IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Female labour market participation in Europe: novel evidence on trends and shaping factors' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3, 18 (2014)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7620

Mental Illness and Unhappiness

Richard Layard, Dan Chisholm, Vikram Patel, Shekhar Saxena

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7565

Long-Term Care and Lazy Rotten Kids

Helmuth Cremer, Kerstin Roeder

published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 19, 2017, 583-602

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7549

Immigrants, Household Production and Women's Retirement

Giovanni Peri, Agnese Romiti, Mariacristina Rossi

published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 36, 18-34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7531

If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands: How Do Mothers and Fathers Really Feel about Child Caregiving?

Rachel Connelly, Jean Kimmel

published in: Feminist Economics, 2015, 21 (1), 1-34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7409

Analyzing Regional Variation in Health Care Utilization Using (Rich) Household Microdata

Peter Eibich, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: Health Policy, 2014, 114 (1), 41-53

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7356

Ora et non Labora? A Test of the Impact of Religion on Female Labor Supply

Francesco Pastore, Simona Tenaglia

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7355

Economic Conditions and Child Abuse

Jason M. Lindo, Jessamyn Schaller, Benjamin Hansen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7246

Do Parents Drink Their Children's Welfare? A Joint Analysis of Intra-Household Allocation of Time

Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Lucia Mangiavacchi, Luca Piccoli

published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7164

Math and Gender: Is Math a Route to a High-Powered Career?

Juanna Schrøter Joensen, Helena Skyt Nielsen

revised version published as 'Mathematics and Gender: Heterogeneity in Causes and Consequences' in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126, 1129-1163

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7100

Early Child Care and Child Development: For Whom it Works and Why

Christina Felfe, Rafael Lalive

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7065

Mothers' Labour Market Participation: Do Grandparents Make It Easier?

Bruno Arpino, Chiara D. Pronzato, Lara P. Tavares

published in: European Journal of Population, 2014, 30, 369-390

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7053

Can't Buy Mommy's Love? Universal Childcare and Children's Long-Term Cognitive Development

Christina Felfe, Natalia Nollenberger, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28 (2), 393-422

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7039

The Impact of Non-Parental Child Care on Child Development: Evidence from the Summer Participation

Chris M. Herbst

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 105, 86–105

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7018

The Decline of Professional Football in Italy

Tito Boeri, Battista Severgnini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7007

Labor Supply Heterogeneity and Demand for Child Care of Mothers with Young Children

Patricia Apps, Jan Kabátek, Ray Rees, Arthur van Soest

published in: Empirical Economics, 2016, 51, 1641-1677

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6986

Kindergarten for All: Long Run Effects of a Universal Intervention

Nina Drange, Tarjei Havnes, Astrid M. J. Sandsør

published in Economics of Education Review, 2016, 53, 164-181

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6978

Gender Gaps in Spain: Family Issues and the Career Development of College Educated Men and Women

Ainara González de San Román, Sara de la Rica

published as 'Gender Gaps in Spain: The Role of Children in Career Development' in: Boeri, Patacchini and Peri (eds), Unexplored Dimensions of Discrimination, Oxford University Press 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6971

The Impact of Pre-school on Adolescents' Outcomes: Evidence from a Recent English Cohort

Patricia Apps, Silvia Mendolia, Ian Walker

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 37, 183-199

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6920

The Problem of the Uninsured

Isaac Ehrlich, Yong Yin

published in: Ehrlich, Isaac; Yin, Yong (eds.), Research in Economics, 2018, 72 (1), 147-168

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6873

Promotion and Wages in Mid-Career: Gender, Unionism, and Sector

John T. Addison, Orgul Demet Ozturk, Si Wang

revised version published as 'The Role of Gender in Promotion and Pay over a Career' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 8 (3), 280-317

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6873

Promotion and Wages in Mid-Career: Gender, Unionism, and Sector

John T. Addison, Orgul Demet Ozturk, Si Wang

revised version published as 'The Role of Gender in Promotion and Pay over a Career' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 8 (3), 280-317

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6864

Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement

Prashant Bharadwaj, Katrine Vellesen Loken, Christopher A. Neilson

published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (5), 1862-91

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6823

Optimal Taxation, Child Care and Models of the Household

Patricia Apps, Ray Rees

published as 'Optimal family taxation and income inequality' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2018, 25, 1093–1128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6804

Do Higher Childcare Subsidies Improve Parental Well-being? Evidence from Québec's Family Policies

Abel Brodeur, Marie Connolly

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 93, 1-16

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6768

Impact of China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Utilization and Expenditure

Hong Liu, Zhong Zhao

published as 'Does Health Insurance Matter? Evidence from China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42 (4), 1007-1020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6763

Measuring the Relative Productivity of Multitasking to Sole-tasking in Household Production: New Experimental Evidence

Gigi Foster, Charlene M. Kalenkoski

published in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (18), 1847-1862

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6632

Political Preferences and Public Sector Outsourcing

Mikael Elinder, Henrik Jordahl

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 30, 43-57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6606

Child Care Assistance: Are Subsidies or Tax Credits Better?

