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The IZA Discussion Paper Series (ISSN: 2365-9793) disseminates high-quality research by IZA network members to the scientific community and the interested public worldwide before they are later published in academic journals. Comprising over 14,000 papers, IZA's publication flagship is the most influential working paper series in labor economics. 

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1,169 IZA Discussion Papers
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
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15202
Lost in the Net? Broadband Internet and Youth Mental Health
Dante Donati, Ruben Durante, Francesco Sobbrio, Dijana Zejcirovic
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15192
Who Increases Emergency Department Use? New Insights from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment
Augustine Denteh, Helge Liebert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15190
Disentangling the Attractiveness of Telework to Employees: A Factorial Survey Experiment
Eline Moens, Elsy Verhofstadt, Luc Van Ootegem, Stijn Baert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15178
Universal Credit: Welfare Reform and Mental Health
Mike Brewer, Thang Dang, Emma Tominey
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15170
Making Activation for Young Welfare Recipients Mandatory
Espen S. Dahl, Øystein Hernaes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15153
Geographies of Socio-Economic Inequality
Maarten van Ham, David Manley, Tiit Tammaru
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15144
Child Labor Bans, Employment, and School Attendance: Evidence from Changes in the Minimum Working Age
Mireille Kozhaya, Fernanda Martínez Flores
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15140
Are Retirees More Satisfied? Anticipation and Adaptation Effects: A Causal Panel Analysis of German Statutory Insured and Civil Service Pensioners
Joachim Merz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15113
Can Public Policy Increase Paternity Acknowledgment? Evidence from Earnings-Related Parental Leave
Anna Raute, Andrea Weber, Galina Zudenkova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15071
To Work or Not to Work? Effects of Temporary Public Employment on Future Employment and Benefits
Eva Mörk, Lillit Ottosson, Ulrika Vikman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15053
Socially Optimal Crime and Punishment
Eduardo Ferraz, Rodrigo R. Soares
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15046
The Marginal Labor Supply Disincentives of Welfare: Evidence from Administrative Barriers to Participation
Robert A. Moffitt, Matthew V. Zahn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15022
Earmarked Paternity Leave and Well-Being
Pontus Korsgren, Max van Lent
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15007
Impacts of State Paid Family Leave Policies for Older Workers with Spouses or Parents in Poor Health
Breno Braga, Barbara A. Butrica, Stipica Mudrazija, H.E. Peters
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14995
What Leads to Measurement Errors? Evidence from Reports of Program Participation in Three Surveys
Pablo Celhay, Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14990
Health and Labor Market Impacts of Twin Birth: Evidence from a Swedish IVF Policy Mandate
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Damian Clarke, Hanna Mühlrad, Mårten Palme
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14980
Neo-Humanism and COVID-19: Opportunities for a Socially and Environmentally Sustainable World
Francesco Sarracino, Kelsey J. O'Connor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14968
Do Changes in Employment and Hours Worked Contribute to a Decreasing in the Mental Health of Single Mothers during a Period of Welfare Reform in the UK? A Longitudinal Analysis (2009-2019)
Julija Simpson, Clare Bambra, Heather Brown
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14967
Gimme Shelter. Social Distancing and Income Support in Times of Pandemic
Ulugbek Aminjonov, Olivier Bargain, Tanguy Bernard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14958
Dynamic Impacts of Lockdown on Domestic Violence: Evidence from Multiple Policy Shifts in Chile
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Emilia Brito, Damian Clarke, Pilar Larroulet, Francisco J. Pino
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14939
Worker Stress and Performance Pay: German Survey Evidence
Mehrzad B. Baktash, John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14929
COVID-19 Government Responses to Labour Market Disruptions and Economic Impacts: The New Zealand Model
Sholeh A. Maani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14914
Trade and Inequality in Europe and the US
David Dorn, Peter Levell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14909
Being Your Own Boss and Bossing Others: The Moderating Effect of Managing Others on Work Meaning and Autonomy for the Self-Employed and Employees
Milena Nikolova, Boris Nikolaev, Christopher Boudreaux
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14882
Older Immigrants' New Poverty Risk in Scandinavian Welfare States?
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Vibeke Jakobsen, Hanna Mac Innes, Peder J. Pedersen, Torun Österberg
published online in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 06 Dec 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14881
Home Alone: Widows' Well-Being and Time
Maja Adena, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Michal Myck, Monika Oczkowska
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14880
Access to Head Start and Maternal Labor Supply: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Jocelyn Wikle, Riley Wilson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14870
Time, Income and Subjective Well-Being - 20 Years of Interdependent Multidimensional Polarization in Germany
Joachim Merz, Bettina Scherg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14866
The Welfare Effects of Mandatory Reemployment Programs: Combining a Structural Model and Experimental Data
Jonas Maibom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14857
Are Student-Athletes Exploited?
James J. Heckman, Colleen P. Loughlin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14826
The Psychological Gains from COVID-19 Vaccination: Who Benefits the Most?
Manuel Bagues, Velichka Dimitrova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14819
Redistributive Effect and the Progressivity of Taxes and Benefits: Evidence for the UK, 1977-2018
Nicolas Herault, Stephen P. Jenkins
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14809
Childhood Adversity and Energy Poverty
Zhiming Cheng, Liwen Guo, Russell Smyth, Massimiliano Tani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14795
Does Grandparenting Pay off for the Next Generations? Intergenerational Effects of Grandparental Care
Mara Barschkett, C. Katharina Spieß, Elena Ziege
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14786
Improving Women's Mental Health during a Pandemic
Michael Vlassopoulos, Abu Siddique, Tabassum Rahman, Debayan Pakrashi, Asad Islam, Firoz Ahmed
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14771
Comparing Receipt of Social Assistance in Urban and Rural China and the Role of Ethnicity
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ding Sai
forthcoming in: China: An International Journal (CIJ), 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14761
A Social-Psychological Reconstruction of Amartya Sen's Measures of Inequality and Social Welfare
Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14752
Two Decades of Welfare Reforms in Australia: How Did They Affect Single Mothers and Their Children?
Alexandra de Gendre, Stefanie Schurer, Angela Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14749
The Happy Cultural Omnivore? Exploring the Relationship between Cultural Consumption Patterns and Subjective Well-Being
Enrico Bertacchini, Valentina Bolognesi, Alessandra Venturini, Roberto Zotti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14737
Rising Top-Income Persistence in Australia: Evidence from Income Tax Data
Nicolas Herault, Dean Hyslop, Stephen P. Jenkins, Roger Wilkins
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14729
Employer Sanctions: A Policy with a Pitfall?
Oded Stark, Marcin Jakubek
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14722
Physical Pain, Gender, and the State of the Economy in 146 Nations
Lucía Macchia, Andrew J. Oswald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14721
Television, Health, and Happiness: A Natural Experiment in West Germany
Adrian Chadi, Manuel Hoffmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14720
Mobile Broadband Internet, Poverty and Labor Outcomes in Tanzania
Kalvin Bahia, Pau Castells, Genaro Cruz, Takaaki Masaki, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Viviane Sanfelice
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14712
Double-Edged Sword: Persistent Effects of Communism on Life Satisfaction
Vladimir Otrachshenko, Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14693
Child Health and Parental Responses to an Unconditional Cash Transfer at Birth
Alexandra de Gendre, John Lynch, Aurélie Meunier, Rhiannon Pilkington, Stefanie Schurer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14680
Lower and Upper Bound Estimates of Inequality of Opportunity for Emerging Economies
Paul Hufe, Andreas Peichl, Daniel Weishaar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14674
Targeted Poverty Alleviation and Children's Academic Performance in China
Huifu Nong, Qing Zhang, Hongjia Zhu, Rong Zhu
forthcoming in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14667
Conditional Cash Transfers and Labor Market Conditions
Teresa Molina, Joaquim Vidiella-Martin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14665
Have Girls Been Left behind during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Gender Differences in Pandemic Effects on Children's Mental Wellbeing
Silvia Mendolia, Agne Suziedelyte, Anna Zhu
forthcoming in: Economics Letters
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14645
Why Does Happiness Respond Differently to an Increase vs. Decrease in Income?
Richard A. Easterlin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14638
The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Subjective Well-Being of Workers: An Event Study Based on High-Frequency Panel Data
Julia Schmidtke, Clemens Hetschko, Ronnie Schöb, Gesine Stephan, Michael Eid, Mario Lawes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14635
Getting Warmer: Fuel Poverty, Objective and Subjective Health and Well-Being
Apostolos Davillas, Andrew Burlinson, Hui-Hsuan Liu
revised version accepted: Energy Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14632
The Analysis of Human Feelings: A Practical Suggestion for a Robustness Test
Jeffrey R. Bloem, Andrew J. Oswald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14631
Data Scarcity and Poverty Measurement
Hai-Anh Dang, Peter F. Lanjouw
forthcoming in: Jacques Silber (Eds.) Handbook of Research on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation. Edward Elgar Press.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14606
Estimating Poverty among Refugee Populations: A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad
Theresa Beltramo, Hai-Anh Dang, Ibrahima Sarr, Paolo Verme
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14587
Exposure to Neighborhood Violence and Child-Parent Conflict among a Longitudinal Sample of Dutch Adolescents
Jaap Nieuwenhuis, Matt Best, Matt Vogel, Maarten van Ham, Susan Branje, Wim Meeus
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14586
Energy Poverty and Entrepreneurship
Zhiming Cheng, Massimiliano Tani, Haining Wang
published in: Energy Economics, 2021, 102, 105469
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14585
Welfare versus Work under a Negative Income Tax: Evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver and Manitoba Income Maintenance Experiments
Chris Riddell, W. Craig Riddell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14584
Athletes Greatly Benefit from Participation in Sports at the College and Secondary Level
James J. Heckman, Colleen P. Loughlin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14570
The Welfare Effects of Time Reallocation: Evidence from Daylight Saving Time
Joan Costa-Font, Sarah Flèche, Ricardo Pagan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14565
Return-to-Work Policies' Clawback Regime and Labor Supply in Disability Insurance Programs
Arezou Zaresani, Miguel Olivo-Villabrille
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14564
Do State Snap Policies Influence Program Participation among Seniors?
