IZA Discussion Papers

substantially revised version published as 'Spillover Effects of Drug Safety Warnings on Preventive Health Care Use' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2015, 15(1), 179–208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6324

The Psychic Costs of Migration: Evidence from Irish Return Migrants

Alan Barrett, Irene Mosca

revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 483-506

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6310

The Effectiveness of Health Screening

Franz Hackl, Martin Halla, Michael Hummer, Gerald J. Pruckner

revised version published in: Health Economics, 2015, 24 (8), 913-935

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6307

Long-Run Effects of Gestation During the Dutch Hunger Winter Famine on Labor Market and Hospitalization Outcomes

Robert Scholte, Gerard J. van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 39, 17–30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6280

High on Life? Medical Marijuana Laws and Suicide

D. Mark Anderson, Daniel I. Rees, Joseph J. Sabia

published as 'Medical Marijuana Laws and Suicides by Gender and Age' in: American Journal of Public Health, 2014, 104 (12), 2369-2376

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6126

Work Hours Constraints and Health

David N.F. Bell, Steffen Otterbach, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

published in: Annales d'Économie et de Statistique, 2012, 105-106, 35-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6124

The Impact of the Macroeconomy on Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the Great Recession

John Cawley, Asako S. Moriya, Kosali Simon

published in: Health Economics, 2015, 24 (2), 206 - 223

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6121

Socioeconomic Heterogeneity in the Effect of Health Shocks on Earnings: Evidence from Population-Wide Data on Swedish Workers

Petter Lundborg, Martin Nilsson, Johan Vikström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5901

Health and Economic Development: Evidence from the Introduction of Public Health Care

Anthony Strittmatter, Uwe Sunde

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (4), 1549-1584

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5874

Child Mental Health and Educational Attainment: Multiple Observers and the Measurement Error Problem

David W. Johnston, Carol Propper, Stephen Pudney, Michael A. Shields

published in: BJIR, 2014, 29 (6), 880-900

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5833

The Effect of Health on Income: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Commuting Accidents

Martin Halla, Martina Zweimüller

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 23-38

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5795

Fat Chance! Obesity and the Transition from Unemployment to Employment

Marco Caliendo, Wang-Sheng Lee

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2013, 11 (2), 121-133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5762

Quality and Quantity in Primary Care Mixed Payment Models: Evidence from Family Health Organizations in Ontario

Jasmin Kantarevic, Boris Kralj

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2013, 46 (1), 208-238

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5740

Health Effects on Children's Willingness to Compete

Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, Daniel Schunk

published online in: Experimental Economics, 2012, 15(1), 58-70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5739

Flu Shots, Mammograms, and the Perception of Probabilities

Katherine Grace Carman, Peter Kooreman

published as 'Probability Perceptions and Preventive Health Care' in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2014, 49(1), 43-71

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5688

Recessions Are Bad for Workplace Safety

Jan Boone, Jan C. van Ours, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich, Josef Zweimüller

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (4), 764-773

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5580

Cigarette Taxes and the Social Market

Benjamin Hansen, Joseph J. Sabia, Daniel I. Rees

published as 'Cigarette Taxes and How Youth Obtain Cigarettes' in: National Tax Journal, 2013, 66 (2), 371-394

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5560

Work Absenteeism Due to a Chronic Disease

Guy Lacroix, Marie-Ève Brouard

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5535

The Effect of Prenatal Stress on Birth Weight: Evidence from the al-Aqsa Intifada

Hani Mansour, Daniel I. Rees

published as 'Armed Conflict and Birth Weight: Evidence from the al-Aqsa Intifada' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (1),190-199

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5371

Intergenerational Persistence in Health in Developing Countries: The Penalty of Gender Inequality?

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Samantha Rawlings

Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 286-299

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5213

Parental Job Loss and Infant Health

Jason M. Lindo

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 869 - 897

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5188

Labour Supply, Work Effort and Contract Choice: Theory and Evidence on Physicians

Bernard Fortin, Nicolas Jacquemet, Bruce S. Shearer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5182

Child Health and the Income Gradient: Evidence from China

Yi Chen, Xiaoyan Lei, Li-An Zhou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5152

Health Outcomes and Socio-Economic Status among the Elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS Pilot

John Strauss, Xiaoyan Lei, Albert Park, Yan Shen, James P. Smith, Zhe Yang, Yaohui Zhao

published in: Journal of Population Ageing 3(3-4):111-142, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5135

Does More Money Make You Fat? The Effects of Quasi-Experimental Income Transfers on Adolescent and Young Adult Obesity

Randall K. Q. Akee, Emilia Simeonova, William Copeland, Adrian Angold, Jane E. Costello

published as 'Young Adult Obesity and Household Income: Effects of Unconditional Cash Transfers', American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (2), 1-28

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5066

Partial Identification of Willingness-to-Pay Using Shape Restrictions with an Application to the Value of a Statistical Life

Aaron Sojourner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4992

Disease Prevalence, Disease Incidence, and Mortality in the United States and in England

