Intergenerational Childcare and Maternal Wage Gap 💼

The models within this project examines the relationship between availability of informal intergenerational childcare and levels of differential wage outcomes for working mothers.

├── Code/
	├── data_cleaning/
    	# R Scripts to process, reshape, recode and label variables to be used 
	├── data_exploration/
    	# Rmd and formatted outputs to add basic exploratory visualization 
├── results/
# Rmd and formatted outputs for final models 

├── Data/
# .RData format NLSY97 data in person year format; used to run models

Key Deliverables

Written Report

• Thesis

Supporting Code

• NLSY97_Preprocessing_1.R: Reads in data and reshapes to PUBID-Year Format
• NLSY97_Preprocessing_2.R: Filters data, infers null fields, and customizes columns representing the variables to be regressed.
• final_results.R: R Code to run finalized regressions

Contact Info

If you have any questions, concerns, or feedback about this research or code, please contact me at yx2625@columbia.edu.