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 …, and difficulty in identifying which of several mechanisms (returns, bargaining power, income, etc.) link the two. To …

Labor force participation rates of college-educated women ages 60 to 64 increased by 20 percent (10 percentage points …) between 2000 and 2010. One potential explanation for this change stems from the fact that fewer college-educated women in the … more recent cohorts were ever teachers. This occupational shift could affect the length of women's careers because teaching …

males. The results suggest that obesity has the most significant impact on white women's wages …

BMI has a negative impact on earnings for women, and less (if any) consequences for men. In this paper, we relax the … mass index (BMI). Using data from the 1986 and 1999-2005 Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we estimate semi-parametric wage … models that allow earnings to vary with BMI in a highly flexible manner. For women, the results show that earnings peak at …

measures collected from a diary method. The sample consists of 229 women who were interviewed on Thursdays, two weeks apart, in … income, net affect and life satisfaction are presented, and adjusted for attenuation bias due to measurement error. Life … satisfaction is found to correlate much more strongly with income than does net affect. Components of affect that are more person …

under the assumption that parental income is the main source of heterogeneity. We explicitly model the variability and …

, population, income growth and distribution, and migration trends are endogenous. We derive new insights about the impact of … migration on long-term income growth and distribution, and the net benefits to natives in both destination and source countries …