women. Using the November Current Population Surveys with the added Voting and Registration Supplement for the years 1990 … reform on women's voting registration and voting participation during the period during which welfare reform unfolded. We …

women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a … employment: whereas in high-income economies reduced employment in contact-intensive services had a large impact on women, this … sector plays a minor role in low-income countries. Another difference is that women's employment rebounded much more quickly …

between women's labor force participation and fertility. The economics of fertility has entered a new era because these … some cases reversed, and the cross-country relationship between women's labor force participation and fertility is now … theories is that they view factors that determine the compatibility of women's career and family goals as key drivers of …

estimates the effects of welfare reform on an important source of human capital acquisition among women at risk for relying on …

Education beyond traditional ages for schooling is an important source of human capital acquisition among adult women … the effects of welfare reform on adult women's educational acquisition. We first estimate effects of welfare reform on … women. We conduct numerous specification checks and explore the mediating role of work. We find robust and convincing …

illicit drugs among pregnant women. The prevalence of prenatal drug use based on post partum interviews was much lower than …

reform on women's arrests for property crime, the type of crime women are most likely to commit and that welfare reform has … been shown to affect. We found that women's property crime arrest rates declined over the age span; that welfare reform led … to an overall reduction in adult women's property crime arrests of about 4%, with the strongest effects for women ages 25 …

of the 1990s, which dramatically increased employment among women at risk for relying on cash assistance. We find that …