We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to a health innovation that led to reductions in … allow women to start fertility later and invest more in the labor market. We present a new theory of fertility that …

-representation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This chapter summarizes this research. We argue … that women's under-representation is concentrated in the math-intensive science fields of geosciences, engineering … affecting women and men as they progress through school, higher education, and into the labor market. Our results are consistent …

We consider the role that workplace attributes play in accounting for the divergence in the careers of women and men … the penalty to wage rates earned by women with their transition to motherhood (i.e., the motherhood penalty), but it would …

Women enter retirement having spent fewer years in market work, earned less over their lifetimes, and worked in … many women end up with lower levels of retirement income in old age. We use the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which … largely between nonmarried men and women. Multivariate models show that 85 percent of this retirement income gap can be …

The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the … age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between … women. Although the pill' was approved in 1960 by the FDA and diffused rapidly among married women, it did not diffuse among …

Previous research has shown that women in the treatment group of the CeMENT randomized controlled trial increased their …, namely, that CeMENT expanded the collaboration networks of the participants. Our analysis finds that women who received the …

economics. We found that women in economics were 15% less likely to be promoted to associate professor after controlling for …

The career and family outcomes of college graduate women suggest that the twentieth century contained five distinct … graduated college from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Using the NLS Young Women I demonstrate that 13 to 18 percent achieved …