IZA Discussion Papers

published as: The Economics of Gender and Educational Achievement: Stylized Facts and Causal Evidence, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, Oxford University Press, August 2021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13918

The Duration of Compulsory Education and the Transition to Secondary Education: Panel Data Evidence from Low-Income Countries

Luis Diaz-Serrano

published in: International Journal of Educational Development, 2020, 75, 102189

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13685

Is There a Link between BMI and Adolescents' Educational Choices and Expectations?

Luis Diaz-Serrano, Alexandrina P. Stoyanova

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13630

Educational Gender Gaps

Shelly Lundberg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13563

Obstacles on the Road to School: The Impacts of Mobility Restrictions on Educational Performance

Sami H. Miaari, Ines Lee

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13453

Culture and Student Achievement: The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking

Eric A. Hanushek, Lavinia Kinne, Philipp Lergetporer, Ludger Woessmann

forthcoming as "Patience, Risk-Taking, and Human Capital Investment across Countries" in: Economic Journal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13299

How Gender and Prior Disadvantage Predict Performance in College

Judith Delaney, Paul J. Devereux

published in: Economic and Social Review, 2020, 51(2), Summer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13291

Conceptualizing Grade Inflation

Adam Tyner, Seth Gershenson

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 78, 102037

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13121

Teacher Preferences, Working Conditions, and Compensation Structure

Andrew C. Johnston

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13065

Parents' Responses to Teacher Qualifications

Simon Chang, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Nicolás Salamanca

forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12971

Long-Run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap

Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, Laura M. Talpey, Ludger Woessmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12965

Can Pollution Cause Poverty? The Effects of Pollution on Educational, Health and Economic Outcomes

Claudia L. Persico

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12745

Does Pollution Drive Achievement? The Effect of Traffic Pollution on Academic Performance

Jennifer Heissel, Claudia L. Persico, David Simon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12613

The Short- and Long-Run Impacts of Secondary School Absences

Jing Liu, Monica Lee, Seth Gershenson

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 199, 104441

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12503

Girls' Comparative Advantage in Reading Can Largely Account for the Gender Gap in Math-Intensive Fields

Thomas Breda, Clotilde Napp

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12460

The Remarkable Unresponsiveness of College Students to Nudging and What We Can Learn from It

Philip Oreopoulos, Uros Petronijevic

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12396

Neighbourhood and School Poverty Simultaneously Predicting Educational Achievement, Taking into Account Timing and Duration of Exposure

Jaap Nieuwenhuis, Tom Kleinepier, Maarten van Ham

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12338

Math Scores in High Stakes Grades

Giorgio Brunello, David Kiss

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 82, 102219

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12204

Effects of Four-Day School Weeks on Student Achievement: Evidence from Oregon

Paul N. Thompson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12200

Selecting or Rewarding Teachers? International Evidence from Primary Schools

Michela Braga, Daniele Checchi, Christelle Garrouste, Francesco Scervini

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 76, 101986

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12070

Inequality of Opportunity in Education: Accounting for the Contributions of Sibs, Schools and Sorting across East Africa

Paul Anand, Jere R. Behrman, Hai-Anh Dang, Sam Jones

published as 'Decomposing Learning Inequalities in East Africa: How Much Does Sorting Matter?' in: World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36 (1), 219-243

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11843

The Gender Gap in Attitudes and Test Scores: A New Construct of the Mathematical Capability

Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Anna Maccagnan, Silvia Mendolia

published as 'Going Beyond Test Scores: The Gender Gap in Italian Children's Mathematical Capability' in: Feminist Economics, 2021, 27 (3), 161-187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11685

Do You Speak My Language? The Effect of Sharing a Teacher's Native Language on Student Achievement

Kelvin Seah

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2021, 88(1), 245-273

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11683

Testing

Annika B. Bergbauer, Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11682

Asian Segregation and Scholastic Achievement: Evidence from Primary Schools in New York City

Rocco D'Este, Elias Einiö

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021,83, 102129.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11623

