Motherhood, pregnancy or marriage effects?

Autores
Edo, María; Berniell, María Inés; Berniell, María Lucila; De la Mata, Dolores; Marchionni, Mariana; Machado, Matilde; Fawaz, Yarine
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
inglés
Tipo de recurso
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Estado
versión publicada
Descripción
The existence of large child penalties has been documented for multiple countries and time periods. In this paper, we assess to what extent marriage decisions and pregnancies (rather than live births), which tend to occur around the birth of the first child, explain part of the so-called motherhood effect in labor market outcomes. Using data for 29 countries drawn from SHARE, we show that although marriage has a negative effect on women’s employment (3.3%), its magnitude is much smaller compared with the negative effect of a first child (23%). Moreover, we find that pregnancies that end in non-live births have non-statistically significant effects in employment in the following years, supporting the exogeneity assumption underlying identification in child penalty studies. These new results lend support to the hypothesis that childcare, rather than marriage or pregnancy, is responsible for women exiting the labor force upon motherhood.
Facultad de Ciencias Económicas
Materia
Ciencias Económicas
Pregnancy
Non-live births
Marriage
Child penalty
Motherhood
SHARE data
Nivel de accesibilidad
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title Motherhood, pregnancy or marriage effects?
spellingShingle Motherhood, pregnancy or marriage effects?
Edo, María
Ciencias Económicas
Pregnancy
Non-live births
Marriage
Child penalty
Motherhood
SHARE data
title_short Motherhood, pregnancy or marriage effects?
title_full Motherhood, pregnancy or marriage effects?
title_fullStr Motherhood, pregnancy or marriage effects?
title_full_unstemmed Motherhood, pregnancy or marriage effects?
title_sort Motherhood, pregnancy or marriage effects?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Edo, María
Berniell, María Inés
Berniell, María Lucila
De la Mata, Dolores
Marchionni, Mariana
Machado, Matilde
Fawaz, Yarine
author Edo, María
author_facet Edo, María
Berniell, María Inés
Berniell, María Lucila
De la Mata, Dolores
Marchionni, Mariana
Machado, Matilde
Fawaz, Yarine
author_role author
author2 Berniell, María Inés
Berniell, María Lucila
De la Mata, Dolores
Marchionni, Mariana
Machado, Matilde
Fawaz, Yarine
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
Pregnancy
Non-live births
Marriage
Child penalty
Motherhood
SHARE data
topic Ciencias Económicas
Pregnancy
Non-live births
Marriage
Child penalty
Motherhood
SHARE data
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv The existence of large child penalties has been documented for multiple countries and time periods. In this paper, we assess to what extent marriage decisions and pregnancies (rather than live births), which tend to occur around the birth of the first child, explain part of the so-called motherhood effect in labor market outcomes. Using data for 29 countries drawn from SHARE, we show that although marriage has a negative effect on women’s employment (3.3%), its magnitude is much smaller compared with the negative effect of a first child (23%). Moreover, we find that pregnancies that end in non-live births have non-statistically significant effects in employment in the following years, supporting the exogeneity assumption underlying identification in child penalty studies. These new results lend support to the hypothesis that childcare, rather than marriage or pregnancy, is responsible for women exiting the labor force upon motherhood.
Facultad de Ciencias Económicas
description The existence of large child penalties has been documented for multiple countries and time periods. In this paper, we assess to what extent marriage decisions and pregnancies (rather than live births), which tend to occur around the birth of the first child, explain part of the so-called motherhood effect in labor market outcomes. Using data for 29 countries drawn from SHARE, we show that although marriage has a negative effect on women’s employment (3.3%), its magnitude is much smaller compared with the negative effect of a first child (23%). Moreover, we find that pregnancies that end in non-live births have non-statistically significant effects in employment in the following years, supporting the exogeneity assumption underlying identification in child penalty studies. These new results lend support to the hypothesis that childcare, rather than marriage or pregnancy, is responsible for women exiting the labor force upon motherhood.
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