Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/89716 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 4556
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
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 effects 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 find 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.
Subjects: 
two-sided search
marriage
female labor supply
pill
age at first birth
JEL: 
C60
J00
J10
N30
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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