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IZA Discussion Paper No. 16411
The Growing Gap of Unmet Need: Assessing the Demand for, and Supply of, Home-Based Support for Older Adults with Disabilities in 31 Countries
Yuting Qian, Shanquan Chen, Zhuoer Lin, Zexuan Yu, Mengxiao Wang, Xiaohui Hou, Xi Chen
also available as 'Silver Opportunity : Case Studies - The Growing Gap of Unmet Need : Assessing the Demand for, and Supply of, Home-Based Support for Older Adults with Disabilities in Thirty-One Countries', World Bank Report, 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16388
Gender Identity, Race, and Ethnicity-Based Discrimination in Access to Mental Health Care: Evidence from an Audit Correspondence Field Experiment
Luca Fumarco, Benjamin Harrell, Patrick Button, David J. Schwegman, E Dils
revised version published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 10 (2), 182–214
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16379
Non-monetary Interventions, Workforce Retention and Hospital Quality: Evidence from the English NHS
Giuseppe Moscelli, Melisa Sayli, Jo Blanden, Marco Mello, Henrique Castro-Pires, Chris Bojke
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16357
Immigration Enforcement and the Institutionalization of Elderly Americans
Abdulmohsen Almuhaisen, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Delia Furtado
published in: Journal of Health Economoics, 2024, 94, 102859
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16350
An Ounce of Prevention for a Pound of Cure: Efficiency of Community-Based Healthcare
Antonella Bancalari, Pedro Bernal, Pablo Celhay, Sebastian Martinez, Maria Deni Sánchez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16332
Do Primary Healthcare Facilities in More Remote Areas Provide More Medical Services? Spatial Evidence from Rural Western China
Chi Shen, Sha Lai, Qiwei Deng, Dan Cao, Dantong Zhao, Yaxin Zhao, Zhongliang Zhou, Wanyue Dong, Xi Chen
published in: Health & Social Care in the Community, 2023, 6131486
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16302
C-Sections, Obesity, and Health-Care Specialization: Evidence from Mexico
Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Fernanda Marquez-Padilla, Silvia Prina
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2024, 38 (1), 139 - 160
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16275
Policy Diffusion through Elections
Hitoshi Shigeoka, Yasutora Watanabe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16263
Assessing the Fertility Effects of Childcare Cost Subsidies: Evidence from the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit
Susan L. Averett, Yang Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16257
Minimum Wage, Worker Quality, and Consumer Well-Being: Evidence from the Child Care Market
Jessica H. Brown, Chris M. Herbst
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16257
Minimum Wage, Worker Quality, and Consumer Well-Being: Evidence from the Child Care Market
Jessica H. Brown, Chris M. Herbst
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16206
Gender and Career Progression in Academia: European Evidence
Lucio Morettini, Massimiliano Tani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16206
Gender and Career Progression in Academia: European Evidence
Lucio Morettini, Massimiliano Tani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16182
Spouses as Home Health Workers and Cooks: Insights for Applied Research
Shoshana Grossbard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16178
Will Childcare Subsidies Increase the Labour Supply of Mothers in Ireland?
Karina Doorley, Dora Tuda, Luke Duggan
published online in: Fiscal Studies, 21 January 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16177
Job Levels and Wages
Christian Bayer, Moritz Kuhn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16172
Does a Flexible Parental Leave System Stimulate Maternal Employment?
