find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … assimilation of immigrants. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native‐born women with time in the United States, and …

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 …

women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …

expect that higher BMI will increase willingness to supply labor in labor markets, especially for women. We use US panel data … as an instrument for own BMI to address potential endogeneity of BMI in hours worked. We find that White women with … higher BMI work more. This is true for both single and married White women. Results for other groups of women and men produce …

, but potentially important, spillover effect of enforcement policies: changes in high-skilled citizen women's labor supply … in intensity of immigration enforcement in a local area reduced the labor supply of citizen college- educated women with … increase in the wages of household workers, and 3) we see no similar effects for high-skilled men or women without children …

Using data from the 2011 and 2016 Life in Kyrgyzstan surveys, we examine Kyrgyz women's labour supply elasticities at … the extensive margin. We use Heckman's two-step approach to predict earnings for the non-participating women and then use … these predictions to estimate the participation equation. We find that women's labour supply decision is not influenced by …

addition, when examining the time spent by girls and boys in two-parent households, we find that the gender of the disabled … both the gender of the teen and of the disabled parent, with teen girls likely being worse off than teen boys. Our results … suggest that differences in teenagers' time investments are a plausible mechanism for gender differences in intergenerational …

We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … household, but has no sizable effect on hours worked. Most of these effects are driven by less educated women. A new …