encouraged childbearing, suggesting that CPFL had little effect on the gender pay gap or child penalty. For first-time mothers …

encouraged childbearing, suggesting that CPFL had little effect on the gender pay gap or child penalty. For first-time mothers …

In all Western societies women earn lower wages on average than men. The gender wage gap has existed for many years … progress made by women in the labor market, and the characteristics and causes of remaining gender inequalities. It also covers … other dimensions of inequality and their interplay with gender, such as family formation, wellbeing, race, and immigrant …

that the shrinking gender wage gaps and increasing labor income taxes observed in U.S. data are key determinants of hours …

parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on … find that the policies exacerbated the motherhood penalty in labor market outcomes and that they affected fertility choices …

propose an econometric model that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, for the heterogeneity … of the effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and for the correlation of sequential … ; education ; endogenous fertility decisions ; heterogeneous children effects ; multinomial probit model ; Gibbs sampler …

women in a framework that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, the heterogeneity of the … effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and the correlation of sequential labor market … part time jobs. Individual heterogeneity plays an important role in the relationship between labor market and fertility …