Ghazala Azmat joined the Department in 2017 as Professor of Economics, after spending a year visiting us. She is a Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) and since 2023, the Director of the Organizational Economics Programme of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) where she is also a Research Fellow. She is a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance (LSE), a Research Fellow at IZA, and Research Fellow at CESifo.

Her main research interests are in applied and empirical microeconomics, focusing on labour, education, managerial and gender economics. She has published in several international journals such as Journal of Political Economy, Management Science, RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of European Economic Association, Quantitative Economics, the Journal of Labor Economics, and the Journal of Public Economics. Her current editorial roles include Associate Editor of Economica and member of the Board of Editors of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. In the past she was Managing Editor of Economic Policy,  Co-Editor of Labour Economics, and Associate Editor of SERIEs.

In 2022 she was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant for her project UNEQUAL EDucation: The Role of Educational Constraints in Shaping Inequalities. 

Prior to moving to Sciences Po, she was a Professor at Queen Mary University of London and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). She holds a PhD in Economics from London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

To learn more about Ghazala AZMAT, consult her website

featured publications

• “Gender Gaps in Unemployment Rates in OECD Countries” (with M. Güell and A. Manning), The Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, vol. 24(1), pp1-37
• “Competition amongst Contests” (with M. Möller), RAND Journal of Economics, 2009, vol. 40 (4), pp. 743-768
• “The Importance of Relative Performance Feedback Information: Evidence from a Natural Experiment using High School Students” (with N. Iriberri), The Journal of Public Economics, 2010, vol. 94 (7-8), pp. 435-452.
• “The Impact of Gender Composition on Team Performance and Decision-Making: Evidence from the Field” (with J. Apesteguia and N. Iriberri), Management Science, 2012, vol. 58(1) January 2012, pp. 78–93.
• “Gender Differences in Response to Big Stakes” (with C. Calsamiglia and N. Iriberri), Journal of the European Economic Association, 2016, vol. 14(6), pp. 1372-1400.
• “Gender Gaps in Performance: Evidence from Young Lawyers” (with R. Ferrer), Journal of Political Economy, 2017, vol. 125(5), pp. 1306-1355.
• “The Distribution of Talent across Contests” (with M. Möller), The Economic Journal, 2018, vol. 128, pp. 471-509
• “Incidence, Salience and Spillovers: The Direct and Indirect Effects of Tax Credits on Wages,” Quantitative Economics, 2019, vol. 10(1), pp. 239–273
• “What You Don’t Know…Can’t Hurt You? A Field Experiment on Relative Performance Feedback in Higher Education” (with M. Bagues, A. Cabrales and N. Iriberri), Management Science, 2019, vol 65(8), pp. 3714–3736.
• “Gender Diversity in Firms” (with A. Boring), Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 36, Issue 4, Winter 2020, Pages 760–782

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• Ghazala Azmat, Denis Fougère, Clémence Lobut. Digital Tools in the Classroom: Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Experiment. 2024. ⟨hal-04762520⟩
• Ghazala Azmat, Jack Britton. Labour Market Returns to Higher Education. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 2024, ⟨10.1093/acrefore/9780190625979.013.660⟩. ⟨hal-04709561⟩
• Ghazala Azmat, Katja Maria Kaufmann, Yasemin Özdemir. Socioemotional Development During Adolescence: Evidence from a Large Macro Shock. 2023. ⟨hal-04350544⟩
• Ghazala Azmat, Lena Hensvik, Olof Rosenqvist. Workplace Presenteeism, Job Substitutability and Gender Inequality. Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 48 (4), ⟨10.3368/jhr.1121-12014R2⟩. ⟨hal-03873809⟩
• Ghazala Azmat, Vicente Cuñat, Emeric Henry. Gender Promotion Gaps and Career Aspirations. Management Science, In press. ⟨hal-04347611⟩
• Ghazala Azmat, Katja Maria Kaufmann. Formation of College Plans: Expected Returns, Preferences and Adjustment Process. Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, ⟨10.1093/jeea/jvad042⟩. ⟨hal-04347553⟩
• Denis Fougère, Ghazala Azmat, Alexis Lermite, Clémence Lobut. L’impact du numérique sur les apprentissages des élèves : évaluation d’une politique d’équipement à grande échelle. Ensemble des résultats au cycle 4. 2022. ⟨halshs-03915750⟩
• Ghazala Azmat, Katja Maria Kaufmann, Yasemin Özdemir. Gender Differences in Adolescents' Socioemotional Development and their Later Economic Consequences. 2022. ⟨hal-03918118⟩
• Ghazala Azmat, Lena Hensvik, Olof Rosenqvist. Workplace Presenteeism, Job Substitutability and Gender Inequality. 2021. ⟨hal-03812822⟩
• Ghazala Azmat, Katja Maria Kaufmann. Formation of College Plans: Expected Returns, Preferences and Adjustment Process. 2021. ⟨hal-03812823⟩
• Ghazala Azmat, Ştefania Simion. Charging for Higher Education: Estimating the Impact on Inequality and Student Outcomes. The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy, 2021, 21 (1), pp.175-239. ⟨10.1515/bejeap-2020-0099⟩. ⟨hal-03873819⟩
• Denis Fougère, Ghazala Azmat, Clémence Lobut, Alexis Lermite, Alexandre Louw. Évaluation multidimensionnelle de l’impact d’équipements numériques mobiles sur les apprentissages des élèves : premiers résultats des effets du Plan numérique de 2015. Évaluation multidimensionnelle de l’impact d’équipements numériques mobiles sur les apprentissages des élèves : premiers résultats des effets du Plan numérique de 2015, 2021, pp. 1-4. ⟨10.48464/ni-21-05⟩. ⟨halshs-03465811⟩
• Ghazala Azmat, Anne Boring. Gender Diversity in Firms. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2021, 36 (4), pp.760-782. ⟨10.1093/oxrep/graa043⟩. ⟨hal-03873828⟩
• Ghazala Azmat, Denis Fougère, Clémence Lobut. Évaluation multidimensionnelle de l’impact de l’utilisation d’équipements numériques mobiles sur les apprentissages des élèves. Premiers résultats du Plan numérique de 2015. 2020. ⟨hal-03466452⟩
• Ghazala Azmat, Vicente Cunãt, Emeric Henry. Gender Promotion Gaps: Career Aspirations and Workplace Discrimination. 2020. ⟨hal-03393067⟩
• Ghazala Azmat, Vicente Cuñat, Emeric Henry. Gender Promotion Gaps: Career Aspirations and Workplace Discrimination. 2020. ⟨hal-03874257⟩
• Ghazala Azmat, Manuel Bagues, Antonio Cabrales, Nagore Iriberri. What you don't know...Can't hurt you? A natural field experiment on relative performance feedback in higher education. Management Science, 2019, 65 (8), pp.3714-3736. ⟨10.1287/mnsc.2018.3131⟩. ⟨hal-03574128⟩
• Ghazala Azmat, Denis Fougère, Alexis Lermite, Clémence Lobut, Alexandre Touw. Multi-dimensional evaluation of the impact of mobile digital equipment on student learnings. 2019, pp. 1-4. ⟨10.48464/ni-21-05-eng⟩. ⟨halshs-03726632⟩
• Ghazala Azmat. Incidence, Salience and Spillovers: The Direct and Indirect Effects of Tax Credits on Wages. Quantitative Economics, 2019, 10 (1), pp.239-273. ⟨10.3982/QE319⟩. ⟨hal-03567413⟩
• Ghazala Azmat, Marc Möller. The Distribution of Talent Across Contests. The Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (609), pp.471 - 509. ⟨10.1111/ecoj.12426⟩. ⟨hal-03263984⟩
• Ghazala Azmat, Rosa Ferrer. Gender Gaps in Performance: Evidence from Young Lawyers. Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125 (5), pp.1306 - 1355. ⟨10.1086/693686⟩. ⟨hal-03391951⟩