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271 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11353
The Causal Effect of Education on Chronic Health Conditions
Katharina Janke, David W. Johnston, Carol Propper, Michael A. Shields
published as 'The causal effect of education on chronic health conditions in the UK' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 70, 102252
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11336
Parental Beliefs about Returns to Child Health Investments
Pietro Biroli, Teodora Boneva, Akash Raja, Christopher Rauh
published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 231 (1), 33 - 57
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11317
The Formation and Malleability of Dietary Habits: A Field Experiment with Low Income Families
Michèle Belot, Noemi Berlin, Jonathan James, Valeria Skafida
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11304
Intergenerational Health Mobility in the US
Timothy J. Halliday, Bhashkar Mazumder, Ashley Wong
published as 'Intergenerational mobility in self-reported health status in the US' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 193, 104307
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11206
Who Got the Brexit Blues? Using a Quasi-Experiment to Show the Effect of Brexit on Subjective Wellbeing in the UK
Nattavudh Powdthavee, Anke C. Plagnol, Paul Frijters, Andrew E. Clark
published in: Economica, 2019, 86 (343), 471-494
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11121
The Rising Longevity Gap by Lifetime Earnings: Distributional Implications for the Pension System
Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Holger Lüthen
published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2020, 17, 100199
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11047
The Non-Market Benefits of Education and Ability
James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, Gregory Veramendi
published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2018, 12 (2), 282 - 304
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11008
Spatial Differences in Stunting and Household Agricultural Production in South Africa: (Re-)Examining the Links Using National Panel Survey Data
Steffen Otterbach, Michael Rogan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10995
The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden
Sarah Cattan, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson
updated version published as 'The Long-term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden' in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (650), 888-903
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10916
Minimum Wages and the Health of Hispanic Women
Susan L. Averett, Julie K. Smith, Yang Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10808
Health and Health Inequality during the Great Recession: Evidence from the PSID
Chenggang Wang, Huixia Wang, Timothy J. Halliday
published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2018, 29, 17 - 30
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10715
Evaluating the Effects of a Targeted Home Visiting Program on Maternal and Child Health Outcomes
Malte Sandner, Thomas Cornelissen, Tanja Jungmann, Peggy Herrmann
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 269 - 283
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10714
Maternal Socio-Economic Status and the Well-Being of the Next Generation(s)
Kasey Buckles
published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, 2018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10662
Costly Posturing: Ceremonies and Early Child Development in China
Xi Chen, Xiaobo Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10653
The Bilateral Relationship between Depressive Symptoms and Employment Status
Melisa Bubonya, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, David C. Ribar
published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2019, 35, 96-106
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10651
The Impact of Parental Health on Children's Schooling and Labour Force Participation: Evidence from Vietnam
Silvia Mendolia, Thi Nguyen, Oleg Yerokhin
published as 'The impact of parental illness on children’s schooling and labour force participation: evidence from Vietnam' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2019, 17, 469 - 492
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10639
Legal Status and Deprivation in India's Urban Slums: An Analysis of Two Decades of National Sample Survey Data
Laura B. Nolan, David E. Bloom, Ramnath Subbaraman
publisehd in: Economic & Political Weekly, 2018, 53
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10616
Early Health and School Outcomes for Children with Lesbian Parents: Evidence from Sweden
Lina Aldén, Anders Björklund, Mats Hammarstedt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10416
Excess Mortality, Institutionalization and Homelessness Among Status Indians in Canada
Randall K. Q. Akee, Donn. L. Feir
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10337
Personality and Mental Health: The Role and Substitution Effect of Emotional Stability and Conscientiousness
Caroline Wehner, Trudie Schils, Lex Borghans
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10254
What is the Added Value of Preschool? Long-Term Impacts and Interactions with a Health Intervention
Maya Rossin-Slater, Miriam Wüst
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12 (3), 255-86.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10155
Income Inequality and Well-Being in the U.S.: Evidence of Geographic-Scale- and Measure-Dependence
John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Carol Lee Graham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10137
Education, Cognitive Ability and Cause-Specific Mortality: A Structural Approach
Govert Bijwaard, Mikko Myrskylä, Per Tynelius, Finn Rasmussen
published in: Population Studies, 2019, 73, 217-232
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10062
Ethnic Attrition and the Observed Health of Later-Generation Mexican Americans
Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan, Stephen J. Trejo
published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (5), 467-471
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9957
Returns to Education: The Causal Effects of Education on Earnings, Health and Smoking
James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, Gregory Veramendi
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126, (S1), S197–S246
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9930
Property Rights and Gender Bias: Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Abhishek Chakravarty, Dilip Mookherjee, Francisco J. Pino
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (2), 295-237
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9903
Mortality Inequality: The Good News from a County-Level Approach
Janet Currie, Hannes Schwandt
published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30 (2), 29-52
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9798
Cognitive Ability and the Mortality Gradient by Education: Selection or Mediation?
