market wages earned by high-BMI women, but rather lower spousal transfers to married women or lower expected intra-marriage …Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets … expect that higher BMI will increase willingness to supply labor in labor markets, especially for women. We use US panel data …

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 …

Using March Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we investigate married women's labor supply behavior from 1980 to … 1990s. Moreover, a major new development was that, during both decades, there was a dramatic reduction in women's own wage … elasticity. And, continuing past trends, women's labor supply also became less responsive to their husbands' wages. Between 1980 …

, even controlling for his wage rate. Data for a single cohort of women from the NLSY 1979 suggest that women's work hours … are positively related to spousal education at the time of marriage but also fall more rapidly over time after marriage … appears to have increased since 2000. Both men's and women's preferences for a traditional division of labour within the …

We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to … significant in explaining number of hours worked by second-generation women with immigrant parents. More importantly, we show that … the impact of cultural proxies is significantly larger for women with immigrant parents who share same ethnic background …

rates of married women. A model is built in order to estimate this effect, in which the employment of married men and women … households are predicted to have higher employment rates than women in Classical households if they have narrower labor market … employment rates and wages. We estimate that 38 percent of households are Modern and that the participation rate of women in …

single households. In the model, labor supply of married women reacts positively and relatively strongly to minimum wages …, in our baseline experiments, average labor supply of married women increases by 3-5%, whereas hours supplied by married …