IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11827

Which Ladder to Climb? Wages of Workers by Job, Plant, and Education

Christian Bayer, Moritz Kuhn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11804

Geography of Skills and Global Inequality

Michal Burzynski, Christoph Deuster, Frédéric Docquier

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 142, 102333

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11681

Flowers of Evil? Industrialization and Long Run Development

Raphaël Franck, Oded Galor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11678

Motivated to Succeed? Attitudes to Education among Native and Immigrant Pupils in England

Simon Burgess, Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11675

Working Hours and Top Management Appointments: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Anders Frederiksen, Takao Kato, Nina Smith

revised version published online as 'Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11649

Innovating for the Better? The Role of Advocacy Group Work Experience for Employee Pay

Christoph Grimpe, Ulrich Kaiser, Wolfgang Sofka

published as 'Signalling valuable human capital: Advocacy group work experience and its effect on employee pay in innovative firms' in: Strategic Management Journal, 2019, 40(4), 685-70;

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11648

Was Higher Education a Major Channel through which the US Became an Economic Superpower in the 20th Century?

Adam Cook, Isaac Ehrlich

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11647

What Accounts for the US Ascendancy to Economic Superpower by the Early 20th Century: The Morrill Act – Human Capital Hypothesis

Isaac Ehrlich, Adam Cook, Yong Yin

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2018, 12 (2), 233–281

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11550

Early Life Determinants of Cognitive Ability: A Comparative Study on Madagascar and Senegal

Heidi Kaila, David E. Sahn, Naveen Sunder

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11513

The Last of the Lost Generations? Formal and Non-Formal Education in Ghana during Times of Economic Decline and Recovery

Niels-Hugo Blunch, Jeffrey S. Hammer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11477

Does It Pay to Graduate from an 'Elite' University in Australia?

David Carroll, Christopher Heaton, Massimiliano Tani

published in: Economic Record, 2019, 95(310), 343-357

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11454

Nudging in Education

Mette Trier Damgaard, Helena Skyt Nielsen

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 313-342

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11450

Understanding the Mechanisms through Which Adverse Childhood Experiences Affect Lifetime Economic Outcomes

Stefanie Schurer, Kristian Trajkovski

published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, Article 101743

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11421

The Economics of University Dropouts and Delayed Graduation: A Survey

Carmen Aina, Eliana Baici, Giorgia Casalone, Francesco Pastore

substantially revised version published as 'The Determinants of University Dropout: A Review of the Socio-Economic Literature' in: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2022, 79, 101102

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11419

The Returns to Schooling Unveiled

Ana Rute Cardoso, Paulo Guimaraes, Pedro Portugal, Hugo Reis

part 1 of this paper published online as 'What Lies Behind the Returns to Schooling: The Role of Labor Market Sorting and Worker Heterogeneity' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 22 August 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11408

The Human Capital Cost of Radiation: Long-Run Evidence from Exposure Outside the Womb

Benjamin Elsner, Florian Wozny

published as 'Long-run exposure to low-dose radiation reduces cognitive performance' in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, 118, 102785

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11385

Explaining the MENA Paradox: Rising Educational Attainment, Yet Stagnant Female Labor Force Participation

Ragui Assaad, Rana Hendy, Moundir Lassassi, Shaimaa Yassin

published in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2018, 8 (17)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11358

Demographic Uncertainty and Generational Consumption Risk with Endogenous Human Capital

Patrick M. Emerson, Shawn D. Knabb

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11327

Confidence in Knowledge or Confidence in the Ability to Learn: An Experiment on the Causal Effects of Beliefs on Motivation

Mira Fischer, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2018, 111, 122-142.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11303