Posts tagged with 'education'

Parents tend to steer sons towards traditional careers

Swiss study finds gender bias in vocational advice

Who benefits and who loses from affirmative action in elite universities?

Study from Brazil shows that earnings rise for minority students but drop for top enrollees

What we teach children about race and gender

New study uses AI tools to analyze representation in images and text of children's books

Can more education save the planet?

New study finds sizable causal effects of years of schooling on pro-climate outcomes

Babel’s Curse or Babel’s Blessing?

Studying in a foreign language may come at a cost

How COVID-19 affects educational choices in high school

Students in Sweden moved away quickly from service-oriented vocational programs

Higher minimum wage lowers enrollment in academic programs at universities

Study from Canada investigates the impact of the minimum wage on individuals' schooling decisions

Future earnings gap due to COVID-19 school closures

Today’s global cohort of students may lose up to US$ 15 trillion over a lifetime

How a second chance in education influences labor market outcomes

Adult education reforms in Norway reduced gender earnings gap

Graduating in a pandemic may lead to long-term income losses

IZA Expert Panel reveals country differences in labor market researchers’ expectations

Do refugee classmates affect the educational attainment of native students?

New study from Norway compares siblings exposed to different refugee shares at school

Shorter compulsory schooling can increase the overall time spent in education

Reform in Egypt had unexpected positive effects for girls from disadvantaged families

Male students are more likely to receive favorable grade changes in college

Gender differences in the tendency to negotiate

How traffic pollution affects children’s academic performance

Lower test scores, more behavioral incidents, and more absences

Effects of banning the Islamic veil in public schools

French policy improved Muslim girls' educational outcomes

Economic causes and consequences of mass shootings

Perpetrators are often low-educated and in financial distress — shootings leave lasting scars on local labor markets

Identifying policy levers in education settings

4th IZA Workshop on the Economics of Education

Legacy and athlete preferences at Harvard

Admissions advantages of privileged applicants have gone up over time

Exposure to “high-achieving” boys in high school may harm girls in the long run

Effects on educational and labor market outcomes

Being bullied in school leads to poorer outcomes later in life

Persistent or violent types of bullying have the worst consequences

briq/IZA Workshop on Behavioral Economics of Education

How behavioral insights can contribute to equality of opportunity

Revealing stereotypes to teachers can improve student outcomes

Immigrant students receive lower grades despite same performance as natives

Are professors good teachers?

Lower-ranked instructors are just as good when it comes to tutorial teaching

Steering more students into STEM?

Costs of delivering postsecondary instruction differ markedly by field of study

Race-blind school admissions policy increases racial segregation

Rolling back integration efforts harms student outcomes

Why does education reduce crime?

Keeping kids “off the streets” may matter more than improving their labor market prospects

School reforms and socioeconomic inequality in Germany

15 years after the PISA shock

The costly consequences of just failing a high-stakes exam

Education systems around the world increasingly apply standardized high school exit exams to make achievement more comparable among graduates (see […]

Searching on campus: Marriage market effects of the student gender composition

The growing success of online dating platforms seems to indicate that finding your partner in the “real” world becomes harder. […]

Do boys benefit from male teachers in elementary school?

The scarcity of male teachers in schools has led to a debate on whether young boys require more male role models.

How tax policy can promote lifelong learning

In the face of demographic and technological change, people will have to work longer and are more likely to switch […]

Equality of opportunity – for what?

By Daniel Mahler and Xavi Ramos The notion that individuals ought to have equal opportunities in life is popular among […]

Educational choices can help explain income inequality in Germany

Rising levels of income inequality in many developed countries have led to much political and scientific controversy. One of the […]

Getting it right: Policies to fight youth unemployment in the EU

Despite the fact that the global financial crisis has largely come to end, youth unemployment remains high, with rates of […]

The economic value of Breaking Bad: How misbehavior in school pays off for some kids

By Nicholas W. Papageorge (Johns Hopkins University and IZA) There is growing interest in how schools can shape children’s non-cognitive […]

How personality is affected by birth order and birth spacing

The family environment is among the most important factors in the development of a child’s personality. It is evident that […]

On World Day of Social Justice: Insights on economic inequality from IZA World of Labor

The UN has proclaimed February 20 the “World Day of Social Justice” to support efforts of the international community in […]

Money to study? Research on motivation and incentives for students

Differences in educational outcomes based on socioeconomic background is a well-documented phenomenon and a key driver of inequalities later in […]

Terrorism, hurricanes, economic crises: Learning through exogenous shocks

Economists seem to have a conspicuous interest in unexpected, far-reaching or even catastrophic events. In most cases, though, this interest […]

Genes, education and labor market outcomes

What can genetic information teach us about the intergenerational transmission of economic inequality? A new IZA Discussion Paper by Nicholas […]

Different sleep cycles can explain part of the gender performance gap in education

Girls largely outperform boys academically in middle and high school. Performance gaps begin to arise as early as in third […]

Teacher expectations influence student educational outcomes

Do teacher expectations matter? In particular, can teacher expectations influence student educational outcomes? Yes, says a new IZA paper authored […]

IZA Fellow Aaron Sojourner serves at U.S. President Council of Economic Advisers

IZA Research Fellow Aaron Sojourner (University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management) has been appointed as a senior economist on […]

Well-being effects vary for formal and informal childcare

All parents are faced with the difficult decision of how to organize childcare. Parents preferring to return to the labor […]

