women's wages, and consequently, to the formation of the gender wage gap. To derive the relative contribution of gender … specific wage inequalities caused by the parenthood to the overall gender wage gap, we provide a modification of standard … expectations, the findings show that most of the gender wage inequality is due to the positive wage gap between men who do and do …

of approximately 11 million missing women in China, and contributed to more than 50% of its outstanding gender imbalance …