Child Penalty in Russia: Evidence from an Event Study

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Despite years of women's progress toward equality, gender disparities in the labour market persist, and parenthood has been identified as one of its key drivers. In this paper we investigate the child penalty in Russia by using longitudinal data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) and the methodological framework of event studies. Our findings show that five years after child birth women suffer an earnings penalty, while the same effect is not observed for men. The child penalty for women stems from lower employment after birth. In contrast to similar studies on Western European countries and the US, we do not find child penalties in terms of working hours or hourly wage rates. We further find that mothers' employment penalty is strongly driven by household characteristics and by their spouses' beliefs, while their own beliefs and background play no role.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 13928

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
• Subject: child penalty ; Russia ; event study ; RLMS

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Lebedinski, Lara ; Perugini, Cristiano ; Vladisavljević, Marko
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/232680
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET