IZA Discussion Papers

published as "More Skilled, Better Paid: Labour-market Returns to Vocational Postsecondary Education" in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (2), 485-508

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9072

The Rising Cost of Child Care in the United States: A Reassessment of the Evidence

Chris M. Herbst

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 13-30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9067

Kingpin Approaches to Fighting Crime and Community Violence: Evidence from Mexico's Drug War

Jason M. Lindo, María Padilla-Romo

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 253-268

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9065

The Inheritance of Educational Inequality among Young People in Developing Countries

Francesco Pastore, Federica Roccisano

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9064

Global Poverty Goals and Prices: How Purchasing Power Parity Matters

Dean Jolliffe, Espen Beer Prydz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9056

On the Equilibrium and Welfare Consequences of 'Keeping up with the Joneses'

Frédéric Gavrel, Therese Rebiere

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9055

Life Satisfaction in Germany after Reunification: Additional Insights on the Pattern of Convergence

Christian Pfeifer, Inna Petrunyk

published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 2016, 236 (2), 217-239

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9054

What Factors Affect Doctors' Hours Decisions: Comparing Structural Discrete Choice and Reduced-Form Approaches

Guyonne Kalb, Daniel Kühnle, Anthony Scott, Terence Chai Cheng, Sung-Hee Jeon

published as 'What factors affect physicians' labour supply: Comparing structural discrete choice and reduced-form approaches' in: Health Economics, 2017, 27 (2), e101 - e119

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9053

Prenatal Stress and Low Birth Weight: Evidence from the Super Bowl

Brian Duncan, Hani Mansour, Daniel I. Rees

published as 'It's Just a Game: The Super Bowl and Low Birth Weight' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (4) 946-978

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9052

Prepregnancy Obesity and Birth Outcomes

Susan L. Averett, Erin K. Fletcher

published in: Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2016, 20(3), 655-664.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9051

Peer Effects on Obesity in a Sample of European Children

Wencke Gwozdz, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Lucia A. Reisch, Karin Bammann, Gabriele Eiben, Yiannis Kourides, Eva Kovács, Fabio Lauria, Kenn Konstabel, Alba M. Santaliestra-Pasias, Krishna Vyncke, Iris Pigeot

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 18, 139–152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9050

Obesity and Economic Performance of Young Workers in Italy

Giovanni S. F. Bruno, Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Orietta Dessy

published as 'Obesity and the economic performance of young people in Italy' in: G. Coppola and N. O'Higgins (eds): Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, Education and Health in Europe, Routledge, 2016, Chapter 8

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9049

Overeducation: A Disease of the School-to-Work Transition System

Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Francesco Pastore

published in: G. Coppola and N. O'Higgins (eds): Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, Education and Health in Europe, Routledge, 2016, 36-56

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9048

Schooling, Nation Building, and Industrialization: A Gellnerian Approach

Esther Hauk, Javier Ortega

revised version published in: Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2021, 33 (1), 140-166

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9047

Flexibility at a Cost: Should Governments Stimulate Tertiary Education for Adults?

Anders Stenberg, Olle Westerlund

published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2016, 7, 69–86