IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10950

(How) Do Non-Cognitive Skills Programs Improve Adolescent School Achievement? Experimental Evidence

Pedro S. Martins

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10949

Robert A. Hart, Mirko Moro

published as 'Date of birth and selective schooling: Some lessons from the 1944 education reforms in England and Wales' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 67 (5), 523 - 538

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10947

Choice of Majors: Are Women Really Different from Men?

Adriana Kugler, Catherine H. Tinsley, Olga Ukhaneva

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 81, 102079

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10941

Housing Prices, Unemployment Rates, Disadvantage, and Progress toward a Degree

Leslie S. Stratton

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10804

The Long-Awaited Rise of the Middle Class in Latin America Is Finally Happening

Maurizio Bussolo, Maryla Maliszewska, Elie Murard

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10783

How Do Peers Impact Learning? An Experimental Investigation of Peer-To-Peer Teaching and Ability Tracking

Erik O. Kimbrough, Andrew McGee, Hitoshi Shigeoka

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (1), 304-339.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10767

Why So Slow? The School-to-Work Transition in Italy

Francesco Pastore

published in: Studies in Higher Education, 2019, 44 (8), 1358-1371

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10714

Maternal Socio-Economic Status and the Well-Being of the Next Generation(s)

Kasey Buckles

published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10677

The Long-Run Impact of Childhood Poverty and the Mediating Role of Education

Luna Bellani, Michela Bia

revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, 2019, 182 (1), 37-68

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10651

The Impact of Parental Health on Children's Schooling and Labour Force Participation: Evidence from Vietnam

Silvia Mendolia, Thi Nguyen, Oleg Yerokhin

published as 'The impact of parental illness on children’s schooling and labour force participation: evidence from Vietnam' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2019, 17, 469 - 492

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10633

Financial Literacy and Attitudes to Redistribution

Alberto Montagnoli, Mirko Moro, Georgios A. Panos, Robert E. Wright

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10628

Smog in Our Brains: Gender Differences in the Impact of Exposure to Air Pollution on Cognitive Performance

Xi Chen, Xiaobo Zhang, Xin Zhang

published as 'The impact of exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance' in: PNAS, 2018, 115 (37), 9193 - 9197.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10625

Let the Girls Learn! I It is not Only about Math... It’s about Gender Social Norm

Natalia Nollenberger, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 62, 230-253

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10596

Does Universal Preschool Hit the Target? Program Access and Preschool Impacts

Elizabeth U. Cascio

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10595

Where's the Teacher? How Teacher Workplace Segregation Impedes Teacher Allocation in India

Sonja Fagernäs, Panu Pelkonen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10567

Genetic Ability, Wealth, and Financial Decision-Making

Daniel Barth, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Kevin Thom

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (4),1474-1522

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10506

High School Track Choice and Liquidity Constraints: Evidence from Urban Mexico

Ciro Avitabile, Matteo Bobba, Marco Pariguana

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10460

The Long Shadow of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: The Intergenerational Transmission of Education

Xin Meng, Guochang Zhao

published as 'The long shadow of a large scale education interruption: The intergenerational effect' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 71, 102008

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10434

Unawareness and Selective Disclosure: The Effect of School Quality Information on Property Prices

John de New, Syed Hasan, Nikhil Jha, Mathias Sinning

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 145, 449-464

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10366

The Economic Contribution of Unauthorized Workers: An Industry Analysis

Ryan Edwards, Francesc Ortega

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2017, 67, 119 - 134

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10360

Learning about Oneself: The Effects of Performance Feedback on School Choice

Matteo Bobba, Veronica Frisancho

Updated version available as DP 16168.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10358

Higher Education Access and Outcomes for the 2008 South African National Matric Cohort

Hendrik van Broekhuizen, Servaas van der Berg, Heleen Hofmeyr

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10345

Sexual Violence, Title IX and Women's College Enrollment

Dave E. Marcotte, Jane E. Palmer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10343

Boys Lag Behind: How Teachers' Gender Biases Affect Student Achievement

Camille Terrier

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 71, 101981

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10337

Personality and Mental Health: The Role and Substitution Effect of Emotional Stability and Conscientiousness

Caroline Wehner, Trudie Schils, Lex Borghans

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10286

Inequalities in Educational Outcomes: How Important Is the Family?

Julia Bredtmann, Nina Smith

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (6), 1117-1144

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10285

Financial Literacy and Political Orientation in Great Britain

Alberto Montagnoli, Mirko Moro, Georgios A. Panos, Robert E. Wright

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10219

Single Mothers and Their Children: Evaluating a Work-Encouraging Welfare Reform

Katrine Vellesen Loken, Kjell Erik Lommerud, Katrine Holm Reiso

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10200

Genes, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Nicholas W. Papageorge, Kevin Thom

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association 2020, 18 (3), 1351 - 1399

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10147

Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance

David N. Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Umut Özek, Paola Sapienza

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019, 11 (4), 272-309

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10137

Education, Cognitive Ability and Cause-Specific Mortality: A Structural Approach

Govert Bijwaard, Mikko Myrskylä, Per Tynelius, Finn Rasmussen

published in: Population Studies, 2019, 73, 217-232

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10136

Money or Fun? Why Students Want to Pursue Further Education

Chris Belfield, Teodora Boneva, Christopher Rauh, Jonathan Shaw

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10053

The Gender Gap in Mathematics Achievement: Evidence from Italian Data

Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Silvia Mendolia, Dalit Contini

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 58, 32-42.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10000

The Scandinavian Fantasy: The Sources of Intergenerational Mobility in Denmark and the U.S.

