IZA - Institute of Labor Economics

Returns to Caring? Health and Well‐Being Effects of Subsidized Long‐Term Care

ABSTRACT We estimate the health and well‐being effects of subsidized access to long‐term care (LTC). Our analysis exploits the staggered implementation of Spain's 2007 System of Autonomy and Care for Dependent People (SAAD), which expanded publicly funded and universal LTC subsid...

Electoral results affect beliefs about the past: Evidence from Chile

Can electoral outcomes shape voters' perceptions of the past? We argue that electoral outcomes provide informational cues that prompt voters to reinterpret prior conditions, shifting the benchmarks on which accountability rests. We focus on perceptions of crime, a valence issue t...

The effect of network degree on bargaining:Experimental evidence from the field

We conduct an artefactual field experiment in real-existing trade networks to analyze how individual network degree affects bargaining demands and outcomes. We combine data from a bilateral bargaining experiment with data of trade networks in 24 villages in Uganda. To identify th...

Can a Government Subsidy for Childcare Encourage Maternal Labor Supply and Fertility? New Evidence From South Korea

ABSTRACT We study the effects of a universal childcare subsidy (UCS) on maternal labor supply and fertility in South Korea, which has experienced sharp reductions in fertility rates. Our difference‐in‐differences and synthetic difference‐in‐differences approaches show little evid...

Cross-Country Analysis of Labor Markets during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The authors study employment outcomes during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic across eight countries exhibiting different case levels and policy responses: the United States, Australia, France, Denmark, Italy, South Korea, Spain, and Sweden. While the proportion of peopl...

The Fertility Reduction Effects of the Colorado Family Planning Initiative by Age and Parity

ABSTRACT We use restricted‐access birth records from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) to document the full age and parity fertility effects of the Colorado Family Planning Initiative (CFPI). The CFPI provided access to every FDA approved method of contraception for fre...