The Family Gap for Young Women in the United States and Britain: Can Maternity Leave Make a Difference?
研究美国和英国母亲与其他女性之间的工资差距，发现产假覆盖和产后返工能带来工资溢价，抵消生育对工资的负面影响。
In the United States and Britain, there is a "family gap" between the wages of mothers and other women. Differential returns to marital and parental status explain 40%–50% of the gender gap. Another 30%–40% is explained by women's lower levels of work experience and lower returns to experience. Taking advantage of "quasi experiments" in job‐protected maternity leave in the United States and Britain, this article finds that women who had leave coverage and returned to work after childbirth received a wage premium that offset the negative wage effects of children.