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Type	Working Paper
Scope	Discipline-based scholarship
Title	Parenthood and productivity of highly skilled labor: evidence from the groves of academe
Organization Unit	Empirical Research in Business, Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management (Uschi Backes-Gellner)
Authors	Heinrich Ursprung Christian Zimmermann Matthias Krapf
Language	English
Institution	University of Zurich
Series Name	Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Number	2014-1
Date	2014
Abstract Text	We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the survey responses of nearly 10,000 economists with their publication records as documented in their RePEc accounts, we do not find that motherhood is associated with low research productivity. Nor do we find a statistically significant unconditional effect of a first child on research productivity. Conditional difference-in-differences estimates, however, suggest that the effect of parenthood on research productivity is negative for unmarried women and positive for untenured men. Moreover, becoming a mother before 30 years of age appears to have a detrimental effect on research productivity.
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Digital Object Identifier	10.20955/wp.2014.001
Other Identification Number	merlin-id:9553
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