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IZA Discussion Paper No. 14046
Teenage Mother's Health across Different Life Stages
Guyonne Kalb, Ha Vu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14040
Academic Careers and Fertility Decisions
Maria De Paola, Roberto Nistico, Vincenzo Scoppa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14030
Parental Paternalism and Patience
Lukas Kiessling, Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14020
Family Spillover Effects of Marginal Diagnoses: The Case of ADHD
Petra Persson, Xinyao Qiu, Maya Rossin-Slater
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14018
Social Security and Endogenous Demographic Change: Child Support and Retirement Policies
Giam Pietro Cipriani, Tamara Fioroni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13998
Trauma at School: The Impacts of Shootings on Students' Human Capital and Economic Outcomes
Marika Cabral, Bokyung Kim, Maya Rossin-Slater, Molly Schnell, Hannes Schwandt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13996
Is Son Preference Disappearing from Bangladesh?
Niaz Asadullah, Nazia Mansoor, Teresa Randazzo, Zaki Wahhaj
forthcoming in: World Development
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13987
Minimum Legal Drinking Age and the Social Gradient in Binge Drinking
Alexander Ahammer, Stefan Bauernschuster, Martin Halla, Hannah Lachenmaier
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13986
The Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Supply in a Labor Market with Extensive Informality
Semih Tumen, Belgi Turan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13965
When the Great Equalizer Shuts Down: Schools, Peers, and Parents in Pandemic Times
Francesco Agostinelli, Matthias Doepke, Giuseppe Sorrenti, Fabrizio Zilibotti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13928
Child Penalty in Russia: Evidence from an Event Study
Lara Lebedinski, Cristiano Perugini, Marko Vladisavljević
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13906
Parents, Neighbors and Youth Crime
Carlos Díaz, Eleonora Patacchini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13885
Consequences of War: Japan's Demographic Transition and the Marriage Market
Kota Ogasawara, Mizuki Komura
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13874
The Effects of Incentivizing Early Prenatal Care on Infant Health
Kamila Cygan-Rehm, Krzysztof Karbownik
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13872
Own Motivation, Peer Motivation, and Educational Success
Jan Bietenbeck
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13866
Suddenly a Stay-at-Home Dad? Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Fathers' Job Loss on Time Investment in the Household
Juliane Hennecke, Astrid Pape
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13863
Sterilization Policy with Incomplete Information in Peru: Does History Repeat Itself?
Bruno Jiménez, Silvio Rendon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13859
Sterilization Policy with Incomplete Information: Peru 1995-2000
Silvio Rendon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13843
Essential Work and Emergency Childcare: Identifying Gender Differences in COVID-19 Effects on Labour Demand and Supply
Jordy Meekes, Wolter Hassink, Guyonne Kalb
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13839
Female Employment and Childcare
Lena Hassani Nezhad
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13833
Employer Responses to Family Leave Programs
Rita Ginja, Arizo Karimi, Pengpeng Xiao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13832
COVID-19 Surgical Abortion Restriction Did Not Reduce Visits to Abortion Clinics
Martin Andersen, Sylvia Bryan, David Slusky
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13819
Learning at Home: Distance Learning Solutions and Child Development during the COVID-19 Lockdown
Hugues Champeaux, Lucia Mangiavacchi, Francesca Marchetta, Luca Piccoli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13810
Bargaining under Threats: The Effect of Joint Custody Laws on Intimate Partner Violence
Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Natalia Nollenberger, Jennifer Louise Roff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13804
Human Capital Development: New Evidence on the Production of Socio-Emotional Skills
Mark Mitchell, Marta Favara, Catherine Porter, Alan Sanchez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13791
School Schedule and the Gender Pay Gap
Emma Duchini, Clémentine Van Effenterre
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13781
Grandparents, Moms, or Dads? Why Children of Teen Mothers Do Worse in Life
Anna Aizer, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes
forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13780
The Nurture of Nature and the Nature of Nurture: How Genes and Investments Interact in the Formation of Skills
Mikkel Aagaard Houmark, Victor Ronda, Michael Rosholm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13777
The Effect of Antimalarial Campaigns on Child Mortality and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa
Joshua Wilde, Bénédicte Apouey, Joseph Coleman, Gabriel Picone
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13776
COVID-19 and the Future of US Fertility: What Can We Learn from Google?
