The Daughter Penalty
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Keywords
parental involvement; mental health; gender wage gap; child penalty; gender;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J2 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor
- J7 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination
- I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2025-05-05 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-EUR-2025-05-05 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-GEN-2025-05-05 (Gender)
- NEP-HEA-2025-05-05 (Health Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2025-05-05 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-NEU-2025-05-05 (Neuroeconomics)
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