Is the wage penalty due to motherhood larger among highly qualified women? In this paper,
we study the effect of parenthood on the careers of high-achieving women relative to high …

Search frictions make worker turnover costly to firms. A three-month parental leave
expansion in Sweden provides exogenous variation that we use to quantify firms' adjustment …

This paper provides new evidence of gender gaps in negotiation behavior and in
subsequent outcomes from a unique large sample of high-stakes salary negotiations …

We study how fathers' access to workplace flexibility affects maternal postpartum health. We
use variation from a Swedish reform that granted new fathers more flexibility to take …

Important gender differences still persist in many labor market outcomes. This paper argues
that the design of parental leave policies can play an important role in shaping these …

In the recent research on top incomes, there has been little discussion of gender. A great
deal is known about gender differentials in earnings, but how far does this carry over to total …

Objective This study examines whether fatherhood sparks the wage attainment of men or
rather entry into fatherhood is simply more typical for high‐earning men and at times of wage …

In this paper, we use matched worker-firm register data from Sweden to examine the career
dynamics of high-skill women and men. Specifically, we track wages for up to 20 years …

We study the extent to which employer heterogeneity affects gender gaps in earnings across
the distribution, over time, and over the life cycle, accounting for cohort effects. Using a …

Numerous countries have enacted policies to promote the labor force participation of women
around the years of childbearing, and unsurprisingly, many research articles have been …