production. This paper examines whether these changes can explain the important increase in the labor force participation of married women during the 20th century. It contributes to the existing literature by including childcare constraints consistent with U.S. time use data, to examine whether...

This paper consists of two parts. In the first part we use the PSID (which is now long enough to allow the observation of the entire working life) to document empirical life cycle profiles (wage, earnings, hours) of a cohort of workers followed from when they enter the labor market in 1967 to...