James Banks, Alastair Muriel, James P. Smith

published in: Demography, 2010, 47 (Supplement), S211- S231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4914

SES Health Gradients during the Epidemiological Transition: The Case of China

Xiaoyan Lei, Nina Yin, Yaohui Zhao

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4883

Mental Health and Labour Market Participation: Evidence from IV Panel Data Models

Paul Frijters, David W. Johnston, Michael A. Shields

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4862

Enhanced Fee-for-Service Model and Access to Physician Services: Evidence from Family Health Groups in Ontario

Jasmin Kantarevic, Boris Kralj, Darrel Weinkauf

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (1), 99-111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4787

Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the

Nicolas R. Ziebarth, Joachim R. Frick

revised version published as 'Welfare-Related Health Inequality: Does the Choice of Measure Matter?' in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 14 (3), 431-442

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4780

The Role of Early-Life Conditions in the Cognitive Decline due to Adverse Events Later in Life

Gerard J. van den Berg, Dorly J. H. Deeg, Maarten Lindeboom, France Portrait

published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (548), F411-F428

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4775

No Country for Fat Men? Obesity, Earnings, Skills, and Health among 450,000 Swedish Men

Petter Lundborg, Paul Nystedt, Dan-Olof Rooth

published as 'Body Size, Skills, and Income: Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings' in: Demography, 2014, 51, 1573-1596

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4717

Mental Health and Working Conditions in European Countries

Elena Cottini, Claudio Lucifora

published in: ILR Review, 2013, 66 (4), 958-988

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4622

On The Rise of Health Spending and Longevity

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

published as 'Accounting for the Rise of Health Spending and Longevity' in: Journal of the European Economics Association, 2021, 19 (1), 536 - 579

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4508

Policy Relevant Heterogeneity in the Value of Statistical Life: New Evidence from Panel Data Quantile Regressions

Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi, James P. Ziliak

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2010, 40 (1), 15-32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4506

Health and Income: A Robust Comparison of Canada and the US

Jean-Yves Duclos, Damien Échevin

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (2), 293 - 302

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4392

The Effect of Lone Motherhood on the Smoking Behaviour of Young Adults

Marco Francesconi, Stephen P. Jenkins, Thomas Siedler

published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (11), 1377-1384

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4370

Does Leaving Welfare Improve Health? Evidence for Germany

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch

published in: Health Economics, 2011, 20 (4), 484-504

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4367

International Differences in Longevity and Health and Their Economic Consequences

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Dana P. Goldman, Darius N. Lakdawalla, Yuhui Zheng, Adam H. Gailey

published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2011, 73 (2), 254-63

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4366

Understanding the Economic Consequences of Shifting Trends in Population Health

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Dana P. Goldman, Darius N. Lakdawalla, Yuhui Zheng, Adam H. Gailey

published as 'The Fiscal Effects of Trends in Public Health' in: National Tax Journal, 2010, 63 (2), 307-324,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4336

Smoking Persistence Across Countries: An Analysis Using Semi-Parametric Dynamic Panel Data Models with Selectivity

Dimitris Christelis, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

revised version published as 'Smoking Persistence Across Countries: a Panel Data Analysis' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 1077 - 1093

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4274

The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Labor Market Outcomes

James P. Smith

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91(3), 478 - 489

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4253

How Does Retirement Affect Health?

Stefanie Behncke

published as 'Does retirement trigger ill health?' in: Health Economics, 2012, 21 (3), 282 - 300

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4209

No Room to Live: Urban Overcrowding in Edwardian Britain

Ian Gazeley, Andrew T. Newell

published as 'Why was urban over-crowding much more severe in Scotland than in the rest of the British Isles? Evidence from the first (1904) official household expenditure survey’ in: European Review of Economic History, 2011, 15 (1), 127-151

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4149

Do the Obese Really Die Younger or Do Health Expenditures Buy Them Extra Years?

Paul Frijters, Juan D. Barón

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4140

Critical Periods During Childhood and Adolescence: A Study of Adult Height Among Immigrant Siblings

Gerard J. van den Berg, Petter Lundborg, Paul Nystedt, Dan-Olof Rooth

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (6), 1521-1557.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4099

Obesity and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the British NCDS

Maarten Lindeboom, Petter Lundborg, Bas van der Klaauw

published as 'Assessing the Impact of Obesity on Labor Market Outcome' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 8 (3), 309-319

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3989

External Validation of the Use of Vignettes in Cross-Country Health Studies

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nicolai Kristensen, Dario Pozzoli

published in: Economic Modelling, 2010, 27 (4), 854-865

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3862

On the Sorting of Physicians across Medical Occupations

Pascal Courty, Gerald Marschke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3826

Parental Marital Disruption, Family Type, and Transfers to Disabled Elderly Parents

Liliana E. Pezzin, Robert Pollak, Barbara Steinberg Schone

published in: Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 2008, 63 (6), S349-S358.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3652

The In-Hospital Mortality Rates of Slaves and Freemen: Evidence from Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855–1860

