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Nature or Nurture? Learning and the Geography of Female Labor Force Participation
Fogli, Alessandra; Veldkamp, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
One of the most dramatic economic transformations of the past century has been the entry of women into the labor force … in the aggregate, just like those observed in our data. In our model, women learn about the effects of maternal … employment on children by observing nearby employed women. When few women participate in the labor force, data is scarce and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580192
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The Opt-In Revolution? Contraception and the Gender Gap in Wages
Bailey, Martha J.; Hershbein, Brad; Miller, Amalia R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Decades of research on the U.S. gender gap in wages describes its correlates, but little is known about why women … changed their career paths in the 1960s and 1970s. This paper explores the role of "the Pill" in altering women's human … the Pill can account for 10 percent of the convergence of the gender gap in the 1980s and 30 percent in the 1990s. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011188543
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The Diffusion of Microfinance
Duflo, Esther; Jackson, Matthew O.; Banerjee, Abhijit; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We examine how participation in a microfinance program diffuses through social networks. We collected detailed demographic and social network data in 43 villages in South India before microfinance was introduced in those villages and then tracked eventual participation. We exploit exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009397139
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Do Women Pay More for Credit? Evidence from Italy
Alesina, Alberto; Lotti, Francesca; Mistrulli, Paolo Emilio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
characteristics of the type of business, the borrower and the market structure of the credit market. The result is not driven by women …-employed individuals, we find robust evidence that women in Italy pay more for overdraft facilities than men. We could not find any … evidence that women are riskier then men. The male/female differential remains even after controlling for a large number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778619
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New Multi-City Estimates of the Changes in Home Values, 1920-1940
Fishback, Price Vanmeter; Kollmann, Trevor - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The boom and bust in housing during the 2000s has led to renewed interest in the boom and bust in housing between 1920 and 1940. The most commonly used housing value series for this period is reported by Robert Shiller in Irrational Exuberance. We investigate the changes in housing values in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969376
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Is There A Case for a "Second Demographic Transition"? Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 U.S. Fertility Decline
Bailey, Martha J.; Guldi, Melanie E.; Hershbein, Brad J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
formation (by marriage or non-marital cohabitation) and first birth are almost identical for women reaching childbearing age in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969391
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Immigrant Assimilation into U.S. Prisons, 1900-1930
Moehling, Carolyn M.; Piehl, Anne Morrison - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The analysis of a new dataset on state prisoners in the 1900 to 1930 censuses reveals that immigrants rapidly assimilated to native incarceration patterns. One feature of these data is that the second generation can be identified, allowing direct analysis of this group and allowing their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969413
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The Long Term Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Families
Aizer, Anna; Eli, Shari; Ferrie, Joseph P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We estimate the long-run impact of cash transfers to poor families on children's longevity, educational attainment, nutritional status, and income in adulthood. To do so, we collected individual-level administrative records of applicants to the Mothers' Pension program--the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950833
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Did the Americanization Movement Succeed? An Evaluation of the Effect of English-Only and Compulsory Schools Laws on Immigrants' Education
Lleras-Muney, Adriana; Shertzer, Allison - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
In the early twentieth century, education legislation was often passed based on arguments that new laws were needed to force immigrants to learn English and "Americanize." We provide the first estimates of the effect of statutes requiring English as the language of instruction and compulsory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950834
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Selection and Economic Gains in the Great Migration of African Americans: New Evidence from Linked Census Data
Collins, William J.; Wanamaker, Marianne H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The onset of World War I spurred the "Great Migration" of African Americans from the U.S. South, arguably the most important internal migration in U.S. history. We create a new panel dataset of more than 5,000 men matched from the 1910 to 1930 census manuscripts to address three interconnected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950945