impact of home and family responsibilities, and constraints posed by workplace culture. We also consider the role that …This chapter focuses on women, work, and family, with a particular focus on differences by educational attainment …. First, we review long-term trends regarding family structure, participation in the labor market, and time spent in household …

wives in the United States in a family context. Earlier research by Baker and Benjamin (1997) posits a family investment … family with liquidity during this period. Consistent with this model, they find for Canada that immigrant wives work longer …

first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …