expect that higher BMI will increase willingness to supply labor in labor markets, especially for women. We use US panel data … as an instrument for own BMI to address potential endogeneity of BMI in hours worked. We find that White women with … higher BMI work more. This is true for both single and married White women. Results for other groups of women and men produce …

, but potentially important, spillover effect of enforcement policies: changes in high-skilled citizen women's labor supply … in intensity of immigration enforcement in a local area reduced the labor supply of citizen college- educated women with … increase in the wages of household workers, and 3) we see no similar effects for high-skilled men or women without children …

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

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women's behavior in the …. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native‐born women with time in the United States, and, while our results …

Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to … labor supply of full time working women, but only in Western Germany. We also show that gender identity affects the supply … of housework but in contrast to the US where women increase their contribution to non-market work when they actually have …

-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 …

endogeneity of income in a new way by using a simulated instrumental variable based on a fixed EU-wide sample of women. Results … percentage points. The effect is higher for single mothers, for women in the middle of the skills distribution, and in countries …

This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger immigrant inflows. Most interestingly, these changes have been …-used measure of the difficulty with which women combine motherhood and labor market work. Using a structured statistical model, I …

This paper investigates both the added worker effect (the labour supply responses of women to their partners' job … women in Australia, with the emphasis on the former. We focus on the partnersﾒ involuntary job loss experiences, and analyse … women's labour market activities in the periods before and after their partnersﾒ job loss. By estimating fixed effects …