IZA Discussion Papers

Crick Lund, Kate Orkin, Marc J. Witte, John Walker, Thandi Davies, Johannes Haushofer, Sarah Murray, Judy Bass, Laura Murray, Wietse Tol, Vikram Patel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17057

Financial Incentives for Adoption and Kin Guardianship Improve Achievement for Foster Children

David Simon, Aaron Sojourner, Jon Pedersen, Heidi Ombisa Skallet

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16936

Demography, Human Capital Investment, and Lifetime Earnings for Women and Men

Joyce P. Jacobsen, Melanie Khamis, Mutlu Yuksel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16901

Parental and School Responses to Student Performance: Evidence from School Entry Rules

Peter Fredriksson, Björn Öckert, Lucas Tilley

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16834

Do Economic Preferences of Children Predict Behavior?

Laura Breitkopf, Shyamal Chowdhury, Shambhavi Priyam, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Matthias Sutter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16825

Altruism, Human Capital and Environmental Preservation in a Globalized Economy

Stéphane Bouché, Leonor Modesto

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16791

Improvements in Schooling Opportunities and Teen Births

Lucas N. Garcez, María Padilla-Romo, Cecilia Peluffo, Mayra Pineda-Torres

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16785

Parental Investments and Socio-Economic Gradients in Learning across European Countries

Pedro Carneiro, Hugo Reis, Alessandro Toppeta

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16752

Human Capital by Gender: A G20 and Selected Geographies Perspective

Barbara M. Fraumeni, Gang Liu, Shunsuke Managi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16732

Digging up Trenches: Populism, Selective Mobility, and the Political Polarization of Italian Municipalities

Luca Bellodi, Frédéric Docquier, Stefano Iandolo, Massimo Morelli, Riccardo Turati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16671

Does Turnover Inhibit Specialization? Evidence from a Skill Survey in Peru

Andrea Atencio-De-Leon, Munseob Lee, Claudia Macaluso

published in: American Economic Review: Insights, 2025, 7 (1), 56–70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16668

Estimating Returns to Schooling and Experience: A History of Thought

Barry R. Chiswick

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16668

Estimating Returns to Schooling and Experience: A History of Thought

Barry R. Chiswick

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16661

A New Time-Use Diary App to Measure Parental Investments

Maria Bigoni, Stefania Bortolotti, Margherita Fort, Annalisa Guarini, Daniela Iorio, Chiara Monfardini, Alessandra Sansavini, Davide Sansone, Chiara Suttora

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16648

The World's Rust Belts: The Heterogeneous Effects of Deindustrialization on 1,993 Cities in Six Countries

Luisa Gagliardi, Enrico Moretti, Michel Serafinelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16592

School Closures, Mortality, and Human Capital: Evidence from the Universe of Closures during the 1918 Pandemic in Sweden

Christian M. Dahl, Casper W. Hansen, Peter S. Jensen, Martin Karlsson, Daniel Kühnle

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16590

Human Capital Affects Religious Identity: Causal Evidence from Kenya

Livia Alfonsi, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová, Edward Miguel

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 167, 103215

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16585

College Attrition and the Dynamics of Information Revelation

Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban Aucejo, Arnaud Maurel, Tyler Ransom

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2025, 133 (1), 53-110

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16515

Are Immigrants Particularly Entrepreneurial? Policy Lessons from a Selective Immigration System

David A. Green, Huju Liu, Yuri Ostrovsky, Garnett Picot

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16497

The Within-Country Distribution of Brain Drain and Brain Gain Effects: A Case Study on Senegal

Philippe Bocquier, Narcisse Cha’Ngom, Frédéric Docquier, Joël Machado

published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2024, 90 (3), 384-411

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16494

Religion and Growth

Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2024, 62 (3), 1094–1142

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16492

Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality: Maternal Endowments, Investments, and Birth Outcomes

Sadegh S. M. Eshaghnia, James J. Heckman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16425

Adult Education Attendance and Postsecondary Outcomes

Thomas Kouwe, David C. Ribar, Daphne Greenberg, Yiwei Duan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16397

Youth Labor Force Participation, Education, and Human Capital in Asia, by Gender, 1990-2019

Barbara M. Fraumeni

published in: Indian Economic Review, 2024, 59, 69 - 94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16344

Displacement Effects in Manufacturing and Structural Change

Ines Helm, Alice Kügler, Uta Schönberg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16313

Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants' Skill Investment

Jacob Nielsen Arendt, Christian Dustmann, Hyejin Ku

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2025, 43 (2), 293-318

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16286

Natural Resources, Demand for Skills, and Schooling Choices

Aline Bütikofer, Antonio Dalla-Zuanna, Kjell G. Salvanes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16277

The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic Recession on Less Educated Women's Human Capital: Some Projections

Mark Drozd, Robert A. Moffitt, Xinyu Zhao

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 289–323

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16222

Selective Migration and Economic Development: A Generalized Approach

Narcisse Cha’Ngom, Christoph Deuster, Frédéric Docquier, Joël Machado

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. 16193

Entitled to Property: How Breaking the Gender Barrier Improves Child Health in India

Md Shahadath Hossain, Plamen Nikolov

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16183

Driving, Dropouts, and Drive-Throughs: Mobility Restrictions and Teen Human Capital

Valerie Bostwick, Christopher Severen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16149

Higher Education Opportunity and the Choice of Vocational vs. Academic High School

Chunbing Xing, Yan Sun, Chuliang Luo

published in: China Economic Quarterly International, 2023, 3, 119–131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16145

Prior Work Experience and Entrepreneurship: The Careers of Young Entrepreneurs

Nicolas Gendron-Carrier

forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16104

Imperfect Signals

Georg Graetz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16089

Non-college Occupations, Workplace Routinization, and the Gender Gap in College Enrollment

Amanda Chuan, Weilong Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16063

The Occupational Attainment of American Jewish Men in the Mid-19th Century

Barry R. Chiswick, RaeAnn Halenda Robinson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16051

Religious Barriers to Birth Control Access

Olivier Marie, Esmée Zwiers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16037

Wage Returns to Human Capital Resulting from an Extra Year of Primary School: Evidence from Egypt

Ragui Assaad, Abdurrahman B. Aydemir, Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur, Murat Güray Kirdar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16029

Human Capital and Pensions with Endogenous Fertility and Retirement

Giam Pietro Cipriani, Tamara Fioroni

published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics. 2024, 28 (2), 478-494.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15992

Changing Tracks: Human Capital Investment after Loss of Ability

Anders Humlum, Jakob R. Munch, Pernille Plato

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. 15979

The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity

Cavit Baran, Eric Chyn, Bryan Andrew Stuart

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (3), 354–e98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15966

The Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Structural Change

Nicolas Büttner, Michael Grimm, Isabel Günther, Kenneth Harttgen, Stephan Klasen

published in: Demography, 2024, 61 (5), 1585–1611.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15950

Language Proficiency and Hiring of Immigrants: Evidence from a New Field Experimental Approach

Magnus Carlsson, Stefan Eriksson, Dan-Olof Rooth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15940

Long-Term Effects of Rainfall Shocks on Foundational Cognitive Skills: Evidence from Peru

Nicolas Pazos, Marta Favara, Alan Sanchez, Douglas Scott, Jere R. Behrman

published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2024, 54, 101407

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15931

Birth Order Effects in the Developed and Developing World: Evidence from International Test Scores

Dana C. Andersen, Pinar Mine Gunes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15906

Discipline Reform, School Culture, and Student Achievement

Ashley C Craig, David Martin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15807

Approaches to Learn about Employer Learning

Mahmut Ablay, Fabian Lange

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2023, 56 (2), 343-356

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15798

Maternal Genetic Risk for Depression and Child Human Capital

Giorgia Menta, Anthony Lepinteur, Andrew E. Clark, Simone Ghislandi, Conchita D'Ambrosio

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 87, 102718

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15742

Do Pension Benefits Accelerate Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Rural China

Plamen Nikolov, Md Shahadath Hossain

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 594 - 617

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15717

How Substitutable Are Workers? Evidence from Worker Deaths

Simon Jäger, Jörg Heining

revise and resubmit: American Economic Review

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. 15656

The Long-Term Impact of In-Utero Cigarette Taxes on Adult Prenatal Smoking

Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Michael Pesko, Serena Phillips

published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 9 (4), 605–648

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15650

Optimal Allocations in Growth Models with Private Information

Tom Krebs, Martin Scheffel

published in: Economic Theory, 2024, 78, 125 - 154

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15649

Costs and Benefits of an Individual Learning Account (ILA): A Simulation Analysis for the Netherlands

Henri Bussink, Bas ter Weel

published in: Economic Modelling, 2023, 118, 106085

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15640

Is Longer Maternal Care Always Beneficial? The Impact of a Four-Year Paid Parental Leave

Alena Bicakova, Klara Kaliskova

revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2024, 37, 36

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15634

The Effect of Labor Market Shocks across the Life Cycle

Kjell G. Salvanes, Barton Willage, Alexander Willén

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (1), 121–160

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15630

The Timing of Parental Job Displacement, Child Development and Family Adjustment

Pedro Carneiro, Kjell G. Salvanes, Barton Willage, Alexander Willén

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15624

Spillover Effects of Immigration Policies on Children's Human Capital

Esther Arenas-Arroyo, Bernhard Schmidpeter

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. 15513

The Relation between Skills and Job Security: Identifying the Contractual Return to Skills

Ron Diris, Olaf Van Vliet

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15502

Income Taxes, Gross Hourly Wages, and the Anatomy of Behavioral Responses: Evidence from a Danish Tax Reform

Kazuhiko Sumiya, Jesper Bagger

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. 15420

Economic vs. Epidemiological Approaches to Measuring the Human Capital Impacts of Infectious Disease Elimination

Caroline Chuard, Hannes Schwandt, Alex Becker, Masahiko Haraguchi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15364

College Openings and Local Economic Development

Francesco Berlingieri, Christina Gathmann, Matthias Quinckhardt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15286

Trade Liberalization and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Indian Census

Mehtabul Azam

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15273

Human Capital Growth - with Region and Gender in Perspective

Gang Liu, Barbara M. Fraumeni, Shunsuke Managi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15252

Measuring Knowledge

James J. Heckman, Jin Zhou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15237

Characterizing the Schooling Cycle

Barbara Sadaba, Suncica Vujic, Sofia Maier

revised version published in: Economic Modelling , 2024, 132, 106649.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15233

The Child Quantity–Quality Trade-off

Rufei Guo, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang

published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15174

Misallocation and Inequality

Nezih Guner, Alessandro Ruggieri

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15128

Rank Effects in Education: What Do We Know So Far?

Judith M. Delaney, Paul J. Devereux

published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook fo Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2022

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