abstract: 'Using data from social security records and an event study approach, we

  estimate the child penalty in Spain, looking at disparities for women

  and men across different labor outcomes following the birth of the first

  child. Our findings show that, the year after the first child is born,

  mothers'' annual earnings drop by 11\% while men''s remain unchanged. The

  gender gap is even larger 10 years after birth. Our estimate of the

  long-run child penalty in earnings equals 28\%, similar to those found

  for Denmark, Finland, Sweden or the USA. In addition, we identify

  channels that may drive this phenomenon, including reductions in working

  days and shifts to part-time or fixed-term contracts. Finally, we

  provide evidence of heterogeneous responses in earnings and labor market

  participation by educational level: college-educated women react to

  motherhood more on the intensive margin (working part-time), while

  non-college-educated women are relatively more likely to do so in the

  extensive margin (working fewer days).'
affiliation: 'Sanz, C (Corresponding Author), Banco Espana, Calle De Alcala, Spain.

  de Quinto, Alicia; Hospido, Laura; Sanz, Carlos, Banco Espana, Calle De Alcala,
  Spain.

  Hospido, Laura, IZA Inst Lab Econ, Calle De Alcala, Spain.'
author: de Quinto, Alicia and Hospido, Laura and Sanz, Carlos
author-email: carlossanz@bde.es
author_list:
- family: de Quinto
  given: Alicia
- family: Hospido
  given: Laura
- family: Sanz
  given: Carlos
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1007/s13209-021-00241-9
earlyaccessdate: JUL 2021
eissn: 1869-4195
files: []
issn: 1869-4187
journal: SERIES-JOURNAL OF THE SPANISH ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
keywords: 'Gender; Labor supply; Employment; Wages; Fertility differentials;

  Parenting; Education'
keywords-plus: GENDER-GAP; CAREER; PARENTHOOD
language: English
month: DEC
number: '4'
number-of-cited-references: '33'
pages: 585-606
papis_id: 64dc09bc488b914969e5226c18ab3b0e
ref: Dequinto2021childpenalty
times-cited: '6'
title: 'The child penalty: evidence from Spain'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000679876600001
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '13'
volume: '12'
web-of-science-categories: Economics
year: '2021'