-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 …

How do children affect women in science? We investigate this question using rich biographical data, linked with patents … 48% of fathers and 46% of women without children. Mothers face comparable tenure rates to other assistant professors for … who survive in science are extremely positively selected: Compared with other married women, mothers patent (publish) 2 …

effects on the adult outcomes of women, but not of men. Women with 20% higher rainfall (relative to normal local rainfall) in … eventual benefits for adult women's socioeconomic status are most strongly mediated by improved schooling attainment, which in …

Despite women's increased labor force attachment over the lifecycle, household surveys such as the Current Population …) for women at older ages. We use linked survey-administrative data to demonstrate that retirement incomes are considerably … underreported in the CPS ASEC and that women's economic progress at older ages has been substantially understated over the last …

A new lifecycle of women's employment emerged with cohorts born in the 1950s. For prior cohorts, lifecycle employment … the increase in cumulative work experience for women from the 1930s to the 1970s birth cohorts using the SIPP and the HRS … and greater labor force recovery for those who take paid or unpaid leave. Increased employment of women in their older …

54% of the total labour supply response for women under 30, although this importance declines with age. We show that …

This paper develops a quantitative life-cycle model to study the increase in married women's labor force participation …

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 …

particular implications for women's time use. In this paper, we document that current patterns of female time use in home … about women's time use in Africa. First, in North Africa, women spend very few hours in market work and female labor force … participation overall is extremely low. Second, although extensive margin participation of women is high in sub-Saharan Africa …

In this paper we examine the economic and family determinants of married women's retirement behavior. A model of wives …' retirement decisions is developed and tested empirically using data on working married women. Estimated response parameters are …