TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Kunze, Astrid
        TI  - Are All of the Good Men Fathers? The Effect of Having Children on Earnings
        PY  - 2014/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8113
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8113
        AB  - This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian register data are used for brother and twin pairs who are followed over their life cycle from their first entry into the labour market. The data permit family-fixed effects to be modeled in various ways, as well as observing earnings growth before and after having children. The simple conditional correlation between children and earnings is positive. When only variation from between-sibling differences is used, the earnings effect post entry into first-fatherhood declines. The effect becomes small and non-significant when we use twins.
        KW  - twins
KW  - siblings
KW  - children
KW  - earnings
KW  - men
        ER  -