Child penalties in labour market outcomes are well-documented: after childbirth, mothers' employment and earnings drop persistently compared to fathers. In addition to gender norms, a potential driver could be the loss in labour market skills due to mothers' longer employment interruptions. This...

We provide a general overview of Bayesian model averaging (BMA) along with the concept of jointness. We then describe the relative merits and attractiveness of the newest BMA software package, BMS, available in the statistical language R to implement a BMA exercise. BMS provides the user a wide...

This work describes a versatile and readily-deployable sensitivity analysis of an ordinary least squares (OLS) inference with respect to possible endogeneity in the explanatory variables of the usual k-variate linear multiple regression model. This sensitivity analysis is based on a derivation...