Full Citation

Title: Equilibrium Search and the Impact of Equal Opportunities for Women

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2013

ISBN:

ISSN:

DOI:

NSFID:

PMCID:

PMID:

Abstract: This paper develops a new equilibrium model of two-sided search where agents have multiple attributes and general payoff functions. The model can be applied to several substantive issues. Here we use it to provide a novel understanding of the separate e ffects of equal opportunities for women in the labor market and improved contraception on female education, employment, and timing of first births after World War II. We fi nd that the diffusion of the pill might have played an important role in explaining the observed rise in female education and employment since the 1960s. But without equal opportunities, these changes would have not occurred.

User Submitted?: No

Authors: Coles, Melvyn G.; Francesoni, Marco

Series Title:

Publication Number: 742

Institution: University of Essex

Pages:

Publisher Location: Colchester, UK

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Methodology and Data Collection

Countries: