Postpone birth, make more money

It's as easy as that, according to a new study. From an article about it:

Miller, an economist at the University of Virginia, had read Sylvia Hewlett's much publicised book, Baby Hunger, about the regrets felt by childless career women and wondered whether there was a rational basis for their decision to put off motherhood.

She found that young university-educated mothers earned significantly less over their lifetimes than women who began their families as little as 12 months later. For unskilled workers the age of motherhood made no difference.

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