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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. 16186
Labor Supply Effects of a Universal Cash Transfer
Jan Gromadzki
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16175
Temperature and Joint Time Use
Sam Cosaert, Adrián Nieto, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16172
Does a Flexible Parental Leave System Stimulate Maternal Employment?
Lennart Ziegler, Omar Bamieh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16158
Neighbourhood Gangs, Crime Spillovers, and Teenage Motherhood
Christian Dustmann, Mikkel Mertz, Anna Okatenko
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16142
Donations and Unpaid Activities
Olaf Hübler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16130
On a Tendency in Health Economics to Dwell on Income Inequality and Underestimate Social Stress
Oded Stark
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16124
Long-Run Consequences of Informal Elderly Care and Implications of Public Long-Term Care Insurance
Thorben Korfhage, Björn Fischer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16113
Unpacking Neighborhood Effects: Experimental Evidence from a Large-Scale Housing Program in Brazil
Carlos Alberto Belchior, Gustavo Gonzaga, Gabriel Ulyssea
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16097
Marriage versus Cohabitation: How Specialization and Time Use Differ by Relationship Type
Leslie S. Stratton
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16090
Time-Use and Subjective Well-Being: Is Diversity Really the Spice of Life?
Naomi Friedman-Sokuler, Claudia Senik
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16088
Employing the Unemployed of Marienthal: Evaluation of a Guaranteed Job Program
Maximilian Kasy, Lukas Lehner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16077
Refugee Benefit Cuts
Christian Dustmann, Rasmus Landerso, Lars Højsgaard Andersen
accepted for publication in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16073
Happiness in Old Age: The Daughter Connection
Pataporn Sukontamarn, Niaz Asadullah, Nopphawan Photphisutthiphong, Yen Thi Hai Nguyen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16038
Maximum Impact Intergenerational Associations
Sadegh S. M. Eshaghnia, James J. Heckman, Rasmus Landerso
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. 15987
Health Care Centralization: The Health Impacts of Obstetric Unit Closures in the US
Stefanie Fischer, Heather Royer, Corey White
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15976
The Employment Effects of Generous and Unconditional Cash Support
Timo Verlaat, Federico Todeschini, Xavier Ramos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15967
Long COVID in the United States
David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15952
Not That Basic: How Level, Design and Context Matter for the Redistributive Outcomes of Universal Basic Income
Elise Aerts, Ive Marx, Gerlinde Verbist
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15937
The Transformation of Public Policy Analysis in Times of Crisis – A Microsimulation-Nowcasting Method Using Big Data
Cathal O'Donoghue, Denisa Maria Sologon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15923
A Pure Theory of Population Distribution When Preferences Are Ordinal
Holger Stark, Grzegorz Kosiorowski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15922
Understanding the Distributional Impacts of Increases in Fuel Prices on Poverty and Inequality in Paraguay
Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza, Lyliana Gayoso de Ervin, Juan José Galeano, Juan Pablo Baquero
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15916
Rapid Economic Growth but Rising Poverty Segregation: Will Vietnam Meet the SDGs for Equitable Development?
Hai-Anh Dang, Shatakshee Dhongde, Minh N.N. Do, Cuong Viet Nguyen, Obert Pimhidzai
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15904
Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe
Richard A. Easterlin, Kelsey J. O'Connor
published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022, 119 (37), e2210639119.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15899
Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy Using Local Ambassadors: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Indonesia
Asad Islam, Gita Kusnadi, Jahen Rezki, Armand Sim, Giovanni van Empel, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15891
Activating the Long-Term Inactive: Labor Market and Mental Health Effects
Mareen Bastiaans, Robert Dur, Anne C. Gielen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15890
What Drives Paternity Leave: Financial Incentives or Flexibility?
