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Title: Specialization Then and Now: Marriage, Children, and the Gender Earnings Gap across Cohorts

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Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: In this paper, we examine the evolution of the gender gap associated with marriage and parental status, comparing cohorts born between 1936 and 1985. Womens early-in-life decisions about schooling, marriage, fertility, and work have repercussions throughout their lifetimes. This means we expect gains across cohorts to be an important part of the convergence. Those born early in this period typically began their careers with more-limited opportunities and different expectations than those born towards the end. These decisions are also clearly the outcomes of a complex and dynamic decision-making process. We do not attempt to build a structural model here, but rather document how changing associations between marriage and earnings, and between children and earnings, have contributed to the gender gap in an accounting sense.

Url: https://www.aeaweb.org/full_issue.php?doi=10.1257/jep.31.1#page=185

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Authors: Juhn, Chinhui; McCue, Kristin

Periodical (Full): Journal of Economic Perspectives

Issue: 1

Volume: 31

Pages: 183-204

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Topics: Family and Marriage, Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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