estimates the effects of welfare reform on an important source of human capital acquisition among women at risk for relying on …

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 …

application of adult women's decisions to undertake mammography to evaluate the importance of present bias and naivety in the …

relative wage and employment of women improves in blue-collar tasks, but not in white-collar tasks. We test our model using a …

(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 …

-making, the experiment markets stoves to husbands or wives in turn at randomly varying prices. We find that women - who bear … suggest that if women cannot make independent choices about household resource use, public policy may not be able to exploit …

of the 1990s, which dramatically increased employment among women at risk for relying on cash assistance. We find that …

Do men and women have different social preferences? Previous findings are contradictory. We provide a potential … explanation using evidence from a field experiment. In a door-to-door solicitation, men and women are equally generous, but women … parameters suggest an explanation: women are more likely to be on the margin of giving, partly because of a less dispersed …