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192 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17918
Only-Child Parents and the Language Cognitive Ability of Their Children in China
Hui Xu, Zheyuan Zhang, Zhong Zhao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17832
The Effect of Compulsory Education on Non-Cognitive Skills: Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Antonia Entorf, Thomas Dohmen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17746
Artificial Intelligence and Labor Market Transformations in Latin America
Pablo Egana-delSol, Claudio Bravo-Ortega
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17746
Artificial Intelligence and Labor Market Transformations in Latin America
Pablo Egana-delSol, Claudio Bravo-Ortega
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17626
The Bilingual Advantage: It's How You Measure It
Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll, Zoë Kuehn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17482
Psychology of Debt in Rural South India
Arnaud Natal, Christophe Jalil Nordman
published online in: Journal of Development Studies, 2 February 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17395
Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital
Ludger Woessmann
forthcoming in: Annual Review of Economics 17, 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17379
Child Penalties in Labour Market Skills
Jonas Jessen, Lavinia Kinne, Michele Battisti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17314
Free Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Skills in Rural China
Zheyuan Zhang, Hui Xu, Ruilin Liu, Zhong Zhao
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 29 (2025)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17249
Intergenerational Effects of Compulsory Schooling Reform on Early Childhood Development in a Middle-Income Country
Yusuf Emre Akgündüz, Pelin Akyol, Abdurrahman B. Aydemir, Murat Demirci, Murat Güray Kirdar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17239
Parental Health, Adolescents' Mental Distress and Non-cognitive Skills
Apostolos Davillas, Victor Hugo de Oliveira, Athina Raftopoulou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17190
The Impact of Children's Access to Public Health Insurance on Their Cognitive Development and Behavior
Marie C. Hull, Ji Yan
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 98, 102935
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17161
Overeducation, Earnings and Job Satisfaction among Graduates in China
Melanie K. Jones, Ezgi Kaya, Jiarui Nan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17145
Effects of Teaching Practices on Life Satisfaction and Test Scores: Evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)
Kelsey J. O'Connor, Stefano Bartolini
published online in: Kyklos, 11 February 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16945
Students' Grit and Their Post-compulsory Educational Choices and Trajectories: Evidence from Switzerland
Janine Albiez, Maurizio Strazzeri, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16937
Game Changer: Impact of a Reading Intervention on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
Micole De Vera, Javier Garcia-Brazales, Luz Rello
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16909
Food Coma Is Real: The Effect of Digestive Fatigue on Adolescents' Cognitive Performance
Justine Hervé, Subha Mani, Jere R. Behrman, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Arindam Nandi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16881
Daycare Enrollment Age and Child Development
Mette Gørtz, Vibeke Myrup Jensen, Sarah Sander
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16755
What Skills Pay More? The Changing Demand and Return to Skills for Professional Workers
Cecily Josten, Helen Krause, Grace Lordan, Brian Yeung
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16746
Recessions and the Labor Market Returns to Cognitive and Social Skills
David E. Frisvold, Sun Hyung Kim
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16125
Using Genes to Explore the Relationship of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills with Education and Labor Market Outcomes
Thomas Buser, Rafael Ahlskog, Magnus Johannesson, Philipp Koellinger, Sven Oskarsson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16017
Effects of Early Childhood Climate on Cognitive Development and Home Environment
Wenjie Wu, Yang Zhe, Jun Hyung Kim, Ai Yue
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15985
Do Classical Studies Open Your Mind?
