IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13727

Happy Pills? Mental Health Effects of the Dramatic Increase of Antidepressant Use

Giuliano Masiero, Sandro Steinbach

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13726

Returns to Education in the Russian Federation: Some New Estimates

Ekaterina Melianova, Suhas Parandekar, Harry Anthony Patrinos, Artëm Volgin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13725

Are Older People Aware of Their Cognitive Decline? Misperception and Financial Decision Making

Fabrizio Mazzonna, Franco Peracchi

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (6), 1793-1830

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13724

The Effect of Community Size on Electoral Preferences: Evidence From Post-WWII Southern Germany

Luciana C. Fiorini, Michael Jetter, Christopher F. Parmeter, Christopher Parsons

revised version published as 'Community Size and Electoral Preferences: Evidence From Post-Second World War Baden-Württemberg' in: British Journal of Political Science, 2024, 54 (3), 573 - 594

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13723

How People Know Their Risk Preference

Ruben C. Arslan, Martin Brümmer, Thomas Dohmen, Johanna Drewelies, Ralph Hertwig, Gert G. Wagner

published in: Scientific Reports, 2020, 10, 15365

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13722

India's Calorie Consumption Puzzle: Insights From the Stochastic Cost Frontier Analysis of Calorie Purchases

Gautam Hazarika, Sourabh Bikas Paul

published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 60, 2993 - 3010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13721

First in Their Families at University: Can Non-cognitive Skills Compensate for Social Origin?

Rebecca Edwards, Rachael Gibson, Colm P. Harmon, Stefanie Schurer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13720

Who is Resilient in a Time of Crisis? The Importance of Financial and Non-Financial Resources

David W. Johnston, Claryn S. J. Kung, Michael A. Shields

published in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (12), 3051 - 3073

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13719

Saving Neonatal Lives for a Quarter

Christine Valente, Hans Henrik Sievertsen, Mahesh C. Puri

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13718

Promises and Limitations of Nudging in Education

Philip Oreopoulos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13717

Corporate Hierarchies under Employee Representation

Filippo Belloc, Gabriel Burdin, Fabio Landini

published as 'Corporate hierarchies and workplace voice' in: Journal of Institutional Economics, 2023, 19 (6), 729 - 746

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13716

How Is the COVID-19 Crisis Exacerbating Socioeconomic Inequality among Palestinians in Israel?

Sami H. Miaari, Maha Sabbah-Karkabi, Amit Loewenthal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13715

Changes in Healthcare Utilization, Spending, and Perceived Health during COVID–19: A Longitudinal Study from Singapore

SangNam Ahn, Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh

published as 'Associations of the COVID-19 pandemic with older individuals' healthcare utilization and self-reported health status: a longitudinal analysis from Singapore' in: BMC Health Services Research, 2022, 22(1), 66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13714

A Note on the Importance of Normalizations in Dynamic Latent Factor Models of Skill Formation

Emilia Del Bono, Josh Kinsler, Ronni Pavan

published as 'Identification of dynamic latent factor models of skill formation with translog production' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2022, 37 (6), 1256 - 1265

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13713

Skill Formation and the Trouble with Child Non-Cognitive Skill Measures

Emilia Del Bono, Josh Kinsler, Ronni Pavan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13712

Gendering Technological Change: Evidence from Agricultural Mechanization

Farzana Afridi, Monisankar Bishnu, Kanika Mahajan

published as 'Gender and Mechanization: Evidence from Indian Agriculture' in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2023, 105 (1), 52 - 75

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13711

The Ties That Bind Us: Social Networks and Productivity in the Factory

Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Swati Sharma

published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2024, 228, 470 - 485

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13710