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Gender Bias in Hiring2019

Child earnings penalty: 20-30%+ for mothers, near-zero for fathers (NBER WP 25545)

Even in Scandinavian countries with the world's strongest gender equality policies, women suffer a 20% long-run earnings penalty per child while men experience a near-zero child penalty; in the US and UK the child earnings penalty for women exceeds 30%.

Primary source

Kleven, Landais & Sogaard, NBER WP 25545
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25545
Published 2019 — compiled by JobCannon Research.

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