蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings
ISSN 2574-0768 (Print) | ISSN 2574-0776 (Online)
Job Tasks, Leadership, and the Gender Gap after Parenthood
蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings
vol. 115,
May 2025
(pp. 271–75)
Abstract
We use linked US survey and administrative data to provide new evidence on the job tasks performed by women and men around parenthood. We develop an occupation-level measure of leadership task intensity. Leadership has an increasing and concave age profile and is predictive of earnings, even after including detailed controls. Women and men shift in parallel toward leadership-intensive occupations prior to parenthood, but mothers fall behind fathers after having children. These findings highlight leadership tasks as a source of earnings growth over the life cycle and suggest that differential promotion to leadership positions is a mechanism underlying the gender earnings gap.Citation
Tannenbaum, Daniel, and Brenden Timpe. 2025. "Job Tasks, Leadership, and the Gender Gap after Parenthood." 蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings 115: 271–75. DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20251028Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- D15 Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
- J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
- J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- M51 Personnel Economics: Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions