Third, in sharp contrast to the dearth of literature on the effects of the end of fertility, an extensive literature has documented the career costs of the onset of childbearing, across a variety of contexts (Angelov, Johansson and Lindahl, 2016; Kleven et al., 2019; Andresen and Nix, 2022). [...] The difference-in-differences design identifies the causal effect of menopause diagnosis under the assumption that the trends in outcomes would be the same in the treated-panels as in the control-panels if women did not experience menopause (in the base-age of the treated- panel). [...] Of the 285,507 women born in Norway between 1961 and 1968, 105,109 received a diagnosis of menopause between the years of 2006 and 2021 and between the ages of 45 and 55. [...] Finally, a menopause diagnosis causes an increase in the extensive and intensive margins of specialist visits: there is a 1.9 ppt (5.7%) increase in the likelihood of at least one annual specialist visit, relative to a mean of 32.5% in the year prior to the diagnosis, and an increase of 0.05 (5.8%) in the number of specialist visits. [...] Workplace Characteristics and Peers In Table 8 and Table 9 we turn to the role of work- place characteristics and peers.27 In particular, we consider the characteristics of the establish- ments of working women in the year of the menopause diagnosis.
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