Women typically earn less than men. The reasons are not fully understood. Previous studies argue that this may be … because (i) women 'don't ask' and (ii) the reason they fail to ask is out of concern for the quality of their relationships at …. Using matched employer-employee data from 2013-14, the paper finds that the women-don't-ask account is incorrect. Once an …

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 …

This paper studies the causal effect of the timing of first birth on highly educated women's career outcomes using … effects might partly be explained by child spacing; motherhood delay induces women to have the second child more closely …