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IZA Discussion Paper No. 15612

Does College Selectivity Reduce Obesity? A Partial Identification Approach

Giorgio Brunello, Dimitris Christelis, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anastasia Terskaya

published in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (10), 2306-2320

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15350

High School and Exam Scores: Does Their Predictive Validity for Academic Performance Vary with Programme Selectivity?

Pedro Luís Silva, Carla Sá, Ricardo Biscaia, Pedro N. Teixeira

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14462

Graduating from a Less Selective University during a Recession: Evidence from Mobility Report Cards and Employer Recruiting

Russell Weinstein

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14068

Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration from a Gendered Lens: Comment

Oded Stark

published in: Demography, 2021, 58 (1), 379 - 381

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13730

International Student Enrollments and Selectivity: Evidence from the Optional Practical Training Program

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Kevin Y. Shih, Huanan Xu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13356

Reconciling Changes in Wage Inequality with Changes in College Selectivity Using a Behavioral Model

Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12094

The Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind: Estimation in Presence of Intra-Household Selection of Migrants

Elie Murard

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11025

The Context-Bound University Selectivity Premium

Joniada Milla

published in: Review of Economic Analysis, 2018, 10, 313 - 349 [open access]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10711

Attrition in Randomized Control Trials: Using Tracking Information to Correct Bias

Teresa Molina Millán, Karen Macours

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10536

University Selectivity and the Graduate Wage Premium: Evidence from the UK

Ian Walker, Yu Zhu

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 53, 230-249

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9473

A Theory of Intra-Firm Group Design

Semih Tumen

published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2016, 45(1), 89-102

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8450

Policy Discontinuity and Duration Outcomes

Gerard J. van den Berg, Antoine Bozio, Monica Costa Dias

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2020, 11 (3), 871- 916

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8417

How Selective Are Real Wage Cuts? A Micro-Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data

Boris Hirsch, Thomas Zwick

published in: Labour, 2015, 29 (4), 327-347

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6751

Please Call Again: Correcting Non-Response Bias in Treatment Effect Models

Luc Behaghel, Bruno Crépon, Marc Gurgand, Thomas Le Barbanchon

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97 (5), 1070 - 1080

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5937

Scarring Effects of Remaining Unemployed for Long-Term Unemployed School-Leavers

Bart Cockx, Matteo Picchio

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2013, 176 (4), 951-980

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5852

Exporting Poor Health: The Irish in England

Liam Delaney, Alan Fernihough, James P. Smith

published in: Demography, 2013, 50 (6), 2013-2035

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5533

Estimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career Using Administrative Earning Data

Stacy Dale, Alan B. Krueger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5531

Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance: Does Schooling Provide Earnings Insurance?

Jacopo Mazza, Hans van Ophem, Joop Hartog

published as 'Unobserved heterogeneity and risk in wage variance: Does more schooling reduce earnings risk?' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 323 - 338

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5454

The Role of Marriage in the Causal Pathway from Economic Conditions Early in Life to Mortality

Gerard J. van den Berg, Sumedha Gupta

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 40, 141–158

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. 4422

ORU Analyses of Immigrant Earnings in Australia, with International Comparisons

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published as "The Effects of Educational-Occupational Mismatch on Immigrant Earnings in Australia, with International Comparisons" in: International Migration Review, 2010, 44(4), 869-898

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4375

The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members: Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program

John Gibson, David McKenzie, Steven Stillman

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (4), 1297-1318

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4336

Smoking Persistence Across Countries: An Analysis Using Semi-Parametric Dynamic Panel Data Models with Selectivity

Dimitris Christelis, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

revised version published as 'Smoking Persistence Across Countries: a Panel Data Analysis' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 1077 - 1093

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3926

The Microeconomic Determinants of Emigration and Return Migration of the Best and Brightest: Evidence from the Pacific

John Gibson, David McKenzie

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 95 (1), 18-29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2841

Early Childbirth, Health Inputs and Child Mortality: Recent Evidence from Bangladesh

Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2314

Swedish Labor Market Training and the Duration of Unemployment

Katarina Richardson, Gerard J. van den Berg

revised version published as 'Duration dependence versus unobserved heterogeneity in treatment effects: Swedish labor market training and the transition rate to employment' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 28 2013, 325-351

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2131

Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution

Marc-Andreas Muendler, Sascha O. Becker

published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (5), 1999-2030

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1939

Choice and Success of Job Search Methods

Andrea Weber, Helmut Mahringer

published in: Empirical Economics, 2008, 35 (1), 153-178

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1901

Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries

Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (510), C63-C76