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Title: The Effects of Motherhood Timing on Career Path
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1. Miller, Amalia Rebecca
The Effects of Motherhood Timing on Career Path
Journal of Population Economics 24,3 (July 2011): 1071-1100.
Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/wt07u085wt87134r/
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Earnings; First Birth; Human Capital; Motherhood; Wage Gap; Wages

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This paper estimates the effects of motherhood timing on female career path, using biological fertility shocks to instrument for age at first birth. Motherhood delay leads to a substantial increase in earnings of 9% per year of delay, an increase in wages of 3%, and an increase in work hours of 6%. Supporting a human capital story, the advantage is largest for college-educated women and those in professional and managerial occupations. Panel estimation reveals both fixed wage penalties and lower returns to experience for mothers, suggesting that a “mommy track” is the source of the timing effect.
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Miller, Amalia Rebecca. "The Effects of Motherhood Timing on Career Path." Journal of Population Economics 24,3 (July 2011): 1071-1100.