Lennart Ziegler, Omar Bamieh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15873
Poverty Imputation in Contexts without Consumption Data: A Revisit with Further Refinements
Hai-Anh Dang, Talip Kilic, Kseniya Abanokova, Calogero Carletto
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15855
Knocking It Down and Mixing It Up: The Impact of Public Housing Regenerations
Hector Blanco, Lorenzo Neri
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15839
The Morbidity Costs of Air Pollution through the Lens of Health Spending in China
Xin Zhang, Xun Zhang, Yuehua Liu, Xintong Zhao, Xi Chen
forthcoming in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15837
Evolution of Inequality in Nigeria: A Tale of Falling Inequality, Rising Poverty and Regional Heterogeneity
John Chiwuzulum Odozi, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15835
In Need of a Roof: Pandemic and Housing Vulnerability
Kusum Mundra, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15828
Do Fathers Have Son Preference in the United States? Evidence from Paternal Subjective Well-Being
Younghwan Song, Jia Gao
published online in: Review of Economics of the Household, 02 January 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15827
Measuring Poverty Dynamics with Synthetic Panels Based on Repeated Cross-Sections
Hai-Anh Dang, Peter F. Lanjouw
forthcoming in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15816
Children of Communism: The Former Party Membership and Demand for Redistribution
Alexander Libman, Olga Popova
revised version published in: Eastern European Economics, 2023, 61 (3), 199-237
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15809
Worker Satisfaction and Worker Representation: The Jury Is Still Out
John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15803
Revisiting the Connection between State Medicaid Expansions and Adult Mortality
Charles Courtemanche, Jordan Jones, Antonios M. Koumpias, Daniela Zapata
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. 15790
Wellbeing Rankings
David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15742
Do Pension Benefits Accelerate Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Rural China
Plamen Nikolov, Md Shahadath Hossain
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 594 - 617
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15738
Welfare and Distributional Impact of Soaring Prices in Europe
Denisa Maria Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue, Jules Linden, Iryna Kyzyma, Jason Loughrey
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15734
Social Restrictions and Well-Being: Disentangling the Mechanisms
Francesca Foliano, Valentina Tonei, Almudena Sevilla
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. 15715
Teleworking and Life Satisfaction during COVID-19: The Importance of Family Structure
Claudia Senik, Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Anthony Lepinteur, Carsten Schröder
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15680
The Effect of Firm-Level Investment on Inequality and Poverty around the World
Mehmet S. Tosun, Ethan D. Watson, Serhat Yildiz
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
forthcoming in: Journal of Urban Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15670
Households in Transit: COVID-19 and the Changing Measurement of Welfare
Laura Caron, Erwin R. Tiongson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15669
A Measure of Well-Being Efficiency Based on the World Happiness Report
Francesco Sarracino, Kelsey J. O'Connor
published in: International Productivity Monitor, 2022, 43, 10-40.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15658
How to Best Fight Poverty: The Uneven Ex-post Effects of Conditional and Unconditional Cash Transfers on Labor Earnings
Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll, Roberto Quaranta
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15654
Marriage as Insurance: Job Protection and Job Insecurity in France
Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Anthony Lepinteur
forthcoming in: Review of Economics of the Household
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. 15651
Distributional National Accounts for Australia, 1991-2018
Matthew Fisher-Post, Nicolas Herault, Roger Wilkins
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15615
Identifying the Poor – Accounting for Household Economies of Scale in Global Poverty Estimates
Dean Jolliffe, Samuel Kofi Tetteh-Baah
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15611
Intergenerational Mobility in the Land of Inequality
Diogo Britto, Alexandre Fonseca, Paolo Pinotti, Breno Sampaio, Lucas Warwar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15574
The Downward Spiral
Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Karen A. Kopecky
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15565
Global Job Quality: Evidence from Wage Employment across Developing Countries
Shoghik Hovhannisyan, Veronica Montalva-Talledo, Tyler Remick, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Kersten Stamm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15558
The Econometrics of Antidotal Variables
Tirthatanmoy Das, Solomon Polachek
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15554
Organisational Leadership: How Much Does It Matter?
Getinet Astatike Haile
published online in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 26 September 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15547
Child Care in the United States: Markets, Policy, and Evidence
Chris M. Herbst
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15545
Exposure to Past Immigration Waves and Attitudes toward Newcomers
Rania Gihleb, Osea Giuntella, Luca Stella
published in: Migration Studies, 2022, 10 (4), 789-814
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15539
Dreaming of a Brighter Future? The Impact of Economic Vulnerability on University Aspirations
Barry Watson, Nancy Kong, Shelley Phipps
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15533
The Midlife Crisis
Osea Giuntella, Sally McManus, Redzo Mujcic, Andrew J. Oswald, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Ahmed Tohamy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15530
Do Early Episodes of Depression and Anxiety Make Homelessness More Likely?
