IZA Discussion Papers

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. 7840

New Evidence on the Healthy Immigrant Effect

Lídia Farré

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (2), 365-394

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. 7833

Cognitive Development and Infectious Disease: Gender Differences in Investments and Outcomes

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Atheendar Venkataramani

revised version available from authors

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. 7785

Job Lock: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Robert W. Fairlie, Kanika Kapur, Susan Gates

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7766

Public, Private or Both? Analysing Factors Influencing the Labour Supply of Medical Specialists

Terence Chai Cheng, Guyonne Kalb, Anthony Scott

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2018, 51 (2), 659-691.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7756

Absence from Work of the Self-Employed: A Comparison with Paid Employees

Daniel S. J. Lechmann, Claus Schnabel

published in: Kyklos, 2014, 67 (3), 368-390

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7713

Individual Behavior as a Pathway between Early-Life Shocks and Adult Health: Evidence from Hunger Episodes in Post-War Germany

Iris Kesternich, Bettina M. Siflinger, James P. Smith, Joachim Winter

published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (588), F372-F393

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. 7692

The Effects of Intrauterine Malnutrition on Birth and Fertility Outcomes: Evidence from the 1974 Bangladesh Famine

Rey Hernández-Julián, Hani Mansour, Christina Peters

published in: Demography, 2014, 51(5), 1775-1796

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. 7689

Does Full Insurance Increase the Demand for Health Care?

Stefan Boes, Michael Gerfin

published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25 (11), 1483-1496

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