Lennart Ziegler, Omar Bamieh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16165
Patient versus Provider Incentives in Long-Term Care
Martin B. Hackmann, Vincent Pohl, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (3), 178–218
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16162
The Impact of COVID-19 on Access to Mental Healthcare Services
Benjamin Harrell, Luca Fumarco, Patrick Button, David J. Schwegman, Kyla Denwood
published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2023, 113, 420 - 422
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16157
How Does the Beauty of Wives Affect Post-Marriage Family Outcomes? Helen's Face in Chinese Households
Junsen Zhang, Shulan Fei, Yanbing Wen
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 212, 122-137
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16145
Prior Work Experience and Entrepreneurship: The Careers of Young Entrepreneurs
Nicolas Gendron-Carrier
forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16124
Long-Run Consequences of Informal Elderly Care and Implications of Public Long-Term Care Insurance
Thorben Korfhage, Björn Fischer
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 96, 102884
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16124
Long-Run Consequences of Informal Elderly Care and Implications of Public Long-Term Care Insurance
Thorben Korfhage, Björn Fischer
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 96, 102884
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16124
Long-Run Consequences of Informal Elderly Care and Implications of Public Long-Term Care Insurance
Thorben Korfhage, Björn Fischer
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 96, 102884
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16082
Discrimination on the Child Care Market: A Nationwide Field Experiment
Henning Hermes, Fabian Mierisch, Frauke Peter, Simon Wiederhold, Philipp Lergetporer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16040
Exposure to War and Its Labor Market Consequences over the Life Cycle
Sebastian Till Braun, Jan Stuhler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15998
The Health-Consumption Effects of Increasing Retirement Age Late in the Game
Eve Caroli, Catherine Pollak, Muriel Roger
published in: Economie et Statistique/Economics and Statistics, 2023, 538, 49-67
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15994
Hit Where It Hurts: Healthcare Access and Intimate Partner Violence
Cristina Bellés Obrero, Caoimhe T. Rice, Judit Vall Castello
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15983
Women in Political Bodies as Policymakers
Thushyanthan Baskaran, Zohal Hessami
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 24 July 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15961
Health System Trust and Compliance with COVID-19 Restrictions
Joan Costa-Font, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
published as 'Trusting the Health System and COVID 19 Restriction Compliance' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2023, 49, 101235
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15894
The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies
Sencer Karademir, Jean-William Laliberté, Stefan Staubli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15890
What Drives Paternity Leave: Financial Incentives or Flexibility?
Lennart Ziegler, Omar Bamieh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15880
Employee-Owned Firms and the Careers of Young Workers
Gabriel Burdin, Jose Garcia-Louzao
revised version forthcoming in: Labour Economics, 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15875
Training in Late Careers: A Structural Approach
Teresa Backhaus
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15858
School-Based Healthcare and Absenteeism: Evidence from Telemedicine
Sarah Komisarow, Steven W. Hemelt
published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2024, 19(2), 252-282
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15821
Secure Communities as Immigration Enforcement: How Secure Is the Child Care Market?
Umair Ali, Jessica H. Brown, Chris M. Herbst
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 233, 105101
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15814
Early Child Care and Labor Supply of Lower-SES Mothers: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Henning Hermes, Marina Krauß, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter, Simon Wiederhold
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15803
Revisiting the Connection between State Medicaid Expansions and Adult Mortality
Charles Courtemanche, Jordan Jones, Antonios M. Koumpias, Daniela Zapata
published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2024, 91 (1), 187-212
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15803
Revisiting the Connection between State Medicaid Expansions and Adult Mortality
Charles Courtemanche, Jordan Jones, Antonios M. Koumpias, Daniela Zapata
published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2024, 91 (1), 187-212
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15788
Beliefs about Maternal Labor Supply
Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin, Katja Maria Kaufmann, Christopher Rauh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15784
The Effect of Brazil's Family Health Program on Cognitive Skills
Pinar Mine Gunes, Magda Tsaneva
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15772
Technological and Organizational Change and the Careers of Workers
Michele Battisti, Christian Dustmann, Uta Schönberg
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (4), 1551–1594
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15765
Parental Beliefs, Perceived Health Risks, and Time Investment in Children: Evidence from COVID-19
Gabriella Conti, Michele Giannola, Alessandro Toppeta
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15719
The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality
Alex Hollingsworth, Melissa A. Thomasson, Krzysztof Karbownik, Anthony Wray
published in: American Economic Review, 2024, 114(7), 2201-2238.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15715
Teleworking and Life Satisfaction during COVID-19: The Importance of Family Structure
Claudia Senik, Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Anthony Lepinteur, Carsten Schröder
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2024, 37 (1), Article 8
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15709
Geographic Variation in Inpatient Care Utilization, Outcomes and Costs for Dementia Patients in China
Zhuoer Lin, Fang Ba, Heather Allore, Gordon G. Liu, Xi Chen
published in: China CDC Weekly, 2022, 4 (45), 997-1001
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15705
Public Childcare, Labor Market Outcomes of Caregivers, and Child Development: Experimental Evidence from Brazil
Orazio Attanasio, Ricardo Paes de Barros, Pedro Carneiro, David K. Evans, Lycia Lima, Pedro Olinto, Norbert Schady
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15640
Is Longer Maternal Care Always Beneficial? The Impact of a Four-Year Paid Parental Leave
Alena Bicakova, Klara Kaliskova
revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2024, 37, 36
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15640
Is Longer Maternal Care Always Beneficial? The Impact of a Four-Year Paid Parental Leave
Alena Bicakova, Klara Kaliskova
revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2024, 37, 36
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15623
Job Preferences of Aged Care Workers in Australia: Results from a Discrete Choice Experiment
Kostas Mavromaras, Linda Isherwood, Stephane Mahuteau, Julie Ratcliffe, Lily Xiao, Ann Harrington, Zhang Wei
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15593
Estimating Inter-Generational Returns to Medical Care: New Evidence from At­-Risk Newborns
Damian Clarke, Nicolás Lillo Bustos, Kathya Tapia Schythe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15559
Does Population Sorting through Internal Migration Increase Healthcare Costs and Needs in Peripheral Regions?
