We estimate the effect of motherhood on wages using matching. We distinguish between net and direct effects. The net …

recipients are indeed recent migrants, refugees, and women. By using different matching algorithms, this group was made as …

-time mothers upon labor market return. Using a combination of propensity score matching and an event study applied to …

recipients are indeed recent migrants, refugees, and women. By using different matching algorithms, this group was made as …

-time mothers upon labor market return. Using a combination of propensity score matching and an event study applied to …

This paper introduces an index that facilitates the testing of differing matching theories based on the degree of … overlap between a theoretically generated matching joint density and its empirical counterpart. The index is asymptotically … matching patterns in the marriage market in China. To distinguish between confounding policies of the period, a static general …

We analyze the wage effects of employment breaks of women entering motherhood using a novel within-firm matching …. Using an administrative German data set we investigate three different matching procedures based on information two years … before birth: (1) exact matching on individual characteristics, (2) propensity score matching and (3) a combined procedure of …

This paper concentrates on the role of job matching frictions in influencing the interactions between fertility choice … matching technology. Furthermore, by having both fertility and home-stay choices endogenously determined, I can show that a … tighter market will enhance the fertility rate and the home-stay rate and a better job matching technology would not only …