Educational Longitudinal Survey respondents. For females, adolescent drinking and adult wages are unrelated, and negative …

the gender gap from the 1950s is a function of the increased labor force participation of women which served to stabilize … the work experience of the working population of women and to make the future lightly unpredictable for many cohorts …

implements a pair of tests for the exogeneity of wages in a longitudinal labor supply model, and for the particular failure of … hours Granger -- cause wages at the individual level. The second test involves a simultaneous estimation of labor supply and … from the process generating wages, even when long time series are available on a sample of individuals …

motherhood on women's wages. We also find statistical evidence that experience and tenure nay be endogenous variables in wage …, motherhood, and wages. We find that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the "direct" effects of marriage and motherhood on … wages (i.e., effects net of experience and tenure); first-difference estimates reveal no direct effect of marriage or …

Single women in the U.S. dominated the female labor force from 1870 to 1920. Data on the home life and working … conditions of women in 1888 and 1907 enable the estimation of earnings functions. Work in the manufacturing sector for these … women was task oriented and payment was frequently by the piece. Earnings rose steeply with experience and peaked early …

Numerous studies have found that married men earn consider-ably more than single men of the same education, experience …. Alternatively, one of the benefits of marriage is specialization in the labor force; married men spend more hours in the labor force …

years of life for both men and women for cohorts born 1906-1915. This association is close to linear but exhibits strong … credentialing effects, particularly for men, and is substantially smaller for cohorts born earlier. This association varies … substantially by state of birth, but it is not smaller in states with higher levels of education or longevity. For men the …

". We find that for both men and women the increase in the employment rate coincides with a reduction in the early …

models to deal with measurement error in wealth reports. Our various results show that men and women in the U.S. marry …

males. The results suggest that obesity has the most significant impact on white women's wages … nationally-representative sample of young American adults to investigate the interplay between obesity, wages and self …-esteem. Wages can be impacted directly by obesity, and they can be influenced by obesity indirectly through the channel of obesity …