Long-Run Effects of Incentivizing Work After Childbirth

Kuka: Department of Economics, George Washington University, Email: ekuka@gwu.edu; Shenhav: Department of Economics, Dartmouth College, E-mail: naama.shenhav@dartmouth.edu. We thank Jacob Bastian, Marianne Bitler, David Card, Liz Cascio, Janet Currie, Nathaniel Hendren, Hilary Hoynes, Henrik Kleven, Pat Kline, Erzo Luttmer, Maya Rossin-Slater, Jesse Rothstein, Emmanuel Saez, and Dmitry Taubinsky as well as seminar audiences at Brown, Chicago Harris, Dartmouth, DePaul University, George Washington University, Stanford, University of Ottawa, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, University of Pittsburgh, the NBER Children’s Meeting, and participants at the 2020 SOLE and APPAM virtual meetings and the 2021 IRP Summer Research Workshop for helpful comments. We are indebted to Richard Chard, Lynn Fisher, Thuy Ho, John Jankowski and Antwain Pair, as well as Nancy Early and Matt Messel for their help accessing the data at SSA and with the disclosure review process. We received excellent research assistance from Kathryn Blanchard, Mollie Pepper, Jacklyn Pi, and Mary Yilma. This research was supported by the U.S. Social Security Administration through grant #5 DRC12000002-06 to the National Bureau of Economic Research as part of the SSA Disability Research Consortium. The findings and conclusions expressed are solely those of the author(s) and do not represent the views of SSA, any agency of the Federal Government, or the NBER.