altering the terms of the marital contract these legal changes impacted the incentives for women to enter and remain in the …

Using March Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we investigate married women's labor supply behavior from 1980 to … 1990s. Moreover, a major new development was that, during both decades, there was a dramatic reduction in women's own wage … elasticity. And, continuing past trends, women's labor supply also became less responsive to their husbands' wages. Between 1980 …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women … assimilation of immigrants. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native-born women with time in the United States, and …

-cycle of the 1940 cohort. Conditioning solely on gender, our ex ante welfare analysis finds that women would fare better under … unilateral system as are the top two quintiles of women; the rest prefer mutual consent. We also find that although the change in … divorce regime had only a small effect on the LFP of married women in the 1940 cohort, these effects would be considerably …

(usually full-time) to maintain access to health insurance coverage. We study employed married women, newly diagnosed with … breast cancer, comparing labor supply responses to breast cancer diagnoses between women dependent on their own employment … for health insurance and women with access to health insurance through their spouse's employer. We find evidence that …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively … more had high-status occupations. Together, these findings integrate contrasting narratives about frontier women …