IZA Discussion Papers

published online as 'Intersectional analysis of the labour market impacts of COVID on women with young children and in low-skilled jobs' in: International Journal of Manpower, 19 September 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17223

Loneliness during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Five European Countries

Anthony Lepinteur, Alessio Rebechi, Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Nicholas Rohde, Claus Vögele

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2024, 55, 101427

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17222

When Do Ordinal Ability Rank Effects Emerge? Evidence from the Timing of School Closures

Marco Bertoni, Saeideh Parkam

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17173

Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining: The Role of Study Time and Class Recordings on University Students' Performance during COVID-19

Chiara Binelli, Simona Lorena Comi, Elena Meschi, Laura Pagani

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 225, 305-328

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17151

Gender Gaps in Time Use: Pan-European Evidence from School Closures during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Benjamin Elsner, Manvi Jindal, Massimiliano Mascherini, Sanna Nivakoski

forthcoming in: Economic and Social Review

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17139

Pandemic Layoffs and the Role of Stay-at-Home Orders

Marianna Kudlyak, Erin L. Wolcott

published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 242, 111894

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17049

Wages and Employment in the Netherlands, 2017-2023

Iris Klinker, Bas ter Weel

published in: De Economist, 2024, 172 (3), 233-256

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17001

The Impacts of COVID-19 on Female Labor Force Participation in Iran

Hai-Anh H Dang, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Minh N.N. Do

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16985

Navigating Educational Disruptions: The Gender Divide in Parental Involvement and Children's Learning Outcomes

Matías Ciaschi, Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez, Mariana Viollaz

published online in: Review of Economics of the Household, 08 November 2024

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. 16963

Can Awareness Reduce (and Reverse) Identity-Driven Bias in Judgement? Evidence from International Cricket

Subhasish M Chowdhury, Sarah Jewell, Carl Singleton

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 226, 106697.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16939

COVID-19 and Political Preferences through Stages of the Pandemic: The Case of the Czech Republic

Alena Bičáková, Štepán Jurajda

published online as 'Political Preferences Through Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic' in: Political Research Quarterly, 12 March 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16932

The Big Shift in Working Arrangements: Eight Ways Unusual

Steven J. Davis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16907

Well-Being throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany: Gendered Effects of Daycare and School Closures

Mathias Huebener, Sevrin Waights, C. Katharina Spieß

published in: K. Couch (ed.), Handbook of Inequality and COVID-19, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025, 183 - 197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16906

Did COVID-19 (Permanently) Raise the Demand for "Teleworkable" Jobs?

Massimiliano Bratti, I. Brunetti, A. Corvasce, Agata Maida, Andrea Ricci

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16891

Can Crises Affect Citizen Activism? Evidence from a Pandemic

Farzana Afridi, Ahana Basistha, Amrita Dhillon, Danila Serra

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16884

Immigrant Key Workers: Their Contribution to Europe's COVID-19 Response

Francesco Fasani, Jacopo Mazza

forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Inequality

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16832

Volatility Spillover between Oil Prices and Main Exchange Rates: Evidence from a DCC-GARCH-Connectedness Approach

Leila Ben Salem, Montassar Zayati, Ridha Nouira, Christophe Rault

revised version published inn: Resources Policy, 2024, 91, 104880

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16793

Violence against Women and the Substitution of Help Services in Times of Lockdown: Triangulation of Three Data Sources in Germany

Cara Ebert, Janina Isabel Steinert

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, 232, 106879

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16772

Nursing before and after COVID-19: Outflows, Inflows and Self-Employment

Guyonne Kalb, Jordy Meekes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16737

The Importance of Existing Social Protection Programs for Mental Health in Pandemic Times

Teresa Molina, Yoon Y. Cho

published online in: World Bank Economic Review, 21 February 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16731

COVID-19, School Closures, and Student Learning Outcomes: New Global Evidence from PISA

Maciej Jakubowski, Tomasz Gajderowicz, Harry Anthony Patrinos

published in: Science of Learning, 2025, 10, 5 (2025)

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. 16680

Healthcare Workers and Life Satisfaction during the Pandemic

Chiara Costi, Andrew E. Clark, Anthony Lepinteur, Conchita D'Ambrosio

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16636

Two Pandemic Years Greatly Reduced Young People's Life Satisfaction: Evidence from a Comparison with Pre-COVID-19 Panel Data

Martin Neugebauer, Alexander Patzina, Hans Dietrich, Malte Sandner

published in: European Sociological Review, 2024, 40 (5), 872 - 886

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16606

System Relevance and Firm Performance Due to COVID-19

Michael Johannes Böhm, Pamela Qendrai

published in: German Economic Review, 2023, 24 (4), 349-410

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16531

COVID-19 and the European Education Performance Decline: A Focus on Primary School Children's Reading Achievement between 2016 and 2021

Sylke V. Schnepf, Silvia Granato

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16525

Telementoring and Homeschooling during School Closures: A Randomized Experiment in Rural Bangladesh

Hashibul Hassan, Asadul Islam, Abu Siddique, Liang Choon Wang

published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (622), 2418–2438

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16437

Teen Social Interactions and Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Charlene M. Kalenkoski, Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2025, 23, 357–404

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16436

The Evolution of Work from Home

José María Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2023, 37 (4), 23 - 50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16420

Remote Work, Wages, and Hours Worked in the United States

Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, Victoria Vernon

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 18

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16417

What If It Never Happened? Subjective Treatment Effects of a Negative Shock on Youth Labour Market Outcomes in Developing Countries

Marta Favara, Richard Freund, Marcello Perez-Alvarez

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16412

The Impacts of COVID-19 on Racial Inequality in Business Earnings

Robert W. Fairlie

published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2024, 43 (1), 258 - 288

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16355

Were COVID and the Great Recession Well-Being Reducing?

David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson

published in: PloS ONE, 2024, 19 (11), e0305347

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16325

Back to Work: The Unequal Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Ecuador's Labor Market

Sergio Olivieri, Francesc Ortega, Ana Rivadeneira

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16307

Social Connections and COVID-19 Vaccination

Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Oleg Firsin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16277

The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic Recession on Less Educated Women's Human Capital: Some Projections

Mark Drozd, Robert A. Moffitt, Xinyu Zhao

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 289–323

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16265

State-Level Trucking Employment and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the U.S: Understanding Heterogenous Declines and Rebounds

Jonathan Phares, Jason W. Miller, Stephen V. Burks

revised version published as 'Shedding light on truck driver supply and demand: Heterogeneous state-level recovery of trucking employment following the COVID-19 employment shock' in: Transportation Journal, 2025, 65 (1), e12038

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16260

Social Gradients in Employment during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic

Annette Alstadsæter, Bernt Bratsberg, Simen Markussen, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2025, 63 (2), 440–514

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16251

Mobility Restrictions and Alcohol Use during Lockdown: 'A Still and Dry Pandemic for the Many'?

Martina Celidoni, Joan Costa-Font, Luca Salmasi

published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2023, 50,101268

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16232

Learning during the Pandemic: Evidence from Uzbekistan

Syedah Aroob Iqbal, Harry Anthony Patrinos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16201

COVID-19 and Entrepreneurship

Alina Sorgner

published in: Zimmermann, K.F. (ed.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham., 2023.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16162

The Impact of COVID-19 on Access to Mental Healthcare Services

Benjamin Harrell, Luca Fumarco, Patrick Button, David J. Schwegman, Kyla Denwood

published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2023, 113, 420 - 422

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16143

For Better or Worse? Subjective Expectations and Cost-Benefit Trade-Offs in Health Behavior

Gabriella Conti, Pamela Giustinelli

published in: Health Economics, 2025, 34, 992 - 1012

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16126

After You. Cognition and Health-Distribution Preferences

Martín Brun, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Xavier Ramos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16095

Labour Market Reallocation Effects of COVID-19 Policies in Spain: A Tale of Two Recessions

Antonia Diaz, Juan J. Dolado, Álvaro Jáñez, Felix Wellschmied

published as 'Labor reallocation effects of furlough schemes: Evidence from two recessions in Spain' in: European Economic Review, 2025, 171, 104894

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. 16075

Permanent Instability of Preferences after COVID-19 Crisis: A Natural Experiment from Urban Burkina Faso

Delphine Boutin, Laurene Petifour, Haris Megzari

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16074

School Closures and Student Achievement: Evidence from a High Stakes Exam

Marc Riudavets-Barcons, Roope Uusitalo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16062

The Pandemic Push: Digital Technologies and Workforce Adjustments

Christina Gathmann, Christian Kagerl, Laura Pohlan, Duncan H.W. Roth

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 89, 102541

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16053

Risk Compensation after COVID-19 Vaccination

Jisoo Hwang, Seung-sik Hwang, Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Jungmin Lee, Junseok Lee

updated version published as 'Risk compensation after COVID-19 vaccination: Evidence from vaccine rollout by exact birth date in South Korea' in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (8), 1811 - 1830

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16019

Working from Home, COVID-19 and Job Satisfaction

Inga Laß, Esperanza Vera-Toscano, Mark Wooden

published in: IRL Review, 2024. 78 (2), 330-354

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16012

Precious Metal Prices: A Tale of Four U.S. Recessions

Pablo Agnese, Pedro Garcia-del-Barrio, Luis A. Gil-Alana, Fernando Perez de Gracia

published in: Studies in Economics and Finance, 2024, 41 (5), 1012-1022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16009

From Syringes to Dishes: Improving Food Security through Vaccination

Erkmen Giray Aslim, Wei Fu, Erdal Tekin, Shijun You

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16008