World Bank/LIS Gender Award

The World Bank / LIS Gender Research Award

The World Bank’s Gender and Development program and LIS will jointly sponsor a new LIS Working Paper award.

The award is for papers that have a focus on gender and that include at least one middle-income country.

The new award will be presented once each year to the author(s) of the best eligible LIS Working Paper submitted to LIS during the prior year.

Awards will be granted for Working Papers submitted in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.

Eligible papers will be peer reviewed.

The review committee includes:

Janet Gornick	LIS and City University of New York UNITED STATES
Markus Jäntti	LIS and Stockholm University/Institute for Social Research- Economics FINLAND
Elena Bardasi	PREM - Gender and Development Group Worldbank
Stephen Jenkins	University of Essex UNITED KINGDOM

Like our other longstanding Working Paper award – the Aldi Hagenaars Award -- recipients of the Gender Research Award will receive 750 Euros, plus an invitation to serve as a faculty member, and to present the winning paper, at the following LIS Summer Workshop.

Note:
As of 2007, the LIS database includes the following middle-income countries:

Mexico
Poland
Romania
Russia

LIS will be adding more middle-income countries during the course of the award. Stay tuned for announcements of new datasets.

Year	Award Winners	Working Papers
2008	Michelle Budig Joya Misra	499. How Care Work Shapes Earnings in a Cross-National Perspective, October 2008