IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7900

Empowering Women: The Effect of Schooling on Young Women's Knowledge and Use of Contraception

Mabel Andalón, Jenny Williams, Michael Grossman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7893

Measuring Obesity in the Absence of a Gold Standard

Donal O'Neill

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 17, 116-128.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7875

The Short-Term Population Health Effects of Weather and Pollution: Implications of Climate Change

Nicolas R. Ziebarth, Maike Schmitt, Martin Karlsson

revised version published as: Karlsson, M.; Zierbarth, N.R., 'Population health effects and health-related costs of extreme temperatures: Comprehensive evidence from Germany' in:Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018, 91, 93-117

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7835

Physician Payment Mechanisms, Hospital Length of Stay and Risk of Readmission: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Damien Échevin, Bernard Fortin

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 36, 112-124

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7834

Returns to Childbirth Technologies: Evidence from Preterm Births

N. Meltem Daysal, Mircea Trandafir, Reyn van Ewijk

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7790

"High"-School: The Relationship between Early Marijuana Use and Educational Outcomes

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sonja C. de New, Trinh Le, Duncan McVicar, Rong Zhang

published in: Economic Record, 2015, 91(293), 247-266

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7711

The Effect of Local Area Crime on Mental Health

Christian Dustmann, Francesco Fasani

published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (593), 978-1017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7693

Seasonality in Smoking Behaviour: Re-evaluating the Effects of the 2005 Public Smoking Ban in Italy

Emilia Del Bono, Klaus Grünberger, Daniela Vuri

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7691

Natural Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well-Being: The Case of Fukushima

Jan Goebel, Christian Krekel, Tim Tiefenbach, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published as 'How Natural Disasters Can Affect Environmental Concerns, Risk Aversion, and Even Politics: Evidence from Fukushima and Three European Countries' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28(4), 1137-1180

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7690

Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England

Michael Lechner, Paul Downward

published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 49 (4), 335–348.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7657

The Origins of Early Childhood Anthropometric Persistence

Daniel L. Millimet, Rusty Tchernis

published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 56, 2185-2224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7620

Mental Illness and Unhappiness

Richard Layard, Dan Chisholm, Vikram Patel, Shekhar Saxena

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7545