TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Simonsen, Marianne
AU  - Skipper, Lars
        TI  - The Family Gap in Wages: What Wombmates Reveal
        PY  - 2009/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4650
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4650
        AB  - We shed new light on the effects of having children on hourly wages by exploiting access to data on the entire population of employed same-sex twins in Denmark. Our second contribution is the use of administrative data on absenteeism; the amount of hours off due to holidays and sickness. Our results suggest that childbearing reduces female hourly wages but the principal explanation is in fact mothers' higher levels of absence. We find a positive wage premium for fathers.
        KW  - twins
KW  - fertility
KW  - wages
        ER  -