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 …

childless women to estimate the causal effect of having children on their career. For this purpose, we use administrative data … on IVF treated women in Denmark. Because observed chances of IVF success do not depend on labor market histories, IVF …

I examine how one central aspect of the family environment - sibling sex composition - affects women's gender … for first-born women. I show that women with a brother acquire more traditional gender roles, as measured through their … mechanism, I provide evidence of increased gender-specialized parenting in families with mixed-sex children. Finally, I find …

A number of studies have shown that women's and men's wages relate to parenthood in general and to parental leave in … particular, but we know little about the possible wage impact of leave to care for sick children, which is a part of the Swedish … influence paid work. This study uses Swedish register data to analyse the association between care leave and wages among mothers …

for men and women on both working and non-working women's decision making power. The implications for children's health …Despite the perceived importance of labor market opportunities in shaping married women's outside option, and their …

opportunities they present for promoting a gender-equality agenda and women's empowerment. The paper begins with a brief … standpoint of women's inclusion in economic life. Conditional cash transfers and employment guarantee programs are discussed in …

mobility significantly contribute to the early career wage growth of both men and women, the size of the wage growth effect of … both types of mobility is significantly lower for women. This female mobility penalty persists even after accounting for …. We further investigate to what extent this mobility penalty of women is explained by parental status. We find that the …

This paper examines the impact of parenthood on labor market outcomes for both men and women using population …

by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the … outcomes of other children but also the existence of potential additional children. We employ two empirical strategies that … same-sex sibling increases men's earnings and family formation outcomes (marriage and number of children), as compared to …