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 …

We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to a health innovation that led to reductions in … allow women to start fertility later and invest more in the labor market. We present a new theory of fertility that …

Two decades of economic transition revealed that Russian women are on average less happy than men. This paper addresses … housework, with women, even if working, holding the main responsibility for housekeeping activities, is perceived as "fair …-1998, the results show that women's relative unhappiness is likely to be causes by their increasing earning powers with relative …