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83 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17620
The Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene and the Escape from Premature Mortality
Dora L. Costa, Lars Olov Bygren, Benedikt Graf, Martin Karlsson, Joseph Price
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. 16785
Parental Investments and Socio-Economic Gradients in Learning across European Countries
Pedro Carneiro, Hugo Reis, Alessandro Toppeta
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16765
Multigenerational Effects of Smallpox Vaccination
Volha Lazuka, Peter S. Jensen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16742
The Economic Impact of Heritable Physical Traits: Hot Parents, Rich Kid?
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Anwen Zhang
published as 'Human beauty illustrates the economic impact of heritable physical traits' in: PNAS, 2025, 122 (6), e24184241
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16492
Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality: Maternal Endowments, Investments, and Birth Outcomes
Sadegh S. M. Eshaghnia, James J. Heckman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16447
Childhood Health Shocks and the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality
Tine Louise Mundbjerg Eriksen, Amanda Gaulke, Jannet Svensson, Niels Skipper, Peter Rønø Thingholm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15630
The Timing of Parental Job Displacement, Child Development and Family Adjustment
Pedro Carneiro, Kjell G. Salvanes, Barton Willage, Alexander Willén
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15584
Choosing or Inheriting the Joneses: The Origins of Reference Groups
Martin Leites, Camila Paleo, Xavier Ramos, Gonzalo Salas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15450
Estimating Intergenerational and Assortative Processes in Extended Family Data
Dolores Collado, Ignacio Ortuño Ortín, Jan Stuhler
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2023, 90 (3), 1195 - 1227
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15034
The (Un)Importance of Inheritance
Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Fanny Landaud, Kjell G. Salvanes
published online in: Journal of the European Economic Association, jvae056, 23 December 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14993
Parental Separation and the Formation of Economic Preferences
Sarah C. Dahmann, Nathan Kettlewell, Jack Lam
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14937
Family Social Norms and Child Labor
Shirit Katav Herz, Gil S. Epstein
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14920
The Predictive Power of Self-Control for Life Outcomes
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 197, 725-744
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14539
Economics of Minority Groups: Labour Market Returns and Transmission of Indigenous Languages
Diego de la Fuente Stevens, Panu Pelkonen
published in: World Development, 2023, 162, 106096
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14300
Parental Assortative Mating and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 77, 102047
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14129
High School Dropout and the Intergenerational Transmission of Crime
Davide Dragone, Giuseppe Migali, Eugenio Zucchelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14030
Parental Paternalism and Patience
Lukas Kiessling, Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13765
From Parent to Child? The Long-Lasting Effects of Social Support
Ambra Poggi, Guyonne Kalb
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13533
The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Attitudes: Evidence from Immigrant Mothers-In-Law
Julia Bredtmann, Lisa Sofie Höckel, Sebastian Otten
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 179, 101-115
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