IZA Discussion Papers

published in: Barbara M. Fraumeni (ed.), Measuring Economic Growth and Productivity: Foundations, KLEMS Production Models, and Extensions, Academic Press, 2020, 509-529

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12357

The Gender Composition of Corporate Boards and Firm Performance: Evidence from Russia

Tatiana Garanina, Alexander Muravyev

revised version published in: Emerging Markets Review, 2021, 48, 100772

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12349

Who Benefits from Local Oil and Gas Employment? Labor Market Composition in the Oil and Gas Industry in Texas

Zhengyu Cai, Karen Maguire, John V. Winters

published in: Energy Economics, 2019, 84, 104515

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12348

How Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Tournaments Affect Gender Differences in Competitive Behavior

Loukas Balafoutas, Matthias Sutter

published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 118, 1-13.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12344

Works Councils and Organizational Gender Policies in Germany

Uwe Jirjahn, Jens Mohrenweiser

revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 59 (4), 1020-1048

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12344

Works Councils and Organizational Gender Policies in Germany

Uwe Jirjahn, Jens Mohrenweiser

revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 59 (4), 1020-1048

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12314

Girls, Boys, and High Achievers

Angela Cools, Raquel Fernández, Eleonora Patacchini

published as 'The asymmetric gender effects of high flyers' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102287

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12311

Economic Opportunities and Gender Equity: The Migration and Education Decisions of Young Women from Rural China

Chunbing Xing, Yan Sun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12310

Wages, Experience and Training of Women over the Lifecycle

Richard Blundell, David Goll, Monica Costa Dias, Costas Meghir

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (S1), S275–S315

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12306

The Gender Promotion Gap: Evidence from Central Banking

Laura Hospido, Luc Laeven, Ana Lamo

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (5), 981 - 996

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12295

Divorce among European and Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.

Christina A. Houseworth, Barry R. Chiswick

published in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2020, 18, 1-25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12284

Gender Identity and Wives' Labor Market Outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016

Maximilian Sprengholz, Anna Wieber, Elke Holst

published in: Socio-Economic Review (SER), 2020, 18 (3), 1-23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12236

Does More Math in High School Increase the Share of Female STEM Workers? Evidence from a Curriculum Reform

Martin Biewen, Jakob Schwerter

published in: Applied Economics, 2021, 54 (16), 1889–1911

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12234

Out-Of-Partnership Births in East and West Germany

Uwe Jirjahn, Cornelia Struewing

revised version by Uwe Jirjahn and Cornelia Chadi published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, 18 (3), 853-881

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12212

Undoing Gender with Institutions: Lessons from the German Division and Reunification

Quentin Lippmann, Alexandre Georgieff, Claudia Senik

published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (629), 1445 - 1470

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12211

Gender Equality and Positive Action: Evidence from UK Universities

Danula K. Gamage, Almudena Sevilla

published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2019, 109, 105–109

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12211

Gender Equality and Positive Action: Evidence from UK Universities

Danula K. Gamage, Almudena Sevilla

published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2019, 109, 105–109

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12196

Do Constraints on Women Worsen Child Deprivations? Framework, Measurement, and Evidence from India

Alberto Posso, Stephen C. Smith, Lucia Ferrone

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12185

The Economics of Hypergamy

Ingvild Almås, Andreas Kotsadam, Espen R. Moen, Knut Røed

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (1), 260-281

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12182

Girls' and Boys' Performance in Competitions: What We Can Learn from a Korean Quiz Show

Alison L. Booth, Jungmin Lee

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 187, 431-447.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12176

It's Not Just for Boys! Understanding Gender Differences in STEM

Judith M. Delaney, Paul J. Devereux

published as 'Understanding Gender Differences in STEM: Evidence from College Applications' in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 72, 219-238

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12156

Born in the Family: Preferences for Boys and the Gender Gap in Math

Gaia Dossi, David N. Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Paola Sapienza

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12144

Do Male Managers Increase Risk-Taking of Female Teams? Evidence from the NCAA

René Böheim, Christoph Freudenthaler, Mario Lackner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12105

Intergenerational Transmission of Health at Birth from Mothers and Fathers

Osea Giuntella, Giulia La Mattina, Climent Quintana-Domeque

revised version published as 'Intergenerational Transmission of Health at Birth: Fathers Matter Too!' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2021, 17 (2), 284–313

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12100

Does Society Influence the Gender Gap in Risk Attitudes? Evidence from East and West Germany

