. We estimate that the difference in wages among prime age women would be approximately 3% higher if the relationship … of women's fertility on their human capital accumulation. We find that the curvature in the wage profile is determined …

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 … income over a long time period after second birth. Also long-run wages are positively affected, with a more pronounced effect …

This paper studies the causal effect of the timing of first birth on highly educated women's career outcomes using … findings, my results suggest that a one-year delay has a significantly negative effect on both income and wages. The negative … effects might partly be explained by child spacing; motherhood delay induces women to have the second child more closely …