In this paper we estimate the causal effect of children on the labor supply of women using panel data on women from the … methods. We find that children have a strong effect on a women's labor market behavior in both the pre- and post-birth period …

Children affect the after-birth labor force participation of women in two ways. Directly, the time spent in child …-care reduces the labor market effort. Time spent out of the labor market while on maternity leave alters women’s participation … indirect effect of children on women’s labor force participation, and evaluates their relative importance. Distinguishing these …

) region using data from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys Database. It specifically examines the factors that determine the …

Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output …

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 …