High times for students

When a U.S. state passes a medical marijuana law (MML), effectively lowering the costs of obtaining marijuana for both patients […]

IZA Prize goes to Claudia Goldin

The 2016 IZA Prize in Labor Economics goes to Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. […]

Economic long-term outlooks often too pessimistic

Demographic aging and accompanying shrinking labor forces are common phenomena throughout the developed world. There is a widespread notion that […]

How (lack of) sleep affects our economic behavior

Today is World Sleep Day! As recent IZA research shows, a good night of sleep is not just a matter […]

Investing in early childhood development reduces inequality

Early childhood years are highly formative and often provide the basis for educational, professional and social achievements in adulthood. IZA […]

Subsidized high-quality early care improves child development especially among children in low-income families

Human development starts early, and neuroscientists point to the first three years of brain development as especially consequential. Foundations for […]

Racial mismatch in the classroom leads to more unexcused student absences and school suspensions

Policymakers and educators alike are increasingly cognizant of the long-term consequences of student absenteeism and suspensions, which are particularly troubling […]

Rank, sex, drugs and crime: How relative ability affects adolescents’ risky behaviors

Parents, teachers and policymakers alike are concerned with adolescents engaging in risky practices, such as drug abuse, unprotected sex, or […]

Courage, trust and autonomy: Werner Eichhorst outlines challenges of the new world of work

In a recent podcast by the WorkLife HUB, an online platform focusing on work-life balance topics, Werner Eichhorst speaks about […]

Socio-economic background shapes children’s personality

In many countries, people find it hard to climb up the economic ladder. According to a recent IZA paper, one […]

Reducing early marriage to boost female labor market participation in Senegal

Senegal is a country with large gender disparities in education and career opportunities. Early marriage and low age at first […]

‘High’ achievers? Students banned from cannabis shops perform better at university

Should the recreational use of cannabis be legalized? In recent years, there has been a momentum towards more liberal drug […]

The negative labor market outcomes of a Muslim minority: How policy can make a big difference

The labor market success of ethnic and religious minorities often lags behind the average population. Discrimination, segregation and cultural frictions […]

Do we have to be afraid of the future world of work?

The current public debate in many developed countries about the future of paid employment is characterized by strong feelings of […]

Girls benefit most from attending an elite school

Parents have strong preferences for sending their children to the best schools available. There seems to be a general perception […]

Expensive development program did not improve living conditions in Northern Ireland

The signing of the Belfast Agreement on Good Friday 1998 is widely seen as the final act in the long […]

Learning from the older brother? Sibling spillover effects in school achievement

How much a younger sibling’s school achievement is affected by his/her older sibling’s achievement at school is an important question […]

Is formal care as good as the support of loving grandparents?

Since early childcare plays an important role in the development of cognitive skills, it partially determines success later in life. […]

Is formal care as good as the support of loving grandparents?

Since early childcare plays an important role in the development of cognitive skills, it partially determines success later in life. […]

Employee performance and the value of the bosses: Video interview with Kathryn Shaw

Employees should ultimately be paid for performance, not for working hours, says Kathryn Shaw (Stanford University and IZA) in a […]

Migration decisions of couples: Who wears the pants?

Couples are less likely than singles, but more likely than families to emigrate to a different country. But who makes […]

A culture of crime: growing up with the mafia next door

Organized crime generates about two percent of global GDP. While this is already a considerable share, the mafia and other […]

Is becoming criminal a matter of time?

When homo economicus thinks about committing a crime, it’s all about balancing: the benefit of the crime against the disutility […]

What determines racist attitudes in Germany

Although the end of World War II is not even seventy years ago, one out of five Germans thinks that […]

Job information centers improve students’ career choice

In many countries high school students visit job information centers before they graduate. They learn about job prospects, earnings and […]

More schooling makes women less likely to vote for Islamic parties

Many countries in the Middle East and North Africa are characterized by low levels of per capita income, democracy and […]

Early school tracking: no long-term impact on labor market outcomes

School tracking systems, which allot students to certain school types according to their ability, seek to improve efficiency in education […]

Overcoming the educational mismatch

Nobel laureate Chris Pissarides suggests that in times of recession it’s good for young people to acquire more education. Nonetheless, […]

Learning from nuns: Catholic schools are not better than the rest

Several empirical studies have attempted to assess whether private schools provide better education than public schools. This question is crucial […]

Study abroad programs boost labor market careers

Despite the great popularity of international educational mobility schemes like the European Erasmus scholarship program, relatively little research has been […]

Have the benefits from marriage changed over the past decades? A new IZA Discussion Paper by Shelly Lundberg and Robert […]

How effective is high school mentoring?

Is it worthwhile paying special attention to high school students from disadvantaged social backgrounds? Núria Rodríguez-Planas put this question to […]

How preschool helps to fight inequality

The widening wage gap between college educated and non-college educated workers in the US and around the world has raised […]

Women do better and seem less anxious in all-female classes

Nowadays more women attend university than men. Yet, women are still under-represented in the highest levels of technical subjects such […]

Don J. DeVoretz on the economics of citizenship

In the latest IZA interview Don J. DeVoretz, IZA Research Fellow and Professor of Economics at the Simon Fraser University […]

Girls, take maths and boost your career!

A recent IZA working paper by Juanna Schrøter Joensen and Helena Skyt Nielsen suggests that taking more Math courses in […]