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56 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17838
Lifecycle Wages and Human Capital Investments: Selection and Missing Data
Laurent Gobillon, Thierry Magnac, Sébastien Roux
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17831
A Historical Note on the Assimilation Rates of Foreign-Born Men and Women in the U.S.
Harriet Duleep, Daniel J. Dowhan, Xingfei Liu, Mark Regets, Robert Gesumaria
forthcoming in: Research in Labor Economics.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17685
Non-compete Agreements: Human Capital Investments or Compensated Wages?
Naomi Kodama, Ryo Kambayashi, Atsuko Izumi
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. 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. 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. 15992
Changing Tracks: Human Capital Investment after Loss of Ability
Anders Humlum, Jakob R. Munch, Pernille Plato
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. 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. 15107
From Epidemic to Pandemic: Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak on High School Program Choices in Sweden
Aino-Maija Aalto, Dagmar Müller, Lucas Tilley
published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 82, 102346
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15043
Managers' Risk Preferences and Firm Training Investments
Marco Caliendo, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Harald Pfeifer, Arne Uhlendorff, Caroline Wehner
published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 161, 104616
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14395
Employers' Willingness to Invest in the Training of Temporary Workers: A Discrete Choice Experiment
Davey Poulissen, Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge, Annemarie Künn-Nelen
revised version published as 'Employers’ willingness to invest in the training of temporary versus permanent workers: A discrete choice experiment' in: Labour Economics, 2023, 84, 102430
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13828
Risk Preferences and Training Investments
Marco Caliendo, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Cosima Obst, Arne Uhlendorff
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2023, 205, 668-686
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13387
Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence
Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Pia Pinger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12240
Violence and Human Capital Investments
Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner, Livia Menezes
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (3), 787 - 823.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11454
Nudging in Education
Mette Trier Damgaard, Helena Skyt Nielsen
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 313-342
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11327
Confidence in Knowledge or Confidence in the Ability to Learn: An Experiment on the Causal Effects of Beliefs on Motivation
Mira Fischer, Dirk Sliwka
published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2018, 111, 122-142.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10784
Nudging Study Habits: A Field Experiment on Peer Tutoring in Higher Education
Nicholas Wilson, Todd Pugatch
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 62, 151 - 161
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10406
Locus of Control and Investment in Training
Marco Caliendo, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Helke Seitz, Arne Uhlendorff
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57(4), 1311-1349
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10344
Subjective Completion Beliefs and the Demand for Post-Secondary Education
Johannes S. Kunz, Kevin E. Staub
published as 'Early subjective completion beliefs and the demand for post-secondary education' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 177, 34-55
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9656
The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations
Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn
published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2017, 55(3), 789-865
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9486
Workfare and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from India
Manisha Shah, Bryce Millett Steinberg
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (2) 380-405;
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9440
Drought of Opportunities: Contemporaneous and Long-Term Impacts of Rainfall Shocks on Human Capital
Manisha Shah, Bryce Millett Steinberg
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125 (2), 527-561
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9322
Does Informal Learning at Work Differ between Temporary and Permanent Workers? Evidence from 20 OECD Countries
Maria Ferreira Sequeda, Andries de Grip, Rolf Van der Velden
published in: Labour Economics,, 2018, 55, 18-40
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9167
Investment over the Business Cycle: Insights from College Major Choice
Erica Blom, Brian C. Cadena, Benjamin J. Keys
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (4), 1043–1082
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8628
Country of Origin and Immigrant Earnings, 1960-2000: A Human Capital Investment Perspective
Harriet Duleep, Xingfei Liu, Mark Regets
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8425
Convergences in Men's and Women's Life Patterns: Lifetime Work, Lifetime Earnings, and Human Capital Investment
Joyce P. Jacobsen, Melanie Khamis, Mutlu Yuksel
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2015, 1-33
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7503
"Sex in Marriage is a Divine Gift": For Whom? Evidence from the Manila Contraceptive Ban
Christelle Dumas, Arnaud Lefranc
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7407
Post Schooling Human Capital Investments and the Life Cycle Variance of Earnings
Thierry Magnac, Nicolas Pistolesi, Sébastien Roux
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126(3), 1219-1249.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7310
The Relation between Maternal Work Hours and Cognitive Outcomes of Young School-Aged Children
Annemarie Künn-Nelen, Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge
published in: De Economist, 2015, 163 (2), 203-232
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7214
Default Options and Training Participation
Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn
published in: Empirical Economics, 2014, 46 (4), 1417-1428
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7136
U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads
Harriet Duleep
published as 'U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads: Should the U.S. Continue Its Family-Friendly Policy?' in: International Migration Review, 2014, 48 (3), 823-845
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7015
Safety Valve or Sinkhole? Vocational Schooling in South Africa
Todd Pugatch
published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2014, 3:8
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6677
How Immigration May Affect U.S. Native Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Building Blocks and Preliminary Results
Harriet Duleep, David A. Jaeger, Mark Regets
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6656
Maternal Gender Role Attitudes, Human Capital Investment, and Labour Supply of Sons and Daughters
David W. Johnston, Stefanie Schurer, Michael A. Shields
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2014, 66 (3), 631-659
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6305
Bumpy Rides: School to Work Transitions in South Africa
Todd Pugatch
published in: Labour, 2018, 32(2): 205-242.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6194
War and Stature: Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War
Richard Akresh, Sonia R. Bhalotra, Marinella Leone, Una O. Osili
published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (3), 273-277
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5166
Left Behind: Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in the Midst of HIV/AIDS
Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Belgi Turan
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (4), 1523-1547
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4838
An Economic Model of the Evolution of the Gender Performance Ratio in Individual Sports
Arnaud Dupuy
published in: International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 2012, 12 (1), 222-245
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4381
Impact of Paternal Temporary Absence on Children Left Behind
Alison L. Booth, Yuji Tamura
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4236
Long-Term Impact of Youth Minimum Wages: Evidence from Two Decades of Individual Longitudinal Data
Ana Rute Cardoso
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2019, 121 (4), 1337 - 1380
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3516
Armed Conflict and Schooling: Evidence from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
Richard Akresh, Damien de Walque
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3451
Efficient Tax Policy Ranks Education Higher Than Saving
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. 2795
Skilled Migration, FDI and Human Capital Investment
Daniele Checchi, Gianfranco De Simone, Riccardo Faini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2415
Population Aging and Continued Education
Regina T. Riphahn, Parvati Trübswetter
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. 2308
The Role of Marriage in Immigrants’ Human Capital Investment under Liquidity Constraints
Sarit Cohen Goldner, Chemi Gotlibovski, Nava Kahana
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (4), 983-1003
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1962
The Risk-Return Trade-Off in Human Capital Investment
Charlotte Christiansen, Juanna Schrøter Joensen, Helena Skyt Nielsen
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (6), 971-986
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1379
Adjusting Household Structure: School Enrollment Impacts of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso
Richard Akresh
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