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 …

Beginning in the mid 1980s and extending through the early to mid 1990s, a substantial number of women and children … fraction of women aged 15 to 44 who were eligible for Medicaid coverage for a pregnancy increased on average by 24 percentage …

an increase in the median time to remarriage of 3.5 years. Among older women and women with children, this effect is … substantially greater. This indicates that women were willing to substitute away from marriage if the alternatives were favorable … enough, suggesting that changes in the desirability of marriage to women may account for some of the aggregate patterns of …

The career and family outcomes of college graduate women suggest that the twentieth century contained five distinct … graduated college from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Using the NLS Young Women I demonstrate that 13 to 18 percent achieved …

Women are currently the majority of U.S. college students and of those receiving a bachelor%u2019s degree, but were 39 … determinants, can account for 30 to 60 percent of the relative increase in women%u2019s college completion rate. Behind these … changes were several others: the future work expectations of young women increased greatly between 1968 and 1979 and the age …