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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
What Accounts for International Differences in Student Performance? A Re-Examination Using PISA Data
Thomas Fuchs, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Empirical Economics, 2007, 32 (2-3), 433-464
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1285
Technical Change and the Wage Structure During the Second Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the Merchant Marine, 1865-1912
Aimee Chin, Chinhui Juhn, Peter Thompson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1284
How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States
Ludger Woessmann
published in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2008, 78 (1), 45-70
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1269
The More the Merrier? The Effect of Family Composition on Children's Education
Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2005, 120 (2), 669-700
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1266
Shot Across the Bow, Stigma or Selection? The Effect of Repeating a Class on Educational Attainment
Michael Fertig
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1259
Family Structure and Child Outcomes in the United States and Sweden
Anders Björklund, Donna K. Ginther, Marianne Sundström
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (1), 183-201
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