Rasmus Landersø, James J. Heckman

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119 (1), 178 - 230

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9977

Symposium on Child Development and Parental Investment: Introduction

Marco Francesconi, James J. Heckman

published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126(596), F1-F27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9959

Does Learning Beget Learning Throughout Adulthood? Evidence from Employees' Training Participation

Anica Kramer, Marcus Tamm

substantially revised version published as 'Does learning trigger learning throughout adulthood? Evidence from training participation of the employed population' in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 62, 82-90

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9930

Property Rights and Gender Bias: Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Abhishek Chakravarty, Dilip Mookherjee, Francisco J. Pino

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (2), 295-237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9917

Does Family Background Affect Earnings through Education? A Generalised Approach to Mediation Analysis

Silvia Mendolia, Peter Siminski

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 59, 1-12

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9888

Multifaceted Aid for Low-Income Students and College Outcomes: Evidence from North Carolina

Charles T. Clotfelter, Steven W. Hemelt, Helen F. Ladd

published in: Economic Inquiry, 56(1), 278-303.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9886

Why Do Some Young Adults Not Graduate from Upper Secondary School? On the Importance of Signals of Labour Market Failure

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Katarina Katz, Torun Österberg

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2017, 61 (6), 701 - 720

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9827

Who Gained from the Introduction of Free Universal Secondary Education in England and Wales?

Robert A. Hart, Mirko Moro, J. Elizabeth Roberts

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (3), 707-733

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9798

Cognitive Ability and the Mortality Gradient by Education: Selection or Mediation?

Govert Bijwaard, Andrew M. Jones

published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 57, 129-175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9796

Teacher Quality and Learning Outcomes in Kindergarten

Maria Caridad Araujo, Pedro Carneiro, Yyannu Cruz Aguayo, Norbert Schady

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2016, 131 (3), 1415 - 1453

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9752

The Evolution of Social Mobility: Norway over the 20th Century

Tuomas Pekkarinen, Kjell G. Salvanes, Matti Sarvimäki

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119(1): 5–33

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9696

The Effect of Supplemental Instruction on Academic Performance: An Encouragement Design Experiment

Alfredo R. Paloyo, Sally Rogan, Peter Siminski

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 55, 57-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9688

Parental Influences on Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees

Mikael Lindahl, Evelina Björkegren, Mårten Palme, Emilia Simeonova

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9561

Fighting Corruption in Education: What Works and Who Benefits?

Oana Borcan, Mikael Lindahl, Andreea Mitrut

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017, 9 (1), 180-209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9535

Gender Gaps in Early Educational Achievement

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Julie Moschion

published in Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (4), 1093–1134

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9478

Rank, Sex, Drugs, and Crime

Benjamin Elsner, Ingo E. Isphording

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53(2), 356-381

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9448

Understanding Peer Effects: On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects

Jan Feld, Ulf Zölitz

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35(2) 387-428

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9445

Intended College Attendance: Evidence from an Experiment on College Returns and Cost

Zachary Bleemer, Basit Zafar

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 157, 184-211

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9433

Speaking in Numbers: The Effect of Reading Performance on Math Performance among Immigrants

Ingo E. Isphording, Marc Piopiunik, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 139, 52-56

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9403

Beyond Qualifications: Returns to Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Skills in Colombia

Pablo A. Acosta, Noel Muller, Miguel Sarzosa

published as 'Adults' Cognitive and Socioemotional Skills and Their Labor Market Outcomes in Colombia' in: Revista de Economia del Rosario, 2020, 23 (1), 109-148.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9328

Fetal Malnutrition and Academic Success: Evidence from Muslim Immigrants in Denmark

Jane Greve, Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen, Erdal Tekin

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 60, 20 - 35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9307

The Academic Progress of Hispanic Immigrants

Marie C. Hull

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 57, 91-110

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9302

Do Boys and Girls Use Computers Differently, and Does It Contribute to Why Boys Do Worse in School than Girls?

