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Female Labor Supply in Latin America and the Business Cycle: Instability and Asymmetry Maridueña‐Larrea, Ángel Martín Román, Ángel Luis Business cycle Female Labor Supply Producción Científica This study measures the responsiveness of female labor supply at the extensive margin to business cycle changes in Latin America. The results provide new evidence on the stability and cyclical asymmetry of the traditional added and discouraged worker effects (i.e., AWE and DWE, respectively). It is shown that these effects are not stable and react differently to business cycle variations and even strengthen from a certain threshold. The estimated cross-country and through-time differences in the AWE and DWE, and in their counterparts in the expansionary cyclical phases, that is, the subtracted and encouraged worker effects (i.e., SWE and EWE, respectively) have direct implications for the design of economic policies, particularly those aiming at reducing gender differences in labor force participation in a region in which female workers are still underrepresented. 2025-07-04T11:12:11Z 2025-07-04T11:12:11Z 2025 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Review of Development Economics, 2025 1363-6669 https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/76251 10.1111/rode.13231 Review of Development Economics 1467-9361 spa https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/rode.13231 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ © 2025 The Author(s) Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Blackwell Publishers SI