PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Agarwal, Sumit
AU  - Li, Keyang
AU  - Qin, Yu
AU  - Wu, Jing
AU  - Yan, Jubo
TI  - The Impact of Fertility Relaxation on the Gender Wage Gap
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.0122-12126R2
DP  - 2024 May 08
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 0122-12126R2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2024/05/01/jhr.0122-12126R2.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2024/05/01/jhr.0122-12126R2.full
AB  - In this paper, we study the immediate impact of fertility relaxation on the gender wage gap. We explore a 2013 policy shock that relaxed the One-Child Policy in China. Using an employer-employee matched administrative data, we show that after the policy shock, the salary of female new hires is reduced by 2.7% relative to the salary of male new hires, equivalent to a 47% increase in the gender wage gap in the data. The effect is more pronounced for female new hires aged below 35, implying the salary reduction is related to concerns about the increasing fertility of females.