The mommy track divides
Subtitle: the impact of childbearing on wages of women of differing skill levels
By: Elizabeth Ty Wilde, Lily Batchelder, David T. Ellwood
Contributors: Batchelder, Lily; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16582; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16582.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "An NBER digest for this paper is available.This paper explores how the wage and career consequences of motherhood differ by skill and timing.  Past work has often found smaller or even negligible effects from childbearing for high-skill women, but we find the opposite.  Wage trajectories diverge sharply for high scoring women after, but not before, they have children, while there is little change for low-skill women.  It appears that the lifetime costs of childbearing, especially early childbearing, are particularly high for skilled women.  These differential costs of childbearing may account for the far greater tendency of high-skill women to delay or avoid childbearing altogether"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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