IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2517

Inequality of Learning in Industrialised Countries

John Micklewright, Sylke V. Schnepf

published in: Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright (eds.), Inequality and Poverty Re-Examined, Oxford: OUP, 2007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2516

Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Schooling Reform

Maarten Lindeboom, Ana Llena-Nozal, Bas van der Klaauw

published in: Journal of Health Economics 2009, 28 (1), 109-131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2515

School Drop-Out and Push-Out Factors in Brazil: The Role of Early Parenthood, Child Labor, and Poverty

Ana Rute Cardoso, Dorte Verner

published as 'Factores de la deserción escolar en Brasil. El papel de la paternidad temprana, la mano de obra infantil y la pobreza' in: El Trimestre Económico, 2011, 69 (2) 310, 347-372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2491

Which Factors Determine the Grades of Undergraduate Students in Economics? Some Evidence from Spain

Juan J. Dolado, Eduardo Morales

published in: Investigaciones Económicas (2009), 23, 179-210.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2490

Student Achievement and University Classes: Effects of Attendance, Size, Peers, and Teachers

Pedro S. Martins, Ian Walker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2489

Macroeconomic Effects of Short-Term Training Measures on the Matching Process in Western Germany

Reinhard Hujer, Christopher Zeiss

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2478

Public Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying to Migrate and Teaching to Stay?

Panu Poutvaara

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (3), 591–608

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2477

Decentralization and the Productive Efficiency of Government: Evidence from Swiss Cantons

Iwan Barankay, Ben Lockwood

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (5-6), 1197-1218

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2471

The Long Run Health and Economic Consequences of Famine on Survivors: Evidence from China’s Great Famine

Xin Meng, Nancy Qian

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2462

Returns to Schooling in Kazakhstan: OLS and Instrumental Variables Approach

Reza Arabsheibani, Altay Mussurov

published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15 (2), 342-364

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2448

Reported Progress under the Student Right-to-Know Act: How Reliable Is It?

Leslie S. Stratton, James N. Wetzel

published in: IR Applications, 2009, 19, 1 - 10

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2442

Over-Education and the Skills of UK Graduates

Arnaud Chevalier, Joanne Lindley

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 2009, 172(2), 307-337

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2434

Expanding Schooling Opportunities for 4-Year-Olds

Edwin Leuven, Mikael Lindahl, Hessel Oosterbeek, Dinand Webbink

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (3), 319-328, revised version available here

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2417

Intergenerational Conflict, Partisan Politics, and Public Higher Education Spending: Evidence from the German States

Ulrich Oberndorfer, Viktor Steiner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2416

Estimates of the Effect of Parents’ Schooling on Children’s Schooling Using Censored and Uncensored Samples

Monique de Haan, Erik Plug

published as 'Estimating intergenerational schooling mobility on censored samples: consequences and remedies' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 26 (1), 151–166,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2409

Human Capital and Wages in Exporting Firms

Jakob R. Munch, Jan Rose Skaksen

published in: Journal of International Economics, 2008, 75 (2), 363-372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2393

The Macroeconomics of Targeting: The Case of an Enduring Epidemic

Clive Bell, Hans Gersbach

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28 (1), 54-72

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2385

The Aggregate Labor Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program

James Albrecht, Gerard J. van den Berg, Susan Vroman

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2009, 12(1), 129-146