IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15436

Time Use and the Geography of Economic Opportunity

Sulagna Mookerjee, John D. Pedersen, David Slichter

published in: Hamermesh, D.S. and Polachek, S.W. (eds.), Time Use in Economics (Research in Labor Economics, 51), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, 2023, 89-104

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15374

Traditional Norms, Access to Divorce and Women's Empowerment

Olivier B. Bargain, Jordan Loper, Roberta Ziparo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15227

Patterns of Time Use among Older People

Maddalena Ferranna, J.P. Sevilla, Leo Zucker, David E. Bloom

published in: David E. Bloom, Alfonso Sousa-Poza and Uwe Sunde (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Ageing, Routledge, London, 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15224

The Economics of Fertility: A New Era

Matthias Doepke, Anne Hannusch, Fabian Kindermann, Michèle Tertilt

published in: Handbook of the Economics of the Family, 2023, 1 (1), 151-254

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15205

The Value of Leisure Synchronization

Simon Georges-Kot, Dominique Goux, Eric Maurin

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (1), 351-76

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15118

Who Is Doing the Chores and Childcare in Dual-Earner Couples during the COVID-19 Era of Working from Home?

Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, Victoria Vernon

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 21 (2), 519–565

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15050

The Demand for Gratitude as a Restraint on the Use of Child Labor: A Hypothesis

Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski

published in: JODE - Journal of Demographic Economics, 2023, 89 (1), 137-147

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14968

Do Changes in Employment and Hours Worked Contribute to a Decreasing in the Mental Health of Single Mothers during a Period of Welfare Reform in the UK? A Longitudinal Analysis (2009-2019)

Julija Simpson, Clare Bambra, Heather Brown

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14937

Family Social Norms and Child Labor

Shirit Katav Herz, Gil S. Epstein

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. 14851

Center-Based Care and Parenting Activities

Jonas Jessen, C. Katharina Spieß, Sevrin Waights

revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 84 (6), 1356 - 1379

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14827

Telework and Time Use

Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, Victoria Vernon

published online in: Handbook of Labor, Human Resources, and Population Economics, 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14711

COVID-19 and the Employment Gender Gap

Taiyo Fukai, Masato Ikeda, Daiji Kawaguchi, Shintaro Yamaguchi

published as 'COVID-19 and the employment gender gap in Japan' in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2023, 68, 101256.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14709

Specialization in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples

Thomas Hofmarcher, Erik Plug

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 77, 101995.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14687

Feed the Children

Laurens Cherchye, Pierre-André Chiappori, Bram De Rock, Charlotte Ringdal, Frederic Vermeulen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14642

What If Working from Home Will Stick? Distributional and Climate Impacts for Germany

Marion Bachelet, Matthias Kalkuhl, Nicolas Koch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14621

Rules, Preferences and Evolution from the Family Angle

Alessandro Cigno

published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook fo Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14498

Entitled to Property: Inheritance Laws, Female Bargaining Power, and Child Health in India

Md Shahadath Hossain, Plamen Nikolov

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14468

Couples' Time-Use and Aggregate Labor Market Outcomes

Almut Balleer, Monika Merz, Tamás K. Papp

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14457

Sharing the Caring? The Gender Division of Care Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany

Jonas Jessen, C. Katharina Spieß, Sevrin Waights, Katharina Wrohlich

revised version published as 'The gender division of unpaid care work throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany' in: German Economic Review, 2022, 23(4), 641-667

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14375

Neither Backlash nor Convergence: Dynamics of Intracouple Childcare Division after the First COVID-19 Lockdown and Subsequent Reopening in Germany

Christina Boll, Dana Müller, Simone Schüller

revised version published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2023, 57, 27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14359

Parents under Stress: Evaluating Emergency Childcare Policies during the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Germany

Simone Schüller, Hannah S. Steinberg

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102217

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14264

College as a Marriage Market

Lars Kirkeboen, Edwin Leuven, Magne Mogstad

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14226

Accounting for Limited Commitment between Spouses When Estimating Labor-Supply Elasticities

Christian Bredemeier, Jan Gravert, Falko Juessen

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2023, 51, 547-578

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14223

From Mancession to Shecession: Women's Employment in Regular and Pandemic Recessions

Titan Alon, Sena Coskun, Matthias Doepke, David Koll, Michèle Tertilt

published in: NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2022, 362022, 83–151

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. 14147

The Fetters of the Sib: An Experimental Study in Burkina Faso

Björn Vollan, Myriam Hadnes, Marco Nilgen, Michael Kosfeld

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14134

Setting a Good Example? Examining Sibling Spillovers in Educational Achievement Using a Regression Discontinuity Design

Krzysztof Karbownik, Umut Özek

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (5), 1567-1607

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14068

Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration from a Gendered Lens: Comment

Oded Stark

published in: Demography, 2021, 58 (1), 379 - 381

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13948

The More the Poorer? Resource Sharing and Scale Economies in Large Families

Rossella Calvi, Jacob Penglase, Denni Tommasi, Alexander Wolf

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 160, 102986

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13938

On the Mechanisms of Ability Peer Effects

Alexandra de Gendre, Nicolás Salamanca

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13935

For Worse? Financial Hardships and Intra-Household Resource Allocation among Australian Couples

Ferdi Botha, David C. Ribar

published in: Economic Modeling, 2023, 119, 106114

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13839

Female Employment and Childcare

Lena Hassani Nezhad

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13810

Bargaining under Threats: The Effect of Joint Custody Laws on Intimate Partner Violence

Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Natalia Nollenberger, Jennifer Louise Roff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13562

This Time It's Different: The Role of Women's Employment in a Pandemic Recession

Titan Alon, Matthias Doepke, Jane Olmstead-Rumsey, Michèle Tertilt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13434

How the COVID-19 Lockdown Affected Gender Inequality in Paid and Unpaid Work in Spain

Lídia Farré, Yarine Fawaz, Libertad González, Jennifer Graves

published as 'Gender Inequality in Paid and Unpaid Work During Covid-19 Times' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68 (2), 323-347

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13405

Here Comes the Rain Again: Productivity Shocks, Educational Investments and Child Work

Christophe Jalil Nordman, Smriti Sharma, Naveen Sunder

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2022, 70 (3), 1041 - 1063

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13398

Family Life in Lockdown

Pietro Biroli, Steven J. Bosworth, Marina Della Giusta, Amalia Di Girolamo, Sylvia Jaworska, Jeremy Vollen

published in: Frontiers in Psychology, 2021,12, 687570.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13340

Do Immigrants Pay a Price When Marrying Natives? Lessons from the US Time Use Survey

Shoshana Grossbard, Victoria Vernon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13329

In Sickness and in Health: Job Displacement and Health Spillovers in Couples

Christina Gathmann, Kristiina Huttunen, Laura Jernström, Lauri Sääksvuori, Robin Stitzing

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13326

Inequality Measurement and Tax/Transfer Policy

Patricia Apps, Ray Rees

revised version published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2022, 29, 953–984

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13260

Telework and Time Use in the United States

Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, Victoria Vernon

published as 'Telework, Wages, and Time Use in the United States' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2022, 20 (3), 687–734.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12977

Rethinking Specialisation and the Sexual Division of Labour in the 21st Century

Peter Siminski, Rhiannon Yetsenga

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12948

Gender, Information and the Efficiency of Household Production Decisions: An Experiment in Rural Togo

Marie Christine Apedo-Amah, Habiba Djebbari, Roberta Ziparo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12921

Enhancing Employability by Responding to Work Motives: Lessons from a Field Experiment among Israeli Ultra-Religious Women

Yael Goldfarb, Shoshana Neuman

published as 'Labour-Market Integration by Responding to Work Motives: Lessons from a Study of Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Women' in: Journal of Economics, Management and Religion, 2020, 1 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12718

Having It All, for All: Child-Care Subsidies and Income Distribution Reconciled

Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer, Kerstin Roeder

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 176, 188--211

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12404

Transitioning Towards More Equality? Wealth Gender Differences and the Changing Role of Explanatory Factors over Time

Eva Sierminska, Daniela Piazzalunga, Markus M. Grabka

published as 'Women’s Labour Market Attachment and the Gender Wealth Gap' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy,2024, 24 (4), 1045-1071.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12403

The Gender Gap in Informal Child Care: Theory and Some Evidence from Italy

Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer, Chiara Monfardini

published in: Economia Italiana, 2019, 3, 66-98.