non-economic, phenomena. One such application involves explaining (and estimating) employment earnings as a function of …

earnings differential of 2.3 log points remains even after controlling for both individual- and firm-level unobserved … heterogeneity. The analysis of the mothers and childless women's earnings trajectories over time reveals that "mothers to be …" experience important earnings increases (of up to 6 log points) several years prior to giving birth to their first child. However …

across countries in employment and earnings gaps at age 30. At age 50, however, employment between mothers and non … these gaps do not fully close. Motherhood gaps in earnings also close by age 50 between mothers and non …-mothers, particularly among the highly educated. But there is strong persistence in earnings gaps between mothers and fathers even among …

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 …

reform. The reform has positive medium-run effects on earnings and employment while reducing full-time employment. There are …