Robert W. Fairlie

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2016, 16 (1), 59 - 96

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9234

Immigration and School Choices in the Midst of the Great Recession

Lídia Farré, Francesc Ortega, Ryuichi Tanaka

published as 'Immigration and the public-private school choice' in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 184 - 201

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9231

Bound To Lose, Bound To Win? The Financial Crisis and the Informal-Formal Sector Earnings Gap in Serbia

Niels-Hugo Blunch

published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2015, 4:13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9202

Who Believes in Me? The Effect of Student-Teacher Demographic Match on Teacher Expectations

Seth Gershenson, Stephen B. Holt, Nicholas W. Papageorge

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 209-224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9200

School Quality and the Development of Cognitive Skills between Age Four and Six

Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Ulf Zölitz

published in: PLOS ONE, 2015, 10(7)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9197

Family Shocks and Academic Achievement

Marie C. Hull

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9171

Designing Efficient College and Tax Policies

Sebastian Findeisen, Dominik Sachs

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9169

Apply Yourself: Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application

Sandra E. Black, Kalena E. Cortes, Jane Arnold Lincove

published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2020, 15 (2), 209-240

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9141

Health Disparities Across Education: The Role of Differential Reporting Error

John Cawley, Anna Choi

published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (3), e1-e29.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9082

Is Ability Tracking (Really) Responsible for Educational Inequalities in Achievement? A Comparison between the Country States Bavaria and Hesse in Germany

Hartmut Esser, Ilona Relikowski

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9065

The Inheritance of Educational Inequality among Young People in Developing Countries

Francesco Pastore, Federica Roccisano

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9005

Inequality of Opportunities of Educational Achievement in Turkey over Time

Aysit Tansel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8877

The Role of Constitutions on Poverty: A Cross-National Investigation

Lanse Minkler, Nishith Prakash

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45(3), 563-581

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8856

Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia

Orazio Attanasio, Sarah Cattan, Emla Fitzsimons, Costas Meghir, Marta Rubio-Codina

published in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110 (1), 48–85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8826

A Question of Degree: The Effects of Degree Class on Labor Market Outcomes

Andy Feng, Georg Graetz

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 61, 140-161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8778

Immigration and the Political Economy of Public Education: Recent Perspectives

Francesc Ortega, Ryuichi Tanaka

published as 'Immigration and the political economy of public education' in: G. Freeman and N, Mirilovic (eds.), Handbook of Migration and Social Policy. Elgar, 2016, 121–136

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8770

Private Tutoring: Evidence from India

Mehtabul Azam

published in: Review of Development Economics, 2016, 20 (4), 739 - 761

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8752

Native-Immigrant Gaps in Educational and School-to-Work Transitions in the Second Generation: The Role of Gender and Ethnicity

Stijn Baert, Frank Heiland, Sanders Korenman

revised version published in: De Economist, 2016, 164, 159 - 186

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8734

Intensive Math Instruction and Educational Attainment: Long-Run Impacts of Double-Dose Algebra

Kalena E. Cortes, Joshua Goodman, Takako Nomi

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50 (1), 108-158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8733

Efficacy vs. Equity: What Happens When States Tinker with College Admissions in a Race-Blind Era?

Sandra E. Black, Kalena E. Cortes, Jane Arnold Lincove

published in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2016, 38 (2), 336-363

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8732

The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools

Rosario Maria Ballatore, Margherita Fort, Andrea Ichino

revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (4), 885–921

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8694

The Impact of Age of Entry on Academic Progression

Julio Cáceres-Delpiano, Eugenio Giolito

revised version published in: Nuno Crato and Paolo Paruolo (eds.), Data-Driven Policy Impact Evaluation: How Microdata is Transforming Policy Design, Springer, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8693

School Inputs and Skills: Complementarity and Self-Productivity

Cheti Nicoletti, Birgitta Rabe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8615

Sibling Spillover Effects in School Achievement

Cheti Nicoletti, Birgitta Rabe

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34 (4), 482-501

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8595

Mapping and Understanding Ethnic Disparities in Length of Schooling: The Case of Ningxia Autonomous Region, China

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ding Sai

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2015, 124 (2), 517-535.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8546

Trends in the Intergenerational Transmission of Education among Black South Africans

Prudence Magejo, Miracle Benhura, Tendai Gwatidzo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8545

Evidence and Persistence of Education Inequality in an Early-Tracking System: The German Case

Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Simone Schüller

published in: Scuola Democratica, 2014, 2

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8505

Selective Schooling Systems Increase Inequality

Simon Burgess, Matt Dickson, Lindsey Macmillan

revised version published as 'Do selective schooling systems increase inequality? ' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2020, 72 (1), 1 - 24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8503

Equalization of Opportunity: Definitions, Implementable Conditions and Application to Early-Childhood Policy Evaluation

Francesco Andreoli, Tarjei Havnes, Arnaud Lefranc

published as 'Robust Inequality of Opportunity Comparisons: Theory and Application to Early Childhood Policy Evaluation' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101, (2), 355 - 369

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8474

Is It Worth It? Postsecondary Education and Labor Market Outcomes for the Disadvantaged

Benjamin Backes, Harry J. Holzer, Erin Dunlop Velez

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8471

Student Scores in Public and Private Schools: Evidence from PISA 2009

Stephane Mahuteau, Kostas Mavromaras

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8392

Socioeconomic Gradients in Children's Cognitive Skills: Are Cross-Country Comparisons Robust to Who Reports Family Background?

John Jerrim, John Micklewright

revised version published in: European Sociological Review, 2014, 30 (6), 766 - 781

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8379

The Math Gender Gap: The Role of Culture