IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4975

The GED

James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, Nicholas S. Mader

published in: E.A. Hanushek, S. Machin and S. Woessman (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011, Chapter 9, 423-483

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4968

Mentoring, Educational Services, and Economic Incentives: Longer-Term Evidence on Risky Behaviors from a Randomized Trial

Núria Rodríguez-Planas

substantially revised version published as 'Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Learning Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the United States' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (4), 121 - 139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4925

The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement

Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

published in: E.A. Hanushek, S. Machin, L. Woessmann (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 3, pp. 89-200, Amsterdam: North Holland, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4907

Are Young People's Educational Outcomes Linked to their Sense of Control?

Juan D. Barón, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4892

Immigrants at New Destinations: How They Fare and Why

Anabela Carneiro, Natércia Fortuna, José Varejão

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25 (3), 1165-1185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4876

Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of Employers

Miles Corak, Patrizio Piraino

revised version published as: 'The Inheritance of Employers and Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility.' in: Kaushik Basu and Joseph Stiglitz (editors). Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2016, 1 - 34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4872

Explaining Rising Returns to Education in Urban China in the 1990s

Xuejun Liu, Albert Park, Yaohui Zhao

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4861

Training Subsidies and the Wage Returns to Continuing Vocational Training: Evidence from Italian Regions

Giorgio Brunello, Simona Lorena Comi, Daniela Sonedda

published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (3), 361-372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4836

The Impact of Degree Class on the First Destinations of Graduates: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Giorgio Di Pietro

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4821

Employee Training and Wage Dispersion: White and Blue Collar Workers in Britain

Filipe Almeida-Santos, Yekaterina Chzhen, Karen A. Mumford

published in: Research In Labor Economics, 2010, 30, 35-60

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4809

The Evolution of the Returns to Human Capital in Canada, 1980-2005

Brahim Boudarbat, Thomas Lemieux, W. Craig Riddell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4802

The Returns to English-Language Skills in India

Mehtabul Azam, Aimee Chin, Nishith Prakash

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2013, 61 (2), 335-367

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4797

Social Mobility: Is There an Advantage in Being English in Scotland?

Maarten van Ham, Allan M. Findlay, David Manley, Peteke Feijten

published as 'Migration, Occupational Mobility, and Regional Escalators in Scotland' in: [Urban Studies Research], 2012 (2012), Article ID 827171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4766

Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management

Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (9-10), 654-660

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4755

Are Happiness and Productivity Lower among University Students with Newly-Divorced Parents? An Experimental Approach

Eugenio Proto, Daniel Sgroi, Andrew J. Oswald

published in: Experimental Economics, 2012, 15 (1), 1-23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4754

Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Núria Rodríguez-Planas

substantially revised version published as 'Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Learning Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the United States' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (4), 121-139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4751

Determinants of Lifetime Unemployment: A Micro Data Analysis with Censored Quantile Regressions

Achim Schmillen, Joachim Möller

published as "Distribution and determinants of lifetime unemployment" in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (1), 33-47

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4749

Rates of Return to University Education: The Regression Discontinuity Design

Elliott Fan, Xin Meng, Zhichao Wei, Guochang Zhao

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics 2018, 120 (4), 1011-1042.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4746

Intrinsic Motivations and the Non-Profit Health Sector: Evidence from Ethiopia

Danila Serra, Pieter Serneels, Abigail Barr

published in: Personality and Individual Differences, 2011, 51 (3), 309-314