Jordan Jones, Charles Courtemanche, Augustine Denteh, James Marton, Rusty Tchernis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14555
How Collective Bargaining Shapes Poverty: New Evidence for Developed Countries
Kevin Pineda-Hernández, Francois Rycx, Mélanie Volral
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14546
School Health Programs: Education, Health, and Welfare Dependency of Young Adults
Signe A. Abrahamsen, Rita Ginja, Julie Riise
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14544
Poverty in Russia: A Bird's-Eye View of Trends and Dynamics in the past Quarter of Century
Kseniya Abanokova, Hai-Anh Dang
forthcoming in: Jacques Silber (Eds.) Handbook of Research on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation. Edward Elgar Press.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14522
Measuring Performance: Ranking State Success over Two Decades in India
Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Arka Roy Chaudhuri, Saattvic
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14521
Looking for a Star: Evaluating the Effect of the Cohesion Policy on Regional Well-Being
Giuseppe Albanese, Vincenzo Carrieri, Maria Maddalena Speziali
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14517
American Delusion: Life Expectancy and Welfare in the US from an International Perspective
Rodrigo R. Soares, Rudi Rocha, Michel Szklo
forthcoming in: Journal of Human Capital, 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14513
Keeping Refugee Children in School and Out of Work: Evidence from the World's Largest Humanitarian Cash Transfer Program
Aysun Hızıroğlu Aygün, Murat G. Kirdar, Murat Koyuncu, Quentin Stoeffler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14452
Transitory Income Changes and Consumption Smoothing: Evidence from Mexico
Manuela Angelucci, Carlos Chiapa, Silvia Prina, Irvin Rojas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14447
A Local Community Course That Raises Wellbeing and Pro-sociality: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial
Christian Krekel, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Daisy Fancourt, Richard Layard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14444
Capital Fundamentalism and Structural Transformation
Achmad Tohari, Christopher Parsons, Anu Rammohan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14443
Bombing and the Two Vietnams
Vu Vuong, Simon Chang, Michael Palmer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14431
Happy to Help: The Welfare Effects of a Nationwide Micro-Volunteering Programme
Paul Dolan, Christian Krekel, Ganga Shreedhar, Helen Lee, Claire Marshall, Allison Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14406
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Individual Poverty: Assessing Collective Model Predictions against Direct Evidence on Sharing
Olivier Bargain, Guy Lacroix, Luca Tiberti
forthcoming in: Economic Journal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14396
Errors in Reporting and Imputation of Government Benefits and Their Implications
Pablo Celhay, Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14388
COVID-19 and Mental Health of Individuals with Different Personalities
Eugenio Proto, Anwen Zhang
revised version published in: PNAS (Proceeding of the National Academy of Science), September 14, 2021, 118 (37), e2109282118
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14377
Using Machine Learning to Create an Early Warning System for Welfare Recipients
Dario Sansone, Anna Zhu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14370
Death and Destitution: The Global Distribution of Welfare Losses from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Olivier Sterck, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Benoit Decerf
published in: LSE Public Policy Review, 2021, 4:2, 1- 11 http://doi.org/10.31389/lseppr.34
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14365
The Design of Disease Maps Shapes Perceptions of Threat and Public Policy Preferences
Claudia Engel, Jonathan Rodden, Marco Tabellini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14359
Parents under Stress – Evaluating Emergency Childcare Policies during the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Germany
Simone Schüller, Hannah S. Steinberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14358
Literacy and Information
Achmad Tohari, Christopher Parsons, Anu Rammohan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14357
Why a Labour Market Boom Does Not Necessarily Bring Down Inequality: Putting Together Germany's Inequality Puzzle
Martin Biewen, Miriam Sturm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14347
Estimating Social Preferences Using Stated Satisfaction: Novel Support for Inequity Aversion
Lina Diaz, Daniel Houser, John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14343
Widows’ Time, Time Stress and Happiness: Adjusting to Loss
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Michal Myck, Monika Oczkowska
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