IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6807

The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity among Elementary School Children

John Cawley, David E. Frisvold, Chad D. Meyerhoefer

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (4), 743-755

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6805

Anti-Lemons: School Reputation, Relative Diversity, and Educational Quality

W. Bentley MacLeod, Miguel Urquiola

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6802

Estimating and Testing a Quantile Regression Model with Interactive Effects

Matthew Harding, Carlos Lamarche

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2014, 178, 101-113

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6801

State Merit-based Financial Aid Programs and College Attainment

David L. Sjoquist, John V. Winters

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2015, 55(3), 364-390

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. 6780

A Citation-Analysis of Economic Research Institutes

Rolf Ketzler, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Scientometrics, 2013, 95 (3), 1095-1112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6778

Education and Fertility: Evidence from a Policy Change in Kenya

Luke Chicoine

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6770

School and Drugs: Closing the Gap - Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the US

Núria Rodríguez-Planas

substantially revised verion published in: Journal of Behavior & Economics, 2017, 139, 166-181

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6769

A Second Chance at Education for Early School Leavers

Cain Polidano, Domenico Tabasso, Yi-Ping Tseng

published in: Education Economics, 2015, 23(3), 358-375

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6758

Labor-Market Returns to the GED Using Regression Discontinuity Analysis

Christopher Jepsen, Peter R. Mueser, Kenneth Troske

revision published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 124 (3), 621-649

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6755

Explaining the Birth Order Effect: The Role of Prenatal and Early Childhood Investments

Jee-Yeon K. Lehmann, Ana Nuevo-Chiquero, Marian Vidal-Fernandez

published as 'The Early Origins of Birth Order Differences in Children's Outcomes and Parental Behavior' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53, 123 - 156

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6726

Returns to Education in Russia: Where There Is Risky Sexual Behaviour There Is Also an Instrument

Reza Arabsheibani, Anita Staneva

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6723

Differences in Employment Outcomes for College Town Stayers and Leavers

John V. Winters

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6722

Do Fiscal and Political Decentralization Raise Students' Performance? A Cross-Country Analysis

Luis Diaz-Serrano, Enric Meix-Llop

published as 'Decentralization and the Quality of Public Services: Cross-Country Evidence from Educational Data' in: Environment & Planning C: Politics and Space, 2019, 37 (7), 1296-1316

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6719

The Effects of Credit Status on College Attainment and College Completion

Dora Gicheva, Felicia Ionescu, Nicole B. Simpson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6718

The Effects of Bullying in Elementary School

Tine Louise Mundbjerg Eriksen, Helena Skyt Nielsen, Marianne Simonsen

revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (4), 839-871

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6706

Birth Order and Human Capital Development: Evidence from Ecuador

Monique de Haan, Erik Plug, José Rosero

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (2), 359-392

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6696