IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2515

School Drop-Out and Push-Out Factors in Brazil: The Role of Early Parenthood, Child Labor, and Poverty

Ana Rute Cardoso, Dorte Verner

published as 'Factores de la deserción escolar en Brasil. El papel de la paternidad temprana, la mano de obra infantil y la pobreza' in: El Trimestre Económico, 2011, 69 (2) 310, 347-372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2502

Educational Inputs and Outcomes Before the Transition from Communism

John Beirne, Nauro F. Campos

published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15 (1), 57-76

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2490

Student Achievement and University Classes: Effects of Attendance, Size, Peers, and Teachers

Pedro S. Martins, Ian Walker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2478

Public Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying to Migrate and Teaching to Stay?

Panu Poutvaara

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (3), 591–608

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2471

The Long Run Health and Economic Consequences of Famine on Survivors: Evidence from China’s Great Famine

Xin Meng, Nancy Qian

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2462

Returns to Schooling in Kazakhstan: OLS and Instrumental Variables Approach

Reza Arabsheibani, Altay Mussurov

published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15 (2), 342-364

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2442

Over-Education and the Skills of UK Graduates

Arnaud Chevalier, Joanne Lindley

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 2009, 172(2), 307-337

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2417

Intergenerational Conflict, Partisan Politics, and Public Higher Education Spending: Evidence from the German States

Ulrich Oberndorfer, Viktor Steiner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2416

Estimates of the Effect of Parents’ Schooling on Children’s Schooling Using Censored and Uncensored Samples

Monique de Haan, Erik Plug

published as 'Estimating intergenerational schooling mobility on censored samples: consequences and remedies' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 26 (1), 151–166,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2393

The Macroeconomics of Targeting: The Case of an Enduring Epidemic

Clive Bell, Hans Gersbach

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28 (1), 54-72

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2385

The Aggregate Labor Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program

James Albrecht, Gerard J. van den Berg, Susan Vroman

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2009, 12(1), 129-146

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2348

Does School Tracking Affect Equality of Opportunity? New International Evidence

Giorgio Brunello, Daniele Checchi

published in: Economic Policy, 52, 2007, 781-861

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2328

Taxing Human Capital Efficiently: The Double Dividend of Taxing Non-Qualified Labour More Heavily Than Qualified Labour

Wolfram F. Richter

revised version based on DP 2328 and DP 3451 published as "Taxing education in Ramsey's tradition" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (11-12), 1254-1260

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2326

Migrant Opportunity and the Educational Attainment of Youth in Rural China

Alan de Brauw, John T. Giles

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (1) 274-313

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2298

First and Second Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes: A Comparison of the United States and Canada

Abdurrahman B. Aydemir, Arthur Sweetman

published as ''First and Second Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes: A Comparison of the United States and Canada' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 27, 215-70.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2277

Pareto-Improving Bequest Taxation

Volker Grossmann, Panu Poutvaara

published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2009, 16 (5), 647-669

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2271

Educational Homogamy: Preferences or Opportunities?

Helena Skyt Nielsen, Michael Svarer

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(4), 1066-86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2260

Career Progression and Formal versus On-the-Job Training

Jérôme Adda, Christian Dustmann, Costas Meghir, Jean-Marc Robin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2231