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We estimate the full distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of men
and women in the US using a quantile selection model to account for
systematic differences in employment by gender and education group.
Although common within-group time effects are shown to be a key
driver of labor-market inequalities across gender, important
additional differences by birth cohort emerge with more recent
cohorts of women delaying child rearing, and by implication the
onset of child penalties in wages. These cross-cohort differences help
account for the stalling of progress in gender wage gaps over the past
quarter century.
