This paper analyzes the consequences of the spacing of births for women's subsequent
labor income and wages. Spacing births in longer intervals may allow women to re-enter the
labor market between childbearing events, thereby avoiding expanded work interruptions
and, in turn, reducing the negative effects of subsequent children. Based on arguably
exogenous variation in birth spacing induced by pregnancy loss between the first two live
births, the evidence provided in this paper supports this hypothesis and suggest that …