Jessica Nisén, Maarten J. Bijlsma, Pekka Martikainen, Ben Wilson, Mikko Myrskylä (2022): The gendered impacts of delayed parenthood A dynamic analysis of young adulthood.
We chart the dynamics of delayed parenthood and its implications for educational and labor market trajectories for young adult women and men using a novel longitudinal analysis approach, the parametric g-formula.
This method allows the estimation of both population-averaged effects (among all women and men) and average treatment effects (among mothers and fathers). Based on high-quality data from Finnish registers, we find that later parenthood exacerbates the educational advantage of women in comparison to men and attenuates the income advantage of men in comparison to women across young adult ages. Gender differences in the consequences of delayed parenthood on labor market trajectories are largely not explained by changes in educational trajectories.
Jessica Nisén, Maarten J. Bijlsma, Pekka Martikainen, Ben Wilson, Mikko Myrskylä (2022) Code repository for: The gendered impacts of delayed parenthood A dynamic analysis of young adulthood. Zenodo. https://zenodo.org/record/7732549#.ZBBGoi8RoUs
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