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 …

The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the … age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between … women. Although the pill' was approved in 1960 by the FDA and diffused rapidly among married women, it did not diffuse among …

Single women in the U.S. dominated the female labor force from 1870 to 1920. Data on the home life and working … conditions of women in 1888 and 1907 enable the estimation of earnings functions. Work in the manufacturing sector for these … women was task oriented and payment was frequently by the piece. Earnings rose steeply with experience and peaked early …

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 …

Women are currently the majority of U.S. college students and of those receiving a bachelor's degree, but were 39 … determinants, can account for 30 to 60 percent of the relative increase in women's college completion rate. Behind these changes … were several others: the future work expectations of young women increased greatly between 1968 and 1979 and the age at …

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

The career and family outcomes of college graduate women suggest that the twentieth century contained five distinct … graduated college from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Using the NLS Young Women I demonstrate that 13 to 18 percent achieved …

Ever since Lucy Stone decided to retain her surname at marriage in 1855, women in America have tried to do the same ….,' among other factors, spurred surname retention among married women in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This paper tracks the … fraction of college graduate women who kept their surnames upon marriage and after childbirth and explores some of the …

Discrimination against women has been alleged in hiring practices for many occupations, but it is extremely difficult … players in 1970 but are 25% today. We ask whether women were more likely to be advanced and/or hired with the use of blind …