equally effective tools for reducing non-employment. However, non-employment among women with young children is more …

We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … increase fertility but decrease employment, while a decrease in childcare costs for employed women would increase both … fertility and labor supply, supporting women's overall health. …

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 …

childcare industry, this paper examines whether college-educated native women respond to immigrant-induced lower cost and … among women who are most likely to consider childcare costs when making fertility decisions - namely, married women with a … graduate degree. Given that women also respond to immigrant inflows by working long hours, the paper ends with an analysis of …

-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United … improve with own education. Our theoretical predictions match the data for India at low levels of women's education but over … division of labor shows that norms can act as a binding constraint, producing much smaller increases in women's labor supply to …

The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand … facilities. We provide projections of possible impacts of this reduction on less-educated women's future human capital framed … experience. We develop a new and modified form of the Mincerian log wage equation which we argue captures the effect of women …