IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16428

Immigration, Female Labour Supply and Local Cultural Norms

Jonas Jessen, Sophia Schmitz, Felix Weinhardt

published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (659), 1146–1172

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16388

Gender Identity, Race, and Ethnicity-Based Discrimination in Access to Mental Health Care: Evidence from an Audit Correspondence Field Experiment

Luca Fumarco, Benjamin Harrell, Patrick Button, David J. Schwegman, E Dils

revised version published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 10 (2), 182–214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16382

Do Households Where Women Own Land Fare Better for Food Security? Evidence for Tanzania

Sara Burrone, Gianna Claudia Giannelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16360

We've Got You Covered: Employer and Employee Responses to Dobbs v. Jackson

Pawel Adrjan, Svenja Gudell, Emily Nix, Allison Shrivastava, Jason Sockin, Evan Starr

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16353

Young Women in Cities

Yumi Koh, Jing Li, Yifan Wu, Junjian Yi, Hanzhe Zhang

published as 'Young women in cities:published as 'Young women in cities: Urbanization and gender-biased migration' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 172, 103378

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16347

Gender-Biased Technological Change: Milking Machines and the Exodus of Women from Farming

Philipp Ager, Marc Goñi, Kjell G. Salvanes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16341

Changing Gender Norms across Generations: Evidence from a Paternity Leave Reform

Lídia Farré, Christina Felfe, Libertad González, Patrick Schneider

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16341

Changing Gender Norms across Generations: Evidence from a Paternity Leave Reform

Lídia Farré, Christina Felfe, Libertad González, Patrick Schneider

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16331

How Does Gender Quota Shape Gender Attitudes?

Yen-Chien Chen, Elliott Fan, Yu-Hsin Ho, Matthew Yi-Hsiu Lee, Jin-Tan Liu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16331

How Does Gender Quota Shape Gender Attitudes?

Yen-Chien Chen, Elliott Fan, Yu-Hsin Ho, Matthew Yi-Hsiu Lee, Jin-Tan Liu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16331

How Does Gender Quota Shape Gender Attitudes?

Yen-Chien Chen, Elliott Fan, Yu-Hsin Ho, Matthew Yi-Hsiu Lee, Jin-Tan Liu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16324

Does Unfairness Hurt Women? The Effects of Losing Unfair Competitions

Stefano Piasenti, Marica Valente, Roel van Veldhuizen, Gregor Pfeifer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16323

Women in Management and the Gender Pay Gap

Virginia Sondergeld, Katharina Wrohlich

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16320

Environmental Policy and Gender Health Gap

Liwen Guo, Zhiming Cheng, Massimiliano Tani, Sarah Cook

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16314

Is Self-Employment for Migrants? Evidence from Italy

Marianna Brunetti, Anzelika Zaiceva

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16278

Closing the Gender Gap in Salary Increases: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Promoting Pay Equity

Jakob Alfitian, Marvin Deversi, Dirk Sliwka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16244

Where Are the Fathers? The Effects of Earmarking Parental Leave on Fathers in France

Hélène Périvier, Gregory Verdugo

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2024, 77 (1), 88-118

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16233

External Pay Transparency and the Gender Wage Gap

Wolfgang Frimmel, Bernhard Schmidpeter, Rene Wiesinger, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16224

The Anatomy of Competitiveness

Thomas Buser, Hessel Oosterbeek

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16217

Disability, Gender and Hiring Discrimination: A Field Experiment

Vegar Bjørnshagen, Dan-Olof Rooth, Elisabeth Ugreninov

published online in: European Societies, 01 January 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16208

Fertility, Son-Preference, and the Reversal of the Gender Gap in Literacy/Numeracy Tests

Minhee Chae, Xin Meng, Sen Xue

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16196

The Employment Effects of a Wage Subsidy for the Young during an Economic Recovery

Astrid Kunze, Marta Palczyńska, Iga Magda

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16180

Overconfident Boys: The Gender Gap in Mathematics Self-Assessment

Anna Adamecz, John Jerrim, Jean-Baptiste Pingault, Nikki Shure

published as 'Peers, parents, and self-perceptions: the gender gap in mathematics self-assessment' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 33 (2025)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16172

Does a Flexible Parental Leave System Stimulate Maternal Employment?

