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406 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18331
Patterns in University Applications: Socioeconomic Status, Gender, and Subject vs. Institution Preferences
Friederike Hertweck, Robbie Maris, Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18307
Online Tutoring, School Performance, and School-to-Work Transitions: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Silke Anger, Bernhard Christoph, Agata Galkiewicz, Shushanik Margaryan, Malte Sandner, Thomas Siedler
conditionally accepted at: European Economic Review
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18226
Stereotypes, Awareness, and STEM Major Choice
Maria De Paola, Patrizia Ordine, Giuseppe Rose
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18189
Public Gains, Private Strains: Public Investment and Private Schooling in Peru
Sonja Fagernäs, Diego de la Fuente Stevens, Panu Pelkonen, Juan Manuel del Pozo Segura
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18099
Political Views and College Choices in a Polarized America
Riley Acton, Emily E. Cook, Paola Ugalde Araya
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18040
‘Sorting’ Out Gender Discrimination and Disadvantage: Evidence from Student Evaluations of Teaching
Sara Ayllón, Lars Lefgren, Richard Patterson, Olga B. Stoddard, Nicolas Urdaneta
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18016
School Enrollment Shifts Five Years After the Pandemic
Abigail Francis, Joshua Goodman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17957
When Parents Work from Home
Pascal Achard, Michèle Belot, Arnaud Chevalier
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17930
Breaking the Early Bell: Lessons from the First Statewide Mandate on School Start Times
Jialu Dou, Rania Gihleb, Osea Giuntella, Jakub Lonsky
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17836
The Political Consequences of Controversial Education Reform: Lessons from Wisconsin’s Act 10
Barbara Biasi, Wayne Aaron Sandholtz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17832
The Effect of Compulsory Education on Non-Cognitive Skills: Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Antonia Entorf, Thomas Dohmen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17803
The Consequences of Promoting Data Literacy Among Graduate Students
Margherita Fort, Annalisa Loviglio, Susanna Tinti
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. 17665
Causal Effects of Education on Marriage
Kunwon Ahn, John V. Winters
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17599
On Grade Option Choice and Grade Performance Expectation When Instruction Goes Virtual – The Role of Peers at a Distance
Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Yudi Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17595
The Importance of Socio-Emotional Skills for Multiple Life Outcomes and the Role of Education
Barbara Belfi, Lex Borghans
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17379
Child Penalties in Labour Market Skills
Jonas Jessen, Lavinia Kinne, Michele Battisti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17362
The Effectiveness of Teamwork for Student Academic Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Ritwik Banerjee, Niels-Hugo Blunch, Daniele Cassese, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Paolo Pin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17331
Teacher Personality and the Perceived Socioeconomic Gap in Student Outcomes
Giorgio Brunello, Clementina Crocè, Pamela Giustinelli, Lorenzo Rocco
published in: Economics Letters, 2025, 247, 112096
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17322
A Library in the Palm of Your Hand? A Randomized Field Experiment with Low-Income Children
Silke Anger, Bernhard Christoph, Agata Galkiewicz, Shushanik Margaryan, Frauke Peter, Malte Sandner, Thomas Siedler
This version: March 2025.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17283
Unbundling Returns to Postsecondary Degrees and Skills: Evidence from Colombia
Matias Busso, Sebastián Montaño, Juan S. Muñoz-Morales
published in: Education Economics, 2024, 33 (1), 1-18
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17228
Free Schooling Reverses Sibling Rivalry
João R. Ferreira, Wayne Aaron Sandholtz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17131
Birth Order Effects on Education: Insights from Low- And Middle-Income Countries
Silvia Mendolia, Olena Stavrunova, Marian Vidal-Fernandez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17091
Starting School and ADHD: When Is It Time to Fly the Nest?
