We study the causal effects of motherhood on labour market outcomes in Latin America by
adopting an event study approach around the birth of the first child based on panel data from …

Gender stereotypes, the assumptions concerning appropriate social roles for men and
women, permeate the labor market. Analyzing information from over 2.5 million job …

This paper estimates the effect of childcare availability on parents' employment probability
using the timing of the grandmothers' death–the primary childcare provider in Mexico–as …

Este estudio busca hacer visibles los lazos entre la movilidad social y la protección social
en materia de cuidados. El objetivo es estudiar las oportunidades de elección y logros de …

The motherhood penalty for developed countries is well-established in the economic
literature. Childbirth intensifies the traditional gender roles that affect paid and unpaid work …

Stratification economics has emerged as a field that puts historically and institutionally
determined intergroup hierarchies at the forefront of distributive analysis. However, most of …

This study estimates the relative importance of alternative supply and demand mechanisms
in explaining the rise of female labor-force participation (FLFP) over the last 55 years in …

This paper examines the impact of denying a wanted abortion on women and children in
Colombia using high-quality administrative microdata and credibly exogenous variation in …

We estimate child penalties in the Mexican formal labour market at the aggregate level and
for specific population subgroups. We use longitudinal administrative data for formal …

We isolate the effect of childbirth on mothers' and fathers' job-relevant physical performance
using data from the US Marines. We estimate event study models around the first birth. We …