Joshua Wilde, Wei Chen, Sophie Lohmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13765
From Parent to Child? The Long-Lasting Effects of Social Support
Ambra Poggi, Guyonne Kalb
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13762
Work, Care and Gender during the COVID-19 Crisis
Claudia Hupkau, Barbara Petrongolo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13759
Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market
Patricia Cortes, Jessica Pan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13756
Work Disability after Motherhood and How Paternity Leave Can Help
Sébastien Fontenay, Ilan Tojerow
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13748
U.S. Immigration Policy and Immigrant Fertility
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13719
Saving Neonatal Lives for a Quarter
Christine Valente, Hans Henrik Sievertsen, Mahesh C. Puri
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13714
A Note on the Importance of Normalizations in Dynamic Latent Factor Models of Skill Formation
Emilia Del Bono, Josh Kinsler, Ronni Pavan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13713
Skill Formation and the Trouble with Child Non-Cognitive Skill Measures
Emilia Del Bono, Josh Kinsler, Ronni Pavan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13700
Flexible Jobs Make Parents Happier: Evidence from Australia
Shuye Yu, Agnieszka Postepska
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13674
Political Instability and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from the 1981 Military Coup in Spain
Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll, Libertad Gonzalez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13659
The Long-Term Consequences of a Golden Nest
Viola Angelini, Marco Bertoni, Guglielmo Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13648
Child Health, Remote Work and the Female Wage Penalty
Amairisa Kouki, Robert M. Sauer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13646
Higher Order Risk Preferences: New Experimental Measures, Determinants and Field Behavior
Sebastian Schneider, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13627
The Effect of Hosting 3.4 Million Refugees on the Health System in Turkey and Infant, Child, and Elderly Mortality among Natives
Aysun Aygün, Murat G. Kirdar, Berna Tuncay
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13621
Adverse Selection in the Marriage Market: HIV Testing and Marriage in Rural Malawi
Manuela Angelucci, Daniel Bennett
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13617
The One-Child Policy Amplifies Economic Inequality across Generations in China
Yewen Yu, Yi Fan, Junjian Yi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13613
Two-Stage Least Squares Random Forests with an Application to Angrist and Evans (1998)
Martin Biewen, Philipp Kugler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13602
The Relationship between Early-Life Conditions in the Home Country and Adult Outcomes among Child Immigrants in the United States
Deniz Gevrek, Z. Eylem Gevrek, Cahit Guven
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13592
A Second Chance? Labor Market Returns to Adult Education Using School Reforms
Patrick Bennett, Richard Blundell, Kjell G. Salvanes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13572
Obstacles to Labour Market Participation among Arab Women in Israel
Sami H. Miaari, Nabil Khattab, Maha Sabbah-Karkabi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13533
The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Attitudes: Evidence from Immigrant Mothers-In-Law
Julia Bredtmann, Lisa Sofie Höckel, Sebastian Otten
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 179, 101-115
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13531
Early Child Development and Parents' Labor Supply
Lukáš Lafférs, Bernhard Schmidpeter
forthcoming in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13519
Fathers Matter: Intra-Household Responsibilities and Children's Wellbeing during the COVID-19 Lockdown in Italy
Lucia Mangiavacchi, Luca Piccoli, Luca Pieroni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13496
Fertility as a Driver of Maternal Employment
Julia Schmieder
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13462
Stuck at a Crossroads? The Duration of the Italian School-To-Work Transition
Francesco Pastore, Claudio Quintano, Antonella Rocca
forthcoming in: International Journal of Manpower, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13460
Childhood Circumstances and Health Inequality in Old Age: Comparative Evidence from China and the United States
Xi Chen, Binjian Yan, Thomas M. Gill
forthcoming in: Social Indicators Research, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13458
Reading Aloud to Children, Social Inequalities, and Vocabulary Development: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Carlo Barone, Denis Fougère, Karine Martel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13451
Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment
Shyamal Chowdhury, Matthias Sutter, Klaus F. Zimmermann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13449
The Spillover of Anti-Immigration Politics to the Schoolyard
Emanuele Bracco, Maria De Paola, Colin P. Green, Vincenzo Scoppa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13448
Peer Effects and Fertility Preferences in China: Evidence from the China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey
Peng Nie, Lu Wang, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13434
How the COVID-19 Lockdown Affected Gender Inequality in Paid and Unpaid Work in Spain
Lídia Farré, Yarine Fawaz, Libertad Gonzalez, Jennifer Graves
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13417
Home Prices, Fertility, and Early-Life Health Outcomes
N. Meltem Daysal, Michael Lovenheim, Nikolaj Siersbæk, David N. Wasser
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13409
Women's Work, Housework and Childcare, before and during COVID-19
Daniela Del Boca, Noemi Oggero, Paola Profeta, Maria Cristina Rossi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13377
Australia's Immigration Selection System and Labour Market Outcomes in a Family Context: Evidence from Administrative Data
Cahit Guven, Lan Anh Tong, Mutlu Yuksel
published in: Economic Record, 2020, 96 (1), 50-77.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13357
Econometric Models of Fertility
Alfonso Miranda, Pravin K. Trivedi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13348
Italian Families in the 21st Century: Gender Gaps in Time Use and Their Evolution
Francesca Barigozzi, Cesare Di Timoteo, Chiara Monfardini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13346
Treatment Effects and the Measurement of Skills in a Prototypical Home Visiting Program
