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outcomes are related to the fact that children impose significantly larger penalties on the career trajectories of women … the differential impacts of children on women and men. We propose a simple model of household decision-making to motivate …The past five decades have seen a remarkable convergence in the economic roles of men and women in society. Yet …
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with children and in more flexible occupations also tend to be more mismatched. Again, this is especially true of women … cohort, even as the new generation of women is doing better. …
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I examine how one central aspect of the family environment—sibling sex composition—affects women’s gender conformity … first-born women. I show that women with a brother acquire more traditional gender roles, as measured through their choice … mechanism, I provide evidence of increased gender-specialized parenting in families with mixed-sex children. Finally, I find …
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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 …
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of their breadwinner status in the household pre-children, women with greater access to workplace flexibility are more …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 …
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Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries. This paper uses a unique data set with more than 20,000 adolescents in rural India to examine whether socioeconomic status and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive...
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This paper explores gender differences in the career paths of immigrant and native parents before and after childbirth using Spanish administrative data and an event study specification. I find an important gender pay gap emerging after childbirth for both immigrants and natives, but immigrants...
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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 …
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This paper examines the impact of parenthood on labor market outcomes for both men and women using population …
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children on the labor market earnings of women and men (often referred to as child penalties). We measure long-run child … penalties in IVF-treated families by comparing the earnings of successfully and unsuccessfully first-time treated women and men …, and even turns into a child premium after 15 years, offsetting the initial setbacks experienced when children are young …
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