amongst single mothers. Here, we use this plausibly exogenous variation in female labor supply to identify the effect of labor …-in-differences estimation strategy in the NHIS data, as has been done in several other data sets. Depending on the specification, we find that …

market involvement. Differences across education levels are more pronounced with respect to full time employment than with …

estimate ordered probit models with a trichotomous dependent variable indicating full-time employment, part-time employment or … non-employment. We find that the labor market decisions of Catholic women are not significantly different from those of …-linear association: the probability of non-employment is high both among women who have zero attendance at religious services and among …

Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women's employment rates but decrease their wages in case of … leave policies. We analyze the impact of a major parental leave reform on mothers' long-term earnings. The 2007 German … policy on long-run earnings of mothers, we use a difference-in-difference approach that compares labor market outcomes of …

teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is … her friends' mothers' choices when she was a teenager, and the interaction between the two. The empirical salience of this … distant she is (in terms of working hours) from the friends' mothers. …

. -- Retirement ; women’s labor supply ; labor force participation ; relative cohort size ; relative wage ; part-time employment …

This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds, controlling for a … wide variety of child, mother and family characteristics. The results suggest that limited amounts of work by mothers … even moderate amounts of employment. The negative cognitive effects occur partly because maternal labor supply reduces the …