This is how women anticipate the employment effects of motherhood

Sep 26, 2018

A woman pushes a pram along the embankment in the Black Sea resort town of Alushta March 11, 2014. Ukraine's Crimean peninsular evokes in many Russians and citizens of the former Soviet Union memories of summer holidays in the resorts and sanatoriums along its subtropical Black Sea coast. Crimea is also the place from where Christianity spread throughout what was then called Kievan Rus', a federation of Slavic tribes that later became Russia. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY TRAVEL TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1EA3C0B3J01

Children continue to pose a considerable cost to careers. Image: REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Ilyana Kuziemko

Professor of Economics, Princeton University

Jessica Pan

Associate Professor of Economics, National University of Singapore

Jenny Shen

PhD student in Economics, Princeton University

Ebonya Washington

Professor of Economics, Yale University

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