(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 …

We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation - including education, and savings for women in …

altering the terms of the marital contract these legal changes impacted the incentives for women to enter and remain in the …

-cycle of the 1940 cohort. Conditioning solely on gender, our ex ante welfare analysis finds that women would fare better under … unilateral system as are the top two quintiles of women; the rest prefer mutual consent. We also find that although the change in … divorce regime had only a small effect on the LFP of married women in the 1940 cohort, these effects would be considerably …

We examine the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on married women's labor supply following a health … among women insured by their spouse's policy than among women with health insurance through their own employer. Employment …

-time increase their hours, and full-time "career" women are largely unaffected …

54% of the total labour supply response for women under 30, although this importance declines with age. We show that …

Maternity leaves can affect mothers' and infants' welfare if they first affect the amount of time working women stay at … appear to render short mandates redundant. These mandates do, however, decrease the proportion of women quitting their jobs …

men. These findings cast doubt on the notion that married women have increased their labor supply in the recent decades to …