early childbearing will have important short-term effects on young women's education outcomes. …

We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in …

in Chile. Using eight rounds of household surveys, we find that adolescents who were born to teen mothers, those that …

opportunities to engage in risky sexual behaviors. Using Chile's socio-economic household surveys and administrative data from the …

women in 1990 underestimated the true, selection-corrected gap, i.e., the gap we would have expected to see had all of these … women been employed in 1990. In this paper, we use the NLSY97 to update his analysis. The observed median log wage gap … considerable extent by changes in the distribution of educational attainment across young white and black women. …

This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because … establishment as well as in combination with an establishment change. Women with children are 1.6 percentage points less likely … promoted than women without children; this is what we refer to as the family gap in climbing the career. We find that mothers …

probit regressions based on repeated cross sections of the Philippine Labor Force Survey indicate that both men and women … to wage employment, women lost job opportunities in wage- and self-employment, and they experienced increases in unpaid … family work. Real wages fell for men and women, with much of the decline at the upper tails of the wage distribution. If one …

differentials between white non-Hispanic males and women, Hispanics and African-Americans. Women's and Hispanics' relative earnings …

although prison is associated with declining employment rates during the quarters leading up to women's incarcerations, it does … not appear to harm their employment prospects later on. In the short-term, we estimate that women's post-prison employment … fall back to pre-prison levels. But for some groups of women, including those with four or more children, those who served …