Lennart Ziegler, Omar Bamieh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16161

Stephen versus Stephanie? Does Gender Matter for Peer-to-Peer Career Advice

Grace Lordan, Warn N. Lekfuangfu

forthcoming in: Journal of Human Capital

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16161

Stephen versus Stephanie? Does Gender Matter for Peer-to-Peer Career Advice

Grace Lordan, Warn N. Lekfuangfu

forthcoming in: Journal of Human Capital

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16159

Religion, Ideology and Fertility

Kazuhiro Kumo, Cristiano Perugini

published as 'Religion, Gender Norms and Fertility in Muslim Post-Communist Economies' in: Post-Communist Economies, 2024, 36 (8), 1035–1065.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16152

Like Mother, like Child? The Rise of Women's Intergenerational Income Persistence in Sweden and the United States

Gunnar Brandén, Martin Nybom, Kelly Vosters

forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16148

Husbands' Wages and Married Women's Labor Supply in Urban China

Mengbing Zhu, Yi Li, Chunbing Xing

published in: China Economic Review, 2023, 82, 102609.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16138

The Gender Reference Point Gap

Nathan Kettlewell, Jonathan Levy, Agnieszka Tymula, Xueting Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16134

Cognitive Skills among Adults: An Impeding Factor for Gender Convergence?

Michele Battisti, Alexandra Fedorets, Lavinia Kinne

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16129

The Child Tax Credit over Time by Family Type: Benefit Eligibility and Poverty

Margaret E. Brehm, Olga Malkova

published in: National Tax Journal, 2023, 76 (3), 707 - 741

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16119

Weight, Attractiveness, and Gender When Hiring: A Field Experiment in Spain

Catarina Goulão, Juan A. Lacomba, Francisco Miguel Lagos, Dan-Olof Rooth

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 218, 132-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16096

Gender Equity in Labor Market Opportunities and Aggregate Technical Efficiency: A Case of Equity Promoting Efficiency

Gautam Hazarika, Maroula Khraiche, Levent Kutlu

published in: Applied Economics, 2023, 56 (23), 2806–2817

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16090

Time-Use and Subjective Well-Being: Is Diversity Really the Spice of Life?

Naomi Friedman-Sokuler, Claudia Senik

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2024, 51 (1), 1-34.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16089

Non-college Occupations, Workplace Routinization, and the Gender Gap in College Enrollment

Amanda Chuan, Weilong Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16058

What We Teach about Race and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children's Books

Anjali Adukia, Alex Eble, Emileigh Harrison, Hakizumwami Birali Runesha, Teodora Szasz

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023, 138 (4), 2225 - 2285

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16055

Long-Term Effects of Recession on Parenthood Gender Inequality

Jinyoung Kim, Eunhye Kwak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16050

Transitory Earnings Opportunities and Educational Scarring of Men

Jósef Sigurdsson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16045

What If She Earns More? Gender Norms, Income Inequality, and the Division of Housework

Iga Magda, Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska, Marta Palczyńska

published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2024, 45, 1–20

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16019

Working from Home, COVID-19 and Job Satisfaction

Inga Laß, Esperanza Vera-Toscano, Mark Wooden

published in: IRL Review, 2024. 78 (2), 330-354

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16006

Social Norms and Female Labor Force Participation in Bangladesh: The Role of Social Expectations and Reference Networks

Luna Bellani, Kumar Biswas, Sebastian Fehrler, Paul Marx, Shwetlena Sabarwal, Syed Rashed Al-Zayed Josh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16004

Trends in Gender and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Physical Disability and Social Support among U.S. Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment Living Alone, 2000–2018

