Data and Code for: Long-Run Effects of Incentivizing Work After Childbirth

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Elira Kuka, George Washington University; Na'ama Shenhav, Dartmouth College, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

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Project Citation:

Kuka, Elira, and Shenhav, Na’ama. Data and Code for: Long-Run Effects of Incentivizing Work After Childbirth. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2024. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-04-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/E192298V1

Project Description

Summary:

This paper identifies the impact of increasing post-childbirth work incentives on mothers’ long-run careers. We exploit variation in work incentives across mothers based on the timing of a first birth and eligibility for the 1993 expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit. Ten to nineteen years after a first birth, single mothers who were exposed to the expansion immediately after birth (“early”), rather than 3–6 years later (“late”), have 0.62 more years of work experience and 4.2% higher earnings conditional on working. We show that higher earnings are primarily explained by improved wages due to greater work experience.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: child penalty; return to experience; public policy; earned income tax credit

JEL Classification:
      H20 Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply

Time Period(s): 1978 – 2015 (labor market outcomes); 1988 – 1996 (years of first childbirth)

Universe: Women with a first child born between 1988 and 1996

Data Type(s): administrative records data; survey data

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