IZA Discussion Papers

substantially revised version published as 'COVID-19, College Academic Performance, and the Flexible Grading Policy: A Longitudinal Analysis' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 207, 104606

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13919

Parental Resources and College Attendance: Evidence from Lottery Wins

George Bulman, Robert W. Fairlie, Sarena Goodman, Adam Isen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13849

The Effects of Financial Aid Loss on Persistence and Graduation: A Multi-Dimensional Regression Discontinuity Approach

Todd R. Jones, Daniel Kreisman, Ross Rubenstein, Cynthia Searcy, Rachana Bhatt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13807

Higher Education Financing and the Educational Aspirations of Teenagers and their Parents

Dan Anderberg, Arnaud Chevalier, Lena Hassani Nezhad, Melanie Lührmann, Ronni Pavan

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 85, 102175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13709

Tuition Fees and Educational Attainment

Jan Bietenbeck, Jan Marcus, Felix Weinhardt

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 154, 104431

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13644

Hitting Where It Hurts Most: COVID-19 and Low-Income Urban College Students

Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 87, 102233

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13349

Culture and Adult Financial Literacy: Evidence from the United States

Maddalena Davoli, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 78, 102013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13096

Estimating the Value of Higher Education Financial Aid: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Christian Belzil, Arnaud Maurel, Modibo Sidibé

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021,39 (2), 361-395.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13079

Mothers Working during Preschool Years and Child Skills. Does Income Compensate?

Cheti Nicoletti, Kjell G. Salvanes, Emma Tominey

accepted manuscript: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12958

Hope for the Family: The Effects of College Costs on Maternal Labor Supply

Breno Braga, Olga Malkova

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, 22 (1), 230-262

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12886

The Effect of Grants on University Drop-Out Rates: Evidence on the Italian Case

Francesca Modena, Enrico Rettore, Giulia Tanzi

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2020, 14 (3), 343 - 370

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12749

Information Provision and Preferences for Education Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments in Three Countries

Maria Alejandra Cattaneo, Philipp Lergetporer, Guido Schwerdt, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann, Stefan C. Wolter

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 63, 101876

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12698

Does a Day Lost Equal Dollars Saved? The Effects of Four-Day School Weeks on School District Expenditures

Paul N. Thompson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12663

Job Insecurity, Debt Burdens and Individual Health

Maite Blázquez Cuesta, Santiago Budría, Ana I. Moro-Egido

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2021, 67 (4), 872-899.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12239

Maxed Out? The Effect of Larger Student Loan Limits on Borrowing and Education Outcomes

Jeffrey T. Denning, Todd R. Jones

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (4), 1113-1140

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12175

The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance: How Information and Design Affect Public Preferences for Tuition

Philipp Lergetporer, Ludger Woessmann

now IZA Discussion Papers 14386 and 14991

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12159

Local Norms Describing the Role of the State and the Private Provision of Training

Andreas Kuhn, Jürg Schweri, Stefan C. Wolter

revised version published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 75, 102226

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12053

University Tuition Fees and High School Students' Educational Intentions

Michael Bahrs, Thomas Siedler

published in: Fiscal Studies, 2019, 40 (2), 117-147

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11968

Why is Math Cheaper than English? Understanding Cost Differences in Higher Education

Steven W. Hemelt, Kevin Stange, Fernando Furquim, Andrew Simon, John E. Sawyer

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39(2), 397-435

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11842

The Role of Parental Wealth and Income in Financing Children's College Attendance and Its Consequences

V. Joseph Hotz, Emily Wiemers, Joshua Rasmussen, Kate Maxwell Koegel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11792

ProPelled: The Effects of Grants on Graduation, Earnings, and Welfare

Jeffrey T. Denning, Benjamin M. Marx, Lesley J. Turner

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (3), 193-224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11625

Testing a Social Innovation in Financial Aid for Low-Income Students: Experimental Evidence from Italy

Davide Azzolini, Alberto Martini, Enrico Rettore, Barbara Romano, Antonio Schizzerotto, Loris Vergolini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11422

