the separate effects of equal opportunities for women in the labor market and improved contraception on female education …, employment, and timing of first births after World War II. We find that the diffusion of the pill might have played an important … role in explaining the observed rise in female education and employment since the 1960s. But without equal opportunities …

setting. Women in British territories benefited from a universal education system and gained opportunities for paid employment … male employment-dominated infrastructure sector. Using a geographical regression discontinuity design, we show that women … quantitatively important: women in former British territories are 30% more likely to be in paid employment than their counterparts in …

employment share of low-educated female workers but had smaller and transitory effects on the employment of low-educated men. In … during this period increased the share of single low-educated people and decreased their marriage rates. There is little … in marriage formation. …

Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to fathers) increases expenditures on … children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non …-cooperative model of household decision making to answer this question. We show that when women have lower wages than men, they may …

by behavioral adjustments yet which are of considerable importance to one’s quality of life: employment, earnings and … marriage. We find no evidence that people born on the 13th or those born on Friday the 13th suffer any penalty that can be …

The empirical literature addressing links between the labor and the marriage markets is numerous and varied. Despite … and labor market participation. We then analyze the implications of our results for a frictional marriage market allowing … also the employment status and conditions of their spouse. We find that couples with very different productivities have …

manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage …, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and … reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with prominent sociological accounts, these shocks heighten male idleness and …

routine and mostly physical work of blue collar workers, but it has also created positive employment spillovers in other … and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …

benefits from the agreement and moves the intermediate-gap couples to their outside option where women work more and men do …

in married women's employment rates in the 1980s and early 1990s, suggesting an important role for factors not considered …We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven …