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The career costs of children
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Stevens, Katrien - 2016
We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of labor supply, fertility and savings, incorporating occupational choices, with … occupational choice and desired fertility, as well as the sorting both into the labor market and across occupations. We quantify … encourage fertility and show that they are considerably smaller than short-run effects. …
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Occupational match quality and gender over two cohorts
Addison, John T.; Liwen, Chen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2018
Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality differences among more educated individuals....
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Impact of first-birth career interruption on earnings : evidence from administrative data
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda; Walker, Mary Beth - 2014
This paper uses unique administrative data to expand the understanding of the role women's intermittency decisions play in the determination of their wages. We demonstrate that treating intermittency as exogenous significantly overstates its impact. The intermittency penalty also increases in...
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Remote work, children's health and the racial gap in female wages
Kouki, Amairisa; Sauer, Robert M. - 2022
We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....
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The child penalty : evidence from Spain
Quinto, Alicia de; Hospido, Laura; Sanz, Carlos - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 12 (2021) 4, pp. 585-606
Using data from social security records and an event study approach, we estimate the child penalty in Spain, looking at disparities for women and men across different labor outcomes following the birth of the first child. Our findings show that, the year after the first child is born, mothers’...
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Adieu Rabenmutter - The Effect of Culture on Fertility, Female Labour Supply, the Gender Wage Gap and Childcare
Borck, Rainald - 2021
This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the … gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively … a model with endogenous fertility, female labour supply and childcare choices which fits these facts. There may exist …
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Teenage motherhood, education, and labor market outcomes of the mother : evidence from Brazilian data
Narita, Renata Del Tedesco; Diaz, Maria Dolores Montoya - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 17 (2016) 2, pp. 238-252
This paper studies the effects of teenage motherhood on later educational and labor market achievement of the mothers. We construct a pseudo panel from the Brazilian Household Surveys (the 1992-2004 PNADs) and from the Health Ministry data (DATASUS 1981-1992) by state of birth and cohort. We...
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Health and labor market impacts of twin birth: evidence from a Swedish IVF policy mandate
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2022
health and women's earnings following IVF birth, along-side an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first …
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Health and labor market impacts of twin birth : evidence from a Swedish IVF policy
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2023
and an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first comprehensive evaluation of SET. This is relevant given the …
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Women's careers and family formation
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Walther, Selma - 2022
research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys methods used to obtain causal … across the lifecycle and across successive cohorts; and of recognizing that women's choices over both fertility and labour … health technologies have muted the familycareer tradeoff primarily by allowing women to time their fertility, policy has not …
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