We ask what level of migration would maximize world welfare. We find that skill-neutral policies are never optimal. An …

find that municipalities with larger emigration rates had smaller shares of young, college educated and women among local …

Using data from the 1970 and 1980 Censuses, we examined the fertility of immigrant women from the Middle East, Asia …, Latin America and the Caribbean where fertility rates averaged in excess of 5.5 children per women during the period of … source countries were found to have very similar unadjusted fertility to native-born women. The small immigrant …

We study associations among women's current marital status, past marital history, and later-life labor force … employment and retirement outcomes for older women. The spread of unilateral divorce, we find, was associated with cross …-cohort differences in the probability of divorce over the lifecycle. For women with a low risk of divorce, later exposure to unilateral …

The goal of this paper is to ascertain whether older women's current and anticipated future labor force patterns have … show that older women's current and intended future labor force attachment patterns are changing over time. Specifically …, compared to our 1992 HRS baseline, more recent cohorts of women in their 50's and 60s's are more likely to plan to work longer …

. We first find that women have significantly lower promotion rates than men across all ranks of the corporate hierarchy … positive gender spillovers across ranks (flowing from higher-ranking to lower-ranking women) but negative spillovers within … women in lowers ranks …