IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1459

Pupil Achievement, School Resources and Family Background

Torbjørn Haegeland, Oddbjørn Raaum, Kjell G. Salvanes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1444

James J. Heckman, Dimitriy V. Masterov

published in: D. Coyle, W. Alexander and B. Ashcroft, eds., New Wealth for Old Nations: Scotland's Economic Prospects, Princeton University Press: 2005

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1437

Separating Uncertainty from Heterogeneity in Life Cycle Earnings

Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman, Salvador Navarro

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2005, 57 (2), 191-261

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1435

Training and Union Wages

Christian Dustmann, Uta Schönberg

revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91 (2), 363-376

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1433

Unilingual Versus Bilingual Education System: A Political Economy Analysis

Javier Ortega, Thomas P. Tangerås

revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6(5), 1078-1108

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1429

On the Returns to Training in Portugal

Santiago Budría, Pedro T. Pereira

published as "The wage effects of training in Portugal: differences across skill groups, genders, sectors and training types" in: Applied Economics, 2007, 39 (6), 787-807

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1416

Fast Times at Ridgemont High? The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births

Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes

published as 'Staying in the Classroom and out of the maternity ward? The effect of compulsory schooling laws on teenage births' in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (530), 1025–1054

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1412

Incentives and Effort in the Public Sector: Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers’ Work Hours?

Christiana Stoddard, Peter J. Kuhn

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2008, 27 (1), 1-13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1398

How Different Are Immigrants? A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement

Sylke V. Schnepf

published in: C. A. Parsons ; T. M. Smeeding (eds.), Immigration and the Transformation of Europe, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1391

Single Motherhood and (Un)Equal Educational Opportunities: Evidence for Germany

Philippe Mahler, Rainer Winkelmann

published in: Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik, 2006, 313, 39-54.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1382

Firm-Level Social Returns to Education

Pedro S. Martins

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23(2), 539-558

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1379

Adjusting Household Structure: School Enrollment Impacts of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso

Richard Akresh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1354

Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment: Evidence from Switzerland on Natives and Second Generation Immigrants

Philipp C. Bauer, Regina T. Riphahn

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (1), 121-148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1325

Returns to Schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A Semiparametric Approach to Cross-Country Comparative Analysis

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Klara Sabirianova Peter

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33 (2), 324-350

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1317

Gender Equality in Educational Achievement: An East-West Comparison

Sylke V. Schnepf

revised version published in : Schnepf (ed.): Women in Central and Eastern Europe: Measuring Gender Inequality Differently. Saarbruecken, Germany: Verlag Mueller, 2007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1311

Jobs for Young University Graduates: Is It Worth Having a Degree?

Ana Rute Cardoso

published in: Economics Letters, 2007, 94 (2), 271-277

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1306

Measuring the Returns to the GED: Using an Exogenous Change in GED Passing Standards as a Natural Experiment

Magnus Lofstrom, John Tyler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1295

The Enrollment Effect of Secondary School Fees in Post-War Germany

Regina T. Riphahn

published as 'Effect of Secondary School Fees on Educational Attainment' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (1), 147 - 176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1287