This paper investigates the responsiveness of women's labor supply to their husband's job loss – the so-called added … cycle and the different welfare regimes within Europe …

We examine the effects of college costs on the labor supply of mothers. Exploiting changes in college costs after the … mothers before and after these programs were implemented. Mothers of college-age children decreased their annual hours of work … evidence that mothers changed their employment status, as most of the decrease in hours of work happened among employed mothers …

-run influence of the family network on mothers' labour decisions up to seven years post birth. For identification, we exploit … of mothers working full-time has steadily increased. We provide the first empirical evidence that the increase in mothers …' working hours is amplified through the influence of family peers. Using Norwegian administrative data we study the long …

the importance of childcare related variables. We find working mothers do not increase their working hours when hourly … wages increase, indeed, they are more likely to reduce their hours. The major inducement for working mothers to increase … at increasing working hours amongst British mothers of pre-school children may need to focus on the quality as well as …

across local areas in England, and comparing siblings born to the same mother via family fixed effects. Using rich individual …

Evidence from past economic crises indicates that recessions often affect men's and women's employment differently …. Using new survey data collected in April 2020 from a representative sample of Italian women, we analyse jointly the effect … that most of the additional workload associated to COVID-19 falls on women while childcare activities are more equally …

Raising women's political participation leads to faster maternal mortality decline. We estimate that the introduction … of quotas for women in parliament results in a 9 to 12% decline in maternal mortality. In terms of mechanisms, it also … decline made feasible by the introduction of antibiotics was significantly greater in states that had longer exposure to women …

prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen … (residual) income, as well as assortative mating. Despite very similar trends and levels for mothers in the US and Sweden, we … timing in women's spike in labor force attachment. Parental assortative mating is also an important factor in both countries …

increasing presence of first mover migrant women (coming from Latin America and Eastern Europe) is associated with higher … marital disruption on data from the nationally – representative 2009 Family and Social Subjects survey. We found that the … 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 …