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The IZA Discussion Paper Series (ISSN: 2365-9793) disseminates high-quality research by IZA network members to the scientific community and the interested public worldwide before they are later published in academic journals. Comprising more than 17,000 papers, IZA's publication flagship is the most influential working paper series in labor economics.

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166 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17903
Empowerment Paradox? The Long-Run Impact of a Cycling Program for Girls in Zambia
Ana Garcia-Hernandez, Nishith Prakash, Janina Isabel Steinert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17830
The Power to Discriminate
Samuel Dodini, Alexander Willén
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17823
War and Peace: How Economic Prospects Drive Conflictuality
Shuguang Jiang, Marie Claire Villeval, Zhengping Zhang, Jie Zheng
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17745
Labor Market Concentration in Germany
Michael Oberfichtner, Martin Popp
forthcoming in: German Economic Review, 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17689
Guaranteed Employment in Rural India: Intra-Household Labor and Resource Allocation Consequences
Jorge Luis García
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17628
Dishonesty Concessions in Teams: Theory and Experimental Insights from Local Politicians in India
Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Anustup Kundu, Kunal Sen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17613
Decomposing Recruitment Elasticity in Job Matching
Ryo Kambayashi, Kohei Kawaguchi, Suguru Otani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17450
Female Empowerment and Male Backlash: Experimental Evidence from India
Claire Cullen, Sarthak Joshi, Joseph Vecci, Julia Talbot-Jones
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17391
Family Planning and Ethnic Heritage: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico, Chiara Falco
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17357
Minimum Wages in Concentrated Labor Markets
Martin Popp
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17323
Monopsony Power and Poverty: The Consequences of Walmart Supercenter Openings
Lukas Lehner, Zachary Parolin, Clemente Pignatti, Rafael Pintro Schmitt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17275
Reducing the Gender Digital Divide Amongst Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Nick Drydakis
published in:G. Meramveliotakis and M. Manioudis (eds). Sustainable Economic Development Perspectives from Political Economy and Economics Pluralism, London: Routledge, 2025, 237-264.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17217
Striking the Right Balance: Why Standard Balance Tests Over-Reject the Null, and How to Fix It
Jason Kerwin, Nada Rostom, Olivier Sterck
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17208
Worker Power, Immigrant Sorting, and Firm Dynamics
Mikko Silliman, Alexander Willén
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17163
Empowerment or Indoctrination? Female Training Programs under Dictatorship
Felipe González, Mounu Prem, Cristine von Dessauer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16823
Global Labor Market Power
Francesco Amodio, Emanuele Brancati, Peter Brummund, Nicolás de Roux, Michele Di Maio
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16809
A General Measure of Bargaining Power for Non-cooperative Games
Joseph-Simon Goerlach, Nicolas Motz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16786
Inequality and Market Concentration: New Evidence from Australia
Lachlan Hotchin, Andrew Leigh
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2024, 70 (4), 1216-1225
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16727
Corporate Globalization and Worker Representation
Uwe Jirjahn
published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16697
How Do Firms Respond to Unions?
Samuel Dodini, Anna Stansbury, Alexander Willén
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16608
The Effects of the Dobbs Decision on Fertility
Daniel Dench, Mayra Pineda-Torres, Caitlin Knowles Myers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16529
Labor Market Power and Development
Tristany Armangué-Jubert, Nezih Guner, Alessandro Ruggieri
forthcoming in: American Economic Review: Insights
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16421
Rainfall Variability and Labor Allocation in Uzbekistan: The Role of Women's Empowerment
Vladimir Otrachshenko, Olga Popova, Nargiza Alimukhamedova
published in: Post-Soviet Affairs, 2024, 40 (2), 119–138
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16409
The Gender Pay Gap: Micro Sources and Macro Consequences
Iacopo Morchio, Christian Moser
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16401
Comments on the 2023 Draft Merger Guidelines: A Labor Market Perspective
David Berger, Thomas Hasenzagl, Kyle Herkenhoff, Simon Mongey, Eric A. Posner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16348
Intergenerational Power Shift and the Rise of Non-arranged Marriages among Refugees
Andrew Foster, Merve Betül Gökçe, Murat Güray Kirdar
published as 'Intergenerational Power Shift and the Rise of Nonarranged Marriages Among Refugees' in: Demography, 2024, 61 (5), 1427 - 1454
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16330
The Effect of Franchise No-Poaching Restrictions on Worker Earnings
Brian Callaci, Matthew Gibson, Sergio Pinto, Marshall Steinbaum, Matt Walsh
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 25 November 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16163
Sendemails: An Automated Email Package with Multiple Applications
Luca Fumarco, S. Michael Gaddis, Francesco Sarracino, I. Snoddy
revised version published in:Stata Journal, 2024, 24 (1), 130-160
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16157
How Does the Beauty of Wives Affect Post-Marriage Family Outcomes? Helen's Face in Chinese Households
