IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9079

Back to School? Labor-Market Returns to Vocational Postsecondary Education

Petri Böckerman, Mika Haapanen, Christopher Jepsen

published as "More Skilled, Better Paid: Labour-market Returns to Vocational Postsecondary Education" in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (2), 485-508

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9072

The Rising Cost of Child Care in the United States: A Reassessment of the Evidence

Chris M. Herbst

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 13-30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9065

The Inheritance of Educational Inequality among Young People in Developing Countries

Francesco Pastore, Federica Roccisano

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9049

Overeducation: A Disease of the School-to-Work Transition System

Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Francesco Pastore

published in: G. Coppola and N. O'Higgins (eds): Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, Education and Health in Europe, Routledge, 2016, 36-56

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9048

Schooling, Nation Building, and Industrialization: A Gellnerian Approach

Esther Hauk, Javier Ortega

revised version published in: Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2021, 33 (1), 140-166

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9047

Flexibility at a Cost: Should Governments Stimulate Tertiary Education for Adults?

Anders Stenberg, Olle Westerlund

published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2016, 7, 69–86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9044

Do Schools Discriminate Against Homosexual Parents? Evidence from an Internet Field Experiment

Luis Diaz-Serrano, Enric Meix-Llop

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 53, 133-142.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9043

Does Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally? The Moderating Roles of Age, Gender and Industry

François Rycx, Yves Saks, Ilan Tojerow

published as 'Does Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally ? The Moderating Role of Age and Gender' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 7 (1), 1-37

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9019

Immigrant Student Performance in Math: Does It Matter Where You Come From?

Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Chiara Rapallini

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 291-304

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9007

Wage Returns to Mid-Career Investments in Job Training through Employer-Supported Course Enrollment: Evidence for Canada

Wen Ci, Jose C. Galdo, Marcel Voia, Christopher Worswick

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy. 2015, 4:9

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9005

Inequality of Opportunities of Educational Achievement in Turkey over Time

Aysit Tansel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9004

Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and Children's Educational Outcomes

Arnaud Chevalier, Olivier Marie

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125 (2), 393-430

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9003

Does Exposure to Economics Bring New Majors to the Field? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Hans Fricke, Jeffrey Grogger, Andreas Steinmayr

published as 'Exposure to Academic Fields and College Major Choice' in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 199-213

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8990

The Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns to Voucher-Financed Training

Katja Görlitz, Marcus Tamm

substantially revised version published as 'The returns to voucher-financed training on wages, employment and job tasks' in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 51 - 62

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8986

IC Technology and Learning: An Impact Evaluation of Cl@ssi2.0

Daniele Checchi, Enrico Rettore, Silvia Girardi

published in: Education Economics, 2019, 27 (3), 241 - 264

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8985

Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, Peter Hull, Parag A. Pathak

published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (7), 1878–1920

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8984

Adjusted State Teacher Salaries and the Decision to Teach

Dan S. Rickman, Hongbo Wang, John V. Winters

revised portion published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2017, 35 (3), 542-550