The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes … took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this … paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power with women. In our model, women's legal rights set the marital …

schooling and labor market outcomes of mothers observed in 1980 and 1990 Census microdata. Reduced-form estimates suggest that … teen marriage effects are largest and most precisely estimated for white women while the teen fertility and out …-of-wedlock childbearing effects are largest and most precisely estimated for black women. The relatively modest fertility and marriage …

earning power and education across genders, married women often found themselves in an economically vulnerable position, and …-income single mothers, or they remain trapped in the marriage. In both cases, education can provide a route to emancipation for … women. To investigate this idea, we build and estimate an equilibrium search model with education, marriage …

and women to become board nominees, and that it did not lead to new female board nominees being of lower quality than male …

women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to … garment sector jobs to women living further away from factories, to years before the factories arrive close to some villages …-proximate villages. The demand for education generated through manufacturing growth appears to have a much larger effect on female …

teachers serve as counter-stereotypical role models. We study education in rural areas of the US circa 1940--a setting in which …

effects of pregnancy and childbirth on women's ability to work, while the introduction of infant formula reduced mothers …The entry of married women into the labor force is one of the most notable economic phenomena of the twentieth century …. We argue that medical progress played a critical role in this process. Improved maternal health alleviated the adverse …

length, which includes leave taking by mothers and fathers, and behavioral and physical health outcomes among new mothers …In the United States, almost a third of new mothers who worked during pregnancy return to work within three months of … childbirth affects families' health and wellbeing. The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between family leave …

symptoms and self-reported parenting stress, and negatively associated with self-rated overall health among mothers. Compared … employment on family well-being, measured by maternal mental and overall health, parenting stress, and parenting quality. First … children's lives. Among mothers of six month old infants, maternal work hours are positively associated with depressive …

, despite the fact that women have increased their investment in human capital over this period. We propose a hypothesis to … reconcile these two trends: that when they are making key human capital decisions, women in modern cohorts underestimate the … employment effects of motherhood in U.K. and U.S. data. We then provide evidence that women do not anticipate these effects. Upon …