Replication data for: The New Life Cycle of Women's Employment: Disappearing Humps, Sagging Middles, Expanding Tops

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Claudia Goldin; Joshua Mitchell

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Project Citation:

Goldin, Claudia, and Mitchell, Joshua. Replication data for: The New Life Cycle of Women’s Employment: Disappearing Humps, Sagging Middles, Expanding Tops. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2017. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113983V1

Project Description

Summary: A new life cycle of women's employment emerged with cohorts born in the 1950s. For prior cohorts, life-cycle employment had a hump shape; it increased from the twenties to the forties, hit a peak, and then declined starting in the fifties. The new life cycle of employment is initially high and flat, there is a dip in the middle, and a phasing out that is more prolonged than for previous cohorts. The hump is gone, the middle is a bit sagging, and the top has greatly expanded. We explore the increase in cumulative work experience for women from the 1930s to the 1970s birth cohorts using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation and the Health and Retirement Study. We investigate the changing labor force impact of a birth event across cohorts and by education, and also the impact of taking leave or quitting. We find greatly increased labor force experience across cohorts, far less time out after a birth, and greater labor force recovery for those who take paid or unpaid leave. Increased employment of women in their older ages is related to more continuous work experience across the life cycle.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: birth events; work experience; parental leave; life cycle employment; Female employment

JEL Classification:
      D91 Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
      N32 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: 1913-

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 1930 – 2010

Universe: women in the United States born from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Data Type(s): administrative records data; census/enumeration data; aggregate data

Methodology

Data Source: CPS-ASEC; HRS/SSA; SIPP/SSA; SIPP-Fertility History Topical Modules

Unit(s) of Observation: individuals,

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V1 [2019-10-12]

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