representative survey. In a reduced-form approach, we first measure the impact of polygyny on participation using a joint model of … spouse participation. The identification of the impact of polygyny relies on the use of district-level variables as … instruments. We find a positive impact of polygyny on female labour force participation. Turning to a structural approach based on …

This project is the result of a search on labour market participation of Swiss married women. We want to analyze why … most of these women are part of the labor force. The result is that most of the examined women are not part of the Swiss …

second-earner women adjust their income to benefit from the tax credit, while second-earner men do not. Second-earner women …

This paper estimates the responsiveness of labor supply function of urban married women on both the intensive margin … (hours of work) and the extensive margin (participation) to unearned income and market wages, when self-employment is an … option. Data used from household surveys carried out in 1988 and 1998. While early work on female participation rarely …

employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …

these predictions to estimate the participation equation. We find that women's labour supply decision is not influenced by …Using data from the 2011 and 2016 Life in Kyrgyzstan surveys, we examine Kyrgyz women's labour supply elasticities at … the extensive margin. We use Heckman's two-step approach to predict earnings for the non-participating women and then use …

employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … employment in Mongolia in 2016. We examine the availability of childcare, social norms and attitudes towards women, as well as … relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six years are 21.5 percentage …

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 …