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Parenthood, Family Friendly Workplaces, and the Gender Gaps in Early Work Careers
Hotz, V. Joseph - 2018
the parental gender gap in wages and income. At the same time, working in more family friendly workplaces would not reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012931210
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Work Expectations, Realizations, and Depression in Older Workers
Falba, Tracy - 2008
We explore the impact on depressive symptoms of deviation in actual labor force behavior at age 62 from earlier expectations. Our sample of 4,241 observations is drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We examine workers who were less than 62 years of age at the 1992 HRS baseline, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769532
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Gender, Competitiveness and Career Choices
Buser, Thomas - 2012
Gender differences in competitiveness are often discussed as a potential explanation for gender differences in … of profile choice as gender. More importantly, up to 23 percent of the gender difference in profile choice can be … attributed to gender differences in competitiveness. This lends support to the extrapolation of laboratory findings on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097269
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Elite Schools and Opting in : Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes
Ge, Suqin - 2018
Using College and Beyond data and a variant on Dale and Krueger's (2002) matched-applicant approach, this paper revisits the question of how attending an elite college affects later-life outcomes. We expand the scope along two dimensions: we examine new outcomes related to labor force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907132
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Career and Family : College Women Look to the Past
Goldin, Claudia - 2021
Recent college graduate women express frustration regarding the obstacles they will face in combining career and family. Tracing the demographic and labor force experiences of four cohorts of college women across the past century allows us to observe the choices each made and how the constraints...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243438
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Aging, Religion, and Health
Deaton, Angus - 2009
relationships between religiosity, age, and gender, as well as the effects of religiosity on a range of health measures and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156862
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Happiness Inequality in the United States
Stevenson, Betsey - 2009
eroded, and the gender happiness gap has disappeared entirely. Paralleling changes in the income distribution, differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766287
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Perceptions of Economic Insecurity : Evidence from the Survey of Economic Expectations
Dominitz, Jeff; Manski, Charles F. - 2021
We have recently initiated the Survey of Economic Expectations (SEE) to learn how Americans perceive their near-term futures. This paper uses SEE data on over two thousand labor force participants interviewed in 1994 and 1995 to describe how Americans in the labor force perceive the risk of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218906
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Early Maternal Employment and Family Wellbeing
Chatterji, Pinka - 2011
This study uses longitudinal data from the NICHD Study on Early Child Care (SECC) to examine the effects of maternal employment on family well-being, measured by maternal mental and overall health, parenting stress, and parenting quality. First, we estimate the effects of maternal employment on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122490
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Lock-Downs, Loneliness and Life Satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel - 2020
their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases … most with additional time spent with spouse. Among singles, satisfaction decreases most as more time is spent alone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836424