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725 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17320
Contraceptive Access Creates Positive Selection in Infant Health
James Flynn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17316
The Labor and Health Economics of Breast Cancer
Alexander Ahammer, Gerald J. Pruckner, Flora Stiftinger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17298
Income Effects of Disability Benefits
Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17232
Effects of Health Shocks on Adult Children's Labor Market Outcomes and Well-Being
Eduardo Ramirez Lizardi, Elisabeth Fevang, Knut Røed, Henning Øien
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17215
Long-Term Pre-Conception Exposure to Local Violence and Infant Health
Eunsik Chang, Sandra Orozco-Aleman, María Padilla-Romo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17192
Supply-Side Drug Policy, Polydrug Use, and the Economic Effects of Withdrawal Symptoms
Alexander Ahammer, Analisa Packham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17166
Can Destigmatizing Mental Health Increase Willingness to Seek Help? Experimental Evidence from Nepal
Lindsey Lacey, Nirajana Mishra, Priya Mukherjee, Nikhilesh Prakash, Nishith Prakash, Diane Quinn, Shwetlena Sabarwal, Deepak Saraswat
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17146
Can Expanding Contraceptive Access Reduce Adverse Infant Health Outcomes?
James Flynn
published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 8 May 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17143
How Important Are Mental and Physical Health in Career and Family Choices?
Guido Cozzi, Noemi Mantovan, Robert M. Sauer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17106
Employment Booms and Infant Health: Evidence from the Ready-Made Garment Sector in Bangladesh
Mahima Vasishth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17080
Breastfeeding and Child Development Outcomes across Early Childhood and Adolescence: Doubly Robust Estimation with Machine Learning
Md Mohsan Khudri, Andrew Hussey
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17056
Understanding the Educational Attainment Polygenic Index and Its Interactions with SES in Determining Health in Young Adulthood
Atticus Bolyard, Peter A. Savelyev
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. 17046
Machine Learning and Multiple Abortions
Pradeep Kumar, Catia Nicodemo, Sonia Oreffice, Climent Quintana-Domeque
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17044
Rank, Stress, and Risk: A Conjecture
Oded Stark, Julia Wlodarczyk
published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2024, 350, 116841
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. 17022
Medical Cannabis Availability and Mental Health: Evidence from New York's Medical Cannabis Program
Coleman Drake, Dylan Nagy, David Slusky, Matthew Eisenberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16997
Children's Residential Proximity, Spousal Presence and Dementia Risk
Zhuoer Lin, Xuecheng Yin, Becca R. Levy, Yue Yuan, Xi Chen
published online as 'Association of Children's Residential Proximity and Spousal Presence with Lower Modifiable Risk Factors for Dementia among Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment' in: American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 14 May 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16995
Biological, Behavioural and Spurious Selection on the Kidney Transplant Waitlist
Stephen Kastoryano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16981
Do Empty Beds Cause Cesarean Deliveries?
Florian Bachner, Martin Halla, Gerald J. Pruckner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16971
COVID-19 Lockdown, Home Environment, Lifestyles, and Mental Health among Preschoolers in China
Yuting Zhang, Jin Zhao, Zhangsheng Yu, Guanghai Wang, Jun Zhang, Fan Jiang, Saishuang Wu, Yue Zhang, Donglan Zhang, Xi Chen
published in: Children and Youth Services Review, 2024, 161, 107654
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16949
Sick of Your Poor Neighborhood? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Effects on Health
Linea Hasager, Mia Jørgensen
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. 16920
A Neglected Determinant of Eating Behaviors: Relative Age
Luca Fumarco, Sven A. Hartmann, Francesco Principe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16909
Food Coma Is Real: The Effect of Digestive Fatigue on Adolescents' Cognitive Performance
Justine Hervé, Subha Mani, Jere R. Behrman, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Arindam Nandi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16897
The Effects of Patient Cost-Sharing on Adolescents' Healthcare Utilization and Financial Risk Protection: Evidence from South Korea
Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh, Wonjun Lyou
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2024, 62 (3), 1009-1023.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16883
The Use of Performance Appraisals and Employees' Presenteeism Behavior
Christian Grund, Anna Nießen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16858
The Consequences of Miscarriage on Parental Investments