Xiaodong Gong, Robert Breunig

published in: Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38 (1), 7 - 48

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6541

Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance

Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Katrine Vellesen Loken, Kjell G. Salvanes

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96 (5), 824-837

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6440

Taxing Childcare: Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children

Christina Gathmann, Björn Sass

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6407

Up or Out: Research Incentives and Career Prospects of Postdocs in Germany

Bernd Fitzenberger, Ute Leuschner

published in: German Economic Review, 2014, 15 (2), 287-328

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6398

Grandparents' Childcare and Female Labor Force Participation

Josefina Posadas, Marian Vidal-Fernandez

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013, 2:14

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6373

Subjective Performance Evaluations and Employee Careers

Anders Frederiksen, Fabian Lange, Ben Kriechel

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 134, 408-429

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6373

Subjective Performance Evaluations and Employee Careers

Anders Frederiksen, Fabian Lange, Ben Kriechel

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 134, 408-429

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6310

The Effectiveness of Health Screening

Franz Hackl, Martin Halla, Michael Hummer, Gerald J. Pruckner

revised version published in: Health Economics, 2015, 24 (8), 913-935

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6306

Child Care Subsidies, Maternal Well-Being, and Child-Parent Interactions: Evidence from Three Nationally Representative Datasets

Chris M. Herbst, Erdal Tekin

published in: Health Economics, 2014, 23 (8), 894-916

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6149

Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Care and Education

Christopher J. Ruhm, Jane Waldfogel

published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, Economics of Education, 2012, 23-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6025

The Geographic Accessibility of Child Care Subsidies and Evidence on the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Childhood Obesity

Chris M. Herbst, Erdal Tekin

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2012, 71 (1), 37-52

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5918

Exploring the Impacts of Public Childcare on Mothers and Children in Italy: Does Rationing Play a Role?

Ylenia Brilli, Daniela Del Boca, Chiara D. Pronzato

published as 'Does Child Care Availability Play a Role in Maternal Employment and Children's Development? Evidence from Italy' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2016 ,14(1), 27-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5901

Health and Economic Development: Evidence from the Introduction of Public Health Care

Anthony Strittmatter, Uwe Sunde

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (4), 1549-1584

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5888

Child Care, Maternal Employment and Persistence: A Natural Experiment from Spain

Natalia Nollenberger, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

substantially revised version published as 'Full-Time Universal Childcare in a Context of Low Maternal Employment: Modest but Persistent Effects' in: Labour Economics, 2015, 36, 124 - 136

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5877

Informal Caring and Labour Market Outcomes Within England and Wales

Stephen Drinkwater

published in: Regional Studies, 2015, 49 (2), 273-286

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5848

Where to Put the Kids? Effects of Type of Non-parental Child Care on Pre-teen Skills and Risky Behavior

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Marianne Simonsen

short version published as 'The effects of type of non-parental child care on pre-teen skills and risky behavior' in: Economics Letters 2012, 116, 622-625

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5843

The Effect of an Acute Health Shock on Work Behavior: Evidence from Different Health Care Regimes

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Kristin J. Kleinjans, Mona Larsen

published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2015, 136-137,44-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5806

Career Changers in Teaching Jobs: A Case Study Based on the Swiss Vocational Education System

Stefanie Hof, Mirjam Strupler Leiser, Stefan C. Wolter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5771

Use of Time and Value of Unpaid Family Care Work: A Comparison between Italy and Poland

Francesca Francavilla, Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Gabriela Grotkowska, Mieczyslaw Socha

published as 'Dressing a ghost: size and value of unpaid family care' in: Applied Economics, 2019, 51 (28), 3015-3030 (authored by Francesca Francavilla and Gianna Gludia Giannelli)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5771

Use of Time and Value of Unpaid Family Care Work: A Comparison between Italy and Poland

