IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9960

The Value of Private Schools: Evidence from Pakistan

revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (5), 1301 - 1318

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9959

Does Learning Beget Learning Throughout Adulthood? Evidence from Employees' Training Participation

substantially revised version published as 'Does learning trigger learning throughout adulthood? Evidence from training participation of the employed population' in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 62, 82-90

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9957

Returns to Education: The Causal Effects of Education on Earnings, Health and Smoking

James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, Gregory Veramendi

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126, (S1), S197–S246

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9956

LATE for the Meeting: Gender, Peer Advising, and College Success

Jimmy R. Ellis, Seth Gershenson

published as 'Gender, peer advising, and college success' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 62, 101775

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9955

"Teaching to Teach" Literacy

Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally, Martina Viarengo

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2018, 10, 217-41

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9944

Poverty Risk among Older Immigrants in a Scandinavian Welfare State

Vibeke Jakobsen, Peder J. Pedersen

published in: European Journal of Social Security, 2017, 19 (3), 242 - 262

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9940

Migrant Workers and the Welfare State

Torben M. Andersen, Silvia Migali

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9939

When Can Experimental Evidence Mislead? A Re-Assessment of Canada's Self Sufficiency Project

Chris Riddell, W. Craig Riddell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9934

Local Neighbors as Positives, Regional Neighbors as Negatives: Competing Channels in the Relationship between Others' Income, Health, and Happiness

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Carol Lee Graham

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9930

Property Rights and Gender Bias: Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Abhishek Chakravarty, Dilip Mookherjee, Francisco J. Pino

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (2), 295-237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9922

Community-Based Health Insurance and Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Spending in Africa: Evidence from Rwanda

Andinet Woldemichael, Daniel Zerfu Gurara, Abebe Shimeles

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9917

Does Family Background Affect Earnings through Education? A Generalised Approach to Mediation Analysis

Silvia Mendolia, Peter Siminski

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 59, 1-12

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9916

Identifying National Level Education Reforms in Developing Settings: An Application to Ethiopia

Luke Chicoine

published as 'Schooling with Learning: The Effect of Free Primary Education and Mother Tongue Instruction Reforms in Ethiopia' in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 69, 94-107

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9915

Head Start and the Distribution of Long Term Education and Labor Market Outcomes

Monique de Haan, Edwin Leuven

published in: Journal of Labor Economics 2020, 38 (3), 727–765

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9911

Information, Financial Aid and Training Participation: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Katja Görlitz, Marcus Tamm

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 138-148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9910

Do Financial Incentives Influence GPs' Decisions to Do After-Hours Work? A Discrete Choice Labour Supply Model

Barbara Broadway, Guyonne Kalb, Jinhu Li, Anthony Scott

published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (12), e52-e66