higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively … more had high-status occupations. Together, these findings integrate contrasting narratives about frontier women …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …. Considerable evidence is found that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women … assimilation of immigrants. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native-born women with time in the United States, and …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women … assimilation of immigrants. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native‐born women with time in the United States, and …

and the increased prevalence of obesity amongst women. The expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the 1980s …-in-differences estimation strategy in the NHIS data, as has been done in several other data sets. Depending on the specification, we find that …

"We examine the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on married women's labor supply following a health … among women insured by their spouse's policy than among women with health insurance through their own employer. Employment …

(CPFL) on women's employment, earnings, and childbearing. A regression-discontinuity design exploits the sharp increase in …

schooling causes women to have fewer children and delay childbearing, though not to the extent that interpreting cross … the effect of women’s schooling on completed fertility is not mediated through husband’s schooling but rather through age …