We consider the role that workplace attributes play in accounting for the divergence in the careers of women and men … the penalty to wage rates earned by women with their transition to motherhood (i.e., the motherhood penalty), but it would …

women into the profession was associated with an increase in their earnings relative to male pharmacists. We conclude that …

early termination of human capital investment was a function of the life-cycle labor force participation of these women …Single women in the U.S. dominated the female labor force from 1870 to 1920. Data on the home life and working … conditions of women in 1888 and 1907 enable the estimation of earnings functions. Work in the manufacturing sector for these …

. Training is potentially important in compensating for the effects of children, especially for women who left education after …

In theory, growing wage inequality within gender should cause women to invest more in their market productivity and … should differentially pull able women into the workforce, thereby closing the measured gender gap even though women's wages … and 2001, we use control function (Heckit) methods to correct married women's conditional mean wages for selectivity and …

Several studies have found that, all else equal, heavier women earn less. Previous research has been unable to … Youth, this paper attempts to generate consistent estimates of the effect of weight on labor market outcomes for women … lowers wages for white women; among this group, a difference in weight of two standard deviations (roughly sixty-five pounds …

family policies on women's careers and children's wellbeing. There is to date little or no evidence of beneficial effects of … longer parental leave (or fathers' quotas) on maternal participation and earnings. In most cases longer leave delays mothers … participation whenever subsidized childcare replaces maternal childcare. Impacts on child development depend on counterfactual …

The paper analyzes the joint determination of wives' earnings and labor force participation over the life cycle given …, which in turn determines earnings. The earnings prospects feed back into the participation decision, namely, the decision …

the hypothesis that women who plan to work intermittently choose jobs with lower rewards to work experience in return for … lower penalties for labor force interruptions. We find that while men and women expect similar starting salaries, women … school. While it is also true that women in the sample plan to work fewer years than men, these differences do not explain …