The traditional historical narrative claims that White women were rarely involved in market transactions for enslaved … the first quantitative estimates of the extent of White women's involvement in antebellum slave transactions as owners of … record. Contrary to the narrative, we find that White women were quite frequently noted as owners of record in transactions …

Ever since Lucy Stone decided to retain her surname at marriage in 1855, women in America have tried to do the same ….,' among other factors, spurred surname retention among married women in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This paper tracks the … fraction of college graduate women who kept their surnames upon marriage and after childbirth and explores some of the …

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 …

Discrimination against women has been alleged in hiring practices for many occupations, but it is extremely difficult … players in 1970 but are 25% today. We ask whether women were more likely to be advanced and/or hired with the use of blind …

This paper deals with the effects of labor and transfer incomes as determinants of older women's labor force … participation. It examines the responsiveness of women aged 48-62 to the level of income available from both work and public … of disability-related transfers affects the labor supply of these women. A maximum-likelihood model is estimated …

life expectancy at birth is around four to six years (seven in Japan). But have women always lived so much longer than men … the ages of 5 and 25. Increased longevity of women, therefore, occurred as the burden of infectious disease fell for all …. Our explanation does not tell us why women live longer than men, but it does help understand the timing of the increase …

Men outnumber women as undergraduate economics majors by three to one nationwide. Even at the best research … universities and liberal arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one or more. The Undergraduate Women in Economics Challenge … uncomplicated and inexpensive interventions can substantially increase the interest of women to major in economics …

How do children affect women in science? We investigate this question using rich biographical data, linked with patents … 48% of fathers and 46% of women without children. Mothers face comparable tenure rates to other assistant professors for … who survive in science are extremely positively selected: Compared with other married women, mothers patent (publish) 2 …