Child Penalties and the Gender Gap in Home Production and the Labor Market

Pim Koopmans, Max van Lent () and Jim Been ()
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Pim Koopmans: Leiden University
Max van Lent: Leiden University
Jim Been: University of Leiden

No 16871, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The consequence of the arrival of children for the gender wage gap - known as the child penalty - is substantial and has been documented for many countries. Little is still known about the impact of having children beyond paid work in the labor market, such as home production. In this paper we estimate - deploying an event study with Dutch survey data - the child penalty in both home production and the labor market. In line with the literature we find no labor market effects for men. For women we find a strong reduction in work hours and lower wages. However, we find an increase in home production for women roughly similar to the decline in paid work. Consequently, time allocated to the labor market plus home production is roughly equal across gender before and after the arrival of children. This result rejects the hypothesis that women substitute paid work for leisure after the arrival of children.

Keywords: gender gaps; child penalty; intra-household allocation; event study; home production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 D12 D13 J16 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2024-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-gen, nep-lab and nep-mac
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