Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar …

education at the college level and beyond and then go on to examine women's representation at the upper levels of academia …

education, health, and participation rates between population subgroups can have on increasing the U.S. labor force. Our …

's degree than those with less education, for prime-age workers than older workers, and also for those who already worked long …

Employment and participation rates for US prime age women rose steadily during the second half of the 20th century. In … the last 30 years, however, those rates stagnated, even as employment and participation rates for women in other … barriers, such as limited investment in family policies, that may be holding back employment among American women today. The …

factors, education policies, and school environments …

employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women …--and corresponding lapses in implicit childcare--provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment … allocation and gender differences within job types in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Women's summer work …