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139 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6337
Misreported Schooling, Multiple Measures and Returns to Educational Qualifications
Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai, Barbara Sianesi
published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2014, 181, 136-150
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6173
How Does Education Affect the Earnings Distribution in Urban China?
Le Wang
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 75 (3), 435-454
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6142
The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective
Costas Meghir, Mårten Palme, Marieke Schnabel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5907
Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Aysit Tansel, Yousef Daoud
published in: Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, 2014, 13, 347-378.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5665
Returns to Education in Professional Football
René Böheim, Mario Lackner
published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 114 (3), 326-328
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5627
Utilising Microsimulation to Estimate New Marginal Returns to Education: Ireland 1987-2005
Darragh Flannery, Cathal O'Donoghue
updated version published as 'Utilizing Microsimulation to Estimate the Private and Fiscal Returns to Education: Ireland 1987–2011' in: Manchester School, 2016, 84 (1), 55 - 80
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5524
What Determines the Return to Education: An Extra Year or a Hurdle Cleared?
Matt Dickson, Sarah Smith
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1167-1176
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5417
Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Turkey: A Quantile Regression Analysis
Aysit Tansel, Fatma Bircan
published in: Review of Economic Development, 2012, 16 (1), 107-121
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5409
Lost in Transition? The Returns to Education Acquired under Communism 15 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Giorgio Brunello, Elena Crivellaro, Lorenzo Rocco
published as 'Lost in Transition? The returns to education acquired under communism in the first decade of the new millennium' in: Economics of Transition, 2012, 20 (4), 637-676
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5018
The Changing Economic Advantage from Private School
Francis Green, Stephen Machin, Richard J. Murphy, Yu Zhu
published in: Economica, 2012, 79 (316), 658–679
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4975
The GED
James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, Nicholas S. Mader
published in: E.A. Hanushek, S. Machin and S. Woessman (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011, Chapter 9, 423-483
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4680
Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe
James J. Heckman, Bas Jacobs
published in: Hans-Werner Sinn and Edmund Phelps (eds.), Perspectives on the Performance of the Continental Economies, MIT Press, 2011, 253-322
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4628
Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees
Mirjam C. van Praag, Arjen van Witteloostuijn, Justin van der Sluis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4332
Count Your Hours: Returns to Education in Poland
Michal Myck, Anna Nicinska, Leszek Morawski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4208
"It's not that I'm a racist, it's that they are Roma": Roma Discrimination and Returns to Education in South Eastern Europe
Niall O'Higgins
revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2010, 31(2) 163-187
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4206
Are Returns to Education on the Decline in Venezuela and Does Mission Sucre Have a Role to Play?
Naihobe Gonzales, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1348-1369
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4169
Interpreting Degree Effects in the Returns to Education
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Audrey Light
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45 (2), 439-467
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4127
Choosing the Field of Study in Post-Secondary Education: Do Expected Earnings Matter?
Magali Beffy, Denis Fougère, Arnaud Maurel
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (1), 334–347
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4043
University Quality and Graduate Wages in the UK
Iftikhar Hussain, Sandra McNally, Shqiponja Telhaj
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3766
Understanding Low Average Returns to Education in Africa: The Role of Heterogeneity across Education Levels and the Importance of Political and Economic Reforms
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
revised version published as 'Have returns to education changed in Nigeria? Uncovering the role of democratic reforms' in: Journal of African Economies, 2011, 20 (5), 737-780
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