women's layoffs; reductions in fertility associated with men's layoffs; and increases in fertility associated with women …

divorces. This shift is driven largely by women, not men. Correspondingly, the negative earnings implications of the rising … import competition are concentrated on women, and gender earnings inequality increases. The paper establishes the market …

for other Western countries. Using 1995-2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with … Survey Marriage and Fertility Supplements. …

Does availability of common law marriage (CLM henceforth) in the U.S help explain variation in the labor force … participation, hours of work and hours of household production of men and women over time and across states? As CLM offers more … legal protection to household producers at the margin between single status and marriage, we expect it to discourage labor …

in the household and self-employment probabilities among women. This has been seen as an indication of women with young … women since there are other institutions in place aiming at facilitating the combination of work and family. Using Swedish … choosing self-employment also among Swedish women. The effect is strongest for women with very young children, 0-3 years of age …

Women face unique challenges in starting and running their own businesses and may have differing motives to men for … pursuing self-employment. Previous research suggests that married women with families value the flexibility that self …

Women face unique challenges in starting and running their own businesses and may have differing motives to men for … pursuing self-employment. Previous research suggests that married women with families value the flexibility that self …

This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to …