IZA Discussion Papers

also available as 'The price of inaction: the global private, fiscal and social costs of children and youth not learning', United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris, 2024

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. 17294

The Unintended Consequences of Merit-Based Teacher Selection: Evidence from a Large-Scale Reform in Colombia

Matias Busso, Sebastián Montaño, Juan S. Muñoz-Morales, Nolan G. Pope

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105238.

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. 17292

Heterogeneity in Peer Effects of Obesity

Kiersten Strombotne, Sophia Day, Kevin Konty, Jason M. Fletcher

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17291

Revisiting Sample Bias in the UK's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, with Implications for Estimates of Low Pay and the Bite of the National Living Wage

John Forth, Alex Bryson, Van Phan, Felix Ritchie, Carl Singleton, Lucy Stokes, Damian Whittard

published online as 'The Representativeness of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings and its Implications for UK Wage Policy' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 25 August 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17290

Productivity Signals and Disability-Related Hiring Discrimination: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Armenak Antinyan, Ian Burn, Melanie K. Jones

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17289

Competitive Peers: The Way to Higher Paying Jobs?

Claudio Schilter, Samuel Lüthi, Stefan C. Wolter

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. 17287

One Size Fits All? The Interplay of Incentives, Effort Provision, and Personality

Zvonimir Bašić, Stefania Bortolotti, Daniel Salicath, Stefan Schmidt, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter