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Fertility Timing, Wages, and Human Capital

McKinley L. Blackburn, David E. Bloom

NBER Working Paper No. 3422*
Issued in August 1990
NBER Program(s):   LS

Women who have first births relatively late in life earn higher wages.

This paper offers an explanation of this fact based on a staple life-cycle

model of human capital investment and timing of first birth. The model

yields conditions (that are plausibly satisfied) under which late

childbearers will tend to invest more heavily in human capital than early

childbearera. The empirical analysis finds results consistent with the

higher wages of late childbearers arising primarily through greater

measurable human capital investment.

*Published: Blackburn, McKinley L & Bloom, David E & Neumark, David, 1993. "Fertility Timing, Wages, and Human Capital," Journal of Population Economics, Springer, vol. 6(1), pages 1-30.

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