• Can the child penalty be reduced? - Evaluating multiple policy interventions 

      Andresen, Martin Eckhoff; Nix, Emily (Discussion Paper;No. 983, Working paper, 2022-07)
      Children cause large earnings drops for mothers but not fathers, a stylized fact known as the “child penalty” that explains a substantial portion of remaining gender income gaps. Can policy reduce the child penalty? We ...
    • Reconciling estimates of the long-term earnings effect of fertility 

      Bensnes, Simon; Huitfeldt, Ingrid; Leuven, Edwin (Discussion Paper;No. 1004, Working paper, 2023-08)
      This paper presents novel methodological and empirical contributions to the child penalty literature. We propose a new estimator that combines elements from standard event study and instrumental variable estimators and ...