%0 Journal Article
%T El Efecto de la Maternidad Sobre los Ingresos Femeninos
%A Olarte
%A Liliana
%A Pe£¿a
%A Ximena
%J Ensayos sobre POL¨ªTICA ECON¨®MICA
%D 2010
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X this paper analyzes the effect of the number and age structure of children on women's income in colombia. on average, mothers earn 17.6% less than non-mothers. since not all women participate in the labor market, sample selection is a potential issue that is, therefore, corrected. the empirical results confirm the existence of a significant wage penalty for motherhood. after controlling for observables and sample selection, an income gap of 9.4% between mothers and non-mothers remains. this gap is wider when the children are under 5 years old, 18.4%. this gap is partly explained by the fact that mothers are more likely than non-mothers to be employed in lower quality jobs in which they do not contribute to health care and pension, as well as by the fact that being a mother substantially increases household responsibilities for women.
%K motherhood
%K wage gap
%K sample selection
%K colombia.
%U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0120-44832010000300006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en