reversal of the gender gap in college attendance beginning in the 1980s (Goldin, Katz and Kuziemko 2006), making girls more … countries have lower values of the World Economic Forum's Gender Equity Index, or lower female labor force participation rates …

Using the 1970, 1980 and 1990 Censuses, we investigate the impact of labor and marriage market conditions on the … incidence of marriage of young women (age 16-24). We employ a two-stage methodology. First, across individuals, marriage is … effects are regressed on MSA-level labor and marriage market conditions and welfare benefits using cross-section and fixed …

in observing wage offers; selection into marriage; income taxes and the earned income tax credit; measurement error in … education groups and mothers of small children are analyzed separately …

wives in the United States in a family context. Earlier research by Baker and Benjamin (1997) posits a family investment … family with liquidity during this period. Consistent with this model, they find for Canada that immigrant wives work longer …

production, including time with children. In looking at family, we focus on mothers with children. Next we examine key challenges …This chapter focuses on women, work, and family, with a particular focus on differences by educational attainment …. First, we review long-term trends regarding family structure, participation in the labor market, and time spent in household …

This paper analyzes the relationship between maternal labor supply and children's cognitive development, using a sample … of three- and four-year-old children of female respondents from the 1986 National Longitudinal Surveys Youth Cohort (NLSY …). Respondents in the NLSY were aged 21 to 29 in 1986; thus our sample consists of children of relatively young mothers. We show that …

We consider the gender pay gap in the United States. Both gender-specific factors, including gender differences in …, importantly influence the gender pay gap. Declining gender differentials in the U.S., and the more rapid closing of the gender pay … gap in the U.S. than elsewhere, appear to be primarily due to gender-specific factors. However, the relatively large …

study gender differences in promotion rates and in the wage gains attached to promotions. Several unique features of our … attached to promotions, and relatively few studies on gender differences have considered promotions and wage increases together … there is essentially no gender difference in wage growth with or without promotions …

country patterns, particularly the more traditional gender division of labor in the family in Mexico …States, immigrant women have a higher incidence of marriage (spouse present), higher fertility, and …Using 1994-2003 CPS data, we study gender and assimilation of Mexican Americans. Source …

convergence in the 1990s. Factors that may have contributed to the slower narrowing of the unexplained gender pay gap include … changes in labor force selectivity, changes in gender differences in unmeasured characteristics and labor market …