We use miscarriage as a biological shock to fertility in order to estimate the causal impact of motherhood on labor …

marriage or pregnancy, is responsible for women exiting the labor force upon motherhood. … the first child, explain part of the so-called motherhood effect in labor market outcomes. Using data for 29 countries … drawn from SHARE, we show that although marriage has a negative effect on women's employment (3.3%), its magnitude is much …

Mothers' longer time on parental leave after having children has been proposed as one reason for remaining gender … the argument that mothers take more parental leave as a consequence of pregnancy and breastfeeding. We compare the … assess to what extend the unequal division of childcare responsibilities can be explained by the physiological aspects of …

This paper documents the evolving impact of childbearing on the work activity of mothers between 1787 and 2014. It is … based on a compiled data set of 429 censuses and surveys, representing 101 countries and 46.9 million mothers, using the … findings: (1) the effect of fertility on labor supply is small and often indistinguishable from zero at low levels of income …

' locus of control. The obtained results show that children whose mothers experience an involuntary job loss are more likely …

' locus of control. The obtained results show that children whose mothers experience an involuntary job loss are more likely …

heterogeneity. The analysis of the mothers and childless women's earnings trajectories over time reveals that "mothers to be … earnings' dip is driven by mothers working in the primary labor market (with permanent contracts). For these women, much of the …Using rich panel data recently available from Spanish Social Security records, we find that a negative motherhood …

We explore the impact of successful job search after childbirth on mothers' labor market careers. Using a bounding … new employer after childbirth leads to an increase in re-employment earnings only for mothers at the upper part of the … earnings distribution. For these mothers, initial job search also increases long-term earnings. We provide evidence that …

We explore the impact of successful job search after childbirth on mothers' labor market careers. Using a bounding … new employer after childbirth leads to an increase in re-employment earnings only for mothers at the upper part of the … earnings distribution. For these mothers, initial job search also increases long-term earnings. We provide evidence that …