We investigate women's likelihood of withdrawing from paid labor to care for children and help them with schoolwork as … a result of COVID and school closures. Were women more likely to shift out of paid labor in states where property …. We use monthly data from the U.S. Current Population Survey and compare the labor force participation of women with …

In many countries, the Sixties marked a turning point in the history of women's emancipation. Using data with …, this change in family environment did not coincide with any decline in their educational or occupational achievement. …

. We first document the differential effect of robots on the labor market opportunities of men and women. We find that in … cohabitation. While there was no change in overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in out … increased uncertainty, reduced the relative marriage-market value of men, and the willingness to commit for the long term. …

women since there are other institutions in place aiming at facilitating the combination of work and family. Using Swedish …-employment as a way of balancing work and family commitments. We suggest an alternative interpretation which is that women who chose … in the household and self-employment probabilities among women. This has been seen as an indication of women with young …

Fertility rates have fallen below replacement levels in many economies. We examine the relationship between female … incomes and fertility for college graduates in the United States. Female income is likely endogenous to fertility, and … procedure to estimate two-sided bounds for the effect of female income on fertility. The effect of female income on fertility is …

nest is negatively associated with older mothers' marriage probability. There is scope for better targeting of both family … and on mothers' labour market outcomes. Much less is known about older mothers' employment and marriage patterns when the … find that older women's retirement probability is positively associated with an empty nest. We also conclude that an empty …

We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … forms of health on other life dynamics, with better mental health having stronger impacts on marriage and fertility outcomes … increase fertility but decrease employment, while a decrease in childcare costs for employed women would increase both …

implies that estimates of impacts of fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to … and poorer countries, evident even among women who do not use IVF, and hold for numerous different measures of health. We … discuss potential mechanisms, showing evidence that favours selective miscarriage. Positive selection of women into twinning …

mothers' total work time - paid work and household production - is slightly less than partnered women's. In the U.S. but not …Using time-diary data from the U.S. and six wealthy European countries, I demonstrate that non-partnered mothers spend … slightly less time performing childcare, but much less time in other household activities than partnered mothers. Unpartnered …