Finally, let me praise the fantastic team of co-authors that got deep into the weeds of cross-national administrative data analysis with me and made this challenging visual exploration possible: Andreas Filsesr, Pascal Achard and Inga-Marie Amend.

And if you are an academic wondering what to cite when writing about the "strong link between motherhood penalties and gender inequality in the labour market" ... baah voilà (oder hier bitte!)

So. if you are a policymaker interested in what to do about the gender earnings gap in your country/region: Remember, it is really strongly linked to how mothers do in the labour market after they have children!

But (!) the relationship between motherhood penalty and earnings gaps is even stronger within countries than across them. In the same country a region with higher motherhood penalties is very likely a region with a higher gender earnings gap (see 3 coloured fitted lines).

Then we calculated the gender earnings gap (capturing the difference in earnings between men and women among all employees) for the same regions. Here you can see the map of the Nuts-2 gender earnings gap and the NUTS-2 motherhood penalties. Look similar?

Harmonized administrative data allowed us to calculate regional motherhood earnings penalties for two (once three) very different countries. How different? None of the regional (thin lines) penalties from France (ca 20%), East-Germany (ca 50%) West-Germany (ca 70%) overlap!

New article out in @SociusJournal 🚨 It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets. Thread 👇 https://t.co/9s9E4P6bUm

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Loved working with @NicoleKapelle on this one! Check out our latest in @JofHSB

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in the past, birth rates in the US fell because couples had fewer kids. today they're falling because people aren't coupling up at all. fantastic piece by @jburnmurdoch https://t.co/mwdIXNUJMc

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Child poverty in the US is four times as likely to lead to adult poverty than in Denmark and Germany, and twice as likely than in the UK and Australia. Why? I write about our findings on "the intergenerational persistence of poverty" today in The Atlantic: https://t.co/xJ7HkYvG3Z

What happens to companies who get more powerful institutional shareholders? CEO pay falls by a cumulative 60% over 5 years Top execs by 40% Striking endorsement of the view that strong shareholders help solve the principal agent problem Paper by Falato, Kim & @TillvonWachter

To provide a comparative sense of scale and stratification: After birth, a 🇫🇷 mother from the lowest income quintile will reduce her labour supply 3.2x more than one from the highest income quintile. But she will still reduce it 1.5x less than a mother from any quintile in 🇩🇪

💡 this means low motherhood penalty environments, while decreasing gender inequality can still create large inequalities between mothers! 💡 In policy setups favouring a quick return to the labour market special attention has to be paid to low income mothers.