Bahar, Elif; Bradshaw, Natasha; Deutscher, Nathan; … - 2023
This paper uses an event study approach to estimate the impact of children on the gender earnings gap in Australia. We … use the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey to show the arrival of children has a large and … only slightly but remains high in the 10 years following the arrival of children. We attribute the gap in earnings to lower …