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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 …

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Does Biology Drive Child Penalties? Evidence from Biological and Adoptive Families

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; Søgaard, … - 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...

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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/10013221178

The spacing of births and women's subsequent earnings : evidence from a natural experiment

Karimi, Arizo - 2014

This paper analyzes the consequences of the spacing of births for women's subsequent labor income and wages. Spacing births in longer intervals may allow women to re-enter the labor market between childbearing events, thereby avoiding expanded work interruptions and, in turn, reducing the...

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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...

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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...

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The motherhood penalty in China : having a child increases gender inequality in the labor market

Zhang, Mingxue; Hou, Lingling; Wang, Yue - 2022

babysit, which generate motherhood earnings penalty in labor market. Finally, well-being analysis shows that subjective …

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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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The short run effects of childbirth on parents’ earnings in the Baltics

Černiauska, Nerijus - In: Baltic journal of economics 23 (2023) 1, pp. 45-63

Having a child can have a heavy toll on parents' earnings, especially in the first years after childbirth, with mothers often being more affected than fathers. This is particularly true in the three Baltic states, with relatively generous parental leave benefits compared to the EU and norms...

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