Dynamic female labor supply

Econometrica

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1675-1726

  Eckstein, Zvi ^a,b   Lifshitz, Osnat ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

^c Tel Aviv Jaffa   (Israel)

Author keywords

Accounting; Dynamic discrete choice; Education; Female employment; Fertility and marriage; Gender wage gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 82155175536     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA8803     Document Type: Article

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