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34 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17948
The Untold Story of Internal Migration in Germany: Life-Cycle Patterns, Developments, and the Role of Education
Anton Barabasch, Kamila Cygan-Rehm, Guido Heineck, Sebastian Vogler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17790
Why Does Starting School Older Harm Schooling? The Role of Youth Employment Laws
Itay Attar, Danny Cohen-Zada
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. 17050
The Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Health and Hospitalization over the Life Cycle
Markus Gehrsitz, Morgan C. Williams, Jr.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16864
Schooling and Self-Control
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16539
Educate Some to Represent Many? Education and Female Political Representation in Europe
Luna Bellani, Marisa Hidalgo-Hidalgo
revised version published as 'Bridging the Gender Gap: Women’s Education and Political Representation' in: Economics of Education Review, 2025, 104, 102605
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16454
More Education Does Make You Happier – Unless You Are Unemployed
Alexander Bertermann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15991
Human Capital and Climate Change
Noam Angrist, Kevin Winseck, Harry Anthony Patrinos, Joshua Graff Zivin
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, March 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15175
The Determinants of Population Self-Control
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
updated version published as 'Surveillance and self-control' in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (660), 1666–1682
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14735
Does Education Really Cause Domestic Violence? Revisiting the Turkish Data
Pelin Akyol, Murat Güray Kirdar
published as 'Compulsory Schooling Reform and Intimate Partner Violence in Turkey' in: European Economic Review, 2022, 150, 104313.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13362
Gender Gap in Intergenerational Educational Persistence: Can Compulsory Schooling Reduce It?
Merve Demirel-Derebasoglu, Cagla Okten
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13276
Keeping Kids in School and Out of Work: Compulsory Schooling and Child Labor in Turkey
Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur, Murat Güray Kirdar
published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2022, 16 (4), 526 - 555
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. 12332
The Effect of Education on Health: Evidence from the 1997 Compulsory Schooling Reform in Turkey
Badi H. Baltagi, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Haci M. Karatas
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 17, 205-221
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11805
Why Does Education Reduce Crime?
Brian Bell, Rui Costa, Stephen Machin
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (3), 732-65
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11795
The Effects of Education on Health: An Intergenerational Perspective
Mathias Huebener
published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 10 November 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10430
The Sooner the Better? Compulsory Schooling Reforms in Sweden
Martin Fischer, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson, Nina Schwarz
published as 'The Long-Term Effects of Long Terms – Compulsory Schooling Reforms in Sweden' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 2776 - 2823
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9889
School Entry, Compulsory Schooling, and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Michigan
Steven W. Hemelt, Rachel B. Rosen
published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2016, 16(4), 1-29
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9755
Education Policies and Migration across European Countries
Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll, Zoë Kuehn
published in: Demography, 2017, 54 (6), 2181-2200
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9274
Low Wage Returns to Schooling in a Developing Country: Evidence from a Major Policy Reform in Turkey
Abdurrahman B. Aydemir, Murat Güray Kirdar
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79 (6), 1046-1086.
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