(18 percent). Consistent employment following maternity, either full-time or part-time, is characteristic of women with … more economic advantages. Women who experience consistent nonemployment disproportionately lack a high school degree, while … women with return to employment following a long break tend to be younger with lower wages prior to maternity. Race is one …

lifecycle and between cohorts. We observe women who never have children beginning to out earn women who will have children … gap between mothers and non-mothers declines from around $220,000 for women born in the late 1940s to around $160,000 for … women born in the late 1960s. Over 80% of the change in this gap can be explained by variables in our model, with changes in …

lifecycle and between cohorts. We observe women who never have children beginning to out earn women who will have children … that this gap between mothers and non-mothers declines from around $220,000 for women born in the late 1940s to around $160 …,000 for women born in the late 1960s. Over 80% of the change in this gap can be explained by variables in our model, with …