This study identifies a new mechanism to account for the persistent gender differences in earnings after childbirth … conditions at the time of childbearing widen the gender gap among parents. Employing the instrumental variable (IV) method … time and accounts for 30-40 percent of the after-childbirth gender gap in earnings. Unintended impacts of recession on …

We examine how much children and responsibilities related with them contribute towards the divergence of men's and … women's wages, and consequently, to the formation of the gender wage gap. To derive the relative contribution of gender … specific wage inequalities caused by the parenthood to the overall gender wage gap, we provide a modification of standard …