After the Call for COSME Research projects that took place in the spring of 2008, there was a selection of research projects. A first set of preliminary results were shown in poster sessions at the COSME’s stand in the Simposio de Análisis Económico.

2008 COSME Research Projects:

1. Ghazala Azmat and Libertad González: “Targeting Fertility and Female Participation through the Income Tax”.
2. Manuel F. Bagues and Berta Esteve-Volart: “Why Hasn’t the Spanish Equality Law Increased the Number of Women Legislators?”.
3. Laura Crespo and Pedro Mira: “Caring for Parents and Employment Status of European Mid-Life Women: A Longitudinal Analysis”.
4. Sara de la Rica and Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes: “Continuous shift versus split shift in Spain”.
5. Lorenzo Escot Mangas, Ricardo Gimeno Nogués and Ruth Mateos de Cabo: “Discrimination on the Spanish Boards of Directors: Analysis and Economic Implications”.
6. Cristina Fernández, Almudena Sevilla-Sanz and Nacho Giménez: “Social Norms and Household Time Allocation: Evidence from the Spanish Time Use Survey”.
7. Daniel Fernández Kranz and Aitor Lacuesta Gabarain: “The Family Gap in Pay in Spain: Can a Permanent Contract Save a Mother’s Career?”.
8. Laura Hospido and Gema Zamarro: “Gender Differences in Retirement patterns of middle-  aged and older women vs. middle-aged and older men:  Spain in an international comparison”.
9. Catia Nicodemo: “Language and  Pay Gap for Immigrant Women in Spain Labor Market”.
10. Josefina Posadas and Marian Vidal-Fernández: “Grandparents Childcare and Female Labor Force Participation”.