Francesca Francavilla, Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Gabriela Grotkowska, Mieczyslaw Socha

published as 'Dressing a ghost: size and value of unpaid family care' in: Applied Economics, 2019, 51 (28), 3015-3030 (authored by Francesca Francavilla and Gianna Gludia Giannelli)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5771

Use of Time and Value of Unpaid Family Care Work: A Comparison between Italy and Poland

Francesca Francavilla, Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Gabriela Grotkowska, Mieczyslaw Socha

published as 'Dressing a ghost: size and value of unpaid family care' in: Applied Economics, 2019, 51 (28), 3015-3030 (authored by Francesca Francavilla and Gianna Gludia Giannelli)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5764

Human Capital and Career Success: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Anders Frederiksen, Takao Kato

published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (613), 1952-1982

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5762

Quality and Quantity in Primary Care Mixed Payment Models: Evidence from Family Health Organizations in Ontario

Jasmin Kantarevic, Boris Kralj

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2013, 46 (1), 208-238

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5761

Time for Children: Trends in the Employment Patterns of Parents, 1967-2009

Liana Fox, Han Wen-Jui, Christopher J. Ruhm, Jane Waldfogel

published in: Demography, 2013, 50 (1), 25-49

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5753

Patients Whose GP Knows Complementary Medicine Tend to Have Lower Costs and Live Longer

Peter Kooreman, Erik W. Baars

published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2012, 13(6), 769-776

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5752

The Employment of Mothers: Recent Developments and their Determinants in East and West Germany

Barbara Hanel, Regina T. Riphahn

published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2012, 232 (2), 146-176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5744

Do Guns Displace Books? The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment

Thomas K. Bauer, Stefan Bender, Alfredo R. Paloyo, Christoph M. Schmidt

published in: Economics Letters, 2014,124 (3), 513–515

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5739

Flu Shots, Mammograms, and the Perception of Probabilities

Katherine Grace Carman, Peter Kooreman

published as 'Probability Perceptions and Preventive Health Care' in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2014, 49(1), 43-71

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5628

The Impact of Union Dissolution on Moving Distances and Destinations in the UK

Peteke Feijten, Maarten van Ham

published as 'The Consequences of Divorce and Splitting up for Spatial Mobility in the UK' in: Comparative Population Studies, 2013, 38 (2), 405-432

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5602

Assessing the Effectiveness of Health Care Cost Containment Measures

Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, 2014, 14(1), 41-67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5545

Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care

Badi H. Baltagi, Francesco Moscone, Elisa Tosetti

published in: Empirical Economics, 2012, 42 (2), 395-411

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5483

A Labor Market Approach to the Crisis of Health Care Professionals in Africa

Mabel Andalón, Gary S. Fields

published in: Agnes Soucat and Richard Sheffler (eds.): The Labor Market for Health Workers in Africa: A New Look at the Crisis, The World Bank, 2013, 33-48

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5433

Time-Bound Opportunity Costs of Informal Care: Consequences for Access to Professional Care, Caregiver Support, and Labour Supply Estimates

Wolter Hassink, Bernard van den Berg

published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2011, 73 (10), 1508-1516

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5429

The Impact of Placing Adolescent Males into Foster Care on their Education, Income Assistance and Incarcerations

William P. Warburton, Rebecca N. Warburton, Arthur Sweetman, Clyde Hertzman

published as 'The Impact of Placing Adolescent Males into Foster Care on Education, Income Assistance, and Convictions' in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2014, 47(1), 35-69.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5323

Dynamic Incentive Contracts under Parameter Uncertainty

Julien Prat, Boyan Jovanovic

revised version published as 'Dynamic Contracts When the Agent's Quality is Unknown' in: Theoretical Economics, 2014, 9 (3), 865-914

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5203

Is Employer-Based Health Insurance a Barrier to Entrepreneurship?

Robert W. Fairlie, Kanika Kapur, Susan Gates

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (1), 146-162

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5192

The Wage Elasticity of Informal Care Supply: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Olena Y. Nizalova

published in: Southern Economics Journal, 2012, 79 (2), 350-366

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5192

The Wage Elasticity of Informal Care Supply: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Olena Y. Nizalova

published in: Southern Economics Journal, 2012, 79 (2), 350-366

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5119

How Responsive is Female Labour Supply to Child Care Costs: New Australian Estimates

Xiaodong Gong, Robert Breunig, Anthony King

published as 'Partnered Women's Labour Supply and Child Care Costs in Australia: Measurement Error and the Child-Care Price' in: Economic Record, 2012, 88, 51-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5119

How Responsive is Female Labour Supply to Child Care Costs: New Australian Estimates

Xiaodong Gong, Robert Breunig, Anthony King

published as 'Partnered Women's Labour Supply and Child Care Costs in Australia: Measurement Error and the Child-Care Price' in: Economic Record, 2012, 88, 51-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5113

Efficient Intra-Household Allocation of Parental Leave

Juliane Parys, Gregor Schwerhoff

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2018, 51 (1), 236 - 27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5110

Germany's Next Top Manager: Does Personality Explain the Gender Career Gap?

Simon Fietze, Elke Holst, Verena Tobsch

published in: management revue - The international Review of Management Studies, 2011, 22 (3), 240-273

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5102

The Impact of Child Care Subsidies on Child Well-Being: Evidence from Geographic Variation in the Distance to Social Service Agencies

Chris M. Herbst, Erdal Tekin

published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016, 35 (1), 94 - 116

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5046

GDP and the Value of Family Caretaking: How Much Does Europe Care?

Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Lucia Mangiavacchi, Luca Piccoli

published in: Applied Economics, 2012, 44 (16), 2111 - 2131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5004

The Effect of Private Health Insurance on Medical Care Utilization and Self-Assessed Health in Germany

Patrick Hullegie, Tobias J. Klein

published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (9), 1048-1062

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4978

Is Universal Child Care Leveling the Playing Field? Evidence from Non-Linear Difference-in-Differences

Tarjei Havnes, Magne Mogstad

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 127, 100–114

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4863

Earnings Progression, Human Capital and Incentives: Theory and Evidence

Anders Frederiksen

published as 'Incentives and Earnings Growth' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 85 (1), 97-107

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4862

Enhanced Fee-for-Service Model and Access to Physician Services: Evidence from Family Health Groups in Ontario

Jasmin Kantarevic, Boris Kralj, Darrel Weinkauf

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (1), 99-111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4845

The Multitasking of Household Production

Charlene M. Kalenkoski, Gigi Foster

published in: C. Kalenkoski and G. Foster (eds): The Economics of Multitasking, Palgrave MacMillan, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4831

Who Wants to Work in a Rural Health Post? The Role of Intrinsic Motivation, Rural Background and Faith-Based Institutions in Rwanda and Ethiopia

Pieter Serneels, Jose G. Montalvo, Gunilla Pettersson, Tomas Lievens, Jean Damascene Butera, Aklilu Kidanu

published in: Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2010, 88, 342-349

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4617

New Evidence on the Role of Remittances on Health Care Expenditures by Mexican Households

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Susan Pozo

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 69-98.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4593

Evaluation of the Impact of the Mother and Infant Health Project in Ukraine

Olena Y. Nizalova, Maria Vyshnya

published in: Health Economics, 2010, Volume 19 (Supplement 1), 107–125

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4591

Have Labour Market Reforms at the Turn of the Millennium Changed Job Durations of the New Entrants? A Comparative Study for Germany and Italy

Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Ursula Jaenichen, Claudia Villosio

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2012, 33, 143 - 172

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4561

No Child Left Behind: Universal Child Care and Children’s Long-Run Outcomes

Tarjei Havnes, Magne Mogstad

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011, 3 (2), 97-129

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4504

Money for Nothing? Universal Child Care and Maternal Employment

Tarjei Havnes, Magne Mogstad

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (11-12), 1455-1465

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4450

Happiness and Health Care Coverage

David G. Blanchflower

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4366

Understanding the Economic Consequences of Shifting Trends in Population Health

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Dana P. Goldman, Darius N. Lakdawalla, Yuhui Zheng, Adam H. Gailey

published as 'The Fiscal Effects of Trends in Public Health' in: National Tax Journal, 2010, 63 (2), 307-324,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4255

Child Care Subsidies and Childhood Obesity

Chris M. Herbst, Erdal Tekin

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (3), 349 - 378

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4236

Long-Term Impact of Youth Minimum Wages: Evidence from Two Decades of Individual Longitudinal Data

Ana Rute Cardoso

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2019, 121 (4), 1337 - 1380

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4219

The Timing of Maternal Work and Time with Children

Jay Stewart

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 64(1), 181-200

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4204

Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China: 1982 - 2000

Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Rachel Connelly, Chen Lan, Lixin Tang

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2011, 46 (2), 261 - 294

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4204

Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China: 1982 - 2000

Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Rachel Connelly, Chen Lan, Lixin Tang

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2011, 46 (2), 261 - 294

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