Add to ORKGUntil the early decades of the 20th century, women spent more than 60 % of their prime-age years either pregnant or nursing. Since then, improved medical knowledge and obstetric practices reduced the time cost associated with womens reproductive role. The introduction of infant formula also reduced womens comparative advantage in infant care, by providing an e¤ective breast milk substitute. Our hypothesis is that these developments enabled married women to increase their participation in the labor force, thus providing the incentive to invest in market skills, potentially narrowing gender earnings di¤erentials. We document these changes and develop a quantitative model that aims to capture their impact. Our results suggest that progress in ...
This paper studies the quantitative effects of changes in fertility patterns and rel-ative wages, on...
This book deals with women and socioeconomic change in twentieth century Sweden. The main focus is o...
We study the large observed changes in labor supply by married women in the United States over the p...
Until the early decades of the 20th century, women spent more than 60 % of their prime-age years eit...
Until the early decades of the 20th century, women spent more than 60 % of their prime-age years eit...
Until the early decades of the 20th century, women spent more than 60% of their prime-age years eith...
JEL No. J13,J16,J2,J22,N3,O3 Until the early decades of the 20th century, women spent more than 60 %...
The entry of married women into the labor force is one of the most notable economic phenom-ena of th...
Over the twentieth century, the amount of time that married women devoted to working in the market i...
Over the twentieth century, the allocation of womens' time changed dramatically. This paper explores...
Between the latter nineteenth century and the 1930s there was a dramatic revolution in Ameri-can fam...
Home production has changed dramatically during the course of the 20th century: Labor sav-ing techno...
argued that married women could not enter the labor force in large numbers until housework had becom...
The demand for female labor is a central explanatory component of macrostructural theories of gender...
It is sometimes hard to imagine that it has been less than 100 years since women in the United State...
This paper studies the quantitative effects of changes in fertility patterns and rel-ative wages, on...
This book deals with women and socioeconomic change in twentieth century Sweden. The main focus is o...
We study the large observed changes in labor supply by married women in the United States over the p...
Until the early decades of the 20th century, women spent more than 60 % of their prime-age years eit...
Until the early decades of the 20th century, women spent more than 60 % of their prime-age years eit...
Until the early decades of the 20th century, women spent more than 60% of their prime-age years eith...
JEL No. J13,J16,J2,J22,N3,O3 Until the early decades of the 20th century, women spent more than 60 %...
The entry of married women into the labor force is one of the most notable economic phenom-ena of th...
Over the twentieth century, the amount of time that married women devoted to working in the market i...
Over the twentieth century, the allocation of womens' time changed dramatically. This paper explores...
Between the latter nineteenth century and the 1930s there was a dramatic revolution in Ameri-can fam...
Home production has changed dramatically during the course of the 20th century: Labor sav-ing techno...
argued that married women could not enter the labor force in large numbers until housework had becom...
The demand for female labor is a central explanatory component of macrostructural theories of gender...
It is sometimes hard to imagine that it has been less than 100 years since women in the United State...
This paper studies the quantitative effects of changes in fertility patterns and rel-ative wages, on...
This book deals with women and socioeconomic change in twentieth century Sweden. The main focus is o...
We study the large observed changes in labor supply by married women in the United States over the p...