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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w17922 |
来源ID | Working Paper 17922 |
The Opt-In Revolution? Contraception and the Gender Gap in Wages | |
Martha J. Bailey; Brad Hershbein; Amalia R. Miller | |
发表日期 | 2012-03-23 |
出版年 | 2012 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Decades of research on the U.S. gender gap in wages describes its correlates, but little is known about why women changed their career paths in the 1960s and 1970s. This paper explores the role of "the Pill" in altering women's human capital investments and its ultimate implications for life-cycle wages. Using state-by-birth-cohort variation in legal access, we show that younger access to the Pill conferred an 8-percent hourly wage premium by age fifty. Our estimates imply that the Pill can account for 10 percent of the convergence of the gender gap in the 1980s and 30 percent in the 1990s. |
主题 | Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Compensation ; History ; Labor and Health History |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w17922 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/575600 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Martha J. Bailey,Brad Hershbein,Amalia R. Miller. The Opt-In Revolution? Contraception and the Gender Gap in Wages. 2012. |
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