Young mothers experience largest lifetime earnings losses from having a child

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Note: Level of skill determined by performance on Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT). This exercise assumes only one child. See Wilde, Batchelder, and Ellwood (2010) for model specifications.

Source: Source: Author's analysis of Wilde, Batchelder, and Ellwood (2010), Table 11 Get the data