Jonathan B. Pritchett, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2009, 46 (2), 241-252

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3635

Being Born Under Adverse Economic Conditions Leads to a Higher Cardiovascular Mortality Rate Later in Life: Evidence Based on Individuals Born at Different Stages of the Business Cycle

Gerard J. van den Berg, Gabriele Doblhammer, Kaare Christensen

published in: Demography, 48(2) 2011, 507-530

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3610

Weight Gain in Adolescents and Their Peers

Timothy J. Halliday, Sally Kwak

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 7 (2), 246-262

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3548

Education, Information, and Improved Health: Evidence from Breast Cancer Screening

Keith Chen, Fabian Lange

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (1), 43-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3496

The Effects of Health and Health Shocks on Hours Worked

Lixin Cai, Kostas Mavromaras, Umut Oguzoglu

published in: Health Economics, 2014, 23(5), 516-528

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3257

Subjective Health Assessments and Active Labor Market Participation of Older Men: Evidence from a Semiparametric Binary Choice Model with Nonadditive Correlated Individual-Specific Effects

Jürgen Maurer, Roger Klein, Francis Vella

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (3), 764 - 774

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3229

Physicians' Multitasking and Incentives: Empirical Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Etienne Dumont, Bernard Fortin, Nicolas Jacquemet, Bruce S. Shearer

revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27(6), 1436-1450

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3203

Measurement and Analysis of Child Well-Being in Middle and High Income Countries

Almas Heshmati, Chemen S. J. Bajalan, Arno Tausch

published in: European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2008, 5(2), 227-249

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3123

Long-Run Longevity Effects of a Nutritional Shock Early in Life: The Dutch Potato Famine of 1846–1847

Gerard J. van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom, France Portrait

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29 (5), 617-629

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3107

Pinning Down the Value of Statistical Life

Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi, Christopher Woock, James P. Ziliak

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (1) , 74-87

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2783

Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children: Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare

Javier A. Birchenall, Rodrigo R. Soares

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (1-2), 280-295

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2737

Comparing Subjective and Objective Measures of Health: Evidence from Hypertension for the Income/Health Gradient

David W. Johnston, Carol Propper, Michael A. Shields

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28 (3), 540 - 552

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2625

The German Social Long-Term Care Insurance: Structure and Reform Options

Melanie Arntz, Ralf Sacchetto, Alexander Spermann, Susanne Steffes, Sarah Widmaier

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2589

Peer Effects, Unobserved Factors and Risk Behaviours: An Analysis of Alcohol Abuse and Truancy among Adolescents

Rosa Duarte, José-Julián Escario, José Alberto Molina

published as 'Peer Effects, Unobserved Factors and Risk Behaviours in Adolescence' in: Revista de Economía Aplicada, 2011, 29 (55), 125-152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2539

The SES Health Gradient on Both Sides of the Atlantic

James Banks, Michael Marmot, Zoë Oldfield, James P. Smith

published in: David Wise (ed.), Developments in the Economics of Aging, University of Chicago Press, pp. 359-406, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2472

A Dynamic Model of Demand for Private Health Insurance in Ireland

Claire Finn, Colm P. Harmon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2471

The Long Run Health and Economic Consequences of Famine on Survivors: Evidence from China’s Great Famine

Xin Meng, Nancy Qian

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2393

The Macroeconomics of Targeting: The Case of an Enduring Epidemic

Clive Bell, Hans Gersbach

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28 (1), 54-72

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2323

The Wage Effects of Social Norms: Evidence of Deviations from Peers’ Body-Mass in Europe

René Fahr

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2246

Effects of Attrition and Non-Response in the Health and Retirement Study

Arie Kapteyn, Pierre-Carl Michaud, James P. Smith, Arthur van Soest

published as 'Temporary and permanent unit non-response in follow-up interviews of the Health and Retirement Study' in: Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 2011, 2 (2), 145 - 169

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2134

Rational Alcohol Addiction: Evidence from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey

Badi H. Baltagi, Ingo Geishecker

published in: Health Economics, 2006, 15 (9), 893-914

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1887

Labour Force Participation of the Elderly in Europe: The Importance of Being Healthy

Adriaan Kalwij, Frederic Vermeulen

published as: "Health and labour force participation of older people in Europe: what do objective health indicators add to the analysis?" in: Health Economics, 2008, 17(5), 619-638.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1838

Is There a Link between Economic Outcomes and Genetic Evolution? Cross-Country Evidence from the Major Histocompatibility Complex

José A.M. Borghans, Lex Borghans, Bas ter Weel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1803

Medical Interventions among Pregnant Women in Fee-for-Service and Managed Care Insurance: A Propensity Score Analysis

Leo Turcotte, John Robst, Solomon Polachek

published in: Applied Economics, 2006, 38 (13), 1513-1525

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1784

'Taxing' Doctors: The Impact of Income Caps on the Provision of Medical Services

Boris Kralj, Jasmin Kantarevic, Darrel Weinkauf

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2008, 41(4), 1262-1284

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1532