predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may … weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though many studies have examined the link between women's wages or labor force … overcome these problems, we provided three years of recruiting services to help young women in randomly selected Indian …

expanding a business, conditional on entry, are also substantially higher for women. However, there is one area in which female … composition of female employment. Counterfactual simulations indicate that removing all excess barriers faced by women …

Reducing gender-specific commuting barriers in developing countries has complex and diverse effects on women's labor … dynamics. We study a program that offers free bus rides for women in several Indian states (the Pink Slip program) using a … synthetic difference-in-differences approach to shed light on labor supply and time use decisions of women. We observe decreased …

in developing economies can signal their wealth, and thereby increase their social status, by withdrawing their women … status. The steep increase in female education in recent decades could paradoxically have increased FLFNP in India even …

We use longitudinal data on marriage and children from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to characterize women … measures of this exposure to estimate the long-run effects of the EITC on women's labor market outcomes - especially wages and … earnings - as mature adults. We find evidence indicating that exposure to a more generous EITC when women were unmarried and …

This chapter focuses on women, work, and family, with a particular focus on differences by educational attainment … gender equality in the workplace and mitigate the considerable conflicts faced by many women as they seek to balance work and …

-representation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This chapter summarizes this research. We argue … that women's under-representation is concentrated in the math-intensive science fields of geosciences, engineering … affecting women and men as they progress through school, higher education, and into the labor market. Our results are consistent …

Changes in childbearing affect almost every aspect of human existence. Over the last fifty years, American women have … literature linking them to changes in childbearing and women's economic outcomes …

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 …

We study associations among women's current marital status, past marital history, and later-life labor force … employment and retirement outcomes for older women. The spread of unilateral divorce, we find, was associated with cross …-cohort differences in the probability of divorce over the lifecycle. For women with a low risk of divorce, later exposure to unilateral …