IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Public childcare benefits children and mothers: Evidence from a nationwide experiment in a developing country' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 212, 104686

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12556

Running the Risk of an Injury in the NFL: Short-Run and Career Consequences

Quinn Keefer, Thomas J. Kniesner

published as 'Performance and Pay in Professional Football' in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2022, 12 (4), 269-343.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12552

Did the ACA Medicaid Expansion Save Lives?

Mark Borgschulte, Jacob Vogler

published in Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 72, 102333

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12552

Did the ACA Medicaid Expansion Save Lives?

Mark Borgschulte, Jacob Vogler

published in Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 72, 102333

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12539

How Do Parents Respond to Regulation of Sugary Drinks in Child Care? Evidence from California

Jiafei Hu, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Haishan Yuan

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 178, 672-687

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12501

Uninsured by Choice? A Choice Experiment on Long Term Care Insurance

Faical Akaichi, Joan Costa-Font, Richard Frank

published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2020, 173, 422-434

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12500

Labour Supply and Childcare: Allowing Both Parents to Choose

Karen A. Mumford, Antonia Parera-Nicolau, Yolanda Pena-Boquete

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 82(3), 577-602.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12490

Multiple Births, Birth Quality and Maternal Labor Supply: Analysis of IVF Reform in Sweden

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Damian Clarke, Hanna Mühlrad, Mårten Palme

revised version available from the authors

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12484

Early Education and Gender Differences

Daniela Del Boca, Enrica Maria Martino, Elena Claudia Meroni, Daniela Piazzalunga

published in: Economica Italiana, 2019, 3, 11-36

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12473

Which Ladder to Climb? Decomposing Life Cycle Wage Dynamics

Christian Bayer, Moritz Kuhn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12463

Losing Insurance and Behavioral Health Hospitalizations: Evidence from a Large-Scale Medicaid Disenrollment

J. Catherine Maclean, Sebastian Tello-Trillo, Douglas A. Webber

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 508-527

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12421

The Impact of Family Co-Residence and Childcare on Children's Cognitive Skill

Lanfang Deng, Haizheng Li, Zhiqiang Liu

published in: Applied Economics, 2022, 55 (26), 3008–3025.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12403

The Gender Gap in Informal Child Care: Theory and Some Evidence from Italy

Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer, Chiara Monfardini

published in: Economia Italiana, 2019, 3, 66-98.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12403

The Gender Gap in Informal Child Care: Theory and Some Evidence from Italy

Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer, Chiara Monfardini

published in: Economia Italiana, 2019, 3, 66-98.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12383

Impact of Increased Long-Term Care Insurance Payments on Employment and Wages in Formal Long-Term Care

Ayako Kondo

published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2019, 53, 101034

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12383

Impact of Increased Long-Term Care Insurance Payments on Employment and Wages in Formal Long-Term Care

Ayako Kondo

published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2019, 53, 101034

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12373

Evolution of Individual Preferences and Persistence of Family Rules

Alessandro Cigno, Alessandro Gioffré, Annalisa Luporini

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 19, 935-958

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12297

More Hospital Choices, More C-Sections: Evidence from Chile

Ramiro de Elejalde, Eugenio Giolito

revised version published as "A demand-smoothing incentive for cesarean deliveries" in: Journal of Health Economics 2021, 75, 102411

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12264

Responding to Regulation: The Effects of Changes in Mandatory Retirement Laws on Firm-Provided Incentives

Anders Frederiksen, Colleen Flaherty Manchester

published as 'Personnel Practices and Regulation: How Firm-Provided Incentives Respond to Changes in Mandatory Retirement Law' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (4), 1011-1042

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12251

Motivating Bureaucrats through Social Recognition: External Validity — A Tale of Two States

Varun Gauri, Julian C. Jamison, Nina Mazar, Owen Ozier

published in: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2021, 163, 117-131

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. 12207

Do Parents Work More When Children Start School? Evidence from the Netherlands

Lisette Swart, Wiljan Van den Berge, Karen van der Wiel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12186

Socialized Healthcare and Women's Fertility Decisions

Resul Cesur, Pinar Mine Gunes, Erdal Tekin, Aydogan Ulker

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (3), 1028-1055;

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12148

Home Production of Childcare and Labour Supply Decisions in a Collective Household Model

