Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Smith, Nina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
The effect of children and career interruptions on the family gap is analysed based on Danish longitudinal data … when controlling for unobserved heterogeneity, the negative effect of children on mothers’ wages disappears. The main … effect of children seems to be loss of human capital accumulation during childbirth periods. Beside this, there is no …