Parenthood and the Gender Gap in Pay

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per; Lindahl, Erica
• 署名单位: Uppsala University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/684851
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 545-579
• 关键词: career interruptions; CHILDREN; RESOURCES; division; earnings

摘要

We compare the income and wage trajectories of women to those of 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 short-and long-term effects of entering parenthood. We find that 15 years after the first child has been born, the male-female gender gaps in income and wages have increased by 32 and 10 percentage points, respectively. In line with a collective labor supply model, the magnitude of these effects depends on counterfactual relative incomes or wages within the family.