How important are social norms, information gaps and family constraints in explaining the low rates of female labor … working in Education and the Public sectors - sectors that are more socially acceptable for women, suggesting that parental …

In this paper, we develop and estimate a model of violence between romantically linked men and women. Physical violence …

people reported mostly donating the grant or using it to help family or friends as reported saving it (10–18 percent), with …

Recent college graduate women express frustration regarding the obstacles they will face in combining career and family … women in the past had a high success rate in combining family and career. Cohort I (graduating c. 1910) had a 50% rate of … career vary from 24% to 33% for all college graduate women in the sample. Thus only 13% to 17% of the group achieved 'family …

Alcohol consumption has been frequently linked to family violence. The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct … cross section and the 1985-1987 panel of the National Family Violence Survey. The 1985 data are a nationally representative …

The typical family in the US is now a dual-earner couple, yet relatively few studies examine the retirement decision in … that men and women are similarly responsive to their own incentives. I further find that men are very responsive to their … wives' incentives but that women are not responsive to their husbands' incentives and present evidence to suggest that this …

Surveys that spans 1959-2008. We find that the percent of civilian military-age men and women who satisfy current military … percentage who are both overweight and overfat, which roughly doubled for men and more than tripled for women between 1959-62 and … 2007-08. As of 2007-08, 5.7 million men (11.70%) and 16.5 million women (34.65%) of military age exceed the U.S. Army …