IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17324

Wealth Creators or Inheritors? Unpacking the Gender Wealth Gap from Bottom to Top and Young to Old

Charlotte Bartels, Eva Sierminska, Carsten Schröder

published in: Economics Letters, 2025, 246, 111997

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17318

Women's Sexual Orientation and Occupational Tasks: Partners, Prejudice, and Motherhood

Raquel Carrasco, Ana Nuevo-Chiquero

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17309

Child Penalties and Parental Role Models: Classroom Exposure Effects

Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, Giulia Olivero, Eleonora Patacchini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17295

50 Years of Breakthroughs and Barriers: Women in Economics, Policy, and Leadership

Francine D. Blau, Lisa M. Lynch

published as 'Fifty Years of Breakthroughs and Barriers: Women in Economics, Policy, and Leadership' in: ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2024, 711 (1), 225-244

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17293

Unraveling the Gender Wage Gap: Exploring Early Career Patterns among University Graduates

Malte Sandner, Ipek Yükselen

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2025, 72 (2), e12405

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17288

Fetal Pollution Exposure, Cognitive Ability, and Gender-Specific Parental Investment

Xin Zhang, Yixuan Wang, Xingyi Hu, Xi Chen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17285

Unequal Hiring Wages and Their Impact on the Gender Pay Gap

Tho Pham, Daniel Schaefer, Carl Singleton

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17282

He Said, She Said: Who Gets Believed When Spreading (Mis)Information

Nuzaina Khan, David Rand, Olga Shurchkov

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17281

Aggregate Implications of Barriers to Female Entrepreneurship

Gaurav Chiplunkar, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17271

Gender Role Models in Education

Sofoklis Goulas, Bhagya N. Gunawardena, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Yves Zenou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17261

The Impact of Role Models on Youths' Aspirations, Gender Attitudes and Education in Somalia

Elijah Kipchumba, Catherine Porter, Danila Serra, Munshi Sulaiman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17255

The Gender Wage Gap across Life: Effects of Genetic Predisposition Towards Higher Educational Attainment

Alex Bryson, Tim Morris, David Bann, David Wilkinson

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2025, 56, 101471

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17245

Measuring Bias in Job Recommender Systems: Auditing the Algorithms

Shuo Zhang, Peter J. Kuhn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17240

Gendered Language in Academic Evaluations: Evidence from the Italian University System

Matilde Casamonti, Natalia Zinovyeva

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17235

Intersectional Analysis of the Labour Market Impacts of COVID: The Triple-Whammy of Females, Children, and Lower Skill

Tony Fang, Morley Gunderson, Viet Hoang Ha, Hui Ming

published online as 'Intersectional analysis of the labour market impacts of COVID on women with young children and in low-skilled jobs' in: International Journal of Manpower, 19 September 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17219

Closing the Gender Gap: Promoting Labour Market Participation

Jorgen M. Harris, Eleonora Patacchini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17216

Beyond the Degree: Fertility Outcomes of 'First in Family' Graduates

Anna Adamecz, Anna Lovász, Suncica Vujic

published online in: Review of Economics of the Household, 23 July 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17210

Parental Leave: Economic Incentives and Cultural Change

James Albrecht, Per-Anders Edin, Raquel Fernández, Jiwon Lee, Peter Skogman Thoursie, Susan Vroman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17196

The Effect of Export Market Access on Labor Market Power: Firm-Level Evidence from Vietnam