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Employment feminization, human resource management and gendered employment relations in Saudi Arabia

Albelali, Saja; Williams, Stephen - 2026

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Femtech in South-East Asia : unlocking innovation for women's health

2025

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Psychosocial hazards and the weaponising of menstruation

Naznin, Humaira; Thornthwaite, Louise - 2025

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Sex, lies and birth statistics : the mysterious case of the Spanish missing women

Bagues, Manuel F.; Villa, Carmen - 2026

Official Spanish birth registry data report sex ratios well above expected levels between 1975 and 2000, peaking at 109 boys per 100 girls in the early 1980s, the highest in the world at that time. Prior research has attributed these elevated ratios to factors such as maternal age, birth order,...

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Sex, lies and birth statistics : the mysterious case of the Spanish missing women

Bagues, Manuel F.; Villa, Carmen - 2026

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Sex, lies and birth statistics : the mysterious case of the spanish missing women

Bagues, Manuel F.; Villa, Carmen - 2026

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The hidden sector : just transitions to the formal economy

2026

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The effects of AI Assistance on self-promotion

Koch, Alexander K.; Kragl, Jenny; Ming, Sijuan; … - 2026

Persistent gender gaps in self-promotion contribute to unequal labor market outcomes. In this study, we investigate how AI-assisted writing tools shape selfpromotion, and, as a secondary outcome, confidence and how these effects interact with gender. For this purpose, we conducted an online...

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The effects of AI assistance on self-promotion

Koch, Alexander K.; Kragl, Jenny; Ming, Sijuan; … - 2026

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Work from home and fertility

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2026

We investigate how fertility relates to work from home (WFH) in the post-pandemic era, drawing on original data from our Global Survey of Working Arrangements and U.S. Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes. Realized fertility from 2023 to 2025 and future planned fertility are higher among...

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Work from home and fertility

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2026

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Work from Home and fertility

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2026

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Trade in appliances, household production, and labor force participation

Medina, Pamela; Sotelo, Sebastian; Velásquez, Daniel - 2026

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From design to impact : insights from WMfEP's gender-responsive initiatives for women and youth in Tank and D.I. Khan districts, Pakistan

Begum, Khadija; Ilyas, Nouman; Hussain, Kashif - 2026

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Why do fewer women work in India? : a supply–demand perspective

Gupta, Shishir; Sabharwal, Aalhya - 2026

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The U.S. civil war's impact on women's work and political participation

Arnsbarger, Madison; Ferrara, Andreas; Montrose, Paige - 2026

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The U.S. Civil War's impact on women's work and political participation

Arnsbarger, Madison; Ferrara, Andreas; Montrose, Paige - 2026

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The gender of opportunity : how gendered job titles affect job seeker attraction

Gorny, Paul Matthias; Nieken, Petra; Trenkle, Martin - 2026

Recruitment signals shape applicant pools. Across three studies, we examine whether genderfair (vs. generic masculine) German job titles affect application behavior and job seekers' beliefs about organizational culture. In a large-scale pre-registered field experiment, gender-fair titles...

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Kindergarten and career comebacks for mothers : is access to public school enough?

Wikle, Jocelyn; Wilson, Riley - 2026

Over the last 70 years, there has been a dramatic increase in female labor supply. However, gender gaps in employment trajectories remain, in part because the role of childrearing has largely fallen upon women. Providing more publicly funded childcare could relax these constraints, which may...

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Labor market outcomes of highly educated women in Japan : the role of field of study and STEM degrees

Ueno, Yuko; Usui, Emiko - 2026

This study investigates gender differences in labor market outcomes among highly educated individuals in Japan, emphasizing heterogeneity by fields of study, with a focus on STEM. Using data from the Japanese Panel Study of Employment Dynamics (JPSED), we find that women with STEM degrees begin...

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Women in, and beyond, business schools

2026 - First edition.

This important book in the EFMD series shines a light on women (and sometimes the absence of them) within business schools, as well as their contributions and impact across multiple spheres within and beyond their schools. Despite the clear rationale for promoting sustainable gender equity, the...

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Household taxation, nonlinear occupations, and gender gaps

Denderski, Piotr; Obermeier, Tim - 2026

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Navigating motherhood : endogenous penalties and career choice

Coskun, Sena; Dalgic, Husnu; Özdemir, Yasemin - 2026

We document that women strategically sort into "family-friendly" sectors characterized by lower returns to experience but lower per-child penalties before the birth of their first child. This anticipatory sorting represents an ex-ante cost of motherhood that is entirely missed by conventional...

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Navigating motherhood : endogenous penalties and career choice

Coskun, Sena; Dalgic, Husnu; Özdemir, Yasemin - 2025

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More hours, more work : head start expansions boost maternal employment

Gibbs, Chloe; Kose, Esra; Rosales-Rueda, Maria F. - 2026

Women's employment remains highly sensitive to childcare constraints, making childcare availability a critical lever for supporting mothers' labor force attachment. We study the effects of expanded full-day programming in Head Start, using the 2016 federal funding initiative that targeted...

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More Hours, More Work : Head Start Expansions Boost Maternal Employment

Gibbs, Chloe; Kose, Esra; Rosales-Rueda, Maria F. - 2026

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Technology adoption and women's rights : evidence from Switzerland

Brey, Björn; Cefala, Edoardo; García-Peñalosa, Cecilia - 2026

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Technology adoption and women's rights : evidence from Switzerland

Brey, Björn; Cefala, Edoardo; García-Peñalosa, Cecilia - 2026

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Life-cycle effects of women's education on their careers and children

Shenhav, Na'ama; Sandler, Danielle H. - 2026

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Which ideas attract workers? : gender and labor supply in startups

Delecourt, Solène; Cranney, Katelyn; Chopra, Sahiba; … - 2026

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Invisible hands : women's critical role in agricultural value chains

Suri, Shoba; Thawaney, Sharon Sarah - 2026

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Wage Subsidies to Promote Female Hiring : Evidence from Pakistan

Bussolo, Maurizio; Lee, Jean; Mahmud, Mahreen; Sarma, … - 2026

Can employer-side wage subsidies increase hiring women in low female labor force participation settings? This paper tests this using a randomized experiment with 1,227 Pakistani firms on a national jobs platform. Treatment firms were offered a six-month wage subsidy determined via the...

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Women, Business and the Law 2026 : Benchmarking Laws for Jobs and Inclusive Growth

2026

La Mujer, la Empresa y el Derecho 2026 es el undécimo de una serie de estudios anuales en los que se analizan las leyes y políticas que inciden en las oportunidades económicas de las mujeres en 190 economías. En la edición de 2026 se presenta una versión actualizada de la versión...

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Foreign manufacturing jobs and women : impacts on work, marriage, and childbirth

Drozdoff, Natalia; McCaig, Brian; Pavcnik, Nina - 2026

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Marital rights, education, and labor supply : evidence from a natural experiment in France

Demont, Timothée; Ziparo, Roberta - 2026

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How much did we care? : wetnurses' wages in Florence, 1700-1914

Freschi, Giuliana; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2026

Care work has long remained marginal in economic history, despite its centrality to household survival and social reproduction. This paper contributes filling this gap by reconstructing a long-run wage series for paid care work, focusing on wetnurses employed by the Florentine foundling home...

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Why are women's employment rates declining in Egypt?

Krafft, Caroline - 2026

Despite rising educational attainment, women's employment rates have declined in Egypt, falling to just 15% as of 2023. This chapter explores the determinants of declining female employment rates in Egypt. The research considers demand side factors, including potential discrimination and the...

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Women in power : parliamentary action, social attitudes, and gender-based crime

Do, Quynh; Mahmood, Rafat; Mavisakalyan, Astghik; … - 2026

This paper studies the causal impact of female political representation on legislative behavior, social attitudes, and gender-based crime. Using a regression discontinuity design based on close mixed-gender electoral contests, we compare electorates that narrowly elected female versus male...

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Husbands' support versus workplace support in shaping intentions for permanent childlessness

Kim, Joeun - 2026

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Technological change, labour markets and family behaviours in Sweden

Matysiak, Anna; Andersson, Linus; Hardy, Wojciech - 2026

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The part-time penalty

Frederiksen, Anders; Junker-Jensen, Louis - 2026

We study the part-time penalty. Using Danish register data, the Danish Labor Force Survey, and hospital personnel records, we show that the pay gap between part-time and full-time workers is sizable and increases over the career because the two groups accumulate different levels of human capital...

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Moving to opportunity, together

Jayachandran, Seema; Nassal, Lea; Notowidigdo, Matthew J.; … - 2026

Many couples face a trade-off between advancing one spouse's career or the other's. We study this trade-off using administrative data from Germany and Sweden. Using an event study approach, we find that when couples move across commuting zones, men's earnings increase more than women's. To...

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The effect of longer maternal care on children's occupation choices

Sinani, Sofiana - 2026

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High voltage, uneven impact : local labor market adjustments following the establishment of a battery factory in northern Sweden

Zimmerman, Karin - 2026

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Labor of love : gender and wage dynamics across the stages of life

Li, Shurui - 2026

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Closing the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship : Overcoming Challenges in Law and Practice for Female Entrepreneurs

Behr, Daniela M.; Xi, Yue - 2026

Despite significant strides toward gender equality, women around the world continue to encounter systemic obstacles that hinder their entrepreneurial success. This paper systematically reviews the literature on the barriers female entrepreneurs face and the solutions proposed to overcome these...

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The Hidden Costs of Violence : How Crime Shapes Women’s Labor Market Outcomes in Latin America

De Hoop, Jacobus Joost; Tribin Uribe, Ana Maria; … - 2026

This study explores the gendered impacts of violent crime on economic opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean. While both men and women experience violent crime, their exposure to violent crime and the consequences they suffer differ. Women are disproportionately affected by intimate...

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“I Want to Break Free” : How Laws and Social Norms Open Doors for Women

Gurbuz Cuneo, Alev; Tribin Uribe, Ana Maria; Trumbic, Tea; … - 2026

This paper develops a conceptual framework to analyze how gendered social norms mediate the effects of legal frameworks on women’s economic empowerment. Using the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law domains, Safety, Mobility, Work, Pay, Marriage, Parenthood, Childcare, Entrepreneurship,...

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Gender and Caste Nexus : Occupational Segregation across Indian Megacities

Thakur, Jyoti; Kartick, V - 2026

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Beyond backlash : how gender quotas empower women and shape workplace atitudes in Japanese hiring

Nihonsugi, Tsuyoshi; Kamijo, Yoshio; Taguchi, Satoshi; … - 2026

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Monetary policy and the added worker effect

Leahy, John Vincent; Ranošová, Tereza - 2026

We exploit cross-sectional variation in the response of US states to a monetary policy shock to study how the impact of monetary policy varies with the share of married women who work. We find that the economy's response is more muted the lower the share of married women employed before the...

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Ripple effect of gig work : how hands-on experience and networks shape future female entrepreneurs

Alshebami, Ali Saleh; Fazal, Syed Ali; Amin, Mohammad Bin; … - 2026

The rapid growth of the gig economy is reshaping traditional employment structures, creating new pathways for entrepreneurial activities, especially for women. Female entrepreneurship has always been a trending issue worldwide, particularly in developing conservative societies where females face...

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The impact of Malta's free childcare scheme on female employment

Maltseva, Natalia Bezzina - 2026

This study evaluates the impact of Malta's 2014 childcare reform, a universal Free Childcare Scheme for children aged 3 months to 3 years, on female employment. Using a difference-in-differences (DD) framework and matched DD models, I find that the reform may have increased the probability of...

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