IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8389

Income Receipt and Mortality: Evidence from Swedish Public Sector Employees

Elvira Andersson, Petter Lundborg, Johan Vikström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8386

Health Effects of Containing Moral Hazard: Evidence from Disability Insurance Reform

Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Anne C. Gielen

published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (3), 606-621.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8339

A General Semiparametric Approach to Inference with Marker-Dependent Hazard Rate Models

Gerard J. van den Berg, Lena Janys, Enno Mammen, Jens P. Nielsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8260

Early Retirement and Post Retirement Health

Daniel Hallberg, Per Johansson, Malin Josephson

published as 'Is an early retirement offer good for your health? Quasi-experimental evidence from the army' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 44, 274–285

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8203

Bouncing Back from Health Shocks: Locus of Control, Labor Supply, and Mortality

Stefanie Schurer

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,133, 1-20, 2017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8181

Does in utero Exposure to Illness Matter? The 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Taiwan as a Natural Experiment

Ming-Jen Lin, Elaine M. Liu

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 37, 152-163

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8146

Does Electrification Spur the Fertility Transition? Evidence from Indonesia

Michael Grimm, Robert Sparrow, Luca Tasciotti

published in: Demography, 2015, 52 (5), 1773-1796, [Open Access]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7990

Donating Time to Charity: Not Working for Nothing

Yu Aoki

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7987

Coal, Smoke, and Death: Bituminous Coal and American Home Heating

Alan I. Barreca, Karen Clay, Joel Tarr

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7987

Coal, Smoke, and Death: Bituminous Coal and American Home Heating

Alan I. Barreca, Karen Clay, Joel Tarr

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7969

Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India

S Anukriti, Todd J. Kumler

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2019, 67 (3), 687-724

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7875

The Short-Term Population Health Effects of Weather and Pollution: Implications of Climate Change

Nicolas R. Ziebarth, Maike Schmitt, Martin Karlsson

revised version published as Karlsson, M. and N.R. Ziebarth: "Population health effects and health-related costs of extreme temperatures: Comprehensive evidence from Germany", Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018, 91, 93-117

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7834

Returns to Childbirth Technologies: Evidence from Preterm Births

N. Meltem Daysal, Mircea Trandafir, Reyn van Ewijk

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7692

The Effects of Intrauterine Malnutrition on Birth and Fertility Outcomes: Evidence from the 1974 Bangladesh Famine

Rey Hernández-Julián, Hani Mansour, Christina Peters

published in: Demography, 2014, 51(5), 1775-1796

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7648

Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability

Govert Bijwaard, Hans van Kippersluis, Justus Veenman

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 42, 29–43 [PDF]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7570

The Causal Effect of Retirement on Mortality: Evidence from Targeted Incentives to Retire Early

Hans Bloemen, Stefan Hochguertel, Jochem Zweerink

published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (12), e204-e218. DOI: 10.1002/hec.3493

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7557

Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program and Ozone Reductions

Olivier Deschenes, Michael Greenstone, Joseph S. Shapiro

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7539

Surviving the Genocide: The Impact of the Rwandan Genocide on Child Mortality

Federico Ciani, Gianna Claudia Giannelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7532

Poverty and Transitions in Health

Maja Adena, Michal Myck

revised version published as 'Poverty and Transitions in Health in Later Life' in Social Science and Medicine, 2014, 116, 202–210

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7473

Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras, Guilhem Cassan, Lakshmi Iyer

Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2014, 104, 4-17

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7396

Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of Local Economic Conditions on Health

Jason M. Lindo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7199

The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development

Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde

revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2015, 7 (3), 189-225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7199

The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development

Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde

revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2015, 7 (3), 189-225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7179

Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure

Resul Cesur, Erdal Tekin, Aydogan Ulker

forthcoming in: Economic Journal [Online First]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7157

Unemployment and Mortality: Evidence from the PSID

Timothy J. Halliday

published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2014, 113, 15-22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7010

The Economics of Grief

Gerard J. van den Berg, Petter Lundborg, Johan Vikström

forthcoming in: Economic Journal, 2016 [Online First]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6879

Saving Lives at Birth: The Impact of Home Births on Infant Outcomes

N. Meltem Daysal, Mircea Trandafir, Reyn van Ewijk

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2015, 7(3), 28-50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6855

The Declines in Infant Mortality and Fertility: Evidence from British Cities in Demographic Transition

Andrew T. Newell, Ian Gazeley

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6783

The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis

Jay Bhattacharya, Christina Gathmann, Grant Miller

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (2), 232-60

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6773

Water Scarcity and Birth Outcomes in the Brazilian Semiarid

Rudi Rocha, Rodrigo R. Soares

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 112, 72–91

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6559

Seasonal Effects of Water Quality on Infant and Child Health in India

Elizabeth Brainerd, Nidhiya Menon

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 107, 49-64.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6520

The Impact of Early Life Economic Conditions on Cause-Specific Mortality During Adulthood

Gary Y.C. Yeung, Gerard J. van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom, France Portrait

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (3), 895-919

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6418

Does Uninsurance Affect the Health Outcomes of the Insured? Evidence from Heart Attack Patients in California

N. Meltem Daysal

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2012, 31 (4), 545-563

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6403

Compulsory Schooling Reforms, Education and Mortality in Twentieth Century Europe

Christina Gathmann, Hendrik Jürges, Steffen Reinhold

published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2014, [Online First]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6334

The Demographic Transition: Causes and Consequences

Oded Galor

published in: Cliometrica, 6(1), 1-28

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, 2014, [Online First]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6216

Health and the Political Agency of Women

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6 (2), 164-97

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6096

Economic Crises, Maternal and Infant Mortality, Low Birth Weight and Enrollment Rates: Evidence from Argentina's Downturns

Guillermo Cruces, Pablo Glüzmann, Luis-Felipe López-Calva

published in: World Development, 2012, 40 (2), 303-314

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6096

Economic Crises, Maternal and Infant Mortality, Low Birth Weight and Enrollment Rates: Evidence from Argentina's Downturns

Guillermo Cruces, Pablo Glüzmann, Luis-Felipe López-Calva

published in: World Development, 2012, 40 (2), 303-314

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6041

The Captain of the Men of Death and His Shadow: Long-Run Impacts of Early Life Pneumonia Exposure

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Atheendar Venkataramani

Second R&R Journal of Political Economy

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. 5741

Gender Patterns in Vietnam's Child Mortality

Thong Le Pham, Peter Kooreman, Ruud H. Koning, Doede Wiersma

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (1), 303-322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5534

Long-term Effects of Famine on Life Expectancy: A Re-analysis of the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-1868

Gabriele Doblhammer, Gerard J. van den Berg, Lambert H. Lumey

published as 'A re-analysis of the long-term effects on life expectancy of the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-86', in: Population Studies, 67(3) 2013, 309-322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5422

The Long-Run Effects of Mortality Decline in Developing Countries

Ulla Lehmijoki, Tapio K. Palokangas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5363

Poverty and Survival

Sonia R. Bhalotra

Journal of Development Studies, 2012, 48 (2), 145-167

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5160

Fatal Attraction? Access to Early Retirement and Mortality

Andreas Kuhn, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich, Josef Zweimüller

revised and updated version published as IZA DP Nr. 11851, together with Stefan Staubli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5106

Running and Jumping Variables in RD Designs: Evidence Based on Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Birth Weights

Alan I. Barreca, Melanie Guldi, Jason M. Lindo, Glen R. Waddell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4932

Infant Mortality and the Health of Survivors: Britain 1910-1950

Timothy J. Hatton

published as 'Infant mortality and the health of survivors: Britain, 1910–50' in: Economic History Review, 2011, 64 (3), 951-972

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4593

Evaluation of the Impact of the Mother and Infant Health Project in Ukraine

Olena Y. Nizalova, Maria Vyshnya

published in: Health Economics, 2010, Volume 19 (Supplement 1), 107–125

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4593

Evaluation of the Impact of the Mother and Infant Health Project in Ukraine

Olena Y. Nizalova, Maria Vyshnya

published in: Health Economics, 2010, Volume 19 (Supplement 1), 107–125

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. 4353

Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Samantha Rawlings

Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (2), 660 - 672

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. 4119

Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Health Interventions: Evidence from Brazil's Family Health Program

Romero Rocha, Rodrigo R. Soares

published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (S1), 126-158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3894

Do People Become Healthier after Being Promoted?

