The falling female labor force participation rate in China has raised the attention oflabor economists and policymakers. In light of this, this paper documents the changesin labor force participation of mothers relative to fathers around first births (referred to asthe "child penalty" in the...

We examine economic mobility in India while rigorously accounting for measurement error. Such an analysis is imperative to fully understand the welfare effects of the rise in inequality that has occurred in India over the past few decades. To proceed, we extend recently developed methods on the...

The economic mobility of individuals and households is of fundamental interest. While many measures of economic mobility exist, reliance on transition matrices remains pervasive due to simplicity and ease of interpretation. However, estimation of transition matrices is complicated by the...