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 …

incidence of marriage of young women (age 16-24). We employ a two-stage methodology. First, across individuals, marriage is …

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 …

women's spending on beauty-enhancing goods and services. We find that beauty raises women's earnings (and to a lesser extent …

I show that the trend towards single households among older nonmarried women, the majority of whom were widows, has … the fraction of older nonmarried women living with relatives from 1950 to 1990 can be attributed to rising Social Security …

Women are less financially literate than men. It is unclear whether this gap reflects a lack of knowledge or, rather, a … lack of confidence. Our survey experiment shows that women tend to disproportionately respond "do not know" to questions …-third of the financial literacy gender gap can be explained by women's lower confidence levels. Both financial knowledge and …

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 …