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Behind the child penalty : understanding what contributes to the labour market costs of motherhood
Casarico, Alessandra; Lattanzio, Salvatore - 2021
We study the short- and long-run impact of motherhood on labour market outcomes and explore the individual and firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550206
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Children and Gender Inequality : Evidence from Denmark
Kleven, Henrik - 2018
Despite considerable gender convergence over time, substantial gender inequality persists in all countries. Using Danish administrative data from 1980-2013 and an event study approach, we show that most of the remaining gender inequality in earnings is due to children. The arrival of children...
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Early child development and parents' labor supply
Lafférs, Lukás; Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2020
The impact of children's early development status on parental labor market outcomes is not well established in the empirical literature. We combine an instrumental variable approach to account for the endogeneity of the development status with a model of non- random labor force participation to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256358
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Can women have children and a career? : IV evidence from IVF treatments
Lundborg, Petter; Plug, Erik J. S.; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2018
This paper introduces a new IV strategy based on IVF (in vitro fertilization) induced fertility variation among childless women to estimate the causal effect of having children on their career. For this purpose, we use administrative data on IVF treated women in Denmark. Because observe d...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011824267
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Does Biology Drive Child Penalties? Evidence from Biological and Adoptive Families
Kleven, Henrik; Landais, Camille; Søgaard, Jakob Egholt - 2020
This paper investigates if the impact of children on the labor market trajectories of women relative to men — child penalties — can be explained by the biological links between mother and child. We estimate child penalties in biological and adoptive families using event studies around the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014098297
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The last hurdle? : unyielding motherhood effects in the context of declining gender inequality in Latin America
Marchionni, Mariana; Pedrazzi, Julián - 2023
We assess whether motherhood could be the last hurdle to achieving gender equality in developing countries by exploring … the link between motherhood and the overall gender gap in the labor market for 14 Latin American countries over the last … groups. Furthermore, using an extended version of the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, we identify motherhood as the primary …
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Child penalty estimation and mothers' age at first birth
Melentʹeva, Valentina; Riedel, Lukas - 2023
Motherhood continues to pose significant challenges to women's careers, and a correct assessment of its effects is … considering their distinct characteristics and the varying impact of motherhood. To address the biases, we propose a novel … substantially larger estimates of earnings losses after childbirth (by 20 percent), indicating that the costs of motherhood and …
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Is there really a child penalty in the long run? : new evidence from IVF treatments
Lundborg, Petter; Plug, Erik J. S.; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2024
Newly matched data on in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments are used to estimate the long-run consequences of 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...
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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
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Time is Money – The Influence of Parenthood Timing on Wages
Kind, Michael; Kleibrink, Jan - 2012
This paper studies the effect of parenthood timing on future wages. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we employ an instrumental variable approach to identify the causal effect of delaying parenthood on wages of mothers and fathers. Consistent with previous studies, we...
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