IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5002

Education and Family Background: Mechanisms and Policies

revised version published in: E.A. Hanushek, S. Machin, and L. Woessmann (eds.), Handbook in Economics of Education, Vol. 3, North Holland: 2010, pp. 201-247

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5000

The Crime Reducing Effect of Education

Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie, Suncica Vujic

revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (552), 463-484.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4991

Widening Participation in Higher Education: Analysis Using Linked Administrative Data

Haroon Chowdry, Claire Crawford, Lorraine Dearden, Alissa Goodman, Anna Vignoles

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2013, 176 (2), 431–457

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4985

Immigration Background and the Intergenerational Correlation in Education

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Trong-Ha Nguyen

published in: Economic Record, 2012, 88 (283), D 554-575

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4982

Formal Education, Mismatch and Wages after Transition: Assessing the Impact of Unobserved Heterogeneity Using Matching Estimators

Ana Lamo, Julián Messina

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (6), 1089-1099

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4975

The GED

James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, Nicholas S. Mader

published in: E.A. Hanushek, S. Machin and S. Woessman (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011, Chapter 9, 423-483

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4974

China's Higher Education Expansion and its Labor Market Consequences

Shi Li, Chunbing Xing

published with S. Li and J. Whalley as'`China’s Higher Education Expansion and Unemployment of College Graduates' in: China Economic Review, 2014, 30: 567–582

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4954

Mother or Motherland: Can a Government Have an Impact on Educational Attainment of the Population? Preliminary Evidence from India

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Manisha Chakrabarty

published as 'Educational Attainment in India: What Drives Transition' in: ICRA's Bulletin: Money & Finance, February 2013, 95 -112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4951

Quotas and Quality: The Effect of H-1B Visa Restrictions on the Pool of Prospective Undergraduate Students from Abroad

Takao Kato, Chad Sparber

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (1), 109-126

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4946

Under Pressure? The Effect of Peers on Outcomes of Young Adults

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

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 31 (1) 2013, 119-153

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4935

A Parametric Control Function Approach to Estimating the Returns to Schooling in the Absence of Exclusion Restrictions: An Application to the NLSY

Lídia Farré, Roger Klein, Francis Vella

published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44 (1), 111-133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4930

Joblessness and Perceptions about the Effectiveness of Democracy

Duha T. Altindag, Naci Mocan

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2010, 31 (2), 99-123

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4926

Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research

Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economics Letters, 2011, 110 (2), 79-82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4925

The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement

Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

published in: E.A. Hanushek, S. Machin, L. Woessmann (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 3, pp. 89-200, Amsterdam: North Holland, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4916

A Long-Run View of the University Gender Gap in Australia

Alison L. Booth, Hiau Joo Kee

published in: Australian Economic History Review, 2011, 51 (3), 254-276

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4907

Are Young People's Educational Outcomes Linked to their Sense of Control?

Juan D. Barón, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4887

The Effect of Family Separation and Reunification on the Educational Success of Immigrant Children in the United States

T. H. Gindling, Sara Z. Poggio

revised version published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2012, 38 (7),1155-1173

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4872