Shanquan Chen, Huanyu Zhang, Benjamin R. Underwood, Dan Wang, Xi Chen, Rudolf N. Cardinal

published in: Innovation in Aging, 2023, 7 (4), igad028

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15983

Women in Political Bodies as Policymakers

Thushyanthan Baskaran, Zohal Hessami

published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 24 July 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15975

Women in Political Power and School Closure during COVID Times

Natalia Danzer, Sebastian Garcia-Torres, Max F. Steinhardt, Luca Stella

published in: Economic Policy, 2024, 39 (120), 765–810

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15973

Gender Wage Gap among Young Adults: A Comparison across British Cohorts

Francesca Foliano, Alex Bryson, Heather Joshi, Bożena Wielgoszewska, David Wilkinson

published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 91, 102614

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15954

Gender Differences in the Early Career Earnings of Economics Graduates

Stephen Bazen, Kadija Charni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15948

Women's Work, Social Norms and the Marriage Market

Farzana Afridi, Abhishek Arora, Diva Dhar, Kanika Mahajan

forthcoming in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15945

Intergenerational and Sibling Spillovers in High School Majors

Gordon B. Dahl, Dan-Olof Rooth, Anders Stenberg

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (3), 133–173

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15925

Socioemotional Skills in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Maternal Psychosocial Intervention

Dilek Sevim, Victoria Baranov, Sonia R. Bhalotra, Joanna Maselko, Pietro Biroli

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (S), S365-S401

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15892

Gender-Segmented Labor Markets and Trade Shocks

Carlos Góes, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15890

What Drives Paternity Leave: Financial Incentives or Flexibility?

Lennart Ziegler, Omar Bamieh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15886

Integrating Gender into a Labor Economics Class

Jacqueline Strenio, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers

published in: Advances in Economics Education, 2023, 2 (1), 26 - 44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15882

The Impact of the

Stefania Basiglio, Daniela Del Boca, Chiara D. Pronzato

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2024, 70 (3), 271 - 283

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15878

Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter

Nicolas Ajzenman, Bruno Ferman, Pedro C. Sant’Anna

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15867

Dynastic Measures of Intergenerational Mobility

Olivier B. Bargain, Maria C. Lo Bue, Flaviana Palmisano

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15860

Do Role Models Matter in Large Classes? New Evidence on Gender Match Effects in Higher Education

Stephan Ernst Maurer, Guido Schwerdt, Simon Wiederhold

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15838

Estimating the Effects of Expanding Ultrasound Use on Sex Selection in India

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Daniel Rosenblum

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2023, 59 (4), 516-532

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15828

Do Fathers Have Son Preference in the United States? Evidence from Paternal Subjective Well-Being

Younghwan Song, Jia Gao

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 21, 1083-1117

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15825

Human Capital and Self-Employment in India: An Empirical Analysis for Different Cohorts

Nabamita Dutta, Saibal Kar, Shaswata Ray

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15822

The Gendered Crisis: Livelihoods and Mental Well-Being in India during COVID-19

Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Sanchari Roy

published in: Feminist Economics, 2023, 29 (3), 40–74.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15817

The Ongoing Impact of Gender Pay Gap Transparency Legislation

Melanie K. Jones, Ezgi Kaya, Kerry L. Papps

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15814

Early Child Care and Labor Supply of Lower-SES Mothers: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Henning Hermes, Marina Krauß, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter, Simon Wiederhold

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15805

Why Do the Earnings of Male and Female Graduates Diverge? The Role of Motherhood and Job Dynamics

Aedin Doris, Donal O'Neill, Olive Sweetman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15796

Gender Differences in Adolescents' Socioemotional Development and Their Later Economic Consequences

Ghazala Azmat, Katja Maria Kaufmann, Yasemin Özdemir

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15778

Counting Missing Women – A Reconciliation of the 'Flow Measure' and the 'Stock Measure'

Cara Ebert, Stephan Klasen, Sebastian Vollmer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15773

