IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8056

Do School Budgets Matter? The Effect of Budget Referenda on Student Performance

Kyung-Gon Lee, Solomon Polachek

published in: Education Economics 2018, 26(2), 129-144.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8021

Procrastination, Academic Success and the Effectiveness of a Remedial Program

Maria De Paola, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 217–236

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8015

Do Tertiary Dropout Students Really Not Succeed in European Labour Markets?

Sylke V. Schnepf

revised version published as 'How do Tertiary Dropouts fare in the Labour Market? A Comparison between EU countries' in: Higher Education Quarterly, 2017, 1, 75-96

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7948

Adjusting Your Dreams? The Effect of School and Peers on Dropout Behaviour

Dominique Goux, Marc Gurgand, Eric Maurin

published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (602), 1025-1046

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7566

An Analysis of the Impact of Socioeconomic Disadvantage and School Quality on the Probability of School Dropout

Stephane Mahuteau, Kostas G. Mavromaras

published in Education Economics, 2014, 22 (4), 389-411

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7394

Program Quality and Treatment Completion for Youth Training Programs

Ana C. Dammert, Jose C. Galdo

published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 119 (3), 243-246

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6758

Labor-Market Returns to the GED Using Regression Discontinuity Analysis

Christopher Jepsen, Peter R. Mueser, Kenneth Troske

revision published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 124 (3), 621-649

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6565

Endogenous Exit Bias in Training Programs for Unemployed Workers

Jochen Kluve, Ulf Rinne, Arne Uhlendorff, Zhong Zhao

revised version published as 'The impact of training duration on employment outcomes: Evidence from LATE estimates' in: Economics Letters, 2013, 120 (3), 487-490 [Details & Download]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6464

No Pass No Drive: Education and Allocation of Time

Rashmi Barua, Marian Vidal-Fernández

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 8(4), 399-431

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6159

Ethnic Disparities in the Graduate Labour Market

Aslan Zorlu

published in: Economics Research International, 2012, Article ID 836379

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6064

Do Dropouts Benefit from Training Programs? Korean Evidence Employing Methods for Continuous Treatments

Chung Choe, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Sang-Jun Lee

published in: Empirical Economics, 2014, [Online First]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5995

Re-examining the Impact of Dropping Out on Criminal and Labor Outcomes in Early Adulthood

David J. Bjerk

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (1), 110-122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5527

Exit Exams and High School Dropout

Dave E. Marcotte

published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013, 32 (2), 323-350

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5139

High-School Dropouts and Transitory Labor Market Shocks: The Case of the Spanish Housing Boom

Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll

published as 'Returns to Education and Educational Outcomes: The Case of the Spanish Housing Boom', in: Journal of Human Capital, 2016, 10 (2), 235 - 265

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. 3515

Schools, Skills, and Synapses

James J. Heckman

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46 (3), 289-324

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3495

Taking the Easy Way Out: How the GED Testing Program Induces Students to Drop Out

James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, Paul A. LaFontaine, Pedro L. Rodríguez

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2012, 30 (3), 495-520