Shobhit Kulshreshtha, Martin Salm, Ansgar Wübker
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15547
Child Care in the United States: Markets, Policy, and Evidence
Chris M. Herbst
published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2023, 42 (1), 255-304
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15494
The Effect of Universal Health Care on the Out-Of-Pocket Health Expenditures: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Muhammad Asali, Valida Pantsulaia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15489
Age-Based Health Insurance Coverage Policies and Mental Health
Yiran Han, Baris Yörük
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15489
Age-Based Health Insurance Coverage Policies and Mental Health
Yiran Han, Baris Yörük
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15480
Do Non-monetary Interventions Improve Staff Retention? Evidence from English NHS Hospitals
Melisa Sayli, Giuseppe Moscelli, Jo Blanden, Chris Bojke, Marco Mello
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15479
Energy Poverty and Health Care Expenditures: Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies
Peng Nie, Qiaoge Li
published as 'Does energy poverty increase health care expenditures in China?' in: Applied Economics, 2024, 13 (5), 4209-4235s, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15471
Long-Term Services and Supports and Disease Management among Older Chinese Adults in Different Stages of Cognitive Impairment
Zhuoer Lin, Xi Chen
published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2022, 23, 100405.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15470
Family Bargaining and the Gender Gap in Informal Care
Chiara Canta, Helmuth Cremer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15470
Family Bargaining and the Gender Gap in Informal Care
Chiara Canta, Helmuth Cremer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15457
Does It Matter Who Cares for You? The Effect of Substituting Informal with Formal Personal Care on the Care Recipients' Health
Bruce Hollingsworth, Asako Ohinata, Matteo Picchio, Ian Walker
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15441
Challenging Encounters and Within-Physician Practice Variability
Gabriel Chodick, Yoav Goldstein, Ity Shurtz, Dan Zeltzer
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 15 March 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15435
The Impact of Centre-Based Childcare on Non-cognitive Skills of Young Children
Greta Morando, Lucinda Platt
published in: Economica, 2022, 356, 908-946
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15415
The Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Labour Supply and Other Uses of Time
Anna Bottasso, Gianluca Cerruti, Maurizio Conti, Elena G. F. Stancanelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15396
The Unequal Impact of the COVID Pandemic: Theory and Evidence on Health and Economic Outcomes for Different Income Groups
Cécile Aubert, Hai-Anh H Dang, Manh-Hung Nguyen
published as 'The Unequal Impact of Covid-19: Health, Wealth and Behaviors by Income Groups' in: Revue Francaise d'Economie, 2022, 2, 43-77.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15388
Spillover Effects of Old-Age Pension across Generations: Family Labor Supply and Child Outcomes
Katja Maria Kaufmann, Yasemin Özdemir, Han Ye
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15369
Caring for Carers? The Effect of Public Subsidies on the Wellbeing of Unpaid Carers
Joan Costa-Font, Francesco D’Amico, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 9 (4), 487–522
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15369
Caring for Carers? The Effect of Public Subsidies on the Wellbeing of Unpaid Carers
Joan Costa-Font, Francesco D’Amico, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 9 (4), 487–522
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15369
Caring for Carers? The Effect of Public Subsidies on the Wellbeing of Unpaid Carers
Joan Costa-Font, Francesco D’Amico, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 9 (4), 487–522
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15339
Caregiving Subsidies and Spousal Early Retirement Intentions
Joan Costa-Font, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2023, 22 (4), 550-589
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15339
Caregiving Subsidies and Spousal Early Retirement Intentions
Joan Costa-Font, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2023, 22 (4), 550-589
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15339
Caregiving Subsidies and Spousal Early Retirement Intentions
Joan Costa-Font, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2023, 22 (4), 550-589
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15339
Caregiving Subsidies and Spousal Early Retirement Intentions
Joan Costa-Font, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2023, 22 (4), 550-589
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15331
Tax-Based Marriage Incentives in the Affordable Care Act
Elliott Isaac, Haibin Jiang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15312
The Labour Supply of Mothers
Hélène Turon
published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15304
Parents' Effective Time Endowment and Divorce: Evidence from Extended School Days
María Padilla-Romo, Cecilia Peluffo, Mariana Viollaz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15274
Reward or Punishment? The Distribution of Life-Cycle Returns to Political Office
Jens Olav Dahlgaard, Nicolai Kristensen, Frederik Kjøller Larsen
