This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian … market. The data permit family-fixed effects to be modeled in various ways, as well as observing earnings growth before and … after having children. The simple conditional correlation between children and earnings is positive. When only variation …

earnings and work hours. These effects persist in fixed effects models that control for correlation in time …

, women give up non-local jobs regardless of their earnings level, their partner's labour market status and local economic …

The disproportionate impact of children on women's earnings constitutes the primary factor contributing to persistent … provision of formal childcare lessens the earnings and employment impacts of children. Our analyses notably incorporate the role … earnings of mothers and grandmothers, suggesting that the life-cycle impact of children on women is larger than previously …

This study identifies a new mechanism to account for the persistent gender differences in earnings after childbirth … against a large cross-sectional dataset from the US, we find that giving birth during a recession reduces mothers' earnings … time and accounts for 30 40 percent of the after-childbirth gender gap in earnings. Unintended impacts of recession on …