expansions in Medicaid eligibility for pregnant women in the late 1980s and the early 1990s on labor supply, which is one of the … year was employed. Among unmarried women with less than a high school education, the change in Medicaid eligibility reduced …

-cycle of the 1940 cohort. Conditioning solely on gender, our ex ante welfare analysis finds that women would fare better under … unilateral system as are the top two quintiles of women; the rest prefer mutual consent. We also find that although the change in … divorce regime had only a small effect on the LFP of married women in the 1940 cohort, these effects would be considerably …

altering the terms of the marital contract these legal changes impacted the incentives for women to enter and remain in the …

We examine the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on married women's labor supply following a health … among women insured by their spouse's policy than among women with health insurance through their own employer. Employment …

earning power and education across genders, married women often found themselves in an economically vulnerable position, and … women. To investigate this idea, we build and estimate an equilibrium search model with education, marriage …/divorce/remarriage, and household labor supply decisions. A key feature of the model is that women bear a larger share of the divorce burden …