compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the … certain sectors and jobs were required to leave their jobs once they married. The majority of women affected by this "Marriage … Marriage Bar to the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were not required to do so. It is found that the …

This paper examines the effect of the introduction of a 1982 maternity benefit program on childbearing, employment and … paid leave and a small cash payment at birth. We use individual-level panel data on birth, employment and marital status … increase in fertility rates, particularly for second births among married and older women, providing suggestive evidence of an …

builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women's employment in MENA. Besides examining how different … in the extent to which self-employment after marriage is available to women to compensate for the reduction in wage … that marriage by the median age reduces the probability of working for women by 47 percent in Jordan, 33 percent in Tunisia …

Young women outnumber young men in cities in many countries during periods of economic growth and urbanization. This … contributor is gender-differential incentives to migrate due to rural women's higher likelihood of marrying and marrying up in … cities when urbanization creates more economic opportunities and an abundance of high-income marriage-age men. …

drawn from SHARE, we show that although marriage has a negative effect on women's employment (3.3%), its magnitude is much … marriage or pregnancy, is responsible for women exiting the labor force upon motherhood. … assess to what extent marriage decisions and pregnancies (rather than live births), which tend to occur around the birth of …