Giorgio Brunello, Piero Esposito, Lorenzo Rocco, Sergio Scicchitano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15895
Month-of-Birth Effects on Skills and Skill Formation
Shintaro Yamaguchi, Hirotake Ito, Makiko Nakamuro
published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 84, 102392
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15895
Month-of-Birth Effects on Skills and Skill Formation
Shintaro Yamaguchi, Hirotake Ito, Makiko Nakamuro
published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 84, 102392
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15876
The Effects of Schooling on Cognitive Skills: Evidence from Education Expansions
Lorenzo Cappellari, Daniele Checchi, Marco Ovidi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15818
How Early Nutrition and Foundational Cognitive Skills Interconnect? Evidence from Two Developing Countries
Alan Sanchez, Marta Favara, Margaret Sheridan, Jere R. Behrman
published as 'Does early nutrition predict cognitive skills during later childhood? Evidence from two developing countries' in: World Development, 2024, 176, 106480
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15784
The Effect of Brazil's Family Health Program on Cognitive Skills
Pinar Mine Gunes, Magda Tsaneva
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15551
Social Protection and Foundational Cognitive Skills during Adolescence: Evidence from a Large Public Works Programme
Richard Freund, Marta Favara, Catherine Porter, Jere R. Behrman
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2024, 38 (2), 296 - 318
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15435
The Impact of Centre-Based Childcare on Non-cognitive Skills of Young Children
Greta Morando, Lucinda Platt
published in: Economica, 2022, 356, 908-946
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15318
Effect of Secondary Education on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
Jani-Petteri Ollikainen, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo, Hanna Virtanen
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 103, 102603
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15104
Fostering Soft Skills in Active Labor Market Programs: Evidence from a Large-Scale RCT
Analia Schlosser, Yannay Shanan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15005
The Impact Evaluation of Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (New School) Program on Students' Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
Hai-Anh H Dang, Paul Glewwe, Jongwook Lee, Khoa Vu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15005
The Impact Evaluation of Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (New School) Program on Students' Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
Hai-Anh H Dang, Paul Glewwe, Jongwook Lee, Khoa Vu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14952
Effects of Childhood Peers on Personality Skills
Shuaizhang Feng, Jun Hyung Kim, Zhe Yang
forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14820
Individualism, Human Capital Formation, and Labor Market Success
Katharina Hartinger, Sven Resnjanskij, Jens Ruhose, Simon Wiederhold
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14807
Many Rivers to Cross: Social Identity, Cognition and Labour Mobility in Rural India
Sébastien Michiels, Christophe Jalil Nordman, Suneha Seetahul
published in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2021, 697(1), 66 - 80
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14678
Early-Years Multi-Grade Classes and Pupil Attainment
Daniel Borbely, Markus Gehrsitz, Stuart McIntyre, Gennaro Rossi, Graeme Roy
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 2023, 85, (6), 1295-1319
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14675
Is Being Competitive Always an Advantage? Degrees of Competitiveness, Gender, and Premature Work Contract Termination
Samuel Lüthi, Stefan C. Wolter
published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 85, 102457
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14580
Intergenerational Educational Mobility – The Role of Non-cognitive Skills
Anna Adamecz, Morag Henderson, Nikki Shure
published in: Education Economcis, 2024, 32 (1), 59 - 78
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14526
Limited Self-Knowledge and Survey Response Behavior
Armin Falk, Thomas Neuber, Philipp Strack
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14388
COVID-19 and Mental Health of Individuals with Different Personalities
Eugenio Proto, Anwen Zhang
revised version published in: PNAS (Proceeding of the National Academy of Science), 2021, 118 (37), e2109282118
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14353
Air Pollution and Adult Cognition: Evidence from Brain Training
Andrea La Nauze, Edson Severnini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14260
Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment and a Structural Model
Vincent Boucher, Semih Tumen, Michael Vlassopoulos, Jackline Wahba, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14183
Is Care by Grandparents or Parents Better for Children's Non-cognitive Skills? Evidence on Locus of Control from China
Xiang Ao, Xuan Chen, Zhong Zhao
published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 61, 101734
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14132
Gender Gaps in Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills: Roles of SES and Gender Attitudes
Justine Hervé, Subha Mani, Jere R. Behrman, Arindam Nandi, Anjana Sankhil Lamkang, Ramanan Laxminarayan
published as 'Gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills among adolescents in India' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 193, 66 - 97
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14132
Gender Gaps in Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills: Roles of SES and Gender Attitudes
Justine Hervé, Subha Mani, Jere R. Behrman, Arindam Nandi, Anjana Sankhil Lamkang, Ramanan Laxminarayan
published as 'Gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills among adolescents in India' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 193, 66 - 97
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14049
The Causal Impact of Depression on Cognitive Functioning: Evidence from Europe
Vahé Nafilyan, Mauricio Avendano Pabon, Augustin de Coulon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13966
The Social Side of Early Human Capital Formation: Using a Field Experiment to Estimate the Causal Impact of Neighborhoods
John A. List, Fatemeh Momeni, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13901
Cognitive Skills, Strategic Sophistication, and Life Outcomes
Eduardo Fe, David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (10), 2643–2704
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