IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1259

Family Structure and Child Outcomes in the United States and Sweden

Anders Björklund, Donna K. Ginther, Marianne Sundström

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (1), 183-201

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1255

Aysit Tansel, Fatma Bircan

revised version published as 'Demand for education in Turkey: A tobit analysis of private tutoring expenditures' in: Economics of Education Review, 2006, 25, 303-313

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1226

Pre-School Enrollment: An Analysis by Immigrant Generation

Barry R. Chiswick, Noyna DebBurman

published in: Social Science Research, 2006, 35 (1), 60-87

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1186

Educational Achievement in English-Speaking Countries: Do Different Surveys Tell the Same Story?

John Micklewright, Sylke V. Schnepf

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1146

The Effect of High Stakes High School Achievement Awards: Evidence from a School-Centered Randomized Trial

Joshua Angrist, Victor Lavy

published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (4), 1384-1414

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1122

The Effect of Extra Funding for Disadvantaged Pupils on Achievement

Edwin Leuven, Mikael Lindahl, Hessel Oosterbeek, Dinand Webbink

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 89 (4), 721-736

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1048

High School Types, Academic Performance and Early Labour Market Outcomes

Lorenzo Cappellari

IZA Discussion Paper No. 976

Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program

Joshua Angrist, Kevin Lang

published in: American Economic Review, 2004, 94 (5), 1613-1634

IZA Discussion Paper No. 953

The Impact of a Primary School Reform on Educational Stratification: A Norwegian Study of Neighbour and School Mate Correlations

Oddbjørn Raaum, Kjell G. Salvanes, Erik Ø. Sørensen

published in: Swedish Economic Policy Review, 2003, 10 (2), 143-170

IZA Discussion Paper No. 952

The Neighbourhood Is Not What It Used to Be

Oddbjørn Raaum, Kjell G. Salvanes, Erik Ø. Sørensen

published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (508), 200-222

IZA Discussion Paper No. 926

Why the Apple Doesn't Fall Far: Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital

Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes

published in: American Economic Review, 2005, 95 (1), 437-449

IZA Discussion Paper No. 868

Analyzing Religiosity Within an Economic Framework: The Case of Spanish Catholics

Pablo Brañas Garza, Shoshana Neuman

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2004, 2, 5-22

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. 827

An Evaluation of the Performance of Regression Discontinuity Design on PROGRESA

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Emmanuel Skoufias

IZA Discussion Paper No. 826

The Effect of Schooling and Ability on Achievement Test Scores

Karsten T. Hansen, James J. Heckman, Kathleen Mullen

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2004, 121 (1-2), 39-98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 746

Schooling Quality in Eastern Europe: Educational Production During Transition

Andreas Ammermüller, Hans Heijke, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2005, 24 (5), 579-599

IZA Discussion Paper No. 739