assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor … force participation rates work substantially more than women coming from countries with lower relative female labor supply … United States to the source country. Men's labor supply assimilation profiles are unaffected by source country female labor …

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country … stronger effect of father's than mother's education. Second-generation women's schooling levels are negatively affected by …

that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men … a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show …

the role of opportunities separately from that of preferences. We find that both women and men equally value physical …

countries on four continents, including the United States, there is no difference - men and women do the same amount of total … wages), as women's total work is further below men's where their relative wages are lower. Additional tests using U.S. and …'s where both men and women believe that scarce jobs should be offered to men first. …

may explain why other similar studies found such programs to be more effective for women than for men. In particular for … younger women a key effect of the programs is to reduce or postpone pregnancies and to increase the attachment to the labor …

extract from marriage. When the returns to education and household roles are gender neutral, men and women educate in equal … proportions and there is pure positive assortative matching in the marriage market. But if men and women have different market … from schooling is higher than that of men. Moreover, women's household time obligations have declined over time, raising …

initiated by women, and importantly, by women who are unhappier than their husband. Hence, happiness gaps seem to matter to …