In this paper we examine the economic and family determinants of married women's retirement behavior. A model of wives …' retirement decisions is developed and tested empirically using data on working married women. Estimated response parameters are …

individual female's life span to determine the timing of childbearing. Fertility affects women's behavior through three channels … age at first birth rises at an increasing rate with the productivity loss from children; and (iii) women of greater …

investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better …

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 …

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 …

increases in income. Participation is most likely to occur among women with lower current and future earning opportunities, and … number of women exit these programs before their eligibility ends; among at least some of these women it seems likely that …

The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the … age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between … women. Although the pill' was approved in 1960 by the FDA and diffused rapidly among married women, it did not diffuse among …

the difficulty of tasks and gender stereotypes. We develop a theoretical model that separates these forces and apply it to … substantial, first order factor in stated beliefs. Women are better calibrated than men, providing more accurate estimates of … ability both for themselves and for others. Gender stereotypes also have strong predictive power for beliefs, particularly for …

wages, the gender wage gap and the gender composition of employment. The focus is the pay equity initiative of the Canadian … the law among smaller firms where the majority of men and women work. This evidence provides important lessons of the … labor market where compliance was relatively strict, our results suggest that any positive effects on the wages of women in …

We study the relation between gender and job performance among brokerage firm equity analysts. Women's representation … in analyst positions drops from 16% in 1995 to 13% in 2005. We find women cover roughly 9 stocks on average compared to … 10 for men. Women's earnings estimates tend to be less accurate. After controlling for forecast characteristics, the …