This paper develops a quantitative life-cycle model to study the increase in married women's labor force participation …

Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … overtook and surpassed that of men and the ratio of men's to women's wage rates fell, traditional patterns of gender …

formation (by marriage or non-marital cohabitation) and first birth are almost identical for women reaching childbearing age in …

-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 …

women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to … garment sector jobs to women living further away from factories, to years before the factories arrive close to some villages …

insurance, little research is available on the consequences of marital disruption for insurance coverage among men, women, and … and women show increases in private coverage in their own names, but offsetting decreases in dependent coverage tend to be … eligible for that coverage. Children and, to a lesser extent, women show increases in public coverage around the time of …

-income countries. In doing so, it focuses on fertility outcomes (the number and timing of births), women's health and socio …