published online in: Political Science Research and Methods, 06 January 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15228
A Comparative Perspective on Long-Term Care Systems
Rainer Kotschy, David E. Bloom
published in: International Social Security Review, 2022, 75 (3-4), 47-69
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15228
A Comparative Perspective on Long-Term Care Systems
Rainer Kotschy, David E. Bloom
published in: International Social Security Review, 2022, 75 (3-4), 47-69
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15227
Patterns of Time Use among Older People
Maddalena Ferranna, J.P. Sevilla, Leo Zucker, David E. Bloom
published in: David E. Bloom, Alfonso Sousa-Poza and Uwe Sunde (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Ageing, Routledge, London, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15223
Paid Childcare Leave, Fertility, and Female Labor Supply in South Korea
Kyeongkuk Kim, Sang-Hyop Lee, Timothy J. Halliday
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15220
Physicians and the Production of Health: Returns to Health Care during the Mortality Transition
Helge Liebert, Beatrice Mäder
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 22 August 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15179
Developmental Losses in Young Children from Pre-primary Program Closures during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Alejandra Abufhele, David Bravo, Florencia López Bóo, Pamela Soto-Ramirez
published in: Comparative Education Review, 2024, 68 (3), 423 -442
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15126
Staff Engagement, Job Complementarity and Labour Supply: Evidence from the English NHS Hospital Workforce
Giuseppe Moscelli, Melisa Sayli, Marco Mello
updated version of this paper published as IZA DP No. 15638.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15118
Who Is Doing the Chores and Childcare in Dual-Earner Couples during the COVID-19 Era of Working from Home?
Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, Victoria Vernon
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 21 (2), 519–565
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15118
Who Is Doing the Chores and Childcare in Dual-Earner Couples during the COVID-19 Era of Working from Home?
Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, Victoria Vernon
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 21 (2), 519–565
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15050
The Demand for Gratitude as a Restraint on the Use of Child Labor: A Hypothesis
Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski
published in: JODE - Journal of Demographic Economics, 2023, 89 (1), 137-147
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15007
Impacts of State Paid Family Leave Policies for Older Workers with Spouses or Parents in Poor Health
Breno Braga, Barbara A. Butrica, Stipica Mudrazija, H.E. Peters
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14990
Health and Labor Market Impacts of Twin Birth: Evidence from a Swedish IVF Policy Mandate
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Damian Clarke, Hanna Mühlrad, Mårten Palme
revised version available from the authors
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14886
Testing for Ethnic Discrimination in Outpatient Health Care: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Germany
Martin Halla, Christopher Kah, Rupert Sausgruber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14880
Access to Head Start and Maternal Labor Supply: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Jocelyn Wikle, Riley Wilson
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (4), 1081–1127
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14874
Discrimination and Daycare Choice: Evidence from a Randomized Survey
Mongoljin Batsaikhan, Mette Gørtz, John Kennes, Ran Sun Lyng, Daniel Monte, Norovsambuu Tumennasan
published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 08 January 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14860
A Demand-Oriented Approach to Health Care Capacity Planning
Danny Wende, Thomas Kopetsch, Wolfram F. Richter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14851
Center-Based Care and Parenting Activities
Jonas Jessen, C. Katharina Spieß, Sevrin Waights
revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 84 (6), 1356 - 1379
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14811
The Evolving Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gender Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market: The COVID Motherhood Penalty
Kenneth A. Couch, Robert W. Fairlie, Huanan Xu
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2022, 60 (2), 485 - 507
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14795
Does Grandparenting Pay off for the Next Generations? Intergenerational Effects of Grandparental Care
Mara Barschkett, C. Katharina Spieß, Elena Ziege
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14754
Medicaid Expansion and the Mental Health of Spousal Caregivers
Joan Costa-Font, Nilesh Raut, Courtney Van Houtven
published in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2024, 22, 1047–1084
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14753
Long-Term Care Partnership Effects on Medicaid and Private Insurance
Joan Costa-Font, Nilesh Raut
published online in: Health Economics,15 March 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14753
Long-Term Care Partnership Effects on Medicaid and Private Insurance
Joan Costa-Font, Nilesh Raut
published online in: Health Economics,15 March 2025
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