Bahar, Elif; Bradshaw, Natasha; Deutscher, Nathan; … - 2023
This paper uses an event study approach to estimate the impact of children on the gender earnings gap in Australia. We … use the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey to show the arrival of children has a large and … persistent impact on the gender earnings gap, reducing female earnings by 55 per cent, on average, in the 5 years following …