Goldin, Claudia; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Olivetti, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Women earn less than men, and that is especially true of mothers relative to fathers. Much of the widening occurs after … family formation when mothers reduce their hours of work. But what happens when the kids grow up? To answer that question, we … together these three produce the "parental gender gap," defined as the difference in income between mothers and fathers. We …