, even at a short network distances, researchers (especially men) are less likely to adopt women's ideas. Ideas from …

across cohorts within programs, we show that women entering cohorts with no female peers are 11.9pp less likely to graduate … the probability of on-time graduation for women by 4.6pp. These gender peer effects function primarily through changes in …

Observers have argued about whether highly-educated women are opting out of their careers and for families. If so, it … declines in employment. This paper provides a comprehensive study of recent trends in the fertility of college-graduate women …; and study the period from 1940 to 2006. In contrast to most existing work, we find that college graduate women are indeed …

uninsured women with breast cancer, we compared insured and uninsured women treated in a safety net setting. Controlling for … socioeconomic characteristics, uninsured women are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced disease, requiring more extensive … treatment relative to insured women, and also experience delays in initiating and completing treatment. The findings suggest …

lowering future benefits. We explore the consequences, for older women, of eliminating the RET from the Full Retirement Age to … women in their mid-70s and older - ages at which the lower benefits from claiming earlier could outweigh higher income in … the earlier period when women or their husbands increased their labor supply …

stagnation in the share of women among economics Ph.D.s in recent years, there has been a remarkable rise in gender …-related dissertations in economics over time and in many sub-fields. Women economists are significantly more likely to write gender …

(usually full-time) to maintain access to health insurance coverage. We study employed married women, newly diagnosed with … breast cancer, comparing labor supply responses to breast cancer diagnoses between women dependent on their own employment … for health insurance and women with access to health insurance through their spouse's employer. We find evidence that …

stagnation in the share of women among economics Ph.D.s in recent years, there has been a remarkable rise in gender …-related dissertations in economics over time and in many sub-fields. Women economists are significantly more likely to write gender …