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Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries. This paper uses a unique data set with more than 20,000 adolescents in rural India to examine whether socioeconomic status and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive...
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childless women to estimate the causal effect of having children on their career. For this purpose, we use administrative data … on IVF treated women in Denmark. Because observed chances of IVF success do not depend on labor market histories, IVF …
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The economic literature that studies the salary gaps between men and women produced by children. However, there may … also be wage gaps between women with children and women without children, which is known as a motherhood wage penalty and … Bolivian women in urban areas. For this, estimates of wage equations are used, taking into account a selection bias correction …
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This paper investigates if the impact of children on the labor market trajectories of women relative to men child … adoptive families using event studies around the arrival of children and almost forty years of adoption data from Denmark. Long …
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of their breadwinner status in the household pre-children, women with greater access to workplace flexibility are more …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 …
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, capital and wages, providing evidence of sorting into worse firms after childbirth. In the heterogeneity analysis, we find …
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at disparities for women and men across different labor outcomes following the birth of the first child. Our findings … participation by educational level: college-educated women react to motherhood more on the intensive margin (working part …-time), while non-college-educated women are relatively more likely to do so in the extensive margin (working fewer days) …
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This paper explores gender differences in the career paths of immigrant and native parents before and after childbirth using Spanish administrative data and an event study specification. I find an important gender pay gap emerging after childbirth for both immigrants and natives, but immigrants...
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Despite years of women's progress toward equality, gender disparities in the labour market persist, and parenthood has … show that five years after child birth women suffer an earnings penalty, while the same effect is not observed for men. The … child penalty for women stems from lower employment after birth. In contrast to similar studies on Western European …
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Despite years of women's progress toward equality, gender disparities in the labour market persist, and parenthood has … show that five years after child birth women suffer an earnings penalty, while the same effect is not observed for men. The … child penalty for women stems from lower employment after birth. In contrast to similar studies on Western European …
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