Dr. Ingo E. Isphording

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Ingo Isphording obtained his Ph.D. from Ruhr University Bochum in 2013. His main research interests are in education and labor economics, with special emphasis on the role of social interactions and comparisons in determining performance and labor market outcomes. His former work has dealt extensively with the language acquisition of immigrants and the role of language skills in the labor market.

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 a 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. 12202
Peer Diversity, College Performance and Educational Choices
Arnaud Chevalier, Ingo E. Isphording, Elena Lisauskaite
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10417
Minority Salience and Political Extremism
Tommaso Colussi, Ingo E. Isphording, Nico Pestel
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8572
Language and Labor Market Success
Ingo E. Isphording
published in: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), 2015, Pages 260-265
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8090
Linguistic Barriers in the Destination Language Acquisition of Immigrants
Ingo E. Isphording, Sebastian Otten
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 105, 30–50.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7360
Disadvantages of Linguistic Origin: Evidence from Immigrant Literacy Scores
Ingo E. Isphording
shortened version published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 123 (2) 236–239
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7080
The Returns to Language Skills in the US Labor Market
Ingo E. Isphording, Mathias Sinning
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