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Title: The Effects of Motherhood Timing on Career Path
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Miller, Amalia Rebecca |
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The Effects of Motherhood Timing on Career Path Job Market Paper, Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford CA, July 2005. Also: http://www.uic.edu/classes/psych/psych242/Articles/Miller,%20Motherhood%20timing%20-%20income,%202005.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, Stanford University Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Fertility; Leave, Family or Maternity/Paternity; Wage Rates Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. [First draft January 2003] This paper estimates the effects of motherhood timing on female career path, using national panel data from the NLSY79, and biological fertility shocks as instrumental variables for the age at which a woman bears her first child. Motherhood delay leads to a substantial increase in career earnings, a smaller increase in wage rates, and an increase in career hours worked. The postponement wage premium is largest for college-educated women, and those in professional, managerial, and clerical occupations. Family leave laws do not significantly influence the premium. Conversely, using measured aptitude level as an instrumental variable for expected future earnings, we show that higher expected career earnings lead mothers to postpone childbearing. |
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Miller, Amalia Rebecca. "The Effects of Motherhood Timing on Career Path." Job Market Paper, Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford CA, July 2005. |