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Does Biology Drive Child Penalties? Evidence from Biological and Adoptive Families / Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais, Jakob Egholt Søgaard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kleven, Henrik.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w27130.
- NBER working paper series no. w27130
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.
- Summary:
- This paper investigates if the impact of children on the labor market outcomes of women relative to men -- child penalties -- can be explained by the biological links between mother and child. We estimate child penalties in biological and adoptive families using event studies around the arrival of children and almost forty years of adoption data from Denmark. Short-run child penalties are slightly larger for biological mothers than for adoptive mothers, but their long-run child penalties are virtually identical and precisely estimated. This suggests that biology is not a key driver of child-related gender gaps.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2020.
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