IZA Discussion Papers

substantially revised version published as 'Female Labor Force Participation in Egypt and Palestine: An Age-Period- Cohort Analysis' in: Review of Development Economics, 2022, 26 (4), 1997-2020.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13064

Early Childhood Education and Life-cycle Health

Jorge Luis García, James J. Heckman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12524

Do Pension Benefits Accelerate Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Rural China

Plamen Nikolov, Alan Adelman

updated version published as DP15742 . (published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 594 - 617).

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11827

Which Ladder to Climb? Wages of Workers by Job, Plant, and Education

Christian Bayer, Moritz Kuhn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11384

Family Structure and the Turnout Gender Gap: Evidence from Italy

Giorgio Bellettini, Carlotta Berti Ceroni, Enrico Cantoni, Chiara Monfardini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11275

Insurance, Redistribution, and the Inequality of Lifetime Income

Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Victoria L. Prowse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11028

Migration, Education and Work Opportunities

Esther Mirjam Girsberger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10925

Modeling Life-Cycle Earnings Risk with Positive and Negative Shocks

Manuel Sanchez, Felix Wellschmied

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2020, 37, 103-126

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10811

Quantifying the Life-Cycle Benefits of a Prototypical Early Childhood Program

Jorge Luis García, James J. Heckman, Duncan Ermini Leaf, Maria José Prados

revised version available as NBER Working Paper No. 23479

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10761

Correlations of Brothers' Earnings and Intergenerational Transmission

Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (2), 370 - 383

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10613

Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Education Policies and the Return to Schooling

Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen, Xingfei Liu

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2017, 8 (3), 895-927

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10298

Vocational vs. General Education and Employment over the Life-Cycle: New Evidence from PIAAC

Franziska Hampf, Ludger Woessmann

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2017, 63 (3), 255-269

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10089

Family, Community and Long-Term Earnings Inequality

Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari, Konstantinos Tatsiramos

revised version published as 'Family, Community and Long-Term Socioeconomic Inequality: Evidence from Siblings and Youth Peers' in: Economic Journal, 2020, 131 (636), 1515 -1554

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9699

Life-Cycle Educational Choices: Evidence for Two German Cohorts

Martin Biewen, Madalina Tapalaga

substantially revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 56, 80-94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9596

The Wage Returns to Education over the Life-Cycle: Heterogeneity and the Role of Experience

Franz Buscha, Matt Dickson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9175

Birth Weight in the Long-Run

Prashant Bharadwaj, Petter Lundborg, Dan-Olof Rooth

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53(1), 189-231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8980

Optimal Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings

Peter Haan, Victoria L. Prowse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8076

Why is Old Workers' Labor Market More Volatile? Unemployment Fluctuations over the Life-Cycle

Jean-Olivier Hairault, François Langot, Thepthida Sopraseuth

published as 'Unemployment fluctuations over the life cycle' in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2019, 100 (C), 334-352.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7942

Longitudinal Evidence for a Midlife Nadir in Human Well-being: Results from Four Data Sets

Terence Chai Cheng, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Andrew J. Oswald

published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (599), 126 - 142

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7622

Accounting for the Rise of Health Spending and Longevity

Raquel Fonseca, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Arie Kapteyn, Titus Galama

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (1), 536–579

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7335

Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital

Solomon Polachek, Tirthatanmoy Das, Rewat Thamma-Apiroam

published as 'Micro and Macro Implications of Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2015, 123(6), 1410-1455

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6987

Alike in Many Ways: Intergenerational and Sibling Correlations of Brothers' Earnings

Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari

revised version circulated as IZA DP 10761

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6482

Evaluating the Impact of a Reduction in the Generosity of Disability Benefits: The 2008 Spanish Reform

José I. Silva, Judit Vall-Castello

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6121

Socioeconomic Heterogeneity in the Effect of Health Shocks on Earnings: Evidence from Population-Wide Data on Swedish Workers

Petter Lundborg, Martin Nilsson, Johan Vikström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6083

General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle

Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann, Lei Zhang

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (1), 48-87

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5993

The Frisch Elasticity in the Mercosur Countries: A Pseudo-Panel Approach

Roberto González, Hector Sala

published in: Development Policy Review, 2015, 33 (1), 107-131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5858

Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform

Peter Haan, Victoria L. Prowse

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2014, 178 (3), 582-601

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5788

Life-Cycle Bias and the Returns to Schooling in Current and Lifetime Earnings

Manudeep Bhuller, Magne Mogstad, Kjell G. Salvanes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5697

Heterogeneous Income Profiles and Life-Cycle Bias in Intergenerational Mobility Estimation

Martin Nybom, Jan Stuhler

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2016, 51 (1), 239-268

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5248

Intertemporal Substitution in Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Policy Discontinuities

Dayanand Manoli, Andrea Weber

published as "Nonparametric Evidence on the Effects of Financial Incentives on Retirement Decisions" in: American Economic Journal Economic Policy, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5245

Empirical Strategies to Eliminate Life-Cycle Bias in the Intergenerational Elasticity of Earnings Literature

Jan Stuhler

substantially revised version appeared as IZA DP No. 5697

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4792

The Design of Unemployment Transfers: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Life-Cycle Model

Peter Haan, Victoria L. Prowse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4402

The Life-Cycle and the Business-Cycle of Wage Risk: A Cross-Country Comparison

Christian Bayer, Falko Juessen

published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (3), 831-833

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4102