The Mommy Track Divides: The Impact of Childbearing on Wages of Women of Differing Skill Levels

Elizabeth Ty Wilde, Lily Batchelder, David T. Ellwood

NBER Working Paper No. 16582
Issued in December 2010

---- Acknowledgements -----

The Russell Sage Foundation generously supported this work. We wish to thank Cece Conrad, David Cutler, Kathy Edin, Paula England, Nancy Folbre, Richard Freeman, Frank Furstenberg, Irv Garfinkel, Jennifer Hochschild, Christopher Jencks, Sara McLanahan, Ron Mincy, Theda Skocpol, Tim Smeeding, Sid Verba, Eric Wanner, Bob Willis, and participants at the Harvard Inequality Seminar and the Social Policy Seminar at the Columbia University Population Research Center. Ashwin Prabhu and Lindsay Speros provided excellent research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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