of time-use survey data from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico shows that: (i) women make up 63% to 84% of long …-term family caregivers and account for 72% to 88% of total hours of LTC; (ii) consistently across countries, women who provide LTC … the number of hours worked among women ages 5064 who remain employed (by 7.03%). This finding has important implications …

, again concentrated among low-grade students. Young women who graduated into the recession because of the policy-pilot formed … the use of welfare benefits despite the short-lived impact on labor market outcomes. The results suggest that young women …

labor market outcomes. The results suggest that young women respond to early labor market prospects by changing the quality …

assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor … force participation rates work substantially more than women coming from countries with lower relative female labor supply …. Findings for another indicator of traditional gender roles, source country fertility rates, are broadly similar, with …

women in a framework that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, the heterogeneity of the … effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and the correlation of sequential labor market … decisions. Our results show that timing and spacing of births are important determinants of the effect of children on women …

This paper presents new evidence on the causal relationship between fertility and female labor supply. We particularly … focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of mothers. We employ an instrumental variable …. We find that fertility causally affects female labor supply. After the first twin birth, female labor supply declines …