Marriage, Motherhood and Money: How Do Women's Life Decisions Influence their Wages?

ENDNOTES

1

See Korenman and Neumark (1991).

2

See Becker (1985) for a complete description of this theory.

3

See, for example, Nakosteen and Zimmer (2001).

4

Panel Study for Income Dynamics data taken from Caucutt, Guner and Knowles (2002).

5

See Korenman and Neumark (1992) for an overview of these studies.

6

However, Chandler, Kamo and Werbel (1994) find a positive relationship between delaying children and men’s wages.

7

Taniguchi still finds evidence supporting a positive correlation between wages and delaying childbirth when taking unobserved characteristics into account.

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