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This paper deals with the effects of labor and transfer incomes as determinants of older women's labor force … participation. It examines the responsiveness of women aged 48-62 to the level of income available from both work and public … of disability-related transfers affects the labor supply of these women. A maximum-likelihood model is estimated …
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that women in science will advance up the academic job ladder beyond their early post-doctorate years, while both marriage …Many studies have shown that women are under-represented in tenured ranks in the sciences. We evaluate whether gender … facts using the 1973-2001 Survey of Doctorate Recipients. We find that women are less likely to take tenure track positions …
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I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men … from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering … rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can be explained by the relatively greater exit rate from engineering of …
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It is frequently asserted that a college's female undergraduate enrollment in the sciences and engineering can be increased by raising female representation on the faculties in these areas. Despite the widespread acceptance of this proposition, it does not appear to have been subjected to any...
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relative wage and employment of women improves in blue-collar tasks, but not in white-collar tasks. We test our model using a …
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(usually full-time) to maintain access to health insurance coverage. We study employed married women, newly diagnosed with … breast cancer, comparing labor supply responses to breast cancer diagnoses between women dependent on their own employment … for health insurance and women with access to health insurance through their spouse's employer. We find evidence that …
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The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 officially granted voting rights to women across the United States …. However, many states extended full or partial suffrage to women before the federal amendment. In this paper, we discuss the … history of women's enfranchisement using an economic lens. We examine the demand-side, discussing the rise of the women …
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countries, absolutely and relative to a control group of single women without children. The cross-country differences in …
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While a growing literature shows that women, relative to men, prefer greater investment in children, it is unclear … whether empowering women produces better economic outcomes. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in U.S. suffrage laws, we …
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altering the terms of the marital contract these legal changes impacted the incentives for women to enter and remain in the …
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