Report NEP-EDU-2026-08-24

This is the archive for NEP-EDU, a report on new working papers in the area of Education. Nadia Simoes issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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• Barrios Fernandez, Andres & Neilson, Christopher & Zimmerman, Seth, 2024, "Elite Universities and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human and Social Capital," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19431, Sep.
• Leibing, Andreas, 2026, "Skill Substitution, Expectations, and the Business Cycle," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18835, Jul.
• Hosam Ibrahim & Andreas de Barros & Sarah Deschênes & Paul Glewwe, 2026, "The Best Buy? From Global Evidence to Government Practice," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12866.
• Christopher Campos & John Singleton, 2026, "AI Diffusion Gaps: Unequal Integration of AI Across K-12 Schools," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26195, Jul.
• Lorenzo Cappellari & Tommaso Colussi & Marco Ovidi, 2026, "Gendered Honors: Graduation Committees, Academic Distinction, and Early-Career Outcomes," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26194, Jul.
• Bharti, Nitin Kumar & Malik, Samreen & Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop & Prakash, Nishith, 2026, "Science on the Move: How Experiential Pedagogy Shapes Human Capital," IDEA Working Papers, International Development Economics Association (IDEA), number 1, May, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21904877.
• Basiglio, Stefania & Del Boca, Daniela & Pronzato, Chiara, 2024, "The Impact of the 'Coding Girls' Program on High School Students’ Skills, Awareness and Aspirations," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19477, Sep.
• Elizabeth Burland & Nora Delaney & Susan Dynarski & Katherine B. Leu & CJ Libassi & Katherine Michelmore & Stephanie Owen & Mary A. Quiroga & Elizabeth Salinas & Susan M. Dynarski, 2026, "Degrees of Mobility: Shifting Low-Income Students to Higher Quality Colleges," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12884.
• Bredtmann, Julia & Otten, Sebastian & Vonnahme, Christina, 2026, "Discrimination in Grading? Evidence on Teachers' Evaluation Bias Toward Minority Students," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18847, Jul.
• Philip Oreopoulos & Ruochong Dong & Nina Low, 2026, "Virtual Tutoring with Computer-Assisted Learning: An Experiment in Take-Up and Learning," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35622, Aug.
• Patrinos, Harry & Rivera-Olvera, Angelica, 2026, "Education and Earnings in Europe," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18859, Aug.
• Adamecz, Anna & Jerrim, John & Szabó-Morvai, à gnes, 2026, "Leaving School Early: A Mediation Analysis Linking Adolescent Mental Health Disorders to Early Adult Outcomes," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18763, Jun.
• Leight, Jessica & Gilligan, Daniel O. & Mulford, Michael & Zafar, Sarim, 2026, "The early bird gets the cash: Early notification and conditional cash transfers for secondary school," IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), number 2421, Jun.
• E. Jason Baron & Micah Y. Baum & Joseph J. Doyle Jr. & Maria D. Fitzpatrick & Brian Jacob & Joseph P. Ryan, 2026, "Institutional Variation in Child Maltreatment Reporting," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35619, Aug.
• Goller, Daniel & Lüthi, Samuel & Wolter, Stefan, 2026, "The Value of Practical Skills," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18848, Jul.
• Machielsen, Bas & van Besouw, Bram, 2026, "Dynamics of Democratization and the Organization of Education," EconStor Preprints, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, number 342692.
• Lorenzo Navarini & Dieter Verhaest, 2026, "The Dynamics of Educational Attainment, Overeducation, and Wages," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26201, Jul.
• Black, Ines & Figueiredo, Ana, 2024, "The Illusion of Cyclicality in Entry Wages," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19430, Sep.
• Tiziano Arduini & Daniela Iorio & Francesca Marazzi, 2026, "Standing Tall at Sixteen: The Labor Market Value of Relative Height in Adolescence," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12911.
• Senan Hogan-Hennessy, 2026, "The Direct and Indirect Effects of Genetics and Education," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2607.19562, Jul, revised Jul 2026.
• Razavi, Goya, 2026, "The Major Divide: Student Sorting, Meritocratic Admissions & Upward Mobility," Discussion Paper Series in Economics, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Economics, number 10/2026, Aug.
• Jain, Divyanshu & Jain, Tarun, 2026, "When Science Feels like Math: Quantitative Content in Science Assessments and the Gender Achievement Gap," IDEA Working Papers, International Development Economics Association (IDEA), number 4, Aug, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21907670.
• Bingley, Paul & Cappellari, Lorenzo & Ovidi, Marco & Sandi, Matteo, 2026, "Crime Victims’ Children," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18855, Aug.
• Jack Rossiter & David K. Evans & Susannah Hares & Catherine Henny, 2026, "The Illusion of Comparability Among Standardised Effect Sizes: Why Education Evaluations Should Report Raw Effects," Working Papers, Center for Global Development, number 748, Jun.
• Bet Caeyers & Lina Cardona Sosa & Sarah Cattan & Sonya Krutikova & Abu Siddique, 2026, "Parents in the Classroom: Strengthening Government Capacity to Deliver Early Childhood Education," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12910.
• Andersen, Erik T. J. & Graffy, Simon & Kerwin, Jason T. & Lambon-Quayefio, Monica, 2026, "How to Build a Reader : Evidence from a Scalable Literacy Intervention in Ghana," Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank, number 11433, Jul.
• Soichiro SUGITA & Makiko NAKAMURO, 2026, "The Effect of Class-size Reduction on Quality of Classroom Environment," Discussion papers, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), number 26060, Aug.
• Duflo, Esther & Dupas, Pascaline & Kremer, Michael, 2024, "The Impact of Secondary School Subsidies on Career Trajectories in a Dual Labor Market: Experimental Evidence from Ghana," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19344, Aug.
• Duflo, Esther & Dupas, Pascaline & Spelke, Elizabeth & Walsh, Mark, 2024, "Intergenerational Impacts of Secondary Education: Experimental Evidence from Ghana," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19345, Aug.
• Roknuzzaman, Md & Uddin, Md Azhar & Shimul, Shafiun Nahin, 2026, "The Mental Health Consequences of Child Marriage: Evidence from Bangladesh," 2026 Annual Meeting, July 26 - 28, 2026, Kansas City, Missouri, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 404597, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.404597.
• Goulas, Sofoklis & Gunawardena, Bhagya & Megalokonomou, Rigissa & Zenou, Yves, 2024, "Gender Role Models in Education," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19432, Sep.
• Yuta TAKAHASHI & Naoki TAKAYAMA & Takashi UNAYAMA, 2026, "Trends in Completed Fertility Rates by Educational Attainment in Japan: A new method for measuring demographic indicators using Japanese census data (Japanese)," Discussion Papers (Japanese), Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), number 26032, Aug.
• Gabriela Smarrelli & Esme Kadzamira & Thi Le & Tionge Saka, 2026, "Advancing the Measurement of Violence in and Around Schools: Evidence from Malawi," Working Papers, Center for Global Development, number 751, Jun.
• Martina Luskova & Nino Buliskeria & Ali Elminejad & Tomas Havranek & Zuzana Irsova & Stepan Jurajda & Marek Kapicka, 2026, "Publication bias and p-hacking in the effect of COVID-19 on learning," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2608.00580, Aug.
• Bellou, Andriana & Cardia, Emanuela, 2026, "Great Depression, WWII and the College Gender Gap," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18846, Jul.
• Hyatt, Kyle, 2026, "Designing Fiscal Recognition: Protected Student Inclusion Account Models for Compulsory Public Education," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number ybptc_v1, Jul, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/ybptc_v1.