💡 Our findings show that gender differences in, e.g., numeracy scores of men and women after childbirth can at most explain 10% of the child penalty in earnings. Hence, this does not seem to be the most important margin when thinking about how to reduce child penalties on the labor market.
📝 Using the international PIAAC dataset on labour-market-relevant cognitive skills, we estimate child penalties in numeracy, literacy, and problem-solving. We adapt the so-called pseudo-panel approach to show the evolution of skills around the birth of a women's & men's first child in 29 countries.
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I'm very happy that this paper has found a home and has been published just in time for the holidays. Free access for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mI6Bc24bB...
Lavinia Kinne
Lavinia Kinne
Berlin School of Economics
🚨 Now out in the Economic Journal:
“Patience and Subnational Differences in Human Capital:
Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests”
w/ Hanushek, @kinnelavinia.bsky.social & Sancassani
💡 Patience accounts for ¾ of regional achievement diffs in Italy, ⅓ US
👉 doi.org/10.1093/ej/u...
📢 Very happy to see our paper "Child penalties in labour market skills" (w/ @jonasjessen.bsky.social & @michelebattisti.bsky.social) out in the special issue on "Education, Health, and Gender: A Family Perspective" of the European Economic Review.
Link (open access): doi.org/10.1016/j.eu...
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