-employed individuals, we find robust evidence that women in Italy pay more for overdraft facilities than men. We could not find any … evidence that women are riskier then men. The male/female differential remains even after controlling for a large number of … characteristics of the type of business, the borrower and the market structure of the credit market. The result is not driven by women …

By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to … time use to it. Widows differ from otherwise similar married women, especially from married women with working husbands, by …. Evidence from the European countries shows that widows feel less time stress than married women but are also less satisfied …

The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the … age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between … women. Although the pill' was approved in 1960 by the FDA and diffused rapidly among married women, it did not diffuse among …

incidence of marriage of young women (age 16-24). We employ a two-stage methodology. First, across individuals, marriage is …

Women enter retirement having spent fewer years in market work, earned less over their lifetimes, and worked in … many women end up with lower levels of retirement income in old age. We use the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which … largely between nonmarried men and women. Multivariate models show that 85 percent of this retirement income gap can be …

women's spending on beauty-enhancing goods and services. We find that beauty raises women's earnings (and to a lesser extent …

I show that the trend towards single households among older nonmarried women, the majority of whom were widows, has … the fraction of older nonmarried women living with relatives from 1950 to 1990 can be attributed to rising Social Security …