RT Journal Article
T1 Motherhood, pregnancy or marriage effects?
A1 Machado, Matilde P.
A1 Berniell, Inés
A1 Berniell, Lucila
A1 de la Mata, Maria Dolores
A1 Edo, Maria
A1 Fawaz, Yarine
A1 Marchionni, Mariana
AB The existence of large child penalties on women’s labor market outcomes has been documented for multiple countries and time periods. In this paper, we assess the extent to which marriage decisions and pregnancies may partly explain these child penalties. Using data from 29 countries drawn from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we show that although marriage has a negative effect on women’s employment (3.3%), its magnitude is much smaller than that of the negative effect of a first child (23%). Moreover, we find that pregnancies that end in non-live births have non-statistically significant effects on employment in the following years, supporting the exogeneity assumption underlying the identification in child penalty studies. These new results lend support to the hypothesis that child-rearing, rather than marriage or pregnancy, is responsible for women exiting the labor force upon motherhood.
PB Elsevier
SN 0165-1765
YR 2022
FD 2022-05-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/39255
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/39255
LA eng
NO Machado acknowledges the financial support of the Spanish Ministry ofScience, Innovation, and Universities through grant PID2019-108576RB-I00 andComunidad de Madrid, grants EPUC3M11 (V PRICIT) and H2019/HUM-589.
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