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Parenthood and the Gender Gap in Pay

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: 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.

Source: Journal of Labor Economics

DOI: 10.1086/684851

Authors: Nikolay Angelov, Per Johansson, Erica Lindahl

Institutions: Uppsala University, Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy, IZA - Institute of Labor Economics

Language: English

Topic: Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Gender equality, Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2292382837

FWCI: 64.08

Cites: 57

Cited by: 604

Related to: 10