Aline Bütikofer, Deirdre Coy, Orla Doyle, Rita Ginja
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16839
Talking Therapy: Impacts of a Nationwide Mental Health Service in England
Ekaterina Oparina, Christian Krekel, Sorawoot Srisuma
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16801
Estimating the Effects of Tobacco-21 on Youth Tobacco Use and Sales
Rahi Abouk, Prabal K. De, Michael Pesko
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16791
Improvements in Schooling Opportunities and Teen Births
Lucas N. Garcez, María Padilla-Romo, Cecilia Peluffo, Mayra Pineda-Torres
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16790
Job Loss, Unemployment Insurance, and Health: Evidence from Brazil
Guilherme Amorim, Diogo Britto, Alexandre Fonseca, Breno Sampaio
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16775
Intergenerational Persistence of Education, Smoking and Birth Weight: Evidence from Three Generations
Chiara Costi, Giuseppe Migali, Eugenio Zucchelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16774
Hit-and-Run or Hit-and-Stay? Unintended Effects of a Stricter BAC Limit
Michael French, Gulcin Gumus
revised version published in: Risk Analysis, 2024, 44 (8), 1931 - 1948
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16767
Heterogeneous Effects of Blood Pressure Screening
Fabrice Kämpfen, Irene Mosca
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16720
Trust and Health Care-Seeking Behavior
Michael E. Darden, Mario Macis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16716
Measuring Job Risks When Hedonic Wage Models Do Not Do the Job
Susana Ferreira, Sara Martinez-de-Morentin, Amaya Erro-Garcés
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. 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. 16676
School Starting Age and Infant Health
Cristina Borra, Libertad González, David Patiño
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. 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
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. 16567
Intergenerational Health Mobility in Germany
Daniel Graeber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16562
Killer Alerts? Public Health Warnings and Heat Stroke in Japan
Lester Lusher, Tim Ruberg
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. 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. 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. 16410
Running Up That Hill: Fitness in the Face of Recession
Kerry L. Papps, Alex Bryson, J. James Reade
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16403
"Invisible Killer": Seasonal Allergies and Accidents
Mika Akesaka, Hitoshi Shigeoka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16366
CEO Stress, Aging, and Death
Mark Borgschulte, Marius Guenzel, Canyao Liu, Ulrike Malmendier
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16310
Education and Later-Life Mortality: Evidence from a School Reform in Japan
Kazuya Masuda, Hitoshi Shigeoka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16309
Mental Health in European Economics Departments
Elisa Macchi, Clara Sievert, Valentin Bolotnyy, Paul Barreira
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16307
Social Connections and COVID-19 Vaccination
Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Oleg Firsin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16300
The Education-Health Gradient: Revisiting the Role of Socio-Emotional Skills
Mette Gørtz, Miriam Gensowski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16288
The Oral Contraceptive Pill and Adolescents' Mental Health
Ana Costa-Ramón, N. Meltem Daysal, Ana Rodríguez-González
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16253
Fatal Errors: The Mortality Value of Accurate Weather Forecasts
Jeffrey G. Shrader, Laura Bakkensen, Derek Lemoine
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16248
Financial Incentives and Private Health Insurance Demand on the Extensive and Intensive Margins
Nathan Kettlewell, Yuting Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16236
The Impact of Lead Exposure on Fertility, Infant Mortality, and Infant Birth Outcomes
Karen Clay, Alex Hollingsworth, Edson R. Severnini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16228
When Death Was Postponed: The Effect of HIV Medication on Work, Savings, and Marriage
Mette Ejrnæs, Esteban García-Miralles, Mette Gørtz, Petter Lundborg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16214
Information Campaign on Arsenic Poisoning: Unintended Consequences in Marriage Market
Shyamal Chowdhury, Prachi Singh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16193
Entitled to Property: How Breaking the Gender Barrier Improves Child Health in India
Md Shahadath Hossain, Plamen Nikolov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16187
Socioemotional Development during Adolescence: Evidence from a Large Macro Shock
Ghazala Azmat, Katja Maria Kaufmann, Yasemin Özdemir
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16182
Spouses as Home Health Workers and Cooks: Insights for Applied Research
Shoshana Grossbard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16143
