abstract: 'In the context of broad increases in gender equality and growing

  socioeconomic disparities along multiple dimensions of family life, we

  examine changes in within-family earnings equality following parenthood

  and the extent to which they have played out differently by education.

  Our analysis relies on links between rich surveys and administrative tax

  records that provide high-quality earnings data for husbands and wives

  spanning two years before and up to 10 years following first births from

  the 1980s to the 2000s in the United States (Survey of Income and

  Program Participation Synthetic Beta files; N = 21,300 couples and

  194,100 couple-years). Accounting for time-invariant couple

  characteristics and year and age fixed effects, we find that wives''

  share of total couple earnings declines substantially after parenthood

  and remains lower over the observation window, irrespective of cohort

  and education. Cohort changes in within-family earnings equality are

  modest and concentrated among the earliest cohort of parents, and data

  provide little evidence of differential change by education. These

  findings have implications for women''s economic vulnerability,

  particularly in the United States where divorce remains common and

  public support for families is weak.'
affiliation: 'Musick, K (Corresponding Author), Cornell Univ, Jeb E Brooks Sch Publ
  Policy, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA.

  Musick, K (Corresponding Author), Cornell Univ, Dept Sociol, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA.

  Musick, Kelly, Cornell Univ, Jeb E Brooks Sch Publ Policy, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA.

  Musick, Kelly, Cornell Univ, Dept Sociol, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA.

  Gonalons-Pons, Pilar, Univ Penn, Dept Sociol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA.

  Schwartz, Christine R., Univ Wisconsin, Dept Sociol, Madison, WI 53706 USA.'
author: Musick, Kelly and Gonalons-Pons, Pilar and Schwartz, Christine R.
author-email: 'musick@cornell.edu

  pgonalon@sas.upenn.edu'
author_list:
- family: Musick
  given: Kelly
- family: Gonalons-Pons
  given: Pilar
- family: Schwartz
  given: Christine R.
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1111/padr.12481
earlyaccessdate: MAR 2022
eissn: 1728-4457
files: []
issn: 0098-7921
journal: POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW
keywords-plus: 'WOMENS EMPLOYMENT; GENDER INEQUALITY; UNITED-STATES; RELATIVE EARNINGS;

  DOMESTIC WORK; WAGE PENALTY; FAMILY; LABOR; MOTHERHOOD; TRENDS'
language: English
month: JUN
number: '2'
number-of-cited-references: '87'
orcid-numbers: Musick, Kelly/0000-0003-0329-5134
pages: 413-443
papis_id: 52a168abc081e85fce5bdc89dc701a92
ref: Musick2022changevariation
times-cited: '1'
title: Change and Variation in US Couples' Earnings Equality Following Parenthood
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000771778000001
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '13'
volume: '48'
web-of-science-categories: Demography; Sociology
year: '2022'