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 …

Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a … direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order … their propensity to use contraception at sexual debut. This indicates that the impact of schooling on women's wellbeing …

the effect of women's education on a range of outcomes relating to women's fertility, their children's health and measures … proportion of ever married women with eight years of schooling lowered number of pregnancies per woman by 0.13 and number of … children per women by 0.11. There is also some evidence of a decline in child mortality, caused by mother's education, but …

earning power and education across genders, married women often found themselves in an economically vulnerable position, and … women. To investigate this idea, we build and estimate an equilibrium search model with education, marriage …/divorce/remarriage, and household labor supply decisions. A key feature of the model is that women bear a larger share of the divorce burden …

This article examines the trends in women's economic outcomes in the United States focusing primarily on labor force … participation trends and a slowing of women's occupational and wage convergence with men. She considers the likelihood of a …

explain when women in the United States begin child bearing - i.e., the "timing" (of the first birth) - and the length of the … relevant literature. In Chapter II, an economic model is developed which predicts that women with a rising price of time over …

We examine the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on married women's labor supply following a health … among women insured by their spouse's policy than among women with health insurance through their own employer. Employment …

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 …