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 …

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country … stronger effect of father's than mother's education. Second-generation women's schooling levels are negatively affected by …

seems to undersave for retirement. Of particular concern is the relative position of older women, who are more vulnerable to … financial literacy in the 2004 Health and Retirement Study. It shows that women display much lower levels of financial literacy … than the older population as a whole. In addition, women who are less financially literate are also less likely to plan for …