, albeit only for women. Women in a better than normal mood tend to exhibit mood-congruent behavior, i.e. they weight … criterion. Only a negligible number of women do so. …

gap between highly educated (high-earning) and less-educated (low-earning) women. I exploit a major maternity leave … higher-earning women. Using the large differential changes in maternity leave benefits across education and income groups in … addition to demonstrating an up to 23% increase in the fertility of tertiary-educated women, I find a positive, statistically …

worker effect’ when their partner is exposed to the shock. By contrast, we find no such response for women, who do not …-employment appears to act as an employment buffer for men but not women. The impacts of import competition on partnering and family … dissolution also differ according to the gender of those affected: for women below 45, but not men, exposure to the trade shock …

We estimate the distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of prime-age men and women in the US. A quantile selection … the first half of working life, coinciding with fertility cycles of women. After age 40, there has been substantial gender …