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Author: Avellar, Sarah A.
Resulting in 3 citations.
1. Avellar, Sarah A.
Family Wage? A Cross-Cohort Comparison of the Motherhood Wage Penalty
Presented: Anaheim, CA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 2001.
Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Women
Publisher: American Sociological Association
Keyword(s): Fertility; Maternal Employment; Mothers, Income; Wage Penalty/Career Penalty; Wages; Wages, Women

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Bibliography Citation
Avellar, Sarah A. "Family Wage? A Cross-Cohort Comparison of the Motherhood Wage Penalty." Presented: Anaheim, CA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 2001.
2. Avellar, Sarah A.
Smock, Pamela Jane
Has the Price of Motherhood Declined Over Time? A Cross-Cohort Comparison of the Motherhood Wage Penalty
Journal of Marriage and Family 65,3 (August 2003):597-607.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2003.00597.x/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Women
Publisher: National Council on Family Relations
Keyword(s): Fertility; Heterogeneity; Human Capital; Maternal Employment; Motherhood; Wage Penalty/Career Penalty; Wages, Women

Several recent studies have shown a negative association between motherhood and wages. However, an analysis of change over time in the motherhood penalty has not been conducted. Using two cohorts of young women drawn from the 1975-1985 National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women and the 1986-1998 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we explicitly test the relationship between motherhood and wages across two cohorts and examine whether that relationship has changed. Even after controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and human capital variables, each additional child is associated with a negative effect on women-s wages. Moreover, our findings suggest that the penalty has not diminished over time.
Bibliography Citation
Avellar, Sarah A. and Pamela Jane Smock. "Has the Price of Motherhood Declined Over Time? A Cross-Cohort Comparison of the Motherhood Wage Penalty." Journal of Marriage and Family 65,3 (August 2003):597-607.
3. Avellar, Sarah A.
Smock, Pamela Jane
The Economic Consequences of the Dissolution of Cohabiting Unions
Journal of Marriage and Family 67,2 (May 2005): 315-328.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0022-2445.2005.00118.x/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: National Council on Family Relations
Keyword(s): Cohabitation; Divorce; Economic Well-Being; Ethnic Differences; Gender Differences; Hispanics; Marital Dissolution; Poverty; Racial Differences

Although the economic effects of divorce have been well studied, a similar exploration of cohabitation has not been conducted. For this analysis, we use a sample from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (N= 2,372) documenting changes in economic well-being at the end of a cohabiting relationship and comparing these results to a sample of divorced respondents. After dissolution, formerly cohabiting men's economic standing declines moderately, whereas formerly cohabiting women's declines much more precipitously, leaving a substantial proportion of women in poverty. This effect is particularly pronounced for African American and Hispanic women. Though the end of the relationship does reinforce gender stratification, it is also an "equalizer" between married and cohabiting women, leaving them in strikingly similar economic positions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Bibliography Citation
Avellar, Sarah A. and Pamela Jane Smock. "The Economic Consequences of the Dissolution of Cohabiting Unions." Journal of Marriage and Family 67,2 (May 2005): 315-328.