Recent Census Bureau statistics show that women who receive child support payments have higher earnings and work longer hours than women who do not. Does this suggest that child support-unlike all other nonwage income-does not deter work effort, or are women who receive it simply different? We...

Analysis of occupational data from the 1960 and 1970 Censuses and the Current Population Surveys for 1971 to 1981 reveals that occupational segregation of men and women declined more rapidly in the U.S. during the decade of the seventies than during the sixties. Most of the decline was due to...

This paper uses CPS data to analyze gender differences in black-white annual earnings trends over the 1970s and 1980s. We find that in at least two respects black women fared better than men over this period. First, due to decreasing relative annual time inputs for black males, but not black...