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 …

Beginning in the mid 1980s and extending through the early to mid 1990s, a substantial number of women and children … fraction of women aged 15 to 44 who were eligible for Medicaid coverage for a pregnancy increased on average by 24 percentage …

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 …

The career and family outcomes of college graduate women suggest that the twentieth century contained five distinct … graduated college from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Using the NLS Young Women I demonstrate that 13 to 18 percent achieved …

Women are currently the majority of U.S. college students and of those receiving a bachelor%u2019s degree, but were 39 … determinants, can account for 30 to 60 percent of the relative increase in women%u2019s college completion rate. Behind these … changes were several others: the future work expectations of young women increased greatly between 1968 and 1979 and the age …

This paper examines the effect of antidepressant use on the likelihood of being employed among HIV-positive women … predict antidepressant use independently of outcomes; thus, addressing potential sources of bias -- more depressed women are … antidepressant use has a positive effect on the employment probability of women living with HIV. The proposed instrumental variables …

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 …

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 …