Govert Bijwaard, Andrew M. Jones
published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 57, 129-175
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9781
Does Greater Autonomy among Women Provide the Key to Better Child Nutrition?
Wiji Arulampalam, Anjor Bhaskar, Nisha Srivastava
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9728
Intergenerational Persistence of Health in the U.S.: Do Immigrants Get Healthier as They Assimilate?
Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Adriana Kugler
revised version published as 'Intergenerational Persistence of Health: Do Immigrants Get Healthier as They Remain in the U.S. for More Generations?' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 23, 136-148.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9688
Parental Influences on Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees
Mikael Lindahl, Evelina Björkegren, Mårten Palme, Emilia Simeonova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9679
The Price of Gold: Dowry and Death in India
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Abhishek Chakravarty, Selim Gulesci
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 143, 102413
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9546
Long-Term Consequences of Access to Well-Child Visits
Aline Bütikofer, Katrine Vellesen Loken, Kjell G. Salvanes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9519
Status Concern and Relative Deprivation in China: Measures, Empirical Evidence, and Economic and Policy Implications
Xi Chen
published in: China: An International Journal, 2016, 14 (1), 151-170.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9478
Rank, Sex, Drugs, and Crime
Benjamin Elsner, Ingo E. Isphording
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53(2), 356-381
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9329
The Value of Socialized Medicine: The Impact of Universal Primary Healthcare Provision on Birth and Mortality Rates in Turkey
Resul Cesur, Pinar Mine Gunes, Erdal Tekin, Aydogan Ulker
published as 'The value of socialized medicine: The impact of universal primary healthcare provision on mortality rates in 'in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 150, 74 - 93
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9328
Fetal Malnutrition and Academic Success: Evidence from Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
Jane Greve, Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen, Erdal Tekin
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 60, 20 - 35
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9327
The Long Lasting Influenza: The Impact of Fetal Stress during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Socioeconomic Attainment and Health in Sweden 1968-2012
Tommy Bengtsson, Jonas Helgertz
published in: Demography, 2019, 56, 1389–1425
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9313
Fighting Infectious Disease: Evidence from Sweden 1870-1940
Volha Lazuka, Luciana Quaranta, Tommy Bengtsson
published in: Population and Development Review, 2016, 42 (1), 27-52
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9141
Health Disparities Across Education: The Role of Differential Reporting Error
John Cawley, Anna Choi
published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (3), e1-e29.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9050
Obesity and Economic Performance of Young Workers in Italy
Giovanni S. F. Bruno, Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Orietta Dessy
published as 'Obesity and the economic performance of young people in Italy' in: G. Coppola and N. O'Higgins (eds): Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, Education and Health in Europe, Routledge, 2016, Chapter 8
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8591
Commercial Plasma Donation and Individual Health in Impoverished Rural China
Xi Chen
published in: Health Economics Review, 2014, 4, Article 30
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8587
The Effect of Job Loss on Health: Evidence from Biomarkers
Pierre-Carl Michaud, Eileen Crimmins, Michael D. Hurd
published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 51, 194-203
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8566
Domestic Abuse and Child Health
Samantha Rawlings, Zahra Siddique
revised version appears as IZA DP 11899; published as `Domestic Violence and Child Mortality in the Developing World' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 82(4): 723-750.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8494
Fetus, Fasting, and Festival: The Persistent Effects of in Utero Social Shocks
Xi Chen
published in: International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2014, 3, 165-169
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. 8320
First Depressed, Then Discriminated Against?
Stijn Baert, Sarah De Visschere, Koen Schoors, Eddy Omey
revised version published in: Social Science & Medicine , 2016, 170, 247 - 254
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8130
The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children
Thomas Buser, Hessel Oosterbeek, Erik Plug, Juan Ponce, José Rosero
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2017, 31 (3), 786–808
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8027
Education, Health and Wages
James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, Gregory Veramendi, Sergio Urzua
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7840
New Evidence on the Healthy Immigrant Effect
Lídia Farré
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (2), 365-394
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