, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico shows that: (i) women provide the vast majority of family LTC; (ii) consistently across … family long-term care (LTC) and female labor supply in four Latin American countries. Time-use survey data from Chile … countries, women who provide LTC are less likely to work, and those who do work less hours per week and have a double burden of …

is provided in LF. Second, the weights children and parents have in the family bargaining problem might differ in general …

This paper investigates the responsiveness of women's labor supply to their husband's job loss – the so-called added …

marital disruption on data from the nationally – representative 2009 Family and Social Subjects survey. We found that the … increasing presence of first mover migrant women (coming from Latin America and Eastern Europe) is associated with higher … separation risks among natives, especially for couples with lower human capital. Our findings add to our understanding of family …

I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment – sibling gender composition – affects women … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with …

This paper discusses research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys … importance of distinguishing between extensive and intensive margin changes in both variables; consideration not only of women … of analysing changes across the lifecycle and across successive cohorts; and of recognizing that women's choices over …