Reflections on the US College Loans System: Lessons from Australia and England

Nicholas Barr, Bruce Chapman, Lorraine Dearden, Susan Dynarski

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11421

The Economics of University Dropouts and Delayed Graduation: A Survey

Carmen Aina, Eliana Baici, Giorgia Casalone, Francesco Pastore

substantially revised version forthcoming as 'The Determinants of University Dropout: A Review of the Socio-Economic Literature' in: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11281

The Economic Effects of Providing Legal Status to DREAMers

Francesc Ortega, Ryan Edwards, Amy Hsin

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 9:2.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11265

The Impact of High School Financial Education on Financial Knowledge and Choices: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Spain

Olympia Bover, Laura Hospido, Ernesto Villanueva

forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11142

Graduation Incentives Through Conditional Student Loan Forgiveness

Ulla Hämäläinen, Kristian Koerselman, Roope Uusitalo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11083

Higher Education Funding Reforms: A Comprehensive Analysis of Educational and Labor Market Outcomes in England

Ghazala Azmat, Stefania Simion

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10997

Broken Tax Breaks? Evidence from a Tax Credit Information Experiment with 1,000,000 Students

Peter Bergman, Jeffrey T. Denning, Dayanand Manoli

published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2019, 38 (3), 706-731

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10913

Born Under a Lucky Star: Financial Aid, College Completion, Labor Supply, and Credit Constraints

Jeffrey T. Denning

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (3), 760-784

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10836

Can Gifted and Talented Education Raise the Academic Achievement of All High-Achieving Students?

Adam S. Booij, Ferry Haan, Erik Plug

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10564

Equal Opportunity through Higher Education: Theory and Evidence on Privilege and Ability

Yuval Arbel, Ronen Bar-El, Yossef Tobol

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10431

The Effect of Fe y Alegria on School Achievement: Exploiting a School Lottery Selection as a Natural Experiment

Pablo Lavado, Santiago Cueto, Gustavo Yamada, Micaela Wensjoe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10366

The Economic Contribution of Unauthorized Workers: An Industry Analysis

Ryan Edwards, Francesc Ortega

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10357

How Information Affects Support for Education Spending: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States

Martin R. West, Ludger Woessmann, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 167, 138-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10211

Weighing the Military Option: The Effects of Wartime Conditions on Investments in Human Capital

Brian Duncan, Hani Mansour, Bryson Rintala

published in Economic Inquiry, 2019, 57 (1), 264-282

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10192

The Returns to Elite College Education: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis

Massimo Anelli

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 2824 - 2868

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10167

The Heterogeneous Impacts of Business Cycles on Educational Attainment

Ernest Boffy-Ramirez

published in: Education Economics, 2017, 25 (6), 554-561

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9968

Information and Preferences for Public Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Guido Schwerdt, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 167, 138-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9911

Information, Financial Aid and Training Participation: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Katja Görlitz, Marcus Tamm

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 138-148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9757

Enriching Students Pays Off: Evidence from an Individualized Gifted and Talented Program in Secondary Education

Adam S. Booij, Ferry Haan, Erik Plug

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9687

Can Parental Migration Reduce Petty Corruption in Education?

Lisa Sofie Höckel, Manuel Santos Silva, Tobias Heidland

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9371

The Effects of State Merit Aid Programs on Attendance at Elite Colleges

David L. Sjoquist, John V. Winters

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2016, 83 (2), 527-549

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9234

Immigration and School Choices in the Midst of the Great Recession

Lídia Farré, Francesc Ortega, Ryuichi Tanaka

published as 'Immigration and the public-private school choice' in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 184 - 201

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9171

Designing Efficient College and Tax Policies

Sebastian Findeisen, Dominik Sachs

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8990

The Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns to Voucher-Financed Training

Katja Görlitz, Marcus Tamm

substantially revised version published as 'The returns to voucher-financed training on wages, employment and job tasks' in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 51 - 62

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8960

Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal

Pedro Carneiro, Oswald Koussihouèdé, Nathalie Lahire, Costas Meghir, Corina Mommaerts

published as ' School Grants and Education Quality: Experimental Evidence from Senegal' in: Economica, first published January 24, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8912

The Effects of Over-Indebtedness on Individual Health

Maite Blázquez Cuesta, Santiago Budría

published in: Hacienda Pública Española, 2018, 227, 103-131.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8902

Finance for All: The Impact of Financial Literacy Training in Compulsory Secondary Education in Spain

Laura Hospido, Ernesto Villanueva, Gema Zamarro

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8871

Risk-Sharing and Student Loan Policy: Consequences for Students and Institutions

Douglas A. Webber

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 57, 1-9

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8778

Immigration and the Political Economy of Public Education: Recent Perspectives

Francesc Ortega, Ryuichi Tanaka

published in: Gary Freeman and Nikola Mirilovic, editors, Handbook of Migration and Social Policy. Elgar.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8770

Private Tutoring: Evidence from India

Mehtabul Azam

published in: Review of Development Economics, 2016, 20 (4), 739 - 761

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8769

Ability Peer Effects in University: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Adam S. Booij, Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2017, 84 (2), 547 - 578

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8767

Are College Costs Worth It? How Individual Ability, Major Choice, and Debt Affect Optimal Schooling Decisions

Douglas A. Webber

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 53, 296-310.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8693

School Inputs and Skills: Complementarity and Self-Productivity

Cheti Nicoletti, Birgitta Rabe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8666

Human Capital and Optimal Redistribution

Winfried Koeniger, Julien Prat

revised version published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2018, 27, 1-26.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8623

Did Tuition Fees in Germany Constrain Students' Budgets? New Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Stephan L. Thomsen, Friederike von Haaren

revised version published in: IZA Journal or European Labor Studies, 2016, 5:6

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8615

Sibling Spillover Effects in School Achievement

Cheti Nicoletti, Birgitta Rabe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8363

Does Higher Education Quality Matter in the UK?

Arnaud Chevalier

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2014, 40, 257-292

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8342

Immigration, Naturalization, and the Future of Public Education

Ryuichi Tanaka, Lídia Farré, Francesc Ortega

published as 'Immigration, assimilation, and the future of public education' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 52 (C), 141-165

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8340

Accounting for Peer Effects in Treatment Response

Rokhaya Dieye, Habiba Djebbari, Felipe Barrera-Osorio

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8270

In 'Trusts' We Trust: Socially Motivated Private Schools in Nepal

Sarmistha Pal, Bibhas Saha

published as 'Enhancing Excellence: Socially Motivated Private Schools of Nepal' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (5), 765-785

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8056

Do School Budgets Matter? The Effect of Budget Referenda on Student Performance

Kyung-Gon Lee, Solomon Polachek

published in: Education Economics 2018, 26(2), 129-144.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7951

Tuition Fees as a Commitment Device

Nadine Ketel, Jona Linde, Hessel Oosterbeek, Bas van der Klaauw

published as 'Tuition Fees and Sunk-Cost Effects' in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (598), 2342-2362

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7695

Determinants of Financial Rewards from Industry-University Collaboration in South Korea

Junghee Han, Almas Heshmati

published in: International Journal of Innovation Management, 2016, 20(7), 235-257.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7639

Supplementary Education in Turkey: Recent Developments and Future Prospects

Aysit Tansel

Published in: J. Aurini, S. Davies and J. Dierkes (Eds.): Out of the Shadows: The Global Intensification of Supplementary Education (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Volume 22) Emerald Group. pp.23 – 66.Out of the Shadows? An Introduction to World-Wide Supplementary Education (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Volume 22), 2014, 23-66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7556

Modeling Income Dynamics for Public Policy Design: An Application to Income Contingent Student Loans

Tim Higgins, Mathias Sinning

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 37 (1), 273-285

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7551

Educational Achievement and the Allocation of School Resources

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Nikhil Jha

published in: Australian Economic Review, 2016, 49 (3), 251 – 271

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7420

School Accountability: Can We Reward Schools and Avoid Pupil Selection?

Erwin Ooghe, Erik Schokkaert

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7011