Reducing gender-specific commuting barriers in developing countries has complex and diverse effects on women's labor … dynamics. We study a program that offers free bus rides for women in several Indian states (the Pink Slip program) using a … synthetic difference-in-differences approach to shed light on labor supply and time use decisions of women. We observe decreased …

The impact of the pandemic on the employment, labor supply, and caregiving of women is assessed. Compared with previous … recessions, that induced by COVID-19 impacted women's employment and labor force participation more relative to men. But the big … divide was less between men and women than it was between the more- and the less-educated. Contrary to many accounts, women …

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 …

The career and family outcomes of college graduate women suggest that the twentieth century contained five distinct … graduated college from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Using the NLS Young Women I demonstrate that 13 to 18 percent achieved …

for women relative to men. Based on a dynamic decomposition framework, we show that the fraction of gender inequality … daughters (but not sons), consistent with an influence of childhood environment in the formation of women's preferences over …

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 …

This chapter focuses on women, work, and family, with a particular focus on differences by educational attainment … gender equality in the workplace and mitigate the considerable conflicts faced by many women as they seek to balance work and …

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

This paper investigates whether the effects of children on the labor market outcomes of women relative to men -- child …