Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12519

Climbing up Ladders and Sliding down Snakes: An Empirical Assessment of the Effect of Social Mobility on Subjective Wellbeing

Paul Dolan, Grace Lordan

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 19, 1023–1045

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12451

Pre- and Post-Birth Components of Intergenerational Persistence in Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees

Evelina Björkegren, Mikael Lindahl, Mårten Palme, Emilia Simeonova

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (1), 112-142

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12448

Developmental Origins of Health Inequality

Gabriella Conti, Giacomo Mason, Stavros Poupakis

published in: the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, Oxford University Press, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12427

The Impact of Car Pollution on Infant and Child Health: Evidence from Emissions Cheating

Diane Alexander, Hannes Schwandt

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (6), 2872–2910

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12417

The Long-Term Effects of Childhood Exposure to the Earned Income Tax Credit on Health Outcomes

Breno Braga, Fredric Blavin, Anuj Gangopadhyaya

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 190, 104249.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12400

How Effective Are Pictorial Warnings on Tobacco Products? New Evidence on Smoking Behaviour Using Australian Panel Data

Daniel Kühnle

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 67, 102215

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12340

Modelling the Dynamic Effects of Elective Hospital Admissions on Emergency Levels in England

Sergi Jimenez-Martin, Catia Nicodemo, Stuart Redding

published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 1933-1957

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12316

Life Expectancy and Parental Education

Mathias Huebener

published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2019, Vol. 232, 351-365

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12233

Credit Where It's Due: Investigating Pathways from EITC Expansion to Maternal Mental Health

Anuj Gangopadhyaya, Fredric Blavin, Jason Gates, Breno Braga

published in: Health Economics 29, no. 9, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12230

Baby Bonuses and Early-Life Health Outcomes: Using Regression Discontinuity to Evaluate the Causal Impact of an Unconditional Cash Transfer

John Lynch, Aurélie Meunier, Rhiannon Pilkington, Stefanie Schurer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12165

In Search of China's Income-Health Gradient: A Biomarker-Based Analysis

Peng Nie, Qing Li, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

published in: Applied Economics, 2021, 53 (48), 5599 - 5618

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12116

Mortality in Midlife for Subgroups in Germany

Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid, Julia Schmieder

published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2019, 14, 100182

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12115

Something in the Pipe: Flint Water Crisis and Health at Birth

Rui Wang, Xi Chen, Xun Li

published as 'Something in the pipe: the Flint water crisis and health at birth' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 1723–1749

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11899

Domestic Violence and Child Mortality

Samantha Rawlings, Zahra Siddique

revised from IZA DP 8566; 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. 11847

Growing Together: Assessing Equity and Efficiency in an Early-Life Health Program in Chile

Damian Clarke, Gustavo Cortés Méndez, Diego Vergara Sepúlveda

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33 (3), 883-956

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11817

Diabetes, Employment and Behavioural Risk Factors in China: Marginal Structural Models versus Fixed Effects Models

Till Seuring, Pieter Serneels, Marc Suhrcke, Max Bachmann

published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2020, 29, 100925

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11715

New Evidence on the Impacts of Early Exposure to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Old-Age Mortality: A Research Note

Jason M. Fletcher

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11709

Disease Control and Inequality Reduction: Evidence from a Tuberculosis Testing and Vaccination Campaign

Aline Bütikofer, Kjell G. Salvanes

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2020, 87 (5), 2087–2125

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11708

Socio-Economic Inequalities in Tobacco Consumption of the Older Adults in China: A Decomposition Method

Yafei Si, Zhongliang Zhou, Min Su, Xiao Wang, Dan Li, Dan Wang, Shuyi He, Zihan Hong, Xi Chen

published in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018, 15 (7), 1466

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11655

Violence While in Utero: The Impact of Assaults during Pregnancy on Birth Outcomes

Janet Currie, Michael Mueller-Smith, Maya Rossin-Slater

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11630

Childhood Health Shocks, Comparative Advantage, and Long-Term Outcomes: Evidence from the Last Danish Polio Epidemic

Miriam Gensowski, Torben Heien Nielsen, Nete Munk Nielsen, Maya Rossin-Slater, Miriam Wüst

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 66, 27 - 36

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11605

Education, Intelligence and Diseases in Old Age

Gianmaria Niccodemi, Govert Bijwaard

published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 25, 333-361

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11591

The Impact of Mental Problems on Mortality and How It Is Moderated by Education

Govert Bijwaard, Mikko Myrskylä, Per Tynelius

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11590

Maternal Mortality and Women's Political Participation

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Damian Clarke, Joseph Gomes, Atheendar Venkataramani

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (5), 2172–2208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11589

Do Walmart Supercenters Improve Food Security?

Charles Courtemanche, Art Carden, Xilin Zhou, Murugi Ndirangu

published in: Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2019, 41 (2), 177-198

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11534

Women's Political Participation and Intrahousehold Empowerment: Evidence from the Egyptian Arab Spring

Olivier B. Bargain, Delphine Boutin, Hugues Champeaux

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 141, 102379

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11448

A Unique Bond: Twin Bereavement and Lifespan Associations of Identical and Fraternal Twins

Gerard J. van den Berg, Bettina Drepper

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