, motherhood, and wages. We find that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the "direct" effects of marriage and motherhood on … wages (i.e., effects net of experience and tenure); first-difference estimates reveal no direct effect of marriage or … motherhood on women's wages. We also find statistical evidence that experience and tenure nay be endogenous variables in wage …

, motherhood, and wages. We find that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the quot;directquot; effects of marriage and … motherhood on wages (i.e., effects net of experience and tenure); first-difference estimates reveal no direct effect of marriage … or motherhood on women's wages. We also find statistical evidence that experience and tenure nay be endogenous variables …

Using a unique data set, this paper first documents that gaps in starting wages by race and sex persist after … discrimination, is partly responsible for race differences in starting wages. But because women's average performance in the sample … indicate that this may explain women's lower starting wages …

Women who have first births relatively late in life earn higher wages. This paper offers an explanation of this fact … childbearers. The empirical analysis finds results consistent with the higher wages of late childbearers arising primarily through …

The human capital explanation of sex differences in wages is that women intend to work in the labor market more … intermittently than men, and therefore invest less. This lower investment leads to lower wages and wage growth. The alternative …