An empirical assessment of the effects of parenthood on wages

Marianne Simonsen and Lars Skipper

A chapter in Modelling and Evaluating Treatment Effects in Econometrics, 2008, pp 359-380 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: In this chapter, we characterise the selection into parenthood for men and women separately and estimate the effects of motherhood and fatherhood on wages. We apply propensity score matching exploiting an extensive high-quality register-based data set augmented with family background information. We estimate the net effects of parenthood and find that mothers receive 7.4% lower average wages compared to non-mothers, whereas fathers gain 6.0% in terms of average wages from fatherhood.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1016/S0731-9053(07)00012-6

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