Hélène Turon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12147

Motherhood, Migration, and Self-Employment of College Graduates

Zhengyu Cai, Heather M. Stephens, John V. Winters

published in: Small Business Economics, 2019, 53 (3), 611-629

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12146

Universal Childcare for the Youngest and the Maternal Labour Supply

Astrid Kunze, Xingfei Liu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12145

Parental Child Care Time, Income and Subjective Well-Being: A Multidimensional Polarization Approach for Germany

Joachim Merz, Normen Peters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12111

Does Universalization of Health Work? Evidence from Health Systems Restructuring and Expansion in Brazil

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Rudi Rocha, Rodrigo R. Soares

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12106

Delivering Parenting Interventions through Health Services in the Caribbean

Susan P. Walker, Christine Powell, Susan M. Chang, Helen Baker-Henningham, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Marcos Vera-Hernandez, Florencia López Bóo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12066

The Effect of Superstition on Health: Evidence from the Taiwanese Ghost Month

Martin Halla, Chia-Lun Liu, Jin-Tan Liu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11985

Who's Minding the Kids? Experimental Evidence on the Demand for Child Care Quality

James Gordon, Chris M. Herbst, Erdal Tekin

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 80, 102076

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11976

Early Career Research Production in Economics: Does Mentoring Matter?

Andrés García-Suaza, Jesus Otero, Rainer Winkelmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11879

Does Health Insurance Make People Happier? Evidence from Massachusetts' Healthcare Reform

Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh

published as 'Health insurance and subjective well-being: Evidence from two healthcare reforms in the United States' in: Health Economics, 2022, 31 (1), 233-249

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11873

Fathers' Parental Leave-Taking, Childcare Involvement and Mothers' Labor Market Participation

Marcus Tamm

revised version published as 'Fathers' parental leave-taking, childcare involvement and labor market participation' in: Labour Economics, 2019, 59, 184 - 197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11868

Publishing and Promotion in Economics: The Tyranny of the Top Five

James J. Heckman, Sidharth Moktan

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 58 (2), 2020, 419 - 70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11845

Information Provision and Streamlined Medical Service: Evidence from a Mobile Appointment App

Changcheng Song, Nan Yang, Junjian Yi, Ye Yuan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11844

Job Mismatches and Career Mobility

Le Wen, Sholeh A. Maani

published in: Applied Economics, 2018, 51 (10), 1010–1024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11827

Which Ladder to Climb? Wages of Workers by Job, Plant, and Education

Christian Bayer, Moritz Kuhn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11774

Thinking of Incentivizing Care? The Effect of Demand Subsidies on Informal Caregiving and Intergenerational Transfers

Joan Costa-Font, Sergi Jimenez-Martin, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

revised version published as 'Do Public Caregiving Subsidies and Supports affect the Provision of Care and Transfers?' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 84,102639

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11774

Thinking of Incentivizing Care? The Effect of Demand Subsidies on Informal Caregiving and Intergenerational Transfers

Joan Costa-Font, Sergi Jimenez-Martin, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

revised version published as 'Do Public Caregiving Subsidies and Supports affect the Provision of Care and Transfers?' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 84,102639

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11774

Thinking of Incentivizing Care? The Effect of Demand Subsidies on Informal Caregiving and Intergenerational Transfers

Joan Costa-Font, Sergi Jimenez-Martin, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

revised version published as 'Do Public Caregiving Subsidies and Supports affect the Provision of Care and Transfers?' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 84,102639

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11772

Mergers and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Maternity Ward Closures

Daniel Avdic, Petter Lundborg, Johan Vikström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11741

What Do Parents Value in a Child Care Provider? Evidence from Yelp Consumer Reviews

Chris M. Herbst, Kevin C. Desouza, Saud Alashri, Srinivasa Srivatsav Kandala, Mayank Khullar, Vikash Bajaj

published in: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2020, 51, 288-306

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11729

The Effect of Early Life Health on Later Life Home Care Use: The Mediating Role of Household Composition

Govert Bijwaard, Rob Alessie, Viola Angelini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11727

