Dear all,
We hope you can join us this Wednesday, April 3, 2013 from 12-1.30pm for
the Applied Statistics Workshop in CGIS Knafel 354. Sasha
Killewald<http://scholar.harvard.edu/akillewald>ld>,
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, will give a
presentation entitled "His Gain, Her Pain? The Motherhood Penalty and the
Fatherhood Premium within Coresidential Couples". A light lunch will be
served at 12 pm and the talk will begin at 12.15.
Abstract:
Prior research on the association between parenthood
and wages has focused
at the individual level, documenting a substantial motherhood wage penalty
and a smaller fatherhood premium. However, the majority of births occur to
coresidential couples, yet we know little about the within-couple
association between the motherhood penalty and fatherhood premium.
Specialization suggests that women who experience the largest motherhood
penalty will tend to be partnered with fathers with the largest premium.
However, it is also possible that some couples are better able to defray
the wage costs of parenthood for both parents. We bring a dyad perspective
to the study of the interaction between parenthood and wages and use
random-coefficients models to answer the following questions: 1) What is
the average association between the motherhood penalty and the fatherhood
premium within couples? 2) How does assortative mating on the basis of
race, education, and post-parenthood specialization on paid and unpaid
labor time contribute to this association?
An up-to-date schedule for the workshop is available at
http://events.iq.harvard.edu/events/node/1208.
Best,
Konstantin
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Konstantin Kashin
Ph.D. Candidate in Government
Harvard University
Mobile: 978-844-0538
E-mail: kkashin(a)fas.harvard.edu
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