2001 to 2011. We focus on couples with a mature age husband, and estimate the interdependence of the participation decision … of the couple. We find that the decision of a wife to work or not influences positively, and in a causal fashion, the … decision of her husband to work or not. In our paper we use counterfactual analysis to estimate the impact of the increasing …

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

to a better understanding of the role of cognitive skills in decision making under uncertainty …

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 …. These declines have continued and a new gender gap is emerging - one with higher subjective well-being for men …

argued that female employment increased opportunities for men to advance; however, most male clerks regarded this expansion … employment of women. It is shown that within position women were substitutes for men, although the degree of substitutability was … less for older men than for juniors. In addition, the employment of women in routine positions allowed the Bank to expand …

changes in the relative earnings of Hispanic men during a period of dramatic change in public and private policies toward race … contrast how lower income Hispanic and African-American men fared during the civil rights era relative to lower-income non … significant acceleration following the Civil Rights Act in the relative earnings of low-income Hispanic men …

using men of similar ages as the control group. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for 1998 …