Using data on 17 countries in Europe and North America, we compare the career trajectories of mothers and fathers and … across countries in employment and earnings gaps at age 30. At age 50, however, employment between mothers and non-mothers … have closed in most countries. We also observe convergence in employment gaps between mothers and fathers by age 50, but …

productive if they choose to become mothers. Even though motherhood temporarily handicaps their productivity, it is exactly this … cost of motherhood that signals the mothers' intrinsic high productivity. I explicitly refer to the academic labor market …

We examine the impact of government-funded universal paid parental leave extensions on the likelihood that mothers …, such reforms neither helped nor hurt mothers' chances to be at the top of their companies' pay ranking or in leadership … and promotions. No reform affected fathers' pay or the gender pay gaps between mothers and their male colleagues and …

We examine the impact of government-funded universal paid parental leave extensions on the likelihood that mothers …, such reforms neither helped nor hurt mothers' chances to be at the top of their companies' pay ranking or in leadership … and promotions. No reform affected fathers' pay or the gender pay gaps between mothers and their male colleagues and …

increase in fertility. …

, completed fertility and mid-career earnings. We find an overall increasing inequality in career and family outcomes of men …

health and women's earnings following IVF birth, along-side an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first …

and an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first comprehensive evaluation of SET. This is relevant given the …

considerably when income from outside academia (6-11%) is considered. Basic incomes of mothers in academia are 18-20% lower than …

(SOEP), we employ an instrumental variable approach to identify the causal effect of delaying parenthood on wages of mothers …This paper studies the effect of parenthood timing on future wages. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel … and fathers. Consistent with previous studies, we provide evidence for a positive delaying effect on wages. We further …