For Better or Worse? Subjective Expectations and Cost-Benefit Trade-Offs in Health Behavior
Gabriella Conti, Pamela Giustinelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16110
Temperature and Fertility: Evidence from Spanish Register Data
Risto Conte Keivabu, Marco Cozzani, Joshua Wilde
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16109
Swallow This: Childhood and Adolescent Exposure to Fast Food Restaurants, BMI, and Cognitive Ability
Sara Abrahamsson, Aline Bütikofer, Krzysztof Karbownik
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16092
Does Extreme Temperature Exposure Take a Toll on Mental Health? Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study
Yanran Chen, Ruochen Sun, Xi Chen, Xuezheng Qin
published in: Environment and Development Economics, 2023, 28 (5), 486-451
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16084
Risk Aversion and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
Anthony Lepinteur, Liyousew G. Borga, Andrew E. Clark, Claus Vögele, Conchita D'Ambrosio
published in: Health Economics, 2023, 32, 1659-1669
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16053
Risk Compensation after COVID-19 Vaccination
Jisoo Hwang, Seung-sik Hwang, Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Jungmin Lee, Junseok Lee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16036
Slow Traffic, Fast Food: The Effects of Time Lost on Food Store Choice
Panka Bencsik, Lester Lusher, Rebecca L.C. Taylor
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. 15990
Precautionary Fertility: Conceptions, Births, and Abortions around Employment Shocks
Anna Bárdits, Anna Adamecz, Márta Bisztray, Andrea Weber, Agnes Szabó-Morvai
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. 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
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15889
Economic Foundations of Contraceptive Transitions: Theories and a Review of the Evidence
Mahesh Karra, Joshua Wilde
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. 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. 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. 15806
A Field Study of Donor Behaviour in the Iranian Kidney Market
Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Daniel Sgroi
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. 15768
Information Provision over the Phone Saves Lives: An RCT to Contain COVID-19 in Rural Bangladesh at the Pandemic's Onset
Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15765
Parental Beliefs, Perceived Health Risks, and Time Investment in Children: Evidence from COVID-19
Gabriella Conti, Michele Giannola, Alessandro Toppeta
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15730
Vaccine-Skeptic Physicians and COVID-19 Vaccination Rates
Andreas Steinmayr, Manuel Rossi
published as 'Vaccine-skeptic physicians and patient vaccination decisions' in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (3), 509-525
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. 15723
Keep Calm and Carry On: The Short- vs. Long-Run Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on (Academic) Performance
Lea Cassar, Mira Fischer, Vanessa Valero
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15720
Physical Isolation and Loneliness: Evidence from COVID Lockdowns in Australia
Nancy Kong, Jack Lam
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15711
Medical Innovation and Health Disparities
Barton H. Hamilton, Andrés Hincapié, Emma C. Kalish, Nicholas W. Papageorge
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15678
Making It Home? Evidence on the Long-Run Impact of an Intensive Support Program for the Chronically Homeless on Housing, Employment and Health
Daniel Kühnle, Guy Johnson, Yi-Ping Tseng
published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2023, 133, 103511
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15671
Regression Discontinuity Evidence on the Effectiveness of the Minimum Legal E-cigarette Purchasing Age
Jeff DeSimone, Daniel Grossman, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 9 (3), 461 – 485
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15656
The Long-Term Impact of In-Utero Cigarette Taxes on Adult Prenatal Smoking
Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Michael Pesko, Serena Phillips
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15645
Lost Mind, Lost Job? Unequal Effects of Corporate Downsizings on Employees
Petri Böckerman, Mika Haapanen, Edvard Johansson
published online in: German Journal of Human Resource Management, 7 April 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15625
Predicting COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake
Elizaveta Pronkina, Daniel I. Rees
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15612
Does College Selectivity Reduce Obesity? A Partial Identification Approach
Giorgio Brunello, Dimitris Christelis, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anastasia Terskaya
published online in: Health Economics, 27 June 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15577
The Effect of Removing Early Retirement on Mortality
Cristina Bellés Obrero, Sergi Jimenez-Martin, Han Ye
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