Women and the Economy: Family, Work and Pay

ISBN-13: 9781352012002 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 395 str.

Saul D. Hoffman; Susan Averett

Spis treści

1. Women and the economy 2. Economics tools and thinking 3. Gender and economics 4. Marriage and the family: an economic approach 5. Marriage: applications and extensions 6. The economics of fertility 7. The economics of fertility: applications and extensions 8. Women at work 9. Women’s labor force participation: applications and extensions 10. Women's earnings, occupation, and education: an overview 11. Gender differences in earnings: explanations 12. Gender differences in earnings: methods and evidence 13. Race and gender in the USA 14. Marriage and fertility in developing countries 15. Women's education, work and earnings in developing countries.

O autorze

Saul D. Hoffman is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Delaware, where he taught for 39 years.  He also served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Lyon II, University of Paris 1-Sorbonne, and the University of Colorado, Denver. He has published widely in labor economics and economic demography. He is the author of By the Numbers: The Public Costs of Teen Childbearing and co-editor of Kids Having Kids (2nd Edition), to which he also contributed several chapters.  He is the co-author of two books on the Earned Income Tax Credit published by the Upjohn Institute, and, with Susan Averett and Laura Argys, co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, published in 2018.

Susan L. Averett is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at Lafayette College. She has published widely in both economic demography and health economics and currently serves as co-editor of the journal Economics and Human Biology. From 2010-2015, she was co-editor of the Eastern Economic Journal. She is a co-editor (with Saul D. Hoffman and Laura M. Argys) of The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, published in 2018. She is also a Research Associate at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). Recently her work has focused on marriage and health, the causes and consequences of obesity and pollution and infant health.