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Title: The Effect Of Children On Women's Wages
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Waldfogel, Jane |
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The Effect Of Children On Women's Wages American Sociological Review 62,2 (April 1997): 209-217. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2657300 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Children; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Mothers, Income; Part-Time Work; Wage Effects; Wages, Women Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. I use data from the 1968-1988 National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women to investigate the lower wages of mothers. In pooled cross-sectional models, difference models, and fixed-effects models, the negative effect of children on women's wages is not entirely explained by differences in labor market experience. I consider two alternative explanations for the residual penalties associated with having children: unobserved pay-relevant differences between mothers and non-mothers, which fixed-effects models show do not account for the child penalty; and part-time employment, which does account for some of the child penalty. However, even after controlling for part-time employment, a negative effect of children on women's pay remains. |
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Bibliography Citation
Waldfogel, Jane. "The Effect Of Children On Women's Wages." American Sociological Review 62,2 (April 1997): 209-217.
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