This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian … after having children. The simple conditional correlation between children and earnings is positive. When only variation …

outcomes are related to the fact that children impose significantly larger penalties on the career trajectories of women … the differential impacts of children on women and men. We propose a simple model of household decision-making to motivate …The past five decades have seen a remarkable convergence in the economic roles of men and women in society. Yet …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women … assimilation of immigrants. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native‐born women with time in the United States, and …

fewer hires and lower starting wages of young women compared to men and older women. … exogenous variation that we use to quantify firms' adjustment costs upon worker absence and exit. The reform increased women …

vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … wages. However, in some countries where labor markets are characterized by employment growth, skill shortages and a good … the wages of various subsections of the labor force, in particular of minorities and disadvantaged groups. In this paper …

Despite years of women's progress toward equality, gender disparities in the labour market persist, and parenthood has … show that five years after child birth women suffer an earnings penalty, while the same effect is not observed for men. The … child penalty for women stems from lower employment after birth. In contrast to similar studies on Western European …

children on the labor market earnings of women and men (often referred to as child penalties). We measure long-run child … penalties in IVF-treated families by comparing the earnings of successfully and unsuccessfully first-time treated women and men …, and even turns into a child premium after 15 years, offsetting the initial setbacks experienced when children are young …

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes … have no effect on the educational outcomes of children who are at least 20 because they have already completed their …

A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children …