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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 …
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higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively … more had high-status occupations. Together, these findings integrate contrasting narratives about frontier women …
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It is widely believed that female students benefit from being taught by female teachers, particularly when those teachers serve as counter-stereotypical role models. We study education in rural areas of the US circa 1940--a setting in which there were few professional female exemplars other than...
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We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to a health innovation that led to reductions in … allow women to start fertility later and invest more in the labor market. We present a new theory of fertility that …
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-making, the experiment markets stoves to husbands or wives in turn at randomly varying prices. We find that women - who bear … suggest that if women cannot make independent choices about household resource use, public policy may not be able to exploit …
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a higher fraction of women working not only for the generation directly affected by the war, but also for the next … generation. These women were young enough to profit from the changed composition in the pool of men (i.e., from the fact that … working relative to non-working women is greatest, have higher female labor supply twenty years later …
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The widely-used estimator of Berry, Levinsohn and Pakes (1995) produces estimates of consumer preferences from a discrete-choice demand model with random coefficients, market-level demand shocks and endogenous prices. We derive numerical theory results characterizing the properties of the nested...
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Is the variety of products supplied in markets a reflection of the diversity of consumers' preferences? In this paper, we argue that the distribution of durable goods offered in markets tends to be compressed relative to the distribution of consumers' underlying preferences. In particular, there...
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When a product's product provision entails fixed costs, it will be made available only if a sufficient number of people want it. Some products are produced and consumed locally, so that provision requires not only a large group favoring the product but a large number nearby. Just as one has an...
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We describe a regulatory framework that helps consumers who have difficulty sticking to their own long-run plans. Early Decision regulations help long-run preferences prevail by allowing consumers to partially commit to their long-run goals, making it harder for a momentary impulse to reverse...
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