Zimmermann, Christian; Krapf, Matthias; Ursprung, … - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2014
We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the … find that motherhood is associated with low research productivity. Nor do we find a statistically significant unconditional … effect of a first child on research productivity. Conditional difference-in-differences estimates, however, suggest that the …