Bailey, Martha J.; Hershbein, Brad; Miller, Amalia R. - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 4 (2012) 3, pp. 225-54
Decades of research on the US gender gap in wages describes its correlates, but little is known about why women changed their career paths in the 1960s and 1970s. This paper explores the role of "the Pill" in altering women's human capital investments and its ultimate implications for life-cycle...