Edlund, Lena Cecilia; Machado, Cecilia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Women’s economic emancipation arguably took off in the late 1960s and early 1970s. While ubiquitous, its origins are not well understood. In an influential paper, Goldin and Katz [2002] pointed to the role of unmarried women’s access to the oral contraceptive (the Pill), ushered in by the...