Motherhood, pregnancy or marriage effects?

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...

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Autores principales: Edo, María, Berniell, María Inés, Berniell, María Lucila, De la Mata, Dolores, Marchionni, Mariana, Machado, Matilde, Fawaz, Yarine
Formato: Objeto de conferencia
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2021
Materias:
Ciencias Económicas
Pregnancy
Non-live births
Marriage
Child penalty
Motherhood
SHARE data
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/173755
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1737552024-11-27T20:12:56Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/173755 Motherhood, pregnancy or marriage effects? Edo, María Berniell, María Inés Berniell, María Lucila De la Mata, Dolores Marchionni, Mariana Machado, Matilde Fawaz, Yarine 2021-11 2021 2024-11-27T15:41:36Z en Ciencias Económicas Pregnancy Non-live births Marriage Child penalty Motherhood SHARE data 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 Objeto de conferencia Objeto de conferencia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf
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topic Ciencias Económicas
Pregnancy
Non-live births
Marriage
Child penalty
Motherhood
SHARE data
spellingShingle Ciencias Económicas
Pregnancy
Non-live births
Marriage
Child penalty
Motherhood
SHARE data
Edo, María
Berniell, María Inés
Berniell, María Lucila
De la Mata, Dolores
Marchionni, Mariana
Machado, Matilde
Fawaz, Yarine
Motherhood, pregnancy or marriage effects?
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
Pregnancy
Non-live births
Marriage
Child penalty
Motherhood
SHARE data
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.
format Objeto de conferencia
Objeto de conferencia
author Edo, María
Berniell, María Inés
Berniell, María Lucila
De la Mata, Dolores
Marchionni, Mariana
Machado, Matilde
Fawaz, Yarine
author_facet Edo, María
Berniell, María Inés
Berniell, María Lucila
De la Mata, Dolores
Marchionni, Mariana
Machado, Matilde
Fawaz, Yarine
author_sort Edo, María
title Motherhood, pregnancy or marriage effects?
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?
publishDate 2021
url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/173755
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