New Discussion Papers from the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Immigrants and Welfare Programmes: Exploring the Interactions between Immigrant Characteristics, Immigrant Welfare Dependence and Welfare Policy
Alan Barrett, Yvonne McCarthy
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Taking the Easy Way Out: How the GED Testing Program Induces Students to Drop Out
James J. Heckman, Paul A. LaFontaine, Pedro L. Rodríguez
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The Effects of Health and Health Shocks on Hours Worked
Lixin Cai, Kostas G. Mavromaras, Umut Oguzoglu
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Immigrant Labor, Child-Care Services, and the Work-Fertility Trade-Off in the United States
Delia Furtado, Heinrich Hock
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Marriage, Partnership and Sexual Orientation: A Study of British University Academics and Administrators
Alison L. Booth, Jeff Frank
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Schools, Skills, and Synapses
James J. Heckman
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Armed Conflict and Schooling: Evidence from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
Richard Akresh, Damien de Walque
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Informality and Macroeconomic Fluctuations
Norbert M. Fiess, Marco Fugazza, William F. Maloney
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Fertility in Sub-Saharan African Countries with Consideration to Health and Poverty
Yongil Jeon, Sang-Young Rhyu, Michael P. Shields
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The Rise in Obesity across the Atlantic: An Economic Perspective
Giorgio Brunello, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano
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