IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11239

Women's Inheritance Rights Reform and the Preference for Sons in India

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Rachel Brulé, Sanchari Roy

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 146 (C), 102275

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11230

Gender Homophily in Referral Networks: Consequences for the Medicare Physician Earnings Gap

Dan Zeltzer

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12 (2), 169-197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11210

Education Effects on Days Hospitalized and Days out of Work by Gender: Evidence from Turkey

Aysit Tansel, Halil Ibrahim Keskin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11202

Ordering History Through the Timeline

Eugenio Garibaldi, Pietro Garibaldi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11201

Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Risk-Taking among Children, Teenagers, and College Students: Evidence from Jeopardy!

Michael Jetter, Jay K. Walker

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2020, 20 (2), 20190179.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11201

Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Risk-Taking among Children, Teenagers, and College Students: Evidence from Jeopardy!

Michael Jetter, Jay K. Walker

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2020, 20 (2), 20190179.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11200

Parents, Siblings and Schoolmates: The Effects of Family-School Interactions on Educational Achievement and Long-Term Labor Market Outcomes

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Cappellari

published as 'Who benefits from privileged peers? Evidence from siblings in schools' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2020, 35 (7), 893 - 916

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11193

NDC Schemes and Heterogeneity in Longevity: Proposals for Redesign

Robert Holzmann, Jennifer Alonso-García, Heloise Labit-Hardy, Andres M. Villegas

published in: R. Holzmann, E. Palmer, R. Palacios. S. Sacchi (eds). Progress and Challenges of Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Pension (NDC) Schemes, Volume 1: Addressing Marginalization, Polarization, and the Labor Market, Chapter 14. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11191

Probing the Effects of the Australian System of Minimum Wages on the Gender Wage Gap

Barbara Broadway, Roger Wilkins

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11177

Papa Does Preach: Daughters and Polarisation of Attitudes toward Abortion

Clémentine Van Effenterre

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 179, 188-201

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11173

Do Emigrants Self-Select along Cultural Traits? Evidence from the MENA Countries

Frédéric Docquier, Aysit Tansel, Riccardo Turati

published in: International Migration Review, 2020, 54 (2), 388-422.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11172

Migration and Co-Residence Choices: Evidence from Mexico

Simone Bertoli, Elie Murard

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 142, Article 102330

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11139

Do Boys Benefit from Male Teachers in Elementary School? Evidence from Administrative Panel Data

Patrick A. Puhani

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 340-354

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11118

Labor Market Engagement and the Health of Working Adults: Evidence from India

Archana Dang, Pushkar Maitra, Nidhiya Menon

published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2019, 33, 58 - 77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11114

Occupational Match Quality and Gender over Two Cohorts

John T. Addison, Liwen Chen, Orgul Demet Ozturk

revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2020, 73(3), 730-767.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11108

Not for the Profit, but for the Training? Gender Differences in Training in the For-Profit and Non-Profit Sectors

Benoit Dostie, Mohsen Javdani

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (3), 644-689.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11108

Not for the Profit, but for the Training? Gender Differences in Training in the For-Profit and Non-Profit Sectors

Benoit Dostie, Mohsen Javdani

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (3), 644-689.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11089

Male Gatekeepers Gender Bias in the Publishing Process?

Felix Bransch, Michael Kvasnicka

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 202, 714-732

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11088

How Entry into Parenthood Shapes Gender Role Attitudes: New Evidence from Longitudinal UK Data

Elena Grinza, Francesco Devicienti, Mariacristina Rossi, Davide Vannoni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11088

How Entry into Parenthood Shapes Gender Role Attitudes: New Evidence from Longitudinal UK Data

Elena Grinza, Francesco Devicienti, Mariacristina Rossi, Davide Vannoni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11057

Has the Push for Equal Gender Representation Changed the Role of Women on German Supervisory Boards?

Viktor Bozhinov, Christopher Koch, Thorsten Schank

published in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 2019, 71(3), 385-411

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11057

Has the Push for Equal Gender Representation Changed the Role of Women on German Supervisory Boards?

Viktor Bozhinov, Christopher Koch, Thorsten Schank

published in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 2019, 71(3), 385-411

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11046

Teenage Daughters as a Cause of Divorce

Jan Kabátek, David C. Ribar

published as 'Daughters and Divorce' in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (637), 2144 - 2170

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11045

The Gender Wage Gap among College Graduates in Italy

Daniela Piazzalunga

published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2018, 4 (1), 33-90

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11044

Gender Differences in the Development of Other-Regarding Preferences

Katrin John, Stephan L. Thomsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11024

The Persistent Effects of Short-Term Peer Groups in Higher Education

Petra Thiemann

revised version published in: Management Science, 2022, 68( 2), 1131-1148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11009

Individual Poverty Measurement Using a Fuzzy Intrahousehold Approach

Gianni Betti, Lucia Mangiavacchi, Luca Piccoli

published as 'Women and poverty: insights from individual consumption in Albania' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, 18, 69 - 91

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11003

Is There Still Son Preference in the United States?

Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, Peter Brummund, Jason B. Cook, Miriam Larson-Koester

published: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33 (3), 709-750

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11001

Sibling Gender Composition and Women's Wages

Angela Cools, Eleonora Patacchini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11001

Sibling Gender Composition and Women's Wages

Angela Cools, Eleonora Patacchini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11000

Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations

Friederike Mengel, Jan Sauermann, Ulf Zölitz

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17 (2), 535-566

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10979

Women in Top Incomes: Evidence from Sweden 1974–2013

Anne Boschini, Kristin Gunnarsson, Jesper Roine

updated version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 181, 104115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10976

Gender, Willingness to Compete and Career Choices along the Whole Ability Distribution

Thomas Buser, Noemi Peter, Stefan C. Wolter

revised version published as 'Willingness to compete, gender and career choices along the whole ability distribution' in: Experimental Economics, 2022, 25, 1299 - 1326

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10975

What Drives the Gender Wage Gap? Examining the Roles of Sorting, Productivity Differences, and Discrimination

Isabelle Sin, Steven Stillman, Richard Fabling

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10974

The Dynamics of Gender Earnings Differentials: Evidence from Establishment Data

Erling Barth, Sari Pekkala Kerr, Claudia Olivetti

published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 134, 103713

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10963

What Chinese Workers Value: An Analysis of Job Satisfaction, Job Expectations, and Labor Turnover in China

Peng Nie, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

published in: Prague Economic Papers, 2020, 29 (1), 85-104

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10950

(How) Do Non-Cognitive Skills Programs Improve Adolescent School Achievement? Experimental Evidence

Pedro S. Martins

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10947

Choice of Majors: Are Women Really Different from Men?

Adriana Kugler, Catherine H. Tinsley, Olga Ukhaneva

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 81, 102079

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10933

The Gender Wage Gap in Europe: Job Preferences, Gender Convergence and Distributional Effects

Paul Redmond, Seamus McGuinness

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 81 (3), 564 - 587

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10932

Gender Stereotyping and Self-Stereotyping Attitudes: A Large Field Study of Managers

Tor Eriksson, Nina Smith, Valdemar Smith

published as 'Gender stereotyping and self-stereotyping among Danish managers' in: Gender in Management: An International Journal, 2021, 36 (5), 622-639

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10931

Gender: An Historical Perspective

Paola Giuliano

published in:Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys, and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, 645–672

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10889

The Timing of Puberty and Gender Differences in Educational Achievement

Kristian Koerselman, Tuomas Pekkarinen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10888

Can Gender Quotas in Candidate Lists Empower Women? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Manuel Bagues, Pamela Campa

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021,194, 104315

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10865

The Effects of Paternity Leave on Fertility and Labor Market Outcomes

Lídia Farré, Libertad González

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10831

Do Significant Labor Market Events Change Who Does the Chores? Paid Work, Housework and Power in Mixed-Gender Australian Households

Gigi Foster, Leslie S. Stratton

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (2), 483-519

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10829

Top Earnings Inequality and the Gender Pay Gap: Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom

Nicole M. Fortin, Brian Bell, Michael Johannes Böhm

published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 107 - 123

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10828

An Advisor Like Me? Advisor Gender and Post-Graduate Careers in Science

Patrick Gaule, Mario Piacentini

published in: Research Policy, 2018, 47(4), 805-813

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10826

The Gender Wage Gap in Developed Countries

Astrid Kunze

published in: Oxford Handbook on Women and the Economy, Oxford University Press, (ed.) Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys, and Saul D. Hoffman, 2018.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10825

I (Don't) Like You! But Who Cares? Gender Differences in Same Sex and Mixed Sex Teams

Leonie Gerhards, Michael Kosfeld

published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (627), 716 - 739

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10814

Father Absence and the Educational Gender Gap

Shelly Lundberg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10793

Safe Options Induce Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes

Paolo Crosetto, Antonio Filippin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10792

Competition and Subsequent Risk-Taking Behaviour: Heterogeneity across Gender and Outcomes

Antonio Filippin, Francesca Gioia

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 75, 84-94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10791

Selection on Ability and the Early Career Growth in the Gender Wage Gap

Eduardo Fraga, Gustavo Gonzaga, Rodrigo R. Soares

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10790

Closing or Reproducing the Gender Gap? Parental Transmission, Social Norms and Education Choice

Maria Knoth Humlum, Anne Brink Nandrup, Nina Smith

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32 (2), 455–500

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10790

Closing or Reproducing the Gender Gap? Parental Transmission, Social Norms and Education Choice

Maria Knoth Humlum, Anne Brink Nandrup, Nina Smith

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32 (2), 455–500

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10789

The Labor Market Gender Gap in Denmark: Sorting Out the Past 30 Years

Yana Gallen, Rune V. Lesner, Rune Majlund Vejlin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10788

Women in the Workplace and Management Practices: Theory and Evidence

Takao Kato, Naomi Kodama

published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, New York: OUP, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10788

Women in the Workplace and Management Practices: Theory and Evidence

Takao Kato, Naomi Kodama

published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, New York: OUP, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10780

Effect of Political Decentralization and Female Leadership on Institutional Births and Child Mortality in Rural Bihar, India

Santosh Kumar, Nishith Prakash

published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2017, 185, 171-178

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10758

Gender Differences in the Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program

Jorge Luis García, James J. Heckman, Anna Ziff

revised version available as NBER Working Paper No. 23412

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10729

The Changing Nature of Gender Selection into Employment: Europe over the Great Recession

Juan J. Dolado, Cecilia García-Peñalosa, Linas Tarasonis

published in: Economic Policy, 2020, 104, 637-676.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10729

The Changing Nature of Gender Selection into Employment: Europe over the Great Recession

Juan J. Dolado, Cecilia García-Peñalosa, Linas Tarasonis

published in: Economic Policy, 2020, 104, 637-676.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10726

Differences in Positions along a Hierarchy: Counterfactuals Based on an Assignment Model

Laurent Gobillon, Dominique Meurs, Sébastien Roux

published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 145, 29-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10717

Female Babies and Risk-Aversion

Ganna Pogrebna, Andrew J. Oswald, David Haig

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 10 - 17

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10716

Do Women in Highly Qualified Positions Face Higher Work-to-Family Conflicts in Germany Than Men?

Anne Busch-Heizmann, Elke Holst

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10713

Career Interruptions and Current Earnings: The Role of Interruption Type, Compensation Component, and Gender

Benedikt Gerst, Christian Grund

published in: International Journal of Manpower 2019, 40 , 850–878

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10712

Fathers, Parental Leave and Gender Norms

Ulrike Unterhofer, Katharina Wrohlich

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10674

Do Friendship Networks Improve Female Education?

Youjin Hahn, Asadul Islam, Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou

published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130, 740-764.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10673

Is the Gender Pay Gap in the US Just the Result of Gender Segregation at Work?

Katie Meara, Francesco Pastore, Allan Webster

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10672

Occupation and Gender

Patricia Cortes, Jessica Pan

published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10672

Occupation and Gender

Patricia Cortes, Jessica Pan

published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10628

Smog in Our Brains: Gender Differences in the Impact of Exposure to Air Pollution on Cognitive Performance

Xi Chen, Xiaobo Zhang, Xin Zhang

published as 'The impact of exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance' in: PNAS, 2018, 115 (37), 9193 - 9197.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10627

Can Gender Differences in Distributional Preferences Explain Gender Gaps in Competition?

Subha Mani, Utteeyo Dasgupta, Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, 70, 1-11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10626

Gender Differences in Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Competitive Behavior

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Rachel Frank, Emiliano Huet-Vaughn

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 77, 170 - 176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10625

Let the Girls Learn! I It is not Only about Math... It’s about Gender Social Norm

Natalia Nollenberger, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 62, 230-253

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10620

Health and Body Mass Index: No Simple Relationship

Olaf Hübler

revised version published as 'Health and weight - gender-specific linkages under heterogeneity, interdependence and resilience factors' in: Economic and Human Biology, 2017, 26, 96-111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10610

Efficient Supply of Human Capital: Role of College Major

Sungjin Cho, Jihye Kam, Soohyung Lee

published in: Singapore Economic Review, 2018, 63 (5), 1319-1343

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10609

Honesty toward the Holy Day

Ronen Bar-El, Yossef Tobol

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 68, 13-17

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10588

Gender and Peer Effects in Social Networks

Julie Beugnot, Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 113, 207-224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10587

Choking under Pressure and Gender: Evidence from Professional Tennis

Danny Cohen-Zada, Alex Krumer, Mosi Rosenboim, Offer Moshe Shapir

Published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 61, 176-190

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10586

Girls Helping Girls: The Impact of Female Peers on Grades and Educational Choices

Pal Schone, Kristine von Simson, Marte Strom

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10585

Gender Differences in the Link between Income and Trust Levels: Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Jessica R. Bilson, Michael Jetter, Ingebjørg Kristoffersen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10583

A Firm of One's Own: Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice

Andrew Brudevold-Newman, Maddalena Honorati, Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10558

The Implicit Costs of Motherhood over the Lifecycle: Cross-Cohort Evidence from Administrative Longitudinal Data

Christian Neumeier, Todd A. Sorensen, Douglas A. Webber

published as 'The Implicit Costs of Motherhood over the Lifecycle: Cross-Cohort Evidence from Administrative Longitudinal Data' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2018, 84 (3), 716-733

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10552

Globalization and Social Change: Gender-Specific Effects of Trade Liberalization in Indonesia

Krisztina Kis-Katos, Janneke Pieters, Robert Sparrow

published in: IMF Economic Review, 2018, 66 (4), 763-793

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10505

The Economic Consequences of Family Policies: Lessons from a Century of Legislation in High-Income Countries

Claudia Olivetti, Barbara Petrongolo

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 31, 205-230

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10497

On the Effectiveness of Elected Male and Female Leaders and Team Coordination

Ernesto Reuben, Krisztina Timko

published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2018, 4, 123-135