Educational assortative mating and motherhood penalty in China

• Main Authors: CHENG Cheng, ZHOU, Yang
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: Motherhood penalty; Educational assortative aating; Gender; Income; China; Asian Studies; Family, Life Course, and Society; Social Psychology and Interaction
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3868; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5126/viewcontent/radrta4wpgj.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Mothers earn less than comparable childless women, and such motherhood penalty differs in magnitude by women’s socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. Prior research, however, has rarely considered how the effect of parenthood on women’s income may also depend on the characteristics of their...