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February 3, 2025

Breaking barriers: Addressing gender and racial disparities in economics

New handbook chapter on inequality in the economics profession

  • economics
  • gender
  • minorities
  • promotion
  • tenure
  • Eva Sierminska
  • Karan Singhal
Research

December 14, 2024

Early inheritances widen the gender wealth gap

How timing of wealth transfers shapes economic inequalities

  • gender
  • inheritance
  • wealth
  • Carsten Schröder
  • Charlotte Bartels
  • Eva Sierminska
Research

December 6, 2024

Education increases family formation among women but has no effect on men

Analysis of Finnish admissions data challenges traditional beliefs about the impact of higher education

  • education
  • family
  • gender
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December 3, 2024

When crisis strikes, voters hold female politicians to harsher standards

COVID-19 exposed gender bias in reelection

  • crisis
  • gender
  • incumbency
  • local elections
  • political selection
  • voting
  • Temurbek Khasanboev
  • Zohal Hessami
Research

September 2, 2024

Female economists outshine males in shaping public opinion

New study challenges traditional notions of the gender authority gap

  • economic expertise
  • gender
  • persuasion
  • stereotypes
  • survey experiment
  • Hans Henrik Sievertsen
  • Sarah Smith
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July 17, 2024

Larger, all-male groups most prone to lying

New study explores how group size and gender affect honesty in decision making

  • decision making
  • gender
  • groups
  • honesty
  • lying
  • unethical behavior
  • Andreas Roider
  • Gerd Muehlheusser
  • Niklas Wallmeier
  • Timo Promann
Research

July 15, 2024

Parents tend to steer sons towards traditional careers

Swiss study finds gender bias in vocational advice

  • career advice
  • education
  • gender
  • occupational choice
  • vocational training
  • Stefan C. Wolter
  • Thea Zöllner
Research

February 15, 2024

How the division of roles within the family shapes job satisfaction

New study finds secondary earners more likely to prioritize personal preferences over compensation

  • family
  • gender
  • household
  • job satisfaction
  • Christian Bredemeier
  • Patrick Ndlovu
  • Roland Winkler
  • Suncica Vujic
Research

September 12, 2023

What we teach children about race and gender

New study uses AI tools to analyze representation in images and text of children's books

  • education
  • gender
  • race
  • Alex Eble
  • Anjali Adukia
  • Emileigh Harrison
  • Hakizumwami Birali Runesha
  • Teodora Szasz
Research

August 9, 2023

Woke jobs after Dobbs?

How public support for female employees both helped and hurt some employers after Roe v. Wade was overturned

  • abortion
  • culture
  • gender
  • job satisfaction
  • job search
  • politics
  • Allison Shrivastava
  • Emily Nix
  • Evan Starr
  • Jason Sockin
  • Pawel Adrjan
  • Svenja Gudell
IZA News

November 4, 2021

Women in leadership

IZA workshop discussed new research on female representation in leadership positions

  • gender
  • leadership
  • women
Research

April 22, 2021

Happy power couples?

Working in the same occupation or industry as your partner increases satisfaction with life, work and income

  • assortative matching
  • career
  • copreneurs
  • gender
  • relationship
  • well-being
  • work-life balance
  • work-linked couples
  • Clemens Hetschko
  • Juliane Hennecke
Research

March 30, 2021

Men try to avoid being beaten by a woman

Lab experiment measures gender differences in performance in games with differing competitive pressure

  • competitive behavior
  • experiment
  • gender
  • psychological pressure
  • tournament
  • Alison L. Booth
  • Patrick J. Nolen
Research

December 19, 2019

Are women more willing to accept jobs with lower pay?

New research on quit behavior, job satisfaction, and job preferences

  • gender
  • job satisfaction
  • pay
  • preferences
  • public sector
  • quits
  • work-life balance
  • Christian Bredemeier
  • Paul Redmond
  • Pedro Maia Gomes
  • Seamus McGuinness
  • Zoë Kuehn
Research

June 14, 2019

Exposure to “high-achieving” boys in high school may harm girls in the long run

Effects on educational and labor market outcomes

  • achievement
  • education
  • gender
  • high school
  • peer effects
  • Angela Cools
  • Eleonora Patacchini
  • Raquel Fernández
Research

May 12, 2019

Discrimination in hiring based on presence of children or perceived “risk” of pregnancy

Married, childless women applying to part-time jobs have the lowest callback rates

  • childcare
  • discrimination
  • female labor force participation
  • fertility
  • gender
  • hiring
  • job application
  • Ana Fernandes
  • Doris Weichselbaumer
  • Sascha O. Becker
IZA NewsResearch

May 4, 2019

Children benefit from school construction and conditional cash transfers

3rd annual workshop of IZA's Family and Gender program

  • cash transfer
  • child development
  • cognitive development
  • familiy economics
  • gender
  • school
Research

August 27, 2018

Brothers foster women’s gender conformity

Study from Denmark shows that parents invest differently in their daughters if they also have sons

  • gender
  • human capital
  • parents
  • STEM
  • Anne Ardila Brenøe
Research

February 16, 2018

Searching on campus: Marriage market effects of the student gender composition

The growing success of online dating platforms seems to indicate that finding your partner in the “real” world becomes harder. […]

  • education
  • female
  • gender
  • inequality
  • male
  • marriage
  • university
  • Nico Pestel
Research

December 1, 2017

Do boys benefit from male teachers in elementary school?

The scarcity of male teachers in schools has led to a debate on whether young boys require more male role models.

  • boys
  • discrimination
  • early tracking
  • education
  • elementary school
  • gender
  • Germany
  • school
  • teachers
  • Patrick A. Puhani
Research

September 14, 2017

Transitioning across gender is related to greater life and job satisfaction

A new IZA World of Labor report finds that after transitioning, trans people experience better mental health, and greater life […]

  • discrimination
  • gender
  • job satisfaction
  • labor market outcomes
  • mental health
  • trans
  • Nick Drydakis
Research

September 5, 2017

Do managers need more masculine or more feminine skills?

 Among top business managers women are still a rare sight. The reasons are complex and subject to heated debates. One […]

  • business
  • CEO
  • Denmark
  • executives
  • gender
  • gender gap
  • gender stereotypes
  • management skills
  • managers
  • stereotype
  • Nina Smith
  • Tor Eriksson
  • Valdemar Smith
Research

April 7, 2017

Mental health affects employment outcomes – and vice versa

Depression, which is the focus of this year’s World Health Day, is also an important topic for labor economists as […]

  • depression
  • employment outcomes
  • gender
  • mental health
  • unemployment
  • well-being
  • David C. Ribar
  • Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
  • Melisa Bubonya
  • Richard Layard
OpinionResearch

March 17, 2017

The gender pay gap: Discrimination or structural differences?

Diskriminierung oder strukturelle Unterschiede?

  • competitiveness
  • equal pay
  • female leadership
  • gender
  • gender differences
  • gender gap
  • gender inequality
  • gender pay gap
  • gender wage gap
  • labor market
  • labor market policy
  • leadership
  • wages
  • women
  • Boris Hirsch
  • Mario Lackner
  • Mario Macis
  • Solomon W. Polachek
Research

April 26, 2016

Gender discrimination at work: What if your boss is a woman?

Despite the remarkable increase of female participation in education, the labor market and political life that has taken place over […]

  • active labor market policies
  • female leadership
  • gender
  • gender balance
  • gender discrimination
  • gender inequality
  • women
  • work-life balance
  • working hours
  • Claudio Lucifora
  • Daria Vigani
Research

February 16, 2015

New volume on gender convergence in the labor market

For most countries in recent years women’s labor force participation has risen while men’s has fallen. At the same time, […]

  • gender
  • parental leave
  • Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Konstantinos Tatsiramos
  • Solomon Polachek
Research

October 24, 2014

Should housework be shared more equally between partners?

Women do more housework than men. For most of history this phenomenon went largely unremarked. Housework was what women did, […]

  • experiment
  • gender
  • housework
  • men
  • preferences
  • women
  • Cheti Nicoletti
  • Katrin Auspurg
  • Maria Iacovou
Research

September 11, 2013

High testosterone, high wages?

Does the level of testosterone, which is associated with more aggressive and competitive behavior, explain why men earn more than […]

  • earnings
  • gender
  • gender wage gap
  • inequality
  • natural experiment
  • Netherlands
  • twins
  • Anne C. Gielen
  • Caitlin Knowles Myers
  • Jessica Holmes
Research

March 19, 2013

Women do better and seem less anxious in all-female classes

Nowadays more women attend university than men. Yet, women are still under-represented in the highest levels of technical subjects such […]

  • education
  • gender
  • schooling
  • single-sex classes
  • test scores
  • Alison L. Booth
  • Lina Marcela Cardona Sosa
  • Patrick J. Nolen
Research

January 27, 2013

Girls, take maths and boost your career!

A recent IZA working paper by Juanna Schrøter Joensen and Helena Skyt Nielsen suggests that taking more Math courses in […]

  • Denmark
  • education
  • gender
  • labor market career
  • schooling
  • Helena Skyt Nielsen
  • Juanna Schrøter Joensen

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