IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18112

Social Substitution? Time Use Responses to Increased Workplace Isolation

Benjamin Cowan, Todd R. Jones

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18104

Long-Term Care Insurance Policy and Development of Elderly Care Enterprises in China

Tianli Yang, Zhong Zhao

published online in: China Economic Review, 22 September 2025, 102564

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18100

Calorie Consumption and Wages: Evidence from India’s Labor Market

Kaushalendra Kumar, Ashish Singh, Santosh Kumar Gautam, Abhishek Singh

published in: Economic Modelling, 2025, 152, 107279

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18099

Political Views and College Choices in a Polarized America

Riley Acton, Emily E. Cook, Paola Ugalde Araya

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18092

Pipeline vs. Choice: The Global Gender Gap in STEM Applications

Isaac Ahimbisibwe, Adam Altjmed, Georgy Artemov, Andres Barrios-Fernandez, Aspasia Bizopoulou, Martti Kaila, Jin-Tan Liu, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Jose Montalban, Christopher A. Neilson, Jintao Sun, Sebastian Otero, Xiaoyang Ye

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18090

The Hidden Toll of Airborne Lead: Infant Mortality Impacts of Industrial Lead Pollution

Karen Clay, Edson Severnini, Xiao Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18085

Education and Mortality: Evidence for the Silent Generation from Linked Census and Administrative Data

Ciprian Domnisoru, Anna Malinovskaya, Evan J. Taylor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18083

The Effects of Tenure-Track Systems on Selection and Productivity in Economics

Marco Nieddu, Roberto Nistico, Lorenzo Pandolfi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18080

The Educational Achievement Penalty from School Exclusion

Neil Rowland, Babak Jahanshahi, Duncan McVicar, Corina Miller

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18078

Germs in the Family: The Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Intra-Household Disease Spread

N. Meltem Daysal, Hui Ding, Maya Rossin-Slater, Hannes Schwandt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18077

Causal Returns to Education

Harry Anthony Patrinos, George Psacharopoulos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18074

Quality, Safety, and Disparities of AI Chatbots in Managing Chronic Diseases: Experimental Evidence

Yafei Si, Yurun Meng, Xi Chen, Ruopeng An, Limin Mao, Bingqin Li, Hazel Bateman, Han Zhang, Hongbin Fan, Jiaqi Zu, Shaoqing Gong, Zhongliang Zhou, Yudong Miao

published online in: npj Digital Medicine, 25 September 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18071

Do Elite Universities Pick Sports to Pick Students? Athletic Admissions and SES Targeting

Ahmed El Fatmaoui, Tyler Ransom

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18069

Antidepressant Treatment in Childhood

Sonia R. Bhalotra, N. Meltem Daysal, Mircea Trandafir

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18067

Depth or Diversity? Examining the Longer Run Impacts of College Curriculum Breadth

Kelvin Seah, Jessica Pan, Poh Lin Tan

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, 238, 107212

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18064