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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
Dinner Table Human Capital and Entrepreneurship
Hans K. Hvide, Paul Oyer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11288
Do Preferences and Biases Predict Life Outcomes? Evidence from Education and Labor Market Entry Decisions
Uschi Backes-Gellner, Holger Herz, Michael Kosfeld, Yvonne Oswald
published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 134, 103709
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11242
Child Labor and the Arrival of Refugees: Evidence from Tanzania
Chiara Kofol, Maryam Naghsh Nejad
published in: Journal of African Economies, 2022, 31 (5), 467–486
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11231
Changes across Cohorts in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences
Jared Ashworth, V. Joseph Hotz, Arnaud Maurel, Tyler Ransom
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (4), 931 - 964
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11200
Parents, Siblings and Schoolmates: The Effects of Family-School Interactions on Educational Achievement and Long-Term Labor Market Outcomes
Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Cappellari
published as 'Who benefits from privileged peers? Evidence from siblings in schools' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2020, 35 (7), 893 - 916
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11158
Socio-Economic Status and Inequalities in Children's IQ and Economic Preferences
Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Pia Pinger, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (9), 2504 -2545
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11125
Human Capital, Signaling, and Employer Learning: What Insights Do We Gain from Regression Discontinuity Designs?
Georg Graetz
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