Stand Against Bullying: An Experimental School Intervention

Italo A. Gutierrez, Oswaldo Molina, Hugo R. Nopo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11516

Educator Incentives and Educational Triage in Rural Primary Schools

Daniel O. Gilligan, Naureen Karachiwalla, Ibrahim Kasirye, Adrienne Lucas, Derek Neal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11166

Snooze or Lose: High School Start Times and Academic Achievement

Jeffrey A. Groen, Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 72, 204–218, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2019.05.011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10950

(How) Do Non-Cognitive Skills Programs Improve Adolescent School Achievement? Experimental Evidence

Pedro S. Martins

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10886

One-To-One Technology and Student Outcomes

Marie C. Hull, Katherine Duch

published in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2019, 41 (1), 79-97

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10884

The Value of Redistribution: Natural Resources and the Formation of Human Capital under Weak Institutions

Jorge M. Aguero, Carlos Felipe Balcázar, Stanislao Maldonado, Hugo R. Nopo

forthcoming n Journal of Development Economics, 2021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10709

Do Higher Achievers Cheat Less? An Experiment of Self-Revealing Individual Cheating

Erez Siniver, Yossef Tobol, Gideon Yaniv

forthcoming in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10612

The Private Schooling Phenomenon in India: A Review

Geeta G. Kingdon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10356

What Grades and Achievement Tests Measure

Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn, James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries

published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), 2016, 113 (47), 13354-13359

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10343

Boys Lag Behind: How Teachers' Gender Biases Affect Student Achievement

Camille Terrier

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10091

Short-Run Externalities of Civic Unrest: Evidence from Ferguson, Missouri

Seth Gershenson, Michael S. Hayes

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2018, 18(3): 663-685.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10076

The Three I's of Public Schools: Irrelevant Inputs, Insufficient Resources and Inefficiency

Daniel J. Henderson, Léopold Simar, Le Wang

published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49(12), 1164-1184

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10065

The Impact of Immigrant Peers on Native Students' Academic Achievement in Countries Where Parents of Immigrants Are Relatively Skilled

Kelvin Seah

published in: Australian Economic Review, 2021, 54(1), 94-116

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10053

The Gender Gap in Mathematics Achievement: Evidence from Italian Data

Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Silvia Mendolia, Dalit Contini

published in Economics of Education Review, 2017, 58, 32-42.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10032

Immigrant Educators and Students' Academic Achievement

Kelvin Seah

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51C, 152-169

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10001

The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement

Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30 (3), 3-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9661

Gender and Racial Differences in Peer Effects of Limited English Students: A Story of Language or Ethnicity?

Timothy M. Diette, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2017, 6:2

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9558

Are Student Absences Worth the Worry in U.S. Primary Schools?

Seth Gershenson, Alison Jacknowitz, Andrew Brannegan

published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2017, 12(2): 137-165.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9535

Gender Gaps in Early Educational Achievement

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Julie Moschion

Published in Journal of Population Economics 2017 30(4): 1093–1134

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9458

Carrot and Stick? Impact of a Low-Stakes School Accountability Program on Student Achievement

Seokjin Woo, Soohyung Lee, Kyunghee Kim

forthcoming in: Economics Letters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9307

The Academic Progress of Hispanic Immigrants

Marie C. Hull

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 57, 91-110

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9082

Is Ability Tracking (Really) Responsible for Educational Inequalities in Achievement? A Comparison between the Country States Bavaria and Hesse in Germany

Hartmut Esser, Ilona Relikowski

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8958

The Effect of Community Traumatic Events on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks

Seth Gershenson, Erdal Tekin

published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2018, 13(4), 513-544.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8939

Virtually No Effect? Different Uses of Classroom Computers and their Effect on Student Achievement

Oliver Falck, Constantin Mang, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (1), 1-38

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8622

Assessing Teacher Quality in India

Mehtabul Azam, Geeta G. Kingdon

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 117, 74–83

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8620

Does Management Matter in Schools?

Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8543

Learning the Hard Way: The Effect of Violent Conflict on Student Academic Achievement

Tilman Brück, Michele Di Maio, Sami H. Miaari

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17 (5), 1502 - 1037

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8411

Which Schools and Pupils Respond to Educational Achievement Surveys? A Focus on the English PISA Sample

Sylke V. Schnepf, Gabriele B. Durrant, John Micklewright

revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2018, 181 (4), 1057 - 1074

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8232

Mister Sandman, Bring Me Good Marks! On the Relationship Between Sleep Quality and Academic Achievement

Stijn Baert, Eddy Omey, Dieter Verhaest, Aurélie Vermeir

revised version published in: Social Science and Medicine , 2015, 130, 91 - 98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8201

Gender Gaps in Primary School Achievement: A Decomposition into Endowments and Returns to IQ and Non-cognitive Factors

Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Trudie Schils

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 41, 176-187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8142

Does High School Homework Increase Academic Achievement?

Charlene M. Kalenkoski, Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia

published in: Education Economics, 2017, 25 (1), 45-59

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7887

Unionization and Productivity: Evidence from Charter Schools

Cassandra M. D. Hart, Aaron Sojourner

Published in: Industrial Relations. 2015. 55(4): 422-448

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7856

Gender and Race Heterogeneity: The Impact of Increases in Students with Limited English on Native Students' Performance

Timothy M. Diette, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2014, 104 (5), 412-417

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7799

Are Females Scared of Competing with Males? Results from a Field Experiment

Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 48, 117-128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7794

Is There an Educational Penalty for Being Suspended from School?

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sonja C. de New, Trinh Le, Duncan McVicar, Rong Zhang

published in: Education Economics, 2015, 23 (4), 376-395

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7793

Impact of Duration of Primary Education on School Outcomes: A Cross-Country Analysis

Luis Diaz-Serrano, Jessica Pérez

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7790

"High"-School: The Relationship between Early Marijuana Use and Educational Outcomes

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sonja C. de New, Trinh Le, Duncan McVicar, Rong Zhang

published in: Economic Record, 2015, 91(293), 247-266

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7750

Fostering and Measuring Skills: Interventions That Improve Character and Cognition

James J. Heckman, Tim Kautz

published in: J. Heckman, J.E. Humphries, and T. Kautz (eds.), The Myth of Achievement Tests: The GED and the Role of Character in American Life, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7694

Peer Effects in Disadvantaged Primary Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Heather Antecol, Ozkan Eren, Serkan Ozbeklik

forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7661

Do More Educated Leaders Raise Citizens' Education?

Luis Diaz-Serrano, Jessica Pérez

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7655

How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills

Adrian Hille, Jürgen Schupp

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 44, 56-8

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) Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 251 – 271)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7359

Dynamic Panel Data Models with Irregular Spacing: With Applications to Early Childhood Development

Daniel L. Millimet, Ian K. McDonough

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32 (4), 725-743

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7296

The Effect of Teach for America on the Distribution of Student Achievement in Primary School: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Heather Antecol, Ozkan Eren, Serkan Ozbeklik

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 37, 113-125

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7216

Early Life Adversity and Children's Competence Development: Evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk

Dorothea Blomeyer, Katja Coneus, Manfred Laucht, Friedhelm Pfeiffer

published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics 2013, 233 (4), 468-485

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6825

Birth Order and Child Outcomes: Does Maternal Quality Time Matter?

Chiara Monfardini, Sarah Grace See

published as 'Birth Order and Child Cognitive Outcomes: an Exploration of the Parental Time Mechanism' in: Education Economics, 2016, 24 (5), 481- 495

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6613

The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit

Gordon B. Dahl, Lance John Lochner

published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (5), 1927-1956

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6602

Can Value-Added Measures of Teacher Performance Be Trusted?

Cassandra M. Guarino, Mark D. Reckase, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2015, 10 (1), 117-156

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6580

Hard Evidence on Soft Skills

James J. Heckman, Tim Kautz

published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (4), 451-464