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This paper analyzes the effect of delayed motherhood on fertility dynamics for women living in several European …
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Using data on 17 countries in Europe and North America, we compare the career trajectories of mothers and fathers and … across countries in employment and earnings gaps at age 30. At age 50, however, employment between mothers and non-mothers … have closed in most countries. We also observe convergence in employment gaps between mothers and fathers by age 50, but …
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policies, such as paternity leave expansions, financial incentives in the form of tax credits for working mothers and …
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The existence of large child penalties has been documented for multiple countries and time periods. In this paper, we assess to what extent marriage decisions and pregnancies (rather than live births), which tend to occur around the birth of the first child, explain part of the so-called...
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We examine the effect of a Chinese family planning policy (FPP) known as "Later, Longer, and Fewer" on the gender gap in breastfeeding. We find that FPP increased the daughter-son breastfeeding gap in favor of sons in rural areas. Mean intensity of the FPP predicts the gender gap to be 35%...
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productive if they choose to become mothers. Even though motherhood temporarily handicaps their productivity, it is exactly this … cost of motherhood that signals the mothers' intrinsic high productivity. I explicitly refer to the academic labor market …
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Newly matched data on in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments are used to estimate the long-run consequences of children on the labor market earnings of women and men (often referred to as child penalties). We measure long-run child penalties in IVF-treated families by comparing the earnings of...
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We examine the impact of government-funded universal paid parental leave extensions on the likelihood that mothers …, such reforms neither helped nor hurt mothers' chances to be at the top of their companies' pay ranking or in leadership … and promotions. No reform affected fathers' pay or the gender pay gaps between mothers and their male colleagues and …
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We examine the impact of government-funded universal paid parental leave extensions on the likelihood that mothers …, such reforms neither helped nor hurt mothers' chances to be at the top of their companies' pay ranking or in leadership … and promotions. No reform affected fathers' pay or the gender pay gaps between mothers and their male colleagues and …
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