Cornelia Chadi, Uwe Jirjahn

revised version published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2024, 113, 102311

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12099

Female Leadership and Gender Gap within Firms: Evidence from an Italian Board Reform

Agata Maida, Andrea Weber

published in: ILR Review, 2022, 75 (2), 488-515

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12078

The Role of Body Weight for Health, Earnings and Life Satisfaction

Olaf Hübler

published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 240 (5), 653-676

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12067

What Drives Female Labor Force Participation? Comparable Micro-Level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies

Stephan Klasen, Janneke Pieters, Manuel Santos Silva, Le Thi Ngoc Tu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12059

Relationship of Gender Differences in Preferences to Economic Development and Gender Equality

Armin Falk, Johannes Hermle

published in: Science, 2018, 362 (6412) (data available here: https://gps.iza.org/home)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12052

What Stops Poor Girls from Going to College? Skill Development and Access to Higher Education in a Developing Country

Oswaldo Molina, Diego Santa María, Gustavo Yamada

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12029

The Effect of Increasing Immigration Enforcement on the Labor Supply of High-Skilled Citizen Women

Chloe N. East, Andrea Velasquez

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12026

Do Female Managers Help to Lower Within-Firm Gender Pay Gaps? Public Institutions vs. Private Enterprises

Iga Magda, Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska

published as 'Do Women Managers Lower Gender Pay Gaps? Evidence from Public and Private Firms' in: Feminist Economics, 2019, 25 (4), 185 - 210

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12023

Does Paternity Leave Reduce Fertility?

Lídia Farré, Libertad González

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12022

Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process: Evidence from China

Peter J. Kuhn, Kailing Shen, Shuo Zhang

published as 'Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process: Facts from a Chinese Job Board in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 147, 201531.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12021

Gender Quotas or Girls' Networks? Evidence from an Italian Research Selection

Daniele Checchi, Simona Cicognani, Nevena Kulic

published in: Work Employment and Society 2019, 33 (3), 462-482

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12021

Gender Quotas or Girls' Networks? Evidence from an Italian Research Selection

Daniele Checchi, Simona Cicognani, Nevena Kulic

published in: Work Employment and Society 2019, 33 (3), 462-482

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12020

Connecting to Economic Opportunity? The Role of Public Transport in Promoting Women's Employment in Lima

Daniel Martinez, Oscar A. Mitnik, Edgar Salgado, Lynn Scholl, Patricia Yanez-Pagans

revised version published in: Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2020, 3, 1-23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12012

Career Lotto: Labor Supply in Winner-Take-All Markets

Wayne A. Grove, Michael Jetter, Kerry L. Papps

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 183, 362-376

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12003

Labor Supply under Participation and Hours Constraints: An Extended Structural Model for Policy Evaluations

Kai-Uwe Müller, Michael Neumann, Katharina Wrohlich

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11982

Geographical Roots of the Coevolution of Cultural and Linguistic Traits

Oded Galor, Ömer Özak, Assaf Sarid

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11982

Geographical Roots of the Coevolution of Cultural and Linguistic Traits

Oded Galor, Ömer Özak, Assaf Sarid

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11974

Women in Economics: Stalled Progress

Shelly Lundberg, Jenna Stearns

published in: Journal of Economic Perpectivesm 2019, 33 (1), 3 - 22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11947

Economic Behavior of Children and Adolescents - A First Survey of Experimental Economics Results

Matthias Sutter, Claudia Zoller, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler

published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 111, 98-121

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11938

Does Female Breadwinning Make Partnerships Less Healthy or Less Stable?

Gigi Foster, Leslie S. Stratton

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34 (1), 63-96.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11936

Biology and the Gender Gap in Educational Performance: The Role of Prenatal Testosterone in Test Scores

Anne C. Gielen, Esmée Zwiers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11913

Academic Achievement and the Gender Composition of Preschool Staff

Mette Gørtz, Eva Rye Johansen, Marianne Simonsen

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 55, 241 - 258

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11910

Does the Girl Next Door Affect Your Academic Outcomes and Career Choices?

Sofoklis Goulas, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Yi Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11895

Public versus Private Sector Wage Gap in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data

Aysit Tansel, Halil Ibrahim Keskin, Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir

substantially revised version published as 'Public-Private Sector Wage Gap by Gender in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data, 1998-2018' in: World Development, 2020, 135, 105060

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11885

Capital Market Integration and Gender Inequality

Mizuki Komura, Hikaru Ogawa

published in: Review of Development Economics, 2019, 23(3), 1387-1413.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11874

Violence and Female Labor Supply

Zahra Siddique

published as 'Media reported violence and female labor supply' in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2022, 70 (4), 1337-1365.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11873

Fathers' Parental Leave-Taking, Childcare Involvement and Mothers' Labor Market Participation

Marcus Tamm

revised version published as 'Fathers' parental leave-taking, childcare involvement and labor market participation' in: Labour Economics, 2019, 59, 184 - 197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11872

Cross Cohort Evidence on Gendered Sorting Patterns in the UK: The Importance of Societal Movements versus Childhood Variables

Warn N. Lekfuangfu, Grace Lordan

published as 'Documenting Occupational Sorting by Gender in the UK across Three Cohorts: Does a Grand Convergence Rely on Societal Movements? in: Empirical Economics, 2023, 65, 2215–2256

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11861

Teamwork, Leadership and Gender

Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia, Vincenzo Scoppa

published as 'Female leadership: effectiveness and perception' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 201, 134-162.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11846

The Betrayed Generation? Intra-Household Transfers and Retirement Behavior in South Korea

Kyeongkuk Kim, Sang-Hyop Lee, Timothy J. Halliday

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11843

The Gender Gap in Attitudes and Test Scores: A New Construct of the Mathematical Capability

Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Anna Maccagnan, Silvia Mendolia

published as 'Going Beyond Test Scores: The Gender Gap in Italian Children's Mathematical Capability' in: Feminist Economics, 2021, 27 (3), 161-187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11822

Can Economic Pressure Overcome Social Norms? The Case of Female Labor Force Participation

Ana Rute Cardoso, Louis-Philippe Morin

published online as 'War-driven permanent emigration, sex ratios, and female labor force participation' in: Journal of Human Resources, October 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11820

The Effects of Professor Gender on the Post-Graduation Outcomes of Female Students

Hani Mansour, Daniel I. Rees, Bryson Rintala, Nathan Wozny

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2022, 75 (3), 693 - 715

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11757

Gender Identity, Co-Working Spouses and Relative Income within Households

Natalia Zinovyeva, Maryna Tverdostup

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (4), 258–284

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11694

Independent Thinking and Hard Working, or Caring and Well Behaved? Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Gender Identity Norms

Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anastasia Terskaya

substantially revised version published as 'Gender Norms in High School: Impacts on Risky Behaviors from Adolescence to Adulthood' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 196, 429-456

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11693

Is There a Male Breadwinner Norm? The Hazards of Inferring Preferences from Marriage Market Outcomes

Ariel J. Binder, David Lam

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (6), 1885-1914

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11692

Origins of Gender Norms: Sibling Gender Composition and Women's Choice of Occupation and Partner

Anne Ardila Brenøe

published as 'Brothers Increase Women's Gender Conformity' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 1859 - 1896

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11692

Origins of Gender Norms: Sibling Gender Composition and Women's Choice of Occupation and Partner

Anne Ardila Brenøe

published as 'Brothers Increase Women's Gender Conformity' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 1859 - 1896

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11660

Gender Segregation in Education and Its Implications for Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from India

Soham Sahoo, Stephan Klasen

revised version published in: Demography, 2021, 58 (3), 987-1010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11659

Implicit Stereotypes: Evidence from Teachers' Gender Bias

Michela Carlana

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2019, 134 (3), 1163–1224,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11654

My Choice: Female Contraceptive Use Autonomy in Bangladesh

Niels-Hugo Blunch

published in: Feminist Economicy, 2019, 25 (4), 68-93

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11640

The Distribution of the Gender Wage Gap

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Manuel Fernandez Sierra

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11639

How (Not) to Make Women Work?

Joanna Tyrowicz, Lucas van der Velde, Karolina Goraus-Tanska

published in: Social Science Research, 2018, 75, 154-167

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11624

Marathon, Hurdling or Sprint? The Effects of Exam Scheduling on Academic Performance

Sofoklis Goulas, Rigissa Megalokonomou

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2020, 20 (2), 20190177.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11596

Women Legislators and Economic Performance

Thushyanthan Baskaran, Sonia R. Bhalotra, Brian Min, Yogesh Uppal

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2024, 29, 151–214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11590

Maternal Mortality and Women's Political Participation

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Damian Clarke, Joseph Gomes, Atheendar Venkataramani

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (5), 2172–2208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11575

An Advisor like Me: Does Gender Matter?

Takao Kato, Yang Song

revised version published as 'Advising, Gender, and Performance: Evidence from a University with Exogenous Adviser-Student Gender Match' in: Economic Inquiry, 2022, 60 (1), 121-141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11534

Women's Political Participation and Intrahousehold Empowerment: Evidence from the Egyptian Arab Spring

Olivier B. Bargain, Delphine Boutin, Hugues Champeaux

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 141, 102379

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11532

Math, Girls and Socialism

Quentin Lippmann, Claudia Senik

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (3), 874-888.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11532

Math, Girls and Socialism

Quentin Lippmann, Claudia Senik

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (3), 874-888.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11530

Just like a Woman? New Comparative Evidence on the Gender Income Gap across Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Niels-Hugo Blunch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11502

Minimum Wages and the Gender Gap in Pay: New Evidence from the UK and Ireland

Olivier B. Bargain, Karina Doorley, Philippe Van Kerm

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65 (3), 514-539

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11463

Traditional Agricultural Practices and the Sex Ratio Today

Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn

published in: PLoS ONE, 2018, 13 (1), e0190510

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11384

Family Structure and the Turnout Gender Gap: Evidence from Italy

Giorgio Bellettini, Carlotta Berti Ceroni, Enrico Cantoni, Chiara Monfardini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11362

Madrasah for Girls and Private School for Boys? The Determinants of School Type Choice in Rural and Urban Indonesia

Niaz Asadullah, Maliki Maliki

published in: International Journal of Educational Development, 2018, 62, 96–111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11361

Early Gender Gaps among University Graduates

Marco Francesconi, Matthias Parey

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 63-82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11360

Gender Norms and the Motherhood Penalty: Experimental Evidence from India

Arjun S. Bedi, Tanmoy Majilla, Matthias Rieger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11341

The Impact of Life-Course Developments on Pensions in the NDC Systems in Poland, Italy and Sweden and Point System in Germany

Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, Marek Góra, Irena E. Kotowska, Iga Magda, Anna Ruzik-Sierdzińska, Pawel Strzelecki

published as 'The Impact of Lifetime Events on Pensions: Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Schemes in Poland, Italy, and Sweden, and the Point Scheme in Germany' in: Progress and Challenges of Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Pension Schemes: Volume 2. Addressing Gender, Administration, and Communication, World Bank, 2019, 55 -85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11323

Does Integration Change Gender Attitudes? The Effect of Randomly Assigning Women to Traditionally Male Teams

Gordon B. Dahl, Andreas Kotsadam, Dan-Olof Rooth

published in: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2021, 136(2), 987–1030.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11321

Perceived Wages and the Gender Gap in STEM Fields

Aderonke Osikominu, Gregor Pfeifer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11320

Why Women Don't Ask: Gender Differences in Fairness Perceptions of Own Wages and Subsequent Wage Growth

Christian Pfeifer, Gesine Stephan

revised version published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2019, 43(2), 295-310

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11295

Identifying Age Penalty in Women's Wages: New Method and Evidence from Germany 1984-2014

Joanna Tyrowicz, Lucas van der Velde, Irene van Staveren

published in: Feminist Economics, 2018, 24 (4), 108-130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11282

Women and Migration

Francisca M. Antman

published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys, and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, 731-747

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11263

Closing the Gender Gap in Leadership Positions: Can Expanding the Pipeline Increase Parity?

Ryan Brown, Hani Mansour, Stephen D. O'Connell

published as 'Does local female political representation empower women to run for higher office? Evidence from state and national legislatures in India' in: World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36 (1), 198-218

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11261

Voting Patterns and the Gender Wage Gap

Wifag Adnan, Sami H. Miaari

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 146, 222-247

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11260

Explaining the Gender Test Score Gap in Mathematics: The Role of Gender Inequality

Z. Eylem Gevrek, Christian Neumeier, Deniz Gevrek

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 76 (3), 1-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11259

The 'Mighty Girl' Effect: Does Parenting Daughters Alter Attitudes towards Gender Roles?

Mireia Borrell-Porta, Joan Costa-Font, Julia Philipp

revised version published as 'The 'mighty girl' effect: does parenting daughters alter attitudes towards gender norms?' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71 (1), 24 - 46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11259

The 'Mighty Girl' Effect: Does Parenting Daughters Alter Attitudes towards Gender Roles?

Mireia Borrell-Porta, Joan Costa-Font, Julia Philipp

revised version published as 'The 'mighty girl' effect: does parenting daughters alter attitudes towards gender norms?' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71 (1), 24 - 46

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