1980 Women in Employment Survey) finds significant sample selection bias for women in full-time jobs. Part of the observed … differential between the hourly pay of full-timers and part-timers arises because of self-selection of women who can command higher … remunerated at a lower rate in part-time than in full-time employment. Thus, the larger proportion of women than men in part …

The provision of subsidized child care may encourage women to participate in the paid labor force. This paper analyzes … the provision of high quality public day care in Sweden encourages the labor market activity of women with preschoolers …

British women in 1980 in terms of a number of demographic and economic variables are estimated by OLS. Marital status … best paying occupation, not necessarily that current or most recent, on the grounds that mature women workers are often … marital history, and fertility intentions have little or no explanatory power. Participation rates among women who are neither …

We study the incentives of parents to invest in their children when these investments improve their marriage prospects …, in a frictionless marriage market with non-transferable utility. Stochastic returns to investment eliminate the …

made early marriage more attractive and facilitated women’s educational and occupational attainments. Marriage combined …Women’s economic emancipation arguably took off in the late 1960s and early 1970s. While ubiquitous, its origins are … not well understood. In an influential paper, Goldin and Katz [2002] pointed to the role of unmarried women’s access to …

The economic theory of marriage developed by Gary Becker is used to guide the estimation and interpretation of … socioeconomic influences on the probabilities of marital dissolution at particular durations of marriage and the probability of … remarriage within three years of dissolution. The analysis is based on the demographic and work histories in the 1980 Women and …

We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … quarter century. Marriage rates have also been falling, but more strikingly, the importance of marriage at different points in … the life cycle has changed, reflecting rising age at first marriage, rising divorce followed by high remarriage rates, and …

Women's disadvantages on the labour market leave them financially vulnerable when divorced. The number of elderly … divorced women is growing, but their pension prospects are poor. The paper outlines current British arrangements for pensions … and their treatment in divorce, and explains the case for new law on pension splitting. Men's and women's lifetime …