The timing of childbearing and women's wages

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1008-1019

  Taniguchi, Hiromi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth timing; Child wage penalty; Fixed effects model; Life course theory; Teenage childbearing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039701880     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/354020     Document Type: Review

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