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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

The Motherhood Wage Penalty: Which Mothers Pay It and Why?

  • Deborah J. Anderson
  • Melissa Binder
  • Kate Krause
American Economic Review
vol. 92, no. 2, May 2002
(pp. 354–358)
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Citation

Anderson, Deborah, J., Melissa Binder, and Kate Krause. 2002. "The Motherhood Wage Penalty: Which Mothers Pay It and Why? ." American Economic Review, 92 (2): 354–358. DOI: 10.1257/000282802320191606

JEL Classification

  • J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
  • J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
  • J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth