Boryana Ilieva is a PhD student at the DIW Graduate Center. Her research interests lay in the fields of labor economics, behavioral economics, and gender economics. She holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the University Mannheim and a M.Sc. in Economics and Management Science from the Humboldt University Berlin. In her latest research projects, she discusses the long-run effects of part-time employment for females in Germany. During her PhD she completed a research stay at Yale University, CT, USA. She is a teaching assistant at the DIW Graduate Center.