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IZA Discussion Paper No. 1317
Gender Equality in Educational Achievement: An East-West Comparison
Sylke V. Schnepf
revised version published in : Schnepf (ed.): Women in Central and Eastern Europe: Measuring Gender Inequality Differently. Saarbruecken, Germany: Verlag Mueller, 2007
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1311
Jobs for Young University Graduates: Is It Worth Having a Degree?
Ana Rute Cardoso
published in: Economics Letters, 2007, 94 (2), 271-277
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1306
Measuring the Returns to the GED: Using an Exogenous Change in GED Passing Standards as a Natural Experiment
Magnus Lofstrom, John Tyler
published as 'Modeling the signaling value of the GED with an application to an exogenous passing standard increase in Texas' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 305-352.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1295
The Enrollment Effect of Secondary School Fees in Post-War Germany
Regina T. Riphahn
published as 'Effect of Secondary School Fees on Educational Attainment' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (1), 147 - 176
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1287
What Accounts for International Differences in Student Performance? A Re-Examination Using PISA Data
Thomas Fuchs, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Empirical Economics, 2007, 32 (2-3), 433-464
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1285
Technical Change and the Wage Structure During the Second Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the Merchant Marine, 1865-1912
Aimee Chin, Chinhui Juhn, Peter Thompson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1284
How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States
Ludger Woessmann
published in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2008, 78 (1), 45-70
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1269
The More the Merrier? The Effect of Family Composition on Children's Education
Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2005, 120 (2), 669-700
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1266
Shot Across the Bow, Stigma or Selection? The Effect of Repeating a Class on Educational Attainment
Michael Fertig
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1259
Family Structure and Child Outcomes in the United States and Sweden
Anders Björklund, Donna K. Ginther, Marianne Sundström
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (1), 183-201
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1255
Private Tutoring Expenditures in Turkey
Aysit Tansel, Fatma Bircan
revised version published as 'Demand for education in Turkey: A tobit analysis of private tutoring expenditures' in: Economics of Education Review, 2006, 25, 303-313
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1247
A Simulation of an Income Contingent Tuition Scheme in a Transition Economy
Milan Vodopivec
published in: Higher Education, 2009, 57 (4), 429-448
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1246
Linguistic Distance: A Quantitative Measure of the Distance Between English and Other Languages
Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller
published in: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005, 26 (1), 1-11
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1245
The Heterogeneous Effect of Selection in Secondary Schools: Understanding the Changing Role of Ability
Fernando Galindo-Rueda, Anna Vignoles
published in: P. Peterson and L. Woessmann (eds.), Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem, MIT Press: 2007
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1233
Do a Few Months of Compulsory Schooling Matter? The Education and Labour Market Impact of School Leaving Rules
Emilia Del Bono, Fernando Galindo-Rueda
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1232
Ethnic Networks and International Trade
Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang
published in: Foders, Federico and Langhammer, Rolf J. (eds), Labor Mobility and the World Economy. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg 2006, 85-103
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1226
Pre-School Enrollment: An Analysis by Immigrant Generation
Barry R. Chiswick, Noyna DebBurman
published in: Social Science Research, 2006, 35 (1), 60-87
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1199
The Return to a University Education in Great Britain
Peter J. Sloane, Nigel C. O'Leary
published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2005, 193 (1), 75-89
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1194
Intergenerational Effects in Sweden: What Can We Learn from Adoption Data?
Anders Björklund, Mikael Lindahl, Erik Plug
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1186
Educational Achievement in English-Speaking Countries: Do Different Surveys Tell the Same Story?
John Micklewright, Sylke V. Schnepf
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