Data and code for: Job tasks, leadership, and the gender gap after parenthood

We use linked U.S. survey and administrative data to provide new
evidence on the job tasks performed by women and men around parenthood. We
develop an occupation-level measure of leadership task intensity. Leadership
has an increasing and concave age profile and is predictive of earnings, even
after including detailed controls. Women and men shift in parallel toward leadership-intensive
occupations prior to parenthood, but mothers fall behind fathers after having
children. These findings highlight leadership tasks as a source of earnings
growth over the lifecycle and suggest that differential promotion to leadership
positions is a mechanism underlying the gender earnings gap.