women's creativity within the nonmarket household sector and outside the patent system. The analysis distinguishes between … women, especially nonpatentees, were significantly more likely than men to be associated with innovations in consumer final … products or work outside the home pursued such improvements to benefit their families. The patterns suggest that framing women …

differential between violent crime cases with female versus male victims. The inclusion of women also increased the likelihood of … jurors on the seated jury sharply increased conviction rates for violent crimes against women versus men …

in compensating for the effects of children, especially for women who left education after completing high school, but …

The share of women in the top 1% of the UK’s income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in … being in the top 1%, fitted separately for men and women, in order to contrast between the sexes the role of changes in … characteristics and changes in returns to characteristics. We show that the rise of women in the top 1% is primarily accounted for by …

Single women in the U.S. dominated the female labor force from 1870 to 1920. Data on the home life and working … conditions of women in 1888 and 1907 enable the estimation of earnings functions. Work in the manufacturing sector for these … women was task oriented and payment was frequently by the piece. Earnings rose steeply with experience and peaked early …

uninsured women with breast cancer, we compared insured and uninsured women treated in a safety net setting. Controlling for … socioeconomic characteristics, uninsured women are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced disease, requiring more extensive … treatment relative to insured women, and also experience delays in initiating and completing treatment. The findings suggest …

life expectancy at birth is around four to six years (seven in Japan). But have women always lived so much longer than men … and 25. Both males and females lived longer as the burden of infectious disease fell, but women were more greatly impacted …. Our explanation does not tell us why women live longer than men, but it does help understand the timing of their relative …

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 …

in Scotland are no worse than in England or Wales. Detailed analysis within Scotland, however, shows that social capital …

This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …