IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2860

Validating the Use of Vignettes for Subjective Threshold Scales

Arthur van Soest, Liam Delaney, Colm P. Harmon, Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2011, 174 (3), 575-595

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2852

Elite Dominance and Under-Investment in Mass Education: Disparity in the Social Development of the Indian States, 1960-92

Sarmistha Pal, Sugata Ghosh

published as 'Poverty, Elite Heterogeneity and the Allocation of Public Spending: Panel Evidence from the Indian States' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2012, 58 (1), 51-78

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2847

Effects of Intergenerational Transfers on Elderly Coresidence with Adult Children: Evidence from Rural India

Sarmistha Pal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2846

Estimating the Effects of Length of Exposure to a Training Program: The Case of Job Corps

Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Arturo Gonzalez, Todd C. Neumann

published as 'Estimating the Effects of Length of Exposure to Instruction in a Training Program: The Case of Job Corps ' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (1), 153–171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2844

Teacher Shortages, Teacher Contracts and their Impact on Education in Africa

Jean Bourdon, Markus Frölich, Katharina Michaelowa

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2010, 73, 93-116

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2841

Early Childbirth, Health Inputs and Child Mortality: Recent Evidence from Bangladesh

Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2840

Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles

Andrew E. Clark, Paul Frijters, Michael A. Shields

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2008, 46 (1), 95-144

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2833

Be as Careful of the Books You Read as of the Company You Keep: Evidence on Peer Effects in Educational Choices

Giacomo De Giorgi, Michele Pellizzari, Silvia Redaelli

Revised version published as "Identifcation of Social Interactions through Partially Overlapping Peer Groups" in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2(2), 241-75

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2828

Within-Groups Wage Inequality and Schooling: Further Evidence for Portugal

Corrado Andini

published in: Applied Economics, 2010, 42 (28), 3685-3691

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2827

Understanding the Drivers of Poverty Dynamics in Australian Households

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Sher Verick

published in: Economic Record, 2008, 84 (266), 310-321

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2817

The Terms and Relations of Comparison, Referential, and Relative Processes

Guillermina Jasso

published in: Andreas Diekmann, Klaus Eichner, Peter Schmidt, and Thomas Voss (eds.), Rational Choice: Theoretische Analyse und Empirische Resultate. Festschrift für Karl-Dieter Opp. Wiesbaden, Germany: VS Verlag, 2008

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2814

New Directions in the Analysis of Inequality and Poverty

Stephen P. Jenkins, John Micklewright

published in: Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright (eds.), Inequality and Poverty Re-Examined, Oxford: OUP, 2007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2787

Time-to-Degree and the Business Cycle

Dolores Messer, Stefan C. Wolter

revised version published in: Education Economics, 2010, 18(1), 111-123

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2786

The Impact of School Choice on Pupil Achievement, Segregation and Costs: Swedish Evidence

Anders Böhlmark, Mikael Lindahl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2784