Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/299894 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16966
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using a semiparametric event study approach with a control group, we estimate the effect of motherhood on labor market outcomes in Germany, the child penalty. We further investigate how the 2007 parental benefits reform changed the child penalty while accounting for fertility effects. A large novel data set linking data from two administrative sources provides information on all births. Our estimation approach accounts for motherhood being a staggered treatment. The reform has small positive medium-run effects employment outcomes. It changes the selection into fertility and shows heterogeneous effects. However, the reform did little to reduce the average child penalty.
Subjects: 
parental benefit reform
child penalty
semiparametric event study approach
JEL: 
J08
J13
J16
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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