Weverthon Machado

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Sociologist, postdoc at Utrecht University | Families and inequality | weverthon.com

Stairs with inscriptions in each step: Matemática, Astronomia, Física, Química, Biologia, Sociologia, Moral (picture not mine)
Graph with three panels: Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden. Each panel is a line graph with Years before/after childbirth (-3 to 5) in the X axis and percentages in the Y axis, measuring average share of secondary earner. The three lines are mostly stable around 30-35%. The line for DK is almost flat; for NL it slighly decreases and stays in a lower level after childbirth; for SE there is a drop in years 0 and 1, but a return to pre-parenthood levels from year 2 onwards.
gif showing several ways of incrementally revealing a ggplot with ggreveal functions
Abstract Partnered men and women show consistently gendered patterns of labor market behavior. We test whether not only a person’s own gender, but also their partner’s gender shapes hours worked. We use Dutch administrative population data on almost 5,000 persons who had both male and female partners, whose hours worked we observe monthly over 15 years. We argue that this provides a unique setting to assess the relevance of partner’s gender for labor market behavior. Using two-way fixed effects and fixed-effects individual slopes models, we find that both men and women tend to work more hours when partnered with a female partner compared to a male partner. These results align with our hypothesis that a partner’s gender influences labor market behavior. For women, we conclude that this finding may be (partly) explained by marital and motherhood status. Additionally, we discovered that women decrease their hours worked to a lesser extent when caring for a child if they have a female part