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46 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17100
The Failed History of Quarantines, and Its Implications for Public Health
Sanjeev Sabhlok, Paul Frijters, Gigi Foster, Jay Bhattacharya, Ari R Joffe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16879
Impact of Time of Diagnosis on Out-of-Pocket Costs of Cancer Treatment, a Side Effect of Health Insurance Design in Australia
Maryam Naghsh Nejad, Kees Van Gool
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16844
Medicare Austerity Reforms and Patient Out-of-Pocket Costs: The Experience from Australian Cancer Patients
Maryam Naghsh Nejad, Kees Van Gool, Philip Haywood, Jane Hall
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16264
Covid-19 and Income Inequality in OECD Countries: A Methodological Comment
Oded Stark
published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 24, 1235–1237
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16130
On a Tendency in Health Economics to Dwell on Income Inequality and Underestimate Social Stress
Oded Stark
published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2023, 49, 101232
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15803
Revisiting the Connection between State Medicaid Expansions and Adult Mortality
Charles Courtemanche, Jordan Jones, Antonios M. Koumpias, Daniela Zapata
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15546
Native American 'Deaths of Despair' and Economic Conditions
Randall K. Q. Akee, Donn. L. Feir, Marina Mileo Gorzig, Samuel Myers Jr
published in: Research in Social Stratification, 2024, 89, 100880
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. 15490
The Effect of Health Insurance on Child Nutritional Outcomes. Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design in Peru
Noelia Bernal, Joan Costa-Font, Patricia Ritter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15290
Optimal Travel Restrictions in Epidemics
Wei Shi, Yun Qiu, Pei Yu, Xi Chen
also available in: Spatial Data Lab, 2020, Webinars on Modeling COVID-19 Pandemic? Resources, Methodology and Applications, Harvard Dataverse, V4
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14975
Estimating the Effects of Milk Inspections on Infant and Child Mortality, 1880-1910
D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Michael McKelligott, Daniel I. Rees
published in: American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2022, 112, 188-192.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14958
Dynamic Impacts of Lockdown on Domestic Violence: Evidence from Multiple Policy Shifts in Chile
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Emilia Brito, Damian Clarke, Pilar Larroulet, Francisco J. Pino
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 9 February 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14838
Modeling to Inform Economy-Wide Pandemic Policy: Bringing Epidemiologists and Economists Together
Michael E. Darden, David Dowdy, Lauren Gardner, Barton H. Hamilton, Karen A. Kopecky, Melissa Marx, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Daniel Polsky, Kimberly Powers, Elizabeth Stuart, Matthew V. Zahn
published in: Health Economics, 2022, 31 (7), 1291-1295
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14710
Role of Professionalism in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Does a Public Health or Medical Background Help?
Xun Li, Weizheng Lai, Qianqian Wan, Xi Chen
published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 71, 101733
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14658
Voting, Contagion and the Trade-Off between Public Health and Political Rights: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Italian 2020 Polls
Marco Mello, Giuseppe Moscelli
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 200, 1025 - 2052
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14553
Can a Supranational Medicines Agency Restore Trust After Vaccine Suspensions? The Case of Vaxzevria
Andrea Albanese, Francesco Fallucchi, Bertrand Verheyden
published in: PLoS ONE, 2022, 17 (11), e02777554
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14365
The Design of Disease Maps Shapes Perceptions of Threat and Public Policy Preferences
Claudia Engel, Jonathan Rodden, Marco Tabellini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14292
The Public Health Effects of Legalizing Marijuana
D. Mark Anderson, Daniel I. Rees
published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2023, 61 (1), 86-143.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14202
COVID-19: Erroneous Modelling and Its Policy Implications
Yinon Bar-On, Tatiana Baron, Ofer Cornfeld, Ron Milo, Eran Yashiv
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13899
People Meet People: A Microlevel Approach to Predicting the Effect of Policies on the Spread of COVID-19
Janos Gabler, Tobias Raabe, Klara Röhrl
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13677
Informational Shocks and Street-Food Safety: A Field Study in Urban India
Gianmarco Daniele, Sulagna Mookerjee, Denni Tommasi
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103 (3), 563-579
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13546
Vaccination Take-up and Health: Evidence from a Flu Vaccination Program for the Elderly
Ylenia Brilli, Claudio Lucifora, Antonio Russo, Marco Tonello
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 179, 323 - 341
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13319
Face Masks Considerably Reduce COVID-19 Cases in Germany: A Synthetic Control Method Approach
Timo Mitze, Reinhold Kosfeld, Johannes Rode, Klaus Wälde
published in: PNAS, 2020, 117 (5), 32293-32301
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13200
The Value of Health Insurance during a Crisis: Effects of Medicaid Implementation on Pandemic Influenza Mortality
Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis, Edson R. Severnini, Xiao Wang
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (5), 1393 - 1402
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12783
Water Purification Efforts and the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap, 1906-1938
D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Daniel I. Rees, Tianyi Wang
published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 122, 103329.
