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32 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17072
Schooling Mobility across Three Generations in Six Latin American Countries
Pablo Celhay, Sebastian Gallegos
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 23 (2025)
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. 16864
Schooling and Self-Control
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16539
Educate Some to Represent Many? Education and Female Political Representation in Europe
Luna Bellani, Marisa Hidalgo-Hidalgo
revised version published as 'Bridging the Gender Gap: Women’s Education and Political Representation' in: Economics of Education Review, 2025, 104, 102605
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16454
More Education Does Make You Happier – Unless You Are Unemployed
Alexander Bertermann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
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. 15175
The Determinants of Population Self-Control
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
updated version published as 'Surveillance and self-control' in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (660), 1666–1682
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14735
Does Education Really Cause Domestic Violence? Revisiting the Turkish Data
Pelin Akyol, Murat Güray Kirdar
published as 'Compulsory Schooling Reform and Intimate Partner Violence in Turkey' in: European Economic Review, 2022, 150, 104313.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13362
Gender Gap in Intergenerational Educational Persistence: Can Compulsory Schooling Reduce It?
Merve Demirel-Derebasoglu, Cagla Okten
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13276
Keeping Kids in School and Out of Work: Compulsory Schooling and Child Labor in Turkey
Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur, Murat Güray Kirdar
published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2022, 16 (4), 526 - 555
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13097
Do Compulsory Schooling Laws Always Work? A Study of Youth Crime in Brazilian Municipalities
Marislei Nishijima, Sarmistha Pal
published as 'Compulsory Schooling Laws, Overcrowding and Youth Crime: A Quasi-Experimental Study of Brazilian Municipalities' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2023, 59 (10), 1589–1607
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12332
The Effect of Education on Health: Evidence from the 1997 Compulsory Schooling Reform in Turkey
Badi H. Baltagi, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Haci M. Karatas
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 17, 205-221
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11805
Why Does Education Reduce Crime?
Brian Bell, Rui Costa, Stephen Machin
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (3), 732-65
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11795
The Effects of Education on Health: An Intergenerational Perspective
Mathias Huebener
published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 10 November 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10430
The Sooner the Better? Compulsory Schooling Reforms in Sweden
Martin Fischer, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson, Nina Schwarz
published as 'The Long-Term Effects of Long Terms – Compulsory Schooling Reforms in Sweden' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 2776 - 2823
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9755
Education Policies and Migration across European Countries
Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll, Zoë Kuehn
published in: Demography, 2017, 54 (6), 2181-2200
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9274
Low Wage Returns to Schooling in a Developing Country: Evidence from a Major Policy Reform in Turkey
Abdurrahman B. Aydemir, Murat Güray Kirdar
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79 (6), 1046-1086.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7939
Does Longer Compulsory Education Equalize Schooling by Gender and Rural/Urban Residence?
Murat Güray Kirdar, Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur, Ismet Koc
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2016, 30 (3), 549-579.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6995
The Impact of Teenage Motherhood on the Education and Fertility of their Children: Evidence for Europe
Maria Navarro Paniagua, Ian Walker
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6958
Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Functioning at Older Ages?
Nicole Schneeweis, Vegard Skirbekk, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
published as 'Does Education Improve Cognitive Performance Four Decades After School Completion?' in: Demography, 2014, 51 (2), 619-643
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6462
Education, Health and Mortality: Evidence from a Social Experiment
Costas Meghir, Mårten Palme, Emilia Simeonova
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (2), 234–256
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6403
Compulsory Schooling Reforms, Education and Mortality in Twentieth Century Europe
Christina Gathmann, Hendrik Jürges, Steffen Reinhold
published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2015, 127, 74 - 82
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6377
The Role of Education in Technology Use and Adoption: Evidence from the Canadian Workplace and Employee Survey
W. Craig Riddell, Xueda Song
published in: ILR Review, 2017, 70 (5), 1219-1253.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6167
Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Comparative Advantages, Compulsory Schooling, and Earnings
Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen, Xingfei Liu
published in: Quantitative Economics, 2017, 8, 895–927
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6134
Education, Job Search and Re-employment Outcomes among the Unemployed
W. Craig Riddell, Xueda Song
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5887
The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Marriage and Births in Turkey
Murat Güray Kirdar, Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur, Ismet Koc
published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2018, 12(4), 640-668.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5572
The Impact of Education on Unemployment Incidence and Re-employment Success: Evidence from the U.S. Labour Market
W. Craig Riddell, Xueda Song
published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (4), 453-463
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5019
From Classroom to Wedding Aisle: The Effect of a Nationwide Change in the Compulsory Schooling Law on Age at First Marriage in the UK
Nattavudh Powdthavee, Kampon Adireksombat
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4847
Does Education Reduce the Risk of Hypertension? Estimating the Biomarker Effect of Compulsory Schooling in England
Nattavudh Powdthavee
published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2010, 4 (2), 173-202
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4420
Understanding Compulsory Schooling Legislation: A Formal Model and Implications for Empirical Analysis
Mark Gradstein, Moshe Justman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3305
Forced to Be Rich? Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain
Paul J. Devereux, Robert A. Hart
published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120(549), 1345-1364
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