Gender Stereotypes in the Family

Cheti Nicoletti, Almudena Sevilla, Valentina Tonei

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15767

Social Networks, Gender Norms and Women's Labor Supply: Experimental Evidence Using a Job Search Platform

Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Sanchari Roy, Nikita Sangwan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15733

Female Neighbors, Test Scores, and Careers

Sofoklis Goulas, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Yi Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15733

Female Neighbors, Test Scores, and Careers

Sofoklis Goulas, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Yi Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15715

Teleworking and Life Satisfaction during COVID-19: The Importance of Family Structure

Claudia Senik, Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Anthony Lepinteur, Carsten Schröder

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2024, 37 (1), Article 8

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15704

Social Norms and Gendered Occupational Choices of Men and Women: Time to Turn the Tide?

Patricia Palffy, Patrick Lehnert, Uschi Backes-Gellner

published in: Industrial Relations, 2023, 62 (4), 380-410

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15690

Microentrepreneurs' Gender Difference in Labor Demand

Oluwasheyi S. Oladipo, Hyoung Suk Shim

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15653

Gender, Loneliness and Happiness during COVID-19

Anthony Lepinteur, Andrew E. Clark, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Alan Piper, Carsten Schröder, Conchita D'Ambrosio

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2022, 101, 101952

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15646

The Slow Demographic Transition in Regions Vulnerable to Climate Change

Thang Dao, Matthias Kalkuhl, Chrysovalantis Vasilakis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15639

Women's Careers and Family Formation

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Damian Clarke, Selma Walther

published in: Klaus. F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer Nature, 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15621

The Times Have Changed: Tracking the Evolution of Gender Norms over Time

Andreas Kuhn

revised and partially expanded version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2024, 52B, 131-170

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15621

The Times Have Changed: Tracking the Evolution of Gender Norms over Time

Andreas Kuhn

revised and partially expanded version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2024, 52B, 131-170

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15585

Expansions in Paid Parental Leave and Mothers' Economic Progress

Gozde Corekcioglu, Marco Francesconi, Astrid Kunze

published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 169, 104845

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15571

Culture, Children and Couple Gender Inequality

Jonas Jessen

revised version published in: European Economic Review 2022, 150, 104310

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15563

Pension Wealth and the Gender Wealth Gap

Karla Cordova, Markus M. Grabka, Eva Sierminska

published in: European Journal of Population, 2022, 38, 755 - 810

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15552

Collective Bargaining for Women: How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs

Viola Corradini, Lorenzo Lagos, Garima Sharma

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15550

Gender Differences in High-Stakes Performance and College Admission Policies

Andreu Arenas, Caterina Calsamiglia

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15549

City Size, Family Migration, and Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants in China

Chunbing Xing, Xiaoyan Yuan, Junfu Zhang

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 97, 103834

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15542

Understanding Labor Market Discrimination against Transgender People: Evidence from a Double List Experiment and a Survey

Billur Aksoy, Christopher S. Carpenter, Dario Sansone

published in: Management Science, 2024, 71 (1), 659-677.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15487

Gender Discrimination and the Sex Ratio of Immigrants

Saul Lach, Nachum Sicherman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15470

Family Bargaining and the Gender Gap in Informal Care

Chiara Canta, Helmuth Cremer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15456

COVID-19 and the Gender Gap in University Student Performance

Massimiliano Bratti, Enrico Lippo

revised version forthcoming as: 'Effects of COVID-19 on Gender Gaps in Educational Outcomes of College Students in Italy' in: K. Couch (ed.), Handbook of Inequality and COVID-19, Edward Elgar, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15453

Female Labor Market Opportunities and Gender Gaps in Aspirations

Teresa Molina, Emiko Usui

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 211, 165-187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15444

Political Spillovers of Workplace Democracy in Germany

Uwe Jirjahn, Thi Xuan Thu Le

revised version published in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2024, 95 (1), 5-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15394

Has Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation of Education in Rural India Fallen over Time? A Comparison of 1995 and 2017

Sandip Datta, Geeta G. Kingdon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15394