The Motherhood Wage Penalty: Which Mothers Pay It and Why?

By Deborah J. Anderson, Melissa Binder, Kate Krause. 2002

353 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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In Demography

1. Michelle J. Budig
2. Sarah A. Avellar
3. P. Smock
4. Melissa J. Hodges
5. P. England
6. J. Bearak
7. R. Glauber
8. S. Stack

In Economics and Econometrics

1. P. England
2. J. Bearak
3. Michelle J. Budig
4. Melissa J. Hodges
5. Sarah A. Avellar
6. P. Smock
7. Matt L. Huffman

In Gender Studies

1. Michelle J. Budig
2. P. England
3. Melissa J. Hodges
4. J. Bearak
5. Sarah A. Avellar
6. P. Smock
7. R. Glauber
8. David C. Ribar

Citations in the corpus

• The Mommy Track Divides: The Impact of Childbearing on Wages of Women of Differing Skill Levels (2010, neutral): “4 Recently Anderson et al. (2002), Anderson et al. (2003) report finding a hump-shaped penalty with respect to education: only middle education women experience a penalty—high and low education women show little effect.”
• Do Highly Paid, Highly Skilled Women Experience the Largest Motherhood Penalty? (2016, methodology): “…eliminated, when models add a control for employment experience and tenure; that is, they explain part, but not all, of total motherhood penalties (Anderson et al. 2002, 2003; Budig and England 2001; Budig and Hodges 2010; Waldfogel 1997; Wilde et al. 2010).4 (Staff and Mortimer [2012] explain…”
• Education, Occupation and Career Expectations: Determinants of the Gender Pay Gap for UK Graduates. CEE DP 69. (2006, neutral): “Anderson et al. (2002), for example, find a 10% wage penalty for the first child amongst US university graduates.”
• Has the Price of Motherhood Declined Over Time? A Cross‐Cohort Comparison of the Motherhood Wage Penalty (2003, methodology): “This model compares women with themselves at other points in time as well as to other women (see Anderson et al., 2002; Budig & England, 2001; Waldfogel, 1997a).”
• Maternity Leave Legislation, Female Labor Supply, and the Family Wage Gap (2007, neutral): “7 (1) percentage points at a 5 percent level.”
• Maternity and Family Leave Policy (2017, neutral): “: Waldfogel, 1998; Lundberg and Rose, 2000; Blau and Kahn, 2000; Anderson et al., 2002; Kleven et al., 2016). Leave policies may help ameliorate some of the negative labor market consequences of childbearing that are disproportionately borne by women. In particular, women who are induced to take lea”