Shiho, Yukawa - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 15 (2015) 2, pp. 437-474
Using data from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers (JPSC) for the period 1994–2007, I examine the effect of childbirth on fathers’ wage rates and labor supply in Japan. I also compare the effects of fatherhood between different cohorts by dividing the JPSC sample into two birth-year...