Christopher J. Boyce, Andrew J. Oswald

published in: Health Economics, 2012, 21, 580-596

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3526

Fertility in Sub-Saharan African Countries with Consideration to Health and Poverty

Yongil Jeon, Sang-Young Rhyu, Michael P. Shields

published in: African Development Review, 2010, 22 (4), 540–555

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. 3086

Fatal Fluctuations? Cyclicality in Infant Mortality in India

Sonia R. Bhalotra

Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 93 (1), 7-19

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2914

Spending to Save? State Health Expenditure and Infant Mortality in India

Sonia R. Bhalotra

Health Economics, 2007, 16 (9), 911-928

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2905

Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility: A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition

Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde

see IZA DP 7199 for a substantially revised and extended version

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2878

Birth Spacing, Fertility Selection and Child Survival: Analysis Using a Correlated Hazard Model

Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (3), 690-705

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2841

Early Childbirth, Health Inputs and Child Mortality: Recent Evidence from Bangladesh

Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal

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. 2771

Health and the Evolution of Welfare across Brazilian Municipalities

Rodrigo R. Soares

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2007, 84(2), 590–608

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2668

The Effect of Pensions on Longevity: Evidence from Union Army Veterans

Martin Salm

revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 212 (552), 595 - 619

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2560

Mortality and Immortality

Matthew D. Rablen, Andrew J. Oswald

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (6), 1462-1471

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2509

Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy

Stephan Klasen

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2008, 6(1), 89-115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2488

Persistence in Infant Mortality: Evidence for the Indian States

Wiji Arulampalam, Sonia R. Bhalotra

published in: Population Studies, 2008, 62 (2), 171-190.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2467

Can Subjective Mortality Expectations and Stated Preferences Explain Varying Consumption and Saving Behaviors among the Elderly?

Martin Salm

revised version published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2010, 43(3), 1040-1057

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2295

Assessing the Effect of Mother’s Migration on Childhood Mortality in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi

Adama Konseiga, Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu, Yazoumé Yé

published in: M. Collinson, K. Adazu, M. White, S. Findley, (eds.), The Dynamics of Migration, Health and Livelihoods: INDEPTH Network Perspectives, Ashgate, 2009, 128 - 138

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2251

Sibling Death Clustering in India: State Dependence vs. Unobserved Heterogeneity

Wiji Arulampalam, Sonia R. Bhalotra

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2006, 169 (4), 829-848

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2163

Birth Spacing, Fertility and Neonatal Mortality in India: Dynamics, Frailty and Fecundity

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Arthur van Soest

Journal of Econometrics, 2008, 143 (2), 274-290

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1877

Analysis of Health and Longevity in Oldest-Old Population: A Health Capital Approach

Zhong Zhao

published in: Zeng Yi et al. (eds.), Healthy Longevity in China: Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Psychological Dimensions, 2008, Berlin et al. [Details & Download]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1619

How Does Marriage Affect Physical and Psychological Health? A Survey of the Longitudinal Evidence

Chris M. Wilson, Andrew J. Oswald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1488

Socio-Economic Status, Health Shocks, Life Satisfaction and Mortality: Evidence from an Increasing Mixed Proportional Hazard Model

Paul Frijters, John P. Haisken-DeNew, Michael A. Shields

revised version published as 'The Increasingly Mixed Proportional Hazard Model: An Application to Socioeconomic Status, Health Shocks, and Mortality' in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2011, 29 (2), 271-281

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1472

Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union

Elizabeth Brainerd, David M. Cutler

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2005, 19 (1), 107 - 130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1056

Air Pollution and Infant Health: What Can We Learn From California's Recent Experience?

Janet Currie, Matthew Neidell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 654

Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times: Evidence From the OECD

Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Christopher J. Ruhm

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2006, 4 (3), 298-316.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 442