The effect of children on earnings inequality among men

Astrid Kunze

VfS Annual Conference 2016 (Augsburg): Demographic Change from Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association

Abstract: This study investigates empirically whether fatherhood has a causal effect on earnings inequality among men. Rich register data on life cycle employment and earnings, and fertility histories on brother couples are used to estimate flexible earnings regressions with fixed factors. The main result is that higher earners are more likely to become a father, and not that children make fathers earn higher incomes. Furthermore, men who remain childless and/or unmarried, are on relatively low earnings profiles and contribute therefore significantly to the earnings inequality among men. Finally, most of the earnings variation comes from first childbirth, not from further children or from marriage.

JEL-codes: J16 J24 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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