An emerging literature highlights the importance of empowering women. Female decision-making power is typically … systematically report a higher share of decision domains in which they decide. Female labor supply and contraception use are higher … when both partners perceive female decision-making power in these domains. Increases in female income share are associated …

household decision-making approaches, this study focuses on the moderating role of the household economic situation in the … research has mainly concentrated on examining the impact of differing family care situations on women’s employment. Building on … family care–employment relationship among women. Cox shared frailty regression analyses of German Socio-Economic Panel data …

expect that higher BMI will increase willingness to supply labor in labor markets, especially for women. We use US panel data … as an instrument for own BMI to address potential endogeneity of BMI in hours worked. We find that White women with … higher BMI work more. This is true for both single and married White women. Results for other groups of women and men produce …