IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9160

Guns and Butter? Fighting Violence with the Promise of Development

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9144

Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking: Updated Estimates Using YRBS Data

Benjamin Hansen, Joseph J. Sabia, Daniel I. Rees

published as 'Have Cigarette Taxes Lost their Bite? New Estimates of the Relationship between Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking' in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 3 (1), 60-75

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9143

Increasing Coverage of Antiretroviral Therapy and Male Medical Circumcision in HIV Hyperendemic Countries: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

Pascal Geldsetzer, David E. Bloom, Salal Humair, Till Bärnighausen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9142

Physician Payment Contracts in the Presence of Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection: The Theory and its Application to Ontario

Jasmin Kantarevic, Boris Kralj

published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25 (10), 1326-40.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9141

Health Disparities Across Education: The Role of Differential Reporting Error

John Cawley, Anna Choi

published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (3), e1-e29.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9140

Employer Downsizing and Older Workers' Health

Italo A. Gutierrez, Pierre-Carl Michaud

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9139

Multidimensional Affluence in Income and Wealth in the Eurozone: A Cross-Country Comparison Using the HFCS

Sine Kontbay-Busun, Andreas Peichl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9137

The Early Labour Market Effects of Generally and Vocationally Oriented Higher Education: Is There a Trade-off?

Dieter Verhaest, Stijn Baert

revised version published as 'The effects of workplace learning in higher education on employment and match quality: Is there an early-career trade-off?' in: Empirical Economics, 2018, 44, 1229 - 1270

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9131

"A Flop or a Success?" An Evaluation of the Welfare Impacts of the 6-3-3-4 Education System in Nigeria

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9130

Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States

Eric A. Hanushek, Jens Ruhose, Ludger Woessmann

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2017, 9 (4), 184-224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9129

Financial Constraints and Girls' Secondary Education: Evidence from School Fee Elimination in The Gambia

Moussa Blimpo, Ousman Gajigo, Todd Pugatch

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2019, 33 (1), 185-208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9127

Welfare Rules, Incentives, and Family Structure

Robert A. Moffitt, Brian J. Phelan, Anne E. Winkler

substantially revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (1), 1 - 42

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9122

The Information Value of Central School Exams

Guido Schwerdt, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 56, 65-79

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9121

A Big Fish in a Small Pond: Ability Rank and Human Capital Investment

Benjamin Elsner, Ingo E. Isphording

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35(3), 787-828

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9120

Do Wage Expectations Influence the Decision to Enroll in Nursing College?

Jürg Schweri, Joop Hartog

published as 'Do wage expectations predict college enrollment? Evidence from healthcare' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 141, 135 - 150

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9119

Peers' Composition Effects in the Short and in the Long Run: College Major, College Performance and Income

Massimo Anelli, Giovanni Peri

published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (618), 553-602

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9118

The Performance of School Assignment Mechanisms in Practice

Monique de Haan, Pieter A. Gautier, Hessel Oosterbeek, Bas van der Klaauw

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 131 (2), 388 - 455

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9117

What Drives the Reversal of the Gender Education Gap? Evidence from Germany

Regina T. Riphahn, Caroline Schwientek

published in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (53), 5748-5775