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Title: Fertility Effects on Women's Career Paths
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Herr, Jane Leber |
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Fertility Effects on Women's Career Paths Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 2008 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Expectations/Intentions; Fertility; First Birth; Gender Attitudes/Roles; Job Satisfaction; Labor Force Participation; Maternal Employment; Motherhood; Wage Growth; Wage Penalty/Career Penalty Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In Chapter 1, "Does it Pay to Delay? Decomposing the Effect of First Birth Timing on Women's Wage Growth", I estimate the effect of the timing of a woman's first child on her wage path, and decompose this effect to establish the mechanism by which timing affects wages. Relying on fertility instruments to address possible endogeneity, I find that a one-year delay increases women's wage growth over the first 15 years of her career by 3 to 5 percent. I then assess the mechanism by which timing affects wages by considering its intermediate effect on factors central to theories of wage growth. I find that the three most important economic channels speak to the influence of timing on the pattern of human capital accumulation: hours worked, the length of the longest labor force exit, and schooling. I also find that their relative importance varies by education. Whereas for college graduates the influence of fertility delay arises most strongly from its effect on time off from work (thus protecting human capital from depreciation), for those with less education the more relevant channel is through hours worked (the accumulation of general human capital on the job). |
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Herr, Jane Leber. Fertility Effects on Women's Career Paths. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 2008. |