Healthcare Utilization at Retirement: The Role of the Opportunity Cost of Time

Claudio Lucifora, Daria Vigani

published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (12), 2030-2050

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11689

One Billion Euro Program for Early Childcare Services in Italy

Isabella Giorgetti, Matteo Picchio

published in: Metroeconomica, 2021, 72 (3), 469-492

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11688

Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance

Thomas Cornelissen, Christian Dustmann, Anna Raute, Uta Schönberg

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126 (6), 2356–2409

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11687

The Effects of Universal Public Childcare Provision on Cases of Child Neglect and Abuse

Malte Sandner, Stephan L. Thomsen

revised version published online as 'Preventing Child Maltreatment: Beneficial Side Effects of Public Childcare' (joint with Libertad Gonzalez) in: Economic Journal, 19 July 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11619

Uncertain Altruism and Non-Linear Long-Term Care Policies

Chiara Canta, Helmuth Cremer

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 54, 2021, 259-283.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11576

Child Care, Parental Labor Supply and Tax Revenue

Martin Eckhoff Andresen, Tarjei Havnes

published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101762

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11545

The Shadow Prices of Voluntary Caregiving: Using Panel Data of Well-Being to Estimate the Cost of Informal Care

Rebecca McDonald, Nattavudh Powdthavee

published online in: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11507

Working Time Flexibility and Parental 'Quality Time' Spent with Children

Iga Magda, Roma Keister

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11469

The Effects of DACA on Health Insurance, Access to Care, and Health Outcomes

Osea Giuntella, Jakub Lonsky

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 72, 102320

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11468

Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Behaviors after Three Years

Charles Courtemanche, James Marton, Benjamin Ukert, Aaron Yelowitz, Daniela Zapata

published in: INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2018, 55

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11468

Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Behaviors after Three Years

Charles Courtemanche, James Marton, Benjamin Ukert, Aaron Yelowitz, Daniela Zapata

published in: INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2018, 55

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11447

The Effects of Day Care on Health During Childhood: Evidence by Age

Gerard J. van den Berg, Bettina M. Siflinger

published as 'The effects of a daycare reform on health in childhood - Evidence from Sweden ' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 81, 102577

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11447

The Effects of Day Care on Health During Childhood: Evidence by Age

Gerard J. van den Berg, Bettina M. Siflinger

published as 'The effects of a daycare reform on health in childhood - Evidence from Sweden ' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 81, 102577

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11445

An Apple a Day? Adult Food Stamp Eligibility and Health Care Utilization Among Immigrants

Chloe N. East, Andrew I. Friedson

published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 6 (3), 289–323

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11444

Ambulance Utilization in New York City after the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act

Charles Courtemanche, Andrew I. Friedson, Daniel I. Rees

published as 'Association of Ambulance Use in New York City With the Implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ' in: JAMA Network Open, 2019, 2 (6), e196419.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11396

Family-Centered Measures of Access to Early Care and Education

Elizabeth E. Davis, Won Fy Lee, Aaron Sojourner

published in: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2019, 47, 472 - 486

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11395

Parental Occupation and Children's School Outcomes in Math

Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Chiara Rapallini

published in: Research in Economics, 2019, 73 (4), 293-303

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11375

Government Education Expenditures, Pre-Primary Education and School Performance: A Cross-Country Analysis

Daniela Del Boca, Chiara Monfardini, Sarah Grace See

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11269

Free Daycare and its Effects on Children and their Families

Anna Busse, Christina Gathmann

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 179, 240-260

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11235

Grandchildren and Their Grandparents' Labor Supply

Peter Rupert, Giulio Zanella

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 159, 89 - 103

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11182

Estimating Fixed Effects: Perfect Prediction and Bias in Binary Response Panel Models, with an Application to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

Johannes S. Kunz, Kevin E. Staub, Rainer Winkelmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11180

Can Regional Decentralisation Shift Health Care Preferences?

Joan Costa-Font, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell

published as 'Does Devolution Influence the Choice and Quality of Public (vs Private) Health Care?' in: Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organisation, 2022, 202, 632-653

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11180

Can Regional Decentralisation Shift Health Care Preferences?

Joan Costa-Font, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell

published as 'Does Devolution Influence the Choice and Quality of Public (vs Private) Health Care?' in: Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organisation, 2022, 202, 632-653

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11140

Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in the Labor Market for Child Care Teachers

Casey Boyd-Swan, Chris M. Herbst

published in: Educational Researcher, 2019, 48 (7), 394 - 406

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11140

Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in the Labor Market for Child Care Teachers

Casey Boyd-Swan, Chris M. Herbst

published in: Educational Researcher, 2019, 48 (7), 394 - 406

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11083

Higher Education Funding Reforms: A Comprehensive Analysis of Educational and Labor Market Outcomes in England

Ghazala Azmat, Stefania Simion

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11083

Higher Education Funding Reforms: A Comprehensive Analysis of Educational and Labor Market Outcomes in England

Ghazala Azmat, Stefania Simion

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11035

Long-Term Care in Latin America and the Caribbean? Theory and Policy Considerations

Martín Caruso Bloeck, Sebastian Galiani, Pablo Ibarrarán

published in: Economica, 2019, 20 (1), 1 - 32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11035

Long-Term Care in Latin America and the Caribbean? Theory and Policy Considerations

Martín Caruso Bloeck, Sebastian Galiani, Pablo Ibarrarán

published in: Economica, 2019, 20 (1), 1 - 32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11002

Taxes and Market Hours: The Role of Gender and Skill

Robert Duval Hernández, Lei Fang, L. Rachel Ngai

published as 'Taxes, subsidies and gender gaps in hours and wages' in: Economica, 2023, 90 (358), 373-408.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10988

Labour Supply and Informal Care Supply: The Impacts of Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care

Bruce Hollingsworth, Asako Ohinata, Matteo Picchio, Ian Walker

revised version published as 'The Impacts of Free Universal Elderly Care on the Supply of Informal Care and Labour Supply' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 84 (4), 933 - 960

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10988

Labour Supply and Informal Care Supply: The Impacts of Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care

Bruce Hollingsworth, Asako Ohinata, Matteo Picchio, Ian Walker

revised version published as 'The Impacts of Free Universal Elderly Care on the Supply of Informal Care and Labour Supply' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 84 (4), 933 - 960

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10976

Gender, Willingness to Compete and Career Choices along the Whole Ability Distribution

Thomas Buser, Noemi Peter, Stefan C. Wolter

revised version published as 'Willingness to compete, gender and career choices along the whole ability distribution' in: Experimental Economics, 2022, 25, 1299 - 1326

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10967

Management, Supervision, and Health Care: A Field Experiment

Felipe A. Dunsch, David K. Evans, Ezinne Eze-Ajoku, Mario Macis

published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2023, 32 (3), 583-606

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10951

The Affordable Care Act and Ambulance Response Times

Charles Courtemanche, Andrew I. Friedson, Andrew P. Koller, Daniel I. Rees

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 67, 102213

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10951

The Affordable Care Act and Ambulance Response Times

Charles Courtemanche, Andrew I. Friedson, Andrew P. Koller, Daniel I. Rees

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 67, 102213

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10951

The Affordable Care Act and Ambulance Response Times

Charles Courtemanche, Andrew I. Friedson, Andrew P. Koller, Daniel I. Rees

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 67, 102213

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10917

Taking the CON out of Pennsylvania: Did Hip and Knee Replacement Patients Benefit?

Susan L. Averett, Sabrina Terrizzi, Yang Wang

published as 'Taking the CON out of Pennsylvania: Did hip/knee replacement patients benefit? A retrospective analysis' in: Health Policy and Technology, 2019, 8 (4), 349 - 355

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. 10883

Additional Career Assistance and Educational Outcomes for Students in Lower Track Secondary Schools

Bernd Fitzenberger, Stefanie Licklederer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10850

Immigration Enforcement and Foster Care Placements

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo

published as 'Split Families and the Future of Children: Immigration Enforcement and Foster Care Placements' in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108, 368-372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10828

An Advisor Like Me? Advisor Gender and Post-Graduate Careers in Science

Patrick Gaule, Mario Piacentini

published in: Research Policy, 2018, 47(4), 805-813

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10813

Taxing Childcare: Effects on Childcare Choices, Family Labor Supply and Children

Christina Gathmann, Björn Sass

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (3), 665-709

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10812

Parental Leave, (In)formal Childcare and Long-term Child Outcomes

Natalia Danzer, Martin Halla, Nicole Schneeweis, Martina Zweimüller

revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (6) 1826-1884;