worldly tastes in music and food. The estimated effects are much more pronounced for women than for men. We find weaker and …

economic indicators: higher levels of education and income, lower levels of welfare receipt and disability, higher levels of …

uninsured women with breast cancer, we compared insured and uninsured women treated in a safety net setting. Controlling for … socioeconomic characteristics, uninsured women are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced disease, requiring more extensive … treatment relative to insured women, and also experience delays in initiating and completing treatment. The findings suggest …

predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may … weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though many studies have examined the link between women's wages or labor force …, and difficulty in identifying which of several mechanisms (returns, bargaining power, income, etc.) link the two. To …

males. The results suggest that obesity has the most significant impact on white women's wages …

BMI has a negative impact on earnings for women, and less (if any) consequences for men. In this paper, we relax the … mass index (BMI). Using data from the 1986 and 1999-2005 Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we estimate semi-parametric wage … models that allow earnings to vary with BMI in a highly flexible manner. For women, the results show that earnings peak at …

measures collected from a diary method. The sample consists of 229 women who were interviewed on Thursdays, two weeks apart, in … income, net affect and life satisfaction are presented, and adjusted for attenuation bias due to measurement error. Life … satisfaction is found to correlate much more strongly with income than does net affect. Components of affect that are more person …

have lower than average earnings relative to those of similar high education. This effect is not found among women …