Wilde, Elizabeth Ty; Batchelder, Lily; Ellwood, David T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper explores how the wage and career consequences of motherhood differ by skill and timing. Past work has often found smaller or even negligible effects from childbearing for high-skill women, but we find the opposite. Wage trajectories diverge sharply for high scoring women after, but...