The Gender Income Gap and the Role of Family Formation Revisited: A Replication of Bobbitt-Zeher (2007)

Abstract

This article reports the results of a replication of BobbittZeher's 2007 article "The Gender Income Gap and the Role of Education". Models that emulate the original specifications (by and large) reproduce the original results. However, models that adhere to Bobbitt-Zeher's theory concerning the gendered effect of family formation call into question her key finding that "values appear to matter only modestly, while family formation has virtually no effect on the income gap".

The Gender Income Gap and the Role of Family Formation Revisited: A Replication of Bobbitt-Zeher (2007)

“…When preparing the analysis sample I therefore emulated the original article whenever possible and resorted to qualified guesses when instructions therein were insufficiently detailed. 1 A replication package documents these decisions in detail and is publicly and permanently available at the Harvard Dataverse (Ochsenfeld 2016a). The resulting analysis sample is slightly smaller (N = 1924) than that of the original study (N = 1946).…”