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IZA Discussion Paper No. 16016
Public and Private School Grade Inflations Patterns in Secondary Education
Pedro Luís Silva, Stephen L. DesJardins, Ricardo Biscaia, Carla Sá, Pedro N. Teixeira
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16001
Public-Sector Employment, Wages and Education Decisions
Andri Chassamboulli, Pedro Maia Gomes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15991
Human Capital and Climate Change
Noam Angrist, Kevin Winseck, Harry A. Patrinos, Joshua Graff Zivin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15988
Educational Consequences of a Sibling's Disability: Evidence from Type 1 Diabetes
Tine Louise Mundbjerg Eriksen, Amanda Gaulke, Niels Skipper, Jannet Svensson, Peter Rønø Thingholm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15985
Do Classical Studies Open Your Mind?
Giorgio Brunello, Piero Esposito, Lorenzo Rocco, Sergio Scicchitano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15979
The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity
Cavit Baran, Eric Chyn, Bryan Stuart
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15944
The Impact of Computer-Assisted Instruction on Student Performance: Evidence from the Dual-Teacher Program
Haizheng Li, Zhiqiang Liu, Fanzheng Yang, Li Yu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15943
Earnings Penalty of Educational Mismatch: A Comparison of Alternative Methods of Assessing Over-Education
Le Wen, Sholeh A. Maani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15943
Earnings Penalty of Educational Mismatch: A Comparison of Alternative Methods of Assessing Over-Education
Le Wen, Sholeh A. Maani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15932
The Employment Effects of the Disability Education Gap in Europe
Maciej Albinowski, Iga Magda, Agata Rozszczypała
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15920
Delivering Remote Learning Using a Low-Tech Solution: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Bangladesh
Liang Choon Wang, Michael Vlassopoulos, Asad Islam, Hashibul Hassan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15915
Returns to School Spending in Rural America: Evidence from Wisconsin's Sparsity Aid Program
Riley Acton, Cody Orr, Salem Rogers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15912
Marital Sorting and Inequality: How Educational Categorization Matters
Frederik Almar, Benjamin Friedrich, Ana Reynoso, Bastian Schulz, Rune Majlund Vejlin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15906
Discipline Reform, School Culture, and Student Achievement
Ashley C Craig, David Martin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15902
Train Drain? Access to Foreign Workers and Firms' Provision of Training
Maria Esther Oswald-Egg, Michael Siegenthaler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15882
The Impact of the "Coding Girls" Program on High School Students' Educational Choices
Stefania Basiglio, Daniela Del Boca, Chiara D. Pronzato
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15876
The Effects of Schooling on Cognitive Skills: Evidence from Education Expansions
Lorenzo Cappellari, Daniele Checchi, Marco Ovidi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15869
Educational Job Mismatch, Job Satisfaction, On-the-Job Training, and Employee Quit Behavior: A Dynamic Analytical Approach
Le Wen, Sholeh A. Maani, Zhi Dong
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15867
Dynastic Measures of Intergenerational Mobility
Olivier Bargain, Maria C. Lo Bue, Flaviana Palmisano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15862
Understanding Sibling Correlations in Education: Molecular Genetics and Family Background
Jason M. Fletcher, Qiongshi Lu, Bhashkar Mazumder, Jie Song
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15860
Do Role Models Matter in Large Classes? New Evidence on Gender Match Effects in Higher Education
Stephan Maurer, Guido Schwerdt, Simon Wiederhold
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15857
Women's Education and Fertility in China
Zheyuan Zhang, Zhong Zhao
published in: China Economic Review, 2023, 78, 101936
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15857
Women's Education and Fertility in China
Zheyuan Zhang, Zhong Zhao
published in: China Economic Review, 2023, 78, 101936
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15851
The Evolution of Labor Market Disparities between Hispanic and Non-hispanic Men: 1970-2019
Ioannis Kospentaris, Leslie S. Stratton
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15825
Human Capital and Self-Employment in India: An Empirical Analysis for Different Cohorts
Nabamita Dutta, Saibal Kar, Shaswata Ray
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15824
Skills, Parental Sorting, and Child Inequality
Martin Nybom, Erik Plug, Bas van der Klaauw, Lennart Ziegler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15807
Approaches to Learn about Employer Learning
Mahmut Ablay, Fabian Lange
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15802
Hispanic Americans in the Labor Market: Patterns over Time and across Generations
Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan, Stephen Trejo
forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Perspectives
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15796
Gender Differences in Adolescents' Socioemotional Development and Their Later Economic Consequences
Ghazala Azmat, Katja Maria Kaufmann, Yasemin Özdemir
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15785
Reference Dependent Aspirations and Peer Effects in Education
Marco Fongoni, Jonathan Norris, Agnese Romiti, Zhan Shi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15761
Spatial Spillovers of Conflict in Somalia
Marco Alfano, Thomas Cornelissen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15748
Do College Admissions Criteria Matter? Evidence from Discretionary vs. Grade-Based Admission Policies
Rais Kamis, Jessica Pan, Kelvin Seah
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 92, 102347
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15746
Immigrant Peers and Foreign Language Acquisition
Colin P. Green, Kristine Bekkeheien Haaland, Jon Marius Vaag Iversen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15723
Keep Calm and Carry On: The Short- vs. Long-Run Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on (Academic) Performance
Lea Cassar, Mira Fischer, Vanessa Valero
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15721
The Puzzle of Educated Unemployment in West Africa
Esther Mirjam Girsberger, Romuald Meango
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15694
IT Skills, Occupation Specificity and Job Separations
Christian Eggenberger, Uschi Backes-Gellner
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 92, 102333
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15687
Education Expansion and High-Skill Job Opportunities for Workers: Does a Rising Tide Lift All Boats?
Tobias Schultheiss, Curdin Pfister, Ann-Sophie Gnehm, Uschi Backes-Gellner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15684
Learning Inequalities during COVID-19: Evidence from Longitudinal Surveys from Sub-Saharan Africa
Hai-Anh Dang, Gbemisola Oseni, Alberto Zezza, Kseniya Abanokova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15652
Private Tutoring and Academic Achievement in a Selective Education System
Maria Zumbuehl, Stefanie Hof, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15646
The Slow Demographic Transition in Regions Vulnerable to Climate Change
Thang Dao, Matthias Kalkuhl, Chrysovalantis Vasilakis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15634
The Effect of Labor Market Shocks across the Life Cycle
Kjell G. Salvanes, Barton Willage, Alexander Willén
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15619
"The Double Dividend of Training" – Labor Market Effects of Work-Related Continuous Education in Switzerland
Stefan Denzler, Jens Ruhose, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15602
Full-Time Schools and Educational Trajectories: Evidence from High-Stakes Exams
Francisco Cabrera-Hernández, María Padilla-Romo, Cecilia Peluffo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15597
Social Media as a Recruitment and Data Collection Tool: Experimental Evidence on the Relative Effectiveness of Web Surveys and Chatbots
Emily A. Beam
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15596
Lowering Barriers to Remote Education: Experimental Impacts on Parental Responses and Learning
Emily A. Beam, Priya Mukherjee, Laia Navarro-Sola
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15596
Lowering Barriers to Remote Education: Experimental Impacts on Parental Responses and Learning
Emily A. Beam, Priya Mukherjee, Laia Navarro-Sola
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15578
Parental Risk Preferences, Maternal Bargaining Power, and the Educational Progressions of Children: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence from Rural Côte D'Ivoire
Arnab K. Basu, Ralitza Dimova, Monnet Benoit Patrick Gbakou, Romane Viennet
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15557
College Admission as a Screening and Sorting Device
Mikkel Gandil, Edwin Leuven
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15553
The Impact of Maternal Education on Child Immunization: Evidence from Bangladesh
Md Shahjahan, Giulia La Mattina, Padmaja Ayyagari
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15544
Prenatal Sugar Consumption and Late-Life Human Capital and Health: Analyses Based on Postwar Rationing and Polygenic Scores
Gerard J. van den Berg, Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder, R. Adele H. Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15541
Returns to Education in Greece: Evidence from the 1977 Labor Market Survey Using the Greek Civil War as an Instrument
Harry A. Patrinos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15539
Dreaming of a Brighter Future? The Impact of Economic Vulnerability on University Aspirations
Barry Watson, Nancy Kong, Shelley Phipps
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15531
Universal Early Childhood Education and Adolescent Risky Behavior
Michihito Ando, Hiroaki Mori, Shintaro Yamaguchi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15527
What Divides the First and Second Generations? Family Time of Arrival and Educational Outcomes for Immigrant Youth
Marie C. Hull
published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2023, 89 (3), 754-787
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15516
Returns to Education in the Public and Private Sectors: Europe and Central Asia
Claudio Montenegro, Harry A. Patrinos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15505
Much Ado about Nothing? School Curriculum Reforms and Students' Educational Trajectories
Maurizio Strazzeri, Chantal Oggenfuss, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15505
Much Ado about Nothing? School Curriculum Reforms and Students' Educational Trajectories
Maurizio Strazzeri, Chantal Oggenfuss, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15504
Intergenerational Transmission of Family Influence
Sadegh S. M. Eshaghnia, James J. Heckman, Rasmus Landerso, Rafeh Qureshi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15483
Do STEM Students Vote?
D’Wayne Bell, Jing Feng, John B. Holbein, Jonathan Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15437
New Perspectives on Inequality in Latin America
Manuel Fernández, Gabriela Serrano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15432
Reaping the Rewards Later: How Education Improves Old-Age Cognition in South Africa
Plamen Nikolov, Steve Yeh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15422
What Motivates Leaders to Invest in Nation-Building?
Paola Giuliano, Bryony Reich, Alessandro Riboni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15417
The Over-Education Wage Penalty among PhD Holders: A European Perspective
François Rycx, Giulia Santosuosso, Guillaume Vermeylen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15409
Labour Market Effects of Digital Matching Platforms: Experimental Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Sam Jones, Kunal Sen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15405
How Parenting Courses Affect Families’ Time-Use? Evidence from an RCT Experiment in Italy
Daniela Del Boca, Chiara D. Pronzato, Lucia Schiavon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15402
Does State-Mandated Financial Education Reduce High School Graduation Rates?
Carly Urban
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15394
Has Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation of Education in Rural India Fallen over Time? A Comparison of 1995 and 2017
Sandip Datta, Geeta G. Kingdon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15394
Has Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation of Education in Rural India Fallen over Time? A Comparison of 1995 and 2017
Sandip Datta, Geeta G. Kingdon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15382
Digital Divide or Digital Provide? Technology, Time Use and Learning Loss during COVID-19
Niaz Asadullah, Anindita Bhattacharjee
forthcoming in: Journal of Development Studies
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15379
A Note on Evaluating Formal Education for Adults
Anders Stenberg
published as 'Does Formal Education for Adults Yield Long-Term Multiplier Effects or Human Capital Depreciation?' in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 90, 102306
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15367
Study More Tomorrow
Todd Pugatch, Elizabeth Schroeder, Nicholas Wilson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15367
Study More Tomorrow
Todd Pugatch, Elizabeth Schroeder, Nicholas Wilson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15354
Excellence for All? University Honors Programs and Human Capital Formation
Todd Pugatch, Paul N. Thompson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15354
Excellence for All? University Honors Programs and Human Capital Formation
Todd Pugatch, Paul N. Thompson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15350
High School and Exam Scores: Does Their Predictive Validity for Academic Performance Vary with Programme Selectivity?
Pedro Luís Silva, Carla Sá, Ricardo Biscaia, Pedro N. Teixeira
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15338
The Evolution of Inequality in Education Trajectories and Graduation Outcomes in the US
Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen, Xingfei Liu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15330
School Choice and Higher Education Attainment
Diana Alessandrini, Joniada Milla
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15324
The Short- And Longer-Term Effects of a Child Labor Ban
Caio Piza, André Portela Souza, Patrick M. Emerson, Vivian Amorim
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15323
Grads on the Go: Measuring College-Specific Labor Markets for Graduates
Johnathan G. Conzelmann, Steven W. Hemelt, Brad J. Hershbein, Shawn Martin, Andew Simon, Kevin Stange
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15321
What Can We Learn from Student Performance Measures? Identifying Treatment in the Presence of Curves and Letter Grades
Glen R. Waddell, Jenni Putz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15320
Public Higher Education Costs and College Enrollment
Taylor Delaney, Dave E. Marcotte
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15319
What Drives Demand for Private Tutoring in the Middle East and North Africa Region? Evidence from a Youth Survey
Ali Fakih, Nathir Haimoun, Anastasia Sleiman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15301
Migration and University Education: An Empirical (Macro) Link
Sule Akkoyunlu, Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15299
Returns to Higher Education - Graduate and Discipline Premiums
Yu Zhu, Lei Xu
Forthcoming as a book chapter in the Springer Nature Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15298
Terrorism, Media Coverage and Education: Evidence from Al-Shabaab Attacks in Kenya
Marco Alfano, Joseph-Simon Goerlach
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15297
The Effect of Higher Education on Women's Obesity and Smoking: Evidence from College Openings in Turkey
Badi H. Baltagi, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Haci M. Karatas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15280
The Third Mission in the Academic Profession: Empirical Insights into Academic Identities
Vitus Püttmann, Stephan L. Thomsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15240
What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal about Racial Preferences
Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler, Tyler Ransom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15225
Educational Inequality
Jo Blanden, Matthias Doepke, Jan Stuhler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15225
Educational Inequality
Jo Blanden, Matthias Doepke, Jan Stuhler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15213
Do Management Practices Matter in Further Education?
Sandra McNally, Luis Schmidt, Anna Valero
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15187
The Effect of Foreign Students on Native Students' Outcomes in Higher Education
Julián Costas-Fernández, Greta Morando
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15176
Sometimes It Works! The Effect of a Reform of the Short Vocational Track on School-to-Work Transition
Simona Lorena Comi, Mara Grasseni, Federica Origo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15157
Tracking When Ranking Matters
Fanny Landaud, Eric Maurin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15143
The Magnitude and Predictors of Overeducation and Overskilling in Latin America: Evidence from PIAAC
Juan Francisco Castro, Lorena Ortega, Gustavo Yamada, David Mata
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15141
The Making of Civic Virtues: A School-Based Experiment in Three Countries
Simon Briole, Marc Gurgand, Eric Maurin, Sandra McNally, Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, Daniel Santín
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15139
Do Second Chances Pay Off? Evidence from a Natural Experiment with Low-Achieving Students
Aspasia Bizopoulou, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Stefania Simion
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15128
Rank Effects in Education: What Do We Know So Far?
Judith Delaney, Paul J. Devereux
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15110
The Financial Situation of Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Dennis H. Meier, Stephan L. Thomsen, Johannes Trunzer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15108
Educational and Skills Mismatches: Unravelling Their Effects on Wages across Europe
Loredana Cultrera, Benoît Mahy, François Rycx, Guillaume Vermeylen
published in: Education Economics, 2022, 30 (6), 561-573
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