Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/295894 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16871
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
gender gaps
child penalty
intra-household allocation
event study
home production
JEL: 
C33
D12
D13
J16
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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