American women ages 16 to 24. We formulate a sequential schooling choice model that guides our exploration of these crucial … life-cycle decisions. Our estimation strategy takes into account the endogeneity of young women's schooling, labor supply … school discontinuation rates of Hispanic girls from secondary school and young black women from college because minority …

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 …