Junsen Zhang, Shulan Fei, Yanbing Wen
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 212, 122-137
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16069
The Women Empowering Effect of Higher Education
Ahmed Elsayed, Alina Shirshikova
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 163, 103101
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16030
Thriving in the Rain: Natural Shocks, Time Allocation, and Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh
Sveva Vitellozzi, Gianna Claudia Giannelli
published in: World Development, 2024, 181, 106684
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16007
Political Connections, Business Groups and Innovation
Simon Commander, Saul Estrin, Thamashi De Silva
published in: Comperative Economic Studies, 2024, 66, 639–660
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15583
Intra-Household Bargaining in Ivory Coast: Experimental Evidence from Rural Areas
Ralitza Dimova, Edouard Pokou Abou, Arnab K. Basu, Romane Viennet
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15578
Parental Risk Preferences, Maternal Bargaining Power, and the Educational Progressions of Children: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence from Rural Côte D'Ivoire
Arnab K. Basu, Ralitza Dimova, Monnet Benoit Patrick Gbakou, Romane Viennet
published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2023, 102, 101957
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15514
Employer Power and Employment in Developing Countries
Nancy H. Chau, Ravi Kanbur, Vidhya Soundararajan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15478
We Need to Talk about Mechanical Turk: What 22,989 Hypothesis Tests Tell Us about Publication Bias and p-Hacking in Online Experiments
Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, Anthony Heyes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15477
Labor Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development
Francesco Amodio, Pamela Medina, Monica Morlacco
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15293
Monopsony Makes Firms Not Only Small but Also Unproductive: Why East Germany Has Not Converged
Rüdiger Bachmann, Christian Bayer, Heiko Stüber, Felix Wellschmied
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15076
Wheels of Change: Transforming Girls' Lives with Bicycles
Nathan Fiala, Ana Garcia-Hernandez, Kritika Narula, Nishith Prakash
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14897
Gender Discrimination
Kailing Shen
published online in: Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, Cham, 28 January 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14872
Monopsony in the Labor Market: New Empirical Results and New Public Policies
Orley Ashenfelter, David Card, Henry S Farber, Michael R. Ransom
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (S), S1-S10
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14861
Increasing Women's Empowerment: Implications for Family Welfare
Kate Ambler, Kelly M. Jones, Michael O’Sullivan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14843
Employer Market Power in Silicon Valley
Matthew Gibson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14760
Measuring Youth Empowerment: An Illustration Using the Example of Tunisia
Micheline Goedhuys, Michael Grimm, Aline Meysonnat, Eleonora Nillesen, Ann-Kristin Reitmann
published as 'Measuring youth empowerment: An application to Tunisia' in: Journal of International Development, 2024, 36 (4), 1945-1964
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14523
Using Bank Savings Product Design for Empowering Women and Agricultural Development
Jose C. Galdo
updated version published online in: World Bank Economic Review, 29 May 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14494
Impacts of the Clean Air Act on the Power Sector from 1938-1994: Anticipation and Adaptation
Karen Clay, Akshaya Jha, Joshua Lewis, Edson Severnini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14390
Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants
Francesco Amodio, Nicolás de Roux
published as 'Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 949–977
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14221
Using Machine Learning and Qualitative Interviews to Design a Five-Question Women's Agency Index
Seema Jayachandran, Monica Biradavolu, Jan Cooper
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14185
Lessons from Denmark about Inequality and Social Mobility
James J. Heckman, Rasmus Landersø
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14112
Wage Inequality and Labor Rights Violations
Ioana E. Marinescu, Yue Qiu, Aaron Sojourner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14023
Ethnic Divisions and the Onset of Civil Wars in Syria
Salah Abosedra, Ali Fakih, Nathir Haimoun
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13985
Education and Consanguineous Marriage
Pelin Akyol, Naci Mocan
published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2023, 17 (1), 114 - 171
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13957
Globalization and Female Empowerment: Evidence from Myanmar
Teresa Molina, Mari Tanaka
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2023, 71 (2), 519-565
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13885
Consequences of War: Japan's Demographic Transition and the Marriage Market
Kota Ogasawara, Mizuki Komura
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35 (3), 1037-1069
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13687
The Weight of Patriarchy? Gender Obesity Gaps in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Joan Costa-Font, Mario Gyori
published in: Social Science and Medicine, 220, 266, 113353
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13557
Rising Concentration and Wage Inequality
Matias Cortes, Jeanne Tschopp
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2024, 126 (2), 320-354
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13552
Does Immigration Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Homes?
Delia Furtado, Francesc Ortega
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13155
Labour Market Institutions, Technology and Rent Sharing
Kyoji Fukao, Cristiano Perugini, Fabrizio Pompei
published as 'Labour market regimes, technology and rent-sharing in Japan' in: Economic Modelling, 2022, 112, 105856
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13105
Ancestral Norms, Legal Origins, and Female Empowerment
Abel Brodeur, Marie Christelle Mabeu, Roland Pongou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12998
Recoupling Economic and Social Prosperity
Katharina Lima de Miranda, Dennis J. Snower
published in: Global Perspectives, 2020, 1 (1), 11867
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12940
Can Women's Self-Help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India
Paul Anand, Swati Saxena, Rolando Gonzales Martinez, Hai-Anh H Dang
published in: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2020, 21(2), 137-160.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12847
Empowered or Impoverished: The Impact of Panic Buttons on Domestic Violence
Semih Tumen, Hakan Ulucan
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2024, 22, 1423–1459
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12814
Childcare and Maternal Employment: Evidence from Vietnam
Hai-Anh H Dang, Masako Hiraga, Cuong Viet Nguyen
published in: World Development, 2022, 159, 106022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12726
Female Workers, Male Managers: Gender, Leadership, and Risk-Taking
Ulf Rinne, Hendrik Sonnabend
published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2022, 88 (3), 906 - 930
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12574
Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages
Gregor Jarosch, Jan Sebastian Nimczik, Isaac Sorkin
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2024, 91 (6), 3569 - 3607
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12512
Multiple Applications, Competing Mechanisms, and Market Power
James Albrecht, Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Susan Vroman
published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2020, 190, 105121
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12471
On the Malleability of Implicit Attitudes Towards Women Empowerment: Evidence from Tunisia
Eleonora Nillesen, Michael Grimm, Micheline Goedhuys, Ann-Kristin Reitmann, Aline Meysonnat
published in: World Development, 2021, 138, 105263
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12369
What Do We Really Know about the Employment Effects of the UK's National Minimum Wage?
Mike Brewer, Thomas F. Crossley, Federico Zilio
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12354
Voting Power and Survival: The Case of a Ruling Party
Artyom Jelnov, Pavel Jelnov
pablished as "Success, Survival and Probabilistic Voting: The Case of a ruling Party" in: Journal Homo Oeconomicus, 2019, 36(3), 209-226
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. 12034
Inequality and Market Concentration, When Shareholding Is More Skewed Than Consumption
Joshua S. Gans, Andrew Leigh, Martin Schmalz, Adam Triggs
published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2019, 35 (3), 550 - 563
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12016
Touch Thee Not: Group Conflict, Caste Power, and Untouchability in Rural India
Indraneel Dasgupta, Sarmistha Pal
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021, 49 (2), 442-466
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11867
Some (Maybe) Unpleasant Arithmetic in Minimum Wage Evaluations: The Role of Power, Significance and Sample Size
Ronald Bachmann, Rahel Felder, Sandra Schaffner, Marcus Tamm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11819
Micro-Entrepreneurship and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
Muhammad Faress Bhuiyan, Artjoms Ivlevs
published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2019, 34 (4), 625-645
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. 11519
Employer Power, Labor Saving Technical Change, and Inequality
Nancy H. Chau, Ravi Kanbur
published in: Kaushik Basu, Maitreesh Ghatak, Kenneth Kletzer, Sudipto Mundle, and Eric Verhoogen (eds.), Development, Distribution, and Markets, Oxford University Press, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11309
Firm Wage Premia, Industrial Relations, and Rent Sharing in Germany
Boris Hirsch, Steffen Müller
revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2020, 73 (5), 1119-1146
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11262
Women's Empowerment, the Gender Gap in Desired Fertility, and Fertility Outcomes in Developing Countries
Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt
published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108, 358–362
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11240
Empowering Women under Social Constraints: Evidence from a Field Intervention in Rural Egypt
Ahmed Elsayed, Rania Roushdy
published as 'Empowering women in conservative settings: evidence from an intervention in rural Egypt' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2022, 20, 1287–1322
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11187
Maternal Depression, Women's Empowerment, and Parental Investment: Evidence from a Large Randomized Control Trial
Victoria Baranov, Sonia R. Bhalotra, Pietro Biroli, Joanna Maselko
published in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110 (3), 824-859
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10501
Women's Economic Capacity and Children's Human Capital Accumulation
Jacobus de Hoop, Patrick Premand, Furio C. Rosati, Renos Vakis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10170
Estimating Indirect Benefits: Fracking, Coal and Air Pollution
Reid Johnsen, Jacob LaRiviere, Hendrik Wolff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10148
Women's Enfranchisement and Children's Education: The Long-Run Impact of the U.S. Suffrage Movement
Esra Kose, Elira Kuka, Na'ama Shenhav
published as 'Women's Suffrage and Children's Education' in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13 (3), 374 - 405
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10131
Measuring Women's Empowerment in Rwanda
Abdou Musonera, Almas Heshmati
published in: A. Heshmati (ed.), Studies on Economic Development and Growth in Selected African Countries, Springer, 2017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10125
(In)Equality and (In)Justice
Guillermina Jasso
published in: Civitas – Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2016, 16 (2), 189-217
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9779
Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers
Ingvild Almås, Alex Armand, Orazio Attanasio, Pedro Carneiro
published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (612), F609 - F639
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9442
A Global Count of the Extreme Poor in 2012: Data Issues, Methodology and Initial Results
Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Shaohua Chen, Andrew Dabalen, Yuri Dikhanov, Nada Hamadeh, Dean Jolliffe, Ambar Narayan, Espen Beer Prydz, Ana Revenga, Prem Sangraula, Umar Serajuddin, Nobuo Yoshida
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2016, 14 (2), 141-172
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9287
What Will You Do If I Say 'I Do'?: The Effect of the Sex Ratio on Time Use within Taiwanese Married Couples
Simon Chang, Rachel Connelly, Ping Ma
published in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2016, 35 (4), 471-500
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9064
Global Poverty Goals and Prices: How Purchasing Power Parity Matters
Dean Jolliffe, Espen Beer Prydz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9059
Power-Couples and the Colocation Hypothesis Revisited
Francesco Mariotti, Karen A. Mumford, Yolanda Pena-Boquete
published in IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2017, 6 (1), 1-18
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9025
The Local Economic Impact of Wind Power Deployment
Nils G. May, Øivind Anti Nilsen
published in: FinanzArchiv / Public Finance Analysis, 2019, 75 (1), 56-92.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8796
Gender Discrimination in the Allocation of Migrant Household Resources
Francisca M. Antman
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28(3), 565-92
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8654
From Riches to Rags, and Back? Institutional Change, Financial Development and Economic Growth in Argentina since the 1890s
Nauro F. Campos, Menelaos G. Karanasos, Bin Tan
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52(2), 206 - 223
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8583
Statistical Power of Within and Between-Subjects Designs in Economic Experiments
Charles Bellemare, Luc Bissonnette, Sabine Kröger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8231
Spousal Employment and Intra-Household Bargaining Power
Francisca M. Antman
published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2014 21(6), 560-563
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8147
The Political Economy of Labor Market Regulation with R&D
Tapio K. Palokangas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8108
Playing 'Hard to Get': An Economic Rationale for Crowding Out of Intrinsically Motivated Behavior
Wendelin Schnedler, Christoph Vanberg
published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 68, 106–115
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7997
Culture and Household Decision Making: Balance of Power and Labor Supply Choices of US-born and Foreign-born Couples
Sonia Oreffice
published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2014, 35(2), 162-184
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7918
The Relationship between Federal Budget Amendments and Local Electoral Power
Sergio Firpo, Vladimir Ponczek, Viviane Sanfelice
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 116, 186-198
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7900
Empowering Women: The Effect of Schooling on Young Women's Knowledge and Use of Contraception
Mabel Andalón, Jenny Williams, Michael Grossman
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