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Title: Essays on Household and Family Economics
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1. Jiao, Yang
Essays on Household and Family Economics
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Kansas State University, 2016
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)
Keyword(s): Maternal Employment; Motherhood; Mothers, Income; Wage Penalty/Career Penalty

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In Chapter 3, using the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79), we find mothers earn less on average even after controlling for other wage determinants. The wage penalty associated with motherhood is insignificant in the early career, and arises partly due to mothers accumulating less work experience. As a result, late mothers experience stronger (weaker) returns to work experience before (after) their transition to motherhood. The differentials in returns to work experience are robust to controlling for occupational skill requirements and time spent out of employment.
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Jiao, Yang. Essays on Household and Family Economics. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Kansas State University, 2016.