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196 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18182
Economic Development in the 21st Century
Carmel U. Chiswick
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18155
Moving for Good: Educational Gains from Leaving Violence Behind
María Padilla-Romo, Cecilia Peluffo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18143
AI Business Applications Training and Business Outcomes: An Inclusive Intervention for Underrepresented Entrepreneurs
Nick Drydakis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18037
Short- and Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool: Evidence from the Arab Population in Israel
Elad DeMalach, Analia Schlosser
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. 17837
Gender Gaps in Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Samuel Berlinski, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Alba Sóñora-Noya
published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2025, 57, 101472
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17781
“Try to Balance the Baseline”: A Comment on “Parent-Teacher Meetings and Student Outcomes: Evidence from a Developing Country” by Islam (2019)
Carl Bonander, Olle Hammar, Niklas Jakobsson, Gunther Bensch, Felix Holzmeister, Abel Brodeur
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17747
Religion and Economic Development: Past, Present, and Future
Sascha O. Becker, Amma Panin, Steven Pfaff, Jared Rubin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17611
The Effect of Teacher Training and Community Literacy Programming on Teacher and Student Outcome
Feliciano Chimbutane, Naureen Karachiwalla, Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Jessica Leight, Carlos Lauchande
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2026, 178, 103578
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17542
Flooding the Brains: Natural Disasters, Student Outcomes, and the Urban-Rural Gap in Human Capital
Juan S. Muñoz-Morales
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17527
The Political Economy of Privatization of Education: Role of Local Politicians in India
Muneer Kalliyil, Soham Sahoo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17491
Unified Growth Theory: Engines of Growth and Inequality in the Wealth of Nations
Oded Galor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17469
Job Training, English Language Skills, and Employability: Evidence from an Experiment in Urban India
Prashant Loyalka, Dinsha Mistree, Robert W. Fairlie, Saurabh Khanna
forthcoming in: Economic Development and Cultural Change
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17296
The Pecuniary Costs of Early School Leaving and Poor Basic Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Rocco
also available as 'The price of inaction: the global private, fiscal and social costs of children and youth not learning', United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris, 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17294
The Unintended Consequences of Merit-Based Teacher Selection: Evidence from a Large-Scale Reform in Colombia
Matias Busso, Sebastián Montaño, Juan S. Muñoz-Morales, Nolan G. Pope
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105238.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17261
The Impact of Role Models on Youths' Aspirations, Gender Attitudes and Education in Somalia
Elijah Kipchumba, Catherine Porter, Danila Serra, Munshi Sulaiman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17228
Free Schooling Reverses Sibling Rivalry
João R. Ferreira, Wayne Aaron Sandholtz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17133
Improving Parental Investments in Children: Experimental Evidence from The Gambia
Moussa Blimpo, Pedro Carneiro, Pamela Jervis Ortiz, Nathalie Lahire, Todd Pugatch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17072
Schooling Mobility across Three Generations in Six Latin American Countries
Pablo Celhay, Sebastian Gallegos
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 23 (2025)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17059
The Effect of Postsecondary Educational Institutions on Local Economies: A Bird's-Eye View
Patrick Lehnert, Madison Dell, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Eric Bettinger
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