Project description DEENESFRITPL Mapping children impact on gender inequality in the labour market Gender inequality in the labour market has been associated with having children particularly for women. The process from children to gender inequality and welfare remains unchartered. So far, research identifies only the effect of children once born. The fundamental mechanisms and their impact on welfare are not well understood. The EU-funded GENEQUALITY project will shed light on the impact of children on gender inequality, provide new evidence on the mechanisms underlying strong gender specialisation in parenthood, map the welfare consequences, and describe the best policies to employ. The project will draw on unique administrative data, new estimates from natural language processing, compelling quasi-experimental designs, and established techniques in public finance. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective Women continue to face large and persistent drops in terms of all labor market outcomes at the arrival of children. Researchers now understand that these “child penalties” on women may account for a substantial fraction of the large level of gender inequality that persists in the labor market in all developed nations. But the mapping that goes from children to gender inequality and welfare still remains mostly unchartered. First, research has only been able to identify the effect of children once they arrive, missing all the potentially large anticipatory effects of children, in terms of education, marriage choices, etc. that significantly impact the lifetime trajectories of men and women. Second the mechanisms underlying the persistence of “child penalties” and of such strict gender specialization at the arrival of children are not well understood. Comparative advantages have a hard time accounting for the stickiness of large “child penalties” despite the massive changes in relative education and in the relative cost of child care. Is it about preferences then, or cultural norms? If so, how are these formed? Finally, we still do not understand how these “child penalties” actually translate into welfare.Building on unique administrative data pooled across countries, on new measures from the field of natural language processing, on compelling quasi-experimental designs and on established techniques in public finance that parsimoniously map empirical moments into welfare evaluation, GENEQUALITY will i) shed new light on the impact of children on gender inequality, ii) provide new evidence on the mechanisms underlying strong gender specialization in parenthood, iii) map the welfare consequences of “child penalties”, and iv) characterize the optimal policies aimed at addressing them. Fields of science social sciencessociologysocial issuessocial inequalitiesgender inequalitynatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencenatural language processingsocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme Topic(s) ERC-2020-COG - ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS Call for proposal ERC-2020-COG See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-COG - Consolidator Grant Host institution LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Net EU contribution € 1 800 510,00 Address Houghton Street 1 WC2A 2AE London United Kingdom See on map Region London Inner London — West Westminster Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 1 800 510,00 Beneficiaries (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE United Kingdom Net EU contribution € 1 800 510,00 Address Houghton Street 1 WC2A 2AE London See on map Region London Inner London — West Westminster Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 1 800 510,00