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. 12232
The Phenomenon of Summer Diarrhea and Its Waning, 1910-1930
D. Mark Anderson, Daniel I. Rees, Tianyi Wang
published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2020, 78, 101341.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12077
Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality: Reply to Cutler and Miller
D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Daniel I. Rees
published as 'Re-Examining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Reply' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14 (2), 166-169.
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. 11773
Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality
D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Daniel I. Rees
published as 'Re-Examining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14 (2), 126-157.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10590
Was the First Public Health Campaign Successful? The Tuberculosis Movement and its Effect on Mortality
D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Claudio Las Heras Olivares, Daniel I. Rees
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (2), 143-175
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10338
Do Leaders' Characteristics and Regime Transitions in Africa Matter for Citizens' Health Status?
Luis Diaz-Serrano, Frank Gyimah Sackey
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9832
Beyond Job Lock: Impacts of Public Health Insurance on Occupational and Industrial Mobility
Ammar Farooq, Adriana Kugler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9313
Fighting Infectious Disease: Evidence from Sweden 1870-1940
Volha Lazuka, Luciana Quaranta, Tommy Bengtsson
published in: Population and Development Review, 2016, 42 (1), 27-52
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9270
Corruption in the Health Sector: Evidence from Unofficial Consultation Fees in Bangladesh
Wahid Abdallah, Shyamal Chowdhury, Kazi Iqbal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8213
The Effects of Access to Health Insurance for Informally Employed Individuals in Peru
Noelia Bernal, Miguel A. Carpio, Tobias J. Klein
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 154, 122-136
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6688
Taxes, Cigarette Consumption, and Smoking Intensity: Reply
Jérôme Adda, Francesca Cornaglia
published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103(7), 3102-3114
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. 5728
The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
John Cawley, Christopher J. Ruhm
published in: Mark V. Pauly, Thomas G. McGuire, and Pedro P. Barros (eds.), Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 2. New York: Elsevier, 2012, 95-199 95-199
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4567
Will There Be Blood? Incentives and Substitution Effects in Pro-social Behavior
Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis, Robert Slonim
published as 'Will There be Blood? Incentives and Displacement Effects in Pro-Social Behavior' in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2012, 4 (1), 186-223
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4458
Do All Material Incentives for Prosocial Activities Backfire? The Response to Cash and Non-Cash Incentives for Blood Donations
Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31 (4), 738-748
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4353
Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Samantha Rawlings
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (2), 660 - 672
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3771
Social Image Concerns and Pro-Social Behavior
Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2010, 76 (2), 225-237
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3770
Motivating Altruism: A Field Study
Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis
published as 'Time for Blood: The Effect of Paid Leave Legislation on Altruistic Behavior' in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2013, 29(6), 1384-1420
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3535
Intergenerational Transmission of Healthy Eating Behaviour and the Role of Household Income
Alison Goode, Kostas Mavromaras, Murray Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2706
Love on the Rocks: Alcohol Abuse and Domestic Violence in Rural Mexico
Manuela Angelucci
published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2008, 8(1), Article 43
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