Is There Really a Child Penalty in the Long Run? New Evidence from IVF Treatments

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Newly matched data on IVF treatments are used to estimate the long run impact of children on labor market earnings, also known as child penalties. We compare the earnings of first-time treated women and men up to 25 years after their first IVF treatment. 

Speaker
Erik Plug
Date
Monday 15 Sep 2025, 11:30 - 12:30
Type
Seminar
Room
C2-1
Building
Theil Building
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(joint work with Petter Lundborg, and Astrid Würtz Rasmussen)

For women, not men, we find a large penalty shortly after the birth of the first child, but in the long run, the penalty fades out, vanishes after 10 years, and even turns into a positive but insignificant premium after 15 years. These findings challenge the notion that children are the primary drivers behind the persistent gender gap in earnings.

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