Behind the Child Penalty: Understanding What Contributes to the Labour Market Costs of Motherhood
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"Supporting Mothers Back to Work: Experimental Evidence on Employment, Fertility, and Child Outcomes,"
Working Papers
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"Child penalties in labour market skills,"
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"The motherhood wage and income traps,"
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CEP Discussion Papers
dp2209, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
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"Maternity benefits and marital stability after birth: evidence from the Soviet Baltic republics,"
Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 36(4), pages 2309-2345, October.
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"With a Little Help from Nurseries. Childcare Services and Mothers’ Employment in Italy,"
CEIS Research Paper
588, Tor Vergata University, CEIS, revised 19 Dec 2024.
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"Traditional Views, Egalitarian Views, and the Child Penalty: Insights from Immigrant Populations in France,"
Working Papers
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- Dominique Meurs & Pierre Pora, 2025. "Traditional Views, Egalitarian Views, and the Child Penalty: Insights from Immigrant Populations in France," EconomiX Working Papers 2025-10, University of Paris Nanterre, EconomiX.
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- Rebecca Jack & Daniel Tannenbaum & Brenden Timpe, 2025.
"The Parenthood Gap: Firms and Earnings Inequality After Kids,"
Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers
110, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
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"Employment Protection, Job Insecurity, and Job Mobility,"
IZA Discussion Papers
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- Riepl, Franziska, 2025. "Human Capital and Motherhood: The Extent and Implications of Child Penalties in Training," VfS Annual Conference 2025 (Cologne): Revival of Industrial Policy 325436, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
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"Faith and the Child Penalty: Religious Affiliation and Gendered Earnings Losses After Childbirth,"
IHS Working Paper Series
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- Koopmans, Pim & van Lent, Max & Been, Jim, 2024. "Child Penalties and the Gender Gap in Home Production and the Labor Market," IZA Discussion Papers 16871, IZA Network @ LISER.
- Yoko Okuyama & Takeshi Murooka & Shintaro Yamaguchi, 2026. "Unpacking the Child Penalty Using Personnel Data: How Promotion Practices Widen the Gender Pay Gap," ISER Discussion Paper 1314, Institute of Social and Economic Research, The University of Osaka.
- Jon H Fiva & Max-Emil M King, 2024.
"Child Penalties in Politics,"
The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 134(658), pages 648-670.
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"The Evolution of Gender in the Labor Market,"
IZA Discussion Papers
17559, IZA Network @ LISER.
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- Claudia Olivetti & Jessica Pan & Barbara Petrongolo, 2024. "The Evolution of Gender in the Labor Market," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series 2433, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin).
- Claudia Olivetti & Jessica Pan & Barbara Petrongolo, 2024. "The Evolution of Gender in the Labor Market," Economics Series Working Papers 1063, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
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- Alessandra Casarico & Salvatore Lattanzio, 2023.
"Behind the child penalty: understanding what contributes to the labour market costs of motherhood,"
Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 36(3), pages 1489-1511, July.
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"Workplace Flexibility and the Motherhood Penalty: Evidence from the Diffusion of Remote Work,"
CEPR Discussion Papers
21486, Centre for Economic Policy Research.
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