IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1686

Educational Attainment and Child Labor: Do Subsidies Work?

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1675

Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation

Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman, Lance John Lochner, Dimitriy V. Masterov

published in: E. Hanushek; F. Welch (eds.): Handbook of the Economics of Education, North Holland: Amsterdam, 2006, 697-812

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1675

Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation

Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman, Lance John Lochner, Dimitriy V. Masterov

published in: E. Hanushek; F. Welch (eds.): Handbook of the Economics of Education, North Holland: Amsterdam, 2006, 697-812

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1659

Is Early Learning Really More Productive? The Effect of School Starting Age on School and Labor Market Performance

Peter Fredriksson, Björn Öckert

published as: 'Life-cycle Effects of Age at School Start' in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124, 977-1004

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1657

Increasing Returns to Education and the Skills Under-Investment Trap

Alison L. Booth, Melvyn Coles

published as 'A Microfoundation for Increasing Returns in Human Capital Accumulation and the Under-Participation Trap' in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (7), 1661-1681

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1652

Cross-National Surveys of Learning Achievement: How Robust are the Findings?

Giorgina Brown, John Micklewright, Sylke V. Schnepf, Robert Waldmann

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2007, 170 (3), 623-646

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1649

Education, Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance

Alison L. Booth, Melvyn Coles

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8(4), 744-775

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1627

The College Wage Premium, Overeducation, and the Expansion of Higher Education in the UK

Ian Walker, Yu Zhu

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (4), 695-709

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1615

Returns to Foreign Education: Yet Another But Different Cross Country Analysis

Max Gruetter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1612

Student Flows and Migration: An Empirical Analysis

Axel Dreher, Panu Poutvaara

published as "Foreign Students and Migration to the United States" in: World Development, 2011, 39(8), 1294-1307

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1604

Return Intentions of University-Educated Turkish Expatriates

Nil Demet Güngör, Aysit Tansel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1598

The Determinants of Return Intentions of Turkish Students and Professionals Residing Abroad: An Empirical Investigation

Nil Demet Güngör, Aysit Tansel

substantially revised version published as 'Brain Drain from Turkey: Return Intentions of Skilled Migrants' in: International Migration, 2012, 52(5), 208-226

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1582

Education and Inequality in Greece

Panos Tsakloglou, Ioannis Cholezas

published in: Asplund, R. and E. Barth (eds.), Education and wage inequality in Europe: A literature review, 203-240, ETLA: Helsinki, 2005

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1562

The Labour Market Effects of Alma Mater: Evidence from Italy

Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Cappellari

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2008, 27 (5), 564-574

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1559

To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription

Panu Poutvaara, Andreas Wagener

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2007, 23 (4), 975-987