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Author: Pepin, Gabrielle
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1. Pepin, Gabrielle
VanderBerg, Bryce
Occupational Sorting, Multidimensional Skill Mismatch, and the Child Penalty among Working Mothers
Presented: New Orleans LA, American Economic Association Annual Meeting, January 2023
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97
Publisher: American Economic Association
Keyword(s): Labor Market Outcomes; Maternal Employment; Occupational Choice; Skills; Wage Gap

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We study the extent to which occupational sorting explains child penalties (gender gaps in labor market outcomes due to children) among working parents. Using an event-study approach and data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth (NLSY) 1979 and 1997, we estimate that children generate long-run earnings gaps of over $200 per week among working parents. In the NLSY79, we find that children lead mothers to sort into lower-paying occupations in which employees tend to work fewer hours. We estimate that children increase multidimensional occupation-skill mismatch among working mothers by 0.3 standard deviations, relative both to their own levels of mismatch from before birth and to those of fathers. In the NLSY97, results suggest that improvements in labor market outcomes among fathers in response to children, rather than a worsening of labor market outcomes among mothers, seem to drive child penalties.
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Pepin, Gabrielle and Bryce VanderBerg. "Occupational Sorting, Multidimensional Skill Mismatch, and the Child Penalty among Working Mothers." Presented: New Orleans LA, American Economic Association Annual Meeting, January 2023.