James J. Heckman, Bei Liu, Mai Lu, Jin Zhou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13337
Discrimination, Narratives and Family History: An Experiment with Jordanian Host and Syrian Refugee Children
Kai Barron, Heike Harmgart, Steffen Huck, Sebastian Schneider, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13320
Negative Childhood Experiences and Risk Aversion: Evidence from Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
Marco Castillo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13296
Beyond Birthweight: The Origins of Human Capital
Gabriella Conti, Mark Hanson, Hazel Inskip, Sarah Crozier, Cyrus Cooper, Keith Godfrey
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13271
Cash-For-Care, or Caring for Cash? The Effects of a Home Care Subsidy on Maternal Employment, Childcare Choices, and Children's Development
Matthias Collischon, Daniel Kühnle, Michael Oberfichtner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13228
'More Than One Red Herring'? Heterogeneous Effects of Ageing on Healthcare Utilisation
Joan Costa-Font, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
forthcoming in: Health Economics, Available online 17 July 2020, doi.org/10.1002/hec.4035
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13221
Age, Death Risk, and the Design of an Exit Strategy: A Guide for Policymakers and for Citizens Who Want to Stay Alive
Andrew J. Oswald, Nattavudh Powdthavee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13193
Prussia Disaggregated: The Demography of its Universe of Localities in 1871
Sascha O. Becker, Francesco Cinnirella
published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2020, 86(3): 259-290.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13161
It Takes a Village: The Economics of Parenting with Neighborhood and Peer Effects
Francesco Agostinelli, Matthias Doepke, Giuseppe Sorrenti, Fabrizio Zilibotti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13144
A Natural Experiment on Job Insecurity and Fertility in France
Andrew E. Clark, Anthony Lepinteur
forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13134
Access to The Emergency Contraceptive Pill Improves Women's Health: Evidence from Chile
Damian Clarke, Viviana Salinas
R&R Demography
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13124
Inequality in Socio-Emotional Skills: A Cross-Cohort Comparison
Orazio Attanasio, Richard Blundell, Gabriella Conti, Giacomo Mason
Published in: Journal of Public Economics, online 30 March 2020.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13111
Does Domestic Violence Jeopardize the Learning Environment of Peers within the School? Peer Effects of Exposure to Domestic Violence in Urban Peru
Italo A. Gutierrez, Oswaldo Molina
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13098
Office Visits Preventing Emergency Room Visits: Evidence from the Flint Water Switch
Shooshan Danagoulian, Daniel Grossman, David Slusky
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13093
Culture and Gender Allocation of Tasks: Source Country Characteristics and the Division of Non-market Work among US Immigrants
Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, Matthew Comey, Amanda Eng, Pamela Meyerhofer, Alexander Willén
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, 18 (4), 907-958
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13064
Early Childhood Education and Life-cycle Health
Jorge Luis García, James J. Heckman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13048
Pensions and Fertility: Micro-Economic Evidence
Alexander M. Danzer, Lennard Zyska
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13047
Early Childhood Care and Cognitive Development
Juan Chaparro, Aaron Sojourner, Matthew Wiswall
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12993
Retirement, Intergenerational Time Transfers, and Fertility
Peter Eibich, Thomas Siedler
revised version forthcoming in: European Economic Review, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12991
Fertility Decisions and Employment Protection: The Unintended Consequences of the Italian Jobs Act
Maria De Paola, Roberto Nistico, Vincenzo Scoppa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12988
Childhood Determinants of Internal Youth Migration in Senegal
Catalina Herrera, David E. Sahn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12958
Hope for the Family: The Effects of College Costs on Maternal Labor Supply
Breno Braga, Olga Malkova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12937
The Effects of Home Visiting on Mother-Child Interactions: Evidence from a Randomised Trial Using Dynamic Micro-Level Data
Gabriella Conti, Stavros Poupakis, Malte Sandner, Sören Kliem
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12935
Parental Leave Reform and Long-Run Earnings of Mothers
Corinna Frodermann, Katharina Wrohlich, Aline Zucco
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12904
Child Care Markets, Parental Labor Supply, and Child Development
Samuel Berlinski, Maria Marta Ferreyra, Luca Flabbi, Juan David Martin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12898
Children of Crisis: The Effects of Economic Shocks on Newborns
Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Seyit Mümin Cilasun, Belgi Turan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12877
Prenatal Sunshine Exposure and Birth Outcomes in China
Xin Zhang, Yixuan Wang, Xi Chen, Xun Zhang
forthcoming in: Science of the Total Environment, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12873
Health Inequality among Chinese Older Adults: The Role of Childhood Circumstances
Binjian Yan, Xi Chen, Thomas M. Gill
forthcoming in: Journal of The Economics of Ageing, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12870
Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?
Anne Ardila Brenøe, Serena Canaan, Nikolaj Harmon, Heather Royer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12837
Local Exposure to School Shootings and Youth Antidepressant Use
Maya Rossin-Slater, Molly Schnell, Hannes Schwandt, Sam Trejo, Lindsey Uniat
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12832
The Effect of Parental Educational Expectations on Adolescent Subjective Well-Being and the Moderating Role of Perceived Academic Pressure: Longitudinal Evidence for China
Haiyang Lu, Peng Nie, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12820
Robots, Labor Markets, and Family Behavior
Massimo Anelli, Osea Giuntella, Luca Stella
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12814
Childcare and Maternal Employment: Evidence from Vietnam
Hai-Anh Dang, Masako Hiraga, Cuong Viet Nguyen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12792
Parental Inputs and Socio-Economic Gaps in Early Child Development
Lindsey Macmillan, Emma Tominey
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