Dr. Ingo E. Isphording

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Ingo Isphording obtained his Ph.D. from Ruhr University Bochum in 2013. His research focus lies primarily in the field of economics of education, with overlaps to labor economics and political economy. As an applied micro-econometrician he addresses policy-relevant questions on how social environments and individual behavior and decisions interact in determining the formation of skills and affect economic inequality.

Ingo has joined the IZA network as a Research Affiliate in April 2013. Currently, he is a Senior Research Associate at IZA in Bonn and heads the research team “Skill Formation”. He further acts as deputy coordinator for IZA’s program area “Economics of Education”. He is an affiliate in the CESifo network.

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IZA Discussion Paper No. 14320
Achievement Rank Affects Performance and Major Choices in College
Benjamin Elsner, Ingo E. Isphording, Ulf Zölitz
forthcoming in: Economic Journal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14000
Labour Market Shocks during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Inequalities and Child Outcomes
Claudia Hupkau, Ingo E. Isphording, Stephen Machin, Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13790
School Re-Openings after Summer Breaks in Germany Did Not Increase SARS-CoV-2 Cases
Ingo E. Isphording, Marc Lipfert, Nico Pestel
revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 198, 104426
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13418
Pandemic Meets Pollution: Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by COVID-19
Ingo E. Isphording, Nico Pestel
revised version published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021, 108, 102448
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12202
Peer Diversity, College Performance and Educational Choices
Arnaud Chevalier, Ingo E. Isphording, Elena Lisauskaite
revised version forthcoming in: Labour Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10417
Minority Salience and Political Extremism
Tommaso Colussi, Ingo E. Isphording, Nico Pestel
revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13(3), 1-37
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. 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. 9121
A Big Fish in a Small Pond: Ability Rank and Human Capital Investment
Benjamin Elsner, Ingo E. Isphording
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35(3), 787-828
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8846
Language Barriers and Immigrant Health Production
Andrew Clarke, Ingo E. Isphording
forthcoming in: Health Economics
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