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So why are the women slowing down? She calls this issue a career disruption, and jobs that penalize ones “inflexible”. Women value flexibility potentially because the burden of childcare still falls on women.pic.twitter.com/pTOqkaDuY9
The child penalty is estimated in two recent papers using registration data in Sweden and Denmark with event studies. Pretty dramatic. Women salaries plummet after a child, men’s don’t, and women never catch back up.pic.twitter.com/zMAav6KPl6
In Denmark, the gender gap is driven entirely driving the gap, whereas it once was just one of the stories. But the others have diminished practically to nothing at least in Denmark.pic.twitter.com/V5U4hZCA6J
So she showed also evidence that women face unusual marriage market pressures wherein displaying preferences penalizes them using a clever experiment.pic.twitter.com/eggbGx6YMY
Next she reviewed the literature on work family amenities, but the story here was complex, for me, because parental time and other investments have grown for the educated. She also mentioned gender neutral childcare policies and noted these have harmed women.pic.twitter.com/QYe5mtnrpY
Overall, really useful walk through Bertrand’s views and what she thinks is important in this literature. #SITEConference
Unsurpsingly, this is true in the U.S. as well https://ideas.repec.org/p/cen/wpaper/17-68.html …pic.twitter.com/HtahxW0rv8
From a different source of earnings data (not yet a working paper, but Nichole Szembrot presented it at the FSRDC conference this fall), labor force participation and earnings, both unconditional and conditional on pre-birth employment:pic.twitter.com/eDcpLpGG0l
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