Women born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force …. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … to change asymmetrically for women versus men. …

their own parents than do married women, even if they have children, and this difference cannot be explained by differences … resource flows, such as childcare and eldercare, are particularly important between women and their parents, the family …

Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process … their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …

In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities … human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the gene pool. A key consequence of the trade-off faced by women is that … rank in the distribution of income. In the "Sex and the City" (SATC) type, women marry men who are better ranked than …

sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women, and within each gender a distinction is made …

. Our sample includes more than 12,000 men and 10,000 women, who all left school in 1992, in France. The wages and …

, particularly those relating to the considerable amount of intermittent employment found amongst Israeli male workers. Also, women …

-collar (high-status) employment in the wage economy built by the Europeans. Women took somewhat longer to obtain literacy and …