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' mothers. Using detailed information on a sample of U.S. teenagers who are followed over time, we find that labor force … participation of high school peers' mothers affects adult women's labor force participation, above and beyond the effect of their … own mothers. The analysis suggests that women who were exposed to a larger number of working mothers during adolescence …
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Fertility in the United States rose from a low of 2.27 children for women born in 1908 to a peak of 3.21 children for women born in 1932. It dropped to a new low of 1.74 children for women born in 1949, before stabilizing for subsequent cohorts. We propose a novel explanation for this...
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United States. For each death, twenty times as many mothers were estimated to suffer pregnancy-related conditions, often … leading to severe and prolonged disablement. Poor maternal health made it particularly hard for mothers to engage in market …
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teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is … her friends' mothers' choices when she was a teenager, and the interaction between the two. The empirical salience of this … distant she is (in terms of working hours) from the friends' mothers. …
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