considered to capture changes in women's well-being in the family as well as in the labor market. For virtually all age and …This paper examines the trends in the well-being of American women over the last 25 years, a time of significant … changes in the relative economic status of women and in the labor market as a whole. A broad range of indicators are …

lifetime family income and increased longevity …

estimated a logit model of married women's part-time employment and a fertility equation in the context of a simultaneous …-equation model. By specifically differentiating part-time employed married women from full-time employed married women,we find that … supply in terms of elasticity. However, contrary to the result of married women's full-time employment, we find little …

-77 percent. In this paper, we specify and estimate a model of family labor supply which treats both federal and state taxation … family labor supply decision. Joint family efforts are found to be important. The efficiency cost (deadweight loss) of labor …

and how does it compare with the family's money in-come? How does the value of home production differ among families with … children? How does it changeover the family's life cycle? …

This paper shows that globalization has far-reaching implications for the economy's fertility rate and family structure … competition lead to a shift towards family, with more parental leave and higher fertility as well as more marriages and fewer … divorces. This shift is driven largely by women, not men. Correspondingly, the negative earnings implications of the rising …

Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment …

insurance. With strong family ties home production is higher, labor force participation of women and youngsters, and …The structure of family relationships influences economic behavior and attitudes. We define our measure of family ties … using individual responses from the World Value Survey regarding the role of the family and the love and respect that …

wives in the United States in a family context. Earlier research by Baker and Benjamin (1997) posits a family investment … family with liquidity during this period. Consistent with this model, they find for Canada that immigrant wives work longer … natives upon arrival, with similar shortfalls for men and women. Further, both immigrant husbands and wives have similar …