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Title: Why Wait? The Effect of Marriage and Childbearing on the Wage Growth of Men and Women
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Loughran, David S. Zissimopoulos, Julie M. |
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Why Wait? The Effect of Marriage and Childbearing on the Wage Growth of Men and Women Working Paper WR-482, RAND Labor and Population, RAND Corportation, Santa Monica, CA, March 2008. Also: http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/2008/RAND_WR482-1.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Men, Young Women Publisher: RAND Keyword(s): Childbearing; Marriage; Wage Growth; Wages, Men; Wages, Women We use data from the earlier and later cohorts of the NLSY to estimate the effect of marriage and childbearing on wages. Our estimates imply that marriage lowers female wages by between two and four percent in the year of marriage. Marriage also lowers the wage growth of men and women by about two and four percentage points, respectively. A first birth lowers female wages by between two and three percent, but has no effect on wage growth. Male wages are unaffected by childbearing. These findings suggest that early marriage and childbearing can lead to substantial decreases in lifetime earnings. |
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Loughran, David S. and Julie M. Zissimopoulos. "Why Wait? The Effect of Marriage and Childbearing on the Wage Growth of Men and Women." Working Paper WR-482, RAND Labor and Population, RAND Corportation, Santa Monica, CA, March 2008. |