IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5952

Opt Out or Top Up? Voluntary Healthcare Insurance and the Public vs. Private Substitution

Daniele Fabbri, Chiara Monfardini

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 78 (1), 75-93

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5950

Integrating Personality Psychology into Economics

James J. Heckman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5946

Mothers Do Matter: New Evidence on the Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling Using Swedish Twin Data

Vikesh Amin, Petter Lundborg, Dan-Olof Rooth

published as 'The intergenerational transmission of schooling: Are mothers really less important than fathers?' in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 47, 100–117

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5944

The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?

Giorgio Brunello, Margherita Fort, Nicole Schneeweis, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25 (3), 314-336

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5940

Economic Conditions at the Time of Birth and Cognitive Abilities Late in Life: Evidence from Eleven European Countries

Gabriele Doblhammer, Gerard J. van den Berg, Thomas Fritze

revised version published as 'Economic Conditions at the Time of Birth and Cognitive Abilities Late in Life: Evidence from Ten European Countries' in: PLoS ONE, 8(9) 2013, e74915

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5939

Conflict and its Impact on Educational Accumulation and Enrollment in Colombia: What We Can Learn from Recent IDPs

Kate Wharton, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5929

Economic Growth and Child Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh and China

Syeda Shahanara Begum, Deng Quheng, Björn Anders Gustafsson

published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2012, 23 (1), 73 - 85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5926

Multidimensional Affluence: Theory and Applications to Germany and the US

Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel

revised version published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (32), 4591-4601

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5922

Classroom Grade Composition and Pupil Achievement

Edwin Leuven, Marte Rønning

published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (593), 1164-1192

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5921

Losers and Losers: Some Demographics of Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms

Andrew I. Friedson, Thomas J. Kniesner

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2012, 45 (2), 115-133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5906

The Long-Term Effects of the Chernobyl Catastrophe on Subjective Well-Being and Mental Health

Alexander M. Danzer, Natalia Danzer

revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 135, 47-60

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5901

Health and Economic Development: Evidence from the Introduction of Public Health Care

Anthony Strittmatter, Uwe Sunde

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (4), 1549-1584

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5897

On Educational Performance Measures

Alastair Muriel, Jeffrey A. Smith

published in: Fiscal Studies, 2011, 32(2), 187-206

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5888

Child Care, Maternal Employment and Persistence: A Natural Experiment from Spain

Natalia Nollenberger, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

substantially revised version published as 'Full-Time Universal Childcare in a Context of Low Maternal Employment: Modest but Persistent Effects' in: Labour Economics, 2015, 36, 124 - 136

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5887

The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Marriage and Births in Turkey

Murat Güray Kirdar, Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur, Ismet Koc

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2018, 12(4), 640-668.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5879

Long-Term Effects of Class Size

Peter Fredriksson, Björn Öckert, Hessel Oosterbeek

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013, 128 (1), 249-285

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5874

Child Mental Health and Educational Attainment: Multiple Observers and the Measurement Error Problem

David W. Johnston, Carol Propper, Stephen Pudney, Michael A. Shields

published in: BJIR, 2014, 29 (6), 880-900