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Title: Measuring the Effect of the Timing of First Birth on Wages
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Herr, Jane Leber |
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Measuring the Effect of the Timing of First Birth on Wages Journal of Population Economics 29,1 (January 2016): 39-72. Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00148-015-0554-z Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Expectations/Intentions; First Birth; Gender Attitudes/Roles; Labor Force Participation; Wage Penalty/Career Penalty; Wages Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. I study the effect of first-birth timing on women's wages, defining timing in terms of labor force entry, rather than age. Considering the mechanisms by which timing may affect wages, each is a function of experience rather than age. This transformation also highlights the distinction between a first birth after labor market entry versus before. I show that estimates based on age understate the return to delay for women who remain childless at labor market entry and have obscured the negative return to delay—to a first birth after labor market entry rather than before—for all but college graduates. My results suggest, however, that these returns to first-birth timing may hold only for non-Hispanic white women. |
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Herr, Jane Leber. "Measuring the Effect of the Timing of First Birth on Wages." Journal of Population Economics 29,1 (January 2016): 39-72.
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