IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10004

The Effects of Compulsory Military Service Exemption on Education and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Huzeyfe Torun, Semih Tumen

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 54, 16-35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10001

The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement

Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30 (3), 3-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10000

The Scandinavian Fantasy: The Sources of Intergenerational Mobility in Denmark and the U.S.

Rasmus Landersø, James J. Heckman

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119 (1), 178 - 230

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9978

Should Value-Added Models Control for Student Absences?

Seth Gershenson

published in: Teachers College Record, 2016, ID No. 21629.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9977

Symposium on Child Development and Parental Investment: Introduction

Marco Francesconi, James J. Heckman

published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126(596), F1-F27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9968

Information and Preferences for Public Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Guido Schwerdt, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 167, 138-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9960

The Value of Private Schools: Evidence from Pakistan

Pedro Carneiro, Jishnu Das, Hugo Reis

revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (5), 1301 - 1318

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9959

Does Learning Beget Learning Throughout Adulthood? Evidence from Employees' Training Participation

Anica Kramer, Marcus Tamm

substantially revised version published as 'Does learning trigger learning throughout adulthood? Evidence from training participation of the employed population' in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 62, 82-90

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9957

Returns to Education: The Causal Effects of Education on Earnings, Health and Smoking

James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, Gregory Veramendi

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126, (S1), S197–S246

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9956

LATE for the Meeting: Gender, Peer Advising, and College Success

Jimmy R. Ellis, Seth Gershenson

published as 'Gender, peer advising, and college success' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 62, 101775

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9955

"Teaching to Teach" Literacy

Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally, Martina Viarengo

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2018, 10, 217-41

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9930

Property Rights and Gender Bias: Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Abhishek Chakravarty, Dilip Mookherjee, Francisco J. Pino

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (2), 295-237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9917

Does Family Background Affect Earnings through Education? A Generalised Approach to Mediation Analysis

Silvia Mendolia, Peter Siminski

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 59, 1-12

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9916

Identifying National Level Education Reforms in Developing Settings: An Application to Ethiopia

Luke Chicoine

published as 'Schooling with Learning: The Effect of Free Primary Education and Mother Tongue Instruction Reforms in Ethiopia' in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 69, 94-107

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9915

Head Start and the Distribution of Long Term Education and Labor Market Outcomes

Monique de Haan, Edwin Leuven

published in: Journal of Labor Economics 2020, 38 (3), 727–765

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9911

Information, Financial Aid and Training Participation: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Katja Görlitz, Marcus Tamm

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 138-148

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