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Title: Marriage, Motherhood, and Wages
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Korenman, Sanders D. Neumark, David B. |
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Marriage, Motherhood, and Wages Journal of Human Resources 27,2 (Spring 1992): 233-255. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/145734 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Keyword(s): Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA); Endogeneity; Heterogeneity; Job Tenure; Marriage; Motherhood; Variables, Instrumental; Wage Equations; Wages, Women; Work Experience Cross-sectional studies find little association between a woman's marital status and her wage rate, but often a negative relationship between children and wages. Several problems in drawing causal inferences from cross-sectional relationships between marriage, motherhood, and wages are analyzed using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women. It is found that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the "direct" effects of marriage and motherhood on wages (i.e., effects net of experience and tenure); first-difference estimates reveal no direct effect of marriage or motherhood on women's wages. Statistical evidence is also found that experience and tenure may be endogenous variables in wage equations; instrumental variables estimates suggest that both ordinary least squares cross-sectional and first-difference estimates understate the direct (negative) effect of children on wages. |
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Korenman, Sanders D. and David B. Neumark. "Marriage, Motherhood, and Wages." Journal of Human Resources 27,2 (Spring 1992): 233-255.
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