published in Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2016, 37, 566 - 580

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8389

Income Receipt and Mortality: Evidence from Swedish Public Sector Employees

Elvira Andersson, Petter Lundborg, Johan Vikström

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 131, 21 - 32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8298

Wealth Shocks and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Stock Market Fluctuations

Hannes Schwandt

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (4), 349-77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8297

Workplace Health Promotion and Labour Market Performance of Employees

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015,43, 170-189

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8269

The Effect of Personality Traits on Subject Choice and Performance in High School: Evidence from an English Cohort

Silvia Mendolia, Ian Walker

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 43 , 47-65

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8262

Health Behaviors and Education in Turkey

Aysit Tansel, Deniz Karaoğlan

revised version is published as 'Determinants of Health Behaviors and Obesity in Turkey' in: Sosyoekonomi, 2020, 27 (41), 11–40.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8232

Mister Sandman, Bring Me Good Marks! On the Relationship Between Sleep Quality and Academic Achievement

Stijn Baert, Eddy Omey, Dieter Verhaest, Aurélie Vermeir

revised version published in: Social Science and Medicine , 2015, 130, 91 - 98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8170

Economic Behavior under Alcohol Influence: An Experiment on Time, Risk, and Social Preferences

Luca Corazzini, Antonio Filippin, Paolo Vanin

published in: PloS ONE, 10(4), e0121530

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8073

Do Immigrants Bring Good Health?

Osea Giuntella, Fabrizio Mazzonna

published in: Journal of Health Economics ,2015, 43, 140–153

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8042

Why Do Some Motorbike Riders Wear a Helmet and Others Don't? Evidence from Delhi, India

Michael Grimm, Carole Treibich

published in: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2016, 88, 318-336.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8031

Newborn Health and the Business Cycle: Is It Good to Be Born in Bad Times?

Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll, Libertad González

published as 'Recessions and Babies' Health' in: Economics & Human Biology, Volume 37, May 2020, 100836.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8024

The Quantity and Quality of Children: A Semi-Parametric Bayesian IV Approach

Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter, Martin Halla, Alexandra Posekany, Gerald J. Pruckner, Thomas Schober

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7990

Donating Time to Charity: Not Working for Nothing

Yu Aoki

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (1), 97 - 117

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7936

Family Employees and Absenteeism

Jörn Block, Laszlo Goerke, José María Millán, Concepción Román

published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 123 (1), 94-99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7900

Empowering Women: The Effect of Schooling on Young Women's Knowledge and Use of Contraception

Mabel Andalón, Jenny Williams, Michael Grossman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7891

Is Work Bad for Health? The Role of Constraint vs Choice

Andrea Bassanini, Eve Caroli

published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 119-120, 13-37

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7835

Physician Payment Mechanisms, Hospital Length of Stay and Risk of Readmission: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Damien Échevin, Bernard Fortin

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 36, 112-124

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7790

"High"-School: The Relationship between Early Marijuana Use and Educational Outcomes

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sonja C. de New, Trinh Le, Duncan McVicar, Rong Zhang

published in: Economic Record, 2015, 91(293), 247-266

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7766

Public, Private or Both? Analysing Factors Influencing the Labour Supply of Medical Specialists

Terence Chai Cheng, Guyonne Kalb, Anthony Scott

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2018, 51 (2), 659-691.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7713

Individual Behavior as a Pathway between Early-Life Shocks and Adult Health: Evidence from Hunger Episodes in Post-War Germany

Iris Kesternich, Bettina M. Siflinger, James P. Smith, Joachim Winter

published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (588), F372-F393

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7622

Accounting for the Rise of Health Spending and Longevity

Raquel Fonseca, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Arie Kapteyn, Titus Galama

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (1), 536–579

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7620

Mental Illness and Unhappiness

Richard Layard, Dan Chisholm, Vikram Patel, Shekhar Saxena

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7605

Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality

Gerard J. van den Berg, Bitte Modin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7588

Why Does the Health of Immigrants Deteriorate? Evidence from Birth Records

Osea Giuntella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7586

Peer Groups, Employment Status and Mental Well-being among Older Adults in Ireland

Eibhlin Hudson, Alan Barrett

published as 'Peer Groups, Employment Status and Depressive Symptoms among Older Adults in Ireland' in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2014, 7 (1), 43-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7538

Health and Health Behaviors during the Worst of Times: Evidence from the Great Recession

Erdal Tekin, Chandler McClellan, Karen Jean Minyard

published as 'Health and health behaviors during the great recession: a note on drinking, smoking, obesity, and physical activity' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 16, 1017 - 1026

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7535

Community Effects on Elderly Health: Evidence from CHARLS National Baseline

James P. Smith, Meng Tian, Yaohui Zhao

published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2013, 1-2, 50 - 59,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7428

A Model of Worker Investment in Safety and Its Effects on Accidents and Wages

José R. Guardado, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

revised version published as 'Worker Investment in Safety, Workplace Accidents, and Compensating Wage Differentials' in: International Economic Review, 2019, 60 (1), 133-155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7424

Stature and Life-Time Labor Market Outcomes: Accounting for Unobserved Differences

Petri Böckerman, Jari Vainiomäki

published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24 (1), 86-96

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7396

Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of Local Economic Conditions on Health

Jason M. Lindo

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 40, 83-96

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