IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17576

On-the-Job Learning: How Peers and Experience Drive Productivity Among Teachers

Romaine A. Campbell, Seth Gershenson, Constance A. Lindsay, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Jessica H. Rendon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17241

The Productivity Impact of Global Warming: Firm-Level Evidence for Europe

Nicola Gagliardi, Elena Grinza, François Rycx

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16766

Artificial Intelligence and the Discovery of New Ideas: Is an Economic Growth Explosion Imminent?

Derick Almeida, Wim Naudé, Tiago Neves Sequeira

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16258

Spillover Effects of Black Teachers on White Teachers' Racial Competency: Mixed Methods Evidence from North Carolina

Seth Gershenson, Constance A. Lindsay, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Romaine A. Campbell, Jessica H. Rendon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14432

Can You Teach an Old Dog New Tricks? New Evidence on the Impact of Tenure on Productivity

Nicola Gagliardi, Elena Grinza, François Rycx

published as 'Workers' Tenure and Firm Productivity: New Evidence from Matched Employer-employee Data' in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2023, 62 (1), 3-33

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14344

The Economics of Diversity: Innovation, Productivity, and the Labour Market

Ceren Ozgen

published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2021, 35 (4), 1168-1216

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14184

Teacher Characteristics and Student Performance: Evidence from Random Teacher-Student Assignments in China

Wei Huang, Teng Li, Yinghao Pan, Jinyang Ren

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 214, 747-781

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. 12448

Developmental Origins of Health Inequality

Gabriella Conti, Giacomo Mason, Stavros Poupakis

published in: the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, Oxford University Press, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12418

Labor Income Share Dynamics with Variable Elasticity of Substitution

Saumik Paul

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12219

A Decline in Labor's Share with Capital Accumulation and Complementary Factor Inputs: An Application of the Morishima Elasticity of Substitution

Saumik Paul

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11912

Quantile Regression Estimates of the Effect of Student Absences on Academic Achievement

Seth Gershenson, Jessica Rae McBean, Long Tran

published in: M. Gottfried; E. Hutt (eds.): Addressing Absenteeism, Cambridge, MA, 2019, 67-82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11911

Experimental Estimates of the Student Attendance Production Function

Long Tran, Seth Gershenson

published in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2021, 43 (2), 183-199.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11800

The Bilingual Gap in Children's Language and Emotional Development

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Colm P. Harmon, Anita Staneva

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 10 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11543

The Impact of Sickness Absenteeism on Productivity: New Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data

Elena Grinza, François Rycx

published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2020, 59 (1), 150-194

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11156

Comparing Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Two Different Econometric Models

Sabien Dobbelaere, Jacques Mairesse

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 18-26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10946

Beyond EU-US Trade Dynamics: TTIP Effects Related to Foreign Direct Investment and Innovation

Andre Jungmittag, Paul J. J. Welfens

published as 'EU-US trade post-trump perspectives: TTIP aspects related to foreign direct investment and innovation' in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2020,17, 259 - 294

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10880

The Relationship between Economic Growth and Democracy: Alternative Representations of Technological Change

Almas Heshmati, Nam-Seok Kim

published in: M. Tsionas (ed.), Panel Data Economics: Empirical Analysis, 2019, 885 - 929

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10714

Maternal Socio-Economic Status and the Well-Being of the Next Generation(s)

Kasey Buckles

published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10373

The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (10), 2766–281

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10195

The Short-Term Effects of School Consolidation on Student Achievement: Evidence of Disruption?

Louise Voldby Beuchert, Maria Knoth Humlum, Helena Skyt Nielsen, Nina Smith

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 65, 31-47.

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. 10009

Youth Employment and Academic Performance: Production Functions and Policy Effects

Angus J. Holford

published in: Labout Economics, 2020, 63, 101806

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. 9724

Integrated Macroeconomic Production Function for Open Economies: A New Schumpeterian Solow Model for Globalization

Paul J. J. Welfens

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. 9377

Life-Cycle and Intergenerational Effects of Child Care Reforms

Marc K. Chan, Kai Liu

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2018, 9 (2), 659 - 706

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9305

What Differences a Day Can Make: Quantile Regression Estimates of the Distribution of Daily Learning Gains

Michael S. Hayes, Seth Gershenson

published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 141, 48-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9262

Intangible Investment and Technical Efficiency: The Case of Software-Intensive Manufacturing Firms in Turkey

Derya Findik, Aysit Tansel

published in: P.E. Thomas, M. Srihari and S. Kaur (eds.): Handbook of Research on Cultural and Economic Impacts of the Information Society, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 2015, Ch. 8

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9125

Micro-Evidence on Product and Labor Market Regime Differences between Chile and France

Sabien Dobbelaere, Rodolfo Lauterbach, Jacques Mairesse

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (2), 229 - 252

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9124

Comparing Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Three Different Approaches

Sabien Dobbelaere, Jacques Mairesse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8693

School Inputs and Skills: Complementarity and Self-Productivity

Cheti Nicoletti, Birgitta Rabe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8608

Early Maternal Time Investment and Early Child Outcomes

Emilia Del Bono, Marco Francesconi, Yvonne Kelly, Amanda Sacker

published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126(596), F96-F135

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7552

Econometric Mediation Analyses: Identifying the Sources of Treatment Effects from Experimentally Estimated Production Technologies with Unmeasured and Mismeasured Inputs

James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto

published in: Econometric Reviews, 2015, 34 (1-2), 6-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7420

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

Erwin Ooghe, Erik Schokkaert

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7253

Product and Labor Market Imperfections and Scale Economies: Micro-Evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands

Sabien Dobbelaere, Kozo Kiyota, Jacques Mairesse

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43(2): 290-322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7040

Understanding the Mechanisms Through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes

James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter A. Savelyev

published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (6), 2052-86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6832

Rational Students and Resit Exams

Peter Kooreman

published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 213-215

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5951

Are Occupations Paid What They Are Worth? An Econometric Study of Occupational Wage Inequality and Productivity

Stephan Kampelmann, François Rycx

published in: De Economist, 2012, 160 (3), 257-287

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5280

Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin: The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion

Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino, Nicola Persico

published as 'Time Allocation and Task Juggling' in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (2), 609-623 (theoretical model), and as 'The Inefficiency of Worker Time Use' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 5 (19), 906 - 947 (empirical part)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5176

Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections

Sabien Dobbelaere, Jacques Mairesse

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (1), 1-46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4925

The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement

Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

published in: E.A. Hanushek, S. Machin, L. Woessmann (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 3, pp. 89-200, Amsterdam: North Holland, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4871

Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Different Perspectives

Sabien Dobbelaere, Jacques Mairesse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4731

The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages: Firm Level Evidence

Jozef Konings, Stijn Vanormelingen

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97 (3), 485-497

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4270

Birth Weight and the Dynamics of Early Cognitive and Behavioural Development

Emilia Del Bono, John Ermisch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3959

Treating Equals Unequally: Incentives in Teams, Workers' Motivation and Production Technology