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How much of the persistent gender gaps in income and wages are due to unequal family responsibilities ? ∗
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Angelov, Nikolay Johansson, Per Magnus Lindahl, Erica |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | We compare the income and wage trajectories of women in relation to their male partners before and after parenthood. Focusing on the within-couple gap allows us to control for both observed and unobserved attributes of the spouse and to estimate both shortand long-term e ects of entering parenthood. Our main nding is that 15 years after the rst child was born, the male-female gender gaps in income and wages have increased with 28 and 10 percentage points, respectively. In line with a collective labor supply model, the magnitude of these e ects depends on counterfactual relative incomes or wages within the family, i.e., on the relative earnings trajectory in absence of children. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2014/retrieve.php?pdfid=296 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
