When lesbian couples plan for a child together, the resulting child has two mothers. For more than 20 years, lesbians … both mothers without requiring an adoption. The article demonstrates that establishing a child’s legal parents has always … other countries, and model laws that result in parentage for both of a child’s mothers. It then describes in detail the …

penalties. Using data for 29 countries drawn from SHARE, we show that although marriage has a negative effect on women … the hypothesis that child-rearing, rather than marriage or pregnancy, is responsible for women exiting the labor force …The existence of large child penalties on women’s labor market outcomes has been documented for multiple countries and …

Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it … entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in … labor market opportunity and marriage quality, as measured by bride price received and household bargaining power. We …

This paper posits marriage market returns as a contributing factor to stagnant female labor force participation despite … increasing female education. The paper examines the marriage market returns of female education by exploiting a very direct … measure of returns: bride price, a significant amount of resources transferred by the groom at the time of marriage. The paper …

This paper examines the marriage market returns of female education in Egypt by exploiting a very direct measure of … returns: bride price, a significant amount of resources transferred by the groom at the time of marriage. Identification … education is about 100% for bride price, about 14% for husband’s wage at the time of marriage, and about 16% for a measure of …

, employment and hours of work relative to married men with children or married women without children. There is little evidence … outcomes of skilled married women using 2009-2015 ACS data. Overwork and underwork by degree field, respectively, are measured … conducted using the sample of college-educated men and women ages 25-44 married to college-educated spouses. Results indicate …