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Introduction / Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz -- Transitions over the lifecycle. Women working longer: facts and some explanations / Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz -- The return to work and women's employment decisions / Nicole Maestas -- Understanding why black women are not working longer / Joanna N. Lahey -- Family matters: caregiving, marriage, and divorce. Changes in marriage and divorce as drivers of employment and retirement of older women / Claudia Olivetti and Dana Rotz -- Women working longer: labor market implications of providing family care / Sean Fahle and Kathleen McGarry -- Financial considerations: resources, pensions, and social security. Older women's labor market attachment, retirement planning, and household debt / Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell -- Teaching, teachers' pensions, and retirement across recent cohorts of college graduate women / Maria D. Fitzpatrick -- The role of social security benefits in the initial increase of older women's employment: evidence from the social security notch / Alexander Gelber, Adam Isen, and Jae Song -- The hidden resources of women working longer: evidence from linked survey-administrative data / C. Adam Bee and Joshua Mitchell