Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18393

Paying for Peers? Parental Willingness to Pay for School Composition and Quality in Switzerland

Maria Alejandra Cattaneo, Stefan C. Wolter, Thea S. Zöllner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18189

Public Gains, Private Strains: Public Investment and Private Schooling in Peru

Sonja Fagernäs, Diego de la Fuente Stevens, Panu Pelkonen, Juan Manuel del Pozo Segura

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18030

From Rural Schools to City Factories: Assessing the Quality of Chinese Rural Schools

Eric A. Hanushek, Le Kang, Xueying Li, Lei Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16956

Public and Parental Investments, and Children's Skill Formation

Miriam Gensowski, Rasmus Landersø, Philip Dale, Anders Hojen, Laura Justice, Dorthe Bleses

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16192

Who Benefits from Tuition-Free, Top-Quality Universities? Evidence from Brazil

Suzanne Duryea, Rafael Perez Ribas, Breno Sampaio, Gustavo R. Sampaio, Giuseppe Trevisan

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 96, 102423

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13097

Do Compulsory Schooling Laws Always Work? A Study of Youth Crime in Brazilian Municipalities

Marislei Nishijima, Sarmistha Pal

published as 'Compulsory Schooling Laws, Overcrowding and Youth Crime: A Quasi-Experimental Study of Brazilian Municipalities' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2023, 59 (10), 1589–1607

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13066

Vietnam's Extraordinary Performance in the PISA Assessment: A Cultural Explanation of an Education Paradox

Niaz Asadullah, Liyanage Devangi Perera, Saizi Xiao

published in: Journal of Policy Modelling, 2020, 42 (5), 913-932.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12944

Vulnerable Boys: Short-Term and Long-Term Gender Differences in the Impacts of Adolescent Disadvantage

Ziteng Lei, Shelly Lundberg

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 178, 242 -448

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12419

The Long-Run Effects of Reducing Early School Tracking

Serena Canaan

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 187, 104206

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11161

School Performance, Score Inflation and Economic Geography

Erich Battistin, Lorenzo Neri

published as 'School Performance, Score Inflation, and Neighborhood Development' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (3), 753–792

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10814

Father Absence and the Educational Gender Gap

Shelly Lundberg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10434

Unawareness and Selective Disclosure: The Effect of School Quality Information on Property Prices

John de New, Syed Hasan, Nikhil Jha, Mathias Sinning

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 145, 449-464

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9200

School Quality and the Development of Cognitive Skills between Age Four and Six

Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Ulf Zölitz

published in: PLOS ONE, 2015, 10(7)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9169

Apply Yourself: Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application

Sandra E. Black, Kalena E. Cortes, Jane Arnold Lincove

published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2020, 15 (2), 209-240

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8693

School Inputs and Skills: Complementarity and Self-Productivity

Cheti Nicoletti, Birgitta Rabe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8617

The Long-Run Effects of Attending an Elite School: Evidence from the UK

Damon Clark, Emilia Del Bono

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (1), 150-176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8476

Private Education Market, Information on Test Scores and Tuition Practices

Sergio Firpo, Vladimir Ponczek, Vítor Augusto Possebom

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8471

Student Scores in Public and Private Schools: Evidence from PISA 2009

Stephane Mahuteau, Kostas Mavromaras

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8371

Parental Preferences for Primary School Characteristics

Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Ulf Zölitz

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (Contributions), 2015, 15(1), 85–117

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8233

The Effect of Islamic Secondary School Attendance on Academic Achievement

Niaz Asadullah

published in: Singapore Economic Review, 2016, 61 (4), 1550052-01

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8028

Decomposition of Differences in PISA Results in Middle Income Countries

Sandra Nieto, Raul Ramos

published in: Prospects, 2015, 45(3), 325-343

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7899

Can You Leave High School Behind?

Sandra E. Black, Jane Arnold Lincove, Jenna Cullinane, Rachel Veron

revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, June 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7897

The Long-Term Effects of Early Track Choice

Christian Dustmann, Patrick A. Puhani, Uta Schönberg

published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (603), 1348–1380

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7429

Wanna Get Away? RD Identification Away from the Cutoff

Joshua Angrist, Miikka Rokkanen

published as 'Wanna Get Away? Regression Discontinuity Estimation of Exam School Effects Away From the Cutoff' in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2015, 110 (512), 1331-1344

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6790

The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, Parag A. Pathak

published in: Econometrica, 2014, 82 (1), 137 - 196

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5897

On Educational Performance Measures

Alastair Muriel, Jeffrey A. Smith

published in: Fiscal Studies, 2011, 32(2), 187-206

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5075

The Effects of School Quality in the Origin on the Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Gil Epstein and Ira Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 67-103

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4984

Ranking the Schools: How Quality Information Affects School Choice in the Netherlands

Pierre Koning, Karen van der Wiel

revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (2), 466–493

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4969

School Responsiveness to Quality Rankings: An Empirical Analysis of Secondary Education in the Netherlands

Pierre Koning, Karen van der Wiel

revised version published in: De Economist, 2012, 160 (4), 339-355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3866

What Makes a Test Score? The Respective Contributions of Pupils, Schools, and Peers in Achievement in English Primary Education

Francis Kramarz, Stephen Machin, Amine Ouazad

published as 'Using Compulsory Mobility to Identify School Quality and Peer Effects' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 77(4), 566–587

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1883

Does Immigration Affect the Long-Term Educational Outcomes of Natives? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Eric D. Gould, Victor Lavy, M. Daniele Paserman

published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (540), 1243-1269.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1830

The Gender Gap Reloaded: Is School Quality Linked to Labor Market Performance?

Spyros Konstantopoulos, Amelie F. Constant

substantially revised version published as 'The gender gap reloaded: Are school characteristics linked to labor market performance?' in: Social Science Research, 2008, 37 (2), 374-385

IZA Discussion Paper No. 828

School Choice and Quality

Daniele Checchi, Tullio Jappelli

published as "The Impact of Perceived Public-School Quality on Private-School Choice in Italy" in: L. Woessmann and P. Petersen (eds.), Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem, MIT 2007, 293-310

IZA Discussion Paper No. 739

Who's to Blame? The Determinants of German Students' Achievement in the PISA 2000 Study

Michael Fertig

IZA Discussion Paper No. 714

Educational Production, Endogenous Peer Group Formation and Class Composition – Evidence from the PISA 2000 Study

Michael Fertig

IZA Discussion Paper No. 92

The Rate of Return to Private Schooling

Robert E. Wright