Julie Moschion, Jan C. van Ours
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 202, 654-674
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15522
The Mental Cost of Job Loss: Assessing the Impact on Young Adults in Vietnam
Richard Freund, Marta Favara, Catherine Porter, Douglas Scott, Duc Le Thuc
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15504
Intergenerational Transmission of Family Influence
Sadegh S. M. Eshaghnia, James J. Heckman, Rasmus Landerso, Rafeh Qureshi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15495
Homeownership and the Perception of Material Security in Old Age
Claudius Garten, Michal Myck, Monika Oczkowska
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15484
Did the Nation-Wide Implementation of e-FMS in MGNREGS Result in Reduced Expenditures? A Re-Examination of the Evidence
Deepti Goel, J. V. Meenakshi, Zaeen De Souza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15479
Energy Poverty and Health Care Expenditures: Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies
Peng Nie, Qiaoge Li
forthcoming in: Applied Economics, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15475
Disparities in Labour Market and Income Trends during the First Year of the COVID-19 Crisis – Evidence from Germany
Carsten Braband, Valentina Sara Consiglio, Markus M. Grabka, Natascha Hainbach, Sebastian Königs
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15471
Long-Term Services and Supports and Disease Management among Older Chinese Adults in Different Stages of Cognitive Impairment
Zhuoer Lin, Xi Chen
published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2022, 23, 100405.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15459
Job Satisfaction and Trade Union Membership in Germany
Laszlo Goerke, Yue Huang
published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102238
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15431
Stigma in Welfare Programs
Pablo Celhay, Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15421
Effects of Extending Paid Parental Leave on Children's Socio-Emotional Skills and Well-Being in Adolescence
Mikkel Aagaard Houmark, Cecilie Marie Løchte Jørgensen, Ida Lykke Kristiansen, Miriam Gensowski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15406
Inequalities in Job Loss and Income Loss in Sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 Crisis
Ivette Contreras-Gonzalez, Gbemisola Oseni, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Janneke Pieters, Michael Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15404
The Great Canadian Recovery: The Impact of COVID-19 on Canada's Labour Market
Stephen R. G. Jones, Fabian Lange, W. Craig Riddell, Casey Warman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15401
Why Should We Integrate Income and Employment Support? A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation
Antonia Asenjo, Veronica Escudero, Hannah Liepmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15396
The Unequal Impact of the COVID Pandemic: Theory and Evidence on Health and Economic Outcomes for Different Income Groups
Cécile Aubert, Hai-Anh Dang, Manh-Hung Nguyen
published as 'The Unequal Impact of Covid-19: Health, Wealth and Behaviors by Income Groups' in: Revue Francaise d'Economie, 2022, 2, 43-77.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15388
Spillover Effects of Old-Age Pension across Generations: Family Labor Supply and Child Outcomes
Katja Maria Kaufmann, Yasemin Özdemir, Han Ye
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15386
How Does Job Coaching Help Disability Insurance Recipients Work While on Claim?
Sébastien Fontenay, Ilan Tojerow
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15377
Take-up and Labor Supply Responses to Disability Insurance Earnings Limits
Judit Krekó, Daniel Prinz, Andrea Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15374
Traditional Norms, Access to Divorce and Women's Empowerment
Olivier Bargain, Jordan Loper, Roberta Ziparo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15360
Occupational Status and Life Satisfaction in the UK: The Miserable Middle?
Yannis Georgellis, Andrew E. Clark, Emmanuel Apergis, Catherine Robinson
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 204, 509-527
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15358
Heterogeneous Returns to Active Labour Market Programs for Indigenous Populations
Donn. L. Feir, Kelly Foley, Maggie E. C. Jones
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15351
Take-up of Social Benefits
Wonsik Ko, Robert A. Moffitt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15326
Does Hotter Temperature Increase Poverty? Global Evidence from Subnational Data Analysis
Hai-Anh Dang, Trong-Anh Trinh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15306
Locus of Control, Self-Control, and Health Outcomes
Ferdi Botha, Sarah C. Dahmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15305
Housing Unaffordability and Adolescent Subjective Well-Being in China
Peng Nie, Qiaoge Li, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15294
Hiding the Elephant: The Tragedy of COVID Policy and Its Economist Apologists
Gigi Foster, Paul Frijters
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15289
De-facto Gaps in Social Protection for Standard and Non-standard Workers: An Approach for Monitoring the Accessibility and Levels of Income Support
Herwig Immervoll, Rodrigo Fernandez, Raphaela Hyee, Jongmi Lee, Daniele Pacifico
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15287
Financial Literacy Amongst Young People: When Does the Gender Gap Begin?
Alison Preston, Robert E. Wright
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15279
The Full Returns to the Choice of Occupation and Education
Andrew E. Clark, Maria Cotofan, Richard Layard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15267
Stable Income, Stable Family
Jason M. Lindo, Krishna Regmi, Isaac D. Swensen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15244
Do Gender, Child, and Parent Characteristics Contribute to Intergenerational Subjective Well-Being Mobility? Evidence from Russia during 1994-2019
Hai-Anh Dang, Kseniya Abanokova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15239
Grandfathers and Grandsons: Social Security Expansion and Child Health in China
Jinyang Yang, Xi Chen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15232
How Reliable Are Social Safety Nets? Value and Accessibility in Situations of Acute Economic Need
Herwig Immervoll, Raphaela Hyee, Rodrigo Fernandez, Jongmi Lee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15228
A Comparative Perspective on Long-Term Care Systems
Rainer Kotschy, David E. Bloom
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
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