Catia Nicodemo, Cheti Nicoletti, Joaquim Vidiella-Martin
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. 17040
Early-Life Circumstances and Racial Disparities in Cognition for Older Americans: The Importance of Educational Quality and Experiences
Zhuoer Lin, Justin Ye, Heather Allore, Thomas M. Gill, Xi Chen
published as 'Early-Life Circumstances and Racial Disparities in Cognition Among Older Adults in the US' in: JAMA Internal Medicine, 2024, 184 (8), 904-914
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17020
Putting Low Emission Zone (LEZ) to the Test: The Effect of London's LEZ on Education
Antonio Avila-Uribe, Sefi Roth, Brian Shields
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16983
Do Grow-Your-Own Programs Work? Evidence from the Teacher Academy of Maryland
David Blazar, Wenjing Gao, Seth Gershenson, Ramon Goings, Francisco Lagos
forthcoming in: Journal of Policy Analysis & Management, 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16945
Students' Grit and Their Post-compulsory Educational Choices and Trajectories: Evidence from Switzerland
Janine Albiez, Maurizio Strazzeri, Stefan C. Wolter
published online in: , 16 September 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16907
Well-Being throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany: Gendered Effects of Daycare and School Closures
Mathias Huebener, Sevrin Waights, C. Katharina Spieß
published in: K. Couch (ed.), Handbook of Inequality and COVID-19, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025, 183 - 197
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16815
New Findings on Racial Bias in Teachers' Evaluations of Student Achievement
Maria Zhu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16782
Do Women Fare Worse When Men Are Around? Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Marcela Gomez-Ruiz, María Cervini-Plá, Xavier Ramos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16731
COVID-19, School Closures, and Student Learning Outcomes: New Global Evidence from PISA
Maciej Jakubowski, Tomasz Gajderowicz, Harry Anthony Patrinos
published in: Science of Learning, 2025, 10, 5 (2025)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16712
A Scalable Approach to High-Impact Tutoring for Young Readers: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial
Kalena E. Cortes, Karen Kortecamp, Susanna Loeb, Carly D. Robinson
published as 'A scalable approach to high-impact tutoring for young readers' in: Learning and Instruction, 2025, 95, 102021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16419
Race and the Income-Achievement Gap
Ryan Bacic, Angela Zheng
pubished in: Economic Inquiry, 2024, 62 (1), 5- 23
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16398
When Effective Teacher Training Falls Short in the Classroom: Evidence from an Experiment in Primary Schools
Suzanne Bellue, Adrien Bouguen, Marc Gurgand, Valerie Munier, André Tricot
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2024,103,102599
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16392
Group Meetings and Boosters to Sustain Early Impacts on Child Development: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Italo Lopez Garcia, Jill E. Luoto, Frances E. Aboud, Lia C.H. Fernald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16386
Housing Unaffordability and Adolescent Academic Achievement in Urban China
Peng Nie, Qiaoge Li, Lanlin Ding, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published online in: Applied Economics, 21 August 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16384
The Effect of Classroom Rank on Learning throughout Elementary School: Experimental Evidence from Ecuador
Pedro Carneiro, Yyannu Cruz Aguayo, Francesca Salvati, Norbert Schady
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2025, 43 (2), 293-663
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16322
Air Pollution and Education Investment
Zhiming Cheng, Liwen Guo, Massimiliano Tani, Sarah Cook
published in: Energy Economics 2024, 132, 107496,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16250
Sibling Spillovers May Enhance the Efficacy of Targeted School Policies
David N. Figlio, Krzysztof Karbownik, Umut Özek
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16197
Playing the System: Address Manipulation and Access to Schools
Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen, Lykke Sterll Christensen, Mikkel Høst Gandil, Hans Henrik Sievertsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16183
Driving, Dropouts, and Drive-Throughs: Mobility Restrictions and Teen Human Capital
Valerie Bostwick, Christopher Severen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16111
School Quality beyond Test Scores: The Role of Schools in Shaping Educational Outcomes
Annalisa Loviglio
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16109
Swallow This: Childhood and Adolescent Exposure to Fast Food Restaurants, BMI, and Cognitive Ability
Sara Abrahamsson, Aline Bütikofer, Krzysztof Karbownik
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. 15975
Women in Political Power and School Closure during COVID Times
Natalia Danzer, Sebastian Garcia-Torres, Max F. Steinhardt, Luca Stella
published in: Economic Policy, 2024, 39 (120), 765–810
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15899
Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy Using Local Ambassadors: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Indonesia
Asadul Islam, Gita Kusnadi, Jahen Rezki, Armand Sim, Giovanni van Empel, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou
published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 163, 104683
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15895
Month-of-Birth Effects on Skills and Skill Formation
Shintaro Yamaguchi, Hirotake Ito, Makiko Nakamuro
published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 84, 102392
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15874
Taking It to the Limit: Effects of Increased Student Loan Availability on Attainment, Earnings, and Financial Well-Being
Sandra E. Black, Jeffrey T. Denning, Lisa J. Dettling, Sarena Goodman, Lesley J. Turner
published in: American Economic Review, 2024, 113 (12), 3357–3400
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