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Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe. In particular we test whether women's (men's) transitions out of the labor force are … across countries, we find a significative joint retirement effect for women of 21 percentage points. For men, the estimated …
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find that a small portion of women delay their retirement whereas the rest substitute into alternative social security …
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highly educated women substituted work for time devoted to housework and childcare, while less educated wives substituted … women with higher education suggests that the difference between them and less educated wives in the response to reduced …
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entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in … labor market opportunity and marriage quality, as measured by bride price received and household bargaining power. We …
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differential effects of women's ability and charm on female match incentives. We use these results to assess the separate impacts … of the arrival of equal opportunities for women in the labor market and the advent of the contraceptive pill on female …
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permanent migration, women stayed in school longer. Empirical evidence is consistent with this hypothesis. Marriage motives and …We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young …
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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 …
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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 …
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We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future … pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women … then ran a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of increased information regarding pensions on women's awareness …
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increasing presence of first mover migrant